Chapter 4:
The day goes by quite fast and before I know it it's lunchtime. I make my way to the table where I see Kate with Ethan and a girl. I take a seat next to Kate and look at the girl opposite me. She's gorgeous, with short raven hair and green eyes. "Hey Steele. Mia, this is Ana. Ana, this is Mia, Ethan's new lady friend." Ethan glares at Kate and Mia just giggles.
"It's great to meet you! I've heard so much about you." I tell her likewise and we start a conversation. Mia is very bubbly and likes Ethan a lot. I can tell by the way she touches her hair and laughs at everything he says. She also can't stop touching him, it's nice.
"So do you go here?"
"Oh no, I came here one day to have lunch with my brother and then I met Ethan. I actually just got back from Paris, I was studying- Oh, here's my brother now." I turn and see Christian walking towards us. Mia is Christian's sister? Small world.
"Mia, mother wants you back home now. Something about shopping." Mia squeals, kisses Ethan on the cheek and runs off, shouting goodbye to all of us. He turns to us.
"Afternoon. I'll still see you in my classroom after school, Ana?" I nod and smile at him. As he walks away he brushes my shoulder with his hand lightly and it sends a wonderful shiver down my spine. I watch as he walks away and I see a person I really don't want to see walking purposefully towards the table.
"Ana, I need to speak to you."
"Jose I don't have anything to say to you."
"Then listen to me-"
"-Get the fuck away from her you disgusting pig." Kate says menacingly, you don't want to mess with angry Kate. It's not pretty and there's no way you'll escape without a few broken fingers.
"Kate stay out of this, it has nothing to do with you."
"Nothing to do with me?" She stands up. Oh no. "It had something to do with me the minute you tried to rape my best friend."
"What?!" Ethan says, looking at Jose in horror.
"It wasn't like that. Just sit down and let me talk to Ana."
"No. You listen to me you little creep. If you don't stay away from her I swear to god you will not leave my presence without every bone in your body being broken. Do you understand me? If you ever try anything with her again I will make sure you don't make it out of the situation unharmed. Got it?"
He stares at her then opens his mouth to speak again.
"Ana please." He moves towards me and I stand up.
"Did you not hear what Kate said? Leave me alone! You have completely betrayed my trust and you can never get it back."
"But I love you."
I scoff. "I don't give a flying fuck." I storm off and I hear Ethan telling him to never speak to any of us again. My eyes are blurry from tears and I don't realise where I'm going until I bump into a rock hard chest. Again.
"Ana?" I look up into his eyes and mine fill up again. "Oh Ana. Come into my office." He ushers me through a door and gestures for me to take a seat. I sit down on the sofa by his desk and he sits next to me. We sit quiet for a few minutes, with only the sound of my sniffles breaking the silence. "What did he do?" Christian finally speaks.
"He only tried to speak to me. Kate put him in his place though. I'm such an idiot." I put my head in my hands. He rubs my back.
"Hey, no you're not. You have a right to be shaken up, it's ok." I wipe my nose on the back of my hand and give him a shy smile.
"Where are we going for dinner?" He smiles warmly at me.
"Wherever you want. You do want to go right?" I sit up.
"Of course, why wouldn't I?" He looks down, as if ashamed.
"Because, I'm your teacher." His words are barely audible. I take his hand and he looks up at me, surprised.
"I know you are. But, I had fun last night and I haven't had fun in ages. I'm twenty one, not twelve, it'll be fine Christian." I bring his hand to my mouth and graze my lips against his skin. His eyes widen at my bold move.
"You're fascinating Anastasia. A true wonder." He says, staring into my eyes. I take this time to really appreciate his looks. He really is flawless. His beautiful full lips and the way they look so soft, his nose that's neither too small nor to big for his face, his eyebrows are threaded to perfection, the most chiseled facial features I've ever seen, as if sculpted by an artist. And let's not forget those beautiful grey eyes, almost silver with such a depth to them I feel like every emotion he's ever felt is there at this very moment. They're also looking right into me, and it's like he's figuring me out with just his eyes locked onto mine. We stay like this for a while, both gazing into the others eyes. Until a knock brings us back to reality. Christian clears his throat and walks to the door to open it.
"Mrs Lincoln. How can I help you?" Just then the blonde witch that we all know as the university president makes her way into the room, she pauses when she looks at me, but then she goes on and acts as though I'm not even there. Rude bitch. She hasn't done anything wrong to me per se, I just hate her mannerisms. The plastic smile, to go along with the rest of her body, I often wonder what parts of her body haven't had the touch of a magic surgeons scalpel. The way she walks as well, as if she were a queen and all of us her court jesters. I've never liked her, neither has Kate, and she's a very good judge of character.
"Mr Grey I wanted to ask you how your work was going." I cringe at her silky smooth voice. Yuck.
"It's all going very well, thank you Mrs Lincoln. If you'll excuse me I have Anastasia to catch up on work with me." I can tell by his tone that he doesn't like her. It's cold and devoid of emotion, very authoritative. Whereas when he's talking to me it's soft and relaxed, and damn sexy.
"I'm sure little Anastasia can wait." She sneers. I'm fuming. Who even is she to speak about me like I'm some child? Like I'm not even in the room?
"May I remind you Mrs Lincoln I am nearly twenty two, I'm not a child." I see Christian smirk slightly at my bitchy comment and the bitch troll looks surprised.
