Meredith felt terrible about how she reacted to her husband's news the night before. She loved her children dearly, but sometimes it was hard for her seeing other women learn they are pregnant, the fact that Jake and Laura were adopted, made her love them even more. The struggle that she and Derek had gone through while trying to get pregnant made the couple's relationship even stronger than it had been before.

As Meredith continued to get ready, Derek was helping Jake get dressed.

"Dad, how come Morgan is out of school this week?" The six year old asked. It was not that Jake didn't like school; he just wanted to be out when Morgan was out because his god sister would take care of them while their parents were at work.

"Because you and Morgan go to different schools." Derek answered as he pulled Jake's shoes out of the closet.

"I wish I went to the same school as Morgan. Then we would get out at the same time and she could watch us," Jake said putting his shoes on. Jake had always adored Morgan and vice versa. The two were very close.

"No you don't. When you get to be in her school, you have a lot of homework to do." Said Derek patting his son on the back and rustling his dark brown hair.

Both father and son walked out of the room and downstairs to eat breakfast. When they arrived Laura was already sitting down eating a bowl of oatmeal.

"Morning daddy," Laura said after she had swallowed a spoon of oatmeal.

"Good morning princess," Derek said as he leaned down and kissed his daughter on the cheek. "Jake what do you want for breakfast?"

"Ummm, oatmeal. The one with the dinosaur eggs in it." Jake said as he stood next to his father looking up into the pantry.

At that moment, Meredith walked into the kitchen dressed and ready for work. She put her bag down by the door before she went over to her son and gave him a kiss on the forehead. "Good morning Jake," She said afterwards as she headed for the empty coffee maker.

"Eww mom, nobody gets kissed by their mom's anymore." Jake said in the typical six-year-old fashion. He now stood in front of the microwave waiting for his oatmeal, behind Derek.

"Go sit down Jake, this is hot." Derek said as he walked over to the table to put the hot bowl on it.

"Good morning Meredith," Derek said as he walked over to give his wife a kiss.

Meredith turned around and smiled and leaned up to give her husband a kiss. As they separated they heard the usual chorus from Jake.

"Yuck, dad. Please don't do that in front of me." Jake said with a mouthful of oatmeal in his mouth.

"Jake, do not talk with your mouth open." Meredith said as she poured two cups of coffee, one for her and one for Derek.

Meredith looked down at her watch seeing the time. "Okay Jake your bus will be here any minuet. Do you have all of your things together?" Meredith asked as she placed the coffee mug on the counter.

"Yes," Jake said as he took one last bite from his bowel of oatmeal. He then got up and put his bowl in the sink. He walked over to his backpack and put it on his back. "I'm all set." He said as he stared at his parents.

"Alright then let's go." Meredith and Jake walked outside to stand on the corner with the other kids waiting for the bus.

"Laura are you ready to go?" Derek asked his daughter.

The brunette's brown eyes looked up at him and she smiled. "Yeah let me go get my purse."

Derek and Laura walked into the garage and got in the car. Laura went to a private school, so she did not take a bus to school like her little brother. As Derek pulled out of the driveway and into the street he thought to himself I am proud that Meredith and I could keep the routine normal, even though we had an argument last night.

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Addison worked through out the day like she normally would only trying to avoid Derek and Meredith when she once again ran into Meredith while she wasn't paying attention. She had been looking at another patients file trying to rule out different causes as to why the patient's 6-month pregnancy was going south.

"Clumsy me," Addison said after she ran into Meredith.

"Yes clumsy you," Meredith said with disdain in her voice, as she too picked up another file.

Addi you've been successful in avoiding the Shepard's thus far why now, when Lunch is almost here. Addison thought to herself.

"Dr. Shepard," Addison said as she put on a strained smile.

"Dr. Montgomery," Meredith said with an equally strained smile on her face.

Meredith was about to move on when she saw a young woman who looked strikingly similar to the one standing in front of her.

"Mom," Hailey called as she walked into the open area where her mother was standing with her back to her. Hailey could pick her mother out anywhere. Part of it had to do with the fact that she had red hair; the other part was due to the fact that she was fairly tall, and a trait Hailey had inherited.

Addison turned around to face her daughter. In her little accident involving Meredith, she forgot that she was having lunch with Hailey, Morgan, Cristina and Burke at the hospital. "Hey Hails, where's Morgan?" Addison asked ignoring the fact that Meredith was still there.

"I'm right here, have you seen my parents? I thought we were all supposed to be having lunch together." Morgan said appearing from the bathroom.

"Well, your dad bailed. I think he said something about not being able to handle having lunch with four women instead of the usual two. So it will be you two me and your mom." Addison said.

Meredith cringed in the background at the thought of her best friend, who was supposed to be on her side, having a friendly lunch with Addison.

"Okay, that's fine with me. Hey Aunt Meredith." Morgan said noticing her godmother behind Addison.

"Hi, Morgan. I saw your mom about fifteen minuets ago. She just got out of a surgery." Meredith informed Morgan.

"Thanks," Morgan smiled. "Hey since it'll be an all girls lunch, Aunt Meredith do you want to join us," Morgan asked, not wanting to leave her god mother out and, not thinking about the problems it would cause.

"Um Morgan I…" Meredith said not wanting to hurt Morgan's feelings by turning down the invitation.

It was then that it hit Meredith as to what she had just said. Hailey and Addison looked at the wavy haired young woman standing in front of them. "That is if your not busy," Morgan said giving the gifted surgeon an out.

"Actually, Morgan I am a little busy, maybe another time." Meredith smiled as Cristina walked up to the four women.

"Hey mom are you ready?" Morgan asked.

"Yeah. Addison there is some guy looking for you around here named Matthew Lawrence." Cristina said.

After hearing the word guy Meredith stayed behind to see how everything played out. She watched as Cristina, Morgan, Addison and Hailey began to walk toward the cafeteria when a man walked up behind her.

"Addi," the man called.

At the sound of her name Addison turned around and smiled at the handsome man that was walking up to her.

"Hey Matt, what are you doing here?" Addison asked him.

"Hailey told me that you two would be here before she left. She figured that it might be a good idea for me to stop here on my way home instead of going straight to New York." He said as he stopped in front of her and bent down to kiss her.

Meredith watched from where she was standing, feeling even more embarrassed about what she had said to Derek the night before. The very handsome dark haired man was obviously seeing Addison.

"Hey Hails," Matt said as he hugged Hailey.

"Hi Matt, want to have lunch with us? You'd be surrounded by four women though," Hailey said after he had released her from their brief hug.

"I was hoping to have lunch with your mother alone, but we could do dinner later on tonight." Matt said.

"Then dinner it is tonight at seven," Addison answered.

"Great, should I meet you at the hotel?"

"Yeah, here's my room key. I'll see you tonight." Addison reached up to pull his head down to hers and kissed him.

"Okay Mom, Matt this is a public place. I know you haven't seen each other in a month but please. Spare me. Spare the hospital." Hailey said. "Are you ready for lunch Morgan?"

"Yes I'm ready. Where'd my mom go?" Morgan asked. While Addison and Matt had been reuniting, Cristina had left on a page.

"I don't know but we'll have to do lunch with her some other time. I am hungry." Hailey said. "Bye Matt."

Morgan and Hailey began to walk away with Addison not far behind, she had to wave one last time before she left with her daughter and daughter's best friend.

Meredith stared at the fleeting figures for a little while before getting back to work. Maybe Addison really doesn't want to steal my husband. Meredith thought to herself.