Bluejean Baby | austin butler

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Hallie Jane

Europe is somewhere I feel personally connected to. It's beautiful, calm, safe, and evergreen. The cobblestone streets make me feel like i'm set in some old movie where i'm in love with everything and everybody and I'm British royalty.

Obviously that's not true but waking up next to Austin certainly makes me feel like it.

He was sitting up in the bed, on his laptop with his glasses on, and his hair perfectly fixed. It's like he wakes up with perfect hair even when he says it's a mess. I rolled over and looked at him. "Goodmorning." He said smiling down at me. "Goodmorning." I replied with my eyes half way closed again.

I finally mustered up the energy to go and brush my teeth. I turned around in the bathroom door, toothbrush still moving in my mouth, as I admired the beautiful boy sitting there, looking ever so studious.

"How are you feeling this morning?" He asked. "I'm okay, I have a little bit of a headache but thats all." I said. "Really? That's good. I was expecting you to be sick last night." He said laughing. "Hey I know how to handle my liquor.." I said throwing my hands up and crawling back up the bed next to him. I placed my head on his shoulder. " What are you working on?" I asked. "Just some emails and then I looked through some pictures of a shoot I did not too long ago." He said. "Sounds fun." I said. "Not really." He said.

He closed the laptop and looked at me again. "What are we doing today?" He asked. "Not sure honestly. Did you have any plans?" I said. "No, I wanted to go walk around the city but other than that, nothing." He said. "Maybe some shopping and dinner later?" I asked. "Sounds perfect." He said leaning down and kissing me. I played with my hands as I sat there wanting to ask a burning question. "What are we doing?" I asked just blurting it out. He looked at me.

"What do you want us to be doing?" He asked. "I mean I have some ideas but I don't want to be too eager. I've just never truly felt like this way about anybody else." I said. "I feel the same way. I like what we're doing, but I like getting to know you right know without an official title. I think it's nice just figuring each other out outside of a work environment and outside of just being friends. Yeah we were close but not like we are now obviously. I think we still have some things to work out before we make it official." He said. "I agree with that, but you do want to make it official eventually right?" I asked. He laughed, "Yes Hallie. I promise." He said. "Okay cool. I think I would like that too." I said. "Good." He said standing up next to the bed and dragging my hand with him.

"Also I don't know how you feel about that this but I actually have an apartment here if you want to have some more privacy than this hotel, or we can stay here. It's really up to you I just thought i'd ask you." He said. "It's whatever you want. I don't want to separate you from everybody but if you want to go there we can." I said. "You're not separating me. I offered it." He said. "Okay then, yeah we can go." I said.

"Let's go do what we wanna do and we can worry about that later. I just don't want us to be stuck in this hotel for the next 3 days." He said moving closer to me and putting his arms around me and kissing me. "Okay. I'm gonna go get ready, i'll leave the door unlocked so you can come in when you're done." I said. "Okay." He said.

I walked back to my room and into the room, pulling my clothes out of the suitcase and finding an outfit for the day. I went to the bathroom and hopped in the shower. When I got out I did my hair and makeup, and was wrapped in a towel when I heard the door open. Austin walked in, and sat on the edge of the bed. "Is this what you're wearing?" He asked. "Yes, why?" I asked. "I like it." He said. "Thank you." I said. "You have good style." He said. "Thank you." I said. The compliments right now were throwing me for a loop.

I grabbed the clothes off the bed and went to the bathroom to put them on, when I was done I cracked the door open again with my foot and put my jewelry on, taking one last look in the mirror before I walked back to main part the room and put some shoes on. He grabbed my hand when we were ready and walked out the door.