Authors Note: Here's and update guys! That you so much for all the feed back you've given me! I'm going to try and post a new chapter every weekend! Some things to clear up, Ana is 16 and so is Mia. Christian is 17. I changed some things in chapter one. Nothing too dramatic just the date that the story starts is now April 17 and not August 17, I have plans for Christmas and Thanksgiving for the Steele and Grey family but it required Ana and Christians relationship to be more developed but 'I didn't want to rush any of it. Also at the end of chapter one Ana talked about going to dance, I meant to change that to gymnastics but I didn't catch it before I posted it. That's all for now, enjoy this chapter and please review! I wanna know what you guys thinks!

xoxo Renegadee

Chapter Two. New Bestfriend

APOV

The rest of first bell went by slowly I didn't dare look back at the copper haired boy but I could feel his gaze on me, I'm sure this will go on for a while since I am the "new girl" and all that nonsense. Second and third bell went by relatively fast. I had Photography with all the cute boys that Mia told me about, not noticing one of them and second block which was not too exciting. We simply have to take a photo capturing our lives and present it to the class in two weeks. Economics was not too exciting until lunch came around. This schedule is new to me, our third bell is split into two and we go to lunch in the middle of the block. I walk with Vivian and Lily towards the court yard as they talk about their weekend and what they have planned for this weekend as we walk towards Mia.

"Ana! How's school so far? I hope you like it here!" Mia says as she pulls my into a hug

"Hey Mia, school is fine so far, just trying to fit in and get back into the swing of things. Ya know?" I say as I hug her back and sit down on a nearby bench.

"Oh wonderful Ana! Ok so after school we're all going to this cute local café to study some, wanna join us? If so I can ride with you so you get there without getting lost, my car broke down last week and I've been riding to school with my brother."

"Sure Mia sounds like fun! I have gymnastics at 4:30, so I'll have to leave at 4:00" I reply with a smile as I open my slouchy brown leather purse and grab my water bottle. I'm so excited and nervous for my plans after school. Never would I thought that making friends would be this easy, all I wanted was to be a normal teen for once and here I am doing just that.

"Great! I can't wait. Ana you're going to fit in with us just perfectly! What are your plans for this weekend? We just have to hang out. There's no way around it!"

We all go into talking about out plans after school and how boring my classes are. I tell them that I have to finish unpacking this weekend and finish up choreography that my teacher wants me to teach to the younger levels. Vivian invites us all to her house for a party that her brother is throwing and Mia says that I can sleepover at her house afterwards. I tell them that I just have to clear the plans with my father and walk back to Economics excited about my plans for after school and this weekend.

The rest of the school day goes by fast and uneventful. I walk out the doors and into the student parking lot looking for Mia. She's over talking to the copper haired boy that was staring at me this morning in Chemistry. She looks up and I wave at her, not wanting to interrupt her conversation I point to my car. She nods and starts to wrap up her chat while I start my car and pick out one of my many mixed cds to play for this car ride.

"Hey I didn't mean to hold you up" Mia says as she gets into the car and buckles up.

"Not a problem, I needed to choose a cd to play anyway so it's all good." I reply as I pull out of the parking lot and into the hustle and bustle of Seattle at 2:30 in the afternoon. Mia gives me directions to a cozy looking café called Tea Time. It's a cozy vintage looking café with a mix of cherry wood furniture and wrought iron furniture mixed and matched with Persian rugs and elegant looking couches decorated with gold stitching and a blood red fabric.

We make our way to a table and wait for Vivian and Lily to arrive when I see the copper haired boy walk through the door of the café. We lock gazes and I feel my face flush as he slowly makes his way over to our table. What the fuck? I know that I'm the new girl but really there is no need to follow me.

Mia looks up from her English text book and squeals "Christian! Come here you must meet Anastasia! She's new here and she is such a delight!" Mia drags Christian over to where I'm sitting and begins to introduce us.

"Ana this is my older brother Christian, he's a junior here at Seattle Prep. Christian this is Ana my new bestfriend!" Mia says as I stand up and offer him my hand to shake. He grabs my hand and instead of shaking it he brings in slowly up to his lips and places a gentle kiss on the back of it. Oh!

"Hello Anastasia I believe that we have chemistry together. Forgive me for not introducing myself this morning; Mr. Buckles was set on making it impossible with his lesson plan today." Christian says as his eyes bore into my and slowly places my hand back at my side.

"Hi, please call me Ana. Everyone does." I murmur as I eye him from head to toe seeing his smirk as when he catches me staring at his muscular arms.

"So what made you move from Sin City to Seattle?"

Shit! Shit, shit, shit! The one question I was hoping no one would ask and here he is just jumping right to it! "Um I… I-"I feel my chest tighten. Memories of him come flooding back pushing me deeper and deeper into that dark place I don't want to go back into.

"You two already know each other?!"Mia says saving me from having to explain to her brother why I'm here and Seattle and pulling me out of my near panic attack. I don't want to go back into that dark place, that's why I moved here but there's still a lot of work to be done before I'm somewhat back to my old normal self. I shudder and turn to Mia" I guess so; I mean I just saw him in my chemistry class this morning and then again when you were waiting for me after school." I say as I sit back down at our table.

