Hi! So here it is chapter seven. I hope you enjoy this one, I really put a little more effort in it.

I want to thank again to all the people who read and review this story. Thank you for all your time and opinions, thanks to those who find time to also message... I really big thank you to all of you.

DISCLAIMER: I don't own any of the characters, everything belongs to E.L. James.


APOV

Today has been a crappy day… since my talk with Kate, if you can call it that, I have been in a crappy mood. Kate and I have been best friends for years and each time we have an argument we give each other time to think and wait for one of us to concede and go talk first, usually it's me, but not this time... suddenly I hear a knock on my door.

"Ana, can I come in?" well why not… we aren't kids anymore we have to face our problems.

"Yes Kate!" She enters in silence and sits on my bed while looking at me. I turn my chair and look back at her.

"I'm sorry Ana, I didn't want to make you more upset… I just hate seeing you like that, you know how I am… " She looks at me with remorseful eyes and I lean back against my chair.

"Kate I hate when you violate my privacy that note was directed to me you had no right to read it?" She feels that she has to know everything about my life… I like a little secrecy once in a while.

"I just read it because you were crying… I was trying to find out why you were in that state…I was worried"

"You didn't had to do that in front of Elliot by the way…"

"I know, but you can trust him…" suddenly she starts to grin and I know immediately that something happened.

"Why are you grinning Kate?" She looks at me with a smile on her face.

"You know last night I slept over and me and Mia were catching up in the livingroom and we both fell asleep on the couch…I woke up and saw Elliot outside, I decided to go talk with him… and Ana it was so nice we talked about the most random things, almost all night long… he asked me if I wanted to go for a walk and we got to the boathouse, the next thing I know we are making out… well you know we got inside the boathouse and kept going for a while and then we are ripping our clothes off…" Okay enough of it I know what happened next…

"Okay Kate let me stop you there… I assume what happened next" She smiles up at me and lays on my bed with her arms open…

"It was so perfect… I think it was the best sex in my entire life…" Well finally Kate Kavanagh might think about settling for a while.

"So you are finally in a relationship…?" She sits back on the bed and looks up at the ceiling…

"I don't know we still haven't talked about it yet but he is going to pick up my parents from the airport with me…he offered"

"Well… I'm happy for you Kate. I really am" I smile brightly at her…

"Grace and Carrick liked you a lot" She tells me and I smile at the revelation.

"Well it's good I think… "

"They were very surprised that Christian had bided on you during the auction…" There it is Kate putting the Christian subject on the table again…

"Well in my defense I was too…"

"I got scared for you when my brother showed up…"

"Why?"

"Just because of the situation last year… imagine if they picked up a fight again with you on stage." She's right it would have been really shitty… and shitty is an understatement.

"Yeah well, glad nothing happened…"

"I think they will never be friends again… " I hope she's wrong… by this hour Gideon has already gone to GEH and hopefully talked with Christian.

"Well maybe you're wrong, maybe they can go back to being friends… I'm not saying right away but in some point" I really hope so…

"I don't believe it… but change of subject… Ana can you tell me what happened last night? I promise I won't brag about it… I'm just curious" I look at her and tell her.

"Christian brought me home and I think I fell asleep on his car… the next thing I know is that I'm on my bed with a blanket and a note on my bedside table which you read."

"Well then you get mad at me for invading your privacy…"I give her a glare and she gets it…

"Ana If I didn't know him, I would say he cares for you… and obviously you are attracted to him… I don't blame you he's super hot, I'm just a little sad for my brother…" Not this again…

"Kate I told him how I feel… he knows I adore him but it's not that feeling that you are supposed to feel when you love someone, I care for him I really do but not in the way he does for me…"

"Got it… I promise I won't talk to you about it anymore…" I give her a smile and turn to my computer.

"Ana why were you really crying?" It was too good to be true… Kate never misses a bit…

"I was just sad that he brushed me off so quickly you know… it made me ask myself what was wrong with me… but then I remembered some things that Gideon told me about Christian and that was what made me really cry…" I hope she lets it go now.

