Author's note: Hello! So I've had this story in mind for awhile. I have not finished it yet I only have the first couple of chapters done and I don't know how long the story will be. I have a lot of hope for this and I'm wishing you guys will give it a chance.

Disclaimer: Don't own.

Summary: Meredith is a college bound girl looking for an escape. Derek is a med school student looking for fun and distractions. Where to go? Miami! MerDer romance/drama.

Chapter 1: Trip of a lifetime

Meredith Grey was laying on her bed surrounded by acceptance letters from many school she had applied to. At 18 years old she had just graduated high school a week ago. Being the daughter of successful surgeon Ellis Grey, she was pressured from an early age to follow in her footsteps and be a doctor. Of course not wanting to disappoint her mother she had agreed but somewhere along the line she had fallen in love with the profession. Having seen a few of her mother's surgeries, it had inspired her to want to help people like that someday.

Meredith considered herself a pretty normal girl. During her last year of high school she had decided to dye parts of her hair pink and wore mostly black clothes trying to express how she felt about her life.

It had not been the greatest life for Meredith Grey, her father had walked out on the family when she was just a little girl and her mother was never around. Whenever she was home she was always too busy for Meredith and her 'silly teenage problems'.

Meredith didn't care anymore, she was finally 18 and she would be able to leave her hell hole of a home and be herself. Looking around at the letters, she had already decided to go to Columbia University it was a great school and it helped that it was on the other side of the country. She was living in Seattle and had never been out of state. That was something that really bothered her, there she was 18 years old and she basically had no life. It was time to do something about that.

Meredith picked up her cellphone and called her best friend, Christina Yang.

"Hello?" Christina answer in her normal non caring voice.

"Hey its me, so I was thinking."

"Great." Christina murmured.

"Listen. This is our last summer we are going to be together, I'm going to Columbia and you going to Stanford*. We should do something extraordinary, we have 10 weeks to do whatever we want." Meredith was getting excited about the plan she was just developing in her head as she was saying it. She was hoping Christina would agree to this, there was no way she would go without her best friend.

"What are you saying mer?"

"I'm saying lets go somewhere, take a trip to somewhere sunny." Mer had no idea where this certain trip would take place, she was hoping her friend could help her out there.

Christina wasn't much for partying or taking trips but getting out of the house for the whole summer definitely seemed like something she would want. "Okay where?"

She was shocked. She had very little hope for Christina to agree, but not wanting to ruin it she didn't question it. "Uh I don't know, California?"

Christina crinkled her nose, she was not one for being around wannabe celebrities. "What about Mexico?"

"No, I don't wanna go to a place where I don't even know how to ask for the bathroom. Wait what about Miami?"

"eh I guess that's okay. When do we go?"

"I can work on getting the tickets tomorrow and I guess we should leave by the end of the week." Mer wanted to go as quick as possible. She knew she would be able to pay for tickets without her mother's money as she had saved most of her paychecks from working in a clothing store in the mall for a few years. She had previously intended to save all of it for a car, but she would find some other way to pay for it. Meredith also wanted to get money from her mom to pay for the hotel and other expenses she would need, she knew her mom would give her anything to make her stop bothering her. Money didn't matter to her because they had more than enough.

"Alright then I guess we're going to Miami." Christina tried to sound like it was no big deal but meredith knew she was excited.

Christina was convinced now it was time to mention it to her mother.

Meredith never knew with her mother how she was going to react to anything. After 5 minutes of preparing herself for this talk she slowly made her way down the stairs and went into her mother's office, knocking first. Ellis lifted her head at the sound and gave an exasperated sigh. "Meredith I'm busy, cant this wait till later?"

"Mom it will only take a few minutes, promise."

Ellis took her glasses off "Alright do it quick."

Meredith took a deep breath "Okay mom, See I'm going away to college in a few months and I want to do something I've never done before and I want to have fun oh and I'm not gonna see Christina for a really long time too so we want to do something together you kn-"

"Meredith stop rambling and get to the point, I told you I am very busy."

"We want to go to Miami for the rest of the summer." There is was out. She was relieved but looking at her mother's face made her nervous. She had no idea what she was going to say.

"Fine do you need money?"

Mer's eyes snapped up in surprise. "oh! Uh yeah actually I do, I mean I have most of my money saved but I'm gonna need more for the hotel room and food.

"Alright, and I am assuming you need money for a rental car how do you expect to get around?"

"Right, yeah." That was something mer was not expecting. Her mother was being so generous about this trip, she had no idea if she was doing it to be nice or just for being glad to get rid of her for a whole summer.

"Alright then I'll call my travel agent in the morning. Now are we done? I have to get to work."

"Yeah thanks mom." This was great, it had gone better than she expected. She left Ellis alone and ran up to her room to call Christina and invite her over the next day to help with the packing.

The Next Day

Christina had been over for two hours and they still could not finish packing. Ellis had informed her earlier that day that the tickets were taken care of and they would leave in two days. So far they had dumped all of Mer's bikinis and shorts in the messy suitcases. She knew Anna, her housekeeper, would repack everything she was someone who Meredith knew she could always count on. Suddenly the door to the room opened which made Meredith and Christina mentally kick themselves for not locking the door at the sight of who was there. It was Izzie Stevens, another one of Mer's friends. They had yet to inform Iz they were leaving for the summer. They would conveniently wait until they were in Miami to tell their friend. She loved Izzie really but she was hoping just to spend this time with Christina, and in reality Izzie was always too excited about every single thing. It got to be annoying sometimes.

"Hey guys!" She hugged mer, she knew better than to try and pull that with Christina. "Anna let me in, I really needed to talk to you guys.. about..." she trailed off looking mysteriously at the suitcases on the bed. "Whats with the suitcases?"

Mer had no idea what to say, she knew they had gotten caught and there was no point in lying. "We are packing for a trip, to Miami exactly." Mer instantly received a slap in the back of the head from Christina.

Izzie's face broke into a giant grin. "oh my god! That's so exciting, you know this would work out perfect. Oh Mer can I go? Please!" know she was giving them her usual puppy dog face. At seeing Meredith's undecided face and Christina's death glare she felt she needed to explain. "See Alex and I are going through some problems and we really need a break to cool off. I promise I wont be a bother. You know I have been to Miami before, I can show you guys the best places to go."

Meredith knew that was true. Izzie and her boyfriend Alex Karev were always butting heads. They were very much in love but they both had that personality that would never budge. She thought it couldn't be that bad having Izzie around and she would come in very handy when going out. Despite receiving a whispered hiss from Christina saying "Meredith I swear!"

"Alright Iz, you can go. I'll just need to talk to my mom to let them know we need an extra ticket. We leave in two days." Izzie jumped up and down

"Oh thank you, thank you, thank you! I gotta go home and pack, tell my parents oh and call Alex." She ran off shutting the door behind her. Mer turned around ready for what was coming.

"Meredith freaking Grey! What the hell was that?" Christina looked like she was ready to jump her bones.

"Im sorry! But you know whats going on with Alex, and besides she could come in handy."

"Relax christina, you are going to be in Miami the land of partying. Trust me you will not notice Izzie."

She through her hand up in the air in defeat. "what the hell, I guess it wont be that terrible."

"Thats the spirit." Mer smiled.

Author's Note: Well that was the first chapter. I know it wasnt much but it was just a filler about meredith and how this whole story gets started. Next chapter will focus on Derek and how he gets involved in this. Please give some feedback as to whether you like this story. Review! Thank you.