My Worst Nightmare

by BellaDonna41387

Chanelle Howard-Jones is a young woman who had dreams and aspirations of being a singer but constant problems were holding her back. She decided to leave home and move to Seattle to start anew but it seemed things that were in the past won't stay there.

2. Chapter 2

A/N: READ THIS BEFORE YOU READ THE CHAPTER. MY CHRISTIAN IS DIFFERENT! YOU DON'T LIKE IT STOP READING IT AND KEEP IT MOVING.

enjoy

Chanelle's POV

I walk into my house and I turn my T.V on. I sit on the floor and begin to unpack some more of my things and I finally find my laptop. I turn it on and begin to look for a job. My dad gave me enough money to live off of for a couple months but I need to have my own money too. "Speaking of money. I need to check my account." I whisper to myself. I log onto my account and see how much money I am working with. When my account balance shows up, I am dumbfounded. I look at my phone and I have a text from my dad.

*I told you that I didn't need the money. So enjoy your extra $5,500 honey. I love you.*

Oh dad! I love you so much. I smile and continue to look for a job. I see that an Ad agency place needs an administration assistant. The name of the place is Jones,Weitzman, Shultz and it looks like they could pay well. I put in my application in hopes that they will call me back in the mean time I will go to different bars and restaurants ask if they are hiring. I am getting a bit beat so I head into my room and go to sleep.

The next morning, my phone goes off. I look to see who it is and its a number that I don't recognize. I sit up and answer my phone.

"Howard-Jones speaking" I am so tired and its so early.

"Hi! -Jones this Michelle Nelson calling from Jones, Weitzman, and Shultz. We received your application and would like to interview you for the Administration Assistant position. Would you be interested in coming in today around 2:30pm?" Oh God! This is awesome. I am practically trying to not bounce out of my bed.

"Yes! Sure! Thank you so much!" I say as calmly as I can.

"Great! We will see you at 2:30pm" We both hang up and I start to dance. I turn my laptop on and start to play "On The Floor" by Jennifer Lopez. Then there was a knock on the door. I walk out in my pajamas and open the door. My furniture is here! Today is shaping out perfectly.

About a hour and a half later, the men were finished putting things together and I paid them all and bought takeout for them. My house is finally just that. MY HOUSE! There are still a few boxes scattered about but I can deal with those later. I have an interview to get to. I run into my room and put on "Greyhound" by Swedish House Mafia. I picked out my navy blue 3 piece Donna Karen New York skirt suit, my good luck pumps and a feather necklace with my diamond studs. I sit in front of the mirror and curl my hair. I look at myself in the mirror and I am happy with my choice. I grab my keys, my resume and my purse and I am out the door. Its pretty warm out today so I decide to bring the top down so my hair can naturally fan itself out.

20 minutes later, I am in front of 2 large buildings. One had Grey House etched in the door and the other one was a plain building. I parked my car and just stood there marveling over the Grey House building. "Man this building is almost as tall as the Comcast Building back home." I whispered to myself. I shook my head and walked towards the other building. I have this very erie feeling that someone is watching me but I shrug it off and walk inside. It's very busy. So busy I feel a bit intimidated. I walk up to security with the hugest smile on my face.

"Hi! My name is Chanelle Howard-Jones. I am here for an interview with Jones,Weitzman, and Shultz at 2:30pm." The security guard looks for my name and hands me a visitors badge and points me into the direction of the elevators. I am to go to the 10th floor and hang a right. While in the elevator, my nerves are starting to get the best of me. I get off the elevator and walk right into the archway of the ad agency. The receptionist is a cute blonde with blue eyes.

"Hi! Can I help you?" She ask. I smile. Her personality is just too cute

"Hi! I am Chanelle. I have an interview today at 2:30pm" I say. I can't stop smiling. The last couple of hours have been completely awesome for me.

"Ok. You can have a seat right there and John will be right with you." I nod and make my way to the seats behind me. "Would you like some coffee or tea or water?" She asks.

