A/N So sorry I didn't update last night, time got away from me and I was exhausted! But I am so happy you guys liked the outtake! There's definitely more to come. So now we're back in real time, picking up where we left off with Ana's birthday!

Her body feels as if it's on fire as they ride the elevator back to their room. His casual touches and caresses aren't helping either. He intertwines his hand with hers as he strokes the back of her hand with his thumb.

"I can't wait to get you naked" he whispers in her ear before he kisses it.

She bites her lip and squeezes her legs together to try and relieve the ache. They walk towards the room and he stops her.

"Wait…"

"What?"

"Close your eyes"

"Why? I've been in the room I already know what it looks like" she says rolling her eyes

"Just do it, smartass"

She huffs and closes them "Happy now?"

"Yes" he unlocks the door and pulls her into the room. "Okay open them"

She opens them and gasps. The room is completely lit with candles and there are white and red rose petals everywhere. A bottle of champagne and strawberries sit on the table as well as something underneath a cover.

"Wow… Christian…This is incredible."

He smiles and walks her to the table "I am not singing" he laughs as he pulls the covered tin revealing a sinful looking huge piece of red velvet cake. "You mentioned you liked it"

"Ummm how are you even real?" She laughs. "This is all so amazing. Thank you" she kisses him and attempts to deepen it but he stops her.

"Wait before I forget" he walks over to his overnight bag and pulls out a wrapped small item and hands it to her. "Happy birthday"

"Oh my god, as if all of this wasn't enough… you didn't have to—"

He rolls his eyes "Will you just open it?"

She unwraps it and her eyes fill with tears immediately "Oh my god"

He smiles at her enthusiasm "Do you like it?"

"Like it… Christian this is a first edition!"

"You mentioned that it was your favorite book" she runs her hand over the front cover and opens it taking in the smell of the book. A first edition of Tess D'urberville… is he kidding? This must have cost him… Dear God what have I gotten myself into? Is he like the heir to some throne? Wait what if this is one of those things like in the movies where he pretends to be a normal guy and really he's like a prince or Bill Gates' son and just wants a normal college experience? Oh my God Oh my God. Okay Ana relax, you've seen his beamer, you know he has money…

"You are the greatest" she sighs as she leans her head on his shoulder

"I know" he chuckles

"Can I have cake now?"

"You can have anything you want for another…" he glances at his watch. "2 hours"

"Oh really? Just two hours?" she giggles.

"Yes, Cinderella that's when you turn into a pumpkin"

"Well I better get in all my requests… I want cake. And then I want sex. Cake then sex in that order."

She immediately digs into the cake and takes a bite and moans "Holy crap this is so good, where did you get this?" She opens her eyes to find him towering over her with his eyes filled with lust.

"You think you can make all these sexy sounds and not expect me to take you right now, you're crazy. Stand up and take off your dress. Now."

"But what about—"

"Now."

She stands up and discards her dress completely turned on by this aggressive Christian. She barely has her dress off before his lips are attacking hers. She moans into his mouth allowing his tongue to enter. His tongue explores every inch of her mouth as he sucks her tongue into his mouth. He twists her hair around his hand and tugs exposing her neck to him. He nips at her neck running his teeth from behind her ear to her shoulder.

"Christian" she whimpers

"Yes baby" he says spinning her around so that her back is to his front. He runs his hands down her front and tickles the skin right above her underwear. He's sucking at the skin behind her ear which he knows makes her weak at the knees as he starts to stroke her through her underwear. Teasing her, taunting her. He nibbled a little harder every time she whimpered his name.

"I need you"

"Where?"

"Inside of me"

She was already breathing heavy and her eyes were darker than usual. "Get on the bed." She complies and he stalks up the bed. He's kissing everywhere there's skin. He runs his lips over her thighs and she lifts her hips to get him to kiss her where she needs it most. He sits up and stares down at her and smiles a wicked smile. Her lips are parted, her eyes are shut and she's breathing like she just ran a marathon. Fuck she's sexy. "Touch yourself"

Her eyes fly open "What?"

"You heard me. I want to watch you make yourself come"

"Uhhh well then you should've given me about 4 glasses of that champagne first" she laughs.

