"Do you think I over reacted?" Izzie asked as she lounged on the pool deck of Meredith's house. She wore a pair of shorts over her favorite pink bikini.

"Are you kidding?" Meredith laughed. "You should have kept Denny pinned to the ground. That would have been great." She wore a purple and yellow striped bikini as she tanned herself in the late afternoon sun.

Izzie wished that she had kept Denny on the floor. His teammates never would have let him live it down if he let a girl beat him in a wrestling match.

"He's the one who broke up with you. He had no right to do what he did to you.

Izzie shuddered as she remembered how aroused he already was by just dancing with her. She was grateful that she didn't pin him to the ground; he would have tried to do much more than grope her.

"You should have been nicer to Alex though."

Izzie sat up in her chair. She peered at Meredith from the top of her sunglasses. "I was nice to Alex. He's the one who was being an ass."

"I'm going to tell you something but you have to promise that you won't get mad at me."

"I won't get mad."

"The first day that I met you I thought you were a stuck up snobbish bitch."

"Hey!"

Meredith glared at her as a warning to keep her mouth shut. "You were so standoffish when I introduced myself to you. I felt like you thought you were better than me and wanted nothing to do with me."

"That's not true."

"I know that now. But the way that you talk and the way that you walk can be so off-putting sometimes. I realize now that most of the time it's because you're oblivious."

"What?"

"I'm not going to deny that you're hot. I mean look at you. You're tall, blonde and have big boobs."

Izzie crossed her arms over her chest in an attempt to shield herself from further ridicule from Meredith. It's not like she ever wore revealing clothes in public. She usually threw on a pair of jeans and a loose fitting t-shirt before school everyday. She didn't flaunt her body like some of the other girls. She'd rather be known for her intelligence. Not as some hot chick.

"All the guys think you're hot. They're always staring at you."

"No they're not."

"This is my point. You're oblivious to the way guys look at you. You're oblivious when they flirt with you."

"So you're saying that Alex dumping beer on my head was his way of flirting with me."

Meredith laughed. "I don't think so. I'm sure you're in full tutor mode whenever you're studying. He probably resents the fact that he has to spend his time with you."

Izzie made a face. "He's not exactly someone I enjoy spending my time with either."

"Yeah well that's not my point."

"What is your point?"

"The first party that you and I went to, all the guys were looking at you. Not me. Not Olivia. Not Callie. You. And they all flirted with you. But you didn't respond. You talked about some test that we had the next week. And everybody thought that you were being a bitch because you didn't flirt back."

"So, what does that have to do with Alex being as ass?"

"Well, I didn't see the entire argument that the two of you had, but I did hear him say that all he was trying to do was dance with you."

"And I didn't like anybody dancing so close to me so it made me look like a standoffish bitch?"

"Yes."

"He still had no right to dump beer on my head." Izzie stood up to stretch her legs. She removed her shorts. She rubbed more suntan lotion on her legs. She had a tendency to burn and didn't need to look like a lobster at school the next day.

"No, he didn't. But you didn't have to stop tutoring him either."

"I'm not going to change my mind. Not unless he apologizes to me."

"So you'll let him fail? I thought you were better than that."

"Guess not." Izzie was done with this conversation. She refused to allow Alex's behavior to be condoned. She wasn't going to cave on her decision to let him struggle on his own unless he apologized for being so mean to her. "Could you get my back?"

Meredith stood up and grabbed the lotion bottle from Izzie. She squirted some on her hands and rubbed it on Izzie's back. "Are you going to help Alex or not?"

"Nope."

Without warning, Meredith shoved Izzie into the deep end of the pool. Meredith jumped in causing the water to slosh off the sides. "Then we should go swimming."

Izzie laughed as they splashed water in each other's faces.