APOV
Time is flying by. It's already Friday. My bridal shower, sleepover is tonight. And tomorrow, Kate is throwing me my bachelorette party. Christian wasn't thrilled, but finally accepted it. After Kate promised, no strippers, of course. And Sawyer has to join us, wherever we go. We have everything ready for our wedding, next Saturday. I'm so excited! I can't wait for next weekend.
I'm at Grey Publishing, finishing up my work day. I can't get this ridiculous grin off my face.
"Hey, Ana?"
I look up, from the manuscript I'm reading, to see Hannah, standing at my desk.
"Yeah?"
"I can't understand these directions, Mr. Grey's sister sent me. I've never been to Bellevue before. Can I just follow you over to his parents' house?"
"Oh, sure. Christian is driving me, though. So we'll have to wait for him to finish."
"Thanks. I don't want to get lost. I already have my overnight bag in my car. I'm so excited!" She squeals quietly. "This is going to be fun."
"I know." I grin. "My cheeks are hurting from smiling so much." I rub my cheeks. We giggle.
Elizabeth, Hannah's editor, comes out of her office.
"Hannah." She says in a warning tone, then looks at me and changes her tone. "You should be working, not socializing."
"Sorry. I just needed to talk to Ana about something."
Elizabeth looks at me and I just raise my brow. Go ahead. I internally dare her. She flushes and hurries back into her office.
"Ugh. I'll trade you editors."
"That would be funny." Me working for Elizabeth. "But she's right. We should be working."
Hannah goes back to her desk and I get back to reading the manuscript I'm editing.
"Are you ready?" I look up hearing, a non too pleased, Christian.
I smile at him. "It's only for the weekend." I stand and rub his arms, soothing him.
He wraps his arms around me. "I don't ever want to be away from you."
"I know. But surely you'll have business trips that will cause you to leave Seattle. We'll be apart then."
"You could come with me." He says, like he's already planned me joining him on business trips.
"My hip looks too good alone to be attached to yours."
"Mighty fine hips, I must say." He moves his hands to grab my hips.
I giggle, pulling away from him. We're in the office and this is getting a bit much. I'm okay with some PDA. But with Christian, I can get lost, not realizing anyone else is around. We do it all the time, even in front of our parents. I wouldn't want to give his... I mean, our employees a floor show.
I go back around my desk, to shut my computer down and put away my things. I grab my bag and walk back to Christian.
"Hannah needs to follow us to your parents. She doesn't want to get lost." He nods.
I stop at Hannah's desk. She's not there. I quickly look around, not seeing her.
"She may be doing something for Elizabeth before she leaves. We'll have to wait a moment."
I give Christian a chaste kiss. I know he's not patient, he doesn't like to wait.
"I'm so sorry, Ana." I turn around to see Hannah rushing towards us with a coffee. "Elizabeth asked me to get her a cup of coffee before I left and there wasn't any left in the kitchen, so I had to make a fresh pot. Let me just bring this to her and I'll be ready to go."
"Sure."
She knocks on Elizabeth's door and opens it.
"I have your coffee." She walks inside the office.
"Well, it's about time." We hear Elizabeth say, rudely. "I'm sure if you weren't out there gossiping with the CEO's girlfriend, you'd actually get your job done."
I feel Christian tense beside me.
"I had to make a new pot." Hannah explains. "That's what took me so long."
"Yeah right. Well, you're going to stay later tonight, to make up for the work you missed while you were talking with Ana, instead of working."
"I can't tonight."
"I don't care. I didn't ask if you can. I told you. You're staying."
"I already asked you if it was okay to leave, before I brought you this coffee. You said I could."
"I've changed my mind. Now get out."
Christian starts to walk into Elizabeth's office, but I stop him. I open the door to see Elizabeth pretending to work on her computer. Hannah turns around to leave, but stops, seeing me at the door. She looks over my head, so I suspect Christian followed me.
"I warned you." I say to Elizabeth. She looks up, looking like she's seen a ghost.
"M-Ms. Steele-"
"I told you to treat the 'lowly' employees with respect, or you'll be out of a job. Congratulations, Ms. Morgan. You no longer work at Grey Publishing."
"I've been working here long before it was Grey Publishing, back when it was still SIP. Long before you started sleeping your way to the top." I hear Hannah gasp. "You're just an assistant, sleeping with the boss. You can't fire me."
"She just fucking did." Christian growls out in his CEO/Dom voice, as steps inside the office. Elizabeth blanches, looking as if she may faint. "Don't expect a reference letter, you wont like what it will say."
