DISCLAIMER: All of the characters from the Fifty Shades Series used in this story belongs to E.L James

Chapter One: For the First Time

APOV

Past/Freshman Year Semester One

"You have my number so please remember to call me if anything goes wrong, and I mean anything. I don't care if it is one in the morning, if something happens, or if you absolutely hate it here I will be here in an instant. Okay?"

"Mom, breathe. I haven't even been here for 24 hours, and you're about to have aneurysm."

"I know but you're my baby. My first born my-"

"Your only born, the child you spent 27 hours in labor with, I know mom I've heard the same speech for 18 years. I will be fine, I promise."

"Come on Carla, it's time to go."

"Okay but one more hug and kiss." As I watch my parents walk out my dorm building I can't help but feel this rush of excitement. Freshman year of college is not just another moment. It is the moment, the first year of freedom, the first year of many mistakes, the first year of the rest of my life. My parents had been extremely adamant about me staying in Washington for college, but I knew Harvard was the place for me. It has an exceptional English Literature program, my best friend Kate is going here, and I don't have to worry about my parents doing any surprise visits since it is a solid plane ride away from Seattle, Washington.

I begin unpacking the rest of my clothes when I hear the door opening, and I am instantly brought into a hug by the Katherine Kavanagh. Kate and I have been best friends since the first day of kindergarten. Growing up we lived a solid five minutes from each other, which conveniently led to having constant sleepovers. Sometimes I feel like people find it hard to believe that Kate and I are as close as we are. Kate is someone who can start the conversation, lead the conversation, and end the conversation, and I am surely not that person.

"Steele!" Kate begins twirling me around the middle of our dorm room while squealing at the top of her lungs. I can't help but laugh at how this probably looks like we haven't seen each other in months when in reality we haven't seen each other in a couple hours, mainly because we took two separate flights to Massachusetts. After some time Kate finally pulls apart from me.

"College!"

"I know!" I reply with a smile. After many hours of unpacking and a bittersweet goodbye to Kate's parents, Kate and I find ourselves finally settled down on top of my bed.

"Okay time to roam." Kate says as she suddenly jumping off the bed we had finally been able to lay on.

"What do you mean?" I respond as she begins lacing up her gladiator shoes, and grabbing her purse.

"Time to explore Steele. Meet knew people, hopefully some very attractive guys." She says as she raises her eyebrows up and down. She throws my shoes in my direction rushing me to get ready, and soon enough we are out of the dorm building.

"I can't believe we're here Steele. I mean us as college freshman!" She begins doing a little dance as we walk our way to the closest dining hall, and let me tell you, one thing you will learn about Kate very quickly is that she is a little overdramatic. We swipe our IDs, and begin looking through the selection of food. They have a sushi bar, a wide range of fried foods, an all day waffle bar, and I am left starting to understand why the freshman 15 is a real thing. We eventually are able to select our lunches and find the closest empty table.

"Alright so I'm planning on somehow getting the invite to a party, and hopefully both our luck and good looks we will both be able to meet some gorgeous guys." I begin nodding in agreement, but that quickly stops once she continues discussing "the plan".

"Then we'll fall in love, have a few kids, white picket fence and all ... and they lived happily ever after." What did I say … dramatic.

"Right because that's how it always happens right?" I respond as I roll my eyes. I suddenly feel a crumpled up napkin hit the side of my face.

"Hey, you never know." She says then sticks her tongue out at me playfully. After lunch we find ourselves walking through the quad once again and there are even more people out. There are various activities going on, some people playing frisbee, some sunbathing, others just talking, Kate and I are in the middle of a conversation when I feel a sharp pain in the back of my head.

"What the fuck asshole!" I hear Kate scream at the Frisbee thrower who, I'm assuming, is right behind me. I'm closing my eyes, and trying to rub away the pain when all of a sudden I hear one of the most melodic voices.

"I'm really sorry, we weren't really paying attention."

"No shit asshole!" Kate responds even louder.

"Kate it's fine." I say calmly not trying to cause a scene my first day of college. I finally am able to open my eyes, and see whom the gorgeous voice belongs to. Spoiler alert: his face is gorgeous too!

My jaw almost drops at the sight of this guy! Frisbee-thrower is made up almost perfectly – he has this unique color of bronzed locks, a chiseled jaw, and the most captivating grey eyes. I can't help but internally gasp at him, and I'm starting to think that he's realized this because I'm beginning to notice a smirk forming.

"It-it's fine." I whisper.

"I'm Christian." He says while bringing his hand to mine, and I find myself instantly shaking it in response.

"Ana." I respond with a smile.