"Some water would be lovely thank you." She walks to the back and I am looking around and this ad agency has done some big things like Britney's fragrances. I am actually wearing Fantasy right now. I giggle to myself. The receptionist brings me back a bottle of smart water. I see this young brunette gentleman come out.

"Chanelle? Hi! I am John Grossman. How are you?" I stand up and give him a firm handshake.

"Hello! How are you today?" I flash my innocent smile to him.

"Great. Let's head back to my office." I walk behind him following him to his office. We finally get there and his office is a normal size. Very comfortable if you ask me. "So Chanelle. You are interviewing for our administration position. You have your bachelor's in business administration from Temple. I'm an alum from Temple. Go Owls! Tell me why would you like to work here" I begin to laugh softly. I think to myself this should be an easy win for me.

"Well John, let me first say Go Owls! Second, I would love to work for an ad agency because I feel like this is a place that I can utilize my skill set and bring something new to the company. I'm always chock full of ideas." John smiles and begins to write something down.

"That was a very educated answer Chanelle. Tell me what do you like to do in your free time?" I get nervous when employers ask this question because I feel like its a make or break question.

"I am a singer/songwriter, on the weekends back home in Philly, I would bartend in south Philly bars and nightclubs, I read a lot of novels mainly romance novels and I paint landscapes if I have the time plus I love to write short stories." He looks impressed.

"Wow! You do more than I do. I used to party at Fat Tuesday's on south street. I love those 190 Octanes." I begin to smile. I miss those 190 octanes.

"I would mix the 190 Octanes with eye candy. It was incredibly yummy." I say while laughing. He smiles and writes something down.

"You know what Chanelle? I think you are a wonderful woman. I would love to give you the position. Would you be able to start Monday?" Trying not to be too ecstatic, I nod.

"Yes. Oh thank you so much John! I look forward to working with you and everyone else here." He smiles and hands me a camera card.

"You want to take that back down to security so you can get your ID badge. I will see you on Monday 8:30 am." I get up and shake his hand.

"8:30am. Got it. Have a good day John." I walk out calmly and press the elevator button to go downstairs. While in the elevator, I start doing the party rock shuffle. I am so happy that I got a job on my first try! I reach the first floor and handed the visitors badge back and my camera card. The security officer took me into an office and took my picture. My ID was done in under 5 minutes. I place it in my purse and walked out to my car. Today has been awesome. I get into my car and call my dad using the speakerphone in my car.

"Hello?" My dad sounds sleepy

"Hey dad! Just calling to let you know I got a job at an ad agency and I start Monday." I say

"Way to go! Congrats Chanelle. What are you going to do to celebrate?"

"Nothing much! Just go back home and stretch out on my new furniture." I didn't want to tell him that I am singing at the bar tonight because that would have turned into a whole lecture about its not safe to be out that late.

"Okay Chanelle. I will call you tomorrow. I love you." He says and I begin to tear up.

"I love you too dad. Tell mom I love her too."

"Will do! See ya later." We both hang up. I turn the car on and looked up. I see the same Audi Q7 from yesterday. I really wish I could afford the maintenance on the car. I smile and pull off into the light traffic and head back to my house. I stop at a subway to grab me a sandwich. I really need to go shopping for food so, I decided to make a quick detour at the supermarket to grab a month worth of food for me to live off of. I am loving Seattle right now. This was the best decision I have made!

Christian's POV

It's the afternoon and I need out of the office for a minute. I walk out of my office and told Andrea to forward my calls to the blackberry. I am feeling a bit hungry so I decided to make a trip to the deli down the way. I get outside of my building and I see the red convertible from last night. "So she drives a BMW 650i. She has taste." I whisper to myself. I frantically look up and down the street to see if I can catch her then I see someone stop in the middle of my building and the building next door. I think its her. She turns and begins to walk away into the building and I know for a fact that's her. "She cleans up well." I whisper again. Taylor gets out of the car and opens my door.

