As we turned into the Central Seattle Middle School there weas a bunch of girls with guys all over them in the front of the school.
"So which one is your sister?'' i asked out of curiosity after eying all the teenagers.
"You see the one with the brown curly hair with the royal blue sweater holding hands with the dirty blonde haired boy that would be my sister Stephanie."
"Yea i see her." she looked like the type of girl that has guys all over her and was the prom queen and had the hottest guy in school as her boyfriend. Derek beeped and she looked over and kissed the boy and came to the door and motioned for the window to go down.
"Hey Derek can you take me and Jason to the mall we want to do some shopping and mom already said yes and to clear it with you and for u to give me ur credit card."
Yep she was definitaly the girl i pegged her for i thought to myself.
"I dont know Stephanie it depends on Meredith" he turned to me and said "Would you mind coming with me to drop her off?"
"No i don't mind at all ur sister and her boyfriend need to shop" his sister started laughing and then she turned to Derek and said "She's a keeper she understands me perfectly." then i remembered the days in boston i would beg my brother Alex to take me shopping but i dont understand why she said i was a keeper i didnt even think of Derek that way.
"Just go get Jason and lets go I don't have forever to wait for you." he said
"Fine be grumpy just wait til I get you back, big brother." she laughed
"You better not because im doing a huge favor for you and if you do next time i will leave you and your boyfriend on the curb."
"Yeah whatever." she left and hugged all the people she was talking and laughing with earlier and Jason grabbed her hand and opened the back door for her first.
"Hey Derek thanks for taking us to the mall."
"Yeah don't worry about it my mom forces me to do this anyways and this is Meredith
they both turned to me and said hi.
Stephanie made Derek plug her ipod in and put the music she wanted and she sang along to every song when we reached the mall it was packed and there were a few guys and some girls waiting outside for rides.
"Bye Meredith and Derek!"
"Bye have."
"We will." Stephanie replied while leaving the car.
Derek turned to her and gave her a brotherly look and gave her his credit card and said "Keep it safe and keep yourself safe i don't want another night with the security guards and mom yelling at me."
She laughed at the memory took the card and went after Jason holding his hand through all the people waiting outside.
Derek took the car and went through the parking lot to avoid all the traffic he turned on to the highway that made it to my house faster i looked at the clock on the car and it was already getting to be 6 and i knew cristina would be getting to my hhouse in a little while
i looked at Derek and he looked really concentrated on the road and the cars in front of him he turned to me and gave me a big charming and dreamy smile.
"So anything new going on?" he asked me after a few minutes in a comfortable silence
"Not really but my friend Alex is coming to seattle this weekend." I replied with a smile.
"oh..." he looked dissappointed.
"Yeah it's going to be just like old times plus he's bringing his girlfriend Izzie" at the sound of that his face lit up with hope again and i was confused on why that was happening but i just avoided those thoughts for now.
"oh that should be fun."
"Yeah with them it always turns out to be and if you want maybe we can all do something together but that's if you want to because i barely know you for a day and im inviting you to come do things with me and you don't have to and i totally understand if you don't want too and they won't even be here for-"
"You are rambling again." i blushed when he turned to me and gave me one of his famous smiles "But i find it annoyingly cute and I would love to spend time with you and your friends this weekend."
"ok are you sure" i was still shocked that he called me cute well my rambling cute and then he even said yes to spending time with me.
"I'm positive i wouldnt want to do anything else." he looked at me again with the big smile on his face.
"So is there anything new in your life."
"Not really its only october and im already getting bored without outdoor soccer." I chose to look at him in the time and his eyes lit up to an amazing sparkling blue when he mentioned soccer and you could tell it was a big part of who he was.
"Thats funny i would never peg you to be the bored kind of guy especially about your favorite sport.
He looked at me with a smirk on his face and winked at me "You shouldnt peg me im unpeggable." I giggled at this and he turned to me like i did something special.
"Well i can see that after today, before i thought you were the jock who didn't care about anyone but yourself and you seemed like the jerky jock to me." I couldn't believe i was telling him everything I thought about him.
"Well what do you think about me now." he glanced at me awaiting my answer on what i had thought about him.
"Well i think you are more of like the popular guy that no one ever understands and just use for popularity and i think that you are sick of that kind of treatment and you just want to be yourself and being a jock brings that out in you and i understand how you feel but ur still the charming and dreamy derek shepherd everyone knows and loves." he looked at me like he was amazed and with pure love and understanding in his eyes and i started to get scared that i told him all of that.
"I think you are the first person to ever actually tell me that and thank you for being first to actually understood me it really means a lot to me so thank you a lot" I never excpected that to ever come out of Derek Shepherd's mouth especially to me and he just said it and it made my day better than everything with school this morning.
"Yeah well you understand me too and you made my day great and thank you too."
"Hey since the day is still long do you want to come with me to my friend marks party i know you probably have plans but im asking because i would love to spend the rest of the day with you." I couldn't help but smile at the way he caught on to my rambling.