"Oh come on, don't be shy"

"Christian…"

"Do it. Because I'm not making you come until you do"

"What?" she whines? "But it's my birthday"

"And don't you think you owe yourself a gift too?" He smirks and raises his eyebrows up and down.

"I did, I bought two new dresses"

"You're killing the vibe, Steele." He leans down to whisper into her ear. Stick two… or three depending on your preference of those perfect little fingers into your pussy, and only then will I fuck you so hard and so good you won't be able to walk tomorrow. I want you to touch yourself, and I'm going to sit here and watch."

She bites her lip "I will if you will"

"Ah ah ah all in good time. You first" She sighs and slides her hand in her underwear when he grabs her wrist. "Panties off"

She shoots him a look and pulls them off throwing them at his face. He smirks and inhales the scent off of them causing her eyes to widen. "You're a freak, you know that?"

"Oh I am well aware. And I can't wait till you are too. Who would have thought you've got some prudish tendencies?" he says with a smug grin

"I DO NOT!" she says sitting up

He pushes her back down gently "Calm down. It's not a bad thing, I think it's… kind of sweet."

"I am not sweet. I can be a freak"

"Meanwhile you're stalling"

"Because I'm not entirely comfortable with you yet! Geeze!"

"Well what can I do to make you comfortable?"

"Nothing, it takes time"

"We've got all night"

She rolls her eyes and closes her eyes "Just shut up." She starts thinking about the first night they had sex. His perfect body, perfect abs, perfect dick. Okay, now we're getting somewhere. See Ana, easy… just like yesterday in the shower. Except no one was watching you! Okay eyes closed.

"Eyes open" he orders her. Oh you've gotta be kidding me! Does he want to embarrass me?

"One step at a time" she answers as she keeps him closed causing him to chuckle. Smug bastard. She wonders if maybe he is tapping into a sexual nature she never knew she had. This is hot… she thinks as she feels herself building. Maybe I can open my eyes. She's vaguely aware she's moaned out his name and grabbed her nipple with her other hand. Her eyes fly open as she feels herself at the edge and makes eye contact with him. She wonders if at any moment he might combust by how heavy he's breathing. Now it's her turn to smirk. Got him. Just a little more. OH yessss. "Fuck" she moans out as spasms wrack her body. She barely has time to come down or register what is happening before she feels his mouth wrapped around her fingers.

"Shit, you're so sexy" his heavy breathing matches his heart rate as she feels it against her chest. Within a moment he is slamming inside of her so hard she moves up the bed.

"Oh yeahhhh" she moans as she wraps her hands around his neck and bites down on his ear as he's kissing her neck. He pulled out slightly lifting her leg to go over his shoulder in order to go deeper and pushed back inside of her. "Fuck" her eyes flew open and found his eyes which were hooded and filled with lust. He places a kiss at her ankle and then next to her knee cap causing her to shiver. Where did this sex god come from and can we never leave this bed?

He reveled in her tightness and wondered where in the hell this goddess came from. "Ana" he moans out as he feels himself teetering over the edge. No, she hasn't come yet, hold off, Grey. He slowly moved in and out trying to hit the spot he knew would have her sobbing. With one more stroke she was falling over the edge screaming out his name. He picked up speed going in and out of her faster and before he knew it he was following her into orgasmic bliss. He pulls out of her and falls next to her so she can rest her leg. They're both breathing hard and feel the sweat pouring off of them.

"Wow" she breaks the silence.

"Yeah"

They sit in silence for what seems like eternity but is really no more than a few minutes just basking in the aftermath of their lovemaking.

Was that what we just did? She wonders. Made love? Am I in love with him? No. It took me months to realize my feelings for Nate. There's no way. Is there?

This Ana Steele is going to be the death of me. He thinks. I don't think I've ever met a more perfect woman. Best sex of my life, most intense orgasm I've ever had and I'm still getting hard thinking about her. He looks to the left and sees her eyebrows furrowed and she seems to be deep in thought.

"What are you over there thinking about?" he asks.

"Nothing" she turns her head to look at him. She smiles that smile that melts his heart.