She does and gets up from the bed…

"Okay well do you want some late lunch?" She asks me and I give her a pout while looking up at her…

"Right… good one Steele… I'll order a pizza for both of us, my treat cool?"

"That would be awesome… Thank you Kate!"

"So we're cool right?" She looks at me hopeful…

"Yes we're cool Kate!" She smiles and leaves the room…

When I'm about to leave my room my phone rings, I look at it and notice it isn't a number I recognize, but I pick up it might be important.

"Hello!" I salute the other person…

"Hello Anastasia!" Only fuck… it can't be… he doesn't have my number…

"Mr. Grey…?" The way I greet him doesn't sound good but I prefer to sound respectful even after that note.

"Yes it's me… you can call me Christian you know…" Good… because the Anastasia, Mr. Grey thing wouldn't work very well for me.

"Great… but can I ask how did you get my number."

"I have my ways, Miss Steele."

"It's Ana by the way…" He laughs which makes laugh too.

"Ana, I called just to say that I talked with Gideon… he said that you coerced him into talking with me..." Oh good Gideon kept his promise.

"Well I hope it worked…" I hear him sigh through the phone and I feel my demeanor changing

"Well it did actually… We decided to make a truce…" Oh that's good! Very good actually!

"Oh that's great… but can I ask you why you are calling me… I thought that you wanted … I mean you said on your note that…" he says one thing which made me hugely upset and the next day he is calling me… I just don't understand him.

"I know what I wrote Ana… I thought that… Look I just want to say I'm sorry really… those words are meaningless… I meant them but in a certain way I didn't… I called because things changed a little"

I think about his words and wonder why he is the way he is… was he trying to keep me away because of BDSM?

"What changed?"

"Yesterday you knew about all of this right? Elena… The lifestyle …everything"

"Yes… I did…" Where is he going with this?

"Ana, are you free tonight for dinner? I promise I just want to talk some more… " Wow change of direction …

Then it downs me oh my god… Christian Grey is asking me out on a date?

After all of that… I honestly don't know what he wants from me. First he comes closer, then pushes me away and now he wants to have dinner…

"As in on a date?" He silences for a few seconds.

"Yes, if you want to call it that…" He sounds bitter…

Fine… it's a date but not a date date… got it…

"Okay… I guess I can… I mean… I…"I'm rambling… great… I start to pace the room franticly because I honestly don't know if I should go… How can I know that after dinner he isn't going to shut me out again I don't think I'm up for that… rejection.

"Eight o'clock works for you?" What?... I didn't even answer…I think I can get ready by then… psychologically not so much…

"I didn't say yes Christian…" He doesn't say anything for a while… and I decide to speak.

"Yes eight should be fine…" I hear him exhale from the other side…

"Okay good, I'll pick you up then…"

"I'll be waiting… bye Christian"

"Good bye Anastasia!" He hangs up and this time I'm the one to exhale… I hope to had made a good choice…

"Ana! Pizza's here!" I hear Kate call and go downstairs…

"Were you talking alone…" Kate asks me and I still… should I tell her?

"I was talking to my mom…" She eyes me suspiciously but lets it go…

"Oh! Okay…"

"Kate what are you doing tonight?" I ask her because the less I have to explain about dinner the better and if she had plans I wouldn't have to explain it to her… I would tell her in a heartbeat, but the Christian subject seems to be baffling one to her.

"I was thinking about going to the movies with Elliot, he invited me" Oh good…

"Wow you to the movies with a guy… who would've seen Kate Kavanagh doing that kind of thing…"I tell her and she smiles…

"Do you want to join in?"

"And be the third wheel, no thank you…"

We eat the rest of the pizza in silence and she heads upstairs to do god knows what.

I spent the rest of my afternoon in bed reading and after a while I hear Kate screaming from downstairs that she is leaving with Elliot… which gives me one hour to get ready.

I rush over to the bathroom, take a quick shower and shave the best I can.

I get out of the bathroom and go to my closet trying to find something elegant to wear, but I have nothing… just jeans and tons of t-shirts. I decide to go to Kate's closet and find the perfect outfit right away.

