Meredith walked inside the house and sat down next to her boyfriend. "I may have overreacted yesterday, so I'm letting you explain."

"You didn't overreact," He looked over at her. "I'm just an asshole."

"Maybe. Explain." She pushed the hair out of her face.

"I met her my freshman year. We had a project that we had to work on at my house. After that we just started hang out." Derek told her. "At one point I asked her out and we just kind of became the couple that everyone wanted to be."

"So, if everything was so good, then why'd it end?"

"Uhm," Derek shifted awkwardly in his seat. "Her parents walked in on us. Her dad was really close to hitting me, but he just ended up kicking me out. Her parents told her I was just a bad influence and going nowhere in my life."

"Which is a lie," Meredith said automatically.

He smiled slightly. "Yeah. But, her parents were already planning to move to New York for work, so the next week she was gone. We said we would stay together, but two weeks after she moved I found out she cheated on me when we first started dating."

"Girls are bitches," She slightly smiled.

"Not all of them," He smiled back at her and grabbed her hand. "I should have told you about her and I'm sorry that I didn't." He paused. "I never loved her."

"Derek, it's okay. I know she's in your past."

"No, baby," He smiled. "I know I never loved her because nothing that ever I felt with her feels as good as when I'm with you." He leaned over and gently kissed her. "I love the way ramble on when you get nervous. I love the way you look when your concentrated; like nothing can get in the way. I absolutely love the fact that you love me," He smiled. "And I love the fact that you're willing to take a risk to make yourself feel happy."

"I don't want to leave, Derek," She admitted. "I can't leave."

"Meredith. You do," He looked up at her. "Like I said, you're doing this to be happy and absolutely no one can fault you for that."

"What if I hate it there more than here?" She leaned against him. "What happens then?"

"Then you come back." He smiled slightly. "It doesn't hurt to try."

"I'll miss you so much, though." She whispered.

"And you know I'll be driving up there as often as I can." He paused. "Well, I mean in a few weeks, hopefully I'll get out of this damn cast and I can come visit you."

"Okay," Meredith smiled and Derek pulled heron his lap so she was straddling him. "I don't want to hurt you."

"I'm fine, baby," He smiled. "It doesn't even hurt that bad. My doctors just being over precautious."

"You're a lair," She laughed. "A very bad liar, at that."

"Oh, really?" He smirked. "I'm pretty sure you beat me in that department."

"Shut up," She laughed and pressed her lips against his. Derek wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her as close as possibly to him. He never wanted to let her go.

"Cause this is definitely what I want to wake up to in the morning," Mark ran a hand over his face and continued to the kitchen.

"You really know how to ruin a moment, dude," Derek shook his head. "Thanks."

"No probs," He laughed.

x.x.x

"Promise me you won't leave me," Meredith blurted out later that night. She was laying down on his bed, and he was on the computer, looking up something for the classes he was starting in the spring semester.

"What are you talking about?" Derek looked over at her.

"Like, tomorrow, when I move away and everything. Promise me you wont find some skanky, little slut and forget I ever existed." She sat up.

"What have you been drinking?" He smiled. "Baby, Of course I'm not going to leave you. I never want to leave you."

"Pinky promise?"

"Pinky promise," He went to go sit down next to her. "I'm going to the doctors in two days."

"No more crutches?" She looked up at him. "Cause that would be amazing. But… it hasn't been that long," She frowned.

"I know. I can only hope. He said everyone reacts differently to injury so, if I'm done, you will be the first person I tell."

"Good," She smiled and kissed him. "You're coming with me tomorrow, right?"

"Where else would I be?" He pulled her onto his lap. "Sleepover?" He smirked at her.

"Ha, no," She wrapped her arms around his neck. "You're still injured and remember what happened last time?"

"I'm fine and I have condoms." Derek ran his hands up and down her sides.

"Oh, yeah?" She laughed. "Your whole family's downstairs, baby. It's not gonna happen."

"Okay," He let out a dramatic sigh, but then smiled. "I'd rather sit like this for the rest of the night anyway."