Chapter 2

Note –

Thanks for all the great reviews! I have been super busy this week so this was the earliest I could update. I have made this chapter a bit longer and it doesn't contain any songs as none really fitted in here but there will be some in the next chapter! If you want any songs that you think relate well to 50 shades to be included in this story then let me know and I would love to include them! Please review and give me some feedback!

Ana's POV

I take my bow and walk offstage waving. Wow! I knew I loved performing but having a whole audience in a venue that big cheering and shouting because they love my music was amazing! To top it off I got there with no help from a certain billionaire who used to try and mess with everything in my life! I go into my dressing room and collapse onto the sofa. Flowers fill the room from all of my friends and relatives, although there are none from Christian. In fact, I haven't heard from him for two years, since I left. I thought I might have been worth fighting for, but, on second thoughts, I was just Ana Steele then. I was fresh out of university and completely innocent, he was a multi billionaire and definitely not innocent! I think I'm better off without him, I hope so anyway, otherwise I made a big mistake.

"Ana! You were AMAZING!" My manager, Suzie rushes in and hugs me. "Like amazing doesn't even cover it really! They loved you! Seriously this was the best move for your career we could have made!"

"Really? Are you sure?" I try not to let my own insecurity get in the way anymore but it's so hard, I mean I haven't been with anyone since Christian. Not that there hasn't been interest of course…

"Are you being serious Ana? I'm actually considering moving the date for your album release forward like two months! Then we can get it out in time for award season!" She practically squeals.

I beam and just hug her, this has been my dream since I was a little girl but I never really thought it was a possibility till I left Seattle and moved to LA. After I broke up with Christian I was so upset, I didn't know what to do. Kate wasn't around and I had been spending all my time with the Grey's so I didn't really have many other good friends who I could talk to. Ray came down and stayed with me for a bit and talked some sense into me. He talked to me about the times when I was little and I'd sing into a hairbrush pretending it was a microphone in my bedroom, belting songs out at the top of my lungs. I thought about it for a while and then I moved to LA, I stayed in a cheap flat while I was working as a waitress and desperately trying to get noticed by singing whenever I could, wherever I could and sending demo CD's to all the major music labels. Eventually when I was singing at a café, Suzie came in and said she saw something in me and she wanted to manage me. Of course I was ecstatic and said yes. About six months later, here I am opening at music awards for the pure publicity for my upcoming album!

"OK Ana, I have to go, but I'll see you on Monday, we have to record I think three songs." Suzie says, snapping me out of my daydream.

"Yeah, sure, that sounds great." I reply.

"Great stuff, look after yourself and that voice!" She says as she walks out.

Christians POV

Right, it looks like she is signed with a small music label for one album, the music label isn't doing great, they have a huge amount of debt and it looks like Ana is there only hope. Lucky for them, Ana managed to get Suzie Briggs to manage her, how she did that I don't know. I mean Suzie is the best in LA in Music Management, I can't imagine how Ana got her to agree to be her manager. No, actually I can, she used her beauty, her amazing personality and her talent. God, I miss her. I thought I had moved on but I had just buried my feelings deeper into my empty heart. Why didn't I tell her that I love her? I'm so fucking stupid. I have to fix this.

"Hi, Is that the owner of Reeman Records? This is Christian Grey, CEO of Grey Enterprises. I am interested in buying your company. Yes I understand it's not currently for sale, but i think I can make it worth your while. I'll give you $1.5 million for it and you keep all of that, you have no debts to pay or anything as long as I get immediate ownership. I thought you would see it my way. I will fly down to LA this evening and we can get this sorted."

I hang up and dial Taylor. "Taylor can you get the jet ready to fly to LAX. Good." Quickly I rush around Escala and pack a bag for a few days, hopefully I will be able to see Ana while I am there and win her back.

Ana's POV

Ugh, why whenever my phone is ringing I do not have a clue where it is. I rifle through the paperwork and general junk in my handbag and find my phone right at the bottom, just in time to pick up the call, it's Neil from the record label.

"Hey Neil, everything OK?"

"Hi Ana, yeah, it's OK. There has just been a slight change of plan. Reeman records has been bought."

Questions flash through my mind, what's going to happen now? I've worked for this for ages. Am I still going to get an album. I start to panic but calm down just enough so I can talk to neil.

"Neil, am I still getting an album?

"Well, yes, probably. It depends on the new owner, but you'll find out tomorrow, he's flying in tonight to LAX and is going to sign the paperwork to make him the owner of Reeman Records. He says he wants to see our best new artist so he can overlook the contract and either increase/decrease it or keep it the same. But Ana, you're amazing, he would be a moron not to sign you up again."

"OK, so are you not going to be in charge anymore?"

"No, I'm not. The new owner will be handling things her from now on."

"Oh, right. Well thanks for everything Neil, I'll see you around."

"No problem Ana. It's been a pleasure. If you don't get signed again, call me and I'll see what I can do, you know have a chat with a few friends and cash in a few favours."

I grin at that, "Thanks, it means a lot. Bye." I cut off the connection. The realisation of what has just happened washes over me. Everything that I have worked on for the last six months could just go away tomorrow. Just like that. I would have nothing, no job, no label, no future. The only solution I can think of is to impress the new owner. Neil said he was a guy so tomorrow I'll have to look my best and sing my best too, otherwise my whole future is in jeopardy.

Christians POV

I get into LAX at about 10pm and get Taylor to drive me straight to Reeman records. It's a tiny studio with a car park that would fit about three of my SUVs in. I make a note to myself to ring Elliot and get him to add an extension on here. The current owner Neil is nice enough, he just seems to be a bit tired of the music industry and by the looks of him, he's about 50 so maybe he just doesn't quite know what's new in the industry and that's why his business is failing. We get the contracts signed and money is exchanged, I am officially now the new owner of Reeman Records and will be seeing Ana tomorrow…