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Derek pulled away and gazed into her eye's

Meredith smiled at him 'Do you want to take this to your bedroom?'

Derek hesitated, God he wanted to take her up to his bedroom and make love to her; but he had only known her one week and she was his student. He needed to clear his head. He was falling for her and didn't want to ruin things by sleeping with her after one week.

'Maybe we should slow down Mer' He whispered

Meredith pulled back 'Um ok' she said getting up 'I need to use the bathroom, excuse me' and she walked down the hall and into the bathroom and shut the door.

I have made a complete fool out of myself she thought. I can't face him. I need to get out of here. She started to panic. How could she get the wrong idea. He wasn't interested.

She walked out of the bathroom and straight to her bag and picked it up not even looking at Derek.

Derek saw what she was doing and walked up to her 'Meredith, Where are you going?'

'Uh sorry Derek I didn't realise you weren't interested, I think I better go'

Derek looked shocked 'What made you think that?'

'You don't want to be "with" me, all you had to do was say it not embarrass me'

Derek walked up to her slightly amused by all this. 'Meredith, stop and look at me'

She turned and looked at him tears swelling in the back of her eyes. He could see her fighting them back.

'Mer, I do want to be with you, more than anything. You are beautiful and intelligent and I would give nothing more than to take you to bed and kiss you all night and……other stuff' he smirked

Meredith smile grew on her face 'So why not tonight then'

'You are my student and I'm older than you and we have only known each other for a week, I just don't want to rush into anything and ruin something that could be great'

Meredith looked Derek in the eyes and giggled 'Way to leave a girl hot and flustered'

Derek grabbed her and pulled her into a hug. She squeezed back.

'Can we go and finish cooking dinner now? I'm starving' He asked

Meredith pulled back from him and smiled 'Sure, but I think Ill just sit and watch, I'm injured'

'Ha…self inflicted injury, who knew you were that bad in the kitchen' Derek teased

Meredith smacked him on the arm 'Hey, that's not fair, maybe the person who was teaching me is just not up for the job' she teased back.

'Yeah yeah' he said taking her hand and leading her to the kitchen

They got into the kitchen and Derek pulled out a stool for Meredith to sit on and watch him cook. He gave a quick kiss on the lips and headed back behind the counter.

'So………….How did David take the break up?' He asked in the middle of chopping mushrooms.

'He was ok, He tried to fight it but I didn't really give him a choice' she answered

Meredith looked at Derek with questioning eyes

'What is it Mer?'

'What's going to happen tomorrow when we are back at school, I'm going to be your student. I have a class with you 3 times a week…'

'Well obviously we cant be together when we are at school, I have to act professionally. We will just have to wait until after school to fool around' He grinned walking up to her and pulling her into a passionate kiss.

Meredith pulled away and laughed. 'ok' She said and kissed him again.

After they had finished eating and curled up on the couch together and watched a movie; Stopping watching every so often to kiss and cuddle.

The movie finished around 9.00pm and Meredith was getting tired.

Getting up from the couch she turned to Derek.

'I better get going, it's getting late and I have school in the morning, as you know' she giggled

Derek pulled her waist in to him and wrapped his around her lower back. He started kissing her neck and rubbing her back. 'Do you have to go?' He whined

She couldn't answer; she was too wrapped up in his kissing. It was driving her crazy.

'I…………..we said………….you said…………..'She struggled to get the words out.

'Derek………….you said we should wait' she finally broke his embrace.

'I know I know and we should, sorry, you just drive me crazy'

Meredith laughed 'Control yourself Derek'

She picked up her handbag and walked up to him 'I'll see you in the morning at school Mr Sheppard' she teased. She pulled him into a long kiss.

Derek pulled away and looked at Her. 'I don't know how I'm going to keep my hands off you tomorrow'

Meredith smiled back 'Just think of after school and it will get you through'

'Yeah I will' he smiled

'Ok bye' with that she turned around and walked out the front door.

Derek was kicking himself, god she turned him on and he had to be the decent guy.

Cold shower he thought and headed down the hall to the bathroom.

Meredith woke up the next morning feeling great. She had a slight skip in her step and she showered dressed and made her way down stairs.

She heard her mother rustling around in the kitchen as she walked in the was sitting up at the bar table reading the paper.

'Morning Meredith, How was your weekend?'

'Great mum, got a lot of study done and a bit of fun as well' she smiled

'Well good, So I was thinking you should invite David over tonight and we could all have dinner together, I've already invited Richard over'

'Um…great mum but me and David broke up'

She stopped reading and looked over at Meredith 'I always knew he would get sick of you eventually' and with that she got up and started walking out the door. She turned and faced Meredith just before leaving 'Well make yourself scarce tonight and go out or something ok. You have your credit card, I don't want to be disturbed'

Meredith was shocked, Being kicked out by her own mother.

'Sure mum' and with that her mother had disappeared up stairs.

What a crap start to the day she thought to herself.

She walked out the door and headed to her car which had been dropped of the day before by the mechanic. She looked out for Derek but his car was gone so she assumed he had left early. Jumping in her car she turned the stereo up to full blasting out linkin park.

She pulled in to the school car park about 15 minutes later. She drove around the whole thing twice before finding a park a good 100 metres away from the school. Great she thought as she stepped out and got her books all organised.

Heading into school she spotted Christina a head of her

'Chris' she yelled

Christina turned around and saw her 'Hey Mer' she said stopping to wait her to catch up.

Meredith hurried her pace and got to Christina; and they started walking.

'So there is little pre-prom party this Friday night at Mark Sloan's place, you have to come with me' Christina stated.

'A pre-prom party? Don't you mean a chance to get drunk party?' Meredith laughed.

'Mer, it does not matter what it's about, it's a party and if I remember correctly you said you would come to the next one'

'Ok, Ok I'll come with you but no trying to hook me up ok, because I'm not interested' She said

'Mer, Your single, a free women, why would you not want to, I know Mark had his eye on you for a while but you were with David, now your single I bet he will try his luck' Christina said

Meredith didn't know what to say or how to get out of this. She couldn't tell Christina about Derek but she couldn't let Christina hook her up with someone else.

'Please don't try and hook me up Chris' she pleaded

Christina stopped and turned to Meredith 'Your hooking up already aren't you?' she accused. 'What, No!' Meredith yelled

'Mer, I know you and your not the type to turn down a hook up especially Mark Freakin Sloan. I have known you my whole llife. So spill'

Meredith just walked faster trying to get a head of Christina 'There is nothing to tell you. I'm not seeing anyone. Count me in for the party'

'That's the Meredith I know and love' Christina said with a victory grin plastered on her face.

Lunch time came around and Derek headed into the cafeteria to get a sandwich, He was lining up when he overheard 2 guys standing in front of him talking about a party on Friday night. He Listened to there every word

'So Should be a good night' one of them said

'Are you kidding, Meredith is finally single, ive been trying to nail her for like forever, and she is coming, so don't bother me if I'm working her' the other one said.

Derek was furious and jealous as hell. He just wanted to knock this guy out but he couldn't. it was not his place. He kept listening

'Dude what if she is not interested?'

'Oh she will be, I have a plan to woo her into my bedroom and nail her, she will be my greatest conquest' Mark replied.

The other guy started laughing 'Nice man' and they did a high five

Derek had heard enough and had lost his appetite. He stormed off back to his class room. He needed to calm down. He was however going to talk to Meredith after school.

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Coming up, Mer/der issues Mark trying to sleep with mer and a little mer/der action