Secret Love

A Monchele Love Story

Chapter 1-On Three

-Cory-

"I love you, Lea," I say, with as much enthusiasm as possible.

"You sound like you've just taken drugs," Mark comments.

"-Or you only have three seconds to live," Chord adds.

Darren sighs. "Look, Cory, we've spend almost half an hour on this, can't you just get it right...please!" He seems frustrated.

"It has to be perfect!" I say, turning to Darren. "I've loved Lea for almost two years now, and I've never said anything about it! I need an incredible first 'I love you'."

"Have you ever said 'I love you' to a girl before?"Kevin asks.

"Yeah...sure," I say. The boys all roll their eyes and shake their heads. "Oh, okay, no I haven't! But that doesn't mean when I say it to Lea that it'll be all wrong, right...Right!?"

Chord, Darren, Mark and Kevin all nod and then I demand for them to get out of my trailer as they aren't helping at all.

We've just finished shooting the end of Season Two of Glee- the episode titled 'New York'- where the New Directions make it to Nationals, perform and Rachel and Finn's kiss ruins all their chances of ever coming in first, or in the top ten for that matter, and they lose miserably but still get another year as Show Choir of Mckinley.

Thirteen times I had to film the Finn and Rachel kiss on stage. Thirteen. It was wonderful, and I never wanted it to end, but I just felt wrong kissing her. I felt like her newly broken-up-with boyfriend was going to beat me up as soon as I walked off set even though he wasn't even there. Seven times Lea and I had to film the Finchel kiss in the library. Surrounded by shelves, in a quiet library it felt like it was only us, sitting closely beside one another, our arms and legs just touching and our lips deliciously mixed together. Although we were crowded around by not just Ryan Murphy, Ian Brennan and Brad Falchuck but about twenty or so crew members and camera men...it still felt like it was only us. But I'm sure Lea doesn't feel that way. She's still getting over her break up with Theo!

-Lea-

"I'm totally over my break up with Theo," I tell Amber and Chris.

"Really?" Amber says, her eyebrows rising. "It was only about one and a half weeks ago."

"Are you sure, Lee?" Chris asks. "You were crying for days!"

"Guys, I'm positive! I'm totally over him. Although I was a little upset at first, I've moved on and I have an exclusive update on my new love!" I reply, smiling widely.

I lead them over to the corner where Dianna is flirting with a few crewmen.

"Hey, Di, can we speak privately?" I ask, glancing at the crewmen.

Di nods and waves goodbye to them. "What is it?" she asks, frowning. "Why are you guys here?"

"Great to see you too, Princess Dianna!" Amber says, smiling. We'd came up with that nickname for Dianna by the third day of shooting Season One.

"This one said she's apparently 'over' Theo and has an update on her love life for us!" Chris exclaims, gesturing to me.

I take a deep breath.

"Lee, what is it? I don't have time for this!" Di almost shouts.

My eyes widen and I straighten my coat. "I think I'm in love with Cory."

Amber and Chris squeal, jumping up and down and clapping excitedly.

Dianna rolls her eyes. "Ugh, who's Cor-...wait...Mr Cory Monteith?!" Her eyes widen and a huge smile spreads across her face.

"Yes?"

I jump when I hear Cory's voice behind me.

"Oh, n-nothing..." Chris speaks softly, him and Amber finally calming down.

"What is it? I heard my name," Cory asks.

"No, we were talking about another Cory," I say, avoiding eye contact.

"Oh, really?" Cory says, raising one eyebrow. "Another 'Mr Cory Monteith'?"

I nod, looking at my feet and scratching my neck. "Yep!"

I suddenly feel Cory start poking at my ribs and stomach. I squeal, stepping away and trying to push him away, but he keeps tickling me, one hand poking my ribs, the other tickling up my arm and under my armpits.

"Cory, stop!" I yell, ignoring the crew members that are staring. "Please Cory!"