"The deli Taylor." I tell him

"Yes sir! If you don't mind me asking. Who were you staring at?" I shoot Taylor a cold look and he instantaneously caught the hint. "My apologies sir." We arrive at the deli and I walk in to grab me a turkey sandwich. 15 minutes later I am back in front of my building. Taylor let's me out and I turn to look at the BMW and I see she is having a conversation with someone. She is just beautiful. I turn and walk back into the building. I turn around and she was gone. I will see her again tonight! I must know more about her. I walk back into the building and make my way back to my office. Why is she weighing heavy on my mind? Am I really that attracted to her? I can only think about when she walked into the bar wearing that leather jacket. I begin to smile and slouch back into my chair.

"Mr. Grey! You have a John Grossman on the phone." Andrea said.

"Ok. Give me a minute." I wipe my hands and pick up the phone. "John! How are you doing today?" I say

"Hello Mr. Grey. Things are going well so far. I was calling you to schedule that appointment to meet. My boss's gave me the go ahead to set up the meeting. So when would you like to do it?" He says trying to sound professional but he knows that with me as partner it could take the company to new levels.

"How about Monday 12:30pm?" I say. I can order a catered lunch st least I don't have to go anywhere or anything.

"Sounds like a plan Mr. Grey. I will see you then." He hangs up and I go back to eating my sandwich.

Chanelle's POV

It's 6:45 and I am running hella late. I couldn't find any of my makeup, my flat irons or my fedora. I finally found them all in one box. I look at myself and spray some of my Dolce and Gabana no. 6 on and put on my reading glasses. I grab my leather jacket and haul ass out of my door.

I make it to the Star Bar and there is a line forming outside. Oh man this is crazy! I walk to security and told them I was performing and they let me right in. I see Tiffany setting up the stage. She turns around and sees me then smiles.

"Hi Chanelle! Can I just say that I am a big fan of yours and that i'm so sorry about what happened. You look cute tonight. Are you ready? I heard there is a long line outside already." I nod frantically. "Are you nervous?" She laughs. I didn't think people recognized me. I tried to look normal.

"A little. I haven't done one of these in such a long time. You seem nervous too." I say laughing

"I am! I am in the presence of you. I absolutely loved your version of 'Hurt'. Don't worry about the crowd. They are really cool here so, don't fret about a thing. Let's get you up here. Would like a stool so you can sit every now and then?" She asked.

"Yes please. I might end up going barefoot by the end of the night." We both laugh and she walks to get a stool. I start to walk around to get a feel of the stage. I test out the microphone with a line from some of the songs that were popping up in my head. Tiffany comes back with a stool.

"You know what songs you want to do or are you going to wing it?" I thought about that but never came up with a decision. "Don't worry our band can play almost anything!" Well that is one less stress off my back. I see that it is close to 8pm. Showtime! I run off to the back and Tiffany places a bucket of ice with water bottles in them next to the stool. "Ok! I am going to introduce you and you come out and you do your thing ok?" I nod and she walks out on stage. I hear everyone filing in and my nerves are getting to me but my excitement is truly present. I can't stop jumping.

"HEY STAR BAR! HOW ARE YOU DOING TONIGHT!?" There was a loud cheer. This is so exciting. "Ok! So I would like to introduce to you a girl who just moved to the Seattle area. She is a little nervous so be nice!" Everyone laughs a little bit. "Let's give her a big welcome to seattle. Ladies and gentleman! You know here from Team Christina from the first season of The Voice. Give it up for Chanelle Howard-Jones!" I walk out and everyone is clapping. I take a small bow and have a seat on the stool.

"Hello Seattle! How are you?" They are all screaming and clapping. "I haven't done this in a while so bear with me. I will start out with something upbeat. I am going to sing "Rumor Has It" by Adele." The crowd goes wild. The band begins to play and instantly I am comfortable. I start to belt out the lyrics to the song. I am having fun.

Christian's POV

"Elliot! What the hell are you doing let's go! I want to get there before the line gets long." Elliot begins to laugh. I would like to know what's so funny.