"Now now, don't let out the claws dear." Oh I'll show you claws.
"Patronising tones do not mix well with me, Mrs Lincoln." I say her name like I'm disgusted, and I see Christian trying to hold back laughter. "I have missed an awful lot this year so if you wouldn't mind, I would like to get back to Mr Grey so that I can graduate. Does that sound suitable to you, Mrs Lincoln?" She merely tuts and walks out, eyeing my man a little too much for my liking. Whoa Steele, your man? Slow down! When Christian shuts the door behind her I visibly relax and he let's out a laugh, what a wonderful sound.
"Ana that was, brilliant. You are quite an extraordinary woman Miss Steele." He sits down next to me.
"You too, are quite an extraordinary woman Mr Grey." He laughs again and I try and memorise the sound. When he stops he pushes an escaping strand of hair behind my ear and holds my face in his hand. This time I'm the first one to lean in and he follows shortly after. Our lips touch and it's a little more passionate than the first one, soon he deepens it and pulls me closer to him. I let his tongue pass my lips and invade my mouth, and I do the same with mine. Soon we are making out on his sofa, in his office. Suddenly there's a knock and before we can move away from each other the door opens and I'm relieved that it's only Kate.
"Hey Mr G is Ana- oh shit- um I mean sugar. Sorry! I'll a- I'll just, talk to you later then Ana." She runs back out and shuts the door.
"Will she tell anyone?"
"No! No she wouldn't." Would she? "I'll make sure she doesn't." He relaxes and touches my cheek again.
"What are you doing to me? I've known you for two days and I feel like I've known you forever. Actually." He opens the door and looks around. "Get your stuff we're going."
"What?" He can't be serious. I'm intrigued though.
"You have a free period right?"
"No, I have English." He sighs. "Come on they won't miss you for one hour."
"That's not what a teacher should be telling his student, Mr Grey." I smirk at him. I think about it for a minute. He holds out his hand and I grab my bag, run over to him and take it. He pulls me out the door and we run through the empty corridors, making sure to slow down when we get to bitch troll's office, then we speed up again, winding in and out until we get outside. We run to his car and get in. We both look at each other and he gives me the most beautiful megawatt smile I've ever seen. I grin back at him and he kisses my hand before pulling out the parking lot and driving away from WSU.
"Where are we going?" He smiles and glances at me.
"I thought we'd go for a walk. Sound good?" I nod and he continues to drive. He parks in a woodland parking lot and tells me to stay put. Then he gets out the car and walks round to open my door. What a gentlemen. He reaches out his hand and I take it willingly. We walk along the little woodland path and I'm constantly gazing up and looking at all the trees and the birds, it's such a peaceful and serene environment I am completely at ease.
"What are you thinking?" Christian says, breaking the silence.
"How beautiful this place is. How did you find it?"
"I went on a drive a couple of months ago when I first got here, I saw this place and parked. I walked through here and I've been coming here ever since. You never knew this was here?"
"No, never. Though I know if I had this would definitely been my thinking place." He squeezes my hand and I look up at him, he smiles warmly at me and I do the same. I love being here, with him, it's perfect.
"What's your favourite song?" He suddenly blurts out.
"Witchcraft by Frank Sinatra. Yours?" I grew up with my mom and dad dancing and laughing to this song, it makes me think of when they were together and how happy everyone was. Shame it had to change.
"Transcriptions by Bach. It's my favourite piece to play on piano."
"That's a dreadfully sad melody, why is that your favourite? Out of all the others?" I move closer to him and hold his bicep while looking up at him as we walk. My oh my does he work out.
"It was the first piece I learned as a child, it was my way of dealing with things I guess. I had a very rough childhood Ana, it was hard for me to get over it. Piano was one of the ways. Plus when I wake in the middle of the night I play it and it makes me feel peaceful." Wow, so he's damaged. That's so unfortunate. I squeeze him tighter and rest my head on his arm, he responds by putting his arm around my shoulder so I can lean further into him.
"Why do you wake up in the middle of the night?"
"I'd rather not talk about it Anastasia." He stiffens. Oh dear, I've crossed the line, shit. Bring it back Steele, hurry.
"That's ok, you don't have to tell me if you don't want to. I'm here if you want to talk though, ok?" He relaxes and nods, smiling down at me. You've done it, my subconscious applauds me. Phew!
"What's your favourite movie?"
"Pretty Woman, by far. What about you?"
"I've never heard of it. I don't really have one to be honest. I'm far too busy to watch movies." I look up at him in shock.
"You've never seen Pretty Woman!?" He laughs at my expression and shakes his head. "Well Mr Grey we must rectify the situation immediately. Take us to my apartment please." He chuckles when I turn around and pull his hand back to where we came.
"It's not some sappy romance movie is it?" I stop and turn around. I put a hand on my hip and wag my finger in his face, feigning anger.
"Now listen here Grey. Pretty Woman is a brilliantly clever movie with excitement and love. And a tiny bit of sex. It's a beautiful movie and you will cry at the end. Understand?" He laughs and nods, I pull him away once again and we walk back to the car.
A/N - Here's another chapter for you guys. I've not been busy at all today so I've just been writing. Thanks for reading and feedback is always appreciated!
Sophie x