Inspiration really hit me fast for this chapter and I started writing it the day after I posted chapter 6. That usually doesn't happen until at least 3 days later for me. That goes out to nogoodwithfaces! I took your review to heart about updating. Love making you guys happy! I actually really liked writing this one. I hope you guys like it or even love it :)

Some language... not too bad.

When Dianna returned from her filming scene, she was surprised to find someone in her trailer.

She was a little taken aback to see her boyfriend sitting on the couch on his phone.

"Oh! Hey Alex. I didn't know you'd be here."

"Hello dear. Yeah, I figured I'd swing by to see how you were. I got here and you weren't here so I was going to leave a note to let you know that I came by before I left."

Alex shoved his phone back in his pocket and walked over to give her a quick kiss.

"Did you get here just a few minutes ago?" she questioned, going over to the small fridge and grabbing a bottle of Vitamin Water.

"Oh um, no, I actually got here about a half hour ago." he answered. He had been sitting on her couch just waiting to confront her about what he saw.

"Were you planning on leaving?" she wondered with her eyebrows knitted in confusion. She wasn't saying it like she was annoyed he was here, she was just curious.

Alex let out a breathy laugh with a half smile. "Well what happened was, I was writing you a note on your table when your computer caught my eye. I saw that you had your pictures back from that clothing ad you did and I was rather excited to see them."

"So you looked at them?" she asked nonchalantly after taking a sip of her drink; the contents of some of the pictures not really registering in her head at that moment.

"Yes I did and they were quite lovely. I especially liked the ones with only you and the two other girls."

"What did you think about the other ones?"

Alex pursed his lips and looked to the floor then back up at her before addressing her question. "Well, I found some of the others a bit inappropriate, in my opinion that is."

"How so inappropriate? It was for a Wal-Mart marketing line." She was clearly not getting what he was referring to. He didn't think she could be this daft.

"I just had a problem with the intimacy of the majority of the photographs that you took with your friend Cory." he stated matter of factly.

"Cory and I?" she laughed a little trying to make him think she had no idea what he was talking about.

"Oh hell Di! Look at this!" he ordered as he grabbed tightly onto her right wrist and yanked her over to the computer screen rather forcefully. It felt like he had a death grip on her.

"Ow Alex, you're hurting me!" she shouted trying to wrench her arm out of his vice like grip.

"Then look at these!" he repeated, gritting his teeth somewhat as he spoke, his temper rising.

He then let go of her as forcefully as he had grabbed her by pushing away her wrist in a throwing like manner.

She looked down to her wrist before she looked at the screen and noticed how red it was.

Alex clicked through each picture he deemed inappropriate and made sure Dianna was looking very carefully at each and every one.

"Do you see this one?" he asked angrily as he pointed to the picture on the hammock.

"Yes I see it Alex." she shot back.

"Do you notice anything wrong?"

She examined the picture and it looked exactly as the photographer had asked them to pose.

"No I don't. That's exactly the way we were asked to pose." she informed him.

"Oh, so he asked you to hold hands now did he?" he spat.

Shit, she hadn't thought their handholding would be caught in the frame. She assumed their hands were hanging far enough off the edge of the hammock.

Dianna didn't answer. She only blinked a few times and looked off in a different direction.

"Mhm… That's what I figured." he retorted.

Then he clicked through some more and stopped on the one with her playing with the cord in Cory's ear from the headphones.

"You know Di, correct me if I'm wrong but that reminds me quite a lot like flirting… These all look like flirting to me actually!" he screamed as he continued with his rant on the pictures.

"I especially despise this one…" he scoffed as he looked at it. It was the picture of Cory wrapping Dianna up in his black robe the day he kept her warm against his body.

Dianna only glanced at the screen before she felt the tears start to well in her eyes. She blinked a few times attempting to hold them back from falling.

They all came out as soon as he slammed the screen shut and it made her jump.

"I'm your boyfriend Dianna! Do you know how that makes me feel? Do you know it makes me wonder if you find me to be a complete and utter imbecile!"

