Looking at you side ways

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Meredith ran as fast as she could and got to the locker room. Everyone was ready to go, but her. Derek scowled at her thinking [i]that she might have made a stop at Jaake's to thank him properly for the flowers.[/i] Derek slammed his locker shut and waited for DePalma to show up. Meredith quickly changed clothes and just barely finished when DePalma came in and gave instructions and turned on his heel.

As they headed down the hall, Meredith adjusted her ponytail.

Cristina said, "Do you fucking believe it? That airhead Montgomery gets to scrub in and we are still doing grunt work."

"Seems to be happening regularly now," admitted Meredith.

Cristina replied, "Listen. Cover me in the pit will you? I am going to follow them."

"Why?"

Cristina said, "Something is going on and I am going to find out."

Mark said, "You are just jealous Yang."

"Damn straight I am." Admitted Cristina.

Derek asked Meredith, "So Meredith. You almost got caught being late. Where did you go this morning?"

Meredith glanced over at Derek and said, "Um. I just had to take care of something."

Mark laughed and said, "I bet you took care of him."

"Excuse me?" replied Meredith.

Derek turned the corner to start rounds and said nastily, "At least we didn't have to hear it again."

Cristina asked, "Were you a bad girl again Mer?"

[i]Cris and Mark were joking, but Derek was serious. Hurt that Derek was being so nasty,[/i] Meredith just said, "Yeah."

Mark laughed and said, "Now I am jealous."

Cristina asked, "So tell me the details later. Are you going to cover me?"

Meredith replied, "Sure." She turned to walk to the pit and glanced back at Derek who was still scowling at her. [i]If only they knew[/i] thought Meredith. [i]They assumed she was screwing around in the morning before work when actually she was being verbally abused by her mother. She had spewed some exceptionally hateful things today. And what was up with Derek[/i] Meredith thought? [i]He was hot and cold towards her. She really wished she could talk about her mother to somebody, but she had promised. And for now, the burden was all on her slender shoulders.[/i]

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Meredith was overwhelmed in the pit. She really needed Cristina and had paged her once and was getting ready to do it again. She had been missing for over an hour. Finally she looked up from suturing and saw Cris walk in the ER.

Cristina had a big smile on her face and was whistling. Meredith stood up and told the patient she would be right back.

"Where have you been? I have been getting my butt kicked here and the nurses want to know where the other intern was?"

"Oh just doing a little undercover work." Replied Cristina smugly.

Meredith hissed, "Do not tell me you have been in an on call room with Burke."

"Nope. Something even better. Better than screaming orgasm!"

Meredith looked at her strangely.[i] Screaming orgasm,[/i] thought Meredith? [i]She had read about it, heard about it, but had never experienced it. Jaake was only the third guy she had even slept with. Her first was in college and he was a science geek. He was almost as inexperienced as her and it was an awkward sexual experience, almost clinical. The second was in medical school and he had turned out to be an ass who was only concerned about himself once the thrill of the chase was over..And Jaake was nice enough and a good guy, but...God....she was the freak.[/i]