"Sawyer." I call him, knowing he's near. He's always near.
"Yes, Ms. Steele?" Sawyer walks in.
"Please call security to escort Ms. Morgan off Grey House property and take her security badge. She is no longer employed at Grey Publishing." I say to him. "Ms. Morgan. Security will escort you off the property. Maybe at your next job, you'll learn to be more respectful. Have a nice day."
"Sawyer, make sure Ms. Morgan only takes personal items with her." Christian says, still in his sexy CEO voice. "Nothing that belongs to Grey Publishing or property of GEH. After security has removed her from the building, head to Bellevue."
"Hannah." I look at her. "Ready to go?"
She nods, wide-eyed looking at me.
We walk out of the office to the elevator. I push the call button and Hannah, Christian and I go down to the main level. In the elevator, Christian grabs my face and kisses me, completely ignoring Hannah.
"You were so fucking sexy, baby."
He pushes me up against the wall. His hand tries to go under my dress.
"Christian." I giggle, stopping him.
"Shit." He chuckles. "My apologizes, Ms. Jackson."
Hannah blushes a deep red. "Hey." She puts both her hands up. "She's your fiancé. Who am I to stop you from enjoying her in your elevator."
We all laugh and walk out, as the doors open.
Employees on the main level really shouldn't be looking as shocked as they still seem to be, seeing us together. I know it's still new seeing The Christian Grey happy, but it's not to me. He's always been like this with me. I was shocked, when I learned he was well known to be ruthless and heartless. Not my Christian. He has the biggest heart I know. My Christian, is always smiling and happy. So I know, that's just not true.
We all walk outside together. Christian and I walk Hannah to her car. Always the gentleman, Christian holds Hannah's door open and closes it for her. We walk, holding hands, to his R8 that he drove us in this morning. Christian opens the passenger door for me, shutting it after I'm inside. I but my seatbelt on, as he walks around the car, gracefully, climbing into his seat. He puts his Ray-bans on and starts the R8. It purrs to life. He look so hot! He puts the car in drive and pulls out into traffic.
"I can't fucking believe you fired someone. Biggest. Fucking. Turn on, ever."
"You said I could."
"I know."
"She was being really rude, after I warned her not to. She would suck up to me, but still be rude to the other employees. Hannah said she wasn't always like that. Apparently, she was seeing an editor that got fired and sent to prison for raping his assistants. After that, Elizabeth started to get really bitchy."
"She deserved to get fired. I'm just saying I can't believe you did it."
"Well, you're always telling me I'll get use to this lifestyle. But, I didn't think it would feel like this, to fire someone. The power it gives you."
He grins mischievously. "I know."
He continues to drive us to his parents house.
We're almost there, when he holds my hand, bringing it to his lips. "I'm going to miss you, baby."
"I'll miss you, too."
He pulls into his parents drive and parks his R8. He gets out and opens my door. He holds me in his arms, not wanting me to go inside.
"You can go ahead, Hannah." I say to her, over Christian's shoulder.
She smiles at me. I watch her walk up the few steps to the front door and knock. Grace opens the door and smiles at her. She lets her inside and looks out to us, seeing Christian holding me. I hold up a finger letting her know I'll be a minute. She smiles and nods in understanding. Then she closes the door.
Christian's face is buried in my neck. He starts kissing my neck, moving up to my jaw, to my ear, nibbling it.
"I wont be able to sleep without you, baby." He whispers in my ear.
"You can call me later." I wrap my arms around his neck. His head still in the crook of my neck. "I'll talk to you until you fall asleep."
I feel him move his hands to my ass. He pulls his head back to look at me. He leans down and I reach up. When our lips touch, we kiss each other, so full of passion. He pulls my ass closer to him. I reach up and pull his hair, bringing him closer to me. I open my mouth for him. His tongue dominates mine. He growls in my mouth. He pushes my back against his R8. I can feel his erection through his pants, when pushes into me. His hands move down to grab the hem of my dress, he lifts it slightly. His hands are on my bare thighs, moving up. He grabs my ass again, this time from under my dress. I moan in his mouth. I'm so wet!
"Hey!"
We pull apart. He looks over his shoulder. I look at the door of the house. We're still holding each other. Mia and Kate are standing there with their hands on their hips.
"Hand over the girl and nobody gets hurt." I quickly right my dress. Christian straightens himself out.
"I really hope you're not planning to kiss her like that next Saturday in front of our grandparents." Mia says to Christian.
"No. I plan to kiss her like this on Saturday."
