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CHAPTER 2 Snoopy Kate.

CPOV

I see her walk out of the room but something about her has left me in oblivion. It's a strange feeling, an unprecedented emotion never experienced before. Her innocent beauty left me bewitched. Her soft tone still echo in my head. Oh God! What's all this now, pull yourself together Christian, not the man for her. I shall be working now. I grab my phone and punch in 'Edward' to make a call.

"Grey."

"Edward I have talked out our proposal with Miss Steele and I want you to personally mail her a promising offer. We need her in this." I stressed my tone on last words as if desperately wanting her approval. What got into me? Though I do a lot of charity but helping out an individual and that too a woman is something I have never done. I shouldn't be thinking all this. This isn't me. Fix thyself, Grey!

APOV

I reach home fully exhausted after such a long day and there is Kate leaning on the shelf. She rushes towards me in excitement and gives me a tight hug.

"So tell me, sweetie, how did it all go?" This is what I love about Kate the most. She's always inquisitive about the big events of my life just I like a mother would do. She has warmth like family.

"Good." I grabbed a water bottle from the fridge and gulped down water soothing my dry throat.

"Good!.." That's all you gotta say for my long day awaited most curious question of the day." She cocked her head to one side with a raised eyebrow and her lips formed a pout. I laughed at the elaborated version of her instigated excitement of my day.

"Ok, so I reached GREY HOUSE around 10:40. It was all glass, steel and white sandstone building. It's a masterpiece in itself, you should look for pictures online and then I met Mr Lorrin first, he was very kind to me and he praised my work. Then he led me to Mr Grey's office. Mr Lorrins stood in sheer silence for the whole time in Mr Grey's office. I think he is a quite a strict CEO."

"Yeah.. grumpy old men as CEO's always sucks", Kate exclaimed as her face frowned and no doubt I had the same image of a CEO as her.

"Mr Grey is not old Miss kavanaugh." I tried to lift the veil of her perception.

"What?" Kate says in astonishment.

"He seemed to be in his mid-twenties. He's actually quite competent to run an empire at his age." A deep thought ran through my mind of him being wise beyond his age and I ought to be like him someday.

"Wow... Misandrist Ana is, in fact, reverence for a man. Is he that magical?" Kate mocks me with a mischievous grin formed on her lips.

"I'm not misandrist Katie... and yes he is intimidating." I reciprocated with a wink.

Astounded Kate paces from kitchen shelve to our resting area and picks up the laptop. "Now I certainly need to see this man." She googles 'Christian grey' and browse through his picture with wide eyes in total awe.

"He's a hot dude, Ana."

"Umm...'HOT' yes according to Kate's dictionary of masculinity... 'I DON'T CARE' according to Ana's regular dictionary." Kate gives me a frowned look at my response and buries her face into the screen.

"It says he is a Harvard dropout and he began his business venture at the age of twenty years. He was featured in the Forbes magazine 100 most influential people list." Kate summarise her search result to me. "Quite an achiever." She concludes.

"And now you are replicating my words." Now it's my time to mock Kate. I giggle.

"That's mean, Ana... I mea...nt"

"Let's terminate this talk. It's getting dark and I'm starving badly." I grumble as I interrupt Kate amid.

"Oh yes... you had a long day sweetheart. So what do you wanna eat? Let's order today."

"Uh..Umm... I'll like a pepperoni pizza with chicken nuggets."

"Awesome. Ok, so one large pizza with chicken nuggets and I'll add mushroom risotto." She confirms before placing the order. I shake my head in approval. After dinner, I'm left with no energy, my eyes shutting forcefully but I try not to sleep coz dishes still need to be done.

"I'll do the dishes tonight. You get your butt to your bed before you fall asleep on this couch."

"Oh Kate, you are such a darling, sweetheart." I mumble pacing with my half-shut eyes trying not to collapse before reaching my bed.

