YOU AND ME - Chapter 9
It was now early Saturday night and I was almost finished getting ready for my date with Mark. I had gotten off of work at about two in the afternoon. I was nervous and I'm pretty sure it was showing. What if this went wrong? What if I ended up getting hurt all over again. I was starting to freak out. "Mere, Mere, Mere. Calm down it's gonna be alright. You'll have a great time tonight and if you don't Sloan will have me to deal with." Alex had walked into my room in our new house just before I went into a full blown panic attack, making me slightly laugh with his finishing sentence. "You're right." I was going to continue talking but the doorbell rang and I started breathing heavily again. Chuckling Alex told me, "Meredith, everything will be alright. I'll go get the door and let him in alright and then you can come down after you've finished, okay?" Nodding my head at him, he walked out the door, before I remembered, "be nice alright?" All I got in return was his laughter. Damn.
Walking down the stairs five minutes later, I felt better, Alex's little pep talk worked pretty well. At the bottom of the staircase was just Mark, I saw Alex walk out of the room just before I started coming down. He looked amazing. He was wearing a tux and holy shit he was hot. He had his hair spiked up it in what I referred to as 'I just finishing having sex hair' and god damn did he make it work. Reaching the bottom he kissed me on the check and then handed me a small box. Looking up at him with a furrow in my eyebrows he motioned for me to open it up. "I didn't want to get you roses or chocolate cause I didn't want to be cliche, but I totally get it if you don't want it." He said nervously while scratching the scruff on his face. Opening up the box I was surprised and filled with joy to find my very own scrub hat with little cartoon scalpels, scissors and stethoscopes painted over it. "No, no … it's perfect. Thank you, Mark." Smiling he grabbed the box from me and placed it on the table near us. "You ready to go?" Smiling I nodded and grabbed my house keys and yelled out to Alex. "We're going now, see you later Alex." Coming out of the kitchen, he made sure to threaten Mark one last time. "Don't hurt her Sloan." Smiling at me and then back up to Alex, he spoke softly. "I won't Karev. She's safe with me." And for the first time in a really, really long time, I felt genuinely safe and happy.
