When Meredith finished her shower she put on her white tank top and black shorts and left her bedroom. She looked across the hall and when she saw the door was still closed she just kept walking while shaking her head. As she made her way into the foyer downstairs she looked around wondering where Derek would be. She went into the kitchen and saw Derek eating a granola bar sitting on the island in the kitchen watching a soccer game.
"Hey you are really into sports huh?" She asked as she sat next to him. He turned to her smiled and kissed her. She took his breath away by what she was wearing.
"I'm mostly into basketball and football but I have a secret passion for soccer." He looked away from her eyes afraid that she would see his real feelings there.
"Well you don't play. Why not?"
"No one expects me to be better than a stupid jock and according to their expectations soccer isn't a sport a jock could play. My teammates would laugh at me and I would be the laughing stock of the whole school. My mother would be disappointed that I'm not the best and the populist. My sister would be embarrassed to have Derek Shepherd as their brother. So I don't play." He looked in her eyes and didn't know why that came out he was not supposed to tell her about his insecurities.
"Want to know what I say?" He nodded never breaking the contact with her eyes. "I say that if you love it you should play and forget about what other people say. They won't be the ones writing your college application or choosing your job and when you are 30 years old none of that will matter. All that you will care about was how you got there." He stared at her amazed.
"Just because of you I'm going to the try outs for soccer this year no matter what anyone says."
"I'm starting to put more confidence into that head of yours." She giggled at this statement and Derek couldn't help but kiss her.
"So did you guys end up getting chips or movies." She smiled at him really hoping he got chips.
"Sorry, Cristina ran out of the store faster than I could say what."
"Well it's okay ill live…maybe"
"Chips are unhealthy anyways." Derek said with a smile.
"Well I don't know much about healthy food but I know what you are eating is definitely something that I would ever try." She made a disgusted face.
"What do you want to eat then I could pretty much make anything simple." He gave her his charming smile while getting up and throwing his wrapper out.
"You cook?!!" She sounded so surprised.
"Yeah some things I live in a house with 5 women I'm genetically engineered to become a ladies man and to be able to cook."
"I don't cook at all. I tried to make toast and I burned my self on a toaster." She looked at him nervously and he thought she looked really cute the way she played with her hands.
"It's ok Mer you don't need to know how. Most 16 year olds don't know how." he couldn't help but pull her in for a kiss so she wouldn't feel nervous around him. "So what do you want to eat?"
"Can you make pancakes with a lot of syrup." He laughed at her unhealthy habits but nodded and went to her fridge to get the ingredients.
"You really are great Derek after this day with you I think I might actually enjoy my life much more."
"Well if you don't mind I would love to spend more time with you." He put his spatula down and went to stand behind her and put his arms around her wait and rested his chin on her shoulder.
"Well I don't mind if you don't mind."
"Well good thing I don't mind at all." He didn't think he could ever get enough of this small amazing girl he kissed her on the neck and went to check on the pancakes. When he saw they were done he asked Mer if she could get a plate. She came back with it and he stacked up all the pancakes on her plate.
"Don't you want any? I don't mind sharing with you."
"I would take you up on that offer but I think I better stick with my granola bars." She laughed the whole way to the fridge to get syrup.
"Where did you get those anyways I don't buy healthy food and my parents are barely ever home to do the grocery shopping and if I didn't buy that I wouldn't eat it if I were you because it could be very old." Derek looked at her sadly for lack of her parents around.
"I have lots of boxes in my car I live on these things. You never know your car might break down in a scary place where there is no reception and this is my comfort food." She giggled at the whole scenario of Derek being stuck in the middle of nowhere eating bars of crap.
"Wow you are a health nut and we wouldn't want that to happen." She couldn't stop laughing. He just smiled at her and got another bar out of his box to eat and she just ate her pancakes. "You know you are the first jock that I met that eats healthy."
"Well I'm not the normal jock and I'm charming and I live with five girls. Most guys have their fathers to throw a ball around with them and try to be the best." The sparkle went away in his eyes and if Meredith didn't know better she would have thought that he would cry for the lack of a dad but she knew he was used to keeping his feelings in like herself.
"You have your mother and I think the ladies will appreciate that a lot. I know I just appreciated a full plate of it." As she finished saying that Derek looked at her plate and it was completely empty and he just have her a huge grin.
"Just so you know I think you are the first woman I ever met that has an appetite worth cooking for and you don't care about how much you eat."
"I don't care what other people think of me so I don't try to be like everyone else."
"Touché, and good advice but for me it's easier said than done." Derek grabbed his box full with wrappers and threw them in the trash and he walked back to her kissed her forehead and grabbed her plate.
When Meredith noticing that Derek was going to wash her plate she said "Derek you don't have to wash any dishes I will just put it in the dishwasher."
Derek looked at the plate then at her and took the plate to the sink and started washing it anyways. "My dad once told me that technology complicates everything and I'm not calling you lazy or anything but I used to do that too until I noticed what I was doing then I started washing all my dishes and I haven't used a dishwasher ever since…" He couldn't bring himself to say anything else and just said "…It became a pet peeve."
Meredith stared at his back for a while then walked to the dishwasher and took out the dishes from the dishes they used for Chinese. She went to the sink placed the dishes in the sink and looked at Derek when he stopped and she pulled him in for a kiss when she pulled away she saw the adoring in his eyes and she didn't know what was happening and why she was feeling this way. He went back to the sink and kept washing the dishes and she started to dry them and put them away. When he was done washing he took over the drying for her and gave her the dishes to put away.
