September, 1998

Ana

"What are you doing babe?" I look at him in confusion.

He looks at me and gives me a smirk over his shoulder while he shimmies the lock on the door.

"What does it look like Anastasia? I'm keeping my promise to you," he winks at me.

I roll my eyes as he continues to pick the lock.

We are standing in the blistering cold on a Friday night. My birthday is tomorrow, and Christian promised me that he was going to find us a bed to sleep on for my special day. I bite my lip at the opportunities that awaits us inside.

He smirks as the door suddenly opens. I jump up and down, excited to get out of this cold and into the warm heat. He looks back at me and smirks again.

"Come in my dear," he bows playfully.

I giggle and enter the house. He comes inside and closes and locks the door. I look around the room and automatically see that he picked a decent one this time.

Christian and I usually break into houses once or twice a month. Particularly in the winter and when the shelters are usually full to capacity. There are numerous vacant and abandoned homes that we usually spend our nights in, but there are times when we want to stay in houses where there is working heat, and a decent bed instead of a dirty or worn out mattress. A chill goes down my spine when I think of those types of beds.

I shake my head at the direction of my thoughts. I look around the house once more. The house is actually quite nice. It's nothing extravagant, but it's warm, which is enough for us. I look in front of me and there is a staircase that leads up to the second floor.

Christian comes up behind me and moves my hair that is in a messy ponytail and starts kissing my neck. He wraps his arm around my waist and I turn my head to the side so he can have easier access to my neck. I close my eyes and savor the sensation of his lips on my skin.

"I can't wait to make love to you on a proper bed baby," he purrs into my neck.

I groan and lift one of my hands and place it on the back of his neck. I twist and pull his overgrown hair while he continues his assault on my neck.

He suddenly stops kissing my neck and takes ahold of my hand and leads me upstairs. He looks all around him, making sure no one is around. He leads me into a room, which looks like the master, and yanks me inside. I giggle as he shuts the door and turns towards me. I bite my lip as he stalks towards me and pushes me on the bed slowly. The bed is clean and comfy. Two simple pillows lay on the black and white comforter set. A plain black dresser sits in the corner by the bed. I giggle once more and place both my hands above my head and look at him seductively under my lashes.

His eyes darken as he takes off his dirty white shoes. He takes off his white baseball cap that he wears on backwards and throws it on the ground. He then proceeds with his long wool coat, and his torn white shirt, revealing his sexy abs and chest. I squirm and press my legs together. He gives me his sexy smirk as he smooths his long hair behind his head.

He leans over and takes off my beat up black and white converse that we found in a dumpster a while back. When they are off, he unbuttons my jeans and slowly pulls them off. He leans over and kisses the spot just below my navel. I groan and tightly close my eyes.

I open my eyes to him staring at me while he continues to kiss me below my navel. He reaches the top of my white cotton panties and licks the outline of them. I moan loudly and start to pant harder when he slowly takes them off and places them on the floor. He opens my legs and starts to attack my clit. I moan and run my hands through his hair and tug him closer to my sex.

"You taste so good baby," he groans.

"Christian, please. Make me come," I beg.

He pushes one of his fingers inside of me and sucks hard on my clit causing me to fall over the edge. I scream his name over and over again while he continues to roughly thrust his fingers inside of me. I come down from my high and he jumps on top of me and pushes his cock inside of me causing us both to moan out in ecstasy.

He sits up suddenly and throws my legs over his shoulders and fucks me hard and fast. We are both moaning and panting loudly. My head is thrown back as I ball the sheets together with my fists.

"Come for me baby," he demands.

A couple more hard thrusts and I come long and hard. He moans and suddenly pulls out of me and fists himself twice before his semen coats my stomach in several long spurts.

He falls on top of me while we both try to catch our breath. I run my hand through his shoulder length hair and smile when he says happy birthday.

"Thank you," I whisper.

He picks up his head that was laying on my shoulder and stares at me lovingly.

"I love you baby," he says.

"I love you too Christian, so much," I lean up and kiss his lips which are starting to chap from the cold air.

