snowflakes a.i

december 24th, 2014

that morning meredith tried to distract herself as much as possible. her morning was filled with frosty the snowman, and grown up christmas list. she ate her bagel surrounded by magical christmas tunes. in the chaos, she had managed to get her parents and the hemmings' gifts earlier on. she'd also gotten ashton one, but there was no way to tell if he'd be getting it or not.

her mother texted her a simple "merry christmas eve! miss u honey" meredith jotted a reply and set her phone back down. the party didn't start until seven, so there was time.

time for a disney channel christmas movie marathon.

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around 5:30, she stopped in the middle of "the nightmare before christmas," which was a great disappointment, to go get ready for the dumb party she was being forced to go to.

legs were shaves, hair was braided, and meredith slipped her body into the dress her mother bought her. she even broke out her makeup. it was a surprise that she was doing this all for a family she despised, but something told her she should make like the curling wand she used on her baby hairs, hot and dangerous. by the time meredith was done poking various sticks around her eyes, it was 6:45 and time for her to walk to the party.

ballet flats slapped against freezing pavement as she faced their large house. apparently people were already flooding into the home, high class couples and little children were strutting up the front steps, and meredith decided to do the same.

as she walked in, she looked for luke's parents, and she sure found them all right.

they were with dear lucas, and our beloved friend gina.

"your move, bitch."

gina was right. it was meredith's move, wasn't it?

so in that moment, meredith made her way over to mr. and mrs. hemmings, along with mr. and mrs. expecting.

"hello!" she gushed, giving luke's mother a short hug. his father gave her a firm handshake.

then meredith turned to luke and gina. "oh where are my manners? hello lucas!" she said, hugging him shortly. "and gina, how's the baby? or should i ask luke as well?"

all four of them fell silent.

"baby?" mrs. hemmings asked, shocked.

"mom-"

"but didn't you two just start dating?" his father asked in a booming voice that silenced people around them as well.

meredith faked shock. "you haven't... told your parents?"

luke glared at her while gina seemed to be having a full on staring contest with the floor. "no, i haven't." he muttered.

his mother grabbed and yanked his collar. "we are having a conversation in the kitchen, young man."

the oh-so-cheerful family left and gina looked up. "your move, bitch." meredith smirked, turning around. "oh, and happy holidays!"