She felt the hot tears slide down her face as she squeezed her eyes closed trying to hold back more as she started to sob softly.

At this point, Alex was breathing heavily and he felt the rage in him wanting to come out full force but he controlled himself at the sight of her tears.

"Come sit down with me." he said as he gently grabbed her other wrist and led her to the couch.

Dianna continued to sob almost inaudibly.

"Di love," he began, keeping his voice down but still having a commanding tone. "It's things like these that make me question your love for me. These pictures break my heart because I love you and it worries me that you don't reciprocate those feelings."

She didn't say anything and kept taking short breaths from crying.

"Shh… There, there Di." he consoled as he wiped away her tears with his finger.

She couldn't describe the feeling inside of her of how much she did not want his hands or any part of his body on her right now. She wanted to yell, "Don't touch me!" but the words just wouldn't come out.

"I need to hear you tell me that you love me Dianna." he told her softly but sternly.

She had stopped crying now but her face was still damp from the tears. She just numbly nodded her head before hearing the words, "I love you." come up and out through her lips, the three words tasting like poison as she said them.

What could she do? The thing about Alex was, he truly was an amazing man, but at the same time, he had a temper. She preferred the gentle and caring side of him more than his ugly side like any other woman would. She thought there were a couple of reasons she said that. Seeing this side of him and him putting his hands on her made her scared. She was scared of what he could potentially do to her. The last thing you wanted to do was screw with someone who could hurt you. She also thought she said those words because there was a part of her that felt like she owed that meaningful phrase to him. Yes, they were dating and have been for months now and those were the things that came with being in a real relationship with someone. She had thought that by this time in their relationship, she would mean those words, so why did she not? Why did she feel like she'd mean them more if she were confessing them to someone different.

Upon hearing her response, Alex's demeanor lightened along with his features growing softer.

"I'm glad to hear that." he said as she put on a fake smile. He pulled her into a hug and rubbed his hand up and down her back.

When he pulled away he started to speak again. "I just think that, maybe we had this situation occur because we aren't as devoted to one another as I'd like us to be and I hope you feel the same."

She nodded and he continued to speak softly and calmly.

"To remedy this, I feel as though we should spend more time together." he paused to caress her cheek and she had to stop herself from shying away from his touch. "I feel like there is no more level of devotion to one another than living together, well, aside from marriage of course." he chuckled softly attempting to lighten the situation.

Dianna felt like she had just gotten a block in her throat, like she was trying to swallow cotton. She gulped as she awaited the dreaded question.

"So with that being said, my lovely Dianna Elise… Will you move into my apartment with me?"

News of Alex's offer spread like wild fire around the Glee set. So fast actually, that half of the main cast had already heard what her answer was not but an hour later.

Unfortunately for Cory, he had yet to hear about the original offer in the first place. He had been too busy practicing lines and day dreaming of Dianna and the amazing photoshoot they had.

Cory returned from the small café where they all usually got sandwiches and met up with a small group of the cast in one of the on set break rooms.

"Sup guys!" Cory greeted enthusiastically as he entered through the doorway.

Immediately, the hushed whispers and quiet conversations happening within the circle ceased as Cory took a seat.

"Sorry, don't feel like everyone needs to stop talking because of me. What were we talking about?" he questioned.

Lea, Chris, Kevin, and Naya all shared worried glances to one another before Chris decided to speak.

"Oh um, nothin." he responded with his voice going a little higher on the word 'nothing.' That was an immediate tell tale of a lie from Chris.

"It didn't sound like nothin." Cory mocked the last part in Chris's tone before he took a bite of his sandwich.

Everyone else found it to be a good time to eat what they had in front of them when Cory ate his sandwich.

"So, recording 'Time Warp' will be fun huh guys?" Lea announced to the small group trying to change the topic of conversation.

"Yeah, and even better dressing up for it. I'm so excited for this Rocky Horror tribute. It's something I've wanted to do for a while now, ever since it was mentioned at Comic-Con." Chris admitted.

"Hey, amen to that!" Naya agreed.

"All I know is that I'm going to obviously be the professor in the wheelchair." Kevin joked.

