They walked in silence, Meredith ahead of the guys, to the house next door. The door opened before she grabbed the knob. Carol appeared smiled.
"Oh my, Meredith, don't you look gorgeous tonight." She beamed at her gesturing for her to do a twirl.
"As do you, Carol." She giggled.
"You are such a sweetheart, Meredith Grey." She giggled. "I believe your mother said we will be leaving momentarily."
"Where are we going?" Mark whined with his hand stuffed in his pockets causing his jacket to hick up a little bit. She turned to look at him and couldn't help but to be taken back by the way the evening sunset hit him just perfectly. Quickly shaking the thoughts from her head, she sighed.
"Well, I'm going to get my car out of my garage."
"Mer!" Dennis's voice squealed. "Can I ride with Mer? Please, Mom."
"No, Dennis." Ellis's voice snapped from the other room.
"Maybe next time, Dennis." She smiled at him from the door as she dug her keys out of her bag. "I'll be back."
She walked down the stairs to the garage and could feel their eyes on her back. She tried not to let it bother her, but it was hard.
"Oh, Mer." She heard Nina's voice.
"Yeah?" She said turning at the door rolled up.
"How many does your car fit?"
Oh god. Don't even go there. Lie. Lie. You have to lie. "Four." She winced almost as if she was pained to have a BMW M6.
"Oh great!" She squealed. "Then Preston, Mark, and Derek can ride with you."
"It would be…"
"No, Mom, why must you torture us." Derek whined.
"Derek, you better shut your mouth." She snapped back.
"But we have two SUVs." Meredith tried to be logical.
"Yes we do, dear, but one is almost out of gas and we don't have time to fill up."
"Great." She mumbled.
"What was that?" She asked.
"I said I would be happy to." She said inwardly groaning before getting in her car. She turned it on and pulled it out into the driveway. "I hate my life."
Trying to ignore their gazes and whispers, she played with the radio for a few seconds before getting bored and turning off the car. Her phone started to ring, but she looked at the screen and rejected the call before trying to brush it off and forget about it.
"Ready?" Ellis called from the door as she emerged.
"As I'll ever be." She mumbled resting her head on the palm of her hand.
"I want to drive." Mark said. "Mark Sloan doesn't sit in the passenger seat and let a chick younger than me drive."
"Get over it. It's my car." She snapped.
"Follow us." Larry said before shutting the door.
"I don't want to sit in the back." Derek moaned.
"Me neither." Burke said.
"There is no way in hell I'm sitting in the back." Mark interjected.
"Just get in the freaking car." She yelled. Letting out a sigh, Derek and Preston got in the back and Mark sat in the passenger seat. She waited impatiently as they got adjusted before putting the car in drive. She looked less than pleased with her head rested on her hand with her elbow propped up on the open window. The top was down and blew her hair back every now and then. Mark made a move towards her radio which she automatically.
"Don't mess with my radio, Sloan." She snapped as her phone rang. They had pulled up on a stop light. She looked down at her phone and quickly hit ignore.
They drove in silence until they jumped onto the highway when every other second on of them would criticize her on her driving in someway. She's going to slow. She's going to fast. She's drifting. Every little thing they critiqued her on.
"Shut up!" She yelled. "I've been driving for three years. I think I know how to fucking drive."
"We've been driving for five." Derek said sticking out his tongue.
"You are so freaking childish." She glared at him through the review as they pulled into a restaurant.
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Don't worry. Soon enough, Meredith is going to get mad enough to prove a point and yell at them. But will it be too late?????? Dun Dun Dun