It had been a while since this much commotion...and emotion had been apart of her life. It wasn't the first time for it, but it had definitely been a while. She wasn't use to lots of laughter from lots of people. She wasn't use to people chatting non-stop interrupting each other and no one ever getting their point across. She wasn't use to the "awes" and the "that's so cute's" and the "I cant wait for when I have a baby's."
It was a little nerve racking. But it had been ages since Meredith had been in the company of close friends, close female friends. And now she found herself surrounded by the best of them. It was Kelly's surprise baby shower, and she had definitely been surprised. Kris was there, talking on and on about how cute the baby outfits were that one of them had bought for Kelly, Leslie was sitting on the couch next to Danielle talking about who knows what, and Chris was sitting by herself, seemingly a little awkward in this room full of animated women.
Meredith smiled to herself and walked over to the new comer of the group.
"Hey, wanna go upstairs and get some more drinks with me?"
Chris looked up shocked and stuttered. "Um, yeah, sure...I guess."
"Come on...I'm making a drink run, everyone want refills?" Meredith called out to the group of females.
Smiles and nods were headed her way and she just motioned for Chris to follow her out of the room.
The walked up the steps from the basement/play room to the kitchen. "You ok there girly? You sure are quiet."
"Oh, I'm just...I feel a little outta place."
Meredith smiled, pushed the door open and walked into the kitchen. "Girl don't. It's all good, we've all known each other for forever, so I guess it can be a little intimidating. Don't worry; you are part of the group now. If you can give Kirkpatrick the cold shoulder as well as you did, you are DEFINATELY apart of the group."
Chris watched as she refilled drinks and ice into the cups. "Well I don't mean to be mean but, he's..like 10 years older than me and just, so...cheesy. I mean, he...is kinda obsessed and we've never talked really."
"Yeah, I feel bad for the guy. He's just lonely and looking for love."
"Woman! What are you doin up here?"
Meredith and Chris both turned to look at the doorway that connected the kitchen and the living room. Justin was stretched out with his hands holding on to the top part of the walkway, smiling.
"Excuse me?" Meredith cocked an eyebrow.
"What are you doin up here...get back to the party?" Justin walked further in the room and plopped down at the kitchen table.
Meredith just stared at him hard, speaking slowly. "Did you just call me, "woman"?
"Um..." He bit his lip with a grin.
"He meant, incredibly sexy, goddess of all and keeper of his heart, soulmate, wife...why are you not downstairs mingling with the other lovely ladies?"
Meredith smiled at the other man that was now leaning against the walkway frame. "Why Joshua, where have you been all my life?" She walked over to him and kissed his cheek, throwing an evil look at Justin. He just shrugged and yawned, slouching in his chair.
"Keeping CK from molesting you."
Meredith patted his chest and then walked towards Justin, "What are you doin here...and where is CK? He was here like an hour ago...bothering the keeper of MY heart." She bent and kissed the top of his head and he just totally ignored her.
"Why hello ladies, Meredith..Christina..."
Meredith sat down in Justin's lap even though he seemed uninterested in her being there. She just groaned when she saw Chris saunter in the room. "Oh god..."
JC walked over to Christina's side and held her elbow in his hand causing her to smile. "Ma'am please step away from the wild animal, he has somehow gotten out of his cage."
"No problem."
Meredith got up to go get the tray of drinks that she needed to carry back downstairs and defended Chris in the process. "Aww, he wouldn't hurt a ..AH!" She screamed when she picked up the tray and something pinched her ass. She lost the balance on the tray and the drinks fell all down the front of her shirt and pants. She just looked down at herself and then back up everyone in the room that was now laughing.
"Not funny." She put a hand on her hip and narrowed her eyebrows. "Stop laughing."
Everyone kept laughing and she spotted Justin, laughing the hardest of them all. "Justin.."
"Wha?" He tried to sober up, but it didn't work and he just busted into a loud barreling chuckle.
