AN: Hi guys sorry for not updating last week. I didn't have much time to write and a little writes block but I finished the chapter and it is a long one so here you go. Hope it makes up for last week! Enjoy!
Chapter 9 Flowers, Romance And Feeling Me Up
It is Wednesday night and Izzie and I plop down on the couch exhausted, we spent the whole afternoon running around town to find everything for baby proofing the apartment. It was breaking my bank so quickly I need to get some shifts at the hospital during my next break. But we had found everything we needed. We picked up Liam on the way home, he had been fed, but didn't eat much and was asleep in is room. "Right" I start. "We did all the shopping now we need to install everything." "Can we at least order some pizza first, I am starving!" Izzie sighs. "You are always starving Iz, there is no surprise there." I say laughing while getting my phone and dialling the number already ordering a big peperoni pizza to share.
"Oke, food is on the way, lets get started!" I say. "Great, where are we going to start?" Izzie says while getting of from the couch. "Uhmm let's start with one of the gates." I say while grabbing one of the big boxes. I pull out the instructions and look at it and say. "It doesn't look very hard, we can pull this off!" I sit in the doorway Izzie is right in front of me and we try to get the gate to fit but it is harder than it looks. We struggle to get the gate straight when turning the little stoppers against the wall so it is steady. "Ready turn." I say but the gate flops over. "Ugh Mer this is so not working, let's try it a different way." Izzie says. I huff and puff and say: "Do you know of another way to do this? This is going to take forever and we need to do 2 more of these!"
"Maybe we should start on the top and not at the bottom so it doesn't fall over every time." Izzie thinks out loud. "That might actually work, why didn't I think of that!" I say while I stand up from the floor. "Let's try this again" and this time it actually works we turn the little stoppers at the same time till the frame is secure and than we move on to the bottom part and that is way easier now. The gate is standing straight and it doesn't fall over when you try to open it. Izzie and I both laugh. "Right let's put the one in at the kitchen and than the hallway to the front door. That will give Liam some space to crawl around without getting to far. After struggling with the first gate the other two are done very quickly and we just finished the one at the front door when we hear the doorbell ring. "Pizza is here!" Izzie says excitedly and runs to open the door while I grab my wallet and pay the delivery guy.
I trip over the gate on my way back to the couch. "Ouch, I need to get used to that gate now." I say while standing up from the floor and rubbing my knee. While we were eating the pizza I hear a faint sound from the monitor on the side table, Liam was waking up. I was hoping he was just tossing and turning in his sleep but after 15 min I heard a tiny little cry. Izzie looked at me. "Aren't you going to get him?"
"No, I am waiting if he will go back asleep by himself" I reply while taking another bite of the pizza. "But he didn't eat much at diner he might be hungry, I tried to give him a bottle right before bed but he wasn't having it. I hope he isn't coming down with anything." I sigh. "It wouldn't be nice if you show up on your date with Derek with baby puke all over you." Izzie says laughing "No, no it wouldn't I would love to see his face tough if it happened." I say smirking. "Are you going to tell him about Liam on Friday?" Izzie asks. "I might." I say thinking about it. "I don't want to lie about my life and we do want to get to know each other. And it wouldn't be fair to him, he needs to know that Liam and I come in a package." " Yes that would be fair to him." Izzie says. At this point Liam is full on crying and I know he won't go to sleep on his own. I stand up from the couch and say to Izzie. "I am going to try to feed him a bottle."
I walk over to the kitchen and prep a bottle for him and taking it into his room. Switching on the light I see Liam sitting up in his bed, this reminds me that I need to lower it because other wise he is going to fall out off it. I put his bottle on the changing table walking over to him. "Are you alright little man, what's wrong?" I ask while I see tears rolling down his face. His dummy laying on the floor somewhere. He reaches out for me and I pick him up he just buries his head into my neck and hiccups I rub his back while grabbing his bottle and walking over to the rocking chair and sitting down. As soon as I put the bottle into his mouth he starts sucking it. "Were you hungry Liam?" I ask with a smile on my face he returns my smile while sucking his bottle. "That is what's happens when you don't want to eat your dinner." I say while rubbing his tummy. And than I start to sing:
You are my sunshine
My only sunshine
You make me happy
When skies are grey
You'll never know, dear
How much I love you
Please don't take my sunshine away
After finishing his bottle I grab his dummy of the floor and start rocking him to sleep and sing:
Hush, little baby, don't say a word.