The dress is black, a little above the knee and not too tight. The dress has no sleeves, but it has two wide straps that cross on my chest and back, I added a golden belt and earrings to match. To complete I chose black high heels with a tiny golden ribbon around them.

My hair is up in a high pony tail with a few bangs coming out. I chose to wear little make up, just mascara and lip gloss.

I look at myself in the mirror and surprisingly I think I did a good job, a look presentable at least…

I feel nervous… I honestly don't know what to expect from this dinner… It's just dinner… It's just dinner nothing more.

Suddenly, I hear a knock on the door. It must be Christian… Oh my god!

I look at myself in the mirror one more time, grab my purse and head downstairs. I open the door and Christian is leaning against the door jamb looking better then he should.

"Hi Ana!" He straitened himself and looks at me with a smile on his face. He starts to lean against me and gives me a kiss on the cheek.

"Hi! Do you want to come in or do you want to leave?" I ask him while blushing profoundly…

"Are you ready?" He asks me and I nod

"Okay then, we should get going… we have reservations" He tells me and offers me his hand, I take it and wave of electricity hits my arm and I let go. He looks at me in shock… I guess he felt it too.

"Did you felt that?" I ask and he nods… he looks down at me and gives me his arm. I laugh and he does too.

"You look beautiful tonight Ana, I really don't know if I want to have dinner in a restaurant now…" I blush again and frown in confusion.

"There will be a lot of people watching…" He answered my unshed question.

"You don't look so bad yourself…" He is wearing a white shirt, black casual pants and a blazer…

I look up at him and his breathing changes as mine… he looks down at my lips, grabs my cheek and with his thumb he starts to caress my bottom lip. I'm almost panting with the proximity…

"We should go…"I nod… and for a second I thought he was going to kiss me but he stepped away, took my hand in his and we walked to the car.

When we get to car a man in a suit opens the door to me…

"Thanks…"

"Taylor, mam"

"Thank you Taylor, I'm Ana!" He smiles at me and nods.

I get in the car first and then Christian who gives me an annoyed look…

"Is Taylor your driver?" I ask and he nods. "And my CPO" Oh okay…

The way to the restaurant is short… we stopped at a restaurant called the Mile High Club. I've never been here before… Christian puts a hand on my lower back and leads me through the restaurant.

"Goodnight Mr. Grey!" We're received by a woman that is batting her eyelashes at him… the gesture shouldn't bother me but it does.

"My table" He says to the woman and she leads us to a private booth away from the other clients. Christian lets me sit first and then he sits next to me on the couch.

We start to read the menus and notice that everything is over the top expensive, no wonder I never entered this place.

"So… have you chosen?" I lift my eyes from the menu and notice that he is looking at me.

"Aren't you going to read the menu?" I ask because it's in the exact same place that was before.

"No, I know what I want…" He looks at me with a look that can only be considered as dangerous, darker and something I can't place… I don't know why but I start to feel hot and bothered, my body seems to be on fire. I start to look at his lips and notice that his breathing changed again…

"Have you decided on what you are going to eat?" We look up and see the waitress looking expectantly and shooting daggers at me…

"Yes, I'll have the salmon with smashed potatoes…" Christian's ask and looks at me.

"I'll have the same, please" She registers our order and Christians also asks for a bottle of Cabernet Sauvignon, Chardonnay. It sounds expensive…

I start to look at the restaurant and none of the clients are in our zone…

"We are the only people in this part of the restaurant aren't we?" I ask him just by curiosity.

He smiles and nods the tension is building up again between us… it's almost unbearable…

He swallows and finally speaks…

"This zone is the VIP zone…" I nod and give him a grin…

"Fancy…" He laughs at my expense and I smile loving seeing so carefree.

"I own the place so…yeah it had to be fancy" He smirks and gives me an amused grin while I'm looking at him in a bit of shock…

"Of course you do… do you own anything else in the city…"I play with him but he gives me a serious nod…

"Besides GEH and the companies associated with it, I own a chain of beauty salons, a few more restaurants and some clubs…" My mouth hangs open and he laughs…again.

