A/N: Hey, it's 2:30am and I decided to stay up late to finish this because I've already made people wait for like a week and a half for this chapter. I wasn't going to have this finished for probably another few days but then I thought about how impatient I can get in wanting the to read the next chapter of a story. So that was my motivation. I hope this chapter is liked by all who read it :)

As always, sorry for typos or bad grammar.

I don't own Glee...

"And playback!" Cory heard a voice yell from the set as he shot some baskets on the nearby small half court they had on the lot.

He usually only went out to the court when he had free time on set. It was really the rare time he did have and he liked using his time more actively than sleeping in his trailer or what not. Aside from hockey, basketball was his next favorite sport, well to play anyway.

As he dribbled the basketball around on the tar he could hear the echoes of the scene taking place in one of the buildings they used. He heard voices over megaphones and the constant start and stop of Lea's recording of Baby One More Time since they were filming the part in Britney/Brittany where she had to walk and dance down the hall in her, what Cory teased as, Naughty School Girl outfit.

Ryan was very serious about doing Britney Spears the right way, which included pretty much every outfit she ever wore in her videos. Who was Cory to complain though? It wasn't like he minded seeing Heather in her skintight suits or Lea in her Catholic school gone wild costume.

From reading over the filming schedule, Cory knew he had about another hour before he had to rejoin the filming on set. He had just finished his minor scenes of Rachel's Britney hallucination and wasn't needed until he had to film his scene where Quinn has to go up to Finn and try to ask him out again.

Normally, he loved every scene he got with Dianna but he felt very wary and kind of not excited to do it. For the last couple of days since the nightclub, Cory hadn't seen Dianna very often. When he did see her around the lot, she was always talking to someone or doing something. Sometimes when he would go into a room where she was just sitting or something and make eye contact with her, she would only look to him for a second if even that, then get up and move to speak to someone.

Plain and simple, she was avoiding him.

It sucked to say the least. After ruling out that there were that many coincidences where she was busy or not around, Cory found it blatantly obvious of what she was doing.

Really, he blamed himself. Since it happened, he thought back to the night where he made a move on a drunk Dianna and truly wished he hadn't. If he hadn't, she wouldn't be acting like she was and there would be no awkwardness. They would still be good friends and Cory could still have his secret that technically wasn't a secret since everyone but Di knew but well, to all the same really.

'God, I can't believe that I screwed it all up just for some stupid kiss that didn't even happen. How selfish can I be? Now she won't even talk to me never mind look at me if it doesn't involve the show. Why-' Cory snapped out of the thoughts he was having when he heard a familiar voice.

"Hey mate!" Cory looked over in the direction of the voice to see that it belonged to the one and only Alex.

"Oh uh, hey… what's up?" Cory slowly said to Alex, trying to take a jump shot at the same time.

No one said anything as they both watched to see if the ball would go in the basket. The ball bounced around the rim and dropped in through the net and back down to the ground.

Cory walked over to grab the ball from under the net and then made his way back towards the three-point line.

"Nice one! That was a good shot." Alex complimented him from the side of the court.

"Yeah thanks." is all Cory said in return as he continued to dribble the ball.

There was silence for a few short seconds before Cory stopped and looked to the Brit. "Um, I don't mean for this to come off the wrong way but, how did you get in here?"

"Oh, well…" Alex mumbled as he dug through his pocket. He pulled out a small white plastic card and handed it to Cory.

Cory took the card from Alex's hand and looked over it. "Oh, you have a visitor's pass."

"Yes, one of the security people at the front gates remembered me from last week."

Cory nodded his head a little to show he was listening and understood but to Alex, the nod seemed like he was somewhat confused.

"You know, the day you picked Di and I up from the-" he started before Cory cut him off.

"Yeah I got it." Cory told him a little harshly.

"Oh, okay." After Alex's simple response, there was an awkward silence as Cory continued to shoot some baskets until Alex spoke once more.

"So…" he drawled. "Where is everyone? I was hoping to see Dianna. I haven't seen her since I had to leave for New York and I thought I'd take her to lunch."