He knows she's lying but let's up. He gets up and heads to the bathroom and she hears water running. She gets up to follow him still completely naked when she sees him filling up the huge bathtub in the bathroom.

"Well it's not like we can do this in the dorm… we have to capitalize right?"

She opens her mouth to say something and closes it immediately breaking into a huge smile and nods. Ten minutes later she's facing him in the tub running her foot along his thigh getting extremely close to his member with every stroke.

"You're beautiful"

"You're not so bad yourself, Grey"

"Can I ask you something?"

"Anything" she replies as she takes a sip of her champagne.

"This ex-boyfriend of yours… did you love him?"

She looks at him and then sighs. "Once upon a time"

"I think he made you lose a little confidence in yourself"

"What?"

"I don't think you realize how great you are and it's because—"

"Don't. I think it's sweet that you care. But please don't try and psycho-analyze me. I get enough of that from my mother"

"Ana"

"Drop it. He hurt me, I moved on. I don't have any residual anger or hurt. I'm fine"

He nods feeling like shit for striking a nerve. "I just don't want you to ever think that you're not… just the most special woman that ever walked the Earth."

She nods with tears in her eyes and smiles at his words. "Thank you"

"I didn't mean to—"

"It's fine Christian" she moves into his lap and cups his face. "Thank you for caring, but I'm fine. I am so incredibly happy. Being in Boston, at Harvard… with you. I am so happy"

"Me too baby"

That night after hours and hours of talking they finally drifted off to sleep. And boy was she having the best dream. Sex on a beach with Christian. Could this be any more perfect? And anymore corny? Come on Ana, you could've done better than a beach. Nevertheless, she feels that sinful mouth on her and she knows she's close to the edge. But it feels real. Really really real. She feels the beginning of an orgasm when her hand reaches down and is met with a head full of hair.

"Shit" she moans. "What are you—what are you doing?" She asks as she comes out of her sleep realizing that this was no dream.

"Needed to taste you" he growls against her. He runs his tongue from top to bottom, taking time to suck her clit into his mouth. He runs his hands up her body and they land on either side of her arms and she feels him stroking them both gently. God this is not just sex anymore… Feeling herself overwhelmed with the small but very intimate gesture. "Come on, I know you're close. Let me feel you" She comes hard moaning a string of obscenities and he sits up once she's done. His lips are on hers before she can fully come down and she moans at the wicked taste of her on his tongue. They fall asleep again entangled in each other both wondering where exactly the rest of this year would take them.

The next morning she wakes up to find him staring at her.

She giggles "What a way to wake up… what are you doing?"

"Watching you"

"I must be fascinating"

"You have no idea" he smiles before kissing her lightly

She turns to the clock on her nightstand "It's 8 am and you're already making me swoon". She shakes her head.

He smiles "I ordered breakfast, it should be here soon"

"What did you order?"

"Everything"

"No seriously?" she laughs

"I am serious."

After a lazy morning of breakfast, sex, shower sex, lazing in bed and more sex they were headed back to school.

She strokes his hand as he drives "I had fun"

"Me too"

"Can we go back?"

"Whenever you want"

"You mean whenever we need privacy?" she giggles

He laughs "By the way, I have practice at 4"

"Okay"

"But we have plans tonight, so be ready around 9"

"I won't see you before then?"

"Probably not"

She scrunches her nose and pouts as she turns to the window. She was hoping he didn't catch it, but he did and automatically smiles to himself. Good she's in as deep as I am. I want to be with you every second too.

The day went by pretty fast, after a much needed nap and manicures/ pedicures with Kate. They're sitting on their beds reading for class when she asks about her birthday.

"So how was last night?"

"Aaaaamazing"

"What did you do?"

"Went to dinner, he rented a hotel which was lit with about a hundred candles with roses everywhere. He got me red velvet cake and we had champagne and he bought me a first edition of my favorite book and we had amazing sex on probably every surface of the hotel… Kate it was perfect. He's perfect"

"Perfect, huh?"

"Beyond"

"Perfect like Nate was perfect?"

"What does that mean?"