"Christian. Are you serious? You don't stand in lines. Security sees you and they let you in automatically. Besides, I called ahead and they reserved a table for us." I let out a sigh of relief. Elliot is right. I don't do lines. They generally see me pull up and I am granted instant access. Elliot is finally downstairs and we leave. Taylor opens the back door for us to climb in and we are on our way. "So what made you want to go out Mr. I am too busy for fun." Elliot laughs and I shoot him with a cold stare.

"I just want to go out. I could use a break." Elliot looks at me and snickers.

"Christian! Someone has your attention and they will be at this bar tonight won't they?" Damnit! I hate when Elliot is right! Chanelle has really got my attention. I have never been with a black girl before but then again the way the media portrays them, it's not a good look. She is different. She has class, beauty, and a winning attitude plus she has a slamming body and the butt is perfect for her frame. You could flog her all day and watch that ass become a deep red. I shake my head trying to dismiss that thought. We finally pull up to Star Bar and Elliot hops out of the car to talk to the security guard. I walk up and the security guard gives me a hand shake then we walk in. We stop at the hostess stand and she leads us to our table. I am grateful that the lights are dim. I am hoping she won't notice me.

"Can I get you boys anything?" The hostess said with a smile on her face. Elliot goes on to place the order.

"2 beers and...bro you want to split the buffalo wings? They are so good here." Elliot is praising these wings and I am brought back to when she ordered her buffalo wings. She ate them so delicate like. "BRO! Snap out of it. You want to split them or no?" I shake my head.

"Yeah! I will." I continue to look on stage and I am waiting for to come out.

"So Christian. What's her name? I know you got all of her information from your security guy." I really want to punch Elliot in the face right now.

"Her name is Chanelle Howard-Jones." I say as I roll my eyes. Elliot gasps in horror. Oh God don't tell me he has gotten to her first.

"Wait! THE Chanelle Howard-Jones?" Oh my fear is coming to life he did get to her first. I want to go home now. I let out a sigh of defeat.

"Yes. Why and how do you know this?" I am regretting this question already.

"Dude! She was on the first season of The Voice! I was pulling for her to win but she had got tonsillitis right before the semi finals and had to drop out of the competition. I am a big fan of hers! Where is she?" Elliot asked as the crowd goes crazy. The show is about to start. There was a female who walked up to the microphone.

"HEY STAR BAR! HOW ARE YOU DOING TONIGHT!?" the crowd is really going crazy and there are a lot of people here for it to be a talent showcase. "Ok! So I would like to introduce to you a girl who just moved to the Seattle area. She is a little nervous so be nice! Let's give her a big welcome to Seattle. Ladies and gentleman! You know her from Team Christina on the first season of The Voice. Give it up for Chanelle Howard-Jones!" The crowd goes wild and there she is. She went for a nerdy look but those Christian Louboutin pumps look great on her. They make her legs longer. She is an absolute goddess.

"Hello Seattle! How are you? I haven't done this in a while so bear with me. I will start out with something upbeat. I am going to sing 'Rumor Has It' by Adele." Then the band started playing. She belts out the melody and not only does she have the body of a goddess, she has the voice of an angel.

"Christian! Isn't she good?" Elliot is excited to see her. I am more so in awe of her. I want her more than anything right now.

"She is amazing Elliot! Her voice is perfect." The song ends and everyone is clapping and taking pictures. I want to walk to the front of the stage and just listen to her. I get up and begin to walk to the front of the stage. I hope I don't derail her.

"Bro?! Where are you going?" Elliot says. I look back winked at Elliot and continued to walk to the front of the stage.

