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CHAPTER NINE no more tears. season two, episode two.
MEREDITH, CRISTINA, AND CASSIE WERE SPRAWLED ACROSS THE BATHROOM, coming down from a long night of drinking (minus Cristina, who had spent the night indulging in a couple pints of ice cream).
Meredith was hunched over by the toilet, Cristina sat grumpily in the shower tub, and Cassie was seated against the far wall, her gaze focused blankly on tbe bathroom tile. For a girl who found herself waking up at the crack of dawn almost daily, she probably shouldn't have kept drinking until midnight.
Whatever. She wasn't alone in her misery.
Meredith was drunk because her and Derek broke up, Cristina was upset because her and Burke broke up and she was pregnant with his child, and Cassie was simply trying to forget the fact that the calendar read June 20th.
It was just like any other day.
"It's not us," Meredith slurred slightly. "It's them. Them and their stupid boy penises. They didn't tell me they had a wife. They lied to you. They gave absolutely no warning that they were gonna break up with you."
From inside the shower, Cristina scoffed.
"It's not that Burke broke up with me, it's how he broke up with me. Like it was business. Like it was a business transition, like he's the boss of me!"
"He is the boss of you," Meredith cut in.
"And what's worse, is that I care."
"I'm gonna throw up again. No. Wait. False alarm."
Cristina sighed. "Look, the problem is estrogen."
"No, the problem is tequila."
"I used to be all business, and then he goes and gets me pregnant."
"With the stupid boy penis."
"Now, I'm having hormone surges. He ruined me. I'm ruined. He turned me into this fat, stupid, pregnant girl. Estrogen!"
The conversation flew right over Cassie's head. It wasn't the hangover that made her feel lightheaded today, but for her own peace of mind, she pretended it was. It was easier than facing reality. A persistent ache grew in her stomach the longer she was conscious. Cassie did was she did best, and pretended it wasn't there at all.
