So I'm back! It's been quite a while, 2 months since this story was updated? The last time I updated this I was in school and extremely busy so I decided not to work on it after that and since I've finished school, I have no other excuse other than I didn't feel like writing for a while. Sometimes you lose that drive and I think this was the first time it really hit me. But I know that people love this story and are looking forward to reading more (I have over 60 alerts) so I hunkered down and wrote. Thank you to those who would remind me that they missed this story, it really got me to continue to write in the end. Here's the next chapter!

Few other little things:

Forgive my math if I messed up the time changes. I've also never been to Paris so everything mentioned in here is only what I've looked for in the internet like monuments, hotels, and restaurants. If anyone from France and around the area of Paris reads this, I hope I did the aspects of the city some justice.

"I say go," Dianna gratefully smiled at her younger brother as the two of them, along with her mother and father, sat at their island kitchen counter. "I mean, it isn't an everyday thing to get to say I followed the love of my life to another country."

"I agree with Jason, Dear." Her mother seconded, as she stared at her tenacious, hopeless romantic daughter. She couldn't help but smile when she thought it was all like a beautifully written romance novel or movie.

Dianna wordlessly thanked her mother for her approval by smile before turning to look at her dad, who looked a little out of it to say the least.

"Dad?" She attempted to get her father to look up from the counter top and get his hands from running a marathon through his salt and pepper locks. When the man failed to remove his gaze from its current position she tried again. "Dad? What do you think?"

He chortled before meeting his daughter's intense gaze. "I'm sorry, I'm still trying to process the 'love of your life' part."

She squeezed her lips together in an attempt to suppress the immediate apple-cheeked grin that grew on her face and glanced down before she chuckled a bit herself.

"I know Dad," she sometimes couldn't believe it herself- Cory being 'it' for her. Two years ago she would've never even imagined the tall, goofy guy to be in that role, but now she couldn't have been happier. She didn't think her love life could be beat, but presently, some bitch was threating that over in France. The thought quickly brought Dianna back to why she was having this family discussion in the first place.

"That's why I need to go," she continued adamantly. "Because he is the love of my life and I will not have that taken from me."

"Ron sweetie, Dianna's in love… Our Little Lamb's in love!" Her mom spoke to herself dreamily. "Surely you see that?" Dianna watched as her dad nodded at her mom.

"Of course I see Mary," He informed her. "It's a father's worst nightmare! She's my little girl!"

The family shared a laugh at her father's response knowing that he was half playing when he said this.

"Oh dad…" Dianna shook her head playfully at the man who shrugged.

"Are we sure that this boy is the one for you? It's just- I mean, haven't you and Cory only been dating for six months?"

"Not even really five yet." Jason quickly answered his father while receiving a subtle glare from his sister.

"It hasn't even been five months?" He exclaimed, almost afraid that his daughter fell too hard, too fast. "I haven't even had the pleasure of meeting him yet. I'm letting all of my power to instill fear go to waste here!"

"Thanks Jason!" she directed daggers at the blonde across from her before she turned to her dad. "Does it matter that it hasn't been that long? I mean, once you know, you know… I've never been more sure of anything until now." She paused to shake her head at him. "And really with the fear stuff again? Please. Didn't work on Alex, not going to work this time either."

"Goodness that is so cute!" Her mom squealed as she embraced her husband's arm tighter. He rolled his eyes at his wife's giddiness and scoffed at his daughter's last comment.

"So go get him!" Jason chimed in once more. "Save Cory from his opposite costar! From what you've mentioned she seems like a bitch anyway."

"Jason!" Their mother chastised. "Language at this table!"

"It's an island counter but really mom, he's right, she totally is." Dianna assured her.

"Well if that's the case," her dad started. "You have our blessing to go." He smiled at her signifying no hard feelings about their teasing banter. He wanted her to know that he always supported her no matter what.

"Thanks… but I was gonna leave no matter what." Dianna told him matter-of-factly and he laughed.

"Well, let's pretend that you weren't going to until you knew we were okay with you leaving," her mom politely interjected then added in a dull whisper, "For your father's sake."

Dianna stifled her giggles before nodding.

"That settles that then!" Jason announced as he pulled himself off of his island stool and walked towards his sister. "I'm going to play basketball with the guys. Good luck with everything Di and have a safe flight." He hugged her tightly and whispered, "Show that bitch she's got nothing on Dianna Agron."

Dianna giggled into her brother's shoulder and nodded. "You know I will."

After hugging her mom and dad as well, she made her way back up to her childhood room she was staying in and whipped out her phone. After a few rings, the other end picked up.

"Hey Di!"

"Lea! Guess who got the go ahead to go to Cory in France even though she didn't really need it since she was planning on leaving anyway!" She said in one breath. She had called Lea the night before telling her all about the skype call with Little Ms. Man Stealing, Home wrecking, Biatch. That was her new name.

Lea chuckled over the phone at her friend's response. "Hmm, I don't know… you?"

"Yeah girl!" she happily screamed into her phone. "I'm getting on the computer to book my flight right now."

Dianna held her cell phone against her ear with her shoulder while she lifted her laptop screen and opened the AirFrance website.

"When are you leaving?"

Dianna scrolled through all the flights from SFO to Paris. "As soon as possible. There's one that leaves this afternoon at two."

"Book it." Lea ordered and Dianna smiled.

"Way ahead of you. I'm already paying for it." She continued in the booking process before she said, "I can't believe I'm going to do this."

"Second thoughts? Are you not excited?"

Dianna laughed at the panic that started to arise in her friend's voice.

