Meredith looked longingly down at her engagement ring and wedding band. If she was going to start a new life, she was going to have to take them off because the new Meredith wasn't married. She was going to once again become Meredith Grey, someone she hadn't been in 3 ½ years. Meredith had been so happy when she began her internship that her last name wasn't Grey. Only the chief of surgery at Mass General knew who her mother was, and she liked it that way. No one thought she had been favored because of her mother because no one had a clue who her mother was. Two years ago when her mother had passed away she was worried that someone was going to figure it out because everyone at the hospital knew her mother had died and Ellis Grey's death had been a fairly major news story, but still no one had figured out who her mother was. She knew at her new job everyone would probably figure out rather quickly exactly who her mother was and would immediately assume she had been granted a transfer because of her mother. In a way this was true since the chief of surgery was an old family friend, but he also knew about her situation and was more than happy to help. It was going to suck to have everyone questioning her about her mother, but better that than questions about her dead husband. At least when she heard her mother's name she didn't burst into tears. She looked at her rings once again. They were going to have to come off before she landed because Meredith Grey wasn't married and had never been married at least that was what she wanted everyone to believe because she really couldn't handle all of the looks of pity she was sure to receive if everyone actually knew her true story. As she went to slip her rings off of her finger, she began to remember back to the day when they had first been slipped onto her hand.
It was officially here. The day they had been planning ever since he had popped the question in the middle of Dr Wilkin's class. He had only seen fit to propose the exact same way he had asked her out for the first time. At least this time he had talked to the professor beforehand. It was their wedding day. The wedding was being held at Central Park in New York. This was probably not the first location Meredith would have chosen, but her fiancé's mother and sisters had thought it was the only place for their son/little brother to get married. Meredith had agreed since the only real requirement she had for a location was that she wanted it to be outdoors and she had no family to invite to the affair anyway. A couple of friends from high school and college were all that were on her guest list. Her fiancé had a large family and lots of family friends and since the majority of the guests were coming for him anyways it only made sense to hold the ceremony in his home town.
Meredith had actually planned very little for this big day. School had been keeping both of them so busy, and his mother and sisters seemed to love doing all of the planning. The only thing Meredith had been in charge of was finding a wedding dress. His mom and sisters had been very disappointed when she showed up with a very simple, strapless a-line gown with no beading, lace, or even a train, but then again when it came to Meredith there wasn't much of which his family did approve. His parents had always hoped their son would marry a Manhattan socialite and move back into the city after graduating from med school and were extremely annoyed with the fact their son was marrying Meredith (even if her mom had as much if not more money than any of those other girls) and moving to Boston. None of this kept Meredith from feeling the happiness of this day. She was marrying the one and only love of her life. She could really care less where she was or what she was wearing. Everyone had warned her about the pre-wedding jitters, but she didn't have any. She knew she was making the best decision of her life.
The ceremony flew by. She was so deliriously happy that she wasn't even sure if she had heard anything that was said. She was pretty sure she said "I do", but other than that, who knew. Before she knew it she heard, "You may now kiss the bride." He leaned down and slowly kissed her lips with promise of much more to come as soon as the reception was over. They were going to a two week honeymoon to Hawaii before they started their internships. The rest of the day had flown by in complete and total happiness. She knew that she would be this happy for the rest of her life. Even if she could have seen three and half years into the future she wouldn't have changed a thing because it is so much better to have love and lose it than to never have love at all.
Meredith slowly slipped the diamond solitaire and simple silver band off of her left ring finger and placed them on a chain around her neck. It was official, there was no more Meredith Evans, now only Meredith Grey existed and for the first time in her life she actually hated the fact that she was Meredith Grey.