"Ugh, you guys suck. Chris, will you..no not you freakboy, you clean up." She pointed to Chris as he rolled his eyes.
"That's freakMAN to you..."
"Whatever, ChrisTINA make more drinks, I gotta go change clothes." Meredith sighed and walked out of the kitchen.
JC helped Chris clean up the mess he had made scaring Meredith and Christina started refilling drinks. Justin smiled to himself and quickly followed her out of the room.
"Where you goin man?" JC called to him.
Justin turned and winked. "To help my wife."
Once Chris had left with the drinks and gone back downstairs, the other Chris turned to JC with a hand full of well paper towels and said. "I told you this would happen!"
"What?"
"No sex till marriage and now they are both just like..."
"Like what?" Josh smiled, still helping Chris clean.
"Like nymphos dude, every 5 minutes..sex sex sex sex sex." He chanted, causing JC to laugh out loud.
"I think you are just jealous. You haven't had a girl in ages, how long has it been Chris..since you..ya know?"
Chris just gasped for air and stood up. "DUDE! you..what? you..." Josh just laughed and Chris narrowed his eyes as he stood up from the floor. "You are so not one to talk?"
"WHAT?"
"When was the last time YOU got laid, bro?"
Josh just rolled his eyes. "I'm going to get a drink."
"See..ha...I'm not the ONLY one who hasn't had sex in forever."
JC turned on his heels with an amused grin. "So you admit to it?"
"I no, I never..." Chris stumbled over his words and finally just sighed and pouted. "I hate you."
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Upstairs...
Meredith pulled up some clean, dry jeans over her legs and zipped them up. She felt hands on her stomach and lips on her neck. She sighed and then pulled herself away. "stop...Justin..stop."
"Nooooo..." He pouted and shuffled towards her, licking his lips and dipping in to kiss her bare neck.
"You..justin, people are downstairs."
Justin pulled away and rubbed her arms with his hands. He was so close to her she could feel him breathing. He said in a low, husky whisper. "I just wanna kiss you, Angel."
Meredith raised an eyebrow. "Justin, I'm in a bra and jeans, that's not all you wanna do."
"So...." He chuckled, wrapped his arms around her and began raining her neck and shoulders with light kisses.
"God you are too horny for your own good." She groaned.
Justin stopped all movement, made a grab for the shirt she had laid out that was on the bed and said to her in a stern voice. "Take that back."
"Give me my shirt back."
He held the shirt behind him and made it so she couldn't get it. "Take it back."
"Justin there is a baby shower going on that I'm in charge of, please don't start something..."
"Why not?" He grinned.
She tried not to smile at him, but it was times like these, when he was putting on this front of innocence when that was the last thing he wanted to be was just so...charming and sexy to her. "Because you know I wont be able to stop." She said quietly.
"Oh really?" He dropped the shirt behind him and pulled her body into his, descending his lips upon hers. He kissed her, hard, leaving her breathless, he kept kissing her and kissing her, pulling away and then dipping back in. She was trying to talk to him, but he wouldn't allow it, and all she could do was groan out words. "J..just..oh..mmm."
He pulled away and whispered amused in her ear as his hands fumbled with the clasp of her bra that was across the middle of her upper back. "Baby, are you groaning?"
"NO!" She pushed away from him, breathing heavy, with one hand behind her checking to see if her bra was still fully clasped.
"Pwease? I can be quiet." He said in a baby voice with droopy eyes.
She shook her head and laughed. "No you cant."
His face turned serious again a he walked forward, backing her so that her legs were against their bed and any further movement on his part and she would be forced to sit down on it, which would be ultimate victory for him. "Let me prove it."
She put a hand up, pushing into his chest and keeping his lips form hers. "Justin, just stop, please."
He sighed and pouted. "Ohhh Kay."
"Shirt?" He picked up her shirt from the floor and handed it back to her with a whimper.
She stood up on her tiptoes, kissed him quickly and pulled the shirt over her head. "Thank you." She smoothed out her hair with her hand and walked towards the door.