"When you say clubs you mean…"

"For dancing…" Oh!

"Probably, Kate went to all of you night clubs…" He grins…

"So Ana tell me about you…"I look at him in confusion. What possibly he could want to know…

"What do you want to know?"

"Tell me about your parents…" Oh good…

"My mom lives in Montesano with my dad… they divorced four years ago and got back together last year although they didn't remarry. My mom is young because she had me at the age of seventeen… she's 39 now. My biological father bailed on me… he got my mom pregnant and run out. My mom raised me with the help of my grandparents and when I was seven my mom met Ray… the man that I consider my father, and the one who gave me the name Steele." I look at Christian who's looking intently at me…

"My dad is 44 now, he was a Mariner back in the days… he taught me self-defense, how to use a gun, how to fish… he loves fishing by the way." This time he is the one shocked…

"You know how to use a gun?" I smirk and nod.

"Better watch out then…" He says and I give him a belly laugh.

"Don't worry I don't have one… but my dad does an all arsenal…"

"You didn't tell me that the other night when we talked…" He says and I shrug.

Before I can speak the waitress returns with our orders and the wine in a bucket of ice… Before the waitress could reach it, Christian grabbed the wine, opened it and poured me a glass. I take a sip and notice it's surprisingly good… I think I moaned a little too.

Christian looks at me again with the same look from earlier and just like that the tension is back but this time much more palpable…but this tension is something that I've never felt before it's like a magnet pushing me against him.

I start to eat hoping the feeling would go away.

"So things with Gideon went well today… " I tell him and he nods.

"We compromised, when he got there I was with Elena in my office… talking… he told me everything in front of her, I could tell by her expression that she was fearing what Gideon could say every time he opened his mouth… seeing her expression I could tell he was telling the true… I still don't want to believe it…" She was in his office?

"She was in your office?" I give him a look of perplexity.

"We were discussing business, honestly. The salons I told you about are being runned by her… we scheduled a meeting so she could give me some reports." He looks at me as if trying to read me. I exhale I keep eating… I really don't want to talk about the bitch.

"Well Gideon and I made a truce, although I'm already breaking my part of the deal…" He looks down and drinks the full glass of wine.

"Why? What part of the deal are you breaking?" He looks at me and then at his plate.

"He asked me to keep myself away from you…" Come again now? What the actual fuck?

"Why would he say that? " I speak a little louder than I should but I honestly don't care.

"He told me that he was afraid that you could get hurt. So he said to step away…"

"That's way you wrote the note…?"

"No… he talked to me after that. I'm sorry about that note Ana… I think… as I told you I'm no good for you. I'm afraid you will get hurt by being with me… I'm not a romantic person Ana, I don't do relationships, I'm a monster… you know what I do indoors, you don't know what I'm capable of… I want you to know I would never hurt you intentionally, but I'm fucked up… I fuck things up all around me and I don't want you to get in the middle of the messes I make after I fuck up…" He tells me and I just want to hold on to him and cry… Why he thinks so badly of himself? I can see that he is a good man… I can see he is no monster…

"Christian, don't say that…" I tell him with unshed tears and he puts my face between his hands…

"Ana you're the sweetest person I got to know in this short time, you're smart, intelligent, beautiful… thank you for not judging even after knowing the truth. I don't deserve your tears Ana… you're too perfect… you should never cry." He is looking at me with my face still between his hands and I put my hand around his writs.

"Christian, every person fucks up once in a while… I'm everything but perfect, nobody is. I would like to understand why you think all that crap about yourself…" I sigh and continue.

