Chapter 17: You Need to Grow Up
"Who proposes and throws out a fucking ultimatum!" Meredith slurred and sloshed another swig into her mouth "Oh, marry me Meredith! And if you don't, I'm marrying someone else!"
"I wish someone would propose to me." Lexie mumbled.
"Boys are stupid." Meredith muttered and slurred "Them and their stupid boy penises."
"Yeah." Lexie burped "Stupid penis."
Meredith was laying lazily across a pool table, cradling a bottle of tequila and Lexie with a bottle of bourbon laying on a table top next to the pool table.
"You know what color their stupid wedding is?"
"What?" Lexie mumbled.
"Pink!" Meredith shouted drunkenly "Who the hell likes pink? Derek doesn't like pink, I don't even like pink! Their wedding invitation was all pink and flowery, it's so not Derek. Derek hates pink."
"I like pink." Lexie mumbled
"Then maybe you should marry Melinda…Morgan….Marion." she sighed and took another swig "Whatever her name is… I don't care, I hope he's happy. I don't care about him."
"Oh yeah?" they heard and looked up to see Christina standing over them "Then why are you laying across a pool table in the middle of a bar, with an almost empty bottle of tequila at…" she looked at her wrist "Two o'clock in the morning."
"I don't have an empty bottle." Meredith frowned and pulled the bottle up to where she could see "Oh shit…who drank all my tequila!"
"You're pathetic." Christina muttered and looked over at Lexie as she belched "And you're just drunk."
"And you're here why?"
"Because Joe has a lot better things to do than stay past closing time to baby sit and listen to your drunken cries over Derek."
"I'm not crying over Derek." She frowned "I'm fine, I just wanted to have a good time."
"You've been having a good time every night since he left." She said, "And you got his wedding invitation in the mail today, I think you saved a few whales tonight with all the tequila you drank." Meredith belched and then let out a giggle "This has got to stop."
"There's nothing to stop." Meredith groaned as she tried to push herself up but slipped and fell back against the table "Owe." She sighed and looked up at Christina "I'm fine. My best….my former best friend is getting married next weekend. Oh, fucking well, hope the whole having sex to with person, who isn't me, for the rest of his life is good for him."
"You know I'm all for sex."
"Me too!" Lexie piped up.
"But there's more to life than sex Mer." Christina sighed "You're going to miss out on it. You need to stop playing games and grow up."
"I'm not playing games." She said, "I've never lied, I've always been upfront, and never had any rules."
"So that's it." She asked, "You're just going to let him go… you're just going to let ten years spiral down the drain?"
"I can't make him happy Christina." She said with the most sobering voice "I'm not good wife material, I wouldn't make him happy."
"You never tried." She said "So you don't deserve him. And you don't deserve to drown yourself in tequila either."
What do you think about what Christina said?