"Second thoughts? Never. I just can't believe I'm going to do this… alone nonetheless."

There was a brief pause on Lea's end before Dianna heard her voice once more. "I'll go with."

"You'll what?"

"If you want, I'll go with you, to Paris I mean. I can catch a flight from New York out of JFK and meet you there."

"Lea, that's insane!"

There was another short pause. "Maybe, but I'd do it for a friend. Especially you."

"Really?"

"Absolutely." Lea promised her and Dianna couldn't help the insanely huge smile that appeared on her lips. "You're my girl and I love ya."

"Aw, I love you too and I'd definitely like that Lea. I can't believe you'd go with me."

"Believe it sweet cheeks cause I'm already on the airline's website looking at tickets."

"You truly are like, my best friend Lea. Thanks."

"Don't sweat it. Now, you said your flight's at two this afternoon right?"

"Yeah."

"There's a flight out of here at six tonight so considering both of our traveling hours and the time change from New York to Paris and California to Paris, I'd get there a few hours before you. I can book the hotel now and we can meet up there."

"Alright, that sounds good. I'll go halves with you on the hotel. He's staying at a Marriot hotel called Renaissance Paris Vendome Hotel by the way. I figured we could just make it simpler and stay where he's at."

"Alright, I'll book us a room there and don't worry about it Di. I got the hotel. It'll be like my contribution to your and Cory's relationship. Just remember to think of this at your wedding when you want to make a thanking speech."

Dianna chuckled at Lea's words. "I most definitely will."

"Okay then Lady Di, I'll see you over seas."

"Sounds fantastic Lady Lea." She responded before they both said their goodbyes.

Once she had her boarding pass printed out, she rushed around her room to pick up all the clothes that she had flung around out of her suitcase the last few days she had been home. She had to be at the airport in a couple hours. That meant she had to pack her suitcase back up stat!

An hour and half later, with her bags packed and stowed in her parent's SUV, she was on her way to the airport.

"I just can't get over how romantic this is!" her mother gushed for what seemed like the thousandth time. Dianna giggled quietly to herself in the backseat at hearing her dad sigh in response.

"Yes Mary, we know," he rolled his eyes. "Dianna and I have heard each and every other time you've said this."

"Goodness Ronald, you clearly need to watch more romance movies. I hear The Notebook calling our names!"

Dianna watched as her dad rolled his eyes yet again but looked back briefly to share a smile with her. She knew he approved of her spontaneous plan through his whole protective father front.

After quick goodbyes and wishes of good luck from her parents, Dianna easily made her way through check in and security with no rush of crowds or any people flashing photos. Thank god.

A short half hour later, she was on her international flight plopped down next to an older woman who, for a good few hours of her eleven-hour flight, she chatted amicably with. She found out that the woman was going to visit her grandson that had just recently moved to Paris for business.

Eventually the sweet older woman fell asleep and Dianna took it as her cue to catch some Z's as well. In only minutes, she felt herself pulled into the darkness of sleep.

I just might have to find somebody to hang out with me in the City of Love since I'll be all by myself…

All's fair in love and war Sweet Cheeks…

All the cast is too cool, especially Katie who plays opposite of me…

Lay off? Yeah, I don't think I can do that. He's just too cute to refrain from…

Her eyes flew open after she saw Katie and Cory kiss in her dream.

"What a bitch…" Dianna muttered under her breath before jumping slightly when she felt a hand lay itself on her arm.

"Are you okay dear?" the old woman next to her questioned, as she looked at her with deep concern.

"Yeah of course, I'm fine. Why wouldn't I be?" she attempted to play off her dream. She didn't need to be having any bad thoughts about the situation and her trip.

The friendly, grey haired woman softly smiled while stifling a quiet laugh. "Well I woke up to your frantic flailing around in your seat. You head butted me when it whipped to the side."

Dianna's hand quickly rose to cover her mouth in embarrassment. "I am so sorry. I hope it didn't hurt!"

The woman held her hand up to the upset girl to show her it was fine. "Don't worry about it. You only hit me hard enough to wake me. No damage."

"Wouldn't it have to be fairly hard to wake someone out of their sleep?"

She shrugged. "I'm a light sleeper. Always have been since I was a little girl. I'm very certain that I would wake to even the slightest sound of a pin falling to the ground."

Dianna felt the corners of her lips tug up into a smile at how nice the lady was. This was one of the first times that she was sitting next to someone on a plane that she actually didn't mind sitting with. The woman was a far cry from all the creepy old men who blatantly stared at her or the kids that never stopped talking or playing pranks on you while you slept.

The two of them continued to chat for a while. The woman, whose name she found out was Rose, talked proudly of her single grandson who she said looked about Dianna's age. After politely declining Rose to set her and her grandson up, she told her of her reasons to head to Paris.

"Your boyfriend sounds awfully wonderful," Rose smiled, holding no hard feelings of Dianna's decline to meet her grandson. "I think it's lovely that you're going all the way to Paris for him."

Dianna smiled in return before it faded in thought. "You don't think it makes it any less romantic if I'm partially going not only because I miss him… but to keep her away from him?"

She had brought up Katie in as little detail as possible, leaving out that her and Cory were working on a movie. She didn't want Rose to treat her situation any different because they were, she supposed, celebrities. She just wanted an honest opinion based on someone trying to come in between someone else's relationship.

Rose continued to smile and shook her head. "No sweetie, everyone has the right to fight for and defend their relationships and I think someone travelling to another country for their boyfriend or girlfriend is more than romantic enough… besides, frankly, this girl sounds like…" she paused. "Well, for lack of a better word, a bitch."

