Ana POV

I wake up the next morning feeling refreshed but my body is aching, there's something about London that drains me. I head downstairs to start cooking breakfast for Kate and I before I open my laptop to check emails and my social media accounts. I put our scrambled eggs and toast on a tray and head up to Kate's room as usual we eat our breakfast together in her bed on Saturday mornings.

"Hey"

"How are you feeling after yesterday? You passed out asleep before you had the chance to tell me about Grey"

"It was exhausting and very informative"

"That's it?"

"What do you mean?"

"What about him? Even you, who finds something good in everyone, must have formed an opinion about him even though you only met him briefly."

"I can understand why people find him attractive. He's very polite, intimidating and erm, clean."

"Clean?"

"Mmhmm"

We eat in silence as we watch some stupid reality show and I can't help but feel like Kate knows more than she is telling me.

Kate POV

Shortly after Ana text me yesterday evening to let me know that she was on her way home I got a call from Christian Grey's private number. I thought the asshole was cancelling on me, it's not like he's been the easiest person to get a meeting with, when I accepted the call I wasn't at all expecting the words that came out of his mouth.

"Hello?"

"Miss Kavanagh this is Mr Grey. I'm calling about Anastasia, I believe the two of you live together?"

"Yes"

"I met her today in the meeting and she struck me as someone that I would like to keep in my employment. I remembered that I have a meeting with you next Wednesday and wondered if it would be possible to have Miss Steele accompany you for the day. This won't affect our meeting of course."

"Of course Mr Grey, I'm sure Ana would be gladly accept the invitation."

"You can't tell her anything about me calling you. I'll pay for your transport and hotel for the night so you can spend some time in the city, I know how much she loves it here."

"I won't tell her anything, thank you Mr Grey."

"You're welcome Miss Kavanagh. See you on Wednesday."

With his final words the call discontented. What the hell is going on between those two?

Christian POV

It's only been a day and I can't get Anastasia Steele out of my head. The thing that bothered me more than anything was the dream that I had about her last night.

She is on her back blindfolded and her hands are bound with my tie above her head so she can't touch me. Her breathing is shallow as she eagerly awaits my next move.

"Anastasia what are the safe words?"

"Yellow and Red"

I flick the leather riding crop I am holding against her left breast.

"Safe words Anastasia?"

"Yellow and red, Sir"

"Good girl, now you get your reward"

I woke up that morning with a hard on which hasn't happened for a long time. It was a welcome change to my usual night terrors but dreaming about Anastasia made me want her even more. It also made me realise that to 'play' the way I want to I need to design something a bit more specialised than what I have now. The weekend is no different to weekdays for me. I wake up, work out and check emails to prepare for the day ahead. This morning however I am distracted and can't seem to focus on work the way I usually do and I know the reason why. After my call to Miss Kavanagh she agreed to bring Anastasia to London with her and I felt something that I didn't recognise and something that I feel whenever I think about Ana, it's unsettling.

Ana POV

The weekend has gone by in a blur and all too soon it's Monday. I sit through my English lectures and daydream about his icy grey eyes, his unruly copper hair, I wonder what his body looks like underneath that suit? Shit, get a grip Steele! I have spare time between lectures and decide to look up train ticket prices to London. What am I doing? Stalking my boss now?! I'm relieved when the lecture is over and I can finally get home and into comfortable clothes with my laptop and a glass of wine. Kate has been pretty quiet the past couple of days and I don't want to bother her, she's probably nervous about interviewing Christian. I check social media sites as always and see that GEH and Ros now follow me on Twitter so I follow them back. I turn off all my notifications and start writing up class notes, edit a small section of work for Sharon which is due on Wednesday and write the first chapter of my new idea for a book.

Tuesday (still Ana POV)

I wake up early and go for a run around the city while it is tourist-free and I have chance to admire the sunrise over the old buildings. Once I get back home I shower and get ready to leave for uni, luckily I only have one lecture today because I stayed up way too late writing last night and once again dreamt about those icy grey eyes. I don't particularly enjoy the class itself but the people in it have been my friends since first year and we've barely had the chance to see each other recently.

"What are you doing this weekend Ana?"

"I'm not sure yet, why?"

"Well we were thinking of having a girls day on Saturday for old times sake before we all get completely consumed by work"

"Yes I'd love to! Shit, I've got to run, Kate locked herself out of the house. See you soon!"

"Bye!"

I miss my friends but I guess I shut myself off from people in fear that they will leave me or to prepare me for moving. I haven't told anyone yet but I don't plan on staying in England for much longer after I graduate. It makes sense to me because my parents live in the States now but it would mean leaving Kate and starting a whole new life by myself. I try to push the though out of my head.

I get home just as it begins to rain and see Kate sat on the step, leaning against the door.

"Thank you Ana! You're a life saver!"

"And you're overdramatic"

"Yeah whatever, do you want to order pizza tonight?"

"Sure"

I head upstairs to change clothes and grab my laptop to write a little more before I completely switch off for the night. I always try to get more sleep on Tuesday night because Wednesday is my work day at the publishing company with Sharon and as much as I love it, it is a lot more tiring than going to lectures.

The evening flies by and 2 bottles of wine and a lot of pizza later, Kate and I are laughing at some stupid video on YouTube of goats screaming.

"Ana, come with me tomorrow."

"What?"

"Come with me tomorrow, to London."

"I'd love to but you know I have work and I can't miss it."

"I've sorted everything out! You can come with me tomorrow morning, I booked us a hotel for the night so you just have to be by yourself for a couple of hours while I interview Grey and then we can do whatever you want to do."

"Really?! Kate you're the best!"

"I know I'm pretty amazing aren't I?"

"The best friend in the world!"

"We've had too much wine to wake up early tomorrow unless we go to bed soon."

"I don't want another hangover they're awful, lets go."

I say goodnight to Kate and quickly message Ros asking if she's free to go for drinks tomorrow evening with Kate and I. I almost text Christian too but then think better of it, I shouldn't be asking my boss out on a date. Once again I fall asleep dreaming about him, what spell have you cast over me Grey?

A/N: So here is the long overdue update! I want to write in present time so this chapter and chapter 5 (tomorrow) will be pre-Christmas (it will make sense eventually trust me haha) and chapter 6 onwards will be in real time. For update times on this story and my other current story 'You & I' check my profile or follow me on Twitter. Any ideas of what will happen when they meet again? As always please review/follow/favourite and enjoy! Becca x