Sights of Seattle, Stars in the Sky

Chapter 5: In Which We Dine And Dream

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Chapter 5: In Which We Dine And Dream

When the food came the pizzas were set in front of each of them with the sweet potato fries and the salad in between. Meredith spreads the paper napkins over both of their laps and says "bon appetit" in the very best french accent she can possibly muster.

Addison starts to cut her pizza into pieces before Meredith stares at her with a positively intrigued look and she asks her "what?" before cutting a tiny piece of the cat pizza's ear and putting it in her mouth and chewing.

"You know it's pizza right?" Meredith inquires and she continues because Addison has clearly not seen the point yet. "You're supposed to pick it up by the crusts, that's why there's no sauce on the edges" she explains.

"Give" Meredith insists and holds her left hand out for Addison to place her fork in it. "Knife" Meredith asks and Addison places it in Meredith's right hand with a laser precision as if they were in the O.R performing surgery right now.

Meredith cuts the pizza into ten pieces so that the triangles radiated from the middle and the slices got bigger along the edges.

"Then you pick it up here and bite into the point of the triangle like this" Meredith demonstrates. "Trust me it tastes better without the knife and fork" she explains as she sinks her teeth into the slice again. She pays no mind that she's now stealing Addison's pizza and keeps on chewing until Addison finally reaches to pick up a piece for herself.

"I guess it's good this is the kid combo. I'm not sure I could balance a larger slice on my fingers at once" Addison admits as she eats her pizza with her fingers like Meredith showed her. She sort of likes this, trying all these new things with her unlikely companion. She and Archer had never been allowed to have order-in dinners when they were growing up.

Once the pizzas had been devoured - "I'm saving the bacon piece for last because it's the best" - Meredith slaps Addison's hand away when she tries to reach for that one on Meredith's plate - Addison begins chomping down on the salad as Meredith swipes at least half or more of the sweet potato fries. She eats them in big bites washing them down with the blue raspberry slushie that has since melted a little bit leaving a large blue stain on the intern's tongue.

"I don't think the red is even going to show up over all your lipstick" Meredith points out as Addison sips the cherry-berry slushie through the curly straw.

Once they're done their dinners Meredith insists they HAVE TO HAVE DESSERT and whatever's on the menu that ONE WITH WHIP CREAM HAS TO BE THE ONE THAT WINS. So they settle on the Chocolate Explosion because Meredith likes how the sound saying that one comes off of Addison's lips.

Meredith thinks she needs to tip the server more than she expected because they only bring one fork between them and it makes it all the more romantic when she makes Addison Montgomery open wide and say "ahh" before she'll feed her a slice off the edge piece.

What was special was that the best part of the night was yet to come after Meredith proudly slid her card into the chequebook and swatted away Addison's un-serious attempts to challenge her.

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