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Chapter 12: Welcome To My Life

"I'm so glad that you're back!" Meredith exclaimed running up to her best friend in the airport.

"It's so good to be back." Kelly said hugging Meredith back. "How was Shadow, what he good for you?" Kelly asked.

"He didn't eat much, I think he missed you." Meredith replied.

"Hello to you too." Derek said sarcastically.

"Oh, sorry Derek, I just don't you as much as I like Kelly." Meredith said hugging Derek hello.

"So, how did the wedding gown shopping go?" Kelly asked Meredith. Meredith was always ready to talk about her upcoming wedding.

"Addy and I found the most beautiful gown at Vera Wang. It's a strapless silk taffeta ball gown with a wrapped bodice and a side-draped skirt. It's beautiful; we're going back tomorrow so that you can look at it. Have to have the approval of the maid of honor." Meredith explained with a broad smile.

"You should see the dress I bought for my father's funeral." Kelly said told Meredith. "It's a green strapless cocktail dress type of thing with a lighter green ribbon around the waste. I wore it with these Jimmy Choos that are amazingly comfortable."

"She looked beautiful," Derek said picking up some of the heavier bags they had brought with them.

"Oh, and Derek, some lady called from Tiffany's asking if you got your order." Meredith said looking puzzled. Kelly gave him a nervous look.

"It must have been a wrong number; I don't have the money for anything from Tiffany's." Derek said quickly thinking up a lie.

"Oh well. George is waiting in the car for us." Meredith said brushing off Derek's Tiffany comment. Meredith knew that he could indeed afford something from Tiffany's; she had seen the receipt for an engagement ring when she was doing wash for everyone in the house. In other words, she was bored.

"Hey guys! How was your brief stay in the rainy city of Seattle?" George asked. Meredith had told him about the Ring receipt. "Anything exciting happen?"

"It was good. Nothing really happened, nothing worth mentioning anyway." Kelly told George, hugging him hello.

"Are you sure about that?" George asked hinting that he knew something they were keeping from him.

"All we did was eat, sleep, shop and go to the funeral." Derek replied.

"Ok, well, let's get on back. Mark was going to try to cook tonight." Meredith explained.

"The key word here being 'try'." George put in laughing.

"When we left he had already set off the smoke detector twice." Meredith told them also laughing.

"What made him think to do this?" Kelly asked. Derek had told her how bad a cook Mark was.

"Who knows what possesses that man to do the things he does." George told her. This caused everyone to laugh.

"What do you think?" Meredith asked spinning around in a gorgeous wedding dress.

"I love it." Kelly said smiling at her best friend.

"That's what I said when I first saw it." Addison told her.

"Ok, ok, now you get to try on your dresses." Meredith exclaimed. Since she and Addison had become so close as friends, Meredith decided that Addison would be one of the bridesmaids. "You guys get to try on the dresses than I'll just buy Izzie and Cristina dresses in their sizes once you like them." She explained.

"I'm up for it." Kelly said not knowing what monstrosities Meredith had picked out.

"I love this one!" Meredith exclaimed as the two redheads looked at themselves in the mirror trying to figure out a way to tell Meredith that they hated the dresses.

"Um, Mer, are you really sure you want your bridesmaids and maid of honor wearing three shades of purple? Don't you want one solid color?" Kelly asked hoping that she would agree with her.

"Just try on more and then I'll pick the ones I like best." Meredith commanded. The two women nodded.

After about 2 hours of trying on really ugly dresses, the 3 women had resorted to looking in a catalog with only 18 bridesmaid's dresses in it. "Ooh! Number 10! Number 10!" Kelly and Addison screamed jumping up and down excitedly which caused other customers to glance in their direction.

"Guys, calm down. Are you sure you like this one? I'll ask the saleswoman if she has it in your sizes." Meredith said walking off muttering to herself about the dress.

"Hey, Kells. Hey, Addison." Derek said coming into the store with Mark.

"Hey yourself, where's Georgie?" Kelly asked kissing Derek on the lips. They had long since forgotten the Geo nickname for George now Kelly just called him George or Georgie.

"He didn't want to see Meredith trying on wedding dresses, he thought it would be bad luck, and we know they both don't need any of that." Mark explained.

"Where is Mer anyway?" Derek asked just as Meredith came back with matching brown dresses.

"I'm right here; these girls want to try on this brown thing." Meredith told him.

"Come on, it's beautiful!" Addison defended the dress that both girls loved the minute they laid eyes on it.

"Just go try it on, maybe it'll look better on you than it does on the hanger." Meredith replied handing Kelly and Addison the dresses. "So guys, what were you doing before coming here?" Meredith asked directing the question more to Derek than Mark.

"Nothing really, Mark had to pick something up and then we had some lunch." Derek replied unfazed. I think she knows something…

"How do we look?" Kelly asked aloud interrupting Derek's thoughts.

"Oh, it looks much better on you than on the hanger." Meredith said clapping her hands together excitedly.

"I knew you would like it!" Addison exclaimed.

"Look, it even twirls nicely." Kelly said demonstrating her point by twirling around a few times.

"You look… amazing." Derek said staring at his fiancé. I'm one of the luckiest men in the universe…I get to marry that beautiful creature.

"Why thank you, Dr. Shepherd." Kelly said smiling and teasing him with her eyes.

"It's my pleasure Dr. Garrison." Derek said following her eyes with his.

"Jeez, you two need to stop with the Dr. Shepherd/Dr. Garrison thing, it's annoying." Meredith said honestly. Kelly and Derek just laughed.

"Okay, so are we getting the brown dresses? Come on, they have straps, so the dress won't fall down. It even has a pretty flower on the side!" Addison exclaimed.

"Yes, we're getting the brown dresses. They're really nice on you guys." Meredith told her.

"Good, we're done here, right? I'm starving." Addison said.

"Yeah, let's just get changed and Mer, will pay for our beautiful dresses." Kelly said skipping back to the dressing room. After they had changed back into their regular clothes the two couples walked out of the store, Addison and Mark holding hands, and Kelly and Derek holding each other close. Meredith was walking in between the two couples. They were on their way to get something to eat. Little did they know that someone was watching them very closely.

AN: I probably won't be updating soon... my cousin just passed away. Please review...