I hated storms. Truly hated them.
Moving to Seattle from LA meant having a lot more rain. The rain was something everyone said I would get used to but so far, I haven't.
Storms are a completely different story. The thunder and lightning puts everyone's nerves on overdrive.
Sick children start screaming and crying and even some babies start to cry.
What made things even worse was that technically I was on call tonight because of one of my pregnant patients but I'm allowed to go home which was kinda weird to me.
"How long is this storm supposed to last." I groan.
"We're surgeons, not meteorologists." Callie says right next to me.
The both of us were camping out in my office waiting for something bad to happen to either one of our patients.
Callie is having a hard time telling Arizona that she's pregnant with Mark's baby so she decided to hide away from her and stay with him.
It doesn't really help the fact that I deliver babies while Arizona operates on them.
"I hope you don't mind, I invited Meredith." She says low.
"Callie." I deadpan.
"What? You two need to learn how to get along, you'll have to as one point or another."
It's not that I don't not like Meredith Grey, she has this ego and I sort of find it annoying.
Obviously she's been through a lot with her parents and all but she's trying too hard to be my friend.
However, deep deep down I want to be her friend and get to know her. She's quite mysterious when I don't find her annoying.
As much as I try to act like I despise her, her gorgeous face just gets in the way. I try my best not to stuffer when I really look her in her eyes. I've only slipped up once and I'm pretty sure she didn't catch it.
"Callie you paged 911? Is it the baby?" She storms in without knocking.
"Everything is fine, I need your help convincing me to tell Arizona."
I clear my throat obnoxiously.
"Hi Addison." She says looking at me for a good 2 seconds before turning back to Callie.
I just roll my eyes and go back to my paperwork.
They made small talk about everyday things in the hospital and then ranted about their interns.
"I feel terrible holding this secret inside me everyday, Arizona just barely learned to tolerate him and now I'm pregnant with his baby." She sighs.
"Secrets are really tough Callie, especially the ones you really wanna tell someone but you can't. Seeing that person everyday and not being able to tell that secret only makes your heart ache more and more but at some point you just have to let your words speak over your thoughts." Meredith confesses.
What secret was she hiding from someone? It's none of my business though.
Her and Derek broke up awhile ago and he moved to Washington DC so it's not like she sees his face.
This was really none of my business but I can't help but stay interested.
"How did you finally tell them?"
"I haven't, but when the time comes I'll look her in her eyes and just let my words fall out like vomit." She smiles to herself.
The small smile in the corner of her mouth was probably the most beautiful thing I've seen all day.
"Should I just page her here and tell her?" Callie asks.
"No!" I say without thinking. Great, now they know I was listening. "Callie, I love you I really do, but you know I hate storms but even if Arizona doesn't mind, I really don't need more people."
"Sorry, I'll tell you how it goes." She says and before she gets up her pager goes off. "It's one of my patients, crap." She says before rushing out the door.
Meredith watches her leave and then relaxes in the chair.
How was she so calm during all of this?
"Are you not scared right now?" I ask a little annoyed of how serene she was.
"Not one bit, I grew up in this hospital so I'm kinda used to how storms go down, inside and outside." She explains. "Are you scared?"
"A little terrified, but I'm glad I'm not alone anymore." I say without thinking again.
She just smiles and gets up from her chair. Where could she be possibly going after I said that?
That was when I noticed.
She was walking towards me. Where I was sitting. What was she going to do?
Meredith comes behind me and starts massaging my shoulders. Even though I tried not to, I immediately fell into her touch.
Her and I were barely friends, why in the world would she be doing this for me. Although I'd be lying if I said I didn't like what was happening right now.
"Meredith, we barely know each other, why are you doing this for me?" I say almost whispering.
"Maybe it's better we don't know anything about each other, you heard what I said to Callie so maybe it's better we don't know each other."
So we didn't get to know each other.
She continued to massage my shoulders and every once in awhile play with the ends of my hair.
I didn't want to admit it, but I truly wanted to get to know Meredith Grey. I wanted to know why she acted so mysterious but let her guard down in times like these.
I wanted to know more about her family, her sisters, her favorite food, favorite color, I wanted to know everything about her but I can't ask now.
"Let's go home." She gets up and grabs her stuff.
"Home? Do you not see how bad it's storming out there?" I was confused on why she was getting her stuff.
"No, it's nothing my car can't get through, do you trust me?" She asks with a slight grin.
I stopped in my tracks and turned around looking out my window. It was still in fact raining but it definitely got lighter.
"Are you serious, I'm terrified of thunderstorms and you, Meredith Grey wants to take me to your house of all places to ride out the storm?" I say sounded more angry that I intended.
"Yes. I simply want to take you to my house and hold you until the storm passes." She states the last part low and I eyeball her but she doesn't break contact.
Now I couldn't resist. I've dreamed of the moment when I get to be that close to her.
We both got our stuff and took care of anything we needed to do .
There hadn't been a strike of lightning in over 25 minutes and the thunder really died down.
Meredith unlocked her car and got inside the drivers seat.
"You really didn't have to do this Meredith, I'm fine on my own." I try to negotiate.
"I'm not here for it, you're staying with me until this passes."
I turn to face her and before she starts the engine, she looks up at me.
Her eyes were absolutely gorgeous, even under all this cloudy weather she still managed to light up my world.
She leaned in first and I used my hand to cup her face.
"I really want to kiss you right now." She says low.
"What's stopping you?"
