Cory stood backstage waiting for his cue to walk on stage exchanging nervous glances with his manager, both of them trying to hide their nerves with a smile. He knew her was going to be questioned about Lea what with all the rumours about them being a couple and especially with that picture he posted of her. His famous half smirk now across his face as memories from that weekend flooded his mind, god Lea looked cute in her snow gear. He couldn't believe how lucky he was to be able to finally call her his girlfriend after all those years of waiting for her she was finally his. Lost in his thoughts of Lea he couldn't hear the crew telling him it was time until suddenly he felt someone pushing him towards the stage. He walked onto the stage shaking all the thoughts of Lea out of his mind, for now at least. His nerves disappearing as he walked across the stage towards Ellen greeting her with a hug and then giving a wave to the audience before sitting down. It wasn't long before she jumped right into the questions about Lea, reading a question from twitter. "Here's one I'll just read one, um it's uh from ' itsagleething' Can you imagine if Ellen asked Cory if he knows what monchele is I would die. Do you know what monchele is?" He smiled and shrugged replying with "Of course i know what monchele is." Before he had even finished Ellen proceeded to ask "What is monchele?" Cory quickly replied while using his hands awkwardly to show the two words "It's Monteith and Lea Michele" Ellen was on the ball her next words hit him like a train "Cause people think that y'all are a couple" Cory felt a sense of pride as the next two words left his mouth "We are" "You are a couple?" she asked confirming the rumours. The audience erupted with applause and "woo's" The rest of the interview went smoothly with a few more questions about Lea.
Cory finally finished what felt like the longest interview of his life and was about to walk into his dressing room when he heard laughter coming from inside. He listened closely for a few seconds longer when the laughter started again and he knew who it was. Cory opened the door with a grin on his face following the sound of Lea's angelic laughter. He found her sitting with her legs crossed on the couch watching the TV screen on the wall, as Cory looked to the screen he recognised the scene. It was him shoving rubber balls into his pants and then the camera switched to the girl selected from the crowd frantically grabbing every ball in sight. Cory cleared his throat to grab her attention which caused her to instantly stop laughing until she looked up realising it was him, causing her to burst out laughing again. As her laughter filled the room he began to laugh too settling down on the couch next to her, putting his arm around her waist pulling her closer. She draped her arm around his neck to play with my hair still giggling and smiling. He leaned down kissing her softly Cory began to pull away standing up eager to get home. He turned around to see her still on the couch pouting. He let out a small laugh and stretched out his arm to help her up "c'mon let's go". She smiled playfully replying with "if you insist" quickly grabbing her bag she rushed to catch up to Cory. "Why do you have to walk so fast? One of your steps is like two of mine and it doesn't help that I'm in 6 inch heels just to be able to see your face." Cory laughed and grabbed her hand stroking it with his thumb as they walked smiling hand in hand down the hallway.
When they reached the car Cory opened Lea's door for her gesturing for her to go in, Lea got in the car giggling"aw thanks babe" emphasising on the word "babe" still not used to being able to say it in public. After arguing for several minutes over who's house they should go to Lea won the argument from her constant whining about needing to feed Sheila which was a lie because she fed her this morning. She smiled to herself as they pulled into her driveway feeling a sense of achievement from winning the argument even though she won every time. Usually Cory didn't mind staying at Lea's but lately it seemed like they were only staying at hers and it was starting to bother him. Lea was already out of the car opening the door when he decided enough was enough and began to pull out of the driveway. Lea came running down the driveway screaming out for Cory to stop, she looked confused and Cory began to panic "What am I doing?" he said to himself. He stopped the car and wound down the window as Lea came to stand by his car door "Whats wrong? Where are you going?" she sulked. He couldn't think of a single reason why but he knew was mad "I'm sick of always going to your house Lea, it's always what you want and when you don't get your way you sulk and I'm fed up" he was shocked with himself but glad he'd finally gotten it out until he looked at Lea. Her mouth was in a perfect 'O' her eyes began to water and her bottom lip began to tremble. Her voice shaking and barely audible "Well.. i-if thats how you t-truly feel than.. than I guess you can leave and come back when you're ready to apologise and be with me flaws and all." Cory sped of he was enraged how dare she expect him to apologise he was merely speaking the truth if anything she should be apologising. Trying to get the image of her sad puppy eyes standing their alone in her driveway he turned on the radio to full blast. On the drive home he began to think about the argument he can barely remember it because it all happened so fast. He pounded his fist on the steering wheel in frustration he's gone and fucked up the best thing in his life. Finally arriving home he fumbled with his keys to get inside out of the paparazzi's view so he could call Lea and beg for her forgiveness.
Lea looked over at her phone and through sad puffy eyes she saw Cory's caller ID for the 16th time she pressed ignore and rolled back over in bed. She couldn't believe what he had said although he was right she was selfish she just didn't think this would be the reason why they broke up. She always wondered why he chose her to fall in love with she wasn't your typical beauty but she wasn't ugly of course, she knew that but when she was with Cory she felt like she was the most beautiful woman in the world. Maybe he finally came to his senses and realised that she wasn't even close to perfect, feeling like the worst person in the world. She decided she needed to call someone who truly knew her and could make her laugh and feel happy no matter what, realising she couldn't call Jonathan she called the next best. She grabbed her phone and procrastinated answering Cory but decided against it quickly dialling Dianna's number she waited for her to answer. "Why hello there miss Lea" Dianna voice was already starting to calm Lea down, chocking back tears she replied "Dianna, s-s-something's happened I need you to c-come over please" "Lea sweetie what's wrong? I'm on my now" "It's Cory" Lea breathed trying to calm down enough to speak "I think we broke-up" tears streaming down her face and her hand clutching her chest.