The Truth
Chapter 6
Today was the day, the day that might begin the rest of their lives. Today was the day Mark and Lexie got their own apartment. Tomorrow was the day the whole hospital would know.
It was very rare that Mark, Lexie, Meredith and Derek all had the same day off but today they did. So they had the day, fingers crossed for no 911's, to move Lexie and Mark into their new apartment.
It had been a month since Mrs Shepherd had visited, and within a week of her leaving, Mark and Lexie had found an apartment. It had taken the next three weeks to get it just how they wanted it. Now they would be moving into their new home.
Derek and Mark were at the Archerfield boxing up, while Meredith and Lexie were at Meredith's boxing up her stuff. It took most of the morning to get Lexie boxed up before they broke for lunch at 1 and headed to a nearby cafe. When they came back, Alex was staring at the boxes.
"Who's moving?" asked Alex.
"Lex," smiled Meredith.
"Where?" asked Alex, trying to figure out how an intern would be able to afford a place of her own.
"Um," said Lexie.
"In with Sloan?" asked Alex.
"How do you know that?" asked Lexie.
"George told Cristina. HR let out that you've both changed your addresses to the same address," explained Alex.
"What did Cristina say?" asked Meredith.
"She was pissed you hadn't told her and everyone else doesn't think it will last," said Alex.
"Everyone else?" asked Lexie. "There's a betting pool isn't there?"
"One when you'll catch him in an on call room with someone," said Alex.
Lexie shrugged. "They don't know the truth and we do that's what matters," she smiled, heading up the stairs.
Halfway through the afternoon, Lexie and Meredith were done, and packed all the boxes into Meredith's car leaving, just a couple of boxes to be packed into Lexie's car.
"That's everything," sighed Meredith.
"Hey, I'll come and visit all the time," said Lexie.
"Lexie!" called a voice.
Meredith and Lexie turned to see George struggling to carry two very heavy looking boxes.
"Heard you were moving - brought you your books," said George.
"Thanks," said Lexie, taking a box of him.
"Where is this one going?" asked George.
"In my car," said Lexie, as she heaved the box into the backseat.
"So you're happy?" asked George, as Meredith went to get the last box.
"Yeah and I know you don't understand or like it but you're my friend - at least I think you are, so I'd like you to support me," said Lexie.
George nodded.
"You want to help us move or do you need to get back to the hospital?" asked Lexie.
"Mark won't mind?" asked George.
"Mark won't mind what?" asked Meredith.
"George is going to help us move," said Lexie.
"Really?" asked Meredith.
"I have time before I have to go back to the hospital," said George.
"Ok, so you going to meet us there?" asked Meredith.
"Yeah, I'll follow one of you," said George, going to his car.
"You sure Mark will be ok with this?" asked Meredith.
Lexie shrugged. "We do need more hands to move boxes but I don't think he'll be that pleased."
Meredith nodded.
Just before they set off, Meredith sent Derek a warning text about George.
"O'Malley has offered up his services to help," said Derek.
"No," groaned Mark.
"What's wrong with O'Malley?" asked Derek.
"Lex used to have a crush on him and he doesn't like us together," said Mark.
"Who's she dating?" asked Derek.
"Me," answered Mark.
"Who is she living with?" asked Derek.
"Me," replied Mark.
"Then you have nothing to worry about," said Derek. "Now come, they have a head start and we've all got a lot of boxes."
It took almost two hours for the five, well seven, of them move all the boxes up into the apartment. I say seven because during the moving, Callie and Arizona got off work and turned up, so they pitched in to help. So by nine pm when George left, and Cristina and Owen came home, the place was practically done. I mean yeah, they were still unpacking and had like twenty to thirty boxes to unpack, but it was starting to look like a home.
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Gabriella Somerfield