When they were both done he looked at her and said "Thank you it really means a lot to me." As he was about to kiss her again his phone started ringing on the counter he picked it up. Knowing he was going to have trouble with the person he excused himself and went to the bathroom to talk.
"Hey man where are you? This is the party of the year man and lots of girls are looking for you."
"I'm at someone's house and I'm not coming so sorry to disappoint you and all of your girls." Derek was trying to be mad at him but he was his best friend, his brother, and Derek knew he was so drunk he wouldn't remember any of this conversation.
"Is this person sexy or hot? Always go for the ones with the nice asses Derek, always."
"Whatever Mark I got to go bye and don't fuck too many girls in one night."
"yeah I know my balls hurt last time and bye and have fun with the nameless sexy girl."
Derek hung up and called his mom to tell him he was fine because he knew she would get worried. She picked up on the second ring.
"Hey mom."
"Derek Shepherd you better have an explanation to why you haven't been home yet and its already ten at night!"
"Well first of all I told you I would be home late tonight this morning and I didn't even know it was ten until you told me." Derek was prepared for his mother's scolding as always.
"Okay don't come home too late you have school tomorrow."
"I won't and I have to go bye."
"Bye and stay safe." His mother hung up and he walked back into the hall to see that Meredith wasn't in the kitchen he then went into the living room and saw her on the couch watching some movie on TV cuddled in a blanket. He walked over to her and kissed her before sitting beside her and pulling her over to him. She laid her head on his chest instantly and he smiled at her. "What movie are you watching?"
"I don't know but I think it just started." He looked at her the whole entire time the movie was giving and he played with the ends of her hair. He noticed her fall asleep and loved the way she looked so peaceful. When the movie ended he gently picked her up and the blanket fell on the floor. She snuggled into his arms and put her arms around his neck, he carried her up the stairs and placed her under the covers. He bent down and kissed her softly on the forehead and as he was about to leave she sat up quickly and he looked at her with concern written all over his face.
"What's wrong Mer?" He caressed her cheek trying to comfort her because he could feel her panicking.
"Can you please stay I don't want you to leave me too." She started to cry softly and he pulled her into an embrace for comfort.
'I'm not leaving you and I don't think I can ever leave you and I would love to stay but I have to call my mom to make sure." She looked at him and relaxed with the reassurance in his eyes.
"Thank you for going through all this trouble."
"It's really not that hard and I would do this everyday if it means I get to spend more time with you." he looked at her and kissed her and she deepened it. He pulled away before anything could happen and walked out into the hall to call his mom. It went straight to voicemail and so he decided to just call his little sister. After a while she picked up.
"Hello Derek."
"Are you with mom?"
"Yeah she just came to pick me up at Jason's house." Derek couldn't help but get into overprotective mode after hearing this.
"What are you doing at his house at eleven-thirty at night."
"Geez Derek take any chill pills lately we just fell asleep while watching a movie and his mom works from 3 to 10:30 so when she came home she waked us up then I called mom and when she got here mom started bonding with his mom and we only left right now what do you want anyways."
"Tell mom that I will be home after my morning run and that I'm sleeping at Meredith's tonight."
"Then you wonder where I get it from."
"Yeah but I'll be sleeping that's it."
"Because that's totally what me and Jay didn't do at all."
"Ok will you just tell her and bye."
"Bye and remember no glove no love." They both laughed at this. He hung up and went back into Meredith's room he could see that she was still wide awake.
"I'm staying here so I guess I will jut go sleep on the couch…" Derek didn't want anything other than to cuddle in bed with her but he didn't want to rush things.
"There is half a bed right here and I'm sure I want you here rather than a couch."
"I don't think it would be appropriate for me to sleep in the same bed as you." As soon as he said it he knew she would take it the wrong way and knew he needed to make her see what he meant.
"Oh…I get it." He walked over to her and sat on the bed facing her.
"I didn't mean it that way I just want to be a gentleman with you because you deserve it and I don't want you to see me as the guy who would just jump into a bed to sleep with a girl and that is one reason every girl runs away when I tell them I have never done a girl"
"It's ok I'm not ready for any of that either and I won't be ready until I find a guy who doesn't…" He looked at her and when she stopped in the middle of her sentence.
"Doesn't what Mer?" He asked gently when she didn't respond and looked away from his eyes he lifted her chin to look at him. "Mer, a guy who doesn't what? " He really wanted to find the guy that made her feel this way and just beat him up.
"Can we just talk about this some other time I'm getting tired and I promise to tell you when I have more sleep." Derek didn't want to push anything so he nodded. "And you can sleep in here we don't have to do anything."
"Yeah I think I will sleep here but you can't tempt me because I'm catholic and I believe in god and I plan on keeping my faith until I'm married." She laughed because she found out something else about him that made him different from all the other guys. He got in the cover and she just stared at him.
"What?" he asked after he got comfy.
"Your on my side."
"Do you have sides with everyone or do you like to just sleep on this side."
"That's my side I always sleep on that side and this side is all weird."
"Ok I'll go on the other side then." He rolled over her trying not to hurt her.
"Thanks and goodnight Derek." He kissed her and pulled her back into him and she put his hand between hers and entwined their fingers.
"Goodnight Meredith." He said softly in her ear. Before he noticed they both fell into a deep slumber that neither wanted to wake up to.
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