Mommy's going to buy you a mocking bird.
And if that mocking bird don't sing,
Mommy's going to buy you a diamond ring.
And if that diamond ring is brass,
Mommy's going to buy you a looking glass.
And if that looking glass gets broke,
Mommy's going to buy you a billy goat.
And if that billy goat don't pull,
Mommy's going to you a cart and bull.
And if that cart and bull turn over,
Mommy's going to buy a dog called Rover.
And if that dog called Rover don't bark,
Mommy's going to buy you a horse and cart.
And if that horse and cart turn round,
You'll still be the sweetest little babe in town.
By the end of the song Liam is fast asleep as always. My singing always makes him sleepy while I am rocking him. I place him back in to his crib giving him a kiss on his forehead and say "Night, night Liam, sweet dreams."
As I walk back into the living room Izzie says "You have such a sweet singing voice." "How do you know that?" I ask surprised and she just points over to the monitor. "It has always worked singing him to sleep. It even worked when he was still in my tummy. He was sometimes very active at night and kicking me so one night I just started to sing and he calmed down." I say with a smile on my face while thinking back to one of those nights. "Oke let's finish baby proofing. Start with covering al the electrical out puts. I am just going to write on the fridge that I need to lower Liam's crib before he falls out of it." I say while tossing Izzie a packed of covers. "If you start with the living room, I will do the kitchen." We do every room and every output except for the ones in Liam room. Even the ones that are out of reach from the floor, better safe than sorry.
When we finished that I take a look at the kitchen cabin locks but I see I need a drill for those. "Oh no, I need a drill for these and I don't have one." I say frustrated because I wanted to get it done tonight. "Maybe you could ask Derek if he has a drill on Friday." Izzie jokes a little. "Yes right Izzie very romantic like, Derek I had such a nice time but would you happen to have a drill so I can put locks on my kitchen cabinets so my baby doesn't get into them." I giggle. "No maybe not such a good idea, but you could always try." She says half laughing. "He is not opening cabinets yet anyway so it doesn't matter, I will ask Matt next time I see him. Thanks for helping me today Iz." I say. "No problem Mer that is what friends are for, but I am going to get home now I have some homework to finish.
Friday night came rather quickly but for once I was not running behind. Liam had been the perfect baby today. No smashing food around actually eating when he was supposed to and now he was happily playing with some toys in my room while I got dressed for a the date with Derek. And again I couldn't decide what to wear. First I put on some jeans and a nice t-shirt but than I remembered that I asked for flowers, romance and feeling me up at the end of the night. So I changed again and I am now standing in front of the mirror dressed in a nice figure hugging dress that accentuated my hips in the right spots. I saw Liam in the mirror looking at me. "How does mommy look?" I ask him and Liam replies "a bobo ba." "Oh you think so, you think mommy looks pretty." I say giggling Liam crawls over smiles and babbles: "ba di da."
I scoop him of the floor. "Right my charming prince it is time for bottle and bed and you are going to behave for Izzie and sleep trough the night." I say while walking over to the kitchen to grab his bottle out off the warmer. I quickly send Izzie a text that the key is under the doormat. Sitting down in the rocking chair feeding Liam his bottle. He is trying to reach the bottle with his hands and he actually puts his hands around it but as soon as I let go of the bottle it flops over. Oke not such a good idea I mutter to myself. Placing the bottle back into his mouth and he happily sucks his bottle empty. Placing him into his crib I give him his favourite teddy bear and starts to babble again "ba di bobo da" I kiss him good night shut off the lights and back out of the room.
As I close his door I hear the front door opening. "So how is my date for the night? Izzie asks while we both walk into the living room. "He is in his crib, put him down a little bit early hope he will fall asleep soon and doesn't wake up in the night." I say while tossing Izzie the monitor I can still hear him babbling but he is content. "I need to fix my make up, Derek is going to be here in 30 minutes." I say excitedly and blushing a little bit and walk into the bathroom. Coming out 15 min later make up on my face and ready to go. "So I won't be back that late, you should be fine there are snacks in the kitchen and the tapes are under the TV." I say to Izzie. "Mer don't bother about coming home early, take your time and enjoy it, I will see you in the morning." Izzie says. "Are you saying I don't need to come home at all? I ask surprised. "Well if it leads to that than yes that is fine, just enjoy it, you deseverd it." She says. "Are you sure I don't mind waiting till next week when Liam sleeps over at Matt and Kathrin." I say. "Yes I am sure." Izzie says while I hear the doorbell ring. "He is on time this time." I giggle while hugging Izzie. "How do I look?" "Fabulous no go have fun with Mcdreamy." Izzie says. "Thanks and I will" I say while walking over to the hallway closing the door behind me and opening the front door.
