Derek lead Meredith to his friends first and once he got there the boys were looking at her up and down. Derek let go of her hand and put his arm around her waist, protecting her from all the bad things the guys were thinking of doing to her.
"Hey this is Mer." As soon as Derek said that a tall red head came up to Derek and threw herself in his arms.
"Derek! You are finally here I was about to ask Mark to text you to get your ass down here. And why the fuck are you hanging out with a freshman you know you look stupid doing that and you this will definitely make you less popular and I will sooo stop hanging with you no offence to whoever you are." Derek removed her from him and went back to putting his arms around Meredith.
"First of all Addison I could really care less what the fuck you think. But do you want to know something? You will never be half of what Meredith means to me and you will never have me, and I think you should go back to your group of ditsy blondes and leave me alone and fyi don't want you around me and acting as my friend just because I'm popular." Derek couldn't believe he actually stood up for himself to Addison and he just felt like a huge load of bullshit has been lifted off his shoulder and he doesn't need to live with it anymore.
He turned back and looked at everyone else and their reactions were all the same, surprised and shocked. "Anyone else feel the same way about me or Meredith because if so I will just leave right now because I don't need any of you telling me how to live my life." Addison strutted her way back to her friends and Mark came up and gave dabs to Derek and shook Meredith's hand. No one else talked to Derek and when Meredith noticed she took Derek's hand and walked him to her friends.
"You know you really didn't have to do that for me." She said as she was making her way to her friends circle.
"Well I did it for both of us I'm really sick of having fake friends and all the bull that they give me and if they don't accept you then they don't accept me." Meredith finally made it to her friends and she rolled her eyes at Izzy who was giving pretty eyes to Derek.
"Hey guys this is Derek and Derek these are my friends Alex, George, Izzy, Olivia, Terry, Arizona, Owen and you already know Cristina." Derek nodded and shook everyone's hands.
"So Derek why aren't you hanging out with the pretty boys. " Izzy asked. Meredith was getting annoyed since Izzy was drooling all over Derek.
"Meredith is my girlfriend now and I rather spend time with her and plus all my friends are bitches." Everyone laughed at this and Meredith pulled Derek closer to her and rested the back of her head against his chest when she saw Izzy giving him eye sex. Meredith felt better when he was only looking at her though. Meredith was also surprised at how many girls went by and looked him up and down. Everyone was in a light conversation and everyone started pouring into the school when the doors opened.
Derek kept Meredith close so he wouldn't loose her. "So where is your locker? Mines is upstairs in front of the big window."
"Mines is in the hallway next to the art hallway."
"Oh so we wont be next to each other all day and then I think we have gym together its hard to find out because we have 90 kids in that class and we end up getting split up into the three teachers every time."
"What are you scared you can' go that long without me."
"I'm starting to feel that way." As he was about to pull her in for a kiss his basketball coach came up behind him. Meredith slipped away from him and went to do her thing at her locker.
"Shepherd where were you this morning? I said bright and early and you don't even show up. When you come to practice later you will be the first one there and the last to leave."
"Are you serious?!" Meredith was listening on and she couldn't tell why Derek was so pissed about it.
"Do I look like I'm kidding shepherd? Get to class or I'll make you stay until eight or nine."
"You know, I don't have to play for you so if you make me stay then all my uniforms are in my locker and here is the key." Derek threw the key and walked away from him and back to Meredith. "I love these days when you feel like you are free and you can do anything and just be yourself."
"You just gave up basketball and your friends all in one day don't you think its going a bit too far." Meredith really didn't mind what he did with his time but she knew he really liked sports and that was all he had and he was giving it up.
"What do you mean? You were the one that told me I should do what I want to do and not let people tell me what to do. I know I seem to like basketball but I really don't and I'm going to the soccer coach today." Before she could say anything the homeroom bell rang and Meredith leaned in to kiss Derek.
"You should do what you want but don't be an ass about it okay?" Derek nodded and Meredith could tell by his eyes that he would try his best. "You should go. You are going to be late." Derek kissed her one more time before he began going up the stairs.
Meredith went into her homeroom and she sat right next to Alex. "Hey Alex what's up."
"You got the most populist boy in this school to be your boyfriend. Now that just has sexy and hot written all over it." Meredith his him in the chest playfully but she was laughing hard.
"You want to know my dirty secret?" When Alex gave Meredith a nod she went on. "We didn't even do what you are thinking of. Derek has never and I haven't either." She said it in a hushed tone so no one would over hear her because she didn't know if Derek minded that being public.
"Are you serious the Derek shepherd has never had sex?!!" Alex at least got the point of staying quiet about it.
"Nope he wants to wait until marriage and stuff like that because he goes to church and everything."
"Wow that is something I would have never dreamed about when I dream about Shepherd." Meredith laughed when he said this but Alex didn't know what she was laughing at.
"You just basically said that you dreamt of Derek."
"Not in that way you perv."
"Hey don't blame me you ran right into that." When Alex was about to say something else the bell rang for first period. They gave each other a hug and went in opposite directions. When Meredith was walking to math class she saw Addison push her way through the hall arguing with Derek.