"I think I understand in a way… I don't know exactly what happened to you when you were younger and you don't have to tell me… I know how things from the past can shape us into what we are… you have me as an example. I never understood why my biologic father didn't want me, it made me feel rejected… I don't feel like that anymore, but I know how it can influence some of our decisions… it can influence some decisions we make in life, some bad, some good but that's life… each decision, each situation that we go through make us who we are Christian… everything you went through make you who you are… and right now, you're perfect as you are, I wouldn't change a fucking think. Don't say you are a monster just because you're afraid, don't do that to yourself… see what you accomplished, GEH, your businesses… it was all you Christian…I know what you company does Christian, and a monster doesn't do that. Your family loves you Christian, they may not know about BDSM, but they were always there when you were younger, they are there now and they love you, fucked up or not… if they love you Christian is because you aren't the monster you proclaim to be" I exhale a little and look at his face… he looks very vulnerable. "And the lifestyle that was coerced into your life wouldn't make me judge you, we don't judge the things we don't know… I researched a little about it and I know now what it is… and I'm still here Christian. Don't ever say bad things about yourself Christian you're a good person, you have a good heart, you inspire a lot of people as I heard… you're perfect the way you are. Don't let that bitch make you believe that you are not able to do something, don't let her manipulate you… believe in yourself and in what you can do… I believe you can do romance… you brought me on a date for starters…"

"My first one actually" He finally says and looks at me with a completely different look, with sweet soft eyes.

"Well, it was kind of a first for me too…" He looks at me surprise…

"You have never been on a date?" I smile at him and shake my head.

"I never dated before either…" He glares at me with his eyes as big as saucers.

"You never dated before?" I shake my head again.

"Where have you been?" He asks and I shrug.

"I never met again interesting enough" I tell him and the next thing I know is that I'm on his lap with my head on his shoulder.

"Please don't touch on my back or chest please, I can't be touched on my back or chest… I was abused as a child. I remember bits of it…". He tells me and I shed my suppressed tears.

"Hey, I told you… don't cry… okay?" I nod and lift my head… my eyes met his and the electricity is there again…

"Thank you for what you said Ana it really means a lot to me…" I smile I get off of his lap…

"You're welcome… but I really meant what I said… " He nods and finishes his plate. I ate more than half of my plate and can't put more in.

"Aren't going to eat anymore?"

"No, I'm satisfied…" He gives me a look, but doesn't say anything. He asks for the waitress and for the bill, we discuss for a bit because I wanted to pay and he didn't let me… even though it was expensive. He pays and we leave the restaurant, I look at the clock and is already late… 22:00h.

"What do you want to do now?" He asks with an amused grin.

"What about a walk in the park… Since I've arrived in Seattle I haven't been able to go there… " He looks at me and then leads to the car…

"We can drive to the park this way you don't have to walk very much in those heels."

"Don't you like them?"

"Oh I like them very much… but I wouldn't want you to hurt your feet they can't be that comfortable…" He gives me a serious look and I smile at his concern.

We drive to the park and get out…

"WOW… it's beautiful…" I say while looking at the horizon.

He grabs my hand… and leads us to the middle of the park… there isn't a lot of people out here tonight especially because it's a little chilly.

"Here!" As if reading my thoughts he takes his blazer off and helps me put it on. It's still worm from his body and smells like him…

"Thanks!" I give him a smile. I look around me and spot a little tent with ice cream in the grass … It gives me and idea. I take off my heels and start to walk away… I continue walking backwards while looking at Christians that has a smile of amusement on his face.

"Where are you going?" He asks me and I start to run towards the tent…

"I'm going to buy ice cream" I shout while running… I know he is running after me and the next thing I know he is grabbing me by the waist. He has both arms around me and my hands are in his trying to break free, but he is much stronger than me. We fall to the grass eventually, with him on top of me… we are both panting and laughing.

"Well another first Miss Steele… this was rather unusual I may add" He tells me grinning. I smile back at him…

"It was fun…"

"Well, I can say that it was exciting… but you don't need to run if you want ice cream"

Suddenly I reach his neck with my hands making him roll off of me with my legs… but he pushes me and now I'm on top…

"Well Mr. Grey I need to run if I want to pay for it…" I get up as quickly as I can and finally reach the tent.

"Two ice creams please"

"Which flavors?" I don't know what he likes so I ask strawberry and vanilla.

I come back to Christian that has my heels in one hand…

"You didn't have to pay for it…" He tells me a bit mad…

"Well I wanted to pay for it… so accept it and shut up." He gives me a glare, but I ignore it.

"What I could do with that smart mart of yours…" He whispers and I decide to ignore it.

