Christina leaned her weight on one leg, crossed her arms in front of her and waited for Meredith to recover from the shock of her friend having found her pills before she got a chance to tell her.
"Okay, Mer," Christina began. "It didn't take a rocket scientist to know you were with child...pregnant...knocked up."
"What?" She asked innocently.
"Well, I mean, I knew. Sort of...kinda of. George and Izzie just assumed you needed to get away from Derek, being that he chose Addison over you. You know, that you needed a new start in life. Gosh, Mer, what a start! A baby! You are going to tell him, aren't you? It's only right. He is the father."
"How exactly would I go about in telling him, Christina?" She raised her voice a pitch higher than her usual tone.
"Hell, I don't know. How about picking up the telephone and just tell him. Hi, daddy!" Christina smirked and rolled her eyes.
"You really don't like him, do you?"
"Truthfully? I know he's my boss, but, he is definitely a jackass!"
"Oh," was all Meredith could say.
"You are keeping your baby?" Christina asked softly and gently touched Meredith's belly. She had a far away look as she reminisced back to her pregnancy. At times, she wondered about her own child."
Meredith squeezed Christina's hand as if she could read her mind. "You would have made a wonderful mother, Christina."
The ringing of her cell phone was a welcomed interruption for her. The lost of her baby was such a traumatic experience that she was uncomfortable on the subject. She flipped open her cell.
"Hey, I'm here. Yes, she's fine." There was a pause. "Look, I'll talk to you later. Okay, bye." She turned to Meredith who had just gulped down a whole glass of water to wash down her pill.
"How is Burke?" She asked as she set down her glass on the dining room table.
"Fine. He has a message for you."
"What?"
"It's a reminder for you to drink your milk everyday," Christina says nonchalantly.
"He knows? He knows? How?"
Her best friend shrugged her shoulders. "One day we went through this process of elimination of why you left. Being pregnant outweighed the others."
Back at Seattle Grace, Derek stood and looked out of the window of his office. Their was sadness in his eyes as if for a lost of a love one. The flame in his heart which flickered for Meredith had died out the day she left town. He knew he had made the biggest mistake of his life when he decided on Addison. But, yet, he questioned himself. Could he possibly love two women at the same time?
He leaned his head on the windowpane, closed those dreamy eyes of his as he tried to stop the tears from slipping out. Men don't cry. But, suddenly, he broke down and cried. He missed her terribly and thought back of the last night they were together. He felt his life falling apart.
Derek wanted Meredith back into his life. But, Addison had been a part of him for the last eleven years. When you are in love, you never stop thinking of that certain someone you love. Lately, that someone was Meredith.
TBC - Chapter 4