"It means are you completely over Nate? Or are you rebounding"

"No, of course not! I… do not say love, do not say love. think I love him." She puts her hand over her mouth and stares at Kate mirroring the wide eyes she's giving her.

"What"

"Shit. Pretend you didn't hear that"

"Oh I heard it… Ana, you love him?"

"God dammit" her eyes well up with tears. "No, it is way too soon"

"I know, but… do you?"

"I don't know… I don't know!"

"So we're not rebounding?"

"We are so not rebounding"

"Just… keep your eyes open okay? I just don't want to see you get hurt again"

"Christian is far from Nate. He would never hurt me"

"There was a point in time you would have said the same about Nate… I'm not being a cynic because I think Christian is great, but… I love you and watching you try and get over Nate while he banged anything in a skirt in Seattle was not easy"

She nods remembering the pain she felt when she heard that the man she lost her virginity to, the man whose virginity she also took was fucking his way through Seattle. It hurt. It still hurt. The embarrassment. The shame. Christian would never. He respects me too much. He cares for me too much. Right?

"I hear you over there thinking"

"Thanks to you, putting thoughts in my head… Making me question him." She grabs her phone and immediately shoots a text to Christian.

Can we just stay in tonight?

About an hour later, he calls her and she steps into the hall for some privacy.

"Hey I only have a few minutes to talk before we go back out, but what's wrong? You don't want to?" See? Caring. I would have been lucky if Nate even thought about texting me back.

"I'm just a little tired"

"Didn't you promise Kate you guys would go out to celebrate?"

"She'll be okay"

"Ana… I hogged you last night; don't you want to go out with Kate and the girls from the down the hall? I think Sean is coming out too. And I think Vanessa wants to see you."

"Well… I guess… Are we going to Charlie's?"

"If that's okay… baby it will be fun, I promise. If you're not having fun, we can leave at any time, okay?"

"Yes of course it's okay, the guys are great." Which was true. They always made her feel more than welcome and treated her with the utmost respect. Charlie treated her like a little sister and would never let anyone lay a finger on her. Not that Christian would either.

There's a knock on her door as Kate and Ana down their first shot to see Christian and Sean standing at her door with tequila, salt and limes.

"BIRTHDAY GIRL!" Sean lifts her up into a bear hug and squeezes before setting her down.

"Aren't you pledging or rushing or something… I thought you couldn't drink or do anything" she pokes at his side

"For your 411, it's not for another week. So consider this my last hurrah before I disappear for about 6 weeks." He says handing her the tequila. "This is for you. Happy birthday"

"Thanks Sean!"

"Let's crack this baby open!"

Before long their headed out into the cool September night and headed to the Row house. She is shocked to see that the house is dark and immediately narrows her eyes at Christian and Kate.

"I'll kill you both"

"What?" Kate asks trying to hide her grin.

She shakes her head "I don't even know how you got this by me. You're terrible at keeping secrets"

"I know, it was sooo hard" she giggles.

Christian smiles "Well look surprised" as he kisses her cheek. She walks in and hears "Surprise"! She starts laughing immediately as four girls from the team hand her a crown, a birthday sash and two birthday cake shots.

"Before you take another step, you have to take them both" Mel says

"Looks like I'll be carrying her back to the dorm" Christian laughs.

The party starts to wind down and Ana is beyond drunk. Her crown has disappeared her sash is barely hanging on and she's dancing to no music by herself in the kitchen.

"Come on, baby we have to go. The cab is here" he says from behind her.

"Where's Kate?" she slurs.

"Her and Sean left to go home"

"Oooh are they going to fuck"

"I don't think so" he laughs.

"What if they did and they were like us… then we could always have a room to ourselves!" she giggles with childlike excitement

"That would be great, but come on" trying to pull her out of the kitchen

"Wait where's Charlie, I want to tell him thank you… for throwing me a party and letting all my friends come"

"Trust me, he doesn't mind. Apparently all the guys have been trying to get the Dance team over here for forever for a social… And Charlie and Vanessa are upstairs for the night" he said with a 'you know what they're doing' look.

