"Uh, Aussie?" Samantha calls for the second time, trying to get Austin back to reality. He's been spacing out for a while, and Samantha already knows why. She steals a glance at Elle, who was also looking at Austin, still with an unreadable face. What made her so hard like that? Samantha thought to herself, as she starts to finally determine the contrasting difference of this new Elle with the Elle she had known three years ago. And decidedly hates it.
Austin snaps out of his thoughts, when he heard Samantha addressed him and he turns to her with a frown, anxiously waiting for what she was about to say. Returning her attention back at him when he finally noticed her, Samantha grins at Austin, trying to engage him in their conversation.
"I was telling El ab