"Rose!" Dianna exploded into laughter after trying to sound shocked from the woman's choice of wording. She couldn't believe the word had come out of such a sweet, caring woman's mouth.

Their laughter died down after a few more seconds and Rose grabbed onto Dianna's hand and looked straight into her eyes.

"Good luck with everything Dianna, not that you'll need it in the City of Love."

"Thank you Rose." She hoped she wouldn't need it.

When it finally came time to land, the captain came on announcing the local time and weather. It was ten A.M. and sunny, a far cry from one A.M. and nighttime back in California right then. With the quick taxiing of the plane to one of their international terminals, Dianna was off fast enough and calling Lea.

"Hey!" the bubbly brunette greeted after a few rings.

"Hey, my plane just landed. Are you already at the hotel?"

"Yep. I got here about an hour ago. My flight was delayed for an hour or two in New York but it's all good now. I just got us a regular room with two full beds. Is that okay?"

"More than okay," she answered her friend as she walked outside of the terminal to hail a taxi. "I appreciate you getting the room and paying for it."

"Don't worry about it girl!" Dianna could picture Lea smiling just by her words and tone. "I can't wait to see you. I'll meet you down in the lobby in about fifteen minutes. The ride from the airport to here isn't long and I'm a little hungry from the flight I didn't eat much. I'll be looking around in the complimentary breakfast bar that I saw."

"Alright sounds good. Do I need to do anything when I get there?"

"Um…" She heard a ding through the line, figuring Lea was in an elevator already going to get food. "Just go up to the front desk and say you have a reservation under the name Lea Sarfati. They should have a key waiting for you. I told them you were coming."

"Sarfati? You used your real last name?"

"Yeah, I didn't really care to have any media people knowing we're in Paris on a spontaneous trip to claim your man. You don't need any paparazzi hounding you along with dealing with that Katie Cassidy."

"Right, gotcha. Okay, I'll see you soon then.

Once she hung up, she easily got the attention of a driver leaning up against a cab.

"Bonjour," she greeted the man. Her language abilities didn't go much farther than the generic greetings and that classic, suggestive chorus line from Moulin Rouge's 'Lady Marmalade.' "I need to go to the Renaissance Paris-"

"Vendome Hotel," The tall Frenchman finished for her, his heavy accent powering through his speech. She assumed he must drive there a lot if he was able to tell where she needed to go before she finished. "No problem. Let me put your luggage in the back."

She politely thanked him and climbed into the backseat of the taxi. Shortly after, the man made his way into the driver's seat, and around fifteen minutes later like Lea had promised, they were pulling up to the curb of the hotel.

"Merci." She thanked him with a smile and handed him the fare, to which he returned with a, "De rien" and a "merci" of his own for the generous tip she gave him and handed her suitcase to her.

He deserved the extra cash. He was nice to talk with for the ride. She was sure he was at least the hundredth person to mention how Paris was the City of Love.

Pulling her suitcase behind her, she smiled at the doorman who pushed open the large glass door to lead her in. Once inside, she sauntered up to the front desk in the foyer to get her room key.

'These look pretty good,' Lea mused to herself as she scanned the beautifully decorated table full of pastries. 'Ooh scones…'

"Lea?"

Lea's chewing slowed down then completely came to a halt at hearing her name, as she immediately knew whom the voice belonged to. Turning around and swallowing she said, "Hey Cor."

"I'm sorry for the mix up Mademoiselle Agron. We just found your reservation name of Sa…fet…y in the system." Dianna held in her laughter at how the concierge butchered the pronunciation of Lea's last name. "Here is your key."

She smiled at the stout man, took the key card off the counter and slid it into her purse. "Thank you."

After thanking the man once again for wishing her a delightful stay, she turned to walk away to find this 'breakfast bar' Lea said she'd be at.

"I'm um, glad you had a nice flight and that you're here but uh, why did you say you were in Paris again?" The tall brunette stared at his friend and costar in confusion. He watched her think for a second before her lips tugged into a huge smile and she stared behind him.

"She's here with me."

Cory whipped around in the direction of the voice he knew from anywhere. How could he not? It was the voice of the woman he loved.

"Di," the tone of his voice was shocked and yet elated at the same time. "I can't believe you're here in France right now!"

He made his way over to her in a half walk, half jog and wrapped her up in his arms. God, it felt so good to be this close to her again. She fit perfectly into his embrace.

"Believe it babe!" she replied, her voice muffled by her face against his shoulder.

When he pulled away from her, reluctantly he might add, he continued to stare happily. "This is so crazy! What are you doing here? Shouldn't you be at home?"

Dianna smiled sweetly at him. "I missed you, silly. Two weeks is just too long to not be in your arms and be with you." Of course that wasn't the only reason she was here. Her main purpose of this trip was to put Katie in her place but she couldn't exactly tell Cory that. Missing him was a big part of it; don't get her wrong, but most definitely not the only part.

"I've missed you too, so much babe!"

"I'm in France too you know!" Lea play jealous, piped up from behind them. "Where are my hugs Cory? Share the wealth over here!"

Cory chuckled at her words and walked over to hug her as well.

"Sorry, it was just, seeing my girlfriend here kind of got me distracted." He said to the petite girl who shrugged.

"It's alright, I expected it."

"I still can't believe either of you are here." He told them, shaking his head in disbelief as he looked at the two girls.

"I brought Lea along for the trip, I hope you don't mind. I needed a travelling companion, plus I know you'll be busy with filming. I didn't want to be alone."

