A Flower For My Grandparents

Flight School

Christian
I am interested in getting trained to fly my jet. Especially since I discovered Anastasia is qualified to teach me how to fly. Kate was the one that had time to teach me though. Elliott tried to get her as his instructor but ended up with Anastasia instead. Kate must have switched us as students. It seems like a lot of work and Barney decided to create his version of a training module to get us better equipped to pass the tests and it worked well and we added potential students to the courses. It was first come first serve, but we limited it to the number of students Anastasia and Kate could take on. They subcontracted to other trainers and most were ex military with a lot of flight time under their belts. Friends of Anastasia's dead father.

Kate
I have to say Christian takes this very serious unlike Elliott. So we got him trained in less than six months and he has his own jets, which helps out a lot. We became very busy so busy we had to hire other pilots to train. Elliott tried to get me to train him but that didn't happen after Anastasia switched us out. I think Anastasia is still training him because he is just a big goofy guy. He hasn't hit on her. He took eight months to finally get his license to pilot his brother's jets. I wouldn't fly with him lol.

Anastasia
After eight months of training Elliott he legitimately passed the flight test and he got the license. I was very happy to see him pass it finally. I finally found some of my dad's pilot friends who served as pilots in the service and put them to work for Steele pilot training. We add five jets to our fleet and we are being kept busy after GEH and the Grey's passed their pilots training. We got more students from GEH. They also learned to fly helicopters, we only have two at this point. Kate and I took time off for our exams and passed them. We are thinking of going on a vacation to a beach location. I made sure things were running smoothly and put a few trusted people in charge. I guess Mia graduated from the same college and on the same day, because the Grey family was at the graduation.

Elliott
Anastasia apparently didn't like my antics and told me to take piloting seriously. She told me that I was going to take written tests every week until I passed the tests. Finally I passed with flying colors and the guy passed me saying I did a great job as long as I took flying seriously and realized lives were in my hands in the jet and on the ground. That woke me up very quickly. I was pretty proud of my pilots license. Christian only took six months and don't get me started on Barney the IT genius who went in knowing everything about the jet he was training on. He was flying and got his hours done fairly quickly and his license in three months. It was that program he created that helped him.

Barney
I loved flying the jets and I expanded to the bigger planes soon afterward. Christian offered to pay for that training and the rental of the bigger planes to help me get rated for piloting them. Quite a few other employees signed up to learn to fly the jets. It kept Steele Flight school very busy and they expanded the flight school. Anastasia came up to sign a contract with mr Grey over the flight school training and she walked away very happy and they went to lunch.

Jason
I am amazed that Anastasia accepted a lunch invitation from mr Grey. Her security staff were as well. It was a long lunch and we were invited to have lunch as well.so we did. I think they hit it off after knowing each other for a very long time. She was still a teenager when they met. Now she's 22 and he is 28 and both seemed to have matured greatly. Her companies are expanding and they have been diversifying in all directions. Now I know why she turned the keys to the charitable organizations she started to Maribelle. Maribelle and her cousins have expanded to various connecting states. It just amazes me what they have done with the buildings they were given.

Anastasia
Christian and I have a number of interest in common and we spent a lot of time talking about those. He can be very funny and I really like that. We ended up spending three hours and I got an emergency call to discuss an issue with the flight school and had to leave. He asked me out for dinner if I got things straightened out. I ended up getting things straightened out and the jet was sent for repairs. So Christian picked me up and we flew to a nice restaurant he owns.

Christian
I set things up and picked her up in my helicopter. Jason piloted us to the restaurant I just reopened. It was a great place to bring a date. Elliott would love the idea the restaurant was connected to a beautiful hotel. It was not my intention to get a room at all. We danced and had a great time. The food was perfect and I plan to take her here again soon. Everything was great and there were no paparazzi trying to invade our privacy. I just don't want her privacy being violated once people find out we are sort of dating. We get ready to fly back to Seattle and paparazzi have found out where we are. Luckily they can't get onto the helipad on top of the hotel. Jason flies us back to Seattle and hands over the controls to Joe our mechanic at the airfield. Soon I walk her to her front door and her security goes to their stations. I pull her into my arms and kiss her goodnight and tell her I will call her and arrange a date for us to go out again.