Derek looked up and when their eyes met everything else was forgotten. Derek walked up to her and gave her a big bear hug and kissed her forehead.
"Hey. I miss you already and Addison is annoying the crap out of me." Derek said without letting go of her. She looked down the hall to an enraged Addison talking to her friends.
"Yeah I could see that and I miss you too but we saw each other like 2 minutes ago." Derek laughed.
"Your point is?" Before Meredith could answer the question a teacher told them to break it up and get to class.
Meredith walked into the class room and took her seat between Cristina and a girl named Vanessa.
"Hey Meredith." Vanessa said. She was usually the friendly type and all but when it came to hanging out with her true friends her true colors are shown. Meredith was nice to her but she didn't like her at all. Cristina nodded at Meredith.
The class ended an hour later and Meredith was excited she was on her way to gym. Meredith walked with Cristina to the gym and when they got in the girls locker room it was already filled with girls changing everywhere. Meredith and Cristina made it to their lockers and put on their pants and a change of shirts and shoes. Izzie came in a little late with Terry and Callie and Arizona.
They all filed out of the locker room to see all the boys already in their warm up lines. Meredith squeezed through everyone to get where Derek was. When she go to him he was talking to his friends so she just started to talk to a boy that was kind of her friend.
"Hey Finn." He smiled at her and she felt uncomfortable under his gaze. She didn't know why but she always got a weird feeling around him.
"Hey Meredith you haven't hanged out with me and Jared for a while." They hugged each other then Meredith turned to Jared and gave him a big hug. Meredith looked around for the three teachers and when she found them going over plans she knew they would take forever arguing. Before she could say anything else to them Derek came up from behind her and pulled her towards him and kissed her neck.
"Hey Jared. Finn." Derek gave dabs to Jared but only nodded at Finn. Meredith thought it was weird because usually Derek was nice to him. Before Meredith knew it Finn left and Jared followed him soon after. Meredith turned around in his arms and leaned up for a kiss.
"Hey I actually think this will be the first time I ever really enjoy gym." Derek laughed.
"I will try to make it as fun as possible for you." He whispered in her ear. A shiver ran down Meredith's spine when she felt his hot breath. The whistle was blown and Meredith was awoken out of her trance. Derek ran over to his line and looked back at Meredith and winked at her. They all groaned when they found out that they all had to do an obstacle course today for a warm up then choose a sport to play.
As usual Derek was first in line and he went up the bleachers and back down 5 times then went to do 10 pushups and ran around the cones and then did 5 shuttle runs across the basketball court all in 7 minutes. Meredith couldn't help but think that he looked sexy when he concentrated on what he was doing. She was waiting at the end with a bottle of water for him. He didn't even take the water when he jumped on a may and laid down breathing heavily.
"Derek you should drink water, you can get dehydrated." He just ignored her and Meredith got worried because she had never seen anyone like this. He finally sat up and took a big swig of the water bottle that she held out for him. When the only guy gym teacher came to Derek to talk to him he looked Meredith up and down and looked like he wanted to take her. Derek noticed and got up to stand closer to Meredith.
"Shepherd you are out of shape when was the last time you had a bit of intensity?" He asked cockily while giving Meredith a smirk.
"Well I think I will give your face a bit of my intensity if you keep checking out my girlfriend like that." Meredith couldn't believe he was actually saying this stuff and when she was about to try to calm him down she was called for her turn. She finished the obstacle course in 10 minutes and went to go play 5 on 5 basketball with her friends.
"Hey Mer would Derek mind playing with us we need one more person and he doesn't look like he's doing anything." Meredith was surprised that is was Cristina that was asking this.
"Um… yeah ok I'll go get him I guess." She went to Derek and when he said no she dragged him over anyways.
"So who is on whose team?" Derek asked while shooting a ball perfectly into the hoop.
"I don't care but Derek is mines!" Cristina said when she saw that he got every single shot that he took in. When they finally got the teams together it was Cristina, Derek, Preston, Meredith, and Izzy together. And Callie, Arizona, Alex, George, and Terry together.
They started the game with Preston making the jump for it and loosing the ball to Alex. Derek saved him though by knocking it out of Alex's hands to Cristina. When Derek got everyone of Cristina's back she passed the ball to Meredith who just stood there shocked when she saw Derek she just passed it to him but George cut her off. He passed it to Arizona who passed it to Izzy by accident. Izzy passed it to Derek and when Derek got the chance he went to jump to get the ball in but when he saw that he wouldn't get it in he fake jumped and passed it to Meredith who had the perfect spot.
Meredith was surprised again and just threw the ball back to Derek and he threw it back to her.
"Just shoot it in Mer!" Derek yelled when he noticed they were just going back and forth across the court.
"Derek you are crazy if you think I can make that in!"
"Well I believe you can so just try." he passed the ball back to her and she shot it she sighed when it bounced off but Derek ran over and got the rebound and she was relieved and wondered if that was his plan all along. He ran over to her and gave her a big kiss. The teacher that was there blue the whistle and told them to get changed. Meredith went into the locker room for the first time full of happiness.