A nicely dressed Derek greets me and he is holding a bouquet of flowers, roses to be exactly. Oké, that nicely dressed was an understatement he was dressed in a suit with a blue tie that brought out his eyes. "Hi, these are for you" Derek says holding out the roses to me. I just look him up and down and I am speechless. "Thanks" I manage to get out while taking the flowers. "Just wait a moment, let me put this in water. They are beautiful." I say I had finally found my voice again.
I turn around and walk back in to the living room closing the door behind me again. "Can you put these in water please?" I ask Izzie really quiet. "Sure" she says while taking the flowers to the kitchen and I go back to Derek. "Right I am ready to go." I say to him. He takes my hand and pulls me to him and kisses me softly. "You look beautiful tonight." He says. "You don't look bad yourself I am glad a changed I was dressed in jeans and a t-shirt before this." I say giggling. "You would have looked beautiful in that too." He says with a grin on his face. "Are you trying to get in my pants already? We didn't even leave yet." I say teasing him. "Right let's go." He replies while taking me out to the street.
We walk over to a motorcycle and I stop dead in my tracks. "You drive a motorcycle?" I ask. "Yes…" Derek replies insecure. "I am not getting on the back of a motorcycle dressed like this. What did you think?" I say while gesturing to my dress heels and my hair. "This took my like an hour to do!"
"Clearly I wasn't thinking at all." Derek replied, while he tried to hale a cab. It doesn't take him very long. He opens the door for me like a real gentleman. As we slide in to the cab Derek gives the driver the address. "Where are we going?" I ask him. "That is a surprise." He says while kissing my cheek. "I don't like surprises." I huff. "Can you at least tell me what kind of restaurant we are going to?" I say while having a little sparkle in my eyes. "It is an Italian one, I hope you like that." He says with a smirk. "I love Italian food." I say just looking at him. He grabs my hand and we just looking at each other in silence for the entire cab ride.
The cab pull op in front of an expensive restaurant and I begin to stutter. "Derek, this is to much you don't have to take me to an expensive restaurant to impress me." "I know that but you asked for romance didn't you? This is me bringing the romance." He says with a smile on his face and grabbing my hand and walking towards the entrance. "Next time we will just go to a dirty bar, I promise." He says while opening the door. "Just enjoy it, did I tell you look beautiful tonight?" He is trying to distract me. "Once or twice" I giggle.
"Good evening welcome to Scalini Fedeli. Did you have a reservation sir?" The hostess asks while she is looking at Derek like how I look at strawberry ice cream. "Reservation for 2 under the name Shepherd" Derek replies while pulling me closer to him. The hostess looks in the book till she finds his name marks it and asks us to follow her. She leads us to a table at the window. Derek pulls out my chair, normally I would throw a tantrum about that but I let him do it. He seems a little uncomfortable with the hostess looking at him. I decide to help him out a little. "Thank you, babe." I say while grabbing his tie pulling him down a give him a peck on the lips. "Your welcome darling." He replies and walks over to his own chair. "Can I get you anything to drink for starters." She asks, I think she is blushing. Mission accomplished. "We will start with to glasses of champagne, bottle of water and could you give me the wine menu." Derek says to her with a polite smile. And I just look at Derek. "Your waiter will be right with you" she says and walks away.
"I think I have some competition." I mutter under my breath. Derek just looks at me. "I have one rule for this date. I am going to ask you about your corpus callosotomy surgery and afterwards no talking about surgery cause that is all we talk about." I say to him. "I like it when you bossy like that, deal" He says with a smirk on his face and now it is my time to blush. "So how was your surgery? "It was really cool. I got to observer from really close and the neurosurgeon was asking me a lot of questions and explaining what he was doing in and than on the end of the surgery he was paged away for an emergency and asked me to close up because I did a really good job" He says with a sparkle in his eyes. "You closed all by yourself?" I asked in awe. "Yes." He said very proud with a cocky smile. "And you didn't screw up?" I ask teasing him. "Jeez, thanks for the confidence." He replies. "Well somebody needs to knock down your big ego." I say laughing and than he laughs with me.
