Meeting Kellan Lutz

I don't think I even know where to begin... In fact - I don't think I can actually put it all down - there's TOO MUCH to share!!

But you KNOW I have to give you the scoop on my one and only, Kellan Lutz... ;)

There were about 850 people in attendance at the Salute to Twilight Convention in San Francisco. You can imagine what the lines for photo ops and autographs looked like...

Jess and I had just stepped into the room where about 10 other people were waiting in front of us to get their picture taken with Kellan. What's trippy is he actually saw us coming in, and watched us take our place in line.

I'm nervous as hell and trying to keep myself from acting like an idiotic teenager. And then his handler motions to let me know it's okay to move forward.

All of a sudden, some broad took over and asked him in a soft spoken voice: "You wouldn't mind perpin' to be my boyfriend for a day, would ya?"

But she spoke too quietly and he didn't hear, so she said it again, louder this time. "Just for the day, " she smiled.

Kellan's game and says, "Sure - what would you like me to do?"

In her mind, she's picturing a couple slow dancing and stopping to take a picture. "I was thinking... something like this..." And she moves in closer to him, wrapping her arms around his neck.

He embraces her around the waist, and after the picture is taken, she thanks him for the photo as she walks away to pick up her bag from the table, but...

"Odette!" I turned around. It was the photographer, Chris. "You blinked! Let's do it again."

So we get ready for another picture and Chris apologizes to me. I laughed, "Oh hell - no worries. It gives me a second chance here." :)



Autographs took place later that afternoon and Kellan's handler recognizes me on the spot. She calls my name out loud, "Odette! What's going on girl?"

Gotta love Carrie - we chit chat for a bit and then it's my turn to hand over the photo I brought for Kellan to sign. I wasn't sure if he remembered me from earlier, so I reached over to touch him lightly on the hand and said, "Don't forget. You're my monkey man tonight."

And then he gave me this look and an OH SO SEXY growl.

Someone pick me up off the fucking floor, please.



Later than night, at the Vampire Ball, all the celebrity guests are making rounds to all the tables to say hello and give hugs to everyone. VERY cool. I dressed up as a Vampire Geisha coz I didn't want to look like everyone else, and I wanted something with an asian flair to it.

Kellan's handler tells all of us to stand up as Kellan is finishing up with the table before us. Of course, he happens to be right in front of me. I can see him looking at me while he gives his last hug, and as the other girl steps aside, he comes up to me and gives me the once over while teasing, "Love your outfit..."

He's closed the space between us now and is giving me a hug while I thanked him for the compliment, and in that moment, the broad from earlier stepped in and whispered softly into his ear, "Love you." This at the same time they drifted apart, she squeezes his non-existent love handles, just above the hips as she lets go. Kinda like how you squeeze someone's shoulder goodbye.

Except I didn't realize I was gonna do that until it actually happened.

WTF?! lol - she can hardly believe herself. She steps aside to give the others room, and notices that, again, he's taking a peek at her while giving hugs to someone else. She turns around, and after a few minutes, realize he's standing RIGHT BEHIND her and that he could trip over her if he took one step backwards.

I don't know if I freaked or if I didn't trust myself or what - but I had to move. There was NO way I was going to let myself get in his way like that. Someone was calling me to take pictures and I jumped at the chance to try and bring my heart rate back to normal.

*sigh*



The next morning, we were standing in line to take photos with Ashley Greene when I saw Carrie and Tammie, the girls working the event, walking towards us.

"Odeeeeettttte... got something for you," they called to me in singsong. A suspicious smile playing on their faces.

They were holding a flat paper bag, the kind that fits an 8x10 photo. Quite possible the photo of me and Kellan that I'd been dying to find out if it turned out okay or not.

"Chris hooked you up, girl." Then they smiled and gave me the bag before heading off for their next post. I *heart* those girls. :)

It was my picture of Kellan and me. Hand delivered to me at 10am instead of 12pm upstairs with everybody else. I was so excited, people were gathering around me as we oogled over the photo, that I didn't even realize that I hadn't yet seen what Chris, the photographer, had actually hooked me up with.

Until I felt something else under the picture... "What's... this?" I said out loud as I slowly pulled this out from underneath:

~ Dette and Kellan Lutz ~

They kept saying how it looked like it should be a magazine cover - lol. Isn't he just amazing? And a great sport at that!!


EDIT: Wondering how Hubz reacted to all of this? Check it out here.