Cory keeps tickling me for about ten more seconds before I finally contain my laughter enough to push him away playfully. Our faces are unbelievably close. Cory's hands lay on my waist and my hands are firmly placed on his chest. We stand there for a minute, looking deeply into each other's eyes, our bodies close and our mouths even closer. I so desperately want to lean up and kiss him, but I know it wouldn't be right, and with all the people walking around it would be completely awkward.

Cory clears his throat, taking his eyes off mine and looking at his feet. He takes two steps back, putting his hands in his pockets and my hands slowly slide off his chest. I sigh, a little disappointed at our loss in touch.

I brush my bangs out of my eyes and look away. I notice, Amber and Chris and Di are pretending not to stare, standing over with Matthew Morrison. "I...uh, have to go."

"Y-Yeah me too," Cory says, nodding, glancing at me. I blush, smiling at his cuteness. "I'll see you around, Lea."

I nod, watching him walk off casually.

"LEAAA!" Amber, Chris and Dianna run up behind me.

I sigh, my eyes full of lust for Cory.

"That was so cute!" Chris exclaims, smiling widely.

"Why didn't you two kiss!?" Amber shrieks.

"Shh!" I say, widening my eyes. Cory's only about ten metres away and they're being very loud.

"Well, why didn't you?" Amber asks again, quieter this time.

"Look around you, Am, there is about twenty, thirty people walking around us. It would've been awkward, everyone would've seen and I would've been so embarrassed and instantly regretted it! I want me and Cory's first real kiss to be AMAZING! We just have to flirt first and become accustomed to this situation," I reply.

"Whatever," Amber and Chris say, rolling their eyes.

"Plus...I just got out of a relationship, it would have made me kind of a... 'slut'," I say, pausing and whispering the last word.

"Wait...I-I thought you were over Theo," says Di, raising one eyebrow and smirking.

"I am!" I say, looking at her seriously.

I try to keep out of Cory's way for the rest of the day, but when it comes time for us to go home and my car and Cory's car are write next to each other...it gets a little awkward. Usually-before we go home at the end on the day-Cory and I do our cute, little secret hand shake, have a big hug, maybe a kiss on the cheek and say our goodbyes, but what happened today has never happened before!

-Cory-

I'm waiting by my car, eagerly looking around for Lea. I've decided that I don't need advice from my bros, or my Mum, Dad, brother or anyone else; I'm going to tell Lea how I feel about her tonight and I'm going to do it my way.

She's taking an awful long time to come out and I think she's doing it to avoid me.

Di passes me and I ask her if she's seen Lea.

"Oh, she's just saying goodbye to everyone," answers Di, but it seems a little forced. "She'll be out soon, Cory. Anyway, have a good holiday. Call me if you wanna meet up."

I nod. "Cya, Princess Di."

She laughs and walks to her car, starting the engine and carefully driving away.

I finally see beautiful Lea turn that corner and walk to her car.

"Have a good break, Cor, I'll see you...uh...l-later," she says, getting her keys out and opening the driver's door.

"Wait!" I yelp quite loudly.

Lea looks up at me, frowning. "What is it?" she asks, standing up straight and closing the door.

"I-I have something to tell you," I say, looking into her big, perfect eyes.

"Oh," she says, looking up innocently at me. "I actually have something to tell you too."

"Yeah?" I'm a bit relieved but still very nervous.

"Y-You can go first," Lea says, nodding.

"Oh no, I insist, ladies first," I gesture towards Lea, smirking.

Lea smiles. "No, Cor, it's fine."

"But, L-"

"We'll go at the same time!" Lea proposes.

"Okay," I nod, laughing.

Lea giggles. "On three, right?"

"One..."

"Two..."

I take a deep breath. "Three..."

"I love you," we say in unison.

Hi guys, it's Millie here! So this is my new story, 'Secret Love'. I hope you enjoyed the first chapter. Please tell me what you think. It's also up on wattpad, my username is milliee_

The next chapter will be up by the end of the week, sorry if it is a bit late, I've finally settled into college and finished moving all of my things into my new place. I hope you guys liked this one. Any ideas for the next episodes?

Feel free to PM me here or inbox me on wattpad! Thanks for reading. :)

-Millie xx