"Oke enough about surgery, tell me something about yourself I want to get to know you." I ask him. He thinks for a while and starts. "My full name is Derek Christopher Shepherd, my fathers name is Michael, my mothers name is Carolyn. Her maiden name is Malony. I have four sisters. I have uh 2 nieces and a nephew. I like coffee ice cream, single-malt scotch, occasionally a good cigar. I like to fly fish. And I cheat when I do the crossword puzzle on Sunday. And I never dance in public."
The waiter interrupts him with the wine menu and the diner menu's. While the waiter gives us the champagne and the water. He asks: "Do you like red or white wine?" "White." I reply with a smile. He orders a chardonnay and than the waiter is on his way. "Cheers, to getting to know each other." He says while lifting up his glass. I pick my glass and say: "Cheers." And we take a sip. It is really good champagne. I open up the menu and he a look trough it. It all looks very delicious. My eyes fall on the risotto al funghi and I know that is what I want to order. Derek asks if there is anything I like. "The risotto looks amazing. Do you know what you want to eat?" I ask. "I think I might go for the steak. And we can order some bread for starters." He says. "Fine with me." The waiter comes back with the bottle of wine and places it in the wine holder because we still have to finish the champagne. Derek orders the food and than he turns his attention back to me.
"So where was I?" He asks with a smile on his face. "You never dance in public." I reply. "Right, my favourite novel the sun also rises. Favourite band The Clash. Favourite colour is blue, I don't like light blue indigo. The crook is in nose is from a fight with Mark, my best friend, I think it was about a girl in 9th grade." He says and I just giggle. "Glad that it is amusing for you." He says and goes on. "I grew up in Connecticut, did pre med at Bowdoin than moved back to New York for medical school at Columbia. And now I am a second year surgical resident, but you already knew that. And I live with Mark who also is a second year surgical resident." He says and after taking a sip of his champagne he asks: "So that is me, what about you?"
The waiter is placing a basket with bread on the table and I grab a piece of bread and I take a big sip of my champagne and say: "Oke, here goes nothing, my full name is Meredith Elizabeth Grey, my fathers name is Thatcher, who I haven't seen since I was five. My mothers name is Ellis. I am an only child. I lived in Seattle till I was five. Than my father left and my mother moved with me to Boston. I grew up in the care of nanny's and spent a lot of time walking around the hospital while my mother was in surgery. I love strawberry ice cream and tequila." I wink at him and he just laughs and I continue. "I do like to dance in public. Favourite novel The Lucky One. Favourite band Duran Duran. My favourite colour is purple. I am studying pre med at NYU. I love to watch my mother's old surgery tapes. I had pink hair in high school." I look in Derek and he looks amused about that admission. "Really you had pink hair?" He asks. "Yes and I whore a lot of black. I take a sip of my champagne and finish with: "And now I am living with Liam, my seven month old son." I just look at Derek waiting for a reply or for him to stand up and leave. Right as Derek wants to open his mouth to say something. The waiter comes back with our meals. And pours us a glass of wine. "Enjoy your meals" the waiter says and walks away.
I am getting nervous about Derek's answer. He opens his mouth again. "You have a son?" He asks. "Yes his name is Liam and is 7 months old." I say and all Derek can say is: "How." "I had unprotected sex in high school and I got pregnant, Derek you are a doctor do I need to explain where babies come from." I say annoyed. And I take a bite of my food. "No, I know where babies come from, I didn't mean it like that how do you raise a baby while going to pre med? I mean pre med is hard enough as is." He says. I can see him looking at me in awe. "It wasn't easy being pregnant going to school and have a side job. But my mom really helped me out with some money issues. I worked on the side as an orderly at NYU medical till I couldn't anymore. I stayed on track with al my homework. I went to school till I was in labour I copied al my friends notes while Liam was really little. And NYU had made it possible for me to follow the classes online I just had to repeat the practicums I missed last summer. When Liam was old enough for day care he went there and I went back to school. Last summer I worked my but of at the medical centre to save up money so I could focus on school and Liam during term time." I say getting less annoyed as I look at Derek, he is speechless all he can say is: "wow." For a moment we just eat in silence and than he asks: "Where did you find the time to go out at all?" I can see in his eyes he isn't mocking me. "To be honest when I met you that was the first time I went out since I found out is was pregnant except for prom. Liam had his first sleepover at his grandparents" I say. "Are they watching him now ass well?" he asks taking a sip of his wine. "No, Izzie is watching she is one of my friends." I take another bite and a sip of wine.
