#fsofgrey

Apparently Grey has "an issue with wasted food" which is why he keeps on telling her to eat, and why he brought up every type of breakfast food to the dining hall...? CONSISTENCY, WHATEVER. Even Ana spends several paragraphs noticing that there is no way she could eat all the food left on the table!

Grey is like fine just eat what's on your plate (okay mom) and states angrily, "If you'd eaten properly yesterday, you wouldn't be here, and I wouldn't be declaring my hand so soon."

a) okay yes I will admit that eating before drinking is better but drinking a ton is still drinking a ton and it's not HER fault that you picked up her and brought her home

b) whAT HAND IS HE DECLARING??? I'm so confused. Google says this is a poker term aaaand my interest in it is officially gone. THIS PHRASE IS IRRELEVANT.

Ana's subconscious explains that she's too excited to eat, which of course Grey does not pick up on by virtue of her not saying it out loud. Ana thinks about how "sullen" he looks; "Hmm, like a small boy. I find the thought amusing" because ha ha why say something actually funny when you can just tell the reader to be amused? Cue several paragraphs of Grey being like "what's so funny" and Ana being like "nothing" and thinking about how she's too scared of him to speak about anything at all, and then suddenly her food is finished, and that's a wrap!

"Good girl," Grey says. "I'll take you home when you've dried your hair. I don't want you getting ill." There's some kind of unspoken promise in his words.

Some kind of.... unspoken promise? Can it please be spoken because I literally have no idea at all what it is???

Ana stands up, "wondering for a moment if [she] should ask permission but dismissing the idea. Sounds like a dangerous precedent to set", aaaaaand isn't that interesting because I highly suspect that the written contract she's going to end up signing at that date tonight will set exactly that precedent! Huh!

Mr. Grey's office is coincidentally called GREY HOUSE and it has "curved glass and steel" and "steel over the glass" and "glass, steel, and white sandstone" and "solid sandstone" and I really wish James would tell us more about the materials of this building cause at this point it is very unclear. Ana is intimidated by the lobby and then a couple paragraphs later is also intimidated by the "very attractive" blonde secretary (Sexy blonde count: 2) who is "amused no doubt as [Ana signs] in" because ha ha signing names is funny?

Ana is given a security pass with "'visitor' very firmly stamped on the front" and I love how the stamping was given such attention because god forbid it be unclear that Ana is a visitor oh wait Ana is smirking because "Surely it's obvious that I'm just visiting" oh ok

Ana gets on an elevator which "whisks [her] at terminal velocity" and I'm beginning to think that I really, really love James' use of adjectives in writing and how the elevator sounds like a very grim futuristic egg-beater. Ana ends up in another lobby and now were you wondering what THIS floor was made of well look no further because it's "glass, steel, and white sandstone" and if you were wondering what THIS floor's secretary was like well let's just say Sexy Blonde Count: 3.