Cory ignored the fact that Alex wanted to take Dianna out and took a quick look around to scan the area and see if he could catch anyone around. There wasn't anyone apart from some extras and crew roaming around the lot outside.

"Well, Mark is off set for a few weeks to record some stuff for his album and everyone else is either in their trailers or filming." he answered. "Is she expecting you?"

"Well no but, I'm sure she'll be happy to see me. Do you know where Dianna is?" Alex questioned, looking around a little himself.

Cory resisted the urge to roll his eyes and answered him. "I think she's filming. Either that or she's somewhere on the set right now." He shrugged and took another quick shot at the hoop.

"Terrific! Could you point me in the direction that the set would be?"

Cory seriously wanted to punch this guy in the face. He hated the fact that he could be so cheerful and that he felt like he could just barge in and do whatever he pleased.

"Yeah, no. Sorry bro but our directors get pretty upset when unexpected visitors show up since they usually just get in the way and slow down the progress of filming."

Alex let a weak smile on his face as he laughed a little. "I won't get in the way. I know how filming works and how to get around it." he assured Cory as he stepped toward him and patted him on the back a little concededly.

Cory raised his eyebrows, forcing lines into his forehead and pursed his lips tightly. "Well you don't know how filming works on our show," he firstly explained as he continued. "I know you've worked on movies but I think we both know that movies are different from shows, well at least, Glee. Not only do we have a director like a movie would, we have multiple ones that like to get stuff done and they won't get it done with you frolicking all around the set looking for Dianna. So just listen to me and wait out here instead." He didn't know how much more he could make it plain for the blonde as he protested Alex's advances to get to the set.

Cory even made it a point to get a little in Alex's face to make him understand and at the same time, trying not to come off super hostile.

"Alright." Alex gave in, getting Cory's drift. He figured he should probably listen to the man. He did work on this show.

A small smile tugged at the corners of Cory's lips knowing he won that small battle.

"So is there a place I can wait for her?" Alex wondered, looking around to search for somewhere he could sit and hang out.

"There's always right here with me." Cory told him, a cocky smile playing on his face as he bounced the basketball while he stared at Alex.

Alex rubbed the back of his neck and eyed the surrounding area once more before ultimately agreeing to stay.

"Sweet." Cory said, glad that he could get Alex to stay with him. It gave him the chance to get to know him a little more and what he seemed to have that Dianna liked.

Alex watched Cory continue to play around with the ball on the court before asking, "Do you mind?" pointing to the ball.

Cory looked at him confused for a second before easily passing him the ball. "No, not at all." He held his arm out to act like he was cordially inviting Alex to the court as he stepped off to the side.

Alex began dribbling the ball, quite poorly in Cory's opinion, and then shot it. The ball hit the rim and then quickly bounced off to the side.

"Do you play?" Cory asked, suppressing a laugh at the blonde's weak skills.

"Basketball?" Alex asked.

'No, Ping-Pong idiot!' Nah, he couldn't say that. "Yeah basketball." he clarified.

"Oh, no. Not really. I see it on the television but I don't have that much experience in playing. I'm more of a tennis person myself." Alex explained as he kept on practicing dribbling the ball.

"Do you at least know how it works?" Cory questioned somewhat condescendingly.

"Yeah, a bit."

"Enough to keep up a game?"

"I suppose so. I mean, it's just about getting the ball into the basket. You just dribble and shoot. Can't be that hard." Alex figured while he looked up to the hoop.

"Yeah, I guess that's basically it." Cory looked at Alex in a questioning manner. "Wanna play?"

"Play? As in play you?"

"Yeah, c'mon. A little one-on-one." Cory insisted as he walked back onto the court.

Alex thought for a second. "Alright…Sure, yeah, let's play." he agreed cheerfully.

"Nice. Ball me!" Cory ordered, holding his hands open in front of him.

Alex quickly shot the ball over to him and Cory started slowly dribbling.

"Actually, I'll let you start with the ball. I'll check it to you."