"Alright well Ana and I have to get back to our dorm so…" Kate says as she begins pulling at my arm.

"Right well it was nice to meet you Ana, and sorry again about your head." Christian says with a smile.

"Yeah no problem." Kate and I then begin making our way back towards our dorm building, and the whole way I can't help but think about Christian.

"Right because that always happens. Right Steele?" I hear Kate tease, and I am instantly brought out of my Christian-trance.

"Shut up." I respond as I playfully elbow her in the side.

Kate was eventually able to get us an invite to a back-to-school party being hosted by a fraternity, so soon enough Kate and I found ourselves spending hours getting ready for the party. I had just finished with my makeup, when Kate finally did the finishing touches on her hair.

"So do you think you'll see Christian there?" Kate asked, making sure to sound in love when saying his name.

"Who?" I responded even though she and I both knew that I have been thinking about him ever since the Frisbee incident.

"Oh shut up Steele. You know exactly who I'm talking about." I roll my eyes, as I check myself in the mirror one last time.

"Alright alright, are you ready to go?" Kate gives me a quick nod; we both put our shoes on, and head out the door.

We make our way to the party, and we know we have reached our destination for sure when we hear the extremely loud music, and see tons of people outside.

"Wow, college parties are no joke." I say quietly to Kate. She nods in response, takes my hand, and walks me into the house. Once inside we are shocked at how many more people are in the house. There is already a good amount of people drunk, and it's only 10:30 at night! Kate was able to get the details about the party by shamelessly flirting with a guy at the bookstore. She came back to our dorm room jumping up and down, textbooks in hand and all.

"Okay, I'm going to get us some drinks." Kate says, and I watch her head over to what I'm assuming is the kitchen. As I look at the crowd ahead of me I start to feel slightly overdressed. Many of the girls are wearing skimpy skirts or shorts, with tank tops so tiny they look like bras, and here I am with a slightly cropped black tank top, brown trousers, and simple black heels. Kate says I look hot, but I am starting to think otherwise. As I am just getting into the music I hear someone clearing their throat behind me. When I turn around I am both shocked, and excited.

"Frisbee thrower." I say with a slight smirk.

"Ha-ha, yeah sorry about that." I am delighted to see Christian, and I do have to say he looks very hot tonight. He's wearing a red and blue plaid shirt, with some dark wash jeans that make his ass look amazing, not that I was looking or anything.

"It's really no problem Christian."

"I didn't know you would be at this party." He says while he stands next to me, also looking at the dancing crowd in front of us.

"Yeah my roommate Kate somehow got the details, so we thought why not. I mean it is our first day at college so…" What the fuck Ana! NEVER tell a guy you're a freshman. I can't help but internally hit myself in the face for that screw up.

"Oh you're a freshman too?"

"Um yeah, I'm an English Lit major, you?"

"I'm undecided in the business school." I honestly can't believe this guy's a freshman. He looks like he could pretty much be a junior right now.

"What dorm are you living in?" He asks.

"Beeson Hall."

"Oh that's awesome, I am too." He responds with a smile. I begin to say something in response when I notice that Kate has returned.

"Here you go Ana. Oh hey asshole." I give her a look, but am relieved when she winks back at me silently letting me know she is only joking.

"Kate, I'm assuming? Nice to meet you too." Christian says with a smile, as he and Kate shake hands. As I sip whatever it is that Kate has handed me, I am almost instantly hit with a very strong drink. I can't help but pull the amateur move coughing, and thankfully, instead of laughing, Christian begins patting my back in hopes of relieving my coughing fit.

"What the hell is in this Kate?" I say still trying to recover from the drink.

"Jungle juice!" My jaw almost drops at this confession; the number one thing they tell you is to never drink the jungle juice because it always breaks the alcohol-mixing rule. A couple cups of this, and I will be completely shit face for sure.

"Well I'm going to go dance, want to come with or…" Before Kate can finish that sentence I try as hard as I can to hint that I want to stay with Christian. Kate thankfully gets the message, and makes her way into the crowd.

"Are you a lightweight?" Christian asks with a smirk.

"Usually I'm fine, but I've never tested my limit with jungle juice so we'll just have to wait and see." I say with a smile.

"Well hopefully I won't have to be holding your hair by the end of the night." I furrow my brows in question.

"Are you so sure you're still going to be by my side?" I challenge slightly moving closer to him. The drink must be getting to my head already, and I find myself falling into Christian, but thankfully he's fast enough and is able to catch me.

"Most definitely twinkle toes." He responds with a smile so contagious I can't help but smile in return. Who is this man?

AN: Pinterest page specifically for this fanfiction: sadepram/laters-baby/. Until next time!