officailly yours

Part 5

"What do you think?" Derek held his breath, waiting for a positive answer. He needed it all to look perfect

"Lose the candles"

"You think?" He took another look at the table, it was all perfect, the wine glasses, the plates, the cutlery, the centerpiece with white and red roses and of course the red candles. Sophie, also agreed with his sister. The candles were a bit too much.

After waiting for 2 hours on her office without any idea of what to do to make Meredith listen to him Derek decided to ask a woman for her opinion. He left her office and looked around, of course he couldn't find anyone familiar, he knew no one. He caught a glimpse of Sophie and decided to ask her. She didn't really know her but at least they knew one another's names, it was something. When he reached her desk he found something, or rather someone he had never thought he would find there: his sister.

He practically yelled at his little sister when she revealed she had been working there for around 7 weeks, around the same time he had been searching, like a crazy man, for Meredith. Turned out Meredith had been the one hiring her the first week she joined the firm. Tess had just graduated and was working for the same firm Meredith had been working when she first graduated. In a meeting with her client at that other firm Meredith had crashed into Tess. They had gone for lunch that day, and exactly that same day Meredith offered her a job at Yang, Grey and Cole. She started the next day and at the first mention of Derek's name Meredith practically forbade her to say his name again, she wouldn't let her talk about him, not one single time.

When he finished yelling at her sister, the 3 of them, Derek, Sophie and Tess started thinking on what to do to make her listen to him. Derek was more thinking on what to say to her than how and when, he specially wanted to ask her was what this thing about her being over him was. Meredith didn't quite look too willing to listen to what he had to say. That's why they decided on having her lunch ready for when she came back to the office. Meredith had to eat at some point and while she ate he could talk. He asked Sophie about Meredith's habits for lunch and he found out that Meredith always came back to the office and have delivered food from her favorite restaurant, ordering dessert on the days the session at court wasn't as well as she hoped for.

Sophie and Tess recommended him to order dessert, and a lot. Meredith's case wasn't going as they wanted, and the day would most likely be hard for her.

"You're pushing it Derek" Tess told him when he continued thinking about it. "It is for lunch, there's a lot of light coming from the window and she will think it is some lame romantic lunch date"

"Oh"

"Is this a romantic lunch date?" Tess asked with a little bit of amusement in her voice. He was immensely nervous and after her words Derek started a battle on his head, he wasn't sure if he wanted Meredith to think this was a romantic lunch or a simple lunch where they could talk. Not until he knew if she was really into him in the past and if it was true she was over him.

"No! Of course not!" He lied, and she noticed it, he had always been a bad liar.

"The food will be here in a few minutes" Sophie informed him as she changed the subject, trying to give him a break, Derek was nervous enough as it was. They decided to leave him all alone, taking the candles with her Sophie smiled politely at Derek and left Meredith's office. With a hug Tess followed after Sophie, Derek needed time to calm down and think all alone.

But she couldn't give him much time because when she reached Sophie's desk the delivery guy brought them the food. She helped Derek serve the Italian food on the plates and give the finish touches to their lunch.