Alex nodded his head and they lined up on the outside of the three-point line with Alex facing the basket with the ball and Cory facing Alex.

Alex stood there not knowing what to do at first. Cory sighed and began telling him what he needed to do.

"Okay, give me the ball so I can give it back to you to start the play. That's basically what a check is."

"Okay." Alex lightly passed the ball to Cory who in return, brought the ball to his chest and forcefully passed it back to Alex who almost dropped it from the speed and force.

'Yeah, take that big action star.'

"Check."

Alex began to dribble and attempted to go around Cory. Cory wasn't having that and easily stole the ball out from under Alex's hand and brought it back to the outside of the three-point line.

"Check!" he shouted as he aggressively started dribbling back towards the net and at Alex. Without difficulty, Cory passed the ball through his legs and faked out Alex, leaving a whole area open for him to go to and shoot the ball. He shot the ball with ease and watched as it swished through the basket.

"That's two me bro!" Cory confidently announced as he grabbed the ball from under the net and made his way back out to the line.

"That was good mate." Alex gushed as he smiled and pointed reassuringly at Cory.

God, could this guy at least try and act like a Tool so Cory could at least have something else against him and hate him more? He's just too nice!

Cory just lifted his eyebrows and smirked. "Let's go again." he said as he checked the ball to Alex.

~On set~

"That was great Lea, nice job!" Brad complimented the petite brunette as she ended her scene. "Take ten everyone. Whoever is set to film in the next ten minutes be back on set!" he announced through a megaphone.

"Thanks Brad." she returned as she turned away and grabbed a bottle of water off one of the tables to the side of the hall.

"Hey girl, that was awesome!" Dianna exclaimed, giving Lea a high five.

"Thanks!" Lea smiled and then asked, "You want a water? I was gonna go and sit down outside and take a break."

"Yeah sure, I'll take a water."

"Would you like to join me outside Lady Di?" Lea questioned her playfully. They were best of friends in real life; complete opposites from their characters. They always played and joked around with each other since they were super close. They were so close that there were even rumors going around that they had a thing for one another. Obviously they didn't since they were both straight and had boyfriends but it was nice to know that people knew they were just that close.

"Why, I'd love that Lady Lea." she agreed.

They laughed as they walked until Dianna stopped just as they were about to walk out the glass door. She had gotten a glance of Cory from a short distance on the basketball court from around the corner of a building, only being able to see his body since the rest of the view of the court was being obscured by a building. She realized that he must have been with someone because she could see his mouth moving like he was talking but she couldn't see to whom due to the building.

"You okay?" Lea questioned confused as to why Dianna had suddenly stopped.

"Yeah actually, do you think we could stay inside instead?"

Lea continued to look at her confused but agreed to stay inside with her.

They went to the choir room portion of the set and grabbed some seats to sit down since the room wasn't being filmed in.

"So why'd you change your mind on going outside?" Lea asked while she pulled her chair closer to Dianna's.

"It didn't seem like it would be nice outside." Dianna offered as a response.

Lea knitted her eyebrows together in confusion. "Di, it's gorgeous outside."

"It just looked too crowded out there." she made another excuse, which wasn't going to work with Lea.

"Okay, now I definitely know you're making up excuses. It's like a ghost town out there. Seriously? What's up?"

"What? I can't change my mind on where I want to sit?" Dianna wondered innocently.

Lea breathed out softly and looked sincerely at Dianna. "Come on. You know you can tell me anything."

Dianna sighed and bit her bottom lip before saying, "It's Cory."

"What about him?"

"I just haven't really talked to him lately." she told Lea looking away.

Lea softly smiled at her friend. "Yeah, I kind of noticed that these past couple of days but I didn't want to ask about it since you hadn't said anything about it. I didn't really want to be nosy."

"Yeah well, it's his fault. He made it this way!" Dianna softly shouted so only Lea could hear. Yes, she was upset.

"What did he do?" Lea wondered not too shocked. She knew Cory was a big jokester and prankster and that he sometimes took things too far even when he didn't mean to.

