Finals are over, thank god! I'm sooo glad I'm going out with Kate and Jose tonight. I can't wait to let my hair down and blow off some steam, and hey you never know I might even pull, it would make a change! 21 and never been kissed, I'm like a bad rom com!

I climb out of my single bed and scoop my clothes off the floor. Dropping them all unceremoniously on my bed, rifling through to try to find the perfect outfit for tonight. Kate has told me if I wear a skirt it has to be one colour, and short. The opposite of every skirt I own! She says the dress code for the club is short and tight, I'm so screwed! I grab a towel from my pile, abandoning the clothes and head for a shower.

I love the feeling of rinsing the suds out of your hair, as they slip and slide down your body. The conditioner makes my hair slick and smooth and tame, while it's under the water at least! I step out onto the towelling bath mat Kate bought to stop our feet touching the cold hard slate tiled floor. I wrap my body with my large sea green bath sheet and make the run from the bathroom to my room. Fortunately I'm not seen in my mad dash, but I'm totally caught butt naked in my room by Kate.

"So what you wearing then?" She picks through my heap of clothes, "Ana, I realise your a boho chic babe, but hell I'm tempted to call that show How Do I Look? On you." She drops my favourite seventies inspired dress on the floor. "Come through to Kate's Boutique!" She grabs my hand and begins to drag me through.
"Can I at least put on my underwear?" She drops my hand and rolls her eyes.
"Only if you promise to wear a bra, those puppies deserve support!"
"Fine" she about turns and opens my underwear drawer grabbing a set she bought me for my birthday that's all wired, boned and laced, it looks like some kind of Victorian torture device, but she informed me that thongs and corsets are in, and sometimes your better just to close your mouth and say nothing in reply!

Half an hour later I'm in the underwear and Kate is using me as her own personal Barbie doll.
"Jackpot, I knew I had one in here!" Oh crap! I shudder just wondering what she's found now, I've had a black leather skintight dress, a lilac skintight wet look dress and some kind of striped sequinned number... She presses the hanger against my throat "oh yes! Go try it Ana!" I open my eyes and see a gold flapper style dress, it looks like a replica of the Tina Turner 'Proud Mary' dress. I snatch it from her hand and slide it on. Okay it's much more skintight than Tina's but oh when I spin...those fringes dance!

"It's perfect!" I uncharacteristically gush.
"It really is!" Kate gapes while pulling on a gold lamé hot pants and a white bandeau top that just covers her modesty.
"Hey, I have to be trussed up like a thanksgiving turkey, yet you get to go braless?" I stand with my hands on my hips.
"Honey, my boobs are supported, I have a strapless bra on. Do we need to go bra shopping again." She quirks her right eyebrow at me, like she does when she's lecturing me.
"Hell no, I'm still scarred from last time!"
We are just walking into the lounge when the doorbell rings, and Jose walks in.
"Hey Jose!" Kate shouts, "We're in the lounge honey"
"Hey Kate! Holy shit Ana!" He stops in front of me his eyes roaming up and down my body, leaving me feeling slightly self conscious "Why have you been hiding that amazing body for so long?" He demands.
"See!" Kate stares at me, "I've been telling her to stop hiding for years!" She drags Jose towards her then twirls for him "So how do I look Jose?"
"Stunning baby, as always." His eyes come back to me "But hell Ana, if I wasn't gay I'd so be hitting on you right now!" I shake my head.
"Erm... Thanks, I think?! Don't you think Jamie might have an issue with that?"
"I think he'd join me!" He laughs and I roll my eyes,
"Men! Never bloody happy!" I giggle.