He picks me up. I wrap my legs around his waist, giggling. He, again, kisses me passionately.
"Christian Grey! Your mother is coming." Kate taunts him.
He quickly puts me down and politely kisses my lips. I laugh even more.
Mia and Kate come down the front steps to us. They grab my hands, to walk me inside. I don't move, because Christian wrapped his arms around my waist holding me to him, not letting me go with them. The girls are trying to pull and pry me from him but he's much too strong and wont let me go. He pulls me back, my ass brushing against his hard dick.
"Christian!" I chastise him.
"It's your fault."
We're all laughing, when Grace comes out to see what is taking us so long. She sees Christian still here, not letting me go.
"Mom, help!" Mia says to Grace. "He wont let her go."
Grace laughs. She comes down the front steps, walking toward us.
"Come now, Christian." She tells him. "You'll get her back."
Grace gets me from Christian.
"Don't let anything happen to her." He warns, looking and pointing at Mia.
"Oh, Christian. She'll be fine." Grace says, holding me. "Don't you worry."
"Yeah." Mia says. "Besides, grandma is here." Kate laughs. I bite my lip. His grandma wanted to see me naked the last time I saw her.
"I'm warning you, Mia. I'm serious. Don't let anything happen to her." Christian repeats. Giving Mia a look, showing just how serious he is.
"Oh, keep your hair on." She waves him away. "This is going to be her last weekend of fun before the wedding. Let her, let her hair down."
Christian reaches over and pulls my hair out of the holder it's in.
"There. It's down."
I laugh at him. I shake my head, so my hair goes everywhere. I give him one last kiss. "I'll see you soon." I whisper against his lips.
I pull away and the girls and I run inside laughing. I look back at Christian and blow him a kiss, he catches it. Awe! Mia shuts the door. We all walk into the main sitting room. I see Kelly, Ros, Gwen, Andrea, Hannah, Grandma Trevelyan, Gail, and another lady I've never seen or met before.
"Ana, dear." Grace says. "This is my sister, and Christian's Aunt Holly."
"It's nice to meet you." I say.
"Oh my. Mother, you were right. She is a beauty. It's nice to finally meet you Ana."
"I told ya. You're just lucky, or unlucky, depending how you look at it, that she's dressed meeting you." Grandma says. I giggle.
We hear a lawn mower go off. Mia looks out the window.
"Mom." She says. "Why is dad mowing the lawn?"
"Because he's in trouble, so he's doing chores."
"Well, he needs to leave. This is girls only."
"Don't worry, darling. He'll leave after he's mowed."
Mia shuts the patio doors to block out the mower sound.
"Okay. Let's get this party started." Kate says. "First, everyone needs to change into their pajamas."
We all go our separate ways to change.
I am wearing a cotton white camisole with matching very short and tight, boy-shorts. I take out my phone and send a picture to Christian.
He replies instantly.
Mine! x- C
Yours. x -A
Have fun, baby! x -C
You, too! x -A
I love you! x -C
I love you more! x -A
I loved you first! x -C
I'll never stop loving you! x -A
I put my phone in my bag and go back out to the main room. Kate is already there, wearing her cheetah print babydoll nightie. Mia and Hannah come in next. Mia is wearing a pink tank top and pink and black zebra print pants. Hannah has on a baggy T-shirt, that says 'I love my coffee', her shorts have little coffee cups all over them. I giggle and she laughs, obviously were both thinking about Elizabeth and her coffee that got her fired. Grace and Christian's Aunt Holly come out wearing pants and matching tops. They don't match by all means but there pajamas are similar. Classic. Grace's is a cream color. Aunt Holly's is a pretty green color. Kelly is wearing a long nightgown. Gail and Andrea are wearing a T shirt and shorts. Ros and Gwen walk in next, wearing their nightwear. Gwen's hair, looking just fucked. I giggle and quickly bite my lip. I look around. Who are we missing? In walks Grandma Trevelyan wearing a snug fitting onesie.
"Now don't y'all laugh. I get cold." We all laugh.
"Okay. Now, we would play games like, 'how well do you know the bride'. It's a typical shower game. But Kate would win by default."
"You know it!" Kate shouts and we high five. "Besties for life!"
"So, we've ordered pizza." Mia continues. "We're going to just watch movies and pig out. I know it's not much fun, but I've been given strict orders to not let anything happen to you, by my extremely overprotective big brother."
Kate jumps up. "But we do have alcohol. Because no good story started with a pizza. Okay that didn't make sense, there are good stories that start with ordering pizza." Kate winks at me. I laugh.