"I just wanted to let you know that I come in a package. You need to know what you are getting yourself into. And if you don't want to go I can understand that, but than I will say goodbye right now and won't see you again." I say while I can feel a tear rolling down my cheek. I just looked at Derek and Derek looked at me he reached over the table to wipe the tear of my cheek and started. "Oh Mer, can I can you Mer?" he asks and I just nod he keeps caressing my cheek with his hand. "Mer, from the moment I laid eyes on you I was captivated by your smile and your giggle and than I found out you were 19 and I didn't care, I knew that I had to get to know you. You amaze me and now you are telling me you are raising a son and going to pre med that amazes me even more. You are a very strong woman and I would be crazy if would walk away now. Because every time I knew I was going to see you over the last week it made me very happy." He says while he is looking me in the eyes and I know that he means it. And I start to smile again. "See there is the smile I was talking about." He says now smiling as well. "No more tears oke, I am not going anywhere." I nod. He still has his hand on my cheek and pulls me forward a little and kisses me soft. "Thank you, I needed that" I mumble against his lips. "No problem." He says winking and taking a bite of his food and we finish eating.
When we are finished Derek asks: "Can I see a picture of Liam?" "Sure." I say while fishing my phone out of my handbag. I open the phone and see the time it was ten o'clock already. I quickly searched for a good picture of Liam to show Derek. It was a picture of Liam sitting in the living room playing with a toy and looking straight in the camera. And I begin to smile even brightly and I turn the phone to Derek. He takes the phone out of my hand and looks at Liam and back to me and back to Liam. "He looks cute and he has got your nose. You must be very proud of him." He says. "I am very proud of him. He is a very good sport." I say proudly. And than I ask: "Are we going to have dessert?" "I am sort of a health nut so normally I don't do dessert but I can make an exception if you want to split the chocolate cake." He says. And I just snort "Don't tell me you are the kind of guy who eats muesli for breakfast." Derek fakes being hurt. "I will spilt the cake with you only if you feed me." I say winking. "Oke, deal" he says smirking. The waiter comes and takes the plates away and Derek orders the cake.
"How is it to grow up with 4 sisters are you the oldest? I ask trying to turn the conversation back to him. Derek just laughs and than says: "It was horrible, I was smack dab in the middle and always surrounded by girls I can not count the times on my fingers that I had to play dress up in a dress and they had to put make up on me. There was always a fight at the table most of the times about clothes and make up or boys. I was lucky that I had Mark most of the time we met in primary school and we became best friends he was always over at my house. But I had the job of scaring all the boys away from my sisters that was fun." "I wonder what your sisters thought about that." I say giggling. "Oh trust me they where not happy about that I remember on night, Lizzie was out on a date and mom and dad where not home I stayed up late waiting on the porch for her in the dark and then when she came home and the boy wanted to kiss her goodnight I cleared my throat and walked up to them and said you are late Lizzie go back in side. The poor boy was scared to death and I don't think I ever saw him again. I think Lizzie didn't speak to me for a week." He says with a smirk on his face.
The waiter comes back with the cake Derek reaches for the cake and grabs the fork and hovers in front of my mouth as I try to take a bite he pulls the fork away and takes a bite himself. "Hey, I thought that was mine" I pout. "Sorry darling I needed to make sure that there was no poison in here." He says with a sparkle in his eyes. And than he gets another piece on his fork and offers it again. "mmmmmhhhhhmmmm." I purr while the chocolate melts in my mouth. "That is so good!" we eat in silence. And when Derek gives me the last piece of cake I purr again I think I am in heaven. "There is something on your face." Derek says and as I try to reach for my napkin he says: "No, I get it." He leans forward and kisses me on the side of my mouth. "Got it." He says and kisses me again. He is sucking on my lip but he is not asking for entrance. "Let's get out of here let me grab the check and than we will go." "Good idea" I reply. Derek stands up to get the check and I walk over to the bathroom. I quickly send Izzie a text if everything is going allright. She replies. "Everything is fine go have some fun!" I apply some new lipstick and go back out to Derek. He is waiting for me at the bar. "Ready to go?" he asks. "Yes, ready to go," I reply and he grabs my hand and we walk out to the street.
