As soon as I'm back the apartment both Kate and dad are there jumping up to meet me.
"Jesus Ana, you had us so worried. You can't pick up your phone. I thought you might have passed out somewhere." Kate is almost screaming at the top of her lungs. She's upset.
"I'm sorry. I just needed a bit of me time. You have both been so helpful, but I don't want you treading lightly around me. I'm okay. Really." I offer to them.
"Baby girl, we were just worried. We don't know how you have lost your memories." My dad is upset but controls it better than Kate who is in full blown freak out mode.
"What if you had forgotten how to drive your car while on the road and crashed? What if you forgot where you lived and ended up wandering the streets. What if you forgot about us?" The words shoot out of her mouth so quickly it takes me a moment to process them.
She's scared I would forget about my family. I step over and pull them both tight to me in a hug.
"You have nothing to worry about. I'm not going to forget you all." I smile and I see Kate beam at me through tearful eyes. My dad smiles back at me.
"Even if I did want to," I add and my dad bursts out laughing. Kate gives me a little shove.
"I'm going to make dinner." My dad says. I turn heading towards my bedroom. "How does my world famous Mr. B omelet's sound?" Both Kate and I laugh.
"It sounds perfect dad. I'm just going to hang these up." I say heading into my room. I know Kate will want to take a look at them later and I think she will be pleased.
It seems her and Mia have similar ideas when it comes to dresses. I shut my door and drop the bags on the end of my bed. I should text her and tell her thanks for today. I open up my phone and head onto the text message screen. I stop, just below my reply to Kate and my father is a message folder labeled Christian Grey. What the? I open it to see a bunch of text messages. I open the earliest one.
Ana
I'm sorry that I didn't get to say goodbye to you before your
return to San Diego. I hope you have a safe journey and thank you
for the wonderful breakfast.
Christian G
What the hell? He text me and we had breakfast together. I look through some more.
Christian
I enjoyed your company too as well as the
conversation. I do prefer what happened after, though.
I too look forward to it Mr. Grey.
Ana
Why the hell do I have to be cryptic in my own messages. What happened after? I think hard and I get the flash of a swimming pool. Did we go swimming? Shit. I read on.
I read on to find out I met his sister and she really liked me. I read another.
Mr. Grey
Drinks sound like a great idea. I'm sure I will get all the gossip on my new boss from her. Who knew working alongside your boss could be so much fun.
Part time waitress Ana
Wait he is my boss? I have to read on.
Director Mr. Grey
I do so enjoy working under you. I have to go now my new boss worked me very hard today and I'm worn out and sore.
Servant Anastasia Steele
Worn out and sore? I can feel myself getting hot as my core throbs just reading the words.
I finish reading, he is smitten with me and I want him? What is this about watching TV? I put my phone down and head out of my room as my dad is busy making his omelet's and Kate is sat on the bar stool chatting with him. I step over to the TV and switch it on looking for programs there is a recent one recorded. I flick it on it's a morning TV show. The noise makes Kate turns around as I see him on the screen. The same guy from the diner the other day. Kate steps over to my side.
"Ana did you remember this?" She seems excited that my memory could be coming back.
"I saw it on a text message." I increase the volume as my father comes over and we all watch. While me and my father watch, I can feel that Kate's eyes are trained on me the whole time. "That is Christian Grey," I say certain.
"Yes Ana, your boyfriend." She tells me.
"I met him at the diner the other day," I mumble. As it finishes I head back towards my room my dad stops me. "Hey it's time to eat, then you can do whatever you want. I'm taking us all out this evening. My treat." I follow Kate and my dad over to the kitchen for his famous omelet's.
After food, I raced into my bedroom and jumped straight onto the laptop I put the picture of me and my mystery man Christian on the background screen and then went onto the Internet. I researched memory loss and looked for different ways to get memories back. There were multiple different ideas as to what I should try. I narrowed them down to touch, smell, and sound.
One doctor believed that memories could be returned through touching objects that were connected to what happened. I decided to try resting my hand on my dressing table. A flash of my nude body being pushed up against it by a figure in shadows. We are having sex, but I can't see his face. The flash ends and I had sex? God! I want to remember that so badly. I look to the other options. Smell, how the hell would I have anything I could smell that would help me. I haven't seen any men's clothes in my room at all. I scratch that one of the list, the last one is sound.
That hearing a voice or a noise would trigger my mind to flash back to that event. I can't remember the events in the first place how will trying to play a noise that I don't remember help me remember. My brain feels like mush as there is a knock on the door.
"Baby girl, we're heading out in ten minutes remember, evening out, my treat." My dad calls through my door. I jump up shutting the laptop. I need to get dressed.
(Now it seems that Mia has helped kick start Ana's thoughts towards Christian. She still needs more of a push in the right direction. Good job she found those text messages. Poor Kate worrying about her best friend.
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