He shook his head and continued grinning. "Of course I don't mind. I'm siked!" He took a few more seconds to smile and comprehend the fact that his girlfriend was actually here before looking at Dianna's suitcase. "You should bring your suitcase up to your room. Do you have a room already? I mean, you guys could stay with me. I have plenty of space. It's a suite."

"Thanks for the offer Cor but I actually do have a room. I'm sharing one with Lea." She walked up closely to him and wrapped her arms around his waist. "I can't ask her to be my traveling companion and just leave her alone in the room you know."

Cory nodded his head in understanding but leaned closer to her so his lips hovered over her ear. "That's fine I guess but remember, you can come to my room anytime babe. I know you like to stay up late."

His hot breath on her ear sent shivers down her spine like it always did along with his teasing last statement that she remembered she had told him the week prior. When Cory pulled away from her she raised an eyebrow in a playful manner at seeing his smirk.

She sucked her bottom lip between her teeth before replying, "I'll be sure to keep that in mind." And sealed it with a wink.

Cory chuckled and nodded once more before glancing to Lea, then back to his girlfriend again. "Then I guess I better let Lea show you to your guys' room."

Lea agreed but went to grab another scone before they would have to go upstairs. Those things were damn good!

"I'm glad I ran into you guys before I left. I was actually on my way to do a scene on location when Owen arrives in Paris."

"That sounds fun," Dianna smiled and squeezed Cory's arm. "You get to take in some sights as you work."

He gave her a lop sided grin and shrugged. "Oh of course but I gotta be professional and focused too."

A sexy smirk played on her lips and she tilted her head up to barely meet his lips. "Mmm do I know…" Her words were finished when she pressed her lips against his in a slow, searing kiss. The kiss easily developed more, Dianna sliding her tongue into Cory's mouth, his fighting back in a equal measure, both wanting to be closer to one another.

"I leave to go get a scone for two minutes and you two are already making out in the middle of the lobby! There are children here!"

Lea's voice broke them apart from their kiss. She stared at the pair and giggled at Cory's blush that arose quickly onto his cheeks. Dianna smiled fondly at her boyfriend and ran her thumb against his rosy cheek. His lips tugged into a smile at her soft, caring touch.

"Okay Lovebirds," she addressed, then turned her attention directly at Dianna. "We need to go put your suitcase away. Let me show you the room."

Cory leaned down and placed a quick kiss on Dianna's cheek. "Yeah, you should do that. I have to go too but how about the three of us meet at my room around seven and I take you guys to dinner with me? The rest of the immediate cast and I were planning to get food around then at this restaurant we wanted to try. I have filming from now until about six but I'd like you guys to come with tonight."

"Sounds great baby. Lea and I will explore the city for a bit while you work and see you then?"

"Definitely." He grinned. "I'll get back around six-ish, take a shower and get ready. We'll meet everyone at the restaurant after. They're all really cool and friendly. You'll love 'em."

"Sounds lovely," She turned to Lea. "Sound good with you?" When Lea smiled and nodded, she returned her eyes to Cory. "Then it's a plan."

She couldn't wait to meet Katie and see the look on the girl's face when she saw she was here in France. 'Hmph, a good six thousand miles away my ass.'

He couldn't resist the toothy grin that wanted to spread across his face. He was still so shocked and happy that the two girls were here.

"Okay. I'll see you two then." He announced, placing a chaste kiss on his girlfriend's lips and hugging Lea before he made his way out to the car waiting to take him to the set.

Once he was out of site, Lea walked over to her friend and bumped hips with her. "So we get to meet little miss Katie Cassidy tonight. Excited?"

Dianna smirked. "You have no idea."

The girls shared a laugh before the petite brunette led them up to their shared room so Dianna could unpack and they could start to take in the sights.

"I love Paris," Lea commented as the two of them strolled down The Champs-Élysées. "And I love this street!"

"I know," Dianna agreed as she took in the famous street. "This is actually the first time I've been to Paris."

Lea looked at her friend in disbelief. "Nuh uh, really?"

She chuckled and nodded. "Really."

"You're kidding?"

"I kid you not," The blonde assured. "I got invited to a fashion show here last year but couldn't make it."

"I see," Lea nodded her head slowly. "Then we have to be super touristy for your first time here."

"Ooh, we're gonna be uber tourists?" Dianna giggled excitedly. "Sounds fun."

"Oh it will most definitely be fun my dear Di," she promised her friend. "We'll buy souvenirs and take pictures together in front of monuments! We'll just have to be the best damn tourists this city has ever seen, but first, we shop!"

The girls both continued to share in laughter as they made their way into many stores- the first being the Banana Republic that was in front of them.

To neither of their surprises, they wound up shopping for a few hours. Thank God for their generous salaries on Glee.

Lea had bought some more summer clothes like shorts and flowy blouses while Dianna bought a few dresses. She always had a thing for a good dress. Both bought a few pairs of shoes.

"Where to next, Tour Guide Lea?" Dianna playfully inquired, staring all around her yet again.

"I don't know about you but if we're going to see some monuments, I don't exactly feel like lugging around all these bags in my hand."

"What? You don't like the exercise?" she teased, to which she earned a quirked, 'do not test me' brow.

"I constantly go for runs, go to the gym, do my yogalates, not to mention the hours of dance rehearsals we have for each episode we do. Trust me, I think I do enough exercise to suffice for this." Lea stared down Dianna, challenging her to rebut, but was happy and most satisfied when the blonde didn't return with a counter argument.

She threw her hands up in surrender. "Okay fine," she started forward. "To the hotel we go!"