"Well i was going with Cristina and Preston but i guess we can all go together. You are friends with him right?" I have heard Preston tell Cristina a few times that he was haning with Derek.
"Yeah actually i never knew he was dating your friend i hear quite a lot about you just never met you before."
"Good things i hope?"
"Yeah all good things." Ee pulled up to my house and went inside we sat on the couch talking more when the door rang and me and Derek went to go open it together it was the chinese guy and Derek insisted on paying it so after i was embarassed by arguing in front of the delivery guy i let him pay and we both brought the bags of food into the kitchen.
"You really didn't have to do that." I told him when we were in the kitchen taking all the food out.
"Well i wanted to be a gentleman and plus that's the way i grew up men always pay for food and you fight with the girl about it until she gives in." I giggled at his way of thinking and he gave me the look he gave me in the car again and i just stared into his eyes.
"Well you are a gentleman Derek Shepherd." I chose to break the silence and looked away from him.
"I know i am." We both laughed at this.
"....and you have a big ego obviously."
"I need my ego to live." he simply shrugged.
"I think without it you wouldnt be you." I replied
Breaking our conversation the door opened and closed and i heard the familiar voices of my mom and Richard
"Meredith we're home!" My mom shouted to make sure I could hear her.
"Yea the first time this month..." I mumbled but Derek looked at me telling me with the concern and worry etched on his face that he heard me and he sighed "Mer..." at that time Richard and my mom came into the kitchen and looked at all the food with hungriness and tiredness in thier eyes.
"Cristina and Preston will be here in a few minutes this is Derek and there is enough food for you guys so eat and we are all going to stay out late tonight so you dont have to wait up." I chose to adress everything so my mom wouldn't make me look bad in fornt of Derek.
"ok" my mom said and held out her hand to Derek "I'm Ellis Grey, Meredith's mother of course." She said it with a firn voice and i looked over at Derek.
"Hi I'm Derek." he shook her hand and looked at me with concern.
"Please call me Ellis, is my stupid ex-husband's mom and-" at that time richard stepped in, interrupting my mom before she became mean and rude, to meet derek too.
"I'm Richard it's very nice to have you over Derek." He shook his hand and Derek still had the fake smile that didn't reach his eyes on.
"It's nice to be over you two have an amazing daughter." and that is when it happened he looked over at me and the sparkle was back in his eyes.
"Thank you" they both muttered under thier breath.
"So Derek you look like a nice gentleman may i ask who your parents are i think they did an excellent job raising you." my mother asked him
"um.... yeah Shepherd was my father and Carolyn Shepherd is my mother." "You are Chris's son?" Richard and my mom looked at him in shock and disbelief and Derek turned to me with a sad look in his eyes and i chose to interrupt my parents.
"Yeah he is, are you guys hungry because i think i just heard a car pull up." Richard then looked at me with sincerity and i think he got the picture because he gave me a slight nod.
We all sat down at the dining room table Richard and my mom at the heads of the table when Cristina and Preston came walking in and Cristina sat down across from me and preston sat acroos from derek who was sitting to my right next to Richard.
"Hello Ellis, Richard, Meredith, and mcdreamy what are you doing here anyways i never knew that you knew Meredith?" Cristina said as she sat down.
"Do you always have to call me that i dont really like it?" I couldn't believe that Cristina called him mcdreamy but now that i heard it, it actually fits him perrfectly.
"Well it's your name, so what are you doing here?" She said in a Cristina-ish way that she talks to everyone with and it was also so her rude kind of way to talk to people and she never liked Derek.
"Cristina..." Preston interrupted "...leave him alone."
"fine" she responded with a sigh. I was thanful that Preston was here until my mom started pestering him.
"So...Derek how is your mom?" she asked taking the egg rolls that were passed to her from Cristina.
"She's doing great, she's actually been better lately."
"I remember being in the OR for hours with Chris and your mother used to come in with you and mark yelling at him to hurry up his shifts i actually took care of you and your sisters kathleen and nancy once you were about 5 almost six and your parents were going somewhere but you and Mer played a lot together and i am suprised that you two never knew about eachother before. Chris came to come pick you and your sisters up and he always argued that you were spening too much time with girls. Do you remember any of the times where he would make you go sit in his office instead of letting you play with dolls?"
"yeah i remember perfectly." everything was quiet for a minute until Derek pushed his chair out a little and said excuse me and left the table, a few moments later i heard a door close.
"What's wrong with him? It's not like the dolls affected any part of his life except for the overly moussed hair i think his father should have been worried about that more." christina asked
Preston turned to her and said "His father died when he was 6." i was suprised and shocked at what just happened i was dissappointed in my mother and cristina and all i could think was that i had to go after him and i didn't know why.
I butted in and said " You two should be ashamed of yourselves his father had heart disease for years, derek was too good for his mother and she treated him like crap and it's not his fuckin fault that he still gets emotional about something he loved, so what ever you have to say about his fuckin father keep it to yourself got it" and i ran aafter him hoping that he didn't leave.