So I had gotten a really nasty PM and I deleted it. I didn't even bother replying but I want to address something now. I get if you guys don't agree with the way I make somethings happen in this story. There were some of you who thought I let Christian of the hook too easily and didn't agree with how I made the scene go and that's fine. I respected all your opinions because you were all nice and respectful about it. You guys didn't come off rude. But that PM was down right rude. Just because I made Ana forgive him doesn't mean I'm stupid.
"Ana looks like a wimp now and what kind of lesson is she teaching her daughter. Wow and I thought she had a back bone."
Ana isn't teaching Phoebe anything regarding that situation because it isn't something Phoebe needs to know about. Ana handled it the way she did and I'm sorry you didn't like it.
There were other rude comments but there's no point addressing those. If you don't like something that's fine you guys can let me know how you feel but you don't need to be rude. That's all.
Sorry for the long wait. I've been rather busy.
It's Sunday afternoon and I just got home from dress shopping.
I FOUND MY DRESS!
All three dresses were beautiful. I loved how they all looked and fit me. Putting them on made me smile and I knew that one of those three dresses was the one I was getting. And I did. No alterations needed! I was so excited I almost cried. Grace took it to her place. I don't want Christian taking a peak.
Dinner with mom and Bob last night was fun and interesting. Mom and Bob got along great with Christian. Especially with Teddy. I do have to say, it's hard not to love that little boy. He's just as precious as Phoebe. It was just a great time.
Mom decided to take Phoebe for a while so I'll be daughter-less for a few hours.
"Christian?" I call out. The place seems really quiet.
"Christian? Teddy?" I call out but no answer.
When I walk into the room my jaw drops. There's flowers everywhere. Different kind of flowers too! Roses, Gardenias, Lilies, Daisies, Tulips..
On the bed there's a big bear and in front of the bear there's chocolates and a small jewelry box. Christian walks out the closet with a small smile.
"What's all this?" I ask.
"A better apology" he says. "I feel like shit knowing I waited too long to tell you everything. I just want you to know I really am sorry."
I walk over to the bed and open up the ball jewelry box.
Diamond earrings. Beautiful, delicate, diamond earrings.
"Wow"
"Maybe you can wear them for Christmas."
"Maybe I will. Thank you."
"I love you so much and it really bothers me how much me keeping that from you affected you. Just know that I'll never keep anything from you again. Good or bad. You'll be the first one to find out." He walks up to me wrapping his arms around my waist. "No one knows about my past. Besides her and now you. But believe it or not, it felt good to tell you. I woke up this morning feeling a bit free."
"Keeping secrets isn't all that fun, is it?"
"Nope, I'm about to confess something to you right now" we both sit on the bed. "I've always been afraid that I'm not the best dad for Teddy. I work way too much and sometimes I feel like I'm not showing him enough love. It scares me that I can somehow fuck up and he'll go through what I went through. Which is why I don't like discussing my past. I want to avoid it so I won't have to repeat it."
"Teddy looks up to you, Christian. You're that boy's world."
"I know.. He was the second person I'd ever let touch my chest."
"Right, you did mention you had a phobia of it."
"Ana, you have no idea how bad it was. I couldn't hug anyone. If anyone touched my chest it felt like a burning sensation. I hated it. Eventually, I had to tell myself to get over it. I had to pick up Teddy and lay him on my chest so it was something I'd have to get use to."
"We're you afraid to hurt him?"
"I knew I wouldn't hurt him but it still scared me."
"Christian, be honest, did you not trust me at first?"
"It's not that I didn't trust you. It just that I've never had anyone to really talk to. So sharing secrets isn't my thing. I'm so use to hiding everything and holding it in."
I get up from the bed and straddle him. "I want you to know that I can be your diary. Christian, I mean it, don't ever hold anything else is. You have me as much as I have you."
"I promise. No more secrets." He kisses me deeply as I wrap my arms around his neck.
"Where's Teddy?" I ask.
"With Mia... And Sawyer." I can't help but laugh at the look on his face. "What's so funny?"
"You're acting like Mia is a teenager. She's my age babe. But it's cute to see how protective you are of her."
"She is my baby sister."
"I'm going to pray for Phoebe when she begins to date." I say.
"Well she'll be 30 so I guess that's fine."
"Christian!" I laugh. "Don't be like that."
"Ana there's too many fuckers out there. I'm going to train Teddy to protect her."
"He's already a protective brother" I point out. "You're teaching him well."
"Come on, let's go play."
"Mmm play what?" I say seductively.