After a quick trip back to their room to drop their many shopping bags off, Lea and Dianna continued their day trip of Paris, carrying on to the Arc de Triomphe at the end of the Champs-Elysées.

Just like the tourists Lea had promised Dianna they'd be, they of course, took some nice pictures with the Arc in the background along with some goofy ones with the help of the people around them. Thank god for the mass amounts of people they found who spoke fluent English that took their pictures for them.

Realizing that they only had a couple more hours before they had to meet Cory back at the hotel, the girls decided to end their first day of sight seeing on the left bank in the beautiful Latin Quarter after walking along some of the Seine.

To take some of the stress out of their legs from walking all day, they chose to sit down at a cute, little café where Dianna ordered a simple espresso and Lea ordered tea.

"Thanks Lea, I really enjoyed today." Dianna spoke up after taking a small sip of her espresso.

Lea smiled. "No need to thank me. It would have been a crime to come to Paris and not sight see." She paused to dip the tea bag into her cup a few times. "I had a good time too. Plus, we can do more in the week to come."

"So we're staying for the week?"

"Of course. You can't come to an amazing city like Paris and only stay for a few days. I think people need at least a week to take in all of this." She gestured around to their surrounding area. "Also, how often do we get to go to France?"

Dianna nodded in agreement. "And I think Cory finishes filming in the next week so maybe we can all catch a flight back together?"

"Yeah, definitely. So are you looking forward to dinner tonight?" the brunette questioned after sipping at her hot drink.

"Very," she responded jubilantly. "Dinner with Cory in the City of Love sounds wonderful."

"And his cast mates." Lea reminded her. "What're you planning on doing about that Katie girl?"

Dianna frowned at hearing the woman's name remembering the main reason why she came all the way to France in the first place. That put a damper on her fun day.

"I'm going to ask her politely to be respectful of my relationship with Cory and back down." She answered confidently, trying to make Lea believe she was going to take this situation and handle it like the adult she was.

"Mhm…" the voice across from her mumbled with a raised brow showing how little she believed that. "Are you sure there won't end up being an all out brawl or a smack down of some sort?"

"Oh ha-ha," Dianna retorted, glaring at her friend for questioning her level of self-control. "Your lack of confidence in me is insulting, Lea. I can behave myself. I think it's possible for me to be the civilized lady I know I am."

Did Dianna believe what she was saying? Absolutely! She knew she could handle this… problem, with the utmost amount of civility there was. She was aware of how she should behave and how everything will turn out in her favor, but in the possible, maybe even probable situation that it doesn't, she wasn't afraid to put this bitch in the place she belonged. She knew she could pull out her inner character of Quinn Fabray, HBIC. If necessary, she was willing, but of course, that's only if plan 'Be Refined and Polite' didn't work.

"We'll see…" Lea sing songed and took another sip of her drink. The two shared a laugh, Dianna knowing she was only teasing, and yet, the 'we'll see' was still a completely on the table, probable test. A test of how much self-control she possessed that would keep her from kicking Katie's ass all the way back to the U.S.

"Alright, enough of your negativity. We need to get back to the hotel to get ready."

"I'm coming!" Cory called across the room, as he slowly jogged over to see who was knocking. As soon as the door was opened, his eyes widened, forcing his eyebrows high into his forehead. "Wow…"

"Is- is this okay?" Dianna inquired, suddenly feeling self conscious of how she looked. She chose to wear a simple, yet elegant black, lace sleeved cocktail dress that fell just above her knees with her hair tied back in loose waves. She had a pair of gold, flower pedaled earrings and black strappy heels to go along with her look, but the accessory Cory loved the most was the necklace holding a diamond-formed heart resting just below her collar bone that he bought her when he asked her to be his girlfriend. It was his heart and she held it. It never came off her neck.

Cory chortled through his smiling lips; his eyes still hadn't reduced in size. "You look… you're just… wow."

The blonde bit her bottom lip and giggled at his reaction. "I look like wow?"

Cory's lips arched into a greater smile at his girlfriend's playful teasing. He collected himself before finally being able to form a coherent sentence. "I meant to say that you look amazing." He stroked her cheek with the pad of his thumb. "God, you're so beautiful."

"I prefer Dianna or any form of that, thanks. Babe or Baby will suffice just the same… or maybe My Goddess? I suppose it depends on how lucky you want to get." He chuckled once more at her ever constant teasing.

"Yet again, where are my greetings Cory?" Lea piped up from behind Dianna, feigning the hurt of being forgotten once more.

The tall man poked his head around his girlfriend to see the shorter woman behind her. "Right here Lea!" He opened his arms, inviting her in for a hug. "You look great too." He told her, looking at her own short dress and she playfully pushed him.

"Thanks for noticing Cor."

Once they decided they didn't want to stand in the doorway any longer, Cory invited the two in to where he presented them with his own fashion issue.

"Which one should I wear under a black blazer? I'm thinking no tie." He asked the pair as he held up two button ups- one a charcoal grey and the other a navy blue.

Lea pursed her lips in thought and Dianna shifted her eyes back and forth between the shirts.

"The grey one, definitely." Dianna finally announced, pointing at the shirt in his left hand.

Lea nodded. "I say that one too."

Cory grinned while he looked at the button up, satisfied with the girls' choice. "Great, I'll go get my blazer from my room and put it all on." He walked over to Dianna and pecked her lips. "Thank you, My Goddess."

He smirked as she blushed and stifled her grin. Lea made gagging noises but was elbowed by the blonde.

