She rubbed her temple as the hold message replayed for the tenth time. Letting out a groan, she fell back onto the gurney.

"Dr. Grey?" A voice came.

She popped up. "Yes."

"Okay, so what can we for you?"

She groaned. "I need my order to be checked."

"Alright, let me check my computer. You ordered two dozen red roses in a bouquet?"

"No, no, no." She moaned rolling onto her stomach. "I ordered the…" She flipped open the magazine. "F0211 bouquet."

"Okay, will you please hold?"

"No I don't want…"

"Flowers Inc. tries very hard…"

She let out a groan as they put her one hold once again.

"What's the occasion?"

She jumped at the sound of Christina's voice. She and Christina had actually gotten along pretty well. There was an immediate connection between the two. "What?" She asked sitting up.

"What's the occasion?" She asked again. "The flowers, Mer. The flowers."

"Oh, they're for my friend." She quickly lied.

Christina looked at the magazine to find the F0211 bouquet circled. She read the description. "It's a wedding bouquet."

"She's, ah, getting married."

"I'm not stupid." She said sitting beside her. "Barbie and Bambi or Shepherd and Sloan might not have noticed it, but I'm not that stupid. You wear a ring."

Meredith looked down at her hand. "Yeah, well, I'm trying to keep it under wraps."

"Who is he?" She asked laying back.

"Uh…." She paused for long enough to make Christina know something was up. "You don't know him." She said quickly.

"You're lying. Who is it? The guy up in pediatrics? Or radiology guy?"

She grimaced shaking her head thinking of the fat sweaty radiology guy or the scary 'clown' guy. "Hell no."

"Good… cause I would have to like… disown you as a friend." Meredith laughed as Christina rolled onto her stomach. "So who is it?"

She contemplated telling her before sighing. "You can not tell anyone." She stressed the 'anyone.' Christina nodded. "Alex is my fiancé."

"Alex Kerev?!?"

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"We'll talk later… You can come to my house after work." That was how she ended the conversation in the basement when she heard footsteps coming.

She and Christina got off at six that day and Alex was getting off after nine hours of surgery at seven. Meredith was silently happy he was in all day surgery so Christina had on chance to talk to him about it.

They met in the parking lot and Christina followed Meredith to her house.

"So this is where you live with Evil Spawn."

"With Alex? Yes." She giggled. She unlocked the door and let her friend into the house.

After getting a couple of drinks, they sat down in the living room in silence.

"Are you going to tell me?" Christina said after a few minutes.

Meredith nodded. "I met Alex when I was five. We lived on the same street and were best friends for ever. I was always at his house when my mother was working and doing whatever she did. He was always there from me and I was always there for him. We went to the same schools and everything. We ended up going to Dartmouth together and our first day back at the house our second year we went to a party. I got drunk and all that and we wound up having sex. But long story short our second year of medical school he asked me to marry him."

"So you're getting married?"

"I'm getting married."

"To Evil Spawn?"

"To Evil Spawn." She giggled.

"Congratulations." Christina mumbled.

"Thank you."

"When is the wedding?"

Christina wasn't used to the whole actually caring about this kind of stuff. Her mother had gotten married five times so she never really thought much of a wedding, but she and Meredith became friends… really good friends and she decided to be there for her.

"In two months."