A/N: Hey guys! Sorry about the delay! This is MUCH shorter than my usual updates, but I wanted to get it out there. I always feel so bad that it takes so long! The next chapter should be out soon! Let me know what you think!

Whole world could change in a minute

Meredith watched Derek walk away untill he was out of sight before she turned back towards the beach. After taking a deep breath, she replayed the previous conversation in her head. That guy!? She told him he was that guy!? And then ran out! What the hell?!

I can't stand to fly

I'm not that nieve

I'm just out to find

The better part of me

By the time Meredith pulled out of the internal war she'd waged on herself, she'd almost reached her two best friends, who were sitting cozily together on the blanket, neither of them had noticed her presence. She cleared her throat loudly to make her presence known before taking a seat on the blanket.

The intertwined duo were quick to notice Meredith's tears, and even quicker to spring to action. Meredith rarely made herself vulnerable, so they knew it was something big.

"Mer.. sweetie.. what happened?" Addison scooted herself out of Mark's lap to sit next to her best friend and wrap her arms around her shoulders.

"How did we get like this, Addi?" Meredith allowed her head to fall onto Addison's shoulder, effectively linking their arms together for a small trace of comfort.

Addison didn't have to ask what Meredith was talking about. She knew. They had talked endlessly how they avoided things until they ultimately blew up to disastrous proportions in their faces. After releasing a small sigh, she rested her chin on Meredith's head. "I don't know, sweetie." She cooed softly, rubbing soft circles on Meredith's back as she looked up at the standing Mark above them for help.

Mark frowned down at the scene, before he leaned down to plop himself on his knees in front of Mer. "Come here, babe." He opened his arms for her to fall into, which she did quickly after squeezing Addison's arm between her own.

Meanwhile back in the hotel room, Derek was laying on the bed that did not have Meredith's stuff strewn across it. He was holding his cellphone in his hands, trying to keep himself from calling his mom, and being a baby about what happened. Even more so, he was trying to stop himself from calling Michaela to make himself feel better. He was going back and forth between them in his address book, casting occasional glances towards the door, hoping that she'd come back for him, even if he knew he was kidding himself. He knew he'd picked a bad time, but he didn't know if he could ever get the courage to do it again. Apparently he should have tried.

He finally clicked out of the address book and carelessly threw the phone down on the bed beside him, letting out a small huff to irritation in the process. Just as he was about to get up to join the rest of them, his phone started ringing, All American's Rejects's "Dirty Little Secret" ringing loudly through the small hotel room indicating that Michaela was calling. She'd set the ring tone for herself, which he thought was slightly amusing. "Who has to know" echoed throughout the room before he picked up the phone, removing the guilty thoughts that none of his friends knew he was still seeing her out of his mind.

"Hello?" he answered, not quite sure if he could talk to her at the moment without spilling everything that'd happened.

"Hey you! How's Florida?" Her cheery tone made his stomach churn for a moment, before he calmed himself down.

"Great." he replied through gritted teeth, even though she didn't seem to notice since she only giggled in response.

I'm more than a bird

I'm more than a plane

I'm more than some pretty face

Beside a train

and it's not easy to be me

Once the embrace seemed to last a little too long, Meredith and Mark pulled away with a small chuckle. "Thanks Sloane." She smiled before sitting back down beside Addi.

"You're lucky I brought extra shirts!" Mark joked as he looked down at his mascara stained shirt that was slightly soaked where his collarbone would be.

"Fate is on your side." She grinned as she used her fingertips to wipe away the raccoon blotches underneath her eyes, effectively staining her fingers black.

"So, when are you going to tell us what's wrong, Grey?" Mark quirked an eyebrow in amusement that she was actually going to try to get away without telling them. "I happened to be very comfortable before you showed up all estrogen over dosed!"

"HEY!" she smacked his arm quickly, narrowing her eyes on him intently. Once she realized that neither of them were going to let this go, she sighed and began to play idly with her stained fingers. "Fine!" she deflated her blown up walls as she re-rested her head on Addi's shoulder.

Derek laid back on the bed to get comfortable as the feeling that this conversation could last awhile settled into his mind. "How's Toga without me?" he made an ill-attempt to laugh, but failed.

"Alright, what's with the brooding, Derek? Seriously? You sound like someone stole your i-pod and then threw it down the food dispenser!"

He was slightly surprised that she caught on. He didn't think she really knew him at all. He didn't really talk to her much. He mostly just listened to her ramble on untill she ran out of things to say and let him go. "I'm not 'brooding', Mika! I'm just tired! It was a long drive!"

"Let me guess. Meredith found out about Josh and Becca, and she took it out on you." Michaela rolled her eyes at the two of them. It was obvious to anyone that they were into each other. She was guessing that's why Josh started his fling with Becca, but she hated Josh, so who knows.

"Becca? What are you talking about, Michaela?" Derek was quickly growing irritated at the fact that this seemed to be common knowledge. Atleast now he had a name to the mumbling that'd set Meredith off.

"Rebecca Lawson. Her and Josh have been sneaking around for like a month. Don't act like your upset, here's your big chance!"

He was slightly thrown off by the accuracy of that accusation, but now wasn't the time to talk about himself, or what that meant for whatever had been between them in the last few months. "Nothing is going on between me and Mer!" he responded with the same response to that accusation he'd used since sixth grade. This was the first time he could possibly be lying, but now was not a time to consider possibilities. "Back on track, Mika! A month?!"

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