Written in the Stars

By Tvdfanpam

Chapter 5

Big Ass Flowers

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Ana made it back to her apartment without incident. Kate was sitting on the sofa with her legs crossed and her laptop on her lap. "Hey there Kate. Whatcha buying?" Ana said as she shut the door behind her.

"Shoes, or maybe a new pair of jeans. Not sure. Just browsing right now." Kate moved the laptop to the coffee table and turned to Ana. "How was the interview? I want to know everything." The Kate Kavanagh inquisition began.

"The interview was two hours long then he gave me a tour of his building. All 20 floors!" Kate gaped at her best friend. Ana grinned back at him. "He has his finger in a lot of pies." Ana dug out the notes she took and gave her the tape recorder with the interview on it. "I hope you can write an article with this material. I asked a few different questions than what was on the list. I hope you don't mind."

"No I don't mind at all, thank you so much for doing that Ana. I am feeling better today but my throat is still scratchy. Was he nice, what was your impression of him?" Kate asked sincerely. Ana sat down beside her best friend.

"He was very nice to me. I didn't have any trouble getting him to talk to me." Ana giggled then laughed out loud. "We went out to dinner after the tour then met up with his brother for drinks at the hotel bar. His brother was a lot of fun. He gave me the impression that Christian didn't date much."

Kate stared at her wide eyed. "You called him Christian? I heard he was very formal and insisted most people refer to him as Mr. Grey."

"He asked me to go to his family's charity event next weekend, the Coping Together Charity Ball. I told him I couldn't because I was already scheduled to work. I would have to give at least two weeks' notice in order to get time off, so he is coming to Portland next week. We are going to have lunch together Wednesday." Kate's mouth was wide open.

"He likes you! Ana's got a boyfriend!" Kate singsonged in a silly voice. "Four years living together and not one date! I guess I know now why no one turned your head." She giggled. "There is a shortage of young good looking billionaires in this town." The doorbell rang. She popped up. "I'll get it." She ran to the door and looked in the peephole. "Somebody got flowers!" Ana smiled and sat up. Kate opened the door and the delivery man cleared his throat.

"Deliveries for Ana Steele and Kate Kavanagh." He had a nice size bouquet of wildflowers in his hand. "These are for Kate Kavanagh." Kate took them from him and he bent down to get another bouquet that was sitting in the floor off to the side. It was a huge bouquet that hid his upper body, it was so big! "These are for Ana Steele." He said behind the flowers.

"Thank you." Ana said running over to get the flowers. Kate was laughing hysterically. She had never seen such a large bouquet!

"I guess you made a good impression on him." She looked at card attached to her own flowers. She sat her flowers down beside her laptop on the coffee table. Ana had sat her bouquet down on the breakfast bar in the kitchen. There wasn't anywhere else to set them where they could spread out without touching anything. "Get well soon. Sincerely Christian Grey. What does your card say?" Kate asked Ana as she put her card back in the envelope.

Ana wasn't sure she wanted to read the card from Christian out loud. "Umm, it's private." She stammered. Kate grabbed the card from her roommate's hand and danced away from her.

"You are more beautiful than any flower. Looking forward to our date on Wednesday. Christian Grey." Kate is stunned. "He's got it bad Steele." Ana blushes deep red and snatches the card away from Kate. "Wow, just wow."

Ana picked up her phone and took a selfie of herself and her flowers. She couldn't get all the flowers in the picture because they were ginormous! She sent the picture to Christian and thank you so much for the flowers along with a smiley face. He texted back immediately: They were supposed to be bigger than Kate's! LOL. Ana sent back a smiley face blowing a kiss. Her phone rang with an incoming call. "Hi." She said breathlessly, picked up her purse and bag and went in her room and shut the door. She could hear Kate laughing in the other room. "I just got home then the flowers came. Kate said thank you for hers."

"I asked for the biggest bouquet of flowers they had!" Christian had been pacing around his apartment waiting for Ana to let him know she was home. He tried to do some work after Ana left Seattle but was distracted with thoughts of her. "Can't wait for Wednesday Ana."

Ana laid down on her bed and got comfy. "What is your favorite food? Do you eat dessert? I want to make you something special."

"I will eat anything you make but pizza with anchovies. That is a never gonna happen, not going to try it dish." He said playfully.

"Noted. No anchovies. What about beef liver and onions? Or something with a lot of garlic?" She couldn't stop a giggle from escaping.

"I plan on kissing you a lot. So that depends on whether or not you have an extra toothbrush." He loved the teasing back and forth. It made him feel alive! Ana laughed again.

"So no garlic or onions. Peanut butter sandwiches it is!" She grabbed her laptop off her side table and set it on the bed in front of her. She was going to check out easy to prepare recipes on Pinterest. "I can't wait for Wednesday either."

They talked for another hour then Ana had to go get ready for work. Kate teased her about her flowers and her date and told Ana how proud she was of her interview skills as she followed Ana around the apartment. Kate had listened to the recording and thought Ana asked some interesting questions. "I'll be able to write a great article about him with your notes and the interview. Thanks again for doing that Ana."

"Anything for you Kate." Ana hugged her friend and left to go to work.

A/N: Pictures of the flowers are up on Pinterest: pcwbooks/written-in-the-stars; check it out.