Fifty Shades Deeper

Chapter Two

“Ted?” I shouted over the club music. He has dragged me out to three different clubs and has decided to stay in this one. I don’t even like clubbing, it isn’t my scene.
“Come on, there are some people I want you to meet.” Ted says, grabbing my arm and dragging me towards the bar.
“Ted!” Some people shout, greeting my brother, slapping him on the shoulder in their friendly manner.
“This is my brother, Jay.” He introduces me to the three men standing before us.
“Nice to meet you.” I say, gripping each of their hand when they hold them out to me.
“So are you in the Grey business as well with Ted?” One asks.
“No, not yet, he’s just starting college.” Ted answers for me, and my jaw tightens at the ‘not yet’ bit, he knows I don’t want to work for Grey Enterprises.
“Dartmouth I take it?” Someone else asks.
“Yes.” I answer him.
“I go to Dartmouth, second year, but I work part time with your brother, for your father.” He grins at me. “My names Eric.” He tells me.
“Perhaps I’ll see you around.” I smile back.
“Bet on it!” He laughs, taking a gulp of his beer.
“Want a drink?” Ted asks me.
“Just one.” I warn, since I was the designated driver for the both of us.
He wanders off and gets served straight away by the red headed girl at the bar, I roll my eyes, anything for good looks these days.
“So are you moving down here?” Eric asks me.
I shake my head. “I have an apartment here for college time, but I still live back in Seattle.” I inform him.
“On your own?”
“No, my sister, she’s in her third and last year, is sharing the apartment with me.”
“Nice.” He grins.
“Here you go.” Ted says, handing me my drink, a beer, my first one.
I take a gulp and shudder at the taste.
“Beer Virgin?” Eric asks, and I grin at him.
“It grows on you.” He informs me.
“I hope so.” I laugh, taking another gulp, and true to his word, it starts to taste nicer as it goes down, the bitter after taste not as potent.

As the night progressed, Ted drunk more and more and let loose, I stayed by the bar with Eric, who is telling me all about Dartmouth.
“The professors are great, although some of them will try and make you quit.” He says.
“Really? Why?” I ask, still holding my empty glass.
“To suss out the weak ones.” He shrugs.
I laugh, and someone taps me on the shoulder, I turn to see a short, slim brown haired girl smiling at me.
“Are you waiting to get served?” She asks.
I shake my head at her, words failing, which isn’t normal for me, I’m normally a fine speaker.
“Do you mind if I squeeze past you, there’s no room anywhere else?” She grins, showing off perfect white teeth.
“Yes, sure, go ahead.” I practically stutter.
“Are you just going to ignore me then?” Eric grins at the girl.
“Eric?”
“Who else?” Eric laughs.
“Oh my god I haven’t seen you in two years!” She exclaims, pulling Eric into a tight hug.
“I know, how’s Victoria?”
“She’s fine, she works for a private beauty Salon now in Portland.” The girl tells him.
“Wow, that’s great for her, tell her I said hi when you next see her.”
She nods and smiles at me, then holds her hand out to me.
“Oh, this is Lillian Heirs, Lily, this is Jason Grey.” Eric quickly introduces us.
As I go to take her hand, she snatches it back.
“Grey? As in, Grey Enterprises?” She almost glares.
“Yes, well, my father is the CEO, I don’t work there though.”
“Oh, well it was nice seeing you Eric.” She smiles at our friend, quickly orders her drink and heads back off into the direction of the dance floor.
“Did I do something wrong?” I ask Eric, a little bemused at her attitude.
“She has a grudge against all you Greys, she doesn’t like your brother either, don’t worry.” Eric assures me, but it just heightens my curiosity.
“A grudge? What for?” I question.
Eric shrugs and takes another sip of his beer. “Something about her mother or whatever, she doesn’t really talk about it, all I know is, she has no intention of befriending Ted, or you it seems.”
I nod, and watch her dancing with her friends.
“How do you know her?” I ask.
“I dated her friend, Victoria for a while, we broke up because of distance, but I’m still close with the two of them, and Lily lives here, same as me.” He informs me.

“What time are we leaving?” I ask Ted when he comes back over to me and Eric.
“Soon.” He promises, I roll my eyes, knowing that his soon can range from two minutes to an hour.
I decide to mingle a bit, joining Eric as he moves across the dance floor, the loud music pounding in my ear.
“Excuse me.” I apologise when I knock into someone.
The girl turns to face me and her smile quickly fades into a bored line.
I sigh, and stop following Eric to talk to Lillian Heirs.
“Look, I don’t know what your problem is, but I’m not-“I try to explain but she holds her hand up and cuts me off.
“You don’t need to know what my problem is, Mr Grey, all you need to know is to keep away from me.” She snaps in a sneer.
“Have I done something wrong?” I argue back, feeling the heat rise as she makes me more angry.
“Ask your father.” She replies then turns away from me and disappears into the crowd.
“What a stuck up, pompous, rude, arrogant-“
“You okay there little brother?” Ted’s laughing voice interrupts my angry outburst.
“Fine! Come on, we’re going home!” I shout at my brother and head to the door.