After a ten minute debate about what shoes I should wear, between Kate and Jose, who pulls rank being the fashion student, we can finally leave. My poor toes are crammed into sky high peep toe stilettos, or at least that's what I think they are, I tried to fight for ballet flats but got the death glare from both of them so I backed off, and snuck my flats into my purse! We are off to a new clubs grand opening tonight.
"So what's this place called?" I ask.
"Omg Ana, you really never listen to anything I tell you do you?"
"Yeah I do! The bills are paid on time, I've never missed an important engagement..."
"I know but shit Ana this club is all anyone has been talking about for weeks! It's called Something For The Weekend! It's owned by the Grey brothers, I've never met them in person, I was meant to meet Christian and interview him for the university paper but I got sick and Judy stepped in for me, says he's gorgeous but arrogant and weird, but she finds a lot of men weird..." A vague wave of recollection washes over me.
"Yeah, I think I remember that, did you not try to send me?"
"Yeah, then Judy stepped in at the eleventh hour."
"Yeah, yeah, I remember that now!"
"Okay so if you two are done with your little reminiscing session can we do our tequila shots then get in the damn cab, before he fucks off? Jamie is already texting asking where we are!"
Kate and I share a look, Jose getting his knickers in a knot is a sight to behold! Flamboyant gestures and hair flicking and his voice rises to soprano proportions!
"One, two, three!" I lick the salt swallow the shot and suck my lime. Mmmm, it burns.
"One more for the road?!" Kate shouts
"Go on then!" I wink at Jose.
"One two three!" Shit that really burns! Kate and I grab our purses and head for the door, Jose is already in the car waiting for us.
"Get those sexy booties in this car now, before we miss the arrival!"
Kate shoves me in the door and scrambles in behind me.
"Arrival?"
"The Grey brothers are having a huge arrival apparently...well one of them definitely is"
"Jose how do you know all this, and I don't?"
"Well, it's the perks of being a designer, we have a back room gossip network, I know who's dating who, who's dumped who and who's pregnant and trying to hide it, I'm naming no names though!" Kate narrows her eyes at him
"Jose Rodriguez, when I want info for a scoop, I now know where to go!"
"Kate, darling, you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours"

We pull up at our destination and scramble for the door. I'm first out and upright.
"Oh My God! This place looks amazing!"
It's a large building made of glass that must have neon lights in it because it looks like a gigantic floating disco ball suspended in an even larger glass pyramid, the colours of the ball flashing and changing to an obvious beat, the music pulses out of the open doors. Kate grabs my hand and pulls me towards the queue.

"We are on the list, Kavanagh, Steele and Rodriguez." She states ignoring the death stares of the queuing girls.
"No, I can't see those names."
"What? I want to see your boss, my name is on that list!"
"I'm sorry Miss, but it's not."
There is a flurry of activity behind us as Kate and the bouncer stay locked in their battle of wills. Jose tugs my arm
"It's him, it's one of the Grey brothers!" A tall muscular man walks up behind us.
"Evening sir." The bouncer pulls back the rope to let him in, Jose and I jump out of his way.
"Excuse me? I was here first and your let him walk in, no list checking, I'm on your stupid list as are my friends and you won't let us in! I don't think so buddy, get in line." I stare at her in abject horror.
"Ryan, have you checked for her name?" He asks.
"Yes sir, but it's not there." The poor guy is shaking, between Kate's death glare and his boss being there, this must be his night from hell!
"Yes it is, Katherine Kavanagh, Anastasia Steele and Jose Rodriguez, we were invited!" She almost shouts, her teeth are grinding together so hard I can almost hear them breaking.
"Let them through Ryan." He says on hearing our names.
"But sir.." He gives him a look before yelling
"LET THEM THROUGH"
"Thank you! Finally" Kate grumbles under her breath, we walk through and Kate eventually turns round.
"Kate, you told the guy off for trying to let in an owner!" Jose laughs, just as Mr Grey strides up behind us.
"I do apologise for that Miss Kavanagh, please let me buy you and your friends a drink." He takes her hand and pulls her towards a large round floating bar in the middle of the building.
"Kate I'll just check our coats and purses."
"Thanks Ana." She tosses me her coat and purse and I head to find the check room.

