"You wanna tell me about this black light party?" I whispered close to his ear as I sat practically on his lap. The car was packed, six people seated in a five person car.
"Hmmm you'd like that" he laughed as the car pulled up and into park. We all got out to see piles of clothes abandoned and scattered in the yard.
"What the hell is going on?" Izzie questioned.
"Yeah...you probably shouldn't have worn anything you care about here." Derek chuckled as they made their way to the door. The minute the door swung open we were met with splashes of glowing paint being sprayed around the room.
"Ew what is this?" Izzie whined.
"Paint...it isn't toxic or anything but it may not come out." Derek warned "come on" he whispered as he grabbed my hand and separated out from the group.
"You could've warned me" I laughed as splashes of neon pink splashed against my shoulders and back.
"That ruins the fun" he whispered as his slightly glowing eyes looked into mine before leaning down to kiss me quickly "come on...let's get you a drink"
"Trying to take advantage of me?" I giggled as he guided me towards where the drinks were being poured.
"Wouldn't dream of it. Stay here...I'll grab you something" he smiled as he walked off.
"Aye! You went to orientation six right?" A male voice said as I waited against a wall.
"Uh...yeah" I said not knowing where the voice came from in the slight darkness of the room.
"Over here, Ian" he waved as he stuck out his hand and smiled, his teeth glowing bright white under the light.
"Hey um...Meredith" I smiled awkwardly.
"Here you are" Derek said as he returned with two plastic cups in hand.
"Thank you" I said grabbing one greedily.
"I'll see you around" the guy waved as he walked off, after Derek made his appearance known.
"Oh okay!" I said nicely as he walked away.
"Who was that?" Derek asked, slight jealousy in his voice.
"Not really sure...apparently he went to orientation with me" I shrugged as I finished off the drink and grabbed his hand. "Let's dance" I whispered.
—-
She pulled me towards the middle of the room, I felt a little too old to be at a college party, I admit but I was having fun with meredith so I didn't care. She danced around as she had the first night I saw her, she had on Black short heels that made her wobble a few times.
"Mer, be careful" I muttered against her hair as she danced in front of me.
"I have to pee, get me another drink?" She asked, wrapping her arms around my neck and lunging herself at me.
"Mkay" I muttered as I pulled back before she hopped off.
I walked towards where the bar was and attempted to order another drink.
—
"Hey, whered you go?" I asked, grabbing izzies arm as she walked by.
"Where'd I go? You're the one who broke off to grind with your boyfriend!" Izzie exclaimed.
"I'm sorry...this is crazy!" I yelled over the blaring music.
"Yeah…" izzie said sloppily.
"Hey you girls here alone?" A group of guys asked as they approached.
"Um...no" izzie said in her best attempt at being sober.
"We're fine, thanks" I said rolling my eyes.
"Aye lemme get you another" the boy I'd spoken to earlier said.
"Uh...I can get my own actually" I said nervously, I wasn't stupid and I wasn't letting myself get into any dangerous situations.
"Here Meredith" Derek said as he made his way through the crowd.
"Thanks" I said pulling him close by his paint clad shirt and kissing him hard before pulling away and staring at the group of guys.
"I want to leave" I said annoyed.
"Is everything okay?" He asked his hair and eyes wild.
"Yeah it's just…" I said eyeing the guys still talking to izzie.
"Hm...A Chi A's...let's gather your friends" he said pulling me, I grabbed izzies arm and pulled her with us
"We're leaving" I said plainly.
"Thank god!" Izzie sighed as we gathered Cristina off a table and Maggie out of the corner of the room.
"Alex is off with some DG...let's just go" izzie sighed, hurt evident in her voice.
"Oh...okay" I nodded as we made our way into the kitchen where the lighting was normal. When I'd finally seen the damage done to our clothes and bodies my eyes bulged
"Wow…" Cristina laughed heading out the door. I looked at Derek and saw the mix of colors from where we'd been dancing close and blushed before following Cristina towards the car.
"That was intense" Maggie said shocked.
"Oh yeah...they get like that" Derek shrugged,
"We've been to a A Chi Rho bright and tight party" izzie said pointing to her and Maggie.
"Hm…" Derek nodded at the memories.
—-
"I don't know if I really love parties" Meredith shrugged as we walked up to my apartment.
"You don't?" I laughed.
"No..the sweat and creepy frat guys...not my thing" she said as I grabbed the key and opened the door.
"Holy crap!" Addison said shocked as we entered the apartment.
"Black light party?" Mark asked.
"Hm.." Derek smirked.
"Nice" Mark nodded.
"I need to shower" Meredith groaned as she walked towards where my room was.
"Yeah?" I piped up. She giggled as I walked up to her before closing the door.
"Just keep it down!" Mark called.
—-
"He's lucky, he gets to basically relive those college years" I said after they left.
"Derek is trying to spend time with her, she's new and wants to experience all of that wildness...it'll go away eventually" Addison shrugged.
"Maybe..what about Amy? She's crazy" I laughed.
"Yeah well that's Amelia" Addison rolled her eyes
"Have you heard from your dad?" I asked softly.
"Uh...no" she bit her lip harshly.
"Your mom?" I questioned.
"She says it's better I don't know what's going on" she sighed "it's crazy! I'm an adult, I can handle it"
"I'm sorry, Addie" I murmured.
"Whatever" she sighed laying back into the couch, the water was now running loudly in the background.
"You think she'll stick?" She asked, in an attempt to change the subject.
"Who? Meredith? I hope so...he's finally more tolerable now that he's getting laid and Meredith is great, not like airheads who are usually interested" I shrugged.
"that's not it" she rolled her eyes.
"Oh come on...I mean she's great….I have no pr born with her but let's be real….his game isn't great" I laughed placing my feet on the coffee table.
"I like her...she's smart" she nodded looking towards Derek's room.
"Well She's Ellis Greys daughter so…" I shrugged, she seemed too normal to come from Ellis Grey...she didn't have that aura of overconfidence or a rich surgeons daughter attitude either like most inbred doctors in med school.
—-
About an hour later I was wrapped in a towel and going through my hair, pulling out the specks f neon that were left behind.
"So...do you have any crazy ex boyfriends?" Derek asked out of nowhere, I snapped my head away from the mirror to look at him before turning away again.
"Not really….I um..I've never done this before" I said shyly.
"Oh" he nodded with a hint of s smile.
"You?" I asked. This was getting more personable which meant we were getting to a point behind just exclusively sleeping together.
"2 actually" he nods and I turn my body completely around to face him.
"In high school, a dancer named Kirsten, we were happy I thought...we'd been together about a year and then one day she just up and left...she said we needed to talk about something serious and then she just left"
"Strange…." I nodded softly.
"It was...I assume now that she was going to break up with me before we went off to college but didn't have the courage" he shrugged as I reached out my hand to grab his and pull him towards me.
"And the other?" I asked kissing his cheeks affectionately.
"Yeah...Morgan, we dated for about a year and a half in college. She was in nursing school. Her moms house was destroyed in a Hurricane a couple years ago and she had to move back home. We did long distance for awhile but she fell off the wagon apparently and i think she got arrested for a DUI, I don't really know...we just fell out of contact while she was away" Derek shrugged.
"I'm sorry…" I said simply, wrapped my arms around his neck.
"It's okay, they were great at the time, it just...it was never felt like anything special...you know?" He asked, cocking his head
"If it's any consolation...I don't have any plans to try and leave" I grinned.
"Good...that's good" he laughed. "Because you and I have...there's deifnatly something special"