Once outside in the night air, I take a deep breath and calm down.
Who does she think she is, instantly hating me because of my name?
God!
“Alright, let’s go.” Ted saunters out of the club and joins me by the rented car.
“What were you so pissed at anyway?” He asks when we climb in and I start the ignition.
“Eric introduced me to Lillian Heirs.” I said through gritted teeth, I have my father’s anger issues it seems.
Ted burst into a fit of laughter. “She is something, isn’t she?” He howled.
“You can say that again.” I mutter as I drive slowly down the town road.
“The first time I ever met her, I was invited to a party with Eric, a work thing, and she threw her glass of water in my face because I said I wanted to be like dad.” He grinned fondly at the memory. “I don’t know why she got so fierce, dad is a good businessman.” He defended.
I shrugged and turned the corner, and stalled the car when I had to emergency break as two people fell out in front of my car.
“What the fuck?” Ted yells.
“Stay here.” I order and unbuckle my seat belt and climb out the car.
“Get the fuck off of me!” I hear a girl shout.
Walking round to the front of the car I see a guy pushing a girl down on the ground, trying to get on top of her.
“What the fuck do you think you’re doing?!” I shout and push the guy off her, he falls easily, not seeing me coming.
The girl scrambles to her feet and stares at me.
“Get in the car Lillian!” I shout when I recognize her, she doesn’t question me or throw insults, she runs and jumps into the back seat of the car.
The guy has recovered himself and is walking back over to me, I just glare at him, refusing to move.
“What you getting involved for kid?” He sneers, getting closer to me so his nose is practically scraping mine.
“I suggest you back off, Mason.” I hear Ted say as he saunters over to stand next to me and gently pushes the guy away from me.
“Grey, what are you doing here?” Mason asks, a little less colour in his face.
“Showing my brother around.” Ted says simply.
Mason gulps quietly, but I hear him. “Tell you brother not to get involved in my business.” He snaps.
“Don’t go around harassing girls, and he won’t.” Ted snaps back, proving that he too, is just like our dad.
“Whatever.” Mason growls then stalks off back towards the club.
“I could have handled him.” I mutter to Ted.
“I know, Masons a pussy really.” Ted laughs.
“Come on.” I punch his shoulder playfully and get back into the car, almost forgetting Lily in the back until she clears her throat.
“Where are you heading?” I ask her, looking at her in my rear view mirror.
“I can walk.” She mutters, hugging herself.
“Obviously.” I reply sarcastically, and she looks down, making me feel bad.
“Look, just let me give you a ride.” I say, my tone softer than before.
“The college dorms.” She replies.
“They let you stay there during the summer?” Ted asks.
“No, I only moved in two days ago.” She replies, her tone less than friendly.
“First year?” Ted asks, ignoring her.
“Yes.” She replies.
“Same as Jay here.” Ted says, patting my arm as I drive towards Dartmouth.

As we’re driving, Ted falls asleep, the alcohol and late night kicking in.
“You okay?” I ask, glancing at her in the mirror.
“Fine.” She replies, almost angrily.
“You’re welcome.” I say sarcastically, annoyed at her tone.
“I was fine!” She shouts.
“If being dragged to the floor and attacked is fine, then yes you were!” I shout back, glaring at her in the mirror, so I see the tears spring to her eyes.
“Fuck, look, I didn’t mean it, okay.” I try to apologise. She stays silent for a little while.
“Thank you.” She eventually says after a few minutes.

We pull into the Dartmouth dorms car park and I get out to open her door for her.
“Here you are.” I say as she climbs out.
“Thanks for the lift.” She mutters.
“No problem.” And I can’t help but smile at her.
She starts to walk towards the building and turns to face me over her shoulder.
“This doesn’t mean I like you Grey.” She smirks.
“You either, Heirs.” I laugh, then get back into my car and head back to the hotel, with a softly snoring Ted next to me.

I wake Ted up when we get to the hotel and he groggily follows me in, its two am now and the hotel is quiet.
“Did Lily get home okay?” He asks, almost falling into the elevator behind me.
“Yeah.” I nod.
“Was she alright?”
“I think so, who was that Mason guy?” I ask, frowning at Ted.
“Just some Jerk who was dating her two years back, I met him when I first met Lily, he’s no good.” He informs me.
I nod, taking in the information; crazy jerk ex-boyfriend.

When we let ourselves into the hotel I have to throw my hands over my eyes to hide from the horrible sight inside.
Mom is sitting on the kitchen counter, dad in between her legs and they’re kissing like teenagers.
“God, didn’t you guys get enough of that when you were younger?!” I cry.
They don’t even have the decency to pull apart, they just giggle and laugh.
“I’m going to bed.” I groan, Ted follows me to his room, laughing softly at our love struck parents.
“At least they don’t argue.” He points out, and I just wave my hand at him and close my door.
Once I’m in bed I close my eyes eagerly, letting sleep was over me, and I dream about an oak tree and a girl laughing. 

Okay so we've met Lily now :)
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