"Jesus Christ, Ana. I meant actually play a game. Before Mia picked up Teddy, Elliot came over. He dropped off his xbox since he doesn't use it anymore and gave it to teddy. There's a lot of fun games."
"Hey it's your fault I think dirty."
"I like it"
"By the way, we're putting up the tree tonight. I can't believe we haven't put it up yet. It should have been done after thanksgiving."
"True, we'll do it tonight. The kids will have a great time with it."
-one week later-
"MOMMMMYYYY WAKE UP! SANTA CAME!"
"DAD COME ON LETS SEE WHAT SANTA GOT US!"
Two jumping, screaming kids on top of us. Christian is groaning while I cover my face with a pillow.
"Mommy wake up don't be lazy let's go! DAAAADDDDDDYYYY COME ON!" Jesus Christ this girl is loud!
Phoebe finally managed to get the pillow out of my face.
"Phoebe, Teddy. Go wait outside. Your father and I will be out on a few." The kids run out and I check the time.
SEVEN A.M.!?
"Come on Christian get up!"
"Noooo" he turns and lays on his stomach.
"Up you go sir!" I smack his butt and make my way into the bathroom. "Christian I mean it, get up!"
Ten minutes later we're both making our way to the living room.
"Okay kids, let's see what Santa got you." Christian says. We both walk up and hand the kids their presents.
When they rip the wrapping paper off all I hear is them squealing.
"Oh my goodness!"
"Look dad! Santa brought me more fun toys!"
Christian and I each hand the kids another present and we tell them it's from us. I got them clothes while Christian gave them $200 each.
"I think Santa left more presents. He was suppose to." Phoebe says.
Phoebe and Teddy came to me last minute saying that we needed to buy a present for Christian and pretend it was from Santa. They wanted to make a big drawing but they said it wasn't coming out right. So just five days ago I bought a new watch and cufflinks.
"Oh yes, Christian here." I hand him the gift from the kids. "It's from Santa."
Christian smiles knowing it's from the kids and he opens it up. "Well look at that. New cuff links and a watch. Santa is great."
"He sure is daddy" Teddy says. "Didn't he leave one more?"
"Oh yeah, I see it. It's for Ana. Looks like Santa got you something too." He hands me over a small jewelry box.
It's a charm bracelet with four charms to start with.
A crown.
A heel shoe.
A bear.
And a heart.
I hold my tears back knowing the kids picked out the charms.
"Well I love it. Santa did a great job." I say and see their excitement in their faces. I can tell they're happy we loved our gifts.
"Alright, I have a gift for you Ana. You're going to want to sit down for this." Christian says the walks away to his office I'm guessing. He comes back with a folder and hands it to me. "If there needs to be anything changed, fixed or added just let me know."
I open the folder and I'm confused. All I see a paper work. I take the papers out and notice there's pictures.
Oh my god. He got me a house. Got us a new house.
"Elliot did a lot of remodeling but not too much just in case you had any input." He says.
I look through the paperwork and gasp.
"The house will be under my name the day we get married?"
"Yup. It's your Christmas gift."
I look through the pictures and the house is beautiful! And huge!
"There's about seven bedrooms, eight bathrooms, a library room. In the basement there's a gym. Elliot also included a small game room with a home theater. The backyard has a huge pool and a hot tub. And as you can see Elliot built an area to lounge out and even have BBQ's."
"Holy.. Wow, Christian." I say smiling. "I love it."
"Every single bedroom has a balcony too. I had Elliot install safety child locks for this kids."
"You thought of everything I see."
"I did. The living room and kitchen are huge."
"Wait is that a house next to our house?" I ask.
"House for the staff. It's pretty big too. I'm sure Taylor, Gail, Sawyer and Ryan, who's your new security detail by the way, will love it."
"Oh my god Christian this is beyond perfect!" I jump up giving him a hug. "We're going to have a perfect house for our family. A place for Phoebe and Teddy to play around. Oh my god, kids, look at this house! We're going to live here." I show them the pictures and they're in awe.
"We move in the 2nd."
"Right after the new year?" I gasp.
"Of course."
"Thank you, Christian. This is wonderful. I bet it must have cost a lot-"
"Don't think about that." He says interrupting me. "It's all worth it. Trust me."
I put the papers down and walk into Phoebe's room getting Christian's present.
"You got me something?" He asks.
"Well actually I made you something. You have everything already. I didn't know what to buy you so I made something that would be good to put in your office." I hand him a medium sized box and he sits down and opens it.
