Later that afternoon in the Pit
Meredith has been looking around for Cristina and finally finds her at the nurse's station with her nose in a book "Hey"
"Hey"
"We missed you at lunch." Meredith knew something was wrong and she was fishing for answers from her friend.
"Oh they were backed up down here so I was trying to help out with sutures."
Meredith stares in disbelief "Seriously?"
"Seriously" Cristina pretends to go back to reading her book.
With that, Meredith pulls a shocked Cristina off the chair "Mer.."
She continues to pull her friend through the exit doors to the ambulance bay. "Okay that's it! Tell me what is going on?"
"Noth…"
"DON'T SAY NOTHING! You hate the pit and you love surgery and you definitely love lunch so what happened today and what are you avoiding?"
Cristina surrenders and leans against the wall "I think Burke is going to propose."
"Propose what?"
Cristina gives Meredith a look not wanting to say the M word.
Meredith's jaw drops "Ohhhhh. OHHHHHH!"
"Exactly"
Meredith begins to fire off questions "What are you going to do? How do you know? When did it happen? Are you going to say yes?"
"Are you done?" This is exactly why Cristina didn't want to talk to anyone. Questions. So many questions and she didn't have any answers.
"Right, go ahead!" Meredith is now leaning on the wall next to Cristina both staring straight ahead."
"Last night Burke was in the shower and I was looking for one of his shirts to wear to bed."
Meredith interrupts "Why don't you wear your own pajamas?"
"Because it irritates him when I wear his freshly cleaned shirt to bed and that usually leads to hot sex."
"That's weird"
"You asked. Like I was saying, I was looking through his drawer for a shirt and I found a ring box."
"What does it look like?"
"A ring."
"Cristina!"
"I don't know. I panicked, shut the box and went to bed before he came out of the shower. What am I going to do?" For the first time Cristina was looking at Meredith and Meredith could truly see how confused she was.
So in an attempt to be rationale Meredith says "You could say yes."
"Right"
"You could say no"
Cristina shakes her head "Thanks I hadn't realized my options."
"Sorry. So you didn't even try it on?" Meredith was really curious about the ring but she was talking to Cristina and Cristina wouldn't care about how big the ring was.
"No. Why would I try it on? I want it to go away. This is crazy. It's all I can think about. He's done it. He's finally driven me insane. I mean what is he thinking!" Cristina is now squatting against the wall with her elbows on her knees.
Meredith persists "Have you two talked about marriage?"
"Yeah, in the I don't want to talk about it kinda way. I knew he was trouble from the beginning. Relationships are such bad ideas. I'm starving!"
"You're so screwed."
Cristina looks up at her "Don't I know it. You could have at least brought me a sandwich."
Later that night at Joe's
Meredith and Cristina are sitting at the bar with George and Izzy who now know about the marriage dilemma.
George is trying out Cristina's married name "Mrs. Preston Burke. Dr. Cristina Burke."
Izzy chimes in with "Nah, Dr. Cristina Yang-Burke"
Cristina glares at George and Izzy "The two of you need to stop right now or I'm going to lose it."
"Okay so I've been thinking about this situation and it is not necessarily a bad thing." Cristina looks at Meredith waiting to hear why this is not a bad thing.
"Really? How much tequila have you had exactly?"
"Listen. You love him. He loves you. You already live with him. You gave up your apartment. You almost had a baby."
"I was pregnant. We were not having a baby."
Meredith rolls her eyes "Whatever! What would be so bad about marrying him? You are already in a committed relationship. You act married."
Cristina stubbornly snaps back "We do not act married."
George chimes in "You fight like you're married" and quickly goes back to drinking his beer.
Izzy looks at Cristina with a silly grin "Your babies would be beautiful."
Cristina leans back with both hands on the bar "Ok, hold it! Babies? We're not even married."
"Look, we've got to go it's 1:00am. We're going to feel like crap tomorrow."
A tired Cristina grabs her coat and walks out "I already feel like crap!"