We broke up
yeah, it's tough
most guys would've been crushed
"Soooooo..." Mark drugged the word out as he took a seat in the chair he just carried over and placed next to Lexie. " What do you have planned tonight for this special patient of yours?" Mark asked looking over at Lexi.
The nerves that were building up in Lexie started to subside the second Mark took a seat down next to her. Part of her was saying the feeling that she was feeling was wrong but she just couldn't help it having Mark Sloan next to her felt so right. She knew that the conversation they were about to embark on in the next 2 &1/2 hours was going to come as natural as the conversations they use to have when they were together.
"Nothing special. Well actually in an eight year old kid's eyes I guess this night really is special. "
Lexie stood up from her chair to peek in the window of the doctor's longue to see how Bryson & Ava were doing. After she seen that they were both just finishing up their pizza and laughing she was able to sit back down. " They are finishing eating some pizza then I'm going to put in Star Wars Episode IV for them."
A goofy smile came across Mark's face as he rolled his eyes " Star Wars Lex? Really? "
Wastin' their time wonderin' where they went wrong
No way, not me hey I'm doin' just fine
Lexie gave Mark a playful yet evil glare. "Believe it or not. I did not pick the movie. My patient Bryson is a huge Star Wars buff. So there!" Lexie said as she crossed her legs.
"Out of all the movies there is to choose from he chose this horrib..." Mark stopped himself as he seen Lexie's evil glare become a bit more intense. "I'm just going to stop myself. I have a little over 2 hours to spend with you and I don't want to spend it with you giving me the silent treatment." Mark said with his signature Mark Sloan forgive me smile.
Lexie's glare turned into a half smile " Oh come on….. I only gave you the silent treatment for a couple hours in work that time."
Mark let out a loud HA! "A couple hours?" Mark shook his head. "Try three days Lex."
Lexie gave Mark a dubious look "No…I'm horrible at the silent treatment. Three days….I..I …Just couldn't keep it up that long. "
Mark gave Lexie a quizzical look and then smiled. "You might not remember because the first two days we were beyond busy here. So we didn't see much of each other those two days…..but by the third night I finally came over to Meredith's and …."
And just like that the nervousness that Lexie was so sure was gone came flooding back to her as did the memory of those three days she gave Mark the silent treatment.
"Oh woah…ughh yeah …I….I …remember …..the third night….You're right…three days of silent treatment I gave you. " Lexie babbled out as she began to look away from Mark and play with her hands.
Mark just stopped and stared at Lexie in awe as he seen her look away from him and thought to himself. "Am I making her nervous right now? Is it wrong that I find her attractive when she gets all nervous and tense like this? "
I'm not afraid of movin' on, it's
Easy...goin' out on Friday nights
Easy...every time I see her out
I can smile, live it up the way a single guy does
But what she, what she don't know
Is how hard it is to make it look so
Easy
Mark then shook the thoughts from his head and began to think "No I'm with Julia. I can't put the words Lexie and Attractive in the same sentence with one another. "
He kept his eyes locked on her and could see that Lexie was breathing a bit more heavy and was totally lost in her thoughts so he thought to himself "It's not cheating if I just want to joke around with Lexie a little bit." So finally Mark spoke up.
"You're thinking about that third night." He said with a sly smile.
Lexie looked back at him and thought to herself "Relax Lexie and just breathe. BREATHE!"
Lexie let out a small laugh that helped her calm her nerves " I am not ….. I'm just thinking that I can't believe I gave someone the silent treatment for three days and didn't give in." Lexie said trying to form a confident smile on her face.
Mark's sly smile turned into a mischievous one as he kept his eyes locked on Lexie " But by the third night you did finally give in. I got you to talk….."
Lexie bit down on the inside of her bottom lip as she made eye contact with Mark and began to stammer our her words " I …I…don't know…What you…you are talking about."
Mark spoke with such assurance " Yes you do….I came over while you were cleaning up Meredith's kitchen. I sat and watched you clean up for about 10 minutes. You wouldn't even look my way until I finally grabbed you and placed you up against the kitchen table and kissed you. I slowly ran my hands….."