A few minutes later he returned to the main room fully dressed in black matching slacks to his blazer with the grey button up beneath and fixing some sculpting gel into his hair blindly, and yet, even without a mirror, he still seemed to make his hair look good.

"Are you two lovely ladies ready to go?"

With both assuring nods, the three made their way downstairs and into a private car to take them to the restaurant Cory had agreed upon with his cast mates.

"Did you guys do anything cool today?" he asked as they drove.

"We went shopping-"

"Lea helped me pick out this dress." Dianna informed him, gesturing to the dress she donned.

Cory directed his attention to Lea and gave her an appreciative smile. "You did a good job."

"Thank you."

"What else?"

"We did a little sightseeing," Dianna continued. "We saw the Arc de Triomphe and got some awesome touristy pictures," she glanced over to Lea and they shared a quick giggle. "And just ended up walking around and wound up in the Latin Quarter at this cute café. Overall it was a successful day. How about you babe?"

Cory shrugged. "Pretty good overall. Decent day of filming but to be honest, I'm more excited about this dinner. Di, babe, you don't even know how stoked I am that you two are here and meeting everybody else."

Dianna couldn't help the smile that appeared on her lips at seeing Cory so genuinely excited. "Everyone's going to be there? Like Selena, Leighton, and Katie?"

Lea quirked an eyebrow when she noticed the ever so subtle evil smirk on the blonde's face when Cory nodded. She shook her head already thinking of how things with Katie Cassidy were going to pan out.

Dianna let the smirk fall off her features before responding with a quick, "Awesome, can't wait."

About five minutes later, their car pulled up to the curb of the restaurant. Cory stopped their driver from opening the doors for them and hopped out himself to make the gentlemen like gesture for Dianna and Lea.

"Thank you Cor." The two praised as they slid out of the car, one after the other. As Dianna stepped out, she brought her hand to Cory's face and caressed it as she passed by, resulting in a huge smile on his face.

"No problem for two beautiful ladies."

He shook the driver's hand then followed them close behind as they all entered the fancy restaurant.

"Bonjour Monsieur, bienvenue à L'Astrance." The petite woman behind a podium greeted Cory as he walked up to her.

"Um, bonjour," he attempted in his best French. He hadn't picked up much apart from the basics like hello, goodbye, thank you, 'My name is Cory' and 'Do you speak English?' He glanced around the large dining room for his cast mates before turning his attention back to the hostess. "I meeting my friends here…"

He wasn't exactly sure what name they made the reservation under so he was kind of floundering about how to address the situation. Just as he was about to guess a name of someone that could have made the reservation, Luke saved him.

"Hey Cory!" the Australian man came over to meet them with a friendly smile. He turned to the petite hostess. "They're with me."

The woman smiled and nodded her head and let Cory, Lea, and Dianna go to the table with Luke.

Lea gave Luke a quick one over as he turned to lead them away. He was pretty cute. Tall with blonde, neck length, wavy locks. She would have even probably planned on flirting with him if she was single. She didn't think Theo would be too pleased if she did try anything with the Aussie, so she let it go.

As they walked, Cory thanked Luke for grabbing them at the entrance and quickly introduced the girls to him.

"Luke, this is Dianna, my girlfriend," he gestured to Dianna who smiled politely and shook Luke's hand. Then Cory turned to Lea. "And this is our friend Lea." She shook his hand as well. "We all work together on Glee."

"Luke Bracey." He introduced himself to the girls. "It's cool that you all work together."

"Yeah, two and a half years now. Just finished out second season." Lea elaborated, continuing to make conversation until they got to their table.

"Wow, congratulations on getting another season done." He responded before they finally met up at the table. "Here we are."

Dianna watched as Cory immediately began to amicably converse with his cast mates. He had already started making goofy faces when he spoke and the rest of the table would chuckle with him. She sometimes still had a hard time believing that the guy in front of her was hers. She always wanted to yell at herself for not realizing what a catch he was a long time ago. Instead, she had wasted her time dating a line of douchebags, most recently, an arrogant Alex.

"Hey, come back from the clouds, Di." The sudden voice of Lea pulled her out of her thoughts when she noticed Cory start to lead into introducing them to the rest of the table.

Dianna put on her best smile when Cory spun around and step to the side to show the table his two guests.

"Everyone, I hope you don't mind but I brought a couple guests with me." He presented the girls. "This is Lea Michele and my amazing girlfriend, Dianna Agron."

Dianna looked at Cory and smiled for the nice introduction, then turned her head to look at the rest of the table, almost forgetting about Katie because of Cory's sweetness, until her eyes drifted over to the dirty blonde haired woman. They made full eye contact and Dianna let a small, jabbing smirk play on her lips at the sight of the other woman's jaw dropped. Oh yeah, she definitely recalled their little skype chat.

"Well, let's make some room for them to sit down." A man with longer, curly hair announced, asking the waiter to bring a couple more chairs for Dianna and Lea.

When the waiter returned with the chairs, Cory sat when the girls did. Dianna sat to the left of Cory and Lea sat on the left of Dianna next to Luke. The blonde mentally cursed Lea and Cory for not choosing the others seat when Cory plopped himself down next to Katie.

She narrowed her eyes and sneered at Katie when she noticed the woman reciprocating her earlier smirk, happy that Cory chose to sit next to her. Apart from returning her dirty glances; there wasn't anything Dianna could do about the seating arrangements now. It was time to put plan 'Be Refined and Polite' into action.

Once the table was replenished with wine, they went through the rest of the introductions, starting with Luke.

"Well I'm Luke, but we already met earlier." He told them with another friendly smile. Then they moved clockwise.