"Gotcha" she giggles "Ooooh yeah dancers are pretty cool. And we're crazy flexible." She giggles. "Is that why you wanted to fuck me? Because I'm a dancer? Like the first time we met? Tell me you weren't curious of all the things I could do"

"Oh I was definitely curious… but so much more drew me to you"

"Like what?"

"I don't know, your beauty, you were charming, and funny… you had so much energy. And you have these blue eyes I can get lost in. You're sexy as hell Ana."

She bites her lip as they're walking towards the door "Are you fucking me when we get home?"

He smiles and shoots her a look "What do you think?"

"Can we do it in the cab?"

"Uhh how about no"

"Why?"

"Because I don't like anyone seeing you in the throes of passion but me"

"Why?"

"You're so inquisitive when you're drunk"

"Why aren't you drunk?

"Because my girlfriend was drinking tequila like it was water and I was nervous I would need to take care of her" He helps her into the cab and pulls her to him kissing her forehead when she's out within seconds. About a minute into the cab ride she stirs and murmurs some incoherent sentences when her eyes shoot open. "Christian"

He looks at her and knows what's about to happen. "Fuck. Stop driving" he has the door open just in time for her to empty her guts out of the door. She's lying over the seat throwing up for what feels like hours as he strokes her back. "Just let it out, it's okay"

"Shit. Make it stop. Please"

"I know… it'll be over soon baby"

She feels him rubbing her back and despite the terrible state she's in she feels comforted. "Is she going to be done anytime soon?" the cab drivers asks rudely.

"Look mother fucker, chill. She's sick"

"You both can get out."

"Are you joking, we're two miles from campus, you think she's in any state to walk?"

"Not my problem, if she can't stop, we're not sitting here all night."

"I can stop, I can stop." She pulls herself together and leans her head against the back of the seat and breathes in and out deeply.

"That's right baby, in and out"

"God Kate was so wrong" she sighs with her eyes closed as the car starts moving.

"About what?"

"She told me to keep my eyes open about you… she worries that I'm falling too fast for you" she whispers as she continues to breathe.

"What do you mean?"

"My ex was such an asshole Christian… And I was so stupid and didn't see the writing on the wall. He really hurt me."

"I would never do anything to hurt you" he says stroking her cheek.

"You're not my rebound"

He smiles "I know, baby"

"Do you?"

"Yes"

"Good" I don't care how drunk you are right now Ana Steele do NOT tell this man you love him or even insinuate that you said something like that to Kate

They finally get back to the dorm and he carries her upstairs. Kate is sleeping but stirs when they come in.

Kate narrows her eyes and puts her glasses on "Is she alive?"

"Barely, she threw up a lot"

"Fuckin tequila man"

Ana is sitting up on the bed swaying back and forth swinging her feet with a smile on her face as she watches him grab her trashcan and the t-shirt she sleeps in which is actually his.

"This is mine" he says in an accusatory voice

"I know" she shrugs. "I like to smell you even when I can't sleep with you.

"Thief"

"Hey! How many pairs of my underwear do you have?"

"Yuck I am in the room, guys" Kate replies going through all of her social media on her phone as she's now more awake.

"Are you sleeping with me? Or no because I threw up"

"Yes, I'm slightly worried you could throw up in your sleep"

"I've never done that…"

"I'm sleeping here; just don't throw up on me"

"I think I'm done anyway, let me go brush my teeth."

She goes to brush them and Kate takes her glasses off and turns her lamp off. "You really like her"

"What was your first clue?"

"Don't hurt my friend… I mean it Christian. She's been through a lot."

"I would never hurt her." What does she mean by that?

"Good. Don't make me regret trusting you."

A/N A few things yes, I included her love of books although she is not an English Lit major anymore haha I would have done jewelry for her gift from C but it was just a little too soon in the relationship. If a guy I had known for about a month bought me some expensive jewelry (because let's be honest it's Christian, go big or go home) I would be a little freaked out. Also, Elliott will finally make his appearance next chapter! Lastly, what are your thoughts on the L word? I was going to break it out when she was drunk like an accident thing. But is it too soon? I think it's a little soon but I feel like the books were pretty quick.