Chapter 28:
Four Months Later...
I can't believe I'm graduating already. This has been such a crazy year, and I'm not going to be at college anymore, I'm moving in with my billionaire boyfriend. I get brought out of my thoughts when Kate taps me on the shoulder. "There's Ray." I turn my head and see Ray, but I also see another person with him.
"Mom!" I sprint over to her and nearly knock her off her feet.
"Easy Annie, she's still getting better honey." I just can't stop smiling. My mom hits Ray's arm.
"Let her hug me! Heck I'm just glad to be out of that humid dump I call home, I'm so proud of you baby girl." I hug her again. She did get help and started takin her prescribed medication as well. She still has her bad days but she's better, she's thinking clearer and I couldn't be happier to see her here. I turn to Ray and hug him, then see that he's a bit emotional.
"You got something in your eye dad?" He nods, wiping his tears.
"Dust or something. Shall we take our seats?" He says to my mom and she nods, smiling up at him. They haven't said that they're getting back together, but they've been giving each other little glances now and then that Kate says Christian and I do, so I'm not really sure what to expect, or whether my mom wants a relationship. But Ray still loves her, he would do anything for her, I used to think about how much I wanted a man to love me as much as Ray loves her, and now I do. I smile at the thought of Christian. We've been together for eight months now and we're still as loved up as we were when we first met. Elliot is coming down for graduation because he said he wanted to "See his future sister-in-law graduate." But I think it's so he can meet Kate. Mia is already down here with Ethan and Grace and Carrick are coming here with Elliot. We're having a huge graduation dinner with us Steele's, the Kavanagh's and the Grey's. It's going to be amazing.
"Ok Steele, let's go to our seats!" I nod and we walk towards the big hall with all our fellow students. When I sit down I see Christian scanning the room for me up on the stage. His eyes find mine and they light up, he smiles brilliantly and I nearly fall down. I smile back and sit down. Elena Lincoln makes a speech congratulating us on our achievements and a bunch of shit that I don't listen to. She stayed away from me ever since I spoke to
Lily, who has also stayed away from me as well. Then she welcomes Christian to the stage and everyone claps while girls swoon at the sight of him. I hear two girls in front of me talk about him.
"How can he be with that girl? He's gorgeous and she's so-"
"-Plain?"
"Yeah!" I lean forward and tap their shoulders.
"Yeah, she's a real mousy bitch don't you think?" They stare at me in shock before mumbling an apology and turning back around. Christian starts talking and I zone out completely when he makes eye contact with me. He's so passionate about what he's talking about and I love that about him. He's so beautiful. I honestly don't think I could love him more. It's not been long but I couldn't imagine my life without him, we're going to live together after all of this. Start our life together. I can help but grin at him and he falters slightly in his speech but it was only enough for just me to notice. When he finishes he smiles at me and all the girls sigh. I roll my eyes and they start reading out names. It's takes ages to get to my name and as I get to Christian he shakes my hand and I feel that spark that I always feel when he touches me.
"Congratulations, Miss Steele." He says, smirking.
"Thank you, Mr Grey." I say, equally as sarcastic as he did. I make my way off the stage and that's it. I'm done with college. I'm an official adult.
We're at the Kavanagh's for our graduation party, Kate and I are upstairs when the Grey's come. I run down and greet Christian with a hug and lingering kiss when Kate walks through the door. Elliot looks up and sees her and they both look star struck. Wow, love at first sight. Christian leans over to me.
"They're in love already. That was almost as quick as us." I turn and smile at him, then tilt my head up so that he kisses me softly. We head into the dining room to have dinner. Elaine and Andrew Kavanagh are the most lovely people. Kate's dad creeps me out a bit, but I think that's just because he's really intimidating and rich. Says the woman with the CEO boyfriend. Elaine turns to Grace.
"You have lovely children Grace, you're a wonderful mother." Grace smiles warmly at her children seated around the table.
"They may all be grown ups but they're still my little babies. I can't believe one of them is moving in with their partner, it's wonderful but it makes me feel so old." Christian and I look at each other. I haven't told Kate we're not living together yet. Shit. Kate looks confused at Ethan.
"You are Mia are going to live together?" Ethan shakes his head.
"No, we're moving in together after I've finished college. Not everyone has graduated yet Kate." She sticks her tongue out at him and looks to Grace, glancing quickly at me.
"Who's moving in together then?" We all stay silent, Grace realises and keeps quiet. She looks at me. "Ana?"
"Hm?" I look up at her and she obviously sees the guilt on my face because her eyes fill with tears and she gets up and storms out of the room. They all look at me.
"Oh Ana I'm so sorry. I didn't know." Grace says looking worried. I look at her and smile.
"It's fine Grace. She had to find out sometime." Elliot excuses himself to go and check if she's ok. When they don't come down after we've finished desert and moved into the living room I go and see if she's alright. I go up the stairs then down the corridor to Kate's room. I don't pay attention and open the door, my eyes widening at the scene before me. Kate is sat naked at the edge of her bed with Elliot's head in between her legs, she's writhing and moaning and I cover my ears and close my eyes. "I'm so sorry! I'll - I'll go!" I run out the room and close the door before they have a chance to talk to me. I quickly move down the stairs and back into the living room. I avoid eye contact with all of them. "They're fine." I sit next to Christian and he puts his arm around me.