"Leighton, nice to meet you two." She introduced herself with a polite wave.

Next they went to Selena who they had actually met before at the previous year's People's Choice Awards. After Selena was Pierre Boulanger, the man that asked for chairs for them whom Dianna and Lea later learned was a native Parisian. Then, much to Dianna's displeasure (but she kept it well masked), Katie introduced herself.

"I'm Katie." She started and Dianna felt her stomach turn when she watched Cory turn to Katie and smile fondly at her. She figured she shouldn't have been surprised and just expect it since she knew by the way Cory talked about her that they were close, even in only a couple weeks after meeting. Even with his reassurance that there was nothing between them, Dianna still got upset and jealous, so it hurt to see him look so happily at her. It was like his best friend was being introduced.

Although it was barely there and trying to be held in, Lea noticed her friend's upset expression, so she let her hand fall from on top of the table and over to Dianna's lap where she squeezed her hand for support and reassurance that she was there.

Dianna softly smiled at Lea, thanking her, and turned her head back to Katie to listen. Surprisingly, Katie seemed to have a plan 'Be Refined and Polite' going on herself as she mentioned how Cory talked about Dianna frequently to her.

"You two are very lucky to have one another. He's so proud to call you his, he never stops talking about it." She politely laughed and smiled. Thanks to Dianna's great judge of character and her ability to weed out BS, she could easily see Katie's fake sincerity, but went along with it anyway.

"Thanks," She returned to the woman before turning her vision to Cory and continued while looking at him. "He makes me really happy and I'm proud to be his girlfriend."

Cory couldn't help the grateful, adoring smile that appeared on him when Dianna spoke. He agreed with everything she said. They were very happy together. To show how happy she was, and maybe to rub it in Katie's face a little, she leaned into him and gave him a slow kiss on the lips, one he reciprocated easily.

After, he continued to stare at her even once she turned to address the others. Man, did he love her.

They had gotten midway through their meals without really any incidents with Katie. Dianna was beginning to feel like maybe she had shaken her up enough by showing up in France to stop her advancements on Cory.

Just then, she watched Katie set her fork at the edge of her plate, knowing with just the right amount of fork hanging off the side, she could 'accidentally' hit it and it would go flying through the air and onto the floor below.

Just like she had predicted, when no one was paying close attention or too busy nursing their wine, Katie let her hand fall by her plate, successfully hitting the fork and landing it on the floor.

"Oh goodness!" she exclaimed, masking her 'surprised' shock well, a little too well for Dianna's taste.

She felt her blood begin to boil when Katie made a show of pushing her seat back and slowly bending down in Cory's direction to retrieve the fork, revealing her major cleavage in her low cut top.

Cory couldn't help the primal male instinct instilled in him when he glanced over to Katie's show, but upon his eyes making contact with her chest, his eyebrow immediately arched up and he cleared his throat quickly, making it obvious he was a little uncomfortable with the situation and made his eyes turn to look at anything else.

Dianna only glared. 'What a bitch!'

She watched as Katie bent back up from the floor with a giant smirk on her face.

Dianna once again felt Lea squeeze her hand.

"So anyway…" Cory mumbled as he took a sip of his wine, waiting for someone to make more conversation. He felt a little awkward because he was pretty sure Dianna saw him check out Katie's boobs, but at least he looked away fast right? That counted for something!

"Tell us a little more about Glee!" Selena jumped in, sensing a mild awkward vibe. "Like, your characters."

"Well," Lea put down her glass. "I play Rachel Berry. She's kind of the annoying person in the glee club that's always fighting for the solos…"

"She's the resident diva, just like her portrayer." Dianna joked, trying to get over the Katie aka Little Miss Slut-Slut's act. Lea playfully slapped her arm for her comment. "I play Quinn Fabray, ex-pregnant teenager, ex-cheerleader… I suppose she's kind of been put through the ringer." The table laughed.

"What about you Cory?" Luke questioned.

Cory had just finished his glass before he answered, "I play Finn Hudson. Just one of those not-so-bright jocks."

"Oh, just like you then." Pierre teased with a smile, letting Cory know he was only joking. Cory laughed in return and shook his head at the man.

"I was just thinking," Katie announced to the table after having been quiet for the last five minutes. Dianna quirked an eyebrow in anticipation of what she would say next. "I've seen Glee a couple times and just noticed that you have three girlfriends at the table tonight."

The confused look on Cory's face was evident so Katie continued to explain. "If I'm caught up on the show, you have Lea here who's your girlfriend on your show, Dianna, your real girlfriend…" Dianna's lips tugged up in a sly grin at hearing her last statement. She better be aware that he's hers! "And you have me, your movie girlfriend."

"Oh…" Cory drawled, understanding now. "Yeah I guess you're right. I got my three girls here." He reached far to gather Lea and Dianna under one arm and swooped his other around Katie. Dianna did not like this.

She watched as Katie smirked once again. She would bring up the fact that she's a 'girlfriend' to Cory.

'God, this is going to be a long ass dinner.' Dianna groaned in her head.

After what seemed like hours, the dinner was over and they were all standing up to leave. Now if she could just grab Lea and Cory and get back to the car she'd be fine.

"Why don't we all just go back together?" she heard Cory ask. Dammit! Not going to be fine.

"Yeah, Cory's right." Selena agreed. "We're all going to the same place. It'd be impractical to take like, the three different cars that we got here in. They're all big enough anyway."