Lexie cut him off with a burst of energy " Okay ok ….I remember…you kissed me…you kissed me A LOT and your hands well …I…I didn't know hands could do what they ugh did that night…I mean you're a surgeon having hands like that ….that is…a gift but woah."
Lexie let the memories of that night come back to her all at once as she sat there with a satisfied smile on her face although the heaviness of Mark's stare broke her smile as she seen him sit there with a very amused look on his face.
The truth is I miss lyin' in those arms of his
But I don't ever let it show
I laugh and I act like I'm havin' the time of my life
As far as he knows, it's
.
"I gave you the silent treatment for three days and then we made up three times on Meredith's kitchen table. I remember…Happy? " Lexie said in a rushed manner as she looked at Mark.
Mark looked at Lexie and found her run down of that third night to be very amusing. He gave her a small smile. " It's nice to see that you remembered but you do know I was only trying to remind you what you finally gave in and said that night ."
"No Mark we can't do this…this is Meredith's kitchen. " Lexie answered him back in monotone voice. "That's the first thing I said to you after three days of giving you the silent treatment right?"
Mark shook his head yes and smiled at her amused " Yup, That was it."
Lexie found it rather odd how amused and pleased Mark looked ever since he brought up their make up sex silent treatment story. If she didn't know any better she could of sworn that Mark was doing this on purpose. He actually did this a lot when we were together, Lexie thought. He would bring up some story or do something that would cause me to babble on and on like a fool. Well if he wants to turn me into a babbling fool let's see if I still have it in me to turn him into a jealous one.
Easy...goin' out on a Friday night
Easy...every time I see him out
I can smile, live it up the way a single girl does
But what he, what he don't know
" You know we never actually finished our third time making up that night." Lexie began to tell Mark.
" huh? " Mark gave Lexie a confused look. " O wait. You're right we didn't. Derek walked in on us." Mark said trying to erase the memory of his best friend walking in on him and Lexie.
Lexie shook her head yes "yeah and then when Derek left I tried to get us to go back to the making up but you got all responsible on me and said ….Lex no I can't you're little Grey and that's Derek. You're like a sister to him now and this is Meredith's table. Maybe we should just stop for the night." Lexie said trying to do her best Mark Sloan impersonation.
"Was that suppose to be an impersonation of me? "
Lexie shook her head yes.
Mark let out a small ha! "That was terrible Lex. And of course I couldn't finish making up with you because I had Derek's disgusted face stuck in my head. "
Lexie shrugged her shoulders. "Oh no that was fine. I understood. Although, When I told you I had to go to the bathroom after we finished getting dressed. I actually went up to Alex's room and he finished what you couldn't..…." Lexie tried her hardest to keep a straight face as she slowly seen jealousy build up in Mark's eyes.
"You what?" Mark asked as his voice raised a bit.
Lexie bit the inside of her cheeks as she tried her hardest not to break her straight face and smile " Yeah I went with Alex. I mean I can tell you that now since we're not together anymore right?"
"But we were together then. " Mark shook his head in shame "You really went with Karev? "
Lexie couldn't help it anymore the Jealousy that was glowing in Mark's eyes and pouring out his mouth allowed for her to have the same amused look on her face that Mark just had on his a few seconds back.
Lexie slowly began to giggle " Mark, I'm only kidding. I was only upstairs that night for one minute and anyways Alex wasn't even home at the house. " Lexie said with a very satisfied smile.
Is how hard it is to make it look so
Easy
Oh it's easy
"Well played Little Grey. Well played. " Mark said not finding the joke as funny as Lexie.
As Mark looked on at Lexie trying to catch her breath from laughing so hard he thought to himself "Where did that jealousy just come from? I don't care what Lexie does or did. She's not mine anymore. " As much he tried to force the jealousy away deep down Mark knew if Alex Karev walked by one minute earlier he would have broken his face.
"Excuse me me and Bryson are done eating our pizza and are ready to watch Star Wars." Ava spoke out in a whisper as she peaked her head out of the doctor's longue.
Lexie jumped when she heard Ava whisper her name. " Oh yes. I'm sorry. I'll be in there in one second. "
"Okay." Ava said with her very big freckle face grin as she slipped her head back into the doctor's longue.
