Sorry for the very long pause between updates, year 11 has just been kicking my ass, sorry again. But enjoy this update. It focuses a lot on Meredith and Lexie and the bond they have grown.

"Meredith, Lexie, could you come down here please?" Thatcher Grey called up the stairs to his two daughters before he returned to the space on the couch next to his wife.

Dread was thick in the man's stomach as he heard the girls compete to get down the living room first, both very competitive, which could prove a good thing when Meredith was playing soccer and Lexie was playing softball but outside of that the two girls competitiveness was a heavy burden on their parents, teachers and occasionally their friends.

"I totally got here first" Lexie said as the two sat down opposite the adults.

"You forget that I was born first" Meredith chuckled.

"You can't always say that"

"Yes I can because it will always be true"

"Girls" Susan said to disrupt their fight, one that could go for hours "We have something to tell you".

Thatcher cleared his throat "Meredith, Lexie, Susan and I have got two announcements… and they're pretty big"

Meredith and Lexie exchanged a look, they had gotten rather good at having silent conversations.

"Susan is pregnant and so you will be getting a new little brother or sister." Thatcher paused to try and gauge the reaction from his daughters "We will also have to move houses so that everyone has their own room"

"Have you picked the new house?" Lexie asked.

"We have one in mind but we wanted your approval before we bought it so tomorrow after school we will pick you up and as a family we will look at this house"

Meredith and Lexie nodded slowly, unsure of what to say.

The awkward quietness was disturbed by the grandfather clock in the hallway, signalling that it was 5 o'clock.

"Well that's our cue to go to practice, come on Meredith we'll walk, we are in the same park anyway" Lexie grabbed Meredith's hand and pulled her back up the stairs so that they could change into their training gear.

The two walked down the footpath in sport shorts and a tank top, cleats slung over Lexie's shoulder with her softball bat and glove in hand while Meredith had her spikes over her shoulder and soccer ball in hand.

"I don't wanna move" Lexie complained.

"Well if you don't you're either stuck with me or a newborn baby" Meredith shrugged.

"I think the baby would make less noise" Lexie grinned at Meredith.

"What is that supposed to mean?" Meredith stopped and faced Lexie.

"You snore Meredith, I can hear it from my room and there is a room separating us"

"That is not true" Meredith denied.

"Whatever you say Meredith" Lexie continued walking towards the park where both their teams were training.

Meredith mumbled threats at Lexie as she followed behind her younger sister.

"Little Grey, your late" Arizona shouted at Lexie once the sisters had come into the park.

As a joke the entire Studies Of Medicine class (mainly Mark Sloan) had begun calling Meredith- Grey and Lexie- Little Grey and the name had stuck, now the entire school was calling them that, even some of the teachers.

"Sorry Robbins" Lexie shouted before turning to Meredith "Meet you back here after practice?"

"Of course"

The two turned to their different teams and began to get ready for practice.

…

Lexie and Meredith walked out from Studies Of Medicine to find Thatcher and Susan already waiting for them.

"We didn't expect you here right on the bell" Lexie commented as she put on her seat belt.

"We checked out the bus routes from the new house to school and your are in luck, you can catch the exact same bus." Susan said turning to smile at the girls.

Meredith and Lexie's eyes widened as they saw their new potential house.

"This place is huge" Meredith said as they exited the car.

"Okay, go pick your rooms, you can't choose the master bedroom which is located downstairs but the rest of the rooms are yours and choose wisely because once you choose there is no going back." Thatcher added a comical 'evil' laugh that made the girls giggle before they sprinted up stairs to claim a room.

Meredith fell in love with the first room she saw, it was big with a walk-in wardrobe and a big window with a window seat.

"Lexie I claim this room as mine" Meredith shouted from the door frame.

"No issue, because this room is mine" Meredith moved from her room and into Lexie's and laughed.

"Lex… They're exactly the same" Meredith chuckled.

"I'm going to miss having the bathroom between us" Lexie pouted.

"It didn't really give us a lot of privacy" Meredith looked sideways at her sister.

"Well, it was you who decided to have a conversation with me while I was in the shower"

"It was a much needed conversation" Meredith attempted to reason.

"You were talking about the pointlessness of Anna Karenina, algebra and circles, the last one was an attempted joke that went on for 10 minutes"

"I don't see your point"

Lexie sighed and walked out of the room as Meredith giggled behind her.

"What do you think about the baby thing?" Lexie said as they descended the staircase.

"I think I already have one annoying sibling might as well through in another. Hey how wrong is it to make this sibling my slave?" Meredith asked.

"One, I take offence to the annoying sibling comment and two, it has to be my slave as well"

"Deal, we will time share the slave" The two sisters shook hands and continued back to the car.

"So do you guys have a plan?" Thatcher said.

"Oh you have no idea" Lexie said as Meredith burst into giggles.