Crowded || MerNick

Dinner and Elusion

"And a bottle of your best wine please" Derek said finishing his order.

"Right away,sir" the waiter said before walking away to prepare their meal.

"So, Christmas is in 3 days, any activities in mind?' Addison asked.

"Party,movie night and gifts obviously" Mark said.

"Well yeah that counts of course, what I meant is do we spent Christmas here or in Seattle?" Addison pointed.

"Oh that I don't know, but we alll know flight in holidays is hassle and might be cancelled" Mark stated.

"Let's um spend the day in hotel and maybe explore around Paris and in Christmas we'll have a party" Alex suggested.

"Sounds good" Addison smiled.

Nick was observing Meredith the whole time, he somehow felt guilty for lying about him seeing someone, he can feel that Meredith is keeping distance between them, he can feel her different presence than the other time to they were together, he can tell that she's avoiding him.

"Nick!" Jo called pulling him out of his thoughts.

"Yeah?" he answered absently.

"What's her name?" Jo asked

"Who?"

"The woman you're seeing? what's her name?" Jo repeated.

"Yeah, and since when did you start seeing someone and we didn't knew about it?" Derek then asked.

Nick looked at Meredith who's surprisingly looking at him with a none facial expressions on her face, he hesitantly answered wether to say the truth or lie, again.

"Uh -" before he could answer the waiter walk in with their food on the tray he's holding.

Nick let out a deep breath, relief that he didn't had to lie about it again, he didn't want to lie to his friends, but he also didn't want to show them that he's still into Meredith, he just doesn't like being told what to do, he doesn't want being forced.  He only lied about it because he wanted his friend to believe him that he's not into Meredith anymore, he likes the way they teased him,but they crossed the line sometimes especially at the airport earlier he can see how Meredith got uncomfortable when his friend suggested that they should share a room.

"This smells amazing" Alex chuckled smelling his steak.

"It's our original" the waiter smiled proudly. "Anything sir?" the waiter asked after putting down the last plate.

"No that's all thank" Mark smiled.

"Let's eat"

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They're now at the bench near the tower, Derek and Addison went to the bathroom while Alex and Jo went to a store to buy something, Mark and Lexie took a walk, they decided to spend the night individually or with someone since, they all wanted to go separate ways but they talked that they'll meet in front of the restaurant when they're going back to the hotel.

"Hey" Meredith heard from behind, she turn around to see Nick walking towards her standing next to her, they were standing at the side walk by the tree enjoying the cold breeze of France, watching the lights from the Eiffel Tower near them, Christmas lights on the trees across the street, kids playing with the snow throwing it at each other.

"Hi" she replied smiling looking back at the kids playing in front of them.

"I was not expecting.... you know" he begun nervously, he finally had a courage to tell her how he feels about her ,letting it all out.

"Excuse me?" Meredith asked slightly confused turning towards him to face him.

"You, I wasn't really expecting someone to make me feel, complete, someone who lights me up just by looking at them, someone who gave me butterfly in my stomach just by hearing them laugh or seeing them smile, I never felt those before until you came,and you're the only person who can make me feel those kind of affection, sometimes I just look into your eyes and I felt myself getting lost in it. I never thought I'd met someone like you, I can't get you out of my mind, I think about you every single day, and I kept telling myself that it's just a simple crush, that it's just temporary but it's not because the more I deny it,the more my feelings kept growing and growing and it scares me, it scares me  because I don't know if you feel the same way because the way you act around me sometimes confused me, and I-im not asking you for anything I-i just wanted to know what you feel because I don't want to keep my hopes up and ended up completely fall for someone who doesn't like me back!"  he rambled nervously his heart racing, feeling his tears welling up in her eyes getting overwhelmed by the situation. He breath out a heavy breath that he has been holding since he stood next to her, feeling his chest flutter after saying the words, his feelings he had been holding for the past months and almost a year. "God, that feels good" he breath out heavily, chuckling "I think you get what I mean" he added more serous this time. "For the record, I am not seeing someone, I just said that so that they'd stop teasing me to tell you how I feel and it took me a long time to find the courage to tell this to you and I want to know what you feel." he finished, breathing heavily.

"You want the truth?" she gave back earning a confused look from Nick but his facial expressions saying that he wanted to know more, he wanted to hear what she wanna say
" I like you, I do, and it scares me. I don't like getting attached to people who's eventually will leave me when they have to. I'm just scared to let people in again only to get taken away again, and I don't want that feeling again, I can't. What scares me the most is, you out of people that I've met after Andrew, you're the only person who made me feel something that I haven't felt since Andrew. I tried avoiding you the whole because I don't want to feel that anymore when I'm around you because someone already owned you, you're with someone and that someone isn't me." she let out all her words feeling a  couple of tears rolling down cheeks. she looked back at the scenario in front of her trying her best to avoid his presence. "And for the record, feelings are mutual" she added feeling herself blushing after letting all her words out, facing him seeing that he's already smiling widely.

Because she could answer, he immediately pulled her into his embraced spinning them around, laughing, feeling Meredith hugging him back.
He stopped spinning them around and face her, he looked directly into her eyes getting lost in its sparkle, before he leaned in placing his lips against her, as he felt Meredith kissing back.
They pull away when she becomes necessary smiling at each other.

"We should keep this as a secret"

December 22.....

To be continued....

FINALLY THEIR CONFESSION!!!!!

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