Chapter Fourteen
Meredith was a couple of hours into surgery with Maggie and April. The patient was an unfortunate victim of a gun shot wound to his chest and abdomen. As the three worked to repair the damage, they talked. The current topic of conversation, much to Meredith's chagrin, were the roses in the break room.
"I wonder who they're for", Maggie wondered out loud.
Meredith focused intensely on the liver repair she was doing, so much so that she hadn't heard April say her name.
"What? Sorry." Meredith said.
April repeated herself, "I said they were for you…the roses…I saw your name on the card."
Meredith felt her face redden beneath her surgical mask. Hoping to divert the conversation, she asked, "April does the liver look a little patchy to you?"
April leaned in to get a better visual. "No. Who are they from?"
Clearly, she was not going to drop it. "I don't know", Meredith snipped. "The card just said from your secret admirer."
Both Maggie and April awed over that tidbit.
"Do you think they're from a patient?", mused April.
"No, patients always say who they're from. This is something else...Maybe it's the new Ortho fellow?"
Meredith rolled her eyes , thankful for the anonymity proved by her mask.
Suddenly, Maggie sucked in some air. "Wait. Mer, you do know who they're from!"
"I do not know who they're from! That's why it's called a secret admirer!" Meredith was desperate for them, especially Maggie, to drop the subject. Maggie knew Alex stayed at the house last night - in her room. If she connected the dots...
"Yes you do!" By way of explanation, Maggie turned to April and said, "she's happy."
April looked at Meredith, eyes wide. "Oh my gosh, Meredith! Who is he?"
Meredith did her best annoyed Meredith voice, "There is no one! Now can we please get back to work? And I'm not happy!" She shot her sister a very irritated look.
"She's happy." Maggie repeated to April, matter-of-factly. Meredith rolled her eyes.
"I think it's great, Mer. You deserve to be happy. In fact, there must be something going around! Arizona said the same thing this morning about..." April did not finish the sentence. She immediately understood the dagger like stare coming from Meredith. If she finished that sentence it may very well be her last!
Meredith looked quickly away and tried to make it look like she was focused on her work, but she could feel April's eyes upon her. "Liver repair is done. You got this from here, April?"
"Yeah, he should be good."
Without glancing at April, Meredith left the room and began to scrub out.