" Want to meet one of the coolest kid's on the peds floor?" Lexie asked Mark as the corners of her smile hooked Mark right in.
" Of course." Mark said returning the same smile as he followed her into the doctor's longue.
Oh it's easy...goin' out on a Friday night
Oh it's easy...every time I see him out
I can smile
Live it up
Forget about the way it was
After 20 minutes of introducing Bryson and Ava to Mark. Lexie finally placed Star Wars into the DVD player for the two 8 year olders.
" Is there anything else you two need before I go sit back out in the hallway with Doctor Sloan?" Lexie asked as she began to walk towards the doctor's longue door.
" You worked on my grandpop today didn't you?" Bryson asked looking at Mark who was following behind Lexie.
Mark turned around to face Bryson "Oh yeah your grandpop is Michael Morgan. I sent him up today with Doctor Avery to see you. He is a real nice guy. "
Bryson's face began to glow with pure happiness when he heard Dr. Sloan call his grandpop a nice guy "Yup. He's the best grandpop ever." Bryson said as Mark looked at him waiting for Bryson to ask him some other question.
"Is that all Brys?" Lexie asked she watched him look at Mark as if he was some sort of puzzle he was trying to piece together.
"Nope just wanted to say thank you for staying with Dr. Grey tonight Dr. Sloan." Bryson said with his charming eight year old boy smile.
"My pleasure Bryson," Mark said with a sincere look on his face.
"Okay then... so there is nothing else I can get you two ?" Lexie questioned Ava and Bryson one more time.
"Nope," Bryson and Ava both said in unison.
"Well Enjoy the movie. I'll be back to check in on you two in a little bit." Lexie said as she exited out of the doctor's longue with Mark following behind her.
As soon the doors closed shut Ava turned to Bryson.
"Is that Doctor Grey's boyfriend?" Ava asked.
"She said he was just her friend. " Bryson said keeping his eyes on the television.
"Oh because she had a big goofy I love you smile on her face when she would look at Doctor Sloan ." Ava told Bryson.
Bryson slowly looked over at Ava. " You're right and that's not the first time I seen with that big goofy smile." Bryson said as he turned his attention back to Star Wars.
"Hey sorry for sending Avery up with Mr. Morgan today. I don't know if that was awkward for you." Mark said in apologetic tone.
"Oh…You don't need to be sorry. Me and Jackson have been apart for a while now. We work together. I can't avoid seeing him." Lexie told Mark as she sat back in her chair.
" He's a good kid Jackson. You should think about giving him a second chance." Mark said straightforward.
As soon as that second sentence left Mark's mouth he was not sure if he said it because Jackson was actually a great guy and he wanted nothing but good things for Jackson or because deep down he was curious to know if Lexie still wanted Jackson.
Lexie looked at Mark a bit startled " um ugh yeah me and Jackson we're never getting back. He's the one who called it quits so ughh yeah we are done."
Mark didn't know what to feel after he heard Lexie say that Jackson was the one who ended the relationship. At first he felt a sense of relief come over him to know that Jackson and Lexie were never getting back together. Then he felt anger creep up on him. He was angry that Jackson could let someone as great as Lexie go without even trying to win her back. Lastly he felt guilty. Guilty that he felt any emotions at all involving Lexie Grey because he did have a girlfriend and having any type of feelings for an ex girlfriend could never be good.
"Well as much as I like Jackson he's still a fool for letting you go Lex." Mark said with a genuine look on his face.
" You let me go." Lexie blurted out in a low tone.
Woah where did that come from? Lexie thought to herself. Before Mark got a chance to answer Lexie fired back with an apology
"I…I'm sorry. That…I mean…I was out of line." Lexie said looking over at Mark as if she were a deer in head lights.
Mark took a deep breath before he answered back. "No it's fine but you do know you can't try to keep someone who doesn't want to stay Lex. "
Lexie and Mark both looked away from one another and just sat in silence for a few moments as they thought back to where they went wrong in their relationship.
But what she
Oh but what he don't know
What she don't know
Is how hard it is to make it look so...easy
Looks so easy