Justin just stood there in the middle of the room in a slumped position. "You know you are leaving your husband EXTREMELY frustrated with 2 lonely sex deprived men that might make me take them to a strip club or something..."
"Frustrated?" She asked.
He looked down at himself, looked back up at her and cringed. "Yeah you know..um, HARD."
She laughed and walked out of the room. "Well that's your problem, not mine."
Justin was immediately on her trail, walking right behind her as they journied down the steps. "That's not what you said that one time! You said "Baby, whenever you need my help you know..."
She stopped and turned around, glaring. "Justin..."
"Yes, love?" He smiled brightly, too brightly.
"Just stop while you're behind." She turned back around and continued down the steps, into the living room.
"Angel, it's stop while you're AHEAD."
"I know." She kept walking through the living room when he caught her hand and pulled her back.
"Hey, you forgot something."
"What?"
He smiled, pulled her against him and kissed the tip of her nose. "I wuv you."
She smiled and kissed the tip of his chin. "I wuv you too."
Chris and Jace were watching ESPN, sprawled out in the living room. Chris rolled his eyes and called out. "Ugh, gag me."
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"What took you so long, I thought you were just changing shirts." Christina asked as Meredith showed her face downstairs, plopping on the couch beside Kelly.
"I was...but..." She trailed off.
Kelly nudged her and smiled. "But..."
"Let me guess, Justin decided to help." Dani started smiling at her.
"How..." Meredith stopped, feeling her face start to burn.
Kris laughed fully pointing at her. "Uh huh, she's turning red."
"Ya'll I cant help it. I mean, damn..he's my husband." She bit her lip and tucked her chin in her chest a little embarrassed.
"Girl go for it." Leslie smiled.
Kelly turned to Meredith. "Speaking of GOING for it, when are we going to be able to throw a party like this for you?"
"Excuse me?"
Chris leaned forward a bit to looked at Meredith from the other side of Kelly. "Yeah, it's been 5 years, when are we going to be able to shower you with baby gifts and aww over your belly?"
"Umm..."
"Don't you guys want kids?" Danielle asked.
Meredith was shocked they were asking her these sorts of questions. "Of course we do? what..what are you guys getting at."
Leslie shrugged and stretched in her chair. "We are just wondering when you and Justin are going to have a child. You know he wants to. And I'm sure you want to, don't you."
"Yeah, I mean, we just, we...I don't know." She stumbled.
"Have you talked about it?" Kris asked.
"Yeah, but...not like a lot, we...I don't know."
Kelly stared at her hard. "Well what DO you know, Mere?"
Uncomfortable didn't even begin to describe the feeling she had. She was in a big room, with 5 women's eyes close and peering at her, waiting for her to respond. She wasn't prepared for this interrogation and frankly, hated it. So she did what was best, changed the subject and redirected the questions. "Um, I know that Lance better pop the question to Leslie soon or my man is going to lose a lot of money on one of those stupid infamous bets our boys have."
Leslie's eyes widened when every head in the room turned towards her. "Hey...you..you just changed the subject."
"Yes she did, to a very vital one." Danielle chuckled.
Kelly crossed her arms over her protruding stomach and giggled. "Tell us Les, when are you and Lanceypoo going to tie the knot? huh?"
Meredith relaxed in her position on the couch and let out a huge, but silent breath.
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Late that night.
Comfort was exactly what he was feeling. He was relaxed, he was being loved, and he was comfortable. He closed his eyes as her fingers gently ran through his short curls, her nails scratching the scalp a bit, lulling his eyes closed. He curled up a little bit and smiled feeling her other hand run up and down his side. "Did she like the baby bag, I picked out?"
"Mmmhmmm.."
Justin yawned while talking. "What all else did Kel get?"
"Ohhh you know...the usual baby stuff..."
His eyebrows furrowed, even though she couldn't see him. He was curious to the wispy, far off sound in her voice. "Um, yeah."
