jelly: i had this ready yesterday but it wouldnt let me upload the document for some reason. but its here now, so enjoy!
Meredith and Finn chatted on the way to the mall. They were meeting everyone at Starbucks.
Finn: What do you mean by everyone?
Meredith: Just Christina, Preston, George, Callie, Izzie, Alex, and us.
Finn: just them?
Meredith: Yeah, why? Just the usual group.
Finn: Yeah, I know. So tell me all about your day.
Meredith: It was boring and I'm smarter than college kids.
Finn: I always said you were.
Meredith laughed and turned up the radio when she recognized a song she liked. When they pulled into a parking space at the mall Meredith immediately hopped out and started running to the meeting place. Finn watched her. She was so different from when they'd met. He smiled at the memory as he followed her much slower in Starbucks.
Flashback
Finn watched as a blonde girl dressed in all black entered the room and walked up to the teacher. They had a short exchange before the girl sat in the nearest empty seat. The teacher clapped his hands.
Teacher: OK guys we're getting our lab partners today. And no, you will not be choosing them.
The class groaned and the teacher grinned, he was notorious for playing matchmaker with his partnering. Usually things ended for the worse.
Teacher: listen up, and no one move until I say so. Got it? Good! Abby, Chris. Danielle, Domenic. Mary, Jason. Meredith, Finn. Hilary, Steven…
Finn looked around the room; he had no idea who this Meredith girl was.
Teacher: Girls, move and sit next to your new lab partners. I'm giving you the last twenty minutes of class to get to know each other, who knows maybe you'll fall madly in love and get married one day!
The class stifled their laughter while the girls moved. The new girl walked up to him.
Girl: Hi, I'm Meredith Grey.
Finn: Finn Dandridge. It's nice to meet you.
Meredith: You too.
Meredith sat down and started doodling on her binder. Finn watched her. She was pretty, nice features, medium length, dirty blonde hair. The only problem was she was dressed in as much black as was allowed by the uniform. Heavy makeup surrounded her eyes; she wore a black headband, shoes, and had a black bag at her side.
Finn: Can I ask you a question?
Meredith: I wear black because I like it, was that your question?
Finn: Yes, but now I have another one.
Meredith: What?
Finn: Why do you like it?
Meredith: I'm not a bright and sunny person; dark colors fit the requirements nicely.
Finn: What's wrong with being bright and sunny.
Meredith: You don't have to do this you know.
Finn: Do what?
Meredith: Act like you actually want to know me.
Finn: Well I'll be working with you for the semester so I do kind of want to know you.
Meredith: What if I don't want you to know me?
Finn: Well, then I guess I'll have to force it out of you.
Meredith laughed and smiled. He thought she had a beautiful laugh, not dark at all.
Finn: I really will.
Meredith: The make sure you have time when you do.
Finn: Long story?
Meredith: not really, no.
Finn: Then why…?
Meredith: It'll take a while to force it out of me.
Finn: We'll see about that.
Meredith: All right then.
Finn: Do you want to eat lunch with my friends and I, it's next period.
Meredith: um… sure.
She gave him a half smile and pulled a book out of her bag and began to read it. Finn took out the homework for his next class and attempted to finish it. He didn't notice Meredith watching him.
Meredith: You're doing it wrong.
Finn: How do you know?
Meredith: I took that last year and got an A.
Finn: uh huh.
Meredith: do you want help?
Finn: I thought you'd never ask.
She laughed at him but leaned over and started instructing him in the ways of trigonometry.
End Flashback
That had been a good day. Soon after transferring to Crest Haven Meredith had started to lose the dark things in exchange for lighter ones. A month after meeting her Finn had asked her out and they'd been together ever since.
Meredith: yooohoo…. Finn? Finn, can you hear me?
Finn: huh?
Meredith: What's wrong, you've been out of it ever since we got here.
Finn: Just tired. You ready to shop?
Izzie: Stupid question.
Meredith: We're always ready to shop
Christina: No, you two are ready to shop, I am simply dragged along.
Burke: Come one, I'll buy you that shirt you were looking at, at Nordstrom
Christina: You talked to my mother!
Burke: You were taking to long getting ready, she started talking to me. Was I supposed to ignore her?
Christina: Yes!
Burke: Oh shut up and go.
Christina unhappily stood and let Burke push her out of Starbucks. They had already decided to meet up at the movie theater in two hours.
George: We're going too. There was this really cool computer at the apple store I'm thinking of buying.
He got up and Callie followed with a small wave at Meredith and Izzie. Although everyone was nice to her, she still felt like she was intruding on their little group, even if she had been there before Meredith.
Finn: Come on Mer, you said there were boots to buy.
Meredith: You're right! Bye Iz, Alex!
She happily pulled Finn around the mall until finding her favorite shoe store. Finn watched as she tried on a pair of brown, leather knee high boots. He took a deep breath, this was going to be harder to say then he imagined.
Finn: Meredith, I need to talk to you about something.
Meredith: What?
She had gotten up to walk in the shoes but came to sit down next to him.
Finn: I'm moving.
Meredith: What!
Finn: At the end of the year I'm moving to Seattle.
Meredith: WHAT!!!!
She got a few looks from other customers but ignored them.
Finn: My dad was offered a job and he's taking it.
He conveniently left out the part that his parents hated Meredith and wanted to get him away from her. Unfortunately, Meredith knew him well enough to know when he wasn't telling her something.
Meredith: What else?
Finn: They hate you and want to get me as far away as possible. Even if it means making me want to kill them violently.
Meredith: That's what I thought.
He face has settled into a look her couldn't identify. She didn't look hurt, or even angry. Completely indifferent.
Meredith: I have to go.
She put the shoes back in the box and left them there before leaving Finn sitting on the small bench. He waited a minute before remembering he had driven and there was nowhere she could really go without a car.
Finn: Meredith wait!
She turned slowly to face him.
Finn: Take my car. I'll get a ride with Alex and pick it up later.
Meredith: Thanks.
Finn: I'll call you.
Meredith: ok.
She left again but this time he didn't go after her. He knew she needed time to sort things out, then he'd try talking to her again.
Meredith walked up the steps that led to a small park. It was the last place she'd seen her father. The park was filled with different forms of art by local artists. Usually she hated these types of places, but for some reason this place calmed her and let her think. Meredith followed the gravel path to her usual spot and gasped at who was sitting in her spot.
Meredith: What the hell are you doing here!?
The person turned.
Person: I could ask you the same thing
jelly: thanks to everone who reviewed for the previous chapters! if you could review this one too, that'd be nice. I don't think I'll be able to update for another week or so. So Happy Thanksgiving everyone!