"So do you want strawberry or vanilla" When I say vanilla he gives me a wicked smile and chooses vanilla.

"Can we sit?" I ask and he nods.

We sit in the grass while eating ice-cream. He looks at me and smiles again.

"Do you like your flavor?" He asks me and I nod…

"Do you want to try mine?" I ask and show him my hand with the ice cream. With that he goes and licks a bit… I watch him do it and there it is, that pull that I felt so many times tonight.

"Do you want mine?" He asks and I nod… I try his and I have to admit that his is better.

"Your ice cream is better…"

"Vanilla is always better…" He looks at me and it seems that the word has a double meaning, but I let it go.

"You have a mustache" He tells me and I grin at him…

"I do not!" I say while finishing my last piece of ice cream…

"Yes you do!" He laughs and then the atmosphere between us change once again. Before I could have time to protest I'm sitting at his lap once again.

"I can't take this anymore!" He says and suddenly I feel his lips against mine. I take a second to realize what's happening, but then I start to kiss him back with everything I have.

He kisses me gently, giving me soft picks on the lips, but then I put my hands on his neck, trying not to touch him, and start to kiss him feverously. He puts his arms around my waist and then with one hand starts to caress my thigh while we are both kissing. I moan a little at the gesture and he starts to kiss me even more urgently than before, it's like we can never have enough… we reach a point where we have to breath and we separate a little… He rest his forehead against mine, both of us panting.

"What are you doing to me…"

"The same you're doing to me…" With that he pushes me against the grass one more time so that I'm on my back, and we start kissing again.

This time I'm moaning a lot more because he's probing my ass and I feel him touching me everywhere. Between moans he finds the opportunity to start caressing my tongue too. We start a battle for dominance, but he wins…

Unwittingly a push my hips against him, and feel all of him… I feel his erection gridding against my thigh. I never felt anything like this…and oh my god he his huge… not that I have someone to compare it to, but I'm pretty sure that he is very big. We continue kissing and then I have the need to bread…We both separate panting once more.

"God Ana! You are so beautiful… All this sexual tension was killing me" I laugh and we sit up again, me on his lap and my hands on his hair… We look at each other without saying anything.

"We're in the park… we made out in the park… "I start to look around franticly and don't see anyone… Thank god!

"Well another first…"

"It's been a lot of firsts today…" I give him a shy smile…

"I'm not capable of leaving you alone Ana, I can't keep my promise, I can't stay away from you especially now…" He kisses my forehead and looks me in the eyes.

"What If I'm the one not wanting to be away from you?"

"I need you in my life Ana…"

"I need you too" He grabs my face and starts to kiss me softly on the lips, he stops and puts a small kiss on my nose which makes me smile…

"God you're so perfect… Do you want to have dinner with me tomorrow again?"

"Yes I would like that very much…"I smile and kiss him one more time.

"Come on, let's get you home!" He helps me get up and we walk back to the car…

Oh my god! Tonight was perfect, I feel like a schoolgirl about to enter summer break.

We are on the way to my apartment and I don't want to leave him yet.

I decided that I wanted to lose my virginity to Christian but I have yet to tell him…

"Christian I need to tell you something…" I look at Taylor driving and Christian hits a button near the door and a privacy window starts to rise…

"He won't be able to hear us, or see us…"

"Thanks…You know that I never dated before right? " He nods

"I just want you to know that I have never been with a guy before…"He looks at me confused…"I have never been with a guy in a sexual way before". Then he realizes what I'm trying to say…

"Are you virgin?" He looks at me with a shocked look once again, and I nod embarrassed looking outside the window.

He inhales sharply and unbuckles his seat belt and seats near me. He grabs my hand and forces me to look at him…

"And you say you aren't perfect…"he says and hugs me… I put my head on his shoulder until the rest of the way to the apartment.


So this was a big one! I hope you enjoyed this one. I tried to speed up a little but didn't speed to much I think. This chapter was a hard one for me to write because this is where they start to really connect with each other, and i wanted to really show it. I hope you liked reading this chapter as much as I liked writing it!

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Love Bia X