Much to Dianna's dread, they all drove back in the same car. The only thing that kept made it a little better was that the seats were three to a row so she grabbed Lea to sit next to her and Cory, making there no room for Skankzilla in their row… Wow, she was coming up with a lot of names.

"So I was thinking maybe I could get you a key to my room so you could come up whenever you wanted. How does that sound?" Cory asked his girlfriend as they walked hand in hand into the hotel.

She bit her lip. "I think I'd like that." The words came out in a sultry whisper.

Cory smiled as he stopped them in front of the elevator. "Great, I'll go ask the front desk for one now."

Just as he spoke, Dianna noticed Katie strolling towards their position at the elevators out of the corner of her eye, so she pulled Cory down by his collar and planted a deep kiss on his lips. When he pulled away, a surprised but very happy look was on his face.

"I really missed you." He breathed out quietly then turned to go to the front desk, but not without smiling at Katie first.

Once she made sure Cory was out of earshot, Katie turned her attention to the blonde. "I can't believe you're actually here."

"Well, believe it." she spat, in no mood to deal with this girl anymore tonight. "You were right. I couldn't exactly do anything to keep you off my boyfriend all those six thousand miles away in California, so I booked a flight. Surprise!"

Katie let out a humorless laugh. "Yeah surprise, here you are."

Dianna pursed her lips then exhaled deeply. Being hostile wasn't her plan. She still wanted to resolve this like an adult. They weren't in high school anymore. "Listen, I didn't come here to make this a bitch fight. I came here to ask you as Cory's girlfriend, to please respect our relationship and lay off. We're both adults here. We're both out of high school. I think we can handle this maturely right?"

She wished Lea was here now to see plan 'Be Refined and Polite' in action. She'd be proud that she wasn't already slapping this girl around silly. Wait, where was Lea?

"That's cute," Katie's voice brought her back. "I admire the fact that you're being civil about this, I really do. Normally, that type of little speech would work on me, but not now... Dianna right?" She nodded. "Well Dianna, I'll introduce myself again. I'm Katie Cassidy and I like to get what I want, and what I want is a good, decent guy, but with my luck, they're always already taken. So around a week ago, I saw my chance with Cory, and before you get all pissy, I didn't know he had a girlfriend until two days ago, but since then he hasn't stopped talking about you… Frankly, I'm annoyed-"

"I'm annoyed!" Dianna shot, interrupting her. "You have no idea what Cory and I have been through, together and individually! I'm well aware that Cory is a good and decent guy. That's why I'm dating him! That's why I'm here! I won't lose him, especially not to you!"

"You know, you'd think you would have trust in a guy like Cory, and as much as it pains me to admit it, all week I've been hitting on him and he hasn't done one thing to betray your trust in return. Maybe he realizes it," she paused. "Or yet, maybe he doesn't. He's kind of oblivious, but whatever the case… And you're still here acting like an extra barrier so I can't get to him so he won't do anything stupid once he becomes attuned to what's up. Really, it just sounds to me like you don't have that much trust in him."

"I trust him one hundred percent!"

Katie presented her with an evil smile. "Then why are you here? If you trust him like you say, you would believe he could keep me at bay on his own and you would have no need to come here."

"W-well… I…" she stammered, trying to come up with a response, not wanting to see Katie's logic.

"Exactly."

Just then the elevator dinged, announcing it had reached them on the ground floor. When it opened Katie stepped inside. "Just think about that."

Right when she finished her sentence Cory came jogging back over. "Hey babe, got your key. Sorry it took a little long, there was a line." He looked towards the elevator to see Katie standing there. "Oh sweet, you got the elevator. Let's go."

He started into the elevator when Dianna stopped him. "Let's get the next."

He gave her a weird look. "Why? It's right here."

"We have to wait for Lea," She quickly came up with. It wasn't a lie and it was a much better reason than her real one. She didn't want to get into that small, confined space with that woman now. "She's down here somewhere. I didn't see her get into an elevator."

"Um, alright then." He didn't care much to argue with her about anything, so he turned to Katie to bid her a goodnight before the doors closed and like clock work, Lea came pacing towards them with a small box in hand.

"Where have you been?"

"Getting cookies in the dining area." They both quirked a tall brow at her. "What? I didn't get dessert at the restaurant like you two!"

Cory chuckled at the delivery of Lea's response. She sounded so frantic and offended. "Alright."

From the moment Katie had brought it up until now when she was laying in her bed, the thoughts of her not trusting Cory spun around in her head. She hadn't thought that was the reason she came here. She came here to put Katie Cassidy in her place because she didn't trust her. But after their talk, who didn't she trust really? Maybe she really didn't trust Cory unlike she originally thought. Maybe there was always that thought in the back of her mind that he would cheat on her just like Alex had. Stupid Alex, go figure this would stem from him.

She let out a huff and flipped onto her side, beating in her pillow and pulling her blankets up high against her chin. She hated thinking Katie could be right. God damn that bitch…

I originally was going to make this longer but then figured it was long enough and that this was a good place to end it before more drama in the next chapter. I hope everyone liked seeing more of Katie Cassidy too. She's pretty fun to write but I doubt (hope/assume) she's nothing like that in real life. And Dianna didn't go all HBIC Quinn like you assumed right? Well, to an extent at least.

Also, thank you to FuinnMe who suggested I have Lea tag along. I originally was just going to have Dianna go alone but in the end it made more sense for her to have a traveling buddy/friend with her. Besides, who doesn't love some Achele friendship and antics? Any who, I hope this chapter pleased and was worth the wait. I'll try not to make you wait that long for the next one. I would also like to update College, Football, Friends, and Quinn Fabray next so look out for that :)