Chanelle's POV

"Thank you guys!" I say with a smile on my face. I am a huge fan of Kelly Clarkson so for my next number I will sing 'Dark Side' The band starts up and I begin to sing. I feel comfortable. I'm back in my element. I love being on stage. I love entertaining a large crowd. I walk to the other side of the stage and I see him. The guy from yesterday. From what I can see he looks cute in a evil sort of way. I wonder how he knew I was here tonight. He looks too exclusive to be in a bar like this. I purposely walk to his side and begin to sing to him. I smile and winked at him as I ended the song. The crowd erupts into a deafening applause. I smile and take a bow.

"Thanks you so much for coming out tonight. I want to interact with you guys a little. Since I knew this event was on Facebook, how many of you recognize me from The Voice and came out tonight to see me sing?" The crowd applauded loudly again. I laughed. I figured that was the reason there was such a large crowd. "This next song is dedicated to someone I kind of met yesterday." The crew rolls out a piano on stage. "This song is called 'Sway' by Vanessa Carlton. Enjoy" I begin to play the chords and get into the song.

"Say you would, say you could
say you'd come and stop the rain
say you'd try and hold me tight
and you just give me away
make me high on lullabies
a melody for me to sway
Say you would, Say you could

You don't do anything"

I take a peek up to see if he is watching me and he is. He is smiling softly and I begin to smile too. I play the finishing chords onto the song and the crowd applauds. I get up and I take a bow. "Ok guys I am going to take a quick 15 minute break and I will be back. Please talk amongst yourself, grab a girl and buy her a drink!" I walk off stage and head out to the back. I am checking my phone when suddenly I see someone standing in front of me. I begin to smile and shake my head.

"You know you shouldn't be back here." I say while texting and checking my Facebook.

"Well, I was told that a certain singer would be back here. I really like your singing Chanelle." I look up and I am in complete awe of this man. I am looking at this guy with scorching gray eyes and dark copper hair. He is dressed in a white dress shirt unbutton at the top and black slacks. He has me frozen in this spot. I really didn't recognize his eyes yesterday but damn he has some gorgeous eyes.

"H...h...hi! I am Chanelle..." I shakily held my hands out for him to shake. "You are the guy from yesterday." He smiles as he takes my hand and plants a soft kiss. I can feel my face heat up.

"I'm Christian Grey and yes I am the guy from yesterday. Can I say that you are an amazing singer. I especially love the song by Vanessa Carlton. What was it called again?" He begins to think.

"Sway. I am a big Vanessa Carlton fan. Are you enjoying the show Mr. Grey?" I ask. My knees begin to hurt so I stand up and lean against the wall. He walks up and puts both hands on each side of my head and began to lean closer.

"Well, right now Ms. Howard-Jones I am." He says with some deep dark intent. BREAK'S OVER! My subconscious yells at me! She is right! Time to go! I feel hot and I need to break this now. I can't seem to catch my breath. I need to escape. Time for one of my famous white lies.

"As much as I would love to stay and chat, I'm need back on stage." I say as I duck under his arms and walk in the back door. I find a bathroom and throw some cold water on my face. "Fuck! Why is he so damn hot? Come on Chanelle! Get it together" I whisper. I walk back on stage and take a cool sip of my water and now he is front and center. Ok Grey! I can guarantee you won't get to me. Time to pull out the big guns. "Are you guys having fun?" The crowd goes wild. "This song goes out to a man that I am now in complete awe of. I'm going to sing the new hit single from my mentor Aguilera. This is 'Your Body'" The crowd goes wild as the music starts. I walk over to him and bend down to look into his eyes.

"I don't need to know where you've been,
All I need to know is you and no need for talking.(hey boy)
So don't even tell me your name,
All I need to Know is whose place,
And let's get walkin'.

All I wanna do is love your body.
Ooooh oooh oooh oooh.
Tonight's your lucky night, I know you want me.
Ooooh oooh oooh oooh."

I walk away with a little sway and I can see him smirking. I love singing this song but I try to pull myself away from the gravitational pull that is Christian Grey. It feels so good to be back on the stage.

After my 90 minute set, I grab a bottle of water and begin to walk out of the bar then Tiffany stops me.

