Meredith woke up to the sound of her alarm at 4:30. She still felt relieved from her talk with Lexi that she laid in bed a few more minutes and just smiled. She was so relaxed that she almost forgot that Mark Sloan was downstairs sleeping on her couch.

"Great." She thought.

She got up, noticing that the side of the bed next to her was empty. Lexi had headed downstairs five minutes earlier. Meredith opened the door and headed downstairs too. She walked past Alex's room, and as she was doing so, he opened his door.

"Hey." He said.

"Hey."

"Is everyone already downstairs?"

"Everyone except you and me."

They went down and into the kitchen where they found Lexi, Izzie, and Mark, standing in the kitchen laughing.

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As Derek was driving to work he noticed that he had a missed call on his cell phone. He opened it up and looked at the number. It was from Rose. There was also a message attached to it. Derek dialed his voice mail and put his phone up to his ear to listen to his message.

"Hey Derek it's Rose. I'm calling about dinner tomorrow night. I took a look at my schedule and realized that I'm on call all night and I won't be able to go to dinner with you. I'm so sorry. Maybe we could reschedule? Just give me a call or I'll just talk to you at work. Bye!"

Derek smiled. Rose was really great. He couldn't help though, being relieved that she was busy and couldn't go to dinner tonight. He needed some time to think. He pulled into SGH and got ready for another day at work.

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"What's so funny?" Meredith asked as she entered the kitchen.

"Oh nothing," Izzie replied. "Mark was just telling us about one of his patients he had a while ago."

"Let me just say that some patients can be very…different." Said Mark.

"Oh. Well anyway, we better get going if we want to make it to work on time." Meredith said.

"Yeah. Probably." Agreed Mark.

Meredith, Alex, Izzie, Lexi, and Mark all piled into Meredith's car and drove to work.

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Derek turned off his car, grabbing his briefcase as he opened the door. He was about to go inside when he noticed Meredith's car pulling into SGH, and Mark getting out.

He froze.

"How could she? How could he? How could they?" He thought.

Derek didn't know what to think except for the fact that Mark was coming to work with Meredith Grey.

"Are they dating?" He thought. "How could they be dating?! WHAT THE HELL?!!! Mark should know better!!"

Derek was furious. He couldn't believe Meredith would go out with his best friend. He also couldn't believe that his best friend would do this to him again.

"Ok, calm down Derek. You're with Rose now. Meredith doesn't matter anymore."

He kept repeating that in his head to try to calm himself down. This was all too hard to think about.

He turned around, and headed inside.

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As Meredith climbed out of her car she noticed Derek staring at her. She also noticed that when she climbed out that Mark was right behind her, which, she thought, might look like something it wasn't.

She shook off the thought, and grabbed her things out of the car. Once everyone was out, they headed inside.

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Meredith changed into her scrubs and was heading down the hall when she was stopped by Lexi.

"Hey Meredith, is everything ok from last night?"

"Actually yeah. That talk really seemed to make me feel so much better. I'm glad we had it."

"Great. Anyways, I got to go. I'm scrubbing in on a surgery, but if you need anything else, just ask."

"Ok I will. Thanks again Lexi."

Meredith walked down to the nurses' station to pick up the chart of Marcy Deston. As she was flipping through it though, she realized that her surgery was today. The surgery where she would be standing next to Derek, in the OR, for 4 hours.

She wasn't ready to talk to him yet. Actually, she didn't even want to see him. She sighed, and went to go get her other work done.