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Chapter 20

Meredith had a grueling morning running Bailey's scut work for being late. She finally reached a moment in her day where she could eat some lunch. She got a few little things and sat down at a table in the crowded cafeteria by herself.

Her mind immediately went to Derek and wondered what he was doing at the moment. She rested her phone on the table and suddenly felt a pang in her gut, she hadn't heard from 'Dash' all day. And though she knew that Dash was Derek now, she missed the conversations that they used to have.

She didn't have long to torture herself over it when she heard another tray smack down against the table and looked up to see Christina sit down with a huff. Meredith shoved a potato chip in her mouth as she looked at her with curiosity.

"I kiss Mason." She confessed.

"You kissed Mason?" Meredith mumbled with a full mouth.

"In an on-call room, I kissed him."

"You kissed the cardio god in an on call room?" Meredith repeated

"Yeah!" Christina frowned "That's what I just said."

"Sorry, I was just..." Meredith shook her head "Did you have sex again?"

"No!" Christina hissed. "But I accepted a date."

"I thought you didn't want to date him."

"I don't." Christina gulped "But then again I do."

"You do but you don't."

"Are you going to repeat every damn thing I say?"

"No, sorry." Meredith mumbled and ate another chip. "So why do you want to suddenly date him?"

"I don't know," Christina shrugged "I guess he's growing on me, and he's the cardio god."

"You want to go into cardio?"

"It's not what you think." Christina glared.

"I wasn't thinking anything." Meredith stuttered "I wasn't thinking."

"I'm not going to date him or sleep with him to get ahead. We're both genuinely interested in each other I guess....plus he's good in bed."

"That's always a good plus." Meredith raised her brow and suddenly wondered how Derek was in bed. Her shoulders trembled at the thought.

"How was the date last night?" Christina asked, Meredith looked up at her "I'm not going to talk about it like Barbie and Bambi would, you can talk to me."

"Barbie and Bambi?" Meredith giggled. Christina shrugged "It fits."

"So?"

"So it was great." Meredith smiled "It was definitely better than I expected."

"Did you sleep with him?"

"No." Meredith mumbled into another chip "We just talked and stuff."

"That's good, it's always nice to get to know the person before hand....like the fact that they're not about to be one of your bosses." Christina grumbled, Meredith just stuffed another chip in her mouth "You're so lucky."

"Why?" she mumbled with a mouthful again.

"To be dating someone outside of work."

"Yeah." Meredith almost choked "I guess I am."

"Crap." Christina sighed when her beeper went off "I gotta go."

Meredith nodded and watched as she jetted off. She heard a ding on her phone and felt her heart flutter rapidly when she scrambled to pick it up, she smiled when she saw the IM screen display on her phone.

DASH109: Hey you...
MEG216: Hey yourself!
DASH109: How are you doing?
MEG216: Doing well, just grabbed some lunch. Now it's back to slave work.
DASH109: Bailey get you for being late?
MEG216: I'll be lucky if I get to see the surgical floor at all this week..
DASH109: Bummer....I've been thinking about you.
MEG216: I've been thinking about you too.
DASH109: You were right, this thing won't be easy for us here.
MEG216: No it won't.
DASH109: You're welcome to change your mind."
MEG216: What do you mean?
DASH109: I mean that this is hard and it shouldn't be, you have it hard enough.
MEG216: Dash are you changing your mind?
DASH109: No...I just....I think it's going to be hard.

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