Cory just nodded along before asking, "Where's Dianna?"

Upon hearing this, Naya cleared her throat and announced she had to go get another drink, Lea just looked down and kept eating her salad, and Kevin got up to use the bathroom.

'Oh great, leave me to be the one to answer.' Chris thought.

"I believe she's in her trailer with Alex." he answered meekly and took a sip of his water.

"Oh." Cory scoffed with an accompanying eye roll. "I think I'll go ask if she want's to join us in here."

"I wouldn't do that." Lea piped up.

"Why not?"

"I'm pretty sure they're having a talk." she told him.

Cory quirked and eyebrow in confusion. "What kind of a talk?"

"A serious one." Chris interjected.

Cory's eyes narrowed and he looked around the room at the four people since Kevin and Naya had rejoined. "Why do I feel like you guys are hiding something from me?"

No one said anything. Who really wanted to be the person to give someone else news that would devastate them? They all were 100% sure Cory would be upset with the agreement between the two blondes.

"Guys!" Cory prompted some one to speak.

"We heard that Alex asked Dianna to move in with him… and she said yes." Kevin finally explained for the group.

"Wh-what?" Cory muttered, his face now falling to look like a puppy that just got kicked.

Boy did Kevin feel bad now for breaking the news.

"Yeah…" Naya drawled.

Cory slowly sat up from his seat, using his hands to push off the table to keep his balance as he stood.

"I gotta go." he announced quietly as he looked down at the table and not at anyone else.

"Cory, sit back down and finish your sandwich. We're enjoying your company." Lea said.

"No thanks, I uh, I really have to go."

And with that he walked out of the room without looking back, leaving his food on the table.

"Oh god I feel like this is all my fault." Lea whispered to Chris while Kevin and Naya suddenly lost their appetites and got up from the table to clean up and leave.

"And why is that?" he asked.

"A few weeks ago, Dianna talked to me about something that happened between her and Cory at the club and I basically told her to just stay with Alex and give him a chance and I can't believe I screwed this up and-" Lea confessed worriedly before Chris interrupted.

"Woah woah, hold on now. What are you talking about?"

Lea took a deep breath then sighed. "I told Dianna I wouldn't talk to people about it but right now, I'm just so guilty I need someone to vent to."

"And that's me." he assured her with a soft smile.

Lea looked around the room to make sure they wouldn't be over heard and then spoke when she was certain no one else was in ear shot. "Let's just say, alcohol was flowing and so was some lip action."

Chris's jaw dropped. "They kissed!" he asked a little too loud.

"Shh! Keep your voice down." she chided as she put her finger up to his lips.

"Are you going to lower your voice?" she asked with her finger still attached to his lips and watched him nod his head. She dropped her finger then began to speak. "No, they didn't but they came close. Too close from what Di told me."

"Oh my god." Chris said with raised eyebrows and crinkles in his forehead.

"Yeah… And now after seeing him react to the news it felt like a wave just washed over me and I can't help but think it's my fault that she said yes."

Lea ran her fingers through her hair and rubbed her eyes. "It isn't your fault Lea. Dianna acted on her own. She made her own decisions and if she has any form of feelings for Cory, she knew them and took them into consideration and said yes herself. You can't put this on yourself for just giving her some advice. She used it in her own way." Chris put a hand on her shoulder to comfort her.

"I guess…"

Cory walked down one of the McKinley halls and into the chorus room. He walked passed a couple of lighting screens and a few camera tracks. He was the only person in there besides one of the lighting guys who immediately left as soon as he fixed one of the over-head stock lights.

After that he was alone.

He walked over to the grand black piano that stayed in the room that was always played by Brad Ellis, their resident pianist. He sat down at the bench and let his index finger fall onto the keys. He pressed one, then another, and another, playing a sad, tuneless song.

He sat back from the keys and squeezed his eyelids shut while he pinched the bridge of his nose, then brushed his hand through his brown locks.

What on earth would make her agree to move in with him? Why would she flirt with him constantly even though they were supposed to only be friends? Why would she break his heart?

