AUTHORS NOTE
Happy Friday! Thanks for all the follows, favs and reviews I certainly appreciate them. All characters belong to EL James.
Ana's POV
It's finally here. Saturday. Christian's birthday and the day we finally have sex. To say I'm nervous is probably an understatement. Even though I'm not losing my virginity I'm still nervous about mine and Christian's first time together. I just hope it goes well and doesn't turn into some big disaster. I've planned out something very special for Christian for tonight and I just hope that he likes what I have planned for us. I've talked to his mum this week about letting us stay the night in his parent's boathouse and she agreed. I'm going to the florist this morning to buy some rose petals to scatter all around and I bought a bunch of candles to light up. As girly as it sounds, I still think Christian is going to like and appreciate all of the effort that I have gone to. The other thing I have planned is that I'm going to get naked and wrap myself in a giant bow for him to unwrap as his present so to speak. I think that's probably the part I'm most nervous about because even though we've fooled around a fair bit he's only ever seen me naked once on Valentine's day.
I'm up reasonably early today as I have quite a fair bit to get done before I go to Christians this afternoon to help set up for the party tonight and get the boathouse ready for us. The first place I'm headed to this morning is the beauty salon because I've decided to bite the bullet and get a Brazilian wax and also get my legs done whilst I'm there. As I'm heading out the door I decide to ring Christian to wish him a happy birthday.
"Hello" he answers.
"Happy birthday babe" I say in a very loud and energetic voice.
"Hey thanks baby. What are you doing?" he asks.
"Well I'm just leaving home I have a lot I have to get done this morning before I come over to your place this afternoon." I say.
"Really? What have you got to do?" he asks trying to pry me for information.
"Well I can't tell you because its special top secret birthday stuff that you will find out about later." I say laughing because I can just imagine the pout he must have on his face right about now.
"That's not fair I think you should tell me now." he says in a sad voice.
"Nope. Although I will give you one clue just to drive you wild. Think Brazilian." I say laughing.
"Brazilian what?" he asks.
"You'll find out tonight." I say.
"That's not fair. It's my birthday so you have to be nice to me." He says.
"I am being nice to you. It's a surprise for tonight. Speaking of which I have to go because I still have a few things I have to get for tonight. I will see you later this afternoon okay. I love you." I say.
"Okay I will see you later and I'm looking forward to tonight. I love you too." He says.
"Me too by baby." I say and hang up.
After I have finished at the beauty salon I pay and the go back out to my car. Well that wasn't as bad as I thought it would be. It didn't hurt that much it was just a little uncomfortable. I make my way over to the mall to get what I need to get there starting with the rose petal leaves at the florist. I'm happy with how many I've gotten and I think it should be enough. The next place I make my way to is forever 21 where I saw an amazing dress the other day that I want to buy to wear tonight. It's a short red dress that goes to just above my knees with a plunging v at the front and is lace at the back. I would have bought it the other day but Christian was with me and I wanted it to be a surprise. Once I've tried it on and decided it's the perfect dress, I pay for it and leave the store. The last place for me to go is to Victoria's secret to buy some sexy lingerie for tonight. I walk into the store and after wandering around for 15 minutes I decide on a sexy black lace see-through bra and matching thong. I decide to get a few other matching sets of bras and thongs whilst I'm here. After paying I leave and head back to my car to go home and pack everything I need to take over to Christian's.
Once I'm all packed and ready to go I head downstairs to say goodbye to dad and tell him I will see him tonight at the party.
"I'm off to Christian's for lunch. I will see you tonight at the party dad." I say.
"Okay Annie I will see you tonight." He says as I walk out the door.
I arrive at Christian's house and make my way up to door and before I knock he opens the door and pulls me to him and kisses me like his life depends on it.
"Hi" I say.
"Hey baby." He says.
"Happy birthday again." I say.
"Thank you."
"Can I come in?" I ask with a giggle.
"Of course come in. you can put your stuff up in my room if you like." He says.
"okay." I say and follow him up the stairs to put my bags down on his bed.
We head back downstairs and I bring my present with me to give to him when we get to the living room. His mum and dad are sitting on the couch talking when we walk in.
"Hi Ana." Grace and Carrick both say.
"Hi. Thank you for letting me come over earlier for lunch and to spend the afternoon with Christian." I say.
"Of course Ana. You know you're welcome over any time." Grace says.
"Do you want your present now?" I say to Christian.
"Yes please." He says with a big grin like a little kid.
"Okay here you go happy birthday." I say handing him his present and giving him a kiss on the cheek.
I hand him over the bag and he opens it up to pull out some tickets. He takes a good look at them and the looks up at me with a big smile on his face.
"You got me tickets to all three?" he asks.
"I did." I say
"OMG you're the best girlfriend ever." He says and I just laugh.
"What is it?" Carrick asks.
"Its tickets to all three Mariners games next weekend at Safeco against the Cardinals." Christian says.