After a few moments of silence, he whined. "Mere I don't wanna go tomorrow."
"Then don't, stay with me, in bed..."
He sighed at the thought. "I wish I could, but I cant. I'm actually a little excited. It's been a while since we've all been in the studio together, and in New York. It's going to be fun."
"Yeah, a blast." She seemed less than enthused.
"Angel, you know I want you there."
"I know...but I'm here now." She whispered.
He turned his head a little bit up towards her. "What?"
"Nothing."
Justin turned onto his back, looking up at her from her lap. He had a concerned look on his face. "Baby, are you ok?"
"No..."
"What's wrong?"
Meredith sighed and relaxed fully back on the couch. "Well lets see, my sexy husband teases me tonight while everyone else is here and makes me want him sooo bad, and now you are just laying here, and that's fine, but tomorrow you are going to be gone and all I want to do is..." She stopped and started smiling off in the distance.
"Is..." He smiled knowing what she wanted.
She looked down at him and bit her lip. "Can we go upstairs, pleaseeeeee...." Her hand traveled from its resting place on his stomach, lower, and lower until it reached the fly of his jeans. His eyes widened when he saw her smiling eyes and felt her hand squeeze him just slightly.
"Angel..." He groaned grabbed her hand and pushed it away.
Meredith growled and stood off the couch making his head hit the cushions. "JUSTIN! You, you were all over me 3 hours ago."
He sat up with a pleading look. "I know baby, but, tomorrow I have to be on a plane in the morning and you know how I get after we make love! I just get lazy and just wanna lay in bed and hold you and tomorrow I'll be grumpy anyway and then I'll just be MORE grumpy. And, and what made you want me so bad NOW?"
She rolled her eyes and stormed from the living room to the steps. "Ugh, whatever. Fine..I...I'm going to go get in bed."
"Angel are you mad at me?" He asked full of concern, throwing her the infamous puppy dog look all men seem to have perfected.
"No, just...ugh, frustrated." She smiled when he did and walked more up the steps.
"I'll be up in a minute." Justin called from the couch.
"Whatever"
Once upstairs, Meredith shed all her clothing and put on one of her silk nighties she was so found of. She slipped into bed and turned to her side, away from the door.
The night had been confusing for her. From Justin's playful but annoying teasing to the interrogation from all of her friends, the night had been, weird to say the least. She was wondering, why haven't her and Justin talked about kids yet. She knew he wanted a family, and he knew she did. It wasn't that they had a lack of communication, their relationship was great, almost perfect.
Confusion clouded her mind and with her husband leaving the next day it was the last thing she needed. She sighed and tried to think happy thoughts.
But before she got the chance, a happy thought turned into a happy reality. She felt warm hands flowing over the silk that covered her body, up, down, everywhere. And when those hands began to slightly lift the material off and up her body, she turned her head and whispered. "I thought you didn't..."
He silenced her with a kiss and then helped her roll over underneath the covers so she was facing him, the nightie was now barely hanging on to her. "I changed my mind."
She smiled, watching him scoot closer and closer, forcing her on her back until he was leaning over her. "you sure?"
"What do you think?" He grinned and pressed close to her body, pulling the silk material up over her arms and wiggling his eyebrows as he threw it somewhere in the room. She could feel every part and every inch of him, touching her, heating her up. He was like a fire, warm and glowing. His skin was so soft, yet so hard. His hands were all over her, his lips caressing her face and her neck.
She gulped feeling his strong hand move to her leg and watched him as he looked down at her and wrapped her leg around his narrow bare hip. She would never get tired or old of what they had, what they shared in these moments. He could still surprise her, shock her, and make her lose every train of thought. She brought her hands up to his face and made his lips crash down upon hers.
She pulled away looking directly into his eyes. She watched his eyes close as just the upward, slight tilt of her hips made his world go blank for a minute and his chest started moving rapidly with his breaths.
She kissed him briefly and whispered, "I think someone's going to be REALLY grumpy tomorrow." Back Forward