All these questions ran through his mind one after the other. He slumped a little down on the bench and grabbed the sides of it lightly, leaning back on his hands.

The only reason he was sitting there now and not finding out the answers to these questions that wandered through his head was because he wanted to have some time to think of a calm and collected way to approach the situation. He wanted to be able to look her in the eyes without breaking down emotionally. The only way he could do those things was to do practice runs in his head.

He bit the side of his cheek as he began to think in solitary. This though, didn't last long.

He felt a pair of hands wrap around his head and cover his eyes. "Guess who?" the mysterious voice prompted.

He shut his eyes beneath the hands. He knew but wished he didn't need to guess; to say the person's name out loud.

"Dianna." he answered in a monotony voice.

He heard giggles and could see his inner eyelids brighten up as the light hit them from her removing her hands.

"You always know Cor." she laughed.

"Mhm…"

She walked around to the side of the piano to face him.

"What's wrong? You seem kind of out of it."

"Nothing." he whispered softly.

"What?" she asked, not hearing him.

"I said nothing." he repeated louder this time.

"Are you sure? It doesn't seem like nothing. You look upset." she moved around the outside of the piano and towards the other end of the bench Cory sat on and joined him. "You know you can tell me anything." she promised as she put a hand on his shoulder for reassurance. He didn't look at her. He didn't move his head at all away from where he had been staring at the wall.

He tried to smile even a little bit. Nothing. "I uh, I don't think I can right now. Would you mind giving me some space? I need to think." His voice was still calm at this point but he knew he wouldn't be able to hold it in much longer if she stayed around.

Dianna raised her eyebrow, wondering what was wrong with him, then she smiled. "Do you need a hug?" she playfully asked.

He lost it. "No I don't need a fucking hug!" he shouted.

"Jesus Cory I'm sorry I was just trying to be helpful." she shot back, going on defense mode.

"Oh, you want to be helpful?" he spat. "Why don't you start with telling me about your new living arrangements."

Her breath caught in her throat at his demand to which Cory noticed her sudden hesitation.

"Ahh, so you know exactly what I'm talking about." he noted as he gave a fake smile.

Dianna could feel new tears wanting to come up. Damn, just after she got rid of the other ones and made her face perfect again like she hadn't had red puffy eyes and a wet face an hour ago.

"Who told you this Cory?" she asked, her voice shaky from emotions.

"It doesn't matter. I want to hear it from you."

"I'm sorry…" she choked out, fighting back the urge to cry.

"Sorry for what Di? For making the decision to move in with him?" he asked, wanting to cry himself. "I know we're just friends," he started while air quoting the word friends. "But don't you talk to friends about this kind of stuff and ask them for their opinion or how they feel about it?"

She didn't say anything. She only bit down on her bottom lip, forcing back tears, literally on the brink of falling apart.

"I can't do it anymore Di, I really can't! I can't sit here and watch you be with him, I- I- I just don't think it's possible." he stuttered. "You know, you say we're friends but I think we both know that we want more than that or else you wouldn't be constantly flirting with me- and I can tell when someone is flirting, I'm not stupid! That photoshoot proved that theory and what about the club? We were inches away from kissing. I sure as hell wanted it and I thought you did too, I mean, I guess I think a lot of things though. One day, I think you like me more than a friend, then the next day you pretty much deny it, then the next day you flirt with me and I think you like me again. I'm not in to rollercoasters Dianna and definitely not the emotional kind either." His words cut through her. She was crying full on tears at this point with her hand over her mouth trying to suppress her sobs. This was the second time she cried in an hour but this one was worse since it meant so much more.

"Cory please…" she begged through her sobs.

"Please what Di? Please take back what I said?" he asked and she just shut her eyes hard as more tears leaked through them. "No, I'm not going to do that. What I just said was how I truly feel and you can't just take that kind of thing back. It kills me, I mean really kills me to have to explain it like this to you. I wanted more time to think about this but I couldn't have it, just like I can't have a lot of things. All my reasoning and planning went out the door as soon as you walked through it. This is what it is, these are my raw feelings."

