Chapter Three:

A/N: Thank you for the reviews! I'm glad you're enjoying it hah. Okay, so this is me attempting to somewhat accurately portray the eighties. I wasn't even alive during them, little lone in high school hah, so bear with me.

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"Oh God." Addison didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Or run the other way.

"I thought this song was ridiculous when I heard it when I was seventeen." Derek laughed. "Were you a Madonna fan? I can see you being a Madonna fan."

"I did listen to quite a bit of Madonna." Addison admitted with a laugh.

"I was always all about,"

"The Clash." She finished for him. "Your obsession with their music is endearing, really."

"They're the best band ever!" Derek pointed out to her and she just shook her head with a laugh.

"Let's dance." It was then that she noticed that not only did she not recognize most of the people surrounding them in the room, but also that many of them were looking, or rather staring, at her.

"See?" Derek smiled at her as the end of Like A Virgin played. "This isn't so bad. You, me, dancing, hotel room, no work all weekend… it's actually kind of heavenly."

"Heavenly. Right. Derek have you seen all of the people giving me weird looks? We've only been in the room for two, maybe three minutes and… even though hardly anyone actually knew who I was in high school, someone will recognize my flaming red hair and make the connection and then I'll be ridiculed…" Addison ranted. Derek just smiled at her.

"Would you stop smiling for one minute Derek? This is a serious situation!"

"Serious situation. Right." He exaggerated not smiling as he leaned down to kiss her lightly.

"Derek!" She sighed exasperatedly. "They are going to realize who I am and they are going to make fun of me."

"No one is going to make fun of you." Derek reassured her.

"When they do, well…" Addison tried to think of something Derek wouldn't like.

"Punish me?" He raised his eyebrows at her.

"You'd enjoy that too much." She smirked and he laughed. He was right, she decided. This really wasn't that bad. No work, no stress, right now no one was making fun of her, or bringing up embarrassing memories… yet, and she was dancing and flirting with Derek. Things were okay.

"Addie!" Jenna called from across the room, causing multiple couples to turn and look at her. "Bring Derek and come sit over here with me!" Addison sighed in annoyance. Things were not okay anymore.

"Breathe, Adds." Derek took her hand as they headed over to the table where Jenna sat.

"I couldn't wait to catch up with you so I had Sam, Samantha Thompson, you remember her? Well, I had her take over for me at reception."

"Well that's," Addison began, her voice overly cheerful.

"That's wonderful." Derek smiled, finishing for Addison who he knew may not have finished the sentence on a positive note.

"I know, right? So are you having lots of fun yet?" Jenna asked perkily.

"Well, we haven't been here that long but we were dancing." Addison answered lamely.

"Oh this weekend is going to be such a blast!" Jenna cooed. "It's so nice that you came with Addie, Derek." She smiled at him in a way that made Addison just a little bit uncomfortable.

"Well, she is my fiance," Derek flashed his dreamy smile and Addison thought Jenna was going to melt. Wonderful, Derek. This was so not the time for him to have fun with her. They were comfortable with their relationship, and often times would have fun with each other by flirting with other people just for the heck of it, but here it was not fair because she had no one to retaliate with. What was she going to do, go find Eli Harrison, the Captain of the football team, and strike up some flirtatious conversation? Unlikely.

"Addison?" Derek asked with an amused smile on his face.

"Sorry, what?" She blushed just a little bit as she realized that both Derek and Jenna were staring at her.

"Jenna was just asking about what you were doing now."

"You always had such... ambitious dreams so you could imagine that I'm more than curious to see where they took you."

"Well, both Derek and I are surgical interns at a hospital in Manhattan. That's where we met, actually. We're almost done our intern year though, so we're looking forward to that."

"Surgical interns? Wow." Jenna nodded approvingly.

"Yeah." Addison nodded awkwardly. "So you organized this thing?"

"Pretty much. I had some help but I decided it'd be a fun thing to do. I've been super excited about it ever since I started planning."

"Well that's... awesome." Addison smiled politely.

"Do you have a boyfriend or... "

"No, nope. Still, you know, single. It's pretty fun." Jenna answered quickly. Addison just smiled politely again, not quite sure of what to say. "So, you've changed a lot since high school." Jenna said after an awkward pause in conversation.

"I'm going to go get us some drinks." Derek got up and headed towards the bar at the opposite side of the room. He smiled apologetically as Addison shot him a look that screamed 'don't leave me here alone with her'.

"Yeah, I guess I have." Addison shrugged, not really wanting to talk about herself.

"I mean like, practically half the guys here are leering at you. Nice dress, by the way."

"Are you... did you mean to insinuate..." Addison trailed off, slightly shocked and overly confused.

"I'm just saying. I didn't think you'd show up for this, but I guess you would want to flaunt the fact that you aren't a total loser anymore and that you're all like hot and whatever."

"I'd want to flaunt that? Derek practically forced me to come to this."

"You would want to forget the first part of your life, wouldn't you? Just forget everything about it." What the hell? She supposed that Jenna was just trying to make her angry now. It was almost a little funny. This was her only almost friend from high school and she now hated and was jealous of her.

"Jenna, what is your problem?" Addison struggled not to raise her voice.

"You have the audacity to sit there and ask me what my problem is?" Jenna whispered harshly.

"Okay this is really starting to freak me out. I have no idea what you are talking about at all, I have no idea why you are so hostile or what I did since you know, the last time I saw you nearly ten years ago to make you hate me."

"Skippy Gold, Addison."

"What? Is he here?"

"Well, he RSVPd that he was coming but I haven't seen him yet. But that's not the point. The point is, you thought you were too good for him, but you went to prom with him anyways. Because he was the only person that asked you. I asked him to prom Addison, but he said he wanted to go with you. And you didn't even enjoy yourself. I pretended to be nice to you that night, and on graduation and when we said goodbye, but I really wanted to punch you in the face."

"Okay, seriously, where is this coming from?"

"I loved him Addison. He was cute, and he was nice and considerate and funny, and he knew more about Star Wars than anyone else. And he liked you. Not me, you. And you went to prom with him, said goodbye and never talked to him again. And now you're here, and you look like you do, and I still look like I do and when he shows up, again, he will like you and not me." Dear God where did Derek go?

"I have Derek, Jenna. I love Derek. I am marrying Derek. I don't care what happened ten years ago, or how you or Skippy Gold feel really. Because I am marrying Derek." Addison got up to go find said fiance who was taking a suspiciously long time getting their drinks.

"This conversation is not over." Jenna told Addison who groaned in annoyance as she refrained from sprinting across the room to Derek. Instead, she walked calmly and sophisticatedly away from the crazy woman who she used to think she was friends with years ago to the safety of Derek.

"Addison?" He looked concerned as she threw herself into the stool beside him at the bar that was set up against the wall.

"I so need that drink right now."

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A/N: So I am kind of sick, and I am having an insane lack of creativity and writing skill right now haha, so if it sucks, I apologize! I hope to update more frequently soon, but my work schedule is crazy at the moment and I have oh, six days to memorize seventeen songs hahaha so I'm gonna have to work on that too!

Anyways, please review!