Next morning I wake up with a fresh mind. "What a beautiful day", I murmur to myself. I take my shower and head to the kitchen to make breakfast for us and thus my regular day begins. Kate hasn't been out of her room yet and my mind pondered over the proposal proffered by Mr Grey. "Shit!" I totally overlooked to discuss it with Kate. My god, she would slay me for this.

"Kate..." I shout, "breakfast is on table".

"Yeah! coming."

We sat at our breakfast table and I begin, "I have something important to discuss with you. What time will you be available?"

"I always have time for you sweetie just blurt it out."

"But don't you have a meeting scheduled with amateur writers for your project."

"Don't worry about it. I'll have the details from Lydia." She says as she holds my hand. "Besides I wasn't interested either, you just gave me a reason to skip." She adds with a smirk.

"Fine. So last night I missed out to talk about the proposal Mr Grey has offered."

"What is it?" Kate inquires with curiosity

"They want to extend my proposed work of cryptography and they want my assistance in it. I'll get remuneration for it." She listens to me conscientiously.

"Wait a sec., did Mr Hotshot offered you a job." I chuckled at sobriquet of Mr Grey.

"'It's not a job offer', Mr Grey's words. He said to consider it as a first step towards my entrepreneurship ladder. I'll get remuneration for it and I can work at my own pace and visit GREY HOUSE anytime. No constraints within six months time limit. "

"And your point of uncertainty is...?" Kate exclaims.

"The whole idea is uncertain. No doubt the offer is good but it's not just the right time. It'll be inconvenient to travel to and fro. Plus I don't want to be indebted by his act of generosity in my entrepreneur venture. It's a hard choice."

"Look, Ana sweetie, you don't get a chance to acquaint yourself with business personalities every day especially with people like Grey. Take your time and give it a thorough thought. Wise choices of today will shape a wise future for tomorrow." She enlightens me on my dilemma and I sigh in relief. "And what was all that 'act of generosity' thing you just mentioned." Snoopy Kate mode on.

"Well.. Let's save that chat for later." I try to escape that part of the conversation.

"No way, you are letting it all out right now, right here, over this table, sitting on this chair." She puts out her index finger and points to the things she mentioned with her head erect and slightly pushed forward.

"Ookayyy... when I met Mr Grey, he actually started to enquire about my plans regarding my cryptography framework and I told him that I do thought of developing it my final semester project. He said they would like to assist me and even offered me internship but I declined him as I want to intern here at Vancouver. You know Kate, I actually felt strange when he became inquisitive about my future plans and that was the point where 'act of generosity' quotient came in the picture." I make double quotation marks in the air.

"He asked you about your future plans?" Kate became curious at this point.

"Yes. Isn't it strange? I mean why would a CEO of a big company be interested in a commoner's future. Even his actions to my certain gestures were weird." Although I ignored these details at that moment but now my mind is all lost for the answers.

She stares straight into my eyes. "What gestures and what actions?" Kate is getting all anxious.

"Well, you know my gestures rolling my eyes, biting my lip, the usual ones."

"What?... Did you bit your lip in front of the CEO."

"Uhmm.. Yepp... Why? You know I bite my lip out of nervousness."

"Yes Ana, it's me who knows that. I have told you several times get rid of this habit. It's a sly gesture and gives out wrong meanings." Kate persuades me to the unwary.

"Ok... I get it. Please be calm Kate."

"How did he react?"

"Sometimes clenched his fingers in the desk, sometimes stared deep, real deep into eyes. That kinda made me felt uncomfortable."

"Two things: either he is interested in you or he is a pervert." I laughed at Kate's conclusions.

"Woah Kate... Your brain gets nasty quite fast. To me, he looked neither."

"Haah.. you'll see it, Ana."

"In next life, for sure." I spill water over her imagination. "I think it's too much of Grey talk for one day. We have works to finish. I'll be leaving now else I'll be late for Clayton's store", I bid my goodbye to Kate before I leave.

"Yeah sure.. You always run away when it comes to boys." She mumbles.

I could feel the sense of deceitfulness in her voice but if only I could let her know about my fears she wouldn't say that.