"So do I need to take you home?" He asks while he turns to me and holds me close. "There is no chance you are going to feel me up at home because Izzie is there and I am so not ready for Liam to meet you so no don't take me home." I say. He pecks my lips and says. "Your wish I my command." And kissing me again this time I can feel his tongue at my lips asking for entrance and I grand him that. My hands go up into his hair and we kiss. "Oke let's go!" he says stopping a cab and getting in. I can feel the wine and the champagne. I just lean against Derek in the cab just like when he brought me home last time. It was a short drive to his apartment. He opens the door end let's me in.
"So I ticked of the flowers and the romance, now I just need to feel you up." He says walking over to me. He is flashing his Mcdreamy smile and I get weak in the knees. He grabs my middle pulls me closer and he kisses me hard. One hand goes to my hair as the other one travels over my back. My hands go to his hair again. I like his hair.
We both fight for control and I can feel his hand go down to my butt. And we are walking backwards I hear a door opening and we keep walking backwards and I know where this is going and I start to get nervous. Derek feels the change in me and stops. "What's wrong?" He asks while tucking a hair behind my ear. "Nothing I am fine." I say but Derek doesn't believe me. "Mer, your whole body just changed something is clearly wrong." He says. "I … I … I think I am not ready for this." I say while looking at the floor I don't want to look him in the eye. "Hey, look at me. Mer, look at me." He says and I lift up my head. "It's alright. We will take it your pace." He says looking me in the eye. "You are not mad?" I ask insecure. "Why would I be mad?" Derek replies, raising his eyebrow. "Because I am not ready for sex." I say. "No of course not, if it is just kissing and feeling you up that is fine too. We will take it at your pace. Do you want me to take you home?" I think while looking at him. And than I reply "No I don't want to go home. Can you just hold me and we can go to sleep?" I ask. "Sure come on. I will give you something comfortable." He says walking over to his dresser and pulling out a t-shirt. "Here put this on. The bathroom is over there is you want to change in there." He says handing over the t-shirt and pulling me closer and kisses me soft.
I walk into the bathroom and I close the door. "Really clever Meredith, good job." I mutter to myself. I get out of my dress and bra and pull on the t-shirt that is way to big but it smells like Derek. I open the door and want to walk back into the room. I am greeted by Derek who is standing with his back to me only in his underwear he is looking gorgeous. "Oh" I say. At the sound of my voice he turns around. And I can see his toned chest. "See you look beautiful in everything you wear even in my t-shirt." He says while pulling a t-shirt over his head. I blush. He sits on the side of the bed and lies down. "Come on I won't bite." He says laughing. I start to giggle and walk over to the other side of the bed and get under the covers. Derek pulls me flush against his body says: "I promise no sex just feeling you up." "Oke, I trust you." I kiss him, one hand goes into his hair and one goes down his t-shirt at the back. This time I am asking him for entrance and he happily open his mouth. One hand goes in my hair and the other on sneaks under my t-shirt. We kiss for a while and than Derek pulls away. "Mer, I need to stop." He says. "Oke." I say I snuggle right in to him in the crook of his neck. And I fall asleep.
I wake up feeling that somebody is staring at me. I open my eyes and I can see Derek laying on his side with his hand under his head. "Good morning" He says giving me a peck on the lips. "Hmm good morning." I reply. And kiss him. And than my phone starts ringing. I reach over to pick it up. "Hi" I say into the phone not looking at the number. "Hi Mer, sorry to call you. But your mother showed up and is asking for you." Izzie says. And at that moment I am wide-awake. "Shit, I am sorry I will be right there. Thanks Iz. I say into the phone and than I turn to Derek. "I need to go, sorry." I say. "Is something wrong with Liam." Derek asks. "No nothing is wrong with Liam." My heart melts that he is worried about him. "I forgot that my mother was coming over this weekend and she at my apartment and I am not there. This is so not good." I say while running over to the bathroom throwing on my clothes. Derek offers me a sweatshirt that I happily take. I almost run past him on my way out of the door but he grabs me and pulls me close for a kiss. 'Thanks for yesterday. I will call you later. Bye" I say giving him a quick peck on the lips and than I am out the door.