Hi guys, so i tried to make this chapter a little longer, adding more background about Meredith, her home life, how she met Cristina ect. so i hope you like it!

Although Derek was in charge to "lock up" when everyone left, he really had no need to. Aside from George, Callie, and Arizona, everyone else mainly kicked around the house all day, cleaning up from nights past. The bottles that lined the walls, scattered across the floor, and filled the table were now all bundled up into various trash bags. Izzie had decided to cook everyone breakfast so the house now reeked of Maple syrup and spilt beer. Oddly enough, Meredith found this more comforting then anything.

Back in her part of Boston, she didn't have many friends. She lived out by Harvard square which was filled with "rich prissy girls" as Meredith saw it. They all had rich CEO Daddy's and were just generic mock offs of the next. Meredith really never fit in with these girls, nor did she have the opportunity too. Every year, her school would have a father daughter dance, and Meredith never dared asked Elis if she could invite Thatcher, her father. At one point, Meredith had considered asking her mother's work friend, Richard Webber to go with her, but she thought it would be weird, if anything, since it was apparent that he wasn't her father. Instead, Meredith would just go to the library and flip through the magazines silently judging everyone around her. That's where she had met Cristina, actually, at the library on the night of the father dance freshman year. The girls had been in school together for as far back as Meredith could remember, she even thought she had some classes with her, but the two never talked until they both found themselves alone at the library on a Friday night.

Meredith watched everyone as she helped Izzie do the dishes; Meredith realized how this group of friends was more of a family then her own family. Elis was a surgeon who was rarely home, and now was showing signs of early Alzheimer's. Meredith's dad had left her when she was only 5, and she never really knew why. Well, she thought, if she was married to Elis, shed leave too. He only lived across the city, but Meredith really never wanted to, or even got the chance to go and meet him again. Many of Meredith's nights were just spent at home, alone or with Cristina and takeout. She couldn't remember the last time she had had someone actually cook breakfast for her, or had seen people put an effort into cleaning up. Her house was trashed, and she never had to do dishes because Elis always just got paper plates. She smiled at the idea of how the group of friends was like a family, a family she very much would like to be a part of.

Derek had left her shortly after breakfast to go tend to the upstairs with Owen and Addison and she hadn't seen him since. She wanted to talk about last night bad. She knew that they wouldn't get the chance tonight, either, because talking and tequila never went well together.

"Wow Mer, you've been cleaning that dish for like 10 minutes now" Izzie said "I mean, I understand the importance of being thorough, but seriously" she laughed taking the dish away from Meredith.

"Oh yeah sorry" Meredith chuckled

"So, you and Mcdreamy, huh?"

"Mcdreamy?" Meredith practically choked on air

"Yeah, Derek, that's what we girls call him. And Mark is Mcsteamy" Izzie said nonchalantly, like adding "Mc" and an adjective made for normal nicknames in this weird group of friends.

"That's a little weird, don't you think?"

Izzie just smiled and laughed. Ok, so even she thinks it was weird Meredith thought to herself.

Cristina had left the kitchen after she ate, claiming that she "didn't do mommy duties". She had moved on to the living room with Jackson and April, and Meredith could tell Cristina was getting annoyed by April's perked up way of being. Meredith couldn't help but laugh at how snarky Cristina was being to April.

"So did Derek tell you about Addison?" Izzie asked as they walked back to the kitchen island

"The crazy red head chick that wouldn't stop staring at me? No, we uh didn't get the chance…" she trailed off

"Yeah, we heard" Izzie added with a wink "But she and Derek used to date"

"How long ago is used to?" Meredith asked with fear, fear of what the answer would be

"I don't know, actually" Izzie took a sip of her coffee "They dated all through Med school, I guess, I don't know what really happened there though, they were broken up by the time of graduation. Something big happened, I guess, but none of us wanted to pry. Well, except for Jackson I think. He's close with Mark and" Before Izzie could finish her sentence Meredith jumped up from her stool and walked towards the living room.

"Jackson, right? Can I uh, talk to you?"

Jackson looked up, and Cristina gave Meredith a deep look, rolling her eyes towards April. Basically, she was saying "Please don't leave me alone with this freak"

"Yeah, sure" Jackson replied as he threw away the bottles and trash he was holding. He followed Meredith out onto the front porch "What's up?" he asked.

"What happened between Derek and Addison?"

Jackson eyed her carefully "Listen I don't think it's my business to say…" Jackson said as he turned towards the door.

Meredith grabbed his shirt and turned him around, hard. She pressed him against the house with her forearm. "Listen, I like this guy, ok? And I like you all. And I'd like to be a part of this weird family you guys have going on, but before I do anything stupid and get kicked out of your little club- please tell me what is going on between Derek and Addison.

Jackson was taken back by Meredith's forcefulness. For someone so tiny, she sure could push a guy.

"All I know is that Derek and Mark are best friends, and im friends with Mark and something happened between Mark and Addison. And I don't think Derek knows."

Meredith cocked her head to the side "Why would he break up with her if he didn't know…."

Jackson shrugged his shoulders "I guess someone tipped him off that she was cheating on him with someone, he just never knew who"

Meredith let out and audible sigh of relief and removed herself from Jackson. That wasn't too bad. Derek broke up with Addison, because she cheated on him. Addison had no right to be mad. She was the adulterous whore, not Meredith. "Thank you" she said to Jackson with a smile.

Jackson fixed his shirt and stepped back from the wall. "No problem?" he said as he walked back into the house, with Meredith following him.

Cristina was waiting by the door for her, "What the hell was that all about? You left me with the freaky peppy chick. Did you know she thought you and Jackson were hooking up? You left me to deal with that! Friends don't do that- friends don't leave friends with the crazy chick!"

Meredith just smiled at a flustered Cristina and laughed a faux sympathetic "sorry". They walked back into the living room and saw that everyone had gathered back up and were not just watching the 4 o'clock news.

"Where's Mark?" she heard Addison ask

Wouldn't you like to know Meredith couldn't help but think.

Derek got up when he saw Meredith walk in and grabbed her waist, "Hey you" he said, giving her the slightest kiss on the lips. She could feel all eyes turn on her. "Are you and your friend staying tonight for round two?" he asked, as he brought her down to the couch, in between him and Addison

"Oh I don't know, I don't have any clean clothes…"

Derek interrupted "Well Addison, you like to leave your clothes at different guy's places, maybe you have something here?" he said with a smirk.

Wow Meredith thought.

Addison rolled her eyes and grabbed Meredith's wrist "As a matter of fact, I do." She said as she pulled Meredith up from the couch.

Meredith only had a quick second to turn around and look at her newly found friends, and they all the same look on their faces. It was a look that silently told her she needed to get the hell away from Addison.

As you can see, I left with Meredith leaving with Addison which Im just gunna devote the whole next chapter too. I really hope your enjoying the story as much as i enjoy writing it.

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xoxo, see you next chapter!