Fifty Shades of Grey

SECTION 1 Tripping Into Grey A clumsy substitute stumbles into a billionaire's obsession Kate Kavanagh, 3 Ana's 1 roommate and student newspaper editor, has spent nine months securing an interview with Christian Grey, 2 the twenty-seven-year-old CEO of Grey Enterprises Holdings.

SECTION 1 Tripping Into Grey A clumsy substitute stumbles into a billionaire's obsession Kate Kavanagh, 3 Ana's 1 roommate and student newspaper editor, has spent nine months securing an interview with Christian Grey, 2 the twenty-seven-year-old CEO of Grey Enterprises Holdings. But Kate 3 is sick with the flu, so Ana 1 drives 165 miles to Seattle's Grey House in her place — unprepared, un-briefed, wearing her only skirt. She literally trips through his office door and falls to her hands and knees. Christian 2 helps her up. He is not the forty-something businessman she expected but disarmingly young, copper-haired, and gray-eyed. The interview lurches between Ana's 1 flustered questions and Christian's 2 cryptic answers about power and control. When she reads Kate's 3 question asking if he's gay, mortification engulfs her. Yet Christian 2 seems amused, even intrigued. He cancels his next meeting to keep talking — not about himself, but about her. <div

SECTION 2 Rope and Masking Tape Christian appears at Ana's workplace buying very specific supplies Days later, Ana 1 glances up from the register at Clayton's Hardware in Portland and finds Christian 2 watching her. He claims he's visiting WSU's nearby farming division. He asks for cable ties, masking tape, rope, and coveralls — items whose purpose Ana 1 cannot guess but will later understand — while she leads him through the aisles, trembling and blushing. Their fingers brush passing the masking tape, and an electric charge jolts through her. Paul Clayton, 1 the boss's brother, interrupts to flirt with Ana, 1 and Christian's 2 demeanor shifts to arctic coldness. Before leaving, he agrees to a photo shoot for Kate's 3 article and hands Ana 1 his business card. She stands staring at the closed door after he goes, finally admitting to herself that she likes him. <div

SECTION 3 The Almost-Kiss He saves her from a cyclist, then refuses to kiss her Ana's 1 friend José, 4 a photography student, shoots Christian's 2 portrait at the Heathman Hotel the next morning. Afterward, Christian 2 asks Ana 1 to coffee, dispatching Taylor 5 — his ex-military driver — to ferry the crew home. Over tea in a Portland café, he probes her about José 4 and Paul, both of whom she denies dating. He tells her flatly he doesn't do the girlfriend thing. Walking back, Ana 1 stumbles into the street and a rogue cyclist nearly flattens her. Christian 2 yanks her against his…