A/N: I am one happy girl right now because the New York Yankees have just been eliminated and I have very much joy. Anyways…I probably won't be able to update until Monday afternoon so I'm giving you another chapter tonight. I need more reviews though, lol. Reviews make me want to write more.

Chapter 39: Trying To Move On

Meredith and Finn's dessert date was really nice. Finn told Meredith about his wife and Meredith told Finn about Derek and what had gone wrong in their relationship. One thing that she knew for sure was that what happened to break up her and Derek wouldn't happen for her and Finn because his job wasn't nearly as demanding.

After their date, Finn drove Meredith back to her house and walked her up to the door.

"I had a lot of fun tonight Finn. Thank you."

"It was my pleasure. I hope we can do it again but maybe include dinner at a nice restaurant."

Meredith smiled, "I'd love to."

"I'll call you," he said, and gave her a kiss on the cheek. "Goodnight Meredith."

"Goodnight Finn."

Finn smiled back at Meredith and then walked down the path back to his car and drove away. She watched his car go down the street until she couldn't see him anymore and then went inside. George and Callie were sitting in the kitchen having dessert.

"Hey George."

"I thought you were on a date with the vet," George said with his mouth full.

"I was. Now I'm home."

"Okay, well first, this is Callie," he said gesturing towards her. "Second, Izzie told me to tell you that she went to bed and third, she told me to tell you that Derek called.

"What?"

Meredith didn't know how to react when she heard what George said. She had been on a date with Finn and was trying to move on from Derek and just when she thought she was Derek calls.

"Derek called. He wants you to call him back."

"Seriously?"

"Seriously."

Meredith sighed, "Okay, well I better do that. I'm going to go upstairs. It was nice to meet you, Callie. Goodnight George."

Meredith went upstairs, looked in on Izzie and then went into her own room and closed the door. She sat down on her bed, took a deep breath and then picked up the phone and dialed Derek's number.

"Derek Shepherd," said the very familiar voice.

"Derek, it's…Meredith. Izzie said you called."

"Hi. I didn't think you'd call me back."

"Well, I did."

"I'm glad you did. It's nice to hear your voice."

"Why did you call me?"

"I just wanted to see if you were okay. I mean, I know that when Izzie came over to get your stuff she said that you were pretty miserable and so was I and I just wanted to see how you were."

"I'm doing really well."

Meredith decided not to tell Derek about Finn because she knew that he would get protective and start asking a million questions even thought it was none of his business.

"I'm really glad."

Neither of them said anything for about a minute and it was pretty awkward. That had never happened to them even when they first began dating.

"Meredith, I miss you."

"I can't do this. I have school in the morning so I have to go to bed. Goodnight Derek."

Before Derek could say anything else, Meredith hung up. She lay down her bed and started crying. She must have been loud because before she knew it Izzie came into her room. Meredith wiped the tears away.

"Izzie? What are you doing awake?"

"I heard you crying. What's wrong?"

"I'm not crying. Nothing's wrong. Everything's fine."

"That's crap. Tell me what's going on."

"I called Derek back. He wanted to 'check on me.' Then he started to say that he missed me but I told him I had to go and hung up before he could say anything else. I was trying to move on with Finn. I like Finn. He's really sweet."

"What do you want to do Meredith?"

"I can't be with Derek. He hurt me. I like Finn. I want things to work out with Finn."

"Well okay then."

"I'm sorry I woke you up Iz."

"Don't worry about it. I'm going to back to bed and you should go to sleep too."

"Yeah, you're right. Goodnight Izzie. I'll see you in the morning."

Izzie gave Meredith a hug and walked out of her room, closing the door. Meredith crawled under the covers and closed her eyes, but sleep didn't come. The only thing she saw when she closed her eyes was Derek's face.

The next day at the hospital, Derek was just going through the motions. The conversation that he had with Meredith the night before gave him the nagging feeling that she had moved on and was seeing someone else. She had sounded happy and Derek hadn't yet reached that point in moving on from her and didn't know if he would. He was just happy that she had even called him back.

After some thinking, he decided that it was time for him to move on too. He had met several women since he and Meredith split up but hadn't been able to bring himself to ask them for their numbers let alone ask them out on a date.

Derek decided that tonight was the night that was going to meet someone new. He was going to ask Burke if he wanted to come with him, just for moral support. When he finally found Burke, he was in the cafeteria having lunch with Cristina.

"Hey Burke, Cristina," he said, sitting down at their table.

"Derek," Cristina and Burke said at the same time.

"Burke, I was wondering if you wanted to go out tonight with me? Maybe get a drink or something?"

"He can't," Cristina said, "We're having dinner with Meredith and McVet."

Cristina hadn't realized what she said until she said it. Part of her wanted him to know that Meredith was seeing someone knew because she knew that neither of them was truly happy, and another part of her assumed that Derek already knew about the vet.

"McWhat?"

"You don't know, do you?" Cristina said.

"Know about what?" Derek said, beginning to get annoyed.

"Meredith is dating a vet. His name is Finn. We're going over to Finn's tonight to have dinner with them. So, Burke can't go out with you."

"Oh okay. Well, thanks for the…information."

As quickly as Derek had sat down, he got up. That feeling that he had the night before that Meredith was seeing someone else was justified because it was true. He vowed that tonight he would find someone new just as she had done.

A/N: That's going to be it for tonight. I might have more tomorrow morning but I'm not sure. I'm going to get a haircut and then I have to work in the afternoon so it depends on what time I get home from getting my hair done.