Lea was about to go to bed when her phone rang. Cory texted.
"Thank you for today. I love you. You're my best friend, Lea. Don't you ever forget that."
Lea smiled. She texted back.
"Aaaw you're welcome Cory! Love you too, mwaah."
Cory was smiling to himself after read her reply. He was smiling, but then tears ran down his cheeks again. He imagined if he said to her about his feelings before Theo did, he might be with her now. He might be the one who would be standing beside her at her wedding.
"Aaaahhh fuck!" he covered his face with his pillow. It's 11 pm. And he couldn't sleep. "Leaaa I fucking am in love with you! Don't you understand that?" he screamed depressingly.
On the other side, Lea slept smiling, thinking about getting married with Theo.
Dianna opened her beautiful eyes. She looked at the clock.
"Oh gosh I almost late! I really need to hurry!" she shocked, said to herself, then got up from bed.
She was about to opened the bathroom door when she heard Lea singing from the kitchen.
"Sunday morning rain is falling...," Lea sang while she was serving her breakfast, and also Dianna's.
"Hey pretty girl!" Dianna shouted, "why didn't you wake me up, huh?"
Lea stopped serving the breakfast then looked at her best friend, "oh hey! Haha I'm so sorry my dear, I was about to wake you up when I saw you cried in your sleep, and smiled. Well, I guess it was such a beautiful dream, haha."
Oh yeah, I dreamed about you and Cory getting married, Lea...
Dianna shooked her head and smiled, "oh well I won't tell you, honey." She walked to the bathroom then shouted, "oh and it's Monday not Sunday, my dear. Hahaha."
"Hey! I still can sing Christmas songs on June, can't I?" she shouted, then laughed.
"Di, can you please turn on the radio? We need some dance songs so that we wouldn't be sleepy, haha," she asked when she was already driving her car.
Dianna turned on the radio. "Here you go, baby."
Lea giggled, "aaw you're the best, darling."
"...another horse died in New York City last night. It was such a horror night. The horse carriage got hit by a car. Yesterday morning, a horse also died because it couldn't stand the weather. Will the government realize that the horse carriages should've been stopped? And will they stop it soon?..."
Lea's eyes got teary. She sobbed. Dianna slowly looked at her. She knew that her best friend's love for animal was so big and deep. And she knew that her best friend had been trying to stop the horse carriages in her hometown. The news they just heard was too bad to be heard for her in this early morning.
"Why couldn't I stop it? Why couldn't we all stop it?" she tried to speak in a very low voice when they got already in Paramount. They were still in car.
Dianna rubbed her back, "sshhh don't say that, honey. I know you've been trying so so so hard to stop it but it's not your fault, and this is not the end yet. You still have many chances to stop it."
"How can you say it's not the end yet when you just heard it yourself that some of them are already dead? And they died because of us, human."
Dianna shooked her head and smiled, "not us, but them." She saw Lea was trying to smile. "Got it? You still have a chance to beat them and stop the horse carriages. Now forget it for a while cause we're late, honey. Haha, come on."
Lea smiled then they got off the car, ran into the studio.
Cory looked deep into her eyes, then said in a low voice, "hey, are you alright?"
She lifted up her head, looked at the man sitting accross to her. He almost finished his lunch while she hadn't touched her lunch yet. "Um, yeah, it's just..."
He grabbed her hands, "I'm ready to listen to any kind of your stories." He smiled.
She smiled then shooked her head, "oh come on you can't be this kind to me."
He's flattered. He smiled widely then nodded, "well I really can be."
She grinned, she felt honored. Then she took a deep breath, and started to tell him the tragic story of the horses in New York City.
He heaved a sigh after she had finished her story, "well, you really should go there."
She left her eyes widely opened, "p-p-pardon?"
He smirked, "we have two weeks left till holiday. You better go there, gather all the people who want to stop it too, make a move, make a demonstration or something like that. I don't know it will work or not, but you have to try it first, right?"
She was speechless. She couldn't say anything. That was such a great idea.
"Besides," he added, "I'm going there with you. I'm going to help you."
Her eyes got teary. She couldn't hide her happiness. She screamed, cried, then hugged him tight, "thank you so much, Cory. You really are my best friend!"
This is how much I love you, Lea...