He leans up and looks around the room. I frown as he gets up from the bed as he scans the room. He walks over to the dresser and opens several of the drawers. He takes out a white shirt and walks back over to me. He leans down and starts to clean his semen off of my stomach.

"When did you run out of your pills?" he asks.

"Yesterday," I guiltily.

"Okay, well we need to start thinking about getting more," he sighs.

"It's a long walk babe," I remind him.

"I know but we can't risk you getting pregnant, and we don't have any cash to get condoms," he sighs again and runs his hand through his hair.

We usually get our birth control at the free clinic, but we run into problems getting them because the clinic that we get them from is a long walk from where we usually are living.

He lays down beside me and I cuddle into him. He places his arm around me, and kisses the top of my head. His other arm is thrown beside his head.

"Let's get some sleep. Hopefully, the people who live here are gone for the night," he softly says into my hair.

I nod and cuddle more into his side. After a while, he falls asleep, while I am wide awake.

I start to think back to the time of what would eventually lead us to this point.

The day that Christian's mother died would forever be burned into my memory. We were holding each other on that dirty mattress. We were both trying to rid the sound of her cries in the other room. We knew that something was going to happen that night. After that asshole left our shitty apartment, we both woke up to my mother's heartbreaking cries coming from the living room.

Christian told me to stay where I was and that I was in no way to come out of the room. I nodded at him and sat there in fear. All I could remember next was Christian's scream and awful cries coming from outside of the door. I started to shake when he suddenly started yelling momma. Tears streaming down my face when I heard him screaming for her to wake up over and over again, and I knew that something bad had happened.

After a while, he came back into the room. His face covered with his hair since he had is head down. I could see tears hitting the dirty floor beneath him. He launched himself on the mattress and started to cry once more. I placed my hands over his body and held him the best I could while he continued to cry for his mother.

I didn't expect my mom to do what she did after they found his mother unresponsive on the floor. I woke up the next day to a silent apartment. Christian was still asleep, so I left him to go find my mother. Little did I know what awaited me in the living room.

A simple note.

A fucking note that was taped to the coffee table that was addressed to me.

Annie,

If you are reading this letter, it means that I am no longer with you. I am so sorry for everything. I am sorry I couldn't be the mother you needed me to be. I am sorry your childhood would be forever tainted because of our bad choices. Ella and I loved you both. We loved you so much, and we are so sorry we couldn't protect you.

Just know that we did the best we could. I am sorry this happened, I love Ella. She was like a sister to me, but she couldn't hold on. She wanted a better life for you too, and I do as well.

I am so sorry Annie. I love you. Please don't ever forget that.

Love,

Mom.

I sat there on the sofa reading that letter over and over again. Tears running down my face as I stared at our mothers dead bodies on the floor by my feet.

That was the day we lost our parents to an overdose of crack. That was the day that asshole came back to the apartment and discovered his workers dead on the floor. He took it out on us, slapped us around and told us that it was our fault that they killed themselves. He called the police and simply left us alone with their bodies.

The authorities came and took us both away kicking and screaming for each other. I was afraid they were going to take him away from me. We were both sent to the hospital for nearly being starved to death. After, a couple of weeks in the hospital, we were sent to foster care.

The rest of our childhood was being thrown to foster home to foster home. We were never adopted, but thankfully, we were both together. When we both turned eighteen, we ran away from our last foster home and that is how we ended up on the streets.

Christian likes his freedom. He likes being able to live where he wanted, and do what he wanted. He is the type of person who didn't like being told he couldn't do something. He is the strongest person I know. We grew up together, and as we got older, we fell in love.

I love him. I don't know what I would do if I didn't have him by my side. I know I wouldn't have survived my childhood without him. I couldn't survive in a world where Christian Grey didn't exist.

He is my other half.

He is my soul mate.

He is the reason I have survived this long while being on the streets. He is my protector in a dangerous world where anything can happen.

My eyes start to droop while I try not to think back to that horrible time in our life. I snuggle up closer to his side, and quickly fall asleep to the comfort of a bed.

To the comfort of a man that I love more than anything.

AN: Christian and Ana are both 20.

Thank you for all the reviews and followers for the prologue. I had several PM's asking some questions, and I thought I would answer them again just in case if you are wondering.

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