Meredith reaches her room and is happy to find that her luggage has already been brought. She looks around the suite and her mouth falls open. There is a king sized four poster bed dressed in all white linens. She walks towards the bed and collapses back on it. She moves her arms and legs in a motion that imitates the motions of one making a snow angel.
She inhales deeply as she takes in the familiar scent of lavender, just like her conditioner. She sighs and sits up as her cell phone begins to ring. She knows that it is her friends. She just really doesn't want to deal with them right now. She decides to suck it up and spend some time with them. She reluctantly answers her phone.
Meredith: Hello?...Okay...I will meet you at the upper level pool in fifteen...
Meredith hangs up her phone and throws it on the bed. She walks over to one of her suitcases and lugs it over to the bed. She digs through the contents until she finds exactly what she is looking for, her tiny black bikini. She looks hot in it and she knows it.
Meredith quickly changes and grabs a towel before heading out of the door, clutch purses in her other hand. She is so preoccupied that when she turns to head down the hall towards the pool she doesn't notices the tall, dark-haired man and she runs smack into him. His large hands reach out and grab her and keep her from falling.
Meredith: I'm so sorry. I am such a clutz.
Her words are met by a deep laugh, a laugh the sends chills through her body. She looks up and her green eyes meet his oceans of deep blue. She feels her breath taken away and she struggles to regain her senses.
The stranger removes his strong hands from her shoulders and he extends one of them towards her.
Stranger: I'm Derek.
Derek cocks his head to the side and gives her a look that can only be described as dreamy. She doesn't know how she manages it, but somehow she sees herself extending her own head towards Derek.
Meredith: I'm Meredith.
Derek smiles and his eyes light up.
Derek: Meredith.
He repeats her name, as if he wants to store it within his memory and never forget it. Just the way he says her name sends an electrical current through Meredith's body. All of the sudden she is picturing her hands travelling down what she imagines is his well chiseled naked back as he groans her name in pleasure. His deep, melodic voice interrupts her very mature day dreams.
Derek: It looks like we are neighbors.
Meredith smiles at him and giggles. She has no idea where the giggle comes from and she suddenly feels like a teenager again, awkward and bumbling. Derek, however, finds her giggle very charming as he feels his pulse race and his body temperature seems to rise.
Meredith: Yes, Derek, it does look like we are neighbors.
Meredith tests out his name and it feels so natural rolling off of her tongue, like a name she could say everyday for the rest of her life. She has no idea where these sudden thoughts of the future are coming from. Meredith is not that type of girl. She doesn't do relationships. She does one night stands with no strings attached. She has no idea where these thoughts are coming from and they are scaring her.
Derek's skin breaks out in chill bumps as he hears Meredith say his name. He imagines her screaming his name as he thrusts into her. He imagines her lips close to his ear, whispering his name as she tells him how much she wants him. He also imagines her whispering his name in the morning as she rouses him from his sleep where he was dreaming of her. Where the hell are these thoughts coming from? He has no idea. He has no idea and it scares him a little bit.
Meredith clears her throat as she forces herself and Derek back to their present surroundings.
Meredith: Well, Derek, it was very nice to meet you. Now, if you will excuse me, I have to go meet my friends at the pool.
Meredith turns to walk away, but his voice calling out to her stops her.
Derek: Meredith?
She turns to face him.
Derek: Do you mind if me and my friend join you and yours?
Meredith: Sure.
Meredith smiles at him and turns around and heads of to the pool as Derek unlocks his room and heads inside to change. Neither knowing that the five minute exchange between the two will completely change their lives in ways that neither ever could have imagined.