"Cory, it's not like I didn't think about it. I did! Even though m-my heart was shouting no, that I sh-shouldn't move in with him, there was a part of me that felt like I owed it to him. I'm sorry Cory but like it or not, he's my boyfriend." she finished through her shaky breaths before she held her hands to her face covering up more tears. It was then that Cory noticed something.

"What's wrong with your wrist?" he wondered, genuinely worried, anger leaving his voice.

Dianna immediately let her arms fall back to her side and she stuck her wrists behind her back.

"Nothing's wrong with either of them Cory." she lied, hoping he wouldn't bother her about it.

"No Di, let me see your wrist."

He walked up to her and started to gently pull her arm forward so he could examine her wrist.

She pulled away at his touch. "Please…" he pleaded in a caring voice.

She shut her eyes and let him bring her arm forward. He looked down to her right wrist and he noticed black and blue blotches starting to form in a distinct shape. He gently turned her wrist to look all around and examined further. Then he figured out where the blotches shape came from or at least he had a very strong feeling.

"He did this to you didn't he?" he questioned her, anger starting to come back in his voice.

"No I bumped it and-"

"Don't lie to me Di." he warned.

At that she didn't say a word and his suspicions were confirmed. "I'm going to kill him." he said as he started to back away from Dianna.

"Cory, don't be irrational."

"No, I'm gonna kill him." he echoed.

"Cory!" she protested.

"Fine, I won't kill him but I'm going to beat his face in!"

"Please don't do anything like that."

"Don't you get it Dianna? A guy should never put his hands on a woman like that. It's not right!" he told her.

She ran up to him and threw her arms up and under his and up his back so her finger tips were resting on the back of his shoulders and dug her face into his chest, leaving tear stains on his t-shirt. At her touch he immediately wrapped his arms around her, comforting her.

They just sat there like that, holding onto one another for a few minutes before Cory pulled them apart a little, but they still held onto each other. "If he ever touches you like that again, I need you to tell me. No matter what or how we feel about each other at the time, I need you to let me know so I can protect you." he told her quietly.

God, how could she live with Alex, the guy that did this to her, while there was another guy out there much better than him, she thought.

She looked into his eyes and nodded her head slowly. He nodded his head in return and they looked at each other for a few more seconds before Cory dropped his arms from around her causing her to do the same.

Cory gulped before he spoke again. "I meant what I said Dianna… earlier. I can't ride this emotional roller coaster right now." he paused to rub his forehead and to look into another direction, one that didn't have her in it. He couldn't look straight at her and tell her what he was about to say. "I think that, whatever we're doing needs to stop, for my sanity and for yours. We can be friends but only work friends and that's all. I'll still see you on set, you'll see me and we do the show like any other cast mates would… professionally."

Of course he didn't want to just be co-workers that acted professionally, he wanted to be her boyfriend more than anything, but at the point where they were at right now, he didn't see any other way possible at the moment.

Dianna numbly nodded her head, closing her eyes as a single tear fell down her cheek. Of course she didn't want to just be a regular cast mate, she wanted him. How much she wanted him was indescribable but she was taken and couldn't get him. Talk about that 'You Can't Always Get What You Want' song.

He held out his finger to her cheek and wiped off the tear from her beautiful face. He got the corners of his lips to arch a little for a small smile before he said, "Goodbye Dianna."

And with that, he turned around and walked out of the room even though every nerve in his entire huge body screamed at him to go back. He just couldn't. Besides, he had to go get fitted for his Brad costume for their Rocky Horror Glee Show and record 'Dammit Janet' with Lea.

I'm not sure of the actual date when Dianna and Alex actually moved in together but I'm pretty sure it was fairly soon in their relationship which I think only lasted a little under a year. It had to be fairly soon since there were engagement rumors running around before they had even been dating for a year. They like to move fast apparently haha. And I'm obviously not sure if Alex was that much of a douche to abuse Dianna in any way but I added it to spice things up. I hope you enjoyed this chapter even though it was angsty as well. Please review! I love them soo much!