Dianna didn't answer. She only continued to let her eyes wander around the room that the show practically lived in.

"Di?" Lea asked again, prompting her to say something.

"I just- please don't tell anyone this if I tell you." she pleaded. Lea could see pain in her eyes.

"I won't. You can trust me Di." she promised the blonde.

Dianna slowly nodded her head before she spoke. "I've kind of been avoiding him."

"Kind of?" Lea teased with a quirked eyebrow.

Dianna let a small smile on her lips at her friend's comment.

"Okay fine. I have been avoiding him." she giggled a little bit before becoming serious again.

"Why?"

"Well, something happened between us a few days ago." Dianna vaguely answered.

"Like what?" Lea probed.

Dianna let her breath out. "You know the day when we finished our first episode?"

"Yeah…"

"Well, that night Cory and I went out to the M.I.6. Club to hang out since Alex left for New York."

Lea had to keep encouraging Dianna to continue because she would keep pausing practically after every sentence she said. It took her a while to get to the last parts of her story.

"And after some drinks we were just having fun and dancing and things got a little… hot." Dianna murmured the last part. Lea could tell she was ashamed of it since she had Alex.

"And?" Lea asked, practically begging for her to go on. What? It was getting good.

"And in short, we came this close to kissing." she emphasized to Lea with her thumb and index finger separating them barely.

Lea tried pulling up conclusions in her head. It was hard since this was the first time she was hearing about this. Usually Cory told her everything about how he was feeling with Dianna but he hadn't about this.

"So you're avoiding him because you don't want an overly awkward situation?"

"Well that and the fact that I have a boyfriend and Cory knows that," she paused before she said, "and maybe another tiny reason."

Lea's eyes widened and her eyebrows shot up with one of those looks that says, 'come on, out with it!'

"I kind of wanted to kiss him… like really wanted to kiss him actually."

If this was a movie, at this point, Lea would have spit out her popcorn or drink in surprise and potentially fallen out of her seat in excitement and shock.

"Really!" Lea exclaimed maybe a little too excitedly. She was just really excited for Cory since she knew this is what he truly wanted. Dianna looked at her confused thinking that her friend should be scolding her for almost cheating on her boyfriend.

Lea caught on to this and softened her tone. "I mean just- wow really?"

Dianna shut her eyes and sighed for what felt like the hundredth time. "I know I should feel bad and trust me I do. I feel extremely guilty for what I almost did to Alex but there was just something there inside of me that really felt something. It took everything I had in me to pull away. I just wanted to surrender to it. I- I still can't believe I had the strength to back off." Dianna's voice was the quietest it had been since they started the conversation.

"Wow…"

"Yeah…"

"Wow…" Lea echoed herself.

"What do I do Lea? I just don't know what to do about this. I don't want to hurt Alex because there are times that I truly feel like he's the guy for me, but then there are the times like at the club where I wonder if I'm wrong. Maybe, in some weird, unexpected way, Cory's actually the guy for me?"

Lea lightly smiled and wrapped her arm around Dianna's shoulders, letting Dianna rest her head on her shoulder.

Even though she knew that Cory was in love with Di and he would love to hear this confession and see what would become of it, she couldn't tell Dianna just to drop Alex and run after Cory.

"Listen, I just think that maybe, it would be for the best if you forgot what happened at the club and just went back to talking to Cory and being friends and acting like you used to. It might be awkward at first but I'm sure Cory would just like to have you back talking to him again. He must feel terrible most likely knowing you're avoiding him."

Dianna nodded her as she still let it rest on Lea's shoulder.

"Alex still deserves his chance with you even as much as I think you and Cory would be cute." she added the last part. "Alex seems like he really likes you. Don't make any drastic decisions until you're sure of everything."

There was a short silence before Dianna nodded her head again and said, "Thanks Lea. You truly are an amazing friend."

"That's what I'm here for." Lea pulled Dianna into a hug and as they hugged Lea joked, "This can be our Rachel and Quinn moment."