"You ok?" I look up at him and giggle.
"They were really ok, Christian. Like you and me last night ok." I whisper to him and he nods.
"Wait, which time?"
"The second time." He raises his eyebrows.
"Wow, well done Kate and El." We both laugh and start a conversation with the rest of the group. Surprisingly Elliot and Kate don't come down for the rest of the evening and god can only imagine what they're doing. As Christian and I turn down the bed in one of the five spare bedrooms I can't help but think about Kate.
"Ana stop overthinking it. She'll forgive you and at this rate I wouldn't be surprised if she moves in with Elliot." I love how he knows what I'm thinking.
"I know, I just need to speak to her first thing, or at least once she's done with Elliot." He laughs and we get into bed. We cuddle up next to each other and lay in silence before I think of something. "You know, this will be the first day in fourteen days that we haven't had sex." He nods.
"Well that wouldn't be the case if you hadn't taken a shower by yourself this morning." I chuckle.
"I needed to shave! You wouldn't have wanted to watch me shave." He scoffs. "Would you?"
"Well when I have before it turned me on. Watching you make tea is sexy Ana." I giggle at him and shake my head then I realise what he just said.
"When have you watched me shave?" He stays silent and I sit up. "You dirty pervert." He grins at me and winks.
"Can you blame me?" He sits up and kisses me and suddenly it becomes fifteen days in a row that we've had sex.
When I wake up in the morning my first thought is speaking to Kate and the second is the hard thing pressing into my thigh. It's not very often that I wake up before him so I figure I'll make it a nice surprise. I pull the covers back carefully then take him in my hands and run my tongue over the tip. When I put all of him in my mouth he stirs then looks down wide eyed. "Holy shit that's hot." I smile and continue to suck until he pulls me up and I lower myself onto him slowly. We take a shower afterwards and once we're dressed we go downstairs for breakfast. I see Kate sat next to Elliot, they're snuggled up close to each other when she looks up at me.
"Kate can I have a word?" She nods and stands up, walking outside into the garden. I shut the door behind me. "Look, I didn't want-"
"-Why didn't you tell me Ana? Did you think I wouldn't let you live with your boyfriend? Did you think I would hate you?" I shake my head.
"No! No, I didn't think those things I just, I don't know. The dream was to live together like Monica and Rachel after college and I wanted that to happen it's just that, Christian asked me a few months ago and I said yes. But the whole time I thought of what you would say. I'm sorry I didn't tell you and I'm sorry that you had to hear it like this. But I love you like a sister Kate and I couldn't bare it if you were mad at me." She smiles.
"Don't be silly, I'm not mad. I don't why I didn't think you would want to live with your boyfriend who also lives in Seattle. And I'll only be twenty minutes away so it'll be just like we were never apart. And I'm sorry about last night I don't know what happened it was just an impulse and-"
"-Trust me it's fine. The amount of times you've caught Christian and I, I deserved it. And I know all about spontaneity." She grins at me.
"Oh yeah Miss I-Have-Sex-In-Lakes." We giggle and she holds my shoulders. "So we're ok?" I nod and she pulls me in for a hug when Elliot comes out.
"Ooo, what's going on out here? You guys gonna kiss?" I raise my eyebrows at him.
"If Christian was out here he'd kick your ass." He laughs and puts his arm round both of us.
"I'd like to see him try. And he's not here right now so." He leans in and tries to fake kiss me and I push away laughing. "Come on Ana! Just one kiss!" He runs after me laughing and I keep running while Kate howls. Eventually he gives up and falls to the ground panting and clutching his stomach. "Ok, ok. You win banana." I put my foot on him and put my fist in the air when Christian comes out.
"What the fuck are you doing?" He says, smirking at his brother under my foot.
"Elliot tried to kiss me so I outran him and he's dead now." Christian's eyes bug out of his head but Kate pats his arm for reassurance.
"Don't worry Mr G, it was just a joke. You think Elliot's balls would still be in tact if he had tried for real?" Christian laughs.
"Ah, so I see you've already got Elliot under your spell huh?" She nods and Elliot nods, while I help him up.
"Yep, she's got me all tied up. In all senses of the phrase." He leans in and they start making out. Christian and I avert our eyes and laugh to ourselves.
"Well we should get going. Thanks for having us Andrew and Elaine." I say as we make our way out.
"Oh it's no problem dear we had a wonderful evening. We should do this again sometime." I nod and we say goodbye, leaving.
"Next task." He looks at me while I drive us back to my soon to be old apartment. "Packing." I smile and nod, while my eyes stay on the road.
A/N - Hi guys! I hope you enjoy this chapter, I'm having a writers block at the moment so I'm in a bit of a pickle at the moment. It took me so long to write this. Please bare with me for the time being, and keep reviewing, some of the stuff you all write makes my day :) Thank you!
Sophie x