I glance at Mia and see that she's looking at her brother like she's never seen him before; she shakes her head and takes her seat in front of me and motions of Christian to take the seat in between us. "Well at least you now know someone in your chemistry class, even though Christian is a junior and you're only sophomore"

"I suppose, although I have a feeling that Mr. Buckles prefers to hear himself speak for the majority of the class time, he barely breathes and is quick to answer student's questions so they stop talking it seems." I laugh and see Christian grinning in agreement.

"Yes he does like to talk, a lot," Christian says "but that class goes by fast if you understand the material. Seeing that you're the only sophomore in our class and how Mr. Buckles was raving about you this morning I sense that this class won't be too much of a bother and should pass relatively quickly."

"Very true, although I don't see why my being a sophomore is such a big deal, surly there are or were other sophomores who've taken his class." I mutter. Quite frankly Mr. Buckles was irritating me this morning when he kept rehashing that I'm a sophomore in Chemistry.

Vivian and Lily soon make their appearance and Christian suddenly gets up. "Well ladies it's been a pleasure but I must go" he says in a rush

"Christian stop being so childish, Lily isn't going to try anything I promise. What happened that night was a misunderstanding!" Mia says with more than a hint of annoyance.

"Mia I gotta go, what Lily did was not a 'misunderstanding'. Ana," he says turning to me "it has been a pleasure I'll see you around. Mia see you at home." With that he walks out past Lily, paying her no attention and glancing back at me one last time.

I feel myself blush and bite my lip, quickly turn my attention towards Lily and Vivian. I'm tempted to ask what happened between Lily and Christian but decide against it. It's really none of my business and I'm not trying to make any enemies here. As 4:00 rolls around I say goodbye to my new friends telling them that I'll see them tomorrow at school. I make my way to my car and head towards the training center so I can go to gymnastics.

CPOV

I glance back at Anastasia one last time and see her blush and bite her full bottom lip. Fuck. What the hell is wrong with me? I've never felt this way before. My stomach feels like it's doing flips and some shit like you see in cheesy chick flicks. What. The. Hell?

I get into my car and try to focus on something other than the beautiful Anastasia. Did I just say beautiful? What's wrong with me? Why is she making me feel this way? I just met her! But the jolt of energy that shot through us when I kissed her hand. Holy shit. It was unreal. As I drive to the rec center I allow myself to consider what it would be like to be a normal teen, to go out on dates and have a girlfriend. That sounds all nice and dandy Grey but you consider yourself unworthy of love remember? I am unworthy of love though; I still don't understand how Carrick and Grace can love me. I'm too fucked up. I can't even let Grace touch me because of my fuckedupness!

I finally reach the rec center and grab my gym bag from the trunk that holds my clothes for rowing practice. I quickly change and head into the gym to warm up with a two mile run on the treadmill. The rest of the team is already warming up doing various exercises when I get on the treadmill. I put in my headphones and I start to run. My thoughts drift back to Ana, she's such a down to earth girl, and she doesn't try to throw herself at me or really anyone else. She's shy; she'd make a good submissive with some training. Fuck! I can't think about shit like that, she seems too innocent, but she can't be that innocent not that any of it matter. I've started to dabble in being a Dom but I think I still need practice.

It's 4:30 and I've ran 5 1/2 miles. I really lost track of time. I step off the treadmill and take out my headphones.

"Wow Grey hogging the treadmill a bit today aren't ya?" Jase, probably the closest person I could call a friend says to me a punches me shoulder.

"Yeah man I guess I just lost track of everything, "I laugh "I made pretty good time though, I got on at 4:00 so I was running for a good thirty minutes."

"Damn Grey you're a machine!" Jase says with a laugh when our coach comes in with a blond lady wearing black tights and an athletic jacket with gymnastics printed on it.

"All right boys before we get to practice Ms. Carson here needs our help moving some gymnastics equipment out of storage and into her gym, I don't want any complaining or I'm going to make the lot of you train with Ms. Carson's students." Coach Flint says, eyeing us all, daring for one of us to make his day by complaining in some sort of way. Everyone grumbles variations of 'yes coach' and we follow him and Ms. Carson to the storage room which is located in the gym.

As we walk into the gym all the guys start to drool and whistle at the girls who are wearing spandex and sports bras or variations of shirts. I go to grab a mat to bring out the floor when I feel her presences. Anastasia. I glance up and see her grabbing the mat that I'm about to grab. Holy shit. I eye her and take in her gorgeous body; she has the most perfect body. Round tits, nice long toned legs and a tight flat stomach.

She picks up the mat and says "Well are you going to help me or what?" with just a hint of annoyance.

"Sorry" I mutter

"Oh! Christian, sorry I didn't notice it was you" She says finally looking at me with her gorgeous blue eyes.

"Not a problem, so are you going to help me or what?" I say with a smile, throwing her words back at her.

She takes her time to drag her eyes down my body, lingering at my ripped stomach and she bites her lip. "Anastasia, don't bite your lip, it drives me crazy." What the fuck did I just say?

"Oh… um-" Ana starts to reply when Ms. Carson shouts from across the gym to bring the mat out and start to warm up. I help her carry the mat out and spread it out. She sits down and stretches before doing the splits. Fuck that's sexy. I notice about every boy in this rooms is ogling her and I feel a pang of jealousy course through me. I turn around quickly and walk out of the gym with a raging hard on and jealousy coursing through me.

"Oh Anastasia what are you doing to me?" I whisper to myself.