"Hey Chanelle. Thank you so much for singing tonight. This is from all of us at the bar." She hands me an envelope. I look in and there is money in it. "We didn't know if we should pay you or not but we all agreed it would be nice to pay you $5,000." Oh I was doing this for fun. I didn't need any monetary gifts.

"That's sweet of you but I don't need this. I was doing this for the fun of it." I try to hand her back the envelope. She shook her head and told me to keep it. I give her the biggest hug and I walk out of the bar. I walk to my car to find a bouquet of white and red roses with a card.

Chanelle:

You were absolutely amazing tonight.

Let's do lunch sometime.

Here is my number

C.G

I smile like an idiot and get in my car. I turn my car on and begin to drive off. I am having the best night ever. I finally get home. I park my car and walk inside. I find a vase to put the roses in and sit it on the living room table. I begin to strip into my underwear and lay down on my bed. I turn on my computer and notice Crystal is on oovoo. I decide to give her a quick message.

THERE IS SO MUCH I NEED TO TELL YOU BUT I AM SLEEPY! I WILL CALL YOU IN THE AM!

I receive a message directly after

OK! I MISS YOUR FACE TERRIBLY AND I AM PLANNING TO COME OUT TO SEE YOU SOON SO PENCIL ME IN WILL YA? OH! AND DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT TIME IT IS HERE IN PHILLY? I LOVE YOU NELLY BELLY!

WELL EXCUSE ME! YOU'RE THE ONE WHO IS THE NIGHT OWL LOL! I MISS YOU TOO CRYSTAL 3

I close my laptop and crawled into my bed and fell asleep. I wake up in a field with long grass. I am wearing a long white maxi dress. I see a male figure so I decided to run toward him. As I ran, the clouds turned gray and it began to rain. I ran into him. He smells so good.

"Stay away from me Chanelle. I'm dangerous." He says. I look up and noticed it was Christian holding an object in his hands. I can't make out what it is. All of a sudden I am unable to move. Where am I? I look and notice my hands were cuffed to something. The room was dark and I could barely see. "I told you to stay away from me." He says as he begins hitting me with the object but I can't make out what it is for the life of me.

"STOP IT! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" Why is he doing this to me? I look up and I see him. It wasn't Christian! "GIDEON? GIDEON STOP IT!" He begins to laugh evilly and I wake abruptly. "What the fuck was that about?" I whisper to myself. I look over to my clock and its 10:15am. I put my head in my hands and make my way to the bathroom. I put on an over-sized sweat shirt and my sweats and walk to the kitchen. I need a glass of wine but in the mean time I will settle for orange juice. I need to get out but where do I go? I don't know anything or anybody here. Then the thought hits me. I will join a gym today! I look at my stomach and I could lose a good 5 pounds or so. I grab a long sleeve shirt and kept my sweats on and made my way to the car. I drive until I see this awesome looking gym. I walk in a asked to speak to a member services associate. I got a quick tour of the place and like that I became a member. The thought hits me that I need to do something with one of the other rooms. I was thinking about making it into a small studio for me to practice in. I decided to make my way to a music store. I drive around and I am happy at the fact there is a Guitar Center here. I walk in and already I know what I want. I need a new guitar because my other one is still at home.

I finish shopping and headed back to my house. I take everything into the room and set up the mic stand the amps and my guitar and guitar stand. I have enough space to put a piano in but I don't know if I am ready to make that investment. I do like my keyboard but there is something about a grand piano that I love. I look at the clock and it is almost 4:30. I begin to play chords on the keyboard and start to sing "My Immortal" by Evanescence.I stop playing and I take my phone out of my purse and the note card that Christian had with the flowers fell on the floor. I picked it up and looked at it. Maybe I should call him. I am way too nervous to call him! Maybe he won't know who it is if I call and he will ignore the call. STOP BEING A PANSY AND CALL HIM! My subconscious is right again. I need to stop being scared of everything and just do it! I unlock my phone and looked at it for a minute.

"Here goes nothing!" I whisper as I dial his number.