An Asian girl with wispy black hair spoke up first, addressing Teddy, ”Yo Teds, what’s with the stray?” pointing directly at me.

I, unfamiliar with Christina Yang’s social etiquette at that stage, was feeling awkward as hell, just standing there in among this, obviously close knit, friend group. I didn’t get a chance to defend myself before the red headed girl did it for me.

”Christina! Leave her alone, if we hadn’t taken you in when you came here you’d still be eating with April Kepner.” At this the group started laughing quite hard – of course I stood there, still awkward, as I had no idea who April Kepner was or why it was bad to be eating lunch in her company. Christina mumbled something unintelligible and slouched back to continue reading ’The Alchemist’. I recognized the book and made a mental note to bring it up if I ever got stuck with Christina Yang and had nothing to say.

Teddy began introducing everyone by their first names, the handsome boy was Mark Sloan, captain of the soccer team and total player. He winked, said I was hot enough to stay and stated that, although my name was unique he was from then on going to refer to me as ’Blondie’. I objected quite forcefully but this only succeeded in making him more prone to use it. The red headed girl was called Addison Forbes-Montgomery (I could tell by her name she was a little more than well off), but she insisted on being called Addie. I had already pegged her for a cheerleader, I was right, she informed me that she and Mark were a ’thing’. When I asked about her names she confirmed that her family were quite wealthy, but she joked that she preferred to ’slum it’. I liked her.

Christina Yang was a relatively new recruit, as well, having transferred from Beverly Hills in Sophomore Year and although she had initially been hostile and snarky she had proved to be a good friend to Meredith Grey – a girl I had yet to meet. Christina was a total nerd, a straight A student with a twisted sense of humor. Teddy warned me later that Christina, Meredith, tequila and dancing were never a good combination.
Of course, I knew a little about Teddy, this girl Meredith sounded similar to Christina, Teddy mentioned a Callie something and a Jackson someone. I really couldn’t take in everyone all at once so I stuck to remembering the four new people I had met today, anyone else would have to wait.