You Had Me At Hello

Chapter 1

**** 2 months later ****

"Hi, I'm Austin! Nice to meet you.", he says and hugs me. I'm surprised by his familiar behaviour, but I guess this is just him. Austin smiles at me and I feel a little lonely butterfly in my stomach. Please god, don't let it happen to me....

It's been three days ago since we first met. I was sitting in the hotel lounge and watched Austin reading a magazine. He looked so concentrated, what made me laugh a little bit.

"Austin, you know that you are reading the Cosmopolitan? A womans magazine... In german.", I giggled.

He look up from his lecture, right into my eyes. "Yeah, I know. Any problem with that?" He lifted an eyebrow.

"No no, it's all good." I held up my hands. "Just saying."

Austin winked at me. Oh god, he was so freaking cute. Again I felt these butterflies.

"Where do we go tonight?", he asked me and threw the magazine on the table between us.

"It's just a bar in the city. Nothing special."

I looked at my watch. It's 11pm. "The other guys should be here soon."

"You want something to drink?" Austin stood up.

"No, thank you."

"I will go and get me a beer." Then he headed up to the hotel bar. I took a deep breath. Austin was so handsome. He wore a black, wide cut out v-neck shirt l, which showed a part of the tattoos on his chest. The last past days I starred at his tattoos whenever I could. They fascinated me. I was curious about the stories behind them. I said to myself that I would ask him when there was the right time.

The door of the elevator opened up and I saw Alan and Phil searching for me. I waved at them.

"Where's Austin?", Phil asked and sat down on Austins place.

"At the bar." I replied. "How do you know that Austin was already here?"

Phil took a quick look at Alan.

"I just thought so."

" So, are you excited to party with us?" Alan grinned at me, but I got the feeling that he just wanted to change theme.

"Yeah, a little bit." I saw the others came out of the elevator.

Austin came back from the back of the lobby. He sat down on my left side. My heart started heavy bumping. The seat was usually only for one person. So he was real close to me and his arm and leg touched mine. The guys started a conversation about the last time when Alan was drunk and everybody laughed a lot. But I couldn't hardly concentrate. The smell of Austins perfume was all around me and everytime he moved, my body got

stiff. Oh god, please.. I didn't wanted to react like that. Austin seemed to be very chilled. Like always. From the first moment on, he was so nice to me, like we had been already friends. I guess it was the perfect mixture of his kindness and his 'beauty' which made me feel attracted to him.

"Hey, you're okay?" Austin turned his head around to me. I nodded my head.

"Yeah sure. Why not?"

"I don't know... You seem to be nervous." He smiled.

"Who? Me? No, why should I be nervous?" I tried to be as cool as I could. Damn it, am I that obvious?

"Because of me maybe?", Austin whispered.

I starred at him, not knowing what to say. It was the first time since he hugged me at the airport, that we were so close. I was searching for a good answer, as Austin started to laugh.

"It was just joke, Hannah. Relax." He layed his arm around me. "I don't bite."

"Yeah, okay.", was all I could say.

I looked at the other guys and saw that Alan watched us.

"Austin....", he said.

"Yeah?"

"Did you called Lisa today? How is she?"

Immediatly Austin pulled back his arm.

"Yes, good, I think. Thank you.." He sounded not very friendly. Then he stood up fast. "Shall we go now?" Without waiting for an answer he walked in the direction of the entrance.

"Who is Lisa?", I asked Alan surprised by Austins reaction.

"Well, you can ask him.", he said looking kinda angry after Austin. "He should tell you himself."