"Wow that's good." Carrick says.
"I know I can't wait. Thank you baby." Christian says and gives me a kiss on the lips.
"I was thinking if it was okay with your parents that we could slip out and have some lunch somewhere?" I ask.
"Yes that's fine. Its only one now so as long as you're back by three to help set up for the party then you can go." Grace says.
"Oh we definitely will. I was just thinking of heading to the café down the road they have the best burgers and shakes." I say.
We sit down at a table after ordering a burger and shake each and wait for it to arrive.
"So are you excited for tonight?" I ask.
"For the party or after?" he asks.
"both." I say.
"Yes I am looking forward to the party but I'm looking forward to after it even more. Are you ready and looking forward to tonight?" he says.
"I am looking forward to tonight and yes everything is nearly ready. I just have one more thing to do to set everything up to make tonight perfect." I say.
"I can't wait to see what you have planned." He says.
"I can't wait for you to see what I have in store for you but you're going to have to give me a little bit of time to finish setting it up and to get ready after the party." I say.
"Okay I can't wait." He says.
Our burgers and shakes arrive and we eat and drink whilst continuing to make small talk about the party tonight. There is going to be quite a few people here and I'm looking forward to seeing his grandparents again because I really enjoyed meeting them at Christmas. They shouldn't be too far from arriving when we get back to the house.
We get back to the house and grace is outside already starting to set everything up under the tent and I go over and ask her where she's up to and what she needs a hand with.
"If you want to start to put all of the decorations out and around for me so I can get the caterers started on the food that would be really good." She says.
"Okay can do." I say.
I get to work setting up all the decorations once I see the staff have put the tables and chairs around and the tables are all set up, I put decorations on the tables as well as hanging them up around the tent as well. As I'm hanging decorations up, I notice a wall that has a bunch of photos of Christian on it and I decide to go and have a look. Grace has gone all out with these photos as I see a lot of when Christian was a little boy.
"What are you looking at?" he comes over and wraps his arms around my waist.
"I'm just looking at all of these photos your mum has put up. You were a really cute kid." I say.
"I was cute? What I'm not cute anymore?" he asks faking a sad voice with a pout.
"No not anymore. Now you handsome and hot and sexy as hell." I say looking up at him and giggling.
"Yeah okay nice save there." He says.
"I was being serious." I tell him.
"Do you want to know which photo is my favourite?" he asks me.
"Which one?" I ask.
"This one right here." He says and points to a photo of us on Christmas day here at his parents' house. We're cuddled up together on the couch and we are both sporting huge smiles on our faces as we look into each other's eyes. We look so happy and in love.
"I agree. That's definitely my favourite too." I say and lean up and give him a kiss on the lips.
I get back to work on putting all of the decorations around and when I'm done I stand back and take a look at how good the tent looks now that everything is all set up.
"Wow Ana this looks amazing thank you." Grace says to me.
"Thank you Grace. Also I wanted to say thank you for letting me stay tonight and agreeing to let Christian and I stay in the boathouse." I say.
"You're welcome. I hope tonight goes as planned for you." She says unsure what else to say.
"Thank you. I just need a little bit of time to set up the boathouse with the candles and stuff I bought." I say.
"Okay well when you want to set that up let me know and I can keep Christian occupied in the meantime." She says.
"Thank you. Well I'm going to go and get changed and get ready." I say.
"You're welcome to use the upstairs bathroom to have shower and get ready if you like." Grace says.
"Thanks. I might take you up on that offer. I will be back down shortly." I say as I head off upstairs to Christians bedroom to grab my stuff and head to the bathroom.
"Hey where are you off to?" Christian asks when I run into him in the hallway.
"I'm just going to take a quick shower and then get ready I won't be long." I say and give him a quick kiss on the lips.
"I wish I could join you." He tells me.
"Another time I promise." I say and go into the bathroom.
I set everything down on the counter and grab a towel and hop into the shower. After having a quick shower I get out and dry myself off and look into my bag to find the lingerie I bought this morning to put on. I put it on and look in the mirror and even I have to admit that I look good in this and I can't wait for Christian to see this later on and even more so I can't wait for him to take it off. I put my dress on over top and begin work on my hair and make-up. I try to keep it as natural as possible but decide that I do want to put in a bit of effort after all tonight is a big night. Once I'm all ready to go I head back to Christian's room to put my shoes on and notice that he's not in here. He must be downstairs already so I put my shoes on and make my way down the stairs where I notice Christian looks sexy as hell in a pair of black dress pants and a light blue button up shirt.
The room suddenly goes quiet as all eyes turn to me as I walk down the stairs and when he notices the sudden fall in conversation he looks around the room until his eyes lock on mine. Grey to blue.
AUTHORS NOTE: Okay dont kill me for building that up and cutting the birthday in half. Anyway please review and let me know what you think. Part two of the birthday will be up at the end of next week. Have a good weekend!