It's obviously hidden down a corridor near the toilets! Where else would it be I ask you?! I get everything checked in and head back to the main room.
I turn to the last place I saw them heading trying to catch a glimpse of either Jose or Kate because they will have split up by now. In my haste I walk straight into a hard muscular chest.
"Oh shit, I'm so sorry! I didn't see you there!"
"Hhhhmpphhh! Watch where your going!" He bristles before dusting whatever germs I may have put on him, off his chest.
"I'm not contaminated!"
"Whatever, your in my way!" He picks me up and physically moves me out of his way.
"How dare you! Put me down! Put me down!" I'm beating his arms with my fists.
"Yo Chris, I know I told you you could pick up women here but I didn't mean it literally!" I get dropped with a thump.
"Thank you for saving me from this brute!" I say to my saviour. He laughs
"That brute is my little brother! Chris meet Kate and Ana, Ana, Kate meet my baby brother Chris."
"Christian! My name is Christian! Stop holding me up and fucking me off Elliot!" He turns and storms off.
"And there he goes, his bark is much worse than his bite!" I raise my eyebrows at him
"Oh Ana, this is Elliot, he's been giving me the tour..." Her hair is slightly rumpled and her hot pants are sitting at a strange angle...oh great Kate the slut is in the building. I cast the lecturing eyebrow over her and she shrugs and giggles, exposing a slight smear of her lipstick on her teeth, classy Kate, real classy!
"I need a drink, I don't care if that brute is your brother he's an ass!" I turn and head to the bar.

Two hours, and lots of booze and dancing later, I'm as happy as a pig in shit! The music pulses through my body and I feel fantastic, more alive than I have in ages, or maybe even ever! I down a pint of water and head back out onto the floor. The combined body heat as we all pulsate together is beginning to make my head spin, almost on cue I'm handed another pint of water, it chills my throat and makes my body tingle. I wipe my mouth, and forehead, first with the cool glass, then with the back of my hand.
"Thanks" I say to my water boy, but he's gone, this club is good! Not many provide water boys! I return the glass to the bar as the DJ shouts over the sound system that it's almost time to go, and dedications will now be played. This is often the greatest part of the night! I sit the first couple of slow ones out, rejecting the many suitors that ask. I watch as Elliot twirls Kate and see Jamie twirling Jose. It's nice to see them happy.
"The next song is dedicated to Anastasia..." I hear the first bars of Proud Mary fire up and look at Kate she winks and nods. We stand across from each other and pull out our prepubescent dance routine. Hair flicking, bum wiggling, strutting the works, she even kneels at my feet as I spin, tinaesque on the dance floor! By the end we are both exhausted and the club is empty.
"Come on time to go home, miss thing!" Kate laughs at me as I try to strut to the coat check room backwards. I trip on the heels, one breaks and I do a perfect Bambi, on ice, impersonation. I land with a thud on my behind, causing both Kate and I to begin giggling like a pair of schoolgirls. Kate's face freezes and I look up to see the brute loitering above me.
"Mr Grumpy Pants! You've come out to play!" The DJ has left slow music playing in the background and Kate is already swaying in Elliot's arms, at least I'm pretty sure it's them that are swaying... I grab his hand and pull him forward kicking off my broken heels.
"Dance with me?"
"You should be leaving your drunk." He replies. I bat my eyelashes at him,
"I know what I am, I just want one final dance then Ill go" I tug his arm again and feel him relenting.
"One dance then you leave."
"Yes, sir, Mr Grey..." I slur.
He pulls me into his arms and spins me round the floor, I feel like a princess, until my stomach decides that the twirling is too much.
"No more spinning, I'm gonna..." Yep, I puke all over myself oh great.
"Elliot, get her home! Now! And don't let her back in." He turns and walks away from me as I sit covered in sick weeping on the dance floor.
"Don't leave me!" I yell.

A/N: Let me know what you think!