She flashed a pizza deliveryman to get us free food one night. Okay, more than once.
"But we have plenty of booze. So let's have some fun!" Kate says.
"Oh!" Mia exclaims. "I almost forgot. We have goodie bags."
Mia and Kate run out of the room. Mia returns with cloth bags. She has one white bag, with pink tissue paper and eleven pink, with white tissue paper. Mia gives the ladies their pink bags. Kate comes in holding a tray, she puts in on the table. I look at what is on the tray. Lingerie shaped cookies, that say 'Ana's last nightie' on them, chocolate covered bananas and How cute! It's chocolate covered strawberries, but it looks like a man's suit, complete with bowtie and a woman's wedding dress. I pick up the man's suit one. It tastes delicious! I eat another one, the wedding dress one this time. Mia hands me a white bag. It has a huge pink letter A on the front and Anastasia is written along the A. I look at everyone else's bags. They have their names written on their bags, as well.
"Okay. Now that everyone has their bag," I eat another strawberry. "open them."
We all open our goodie bags together. Mine has a short white, silk robe, on the back it says 'bride'. I look at what the other ladies have in their bags. They have pink robes. I put my new white Bride robe on. I reach in and pull out some white slippers. The other ladies have pink. I laugh loudly, when I pull out a bottle of Coca-Cola. It says, 'Share a Coke with Christian'. Kate shows me hers says Elliot. The other ladies have their partner's names, as well. The single ladies have, 'Share a Coke with Ana'. There are other beauty and health items in the bags.
"Now, you're going to open gifts. Before Dad gets here with our pizza." Mia giggles. "Mom made him pick it up instead of having it delivered, like we planned."
I look at Grace. She smiles and shrugs. I giggle.
I get another delicious strawberry, before I have to open all my gifts the girls got me.
"Here, Ana." Mia hands me a big, lightweight box. "This is from me." I open it.
She got me His & Her bedding. The sheets are white with gray wording. It says His & Her all over it, in different sizes and fonts. The comforter is 3/4 Hers and 1/4 His. It's funny and cute. There is also a throw pillow that says, Mr. & Mrs. Grey.
"Thank you, Mia. This is awesome!"
Grace hands me her gift. I open it.
She got me a photo frame. There is a black and white picture of Christian and I, already inside. It's of us that day we came over and went swimming. My hands are on his chest, his hands are close to my ass. I remember that day well. It was the day I kicked Elliot's butt. In the photo, Christian and I are looking at each other smiling wide happy smiles. I love this picture, I didn't even know she took it. The top of the frame says, Mr. Right. The bottom of the frame says, Mrs. Always Right.
I look at Grace to thank her. She's already smiling at me.
"Thank you, Ana." I smile at her.
"Alright, my turn." Kate hands me a bag. It's pink with white lace panties on the bottom of the bag. It also has two bows on the top, it looks like boobs. I laugh at Kate's bag.
I open the bag and pull out... Oh my god! ... Kate! A flogger! Seriously, this girl got me a flogger! There are also edible panties, fuzzy handcuffs, a riding crop, and a mini whip. I look at Kate. She's grinning. I look at Grace, her eyes are wide. I quickly put the items back in the bag, shaking my head trying not to laugh. Well, I did tell Kate, Christian liked kinky sex.
"If you liked that, you'll love this." Ros hands me her bag.
I open her bag and pull out a red corset. It's similar to my black one, but this one has fabric covering the breasts.
"Thank you, Ros. I actually have a black one like this." Kate laughs, remembering our photos we took of me wearing, said black corset.
"Ros and I thought you'd like this." Gwen hands me a small wrapped package. "It's just a gag gift." I open it.
It's a children's book titled. How to Train Your Dragon. I show it to the ladies and we all laugh.
"This is from me, darling." Kelly hands me a white lace bag.
Inside is white lingerie. I thank her.
"I hope you like this, Ana." Hannah hands me her gift. It's a blanket with Christian's photo covering it.
I giggle. "I love it!"
"Congratulations, Ana." Andrea hands me a wicker basket full of goodies.
Inside, there are ear plugs. I giggle. There is also an eye mask, beauty and health products, luggage tags, one is black and says 'Groom', the other is pink and says 'Bride'. She also put sunglasses and a sexy black bathing suit, it's a one piece with the back and sides missing.
"I would ask where Christian is taking me for our honeymoon, because I know you know. But I also know you've been Christian's PA for so long for a reason."
"My lips are sealed." She smiles at me.
Gail's gift is His and Her beach towels. Cute!