They both laughed and continued to hug.

~On the court~

The two guys watched as the ball spun around the rim, wobbling against the circle enough where it could either go in or out.

Then, after a few more times around the rim, the ball dropped into the net.

"Whoo! That's game dude!" Cory shouted. He was so happy to beat Alex.

They both wiped the sweat from their brows before Alex walked up to Cory and held out his hand for Cory to shake.

"That was a great match." Alex breathed as Cory grabbed his hand and shook it. "You're very good."

'Either that or you just suck. Actually it's both.' Cory thought to himself.

"Thanks. You got better in the end." he lied.

"Oh, you don't have to make me feel better. I think we're both aware that basketball is not my forte."

Cory laughed along with Alex even though he was partially laughing at him. "Yeah I guess not." Cory smirked.

As they stood on the court, Cory noticed a small figured shadow appear stretched out height wise next to theirs. He could tell that it was cast from behind them.

Alex turned around first. "Hey!"

"Hey!"

Cory turned around to see Alex hugging Dianna.

"Why didn't you call and let me know you were back?" she asked.

"I wanted to surprise you and I'm actually here to take you out to lunch as my, 'sorry I had to leave for New York unexpectantly' gesture." he joked.

"Would you like to go out to lunch now?" Alex questioned.

Man did Cory feel super awkward and yet again, third wheelish standing behind them on the court.

"Um, I can't until I film my last scene for the day."

"Okay well, I can wait. Cory here has been keeping me entertained while I waited for you to be done on set. I'm sure we can wait a bit longer."

"Actually," Dianna started. "It's a scene between Cory and I so we have to go."

"Oh, Alright." Alex said a little sad. "I can still wait."

"Great!" Dianna thanked as she walked away when Alex was about to kiss her. Cory smiled to himself when he saw this.

"Ready for this scene?" she asked as they walked.

"So are you talking to me now?" he answered with another question.

Dianna stopped them in one of the halls since they had a little bit of time before they had to be on set.

"Listen Cory, the other night was…"

"Yeah, I'm really sorry Di. We were both drinking and I don't really know what came over me." He wasn't exactly sorry that he tried to kiss her, he was more sorry that it didn't happen. He even figured blaming it on the alcohol would potentially hide his feelings for her and make everything a bit less awkward.

"Don't be sorry Cory." Dianna paused and what she said made Cory kind of excited thinking that maybe she was going to give him good news. "It's fine. Forget it. I just want us to go back to the way things were. We're such good friends Cor and I don't want anything to be weird between us."

She watched as Cory pursed his lips and nodded his head. She wasn't going to lie, she was kind of upset of the decision to basically tell him that they were friends and nothing more because there was a part of her that wanted there to be more than that.

"Okay," is all he said before he continued. "You're an amazing person Di and I'm glad we're talking again… I don't want to lose you there." He smiled to show he understood.

"I don't want to lose you either." she told him.

"Cory, you need to get changed into your outfit for your scene." a passing by crew member reminded him.

"Right, thanks." he said to the person as they walked on.

"I'll see you over there." Dianna said, nodding in the direction of one of the hallways used for McKinley High.

Cory nodded his head in agreement and turned around and started to walk off in the direction of the dressing rooms.

As he walked away from her, she could have sworn she heard him say, "He's just not for you."

She let out a sigh and turned to head to where the scene would take place.

'Maybe you're right.' she agreed in her head.

I was going to end this chapter at the end of the basketball scene but then I didn't really want to begin Dianna and Cory's talk first thing in the next chapter so I just kind of threw it into the end. Sorry if it didn't come out more emotional or realistic but yeah... that's just what happened. Also, I have my ideas of where the story is going but I'm genuinely interested in what ideas you guys would have. Leave an idea in the review of where you'd like to see the story going, whether it's simple and short or the complete opposite. I'd like to see some before I write the next chapter. Maybe I'll even base the chapter off someone's idea or what they'd like to see. Leave all opinions in the reviews please! Much appreciated!