Bendmeover: Wasn't Ellen sweet for yelling at the paparazzi when they were pushing people? I hate that TMZ tried making it look like she was yelling at the fans when she quite clearly said, "STOP PUSHING THE GIRLS!" because there were a lot of younger girls in front of them. And did you get to meet Shonda? Because she signed like 5 autographs and left which totally sucked.

Ugh I'm home sick again so here's another update.

Disclaimer: I don't own Grey's Anatomy but I do own… okay I own nothing.

Meredith finally went up to her room around midnight. She wasn't really tired but George and Izzie were still downstairs and she didn't feel like putting up with Izzie much longer. She wasn't very forward when being rude; she just made remarks about the hours of surgeons and how it must suck to have such an absent boyfriend. Meredith stuck up for him until Cristina managed to change the subject and Meredith excused herself for bed. She was brushing her teeth when her cell phone rang so she quickly spit her toothpaste out and ran to her nightstand to get it. Surprisingly, it didn't take her very long to fall asleep.

She awoke at 8:00 AM the next morning and decided to go see if Derek wanted to grab a quick breakfast before he went home to sleep. She quickly got dressed in a pair of jeans and her new Dartmouth shirt. Picking up her phone, she noticed she had a new voicemail from Derek and listened to it on her way out of the house.

"Hey Mer it's me… Derek. Uh I told you I would call you later so this is me calling. I didn't expect the surgery to take so long but the patient crashed a few times. He's good now. I guess I'll call you later then. Bye Mer."

She smiled at the fact he remembered to call and quickly made her way to the hospital.

She walked through the halls towards the OR board to check if he was in surgery. When she reached the board and saw that he wasn't, she turned around to make her way towards his office, but bumped into someone.

"Meredith!" She heard a familiar voice say as her head quickly shot up and she smiled.

"Adele! How have you been?" She quickly embraced her in a hug.

"Great. And yourself?" The older woman asked, eyeing Meredith.

"Really good, actually," she smiled. It was very seldom that Meredith found herself being honest when using the word "good" but recently, she's felt that emotion more than she would bear to admit.

"Are you here to see Richard? He's in a meeting in his office but he should be done soon…"

"No I'm actually here to see Derek," she said as if Adele knew who she was talking about.

"Dr. Shepherd?" She asked, receiving a nod from Meredith. "I think I saw him walk into his office a couple minutes ago. How do you know Dr. Shepherd?"

"Well…uh we're dating." She said nervously. Adele was like a mother to her and she would always urge Meredith to get in a relationship. She was the one Meredith would introduce her boyfriends to if she ever got around to getting one.

Adele smiled and hugged Meredith, "Aw dear, that's great! I've never seen you in a relationship and Derek is a good guy. I'm happy for you both."

"Thanks Adele. I've been meaning to call you and plan a dinner with you and Richard…"

"Oh that would be great! We really need to catch up; I haven't talked to you in a few months. Just call me sometime this week and we will plan it, okay?"

"That would be great." Meredith smiled.

"It will. I'll talk to you soon," she said, hugging Meredith once more.

"Okay take care Adele."

"You too dear. Goodbye." She walked away down the halls and Meredith walked the opposite way towards Derek's office.

She knocked on the door to his office gently and he answered the door and smiled brightly. "Hey. What are you doing here?"

"Well I figured we could get breakfast before you went home if you're up to it," she smiled as he opened the door wider and led her in.

"That would be great. I just have a few minutes worth of paperwork left to do and I'll be done," he took a seat at his desk. "You can wait here if you'd like. It should only be about ten minutes"

"Sure," she smiled and grabbed his iPod, causing Derek to laugh. True to his word, he was done with his paperwork within ten minutes and they were on their way out. They met up at a nearby coffee shop.

"So how was your shift besides that one patient?" Meredith asked right after they sat down.

"Besides that it wasn't too bad. It was actually pretty slow. I even got about 4 hours of sleep in last night which was pretty good. Did you get my voicemail?"

"Yeah I was about to come here when I got it. Thanks for calling." The conversation was stalled when the waitress came to ask if they wanted anything to drink. Both ordered coffee and the waitress left.

"If I tell you I'm going to call, I'm going to call," he smiled.

She smiled back," Thanks. By the way, it seems to me as though you have a little fan club," she said, gesturing towards the small group of waitresses that were currently staring at him like he was on the menu.

Derek laughed and blushed. "I don't really notice those things."

Meredith smiled and they continued discussing the previous day. Meredith told Derek about Izzie and how extremely annoying she was and Derek told her about his patients and the procedures he performed. He was yet again taken away by her medical knowledge. She actually knew what the surgeries were and some of the methods he explained. The ones she didn't know, she was obviously eager to learn about. Usually Derek received blank smiled and nods from girls when he went into the topic of surgery but Meredith was really interested. He knew she was in med school and would be interested even if it wasn't him telling her the story, but he still liked that about her. He knew she was nervous about dinner with his family so he dodged that topic. Derek ordered a cheese and mushroom omelet and Meredith ordered crepes with strawberries and whipped cream. Derek found it funny that Meredith managed to make breakfast into dessert. They finished their meals without much conversation and went there separate ways. Derek had to get some sleep and Meredith had to finish writing a paper. They shared a long kiss by Meredith's car and left with the knowledge they'd be together that evening.

I'm going to continue writing and hopefully I will be able to post the dinner update tonight but if not, I'm sorry.