Thank you all for your comments, adds to favorites and story alerts - it makes me very happy. This part is kind of short... I really want to post the entire story at once so I'm really trying to pace myself... just one part at a time ;-). But I promise to make it daily updates so you'll never have to wait too long. The entire story is 20 parts.

Part four

As fate would have it, Allie did find herself a cute boy. His name was Steve, and he was staying with his parents in a house not far from Allie's parents' house. He was from New York, had dark brown hair and hazel colored eyes and was a year older than she. They were inseparable from day one so Allie and Meredith would spend their days with him and his two buddies who were also spending their summer there. The girls had fun with them since they knew their way around the area a lot better then them and they took them to all the best places to hang out.

Meredith had been a lot subtler about trying to mess with Derek since their kitchen encounter. Mainly because it scared her how quickly he had managed to turn the game around in a way she never thought he would. She went into this positive that he wouldn't act on any feeling she'd provoke in him. From what Allie had told her he was always a perfect gentleman with women, while his best friend was more of a love 'em and leave 'em kind of guy and she used to laugh about how opposite they were.

When it came to hanging out with their new friends, getting around Derek had been easier said than done. The first time the boys had shown up at the house to pick up the girls on their way to a local swimming pool, he said the only way he'd let them go was if they'd wear a one-piece bathing suit, remembering Meredith's tiny little red string bikini all too well. Of course they agreed but when they got there they wore the bikinis they had managed to sneak into their bag. Another time was when they were all headed out to a local bar and he'd insisted that Meredith would change her top, saying it was too revealing. But that time she'd just responded with a single "no" and ignored his protests as she walked out the door. A part of him thought that she was still teasing him with all the little things she did, like flirting with Steve's friend in front of him and so on. But as the weeks went by he'd convinced himself that her little game had ended right there on the kitchen counter when they had crossed that big fat line.

But that didn't mean she didn't have an effect on him. Because clueless as she might be about it, she still made his breathing ragged just by being in the same room. She still made his heartbeat quicken whenever she giggled at something Allie would say. She still made his pants grow tighter whenever she'd come down for breakfast in that tiny little sleeping gown of hers. And as much as he hated it when she walked out the door that time in that very exposing top, he secretly loved the fact that she wouldn't let him tell her what to do. That she was so independent and feisty.

One evening they were again at that bar again; Allie, Meredith, Steve, his two friends Mike and Liam and Mike's girlfriend Kelly.

They'd been there for a while and Mer was beginning to feel a bit tipsy from the shots of tequila she'd been having. Allie and Steve were slow dancing on a make shift dance floor in the middle of the bar and Mike and Kelly were making out in the corner of the booth while Meredith and Liam were engaged in a conversation. She was bored. He kept going on and on about his father's company, how successful it was and so on. She'd never been attracted to wealth or success. It'd never impressed her. If anything it put her off. She thought it had probably a lot to do with her mom. She listened to Liam go on about some deal they'd just made with someone important. He was sitting awfully close for someone she didn't know all that well and she then felt him place his hand on her thigh. And for some reason she let him. Maybe it was simply because she was lonely.