"This is our first time meeting each other, so I wasn't sure what to get you." Christian's Aunt Holly says. "I didn't know what you would like. So, I thought I would get you this." She hands me a small box.
I open it. It's a necklace with a small, 'Mrs. Grey', hanging from the chain.
"It's beautiful. Thank you!"
"Alright. It's my turn." Grandma Trevelyan gets up and hands me a bag. "This is for the next time you want to act as staff." She winks at me.
I giggle. "What?"
"Remember that night we all had dinner? Carrick and Grace said they thought you were Christian's new housekeeper." She winks again.
"Yeah?"
"Open the bag."
"Okay?"
I open it and pull out a sexy French maid costume. I laugh, closing my eyes tight. Tears fall, I laugh so hard. I can't believe Christian's grandmother got me this. I wipe my eyes and thank her.
Mia and Kate, put away all of my gifts. We're picking out our first movie to watch. I grab another strawberry. They're addicting.
"Careful, Steele." Kate warns me. "They're infused with liquor."
"That explains why they're so addicting." I giggle.
-knock-knock-knock-
"Kate." I say with a warning.
"What?" She says innocently. That had better not be strippers.
We all get up and go to the door. Grace opens the door. We all laugh at Christian's father, Carrick. He's wearing a hat that says 'Pizza Delivery', holding our pizzas and other bags with food. We step aside for him to enter and follow him to the great room. He puts our food down on the table. When he turns around, he bows dramatically. We all giggle at him. He leaves. Grace said he's staying at a hotel for the weekend, while we have our sleepover.
We get comfy on the sofas. Mia brought in blankets, so we're all snuggled around. We're eating pizza, wings, cheese sticks, cheese fries. Mia and Kate ordered a lot of fatty foods. We're also drinking. The movie we're watching is Bridesmaids. It's so funny, we can't stop laughing. I'm having so much fun! When the movie finishes, the older ladies are tired and go to bed. I'm full of energy, thanks to the alcohol. I'm not drunk, but I have a buzz.
Kate, Mia, Hannah and I stay awake.
"Let's go swimming!"
"Kate. I didn't bring a suit." Well, I do have that one that Andrea got me.
"Me neither." Kate grins. "We don't need suits. We're going skinny dipping!"
"What?!" That's my best friend. I giggle
"Hell yeah. Come on." Kate says.
Kate pulls off her cheetah babydoll. She's only in her matching panties. She starts taking them off, as well and runs butt naked to through the house, out the back door. We follow her outside. She jumps in the pool. Mia takes off her pajamas and joins Kate. Hannah looks at me. I shrug. What the hell. I go back inside to get us towels. When I come out Hannah is in the pool. I put the towels on the table.
"Come on, Ana!"
I start to strip out of my nightwear. I walk to the pool and get in with my girls. Thankfully, it's a heated pool. It's dark outside so nobody can see us, although, the pool is lit up. Eventually, we move to the hot tub. Kate goes inside, naked, without her towel, and brings out champagne and more of those delicious strawberries. She pours the champagne into glasses, handing us each one. She climbs into the hot tub next to me.
"To Ana!"
"To Ana!" Mia and Hannah shout.
We clink our glasses, laughing and drink.
"Thanks girls, this was a lot of fun. Mia and Hannah, you two have quickly become close friends to me. Kate, you'll always be my number one."
"We'll be besties until we're old and senile." Kate says.
"Then we can be new friends." We laugh.
"Exactly."
We have fun talking, naked, in the hot tub. It's getting later, so Hannah and I are going to bed. Kate and Mia, stay up partying. Hannah and I, wrap in towels and go inside, carrying our pajamas. I show Hannah the guest room she's staying in. Kate and I are sharing a room, but since she's still partying with Mia, I get the bed to myself for now. I shower, to get the chemicals off my body and hair. I don't have enough energy to dry my hair, so I braid it. I put on fresh panties and one of Christian's T-shirts, I packed. I lay down in bed, covering with the bedding. I had so much fun with my girls tonight. I wonder what they have planned for tomorrow?
I'm laying here, thinking about Christian. It's hard to sleep, without him. I've gotten use to being wrapped in his arms every night. I wonder what trouble Elliot and Christian have gotten into, tonight. Christian hasn't called me and I haven't heard from him, since I sent him the picture earlier. He said he'd call me if he had trouble sleeping, but it's me that's having trouble sleeping without my love.
As soon as I finish that thought, my phone starts to buzz. Christian. He's calling me. I smile and answer.
"Hello?"
"Shit."
"Christian?"
"Shit!"