"Oh wow.." It's three frames. One is of a picture collage of him and Phoebe with her hand-prints. Another is a photo collage of him and Teddy with his hand-prints. Mostly all the pictures of him with the kids were taken off guard. I even used the one from the daddy-daughter dance. I also had Taylor and Gail get me some old photos of him and Teddy. The last frame is bigger. It's a bunch of photo is us as a family. We're laughing, smiling, making faces.
He looks at the bottom of the box and finds and letter with a photo of us taken last week. We were out with Kate, Elliot and the kids at the movies. Kate had taken a picture of me and Christian laughing. He's arm is around me. We're kind of leaning into each other and I'm grabbing on to his thigh.
Christian POV
I honestly wasn't expecting this to be my present. I knew she would get me something but I didn't think it be something as beautiful as this. She took her time to put photos together for me. Something to show all the good times we have.
This present is better than anything else she could've bought me. It's meaningful. I feel myself get a bit emotional looking at these perfect collages. Photos of Phoebe and I. Photos of Teddy and I. Then all of us together.
At the bottom of the box there's a letter and a photo inside.
It's a picture of us.
My dear, beautiful fiancé.. soon to be husband.. I was going to do a collage of photos of just us but I decided against it.
1. The wedding is coming up and I would have wanted to use photos from there.
I chuckle.
2. This one photo says enough about us.
We're laughing being care free. I can see how protective you are of me with just seeing the way you place your arm. Also, you can see how happy you make me. You were the one making me laugh that day. You made me laugh so hard it made you want to laugh then everyone else started laughing. I've never been in a relationship where I can look at a photo and say "wow he makes me happy". It's all been with you and I'm glad it has. I know we had a small bump but I'm glad we were able to overcome it. I hope you enjoy your Christmas gift. I did it with my love and I know it's something you'd show off proudly.
I love you, C.
- Your Ana xx
I clear my throat and look up at Ana who's smiling. "This is beautiful, thank you."
"I'm so glad you love it! It was so hard trying to figure out what to give you so I thought making something would be much better. My friend Jose helped me with the collages since he's good with all of that. Getting the kids hand-prints were fun and messy. And the frames.. Those are old frames my dad had and never used. They were big enough for the collages so he gave them to me."
"Thank you, baby. I really do love it." I go over to her and give her a kiss.
Ana and I help the kids open up their new toys and let them play for a while in the living room. I put away the money I gave them while Ana puts away the clothes she got them. Ana goes on to make a few phone calls and I do the same.
I call mom and she tells me that we should be over by 5pm. We had Christmas Eve dinner with everyone. And I mean everyone! It was a full house and it will be a full house once again today.
Ana tells me her parents will be there and that she's excited for later on today. So am I. Christmas this year has been different so far and I love it.
I excuse myself for a moment and walk towards my office but stop when I hear someone on the phone.
"No, baby, no. I already told you I can't go away for New Year's Eve. One your brother will kill me and two I don't want to go to California once again. We've been there too many times pick a new state."
Sawyer talking to Mia.
"I was joking. We're not going anywhere for New Year's Eve, Mia. We can just spend it here with everyone we don't have to hide anymore... Oh, well I have a great Christmas gift for you too and I can't wait to give it to you"
I clear my throat.
"Shit. Umm Mia I gotta. Yeah, I love you too. Bye" he hangs up
"We're you talking about sex with my sister while you're on the job?"
"Oh god no. Mr. Grey, fuck! No. Jesus Christ, I actually do have a gift I can't wait to give her."
"What is it?" I ask. He pulls out a gold necklace with a small emerald. It's really nice.
"It was my mom's," he says. "It's one of the things I have from her and I want her to have it."
That means a lot coming from him since his parents are dead.
"She's going to love it. Take the rest of the day off. I have your uncle to bother if I need anything."
"Thanks, Mr. Grey. Merry Christmas."
"You too. Oh and Luke?"
"Yeah?" He says.
"I'm glad you're making my sister happy" with that said I walk away go to my office to do what I was going to do.
I have to finalize everything for our honeymoon.
You guys liked the idea of posting pictures of the wedding I see. I'm going to do something fun. I posted three wedding dress photos on Pinterest (pick 1, pick 2, pick 3 - that's how they're label you'll see) you're going to vote on my reviews on which dress she should wear. Two of the dresses are kind of the same style. The third dress is totally different. So go on and follow me on pinterest /readersfanfic and leave a review telling me which one of the picks you liked best.
Next chapter is Christmas dinner. I have something cute for Mia and Sawyer going on. I hope I didn't disappoint with this chapter. xx