Julianne Hough

They let me know that Julianne Hough was going to be my partner and I couldn’t have been more stoked.

The short blonde from Utah was a killer dancer apparently but I was more interested in the tight body she had been flaunting around ever since her break-up with Ryan Seacrest at the beginning of the year. Meaning she looked great and she was single, what was not to be happy about?

Apparently after filming a few movies she was coming back for another season of Dancing with the Stars. Maybe they figured two actors working together would be a good fit but there was only one way to tell.

About a week later we had our first meet at a dance studio in LA.

Dancing wasn’t really my thing and something told me I was going to have a very, very steep learning curve as the show aired only two weeks from now.

Immediately I was greeted by the camera crew which was off-putting at first. I was used to acting in front of cameras not being normal with them. But all my possible awkwardness was washed away when Julianne emerged from the studio with a sweet smile on her face.

For the sake of the cameras I tried not to seem too awe-struck as she walked towards me. Her blonde raven hair framed her face and she wore a loose, too-large tank-top that exposed her shoulder and a pair of extremely form fitting yoga pants to top it off. It was perfectly practical dancing attire yet I couldn’t get my mind out of the gutter.

“Hi!” she finally said when she reached me, “Julianne.”

“{firstname}, It’s a pleasure to meet you” I replied, forcing a smile onto my lips as I shook her hand and gave her a kiss on the cheek.

“I hope you’re ready to work!” she said enthusiastically and I could tell she was more than used to this routine even if she had been away from it for a few seasons.

“Just try to take it easy on me, I’m nowhere near as experienced as you” I replied, smiling playfully.

“Let’s head inside and find out what our first dance is going to be” she suggested and we headed inside.

We bantered a bit more, some of it for the cameras and some just casually getting to know each other. It turned out that she was just as nice as she seemed on camera but with a hint of a naughty side lying just beneath the skin. That was the side I wanted to get to.

“So what made you want to come back?” I asked off-hand as we sat in the center of the studio floor.

“Well, I had just finished my third movie this year when they approached me and I felt it was the perfect time for a break from acting to hope into this” she explained.

I nodded my head, it seemed valid enough. “You know most people go on vacation for break, not to a dance competition” I teased.

“Well you’ll quickly learn I am not like most people, Mr. {lastname}” Julianne replied in turn before adding, “That’s why we’re going to win this thing.” She punctuated her sentence by clasping her hands together, causing me to grin stupidly. There was an undeniable cuteness to her.

“Um guys, do you think you can open your envelope?” One of the voices of the crew came, referring to the envelope that held our dancing instructions and had been sitting on the floor for the past half hour.

Julianne and I shared an amused look before she finally reached down and we put on our best excited faces for the cameras.

“Alright, let’s see our first dance is going to be a…”