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Ch. 07 – "The end of me."

-Lea-

"If you fire him, I'll quit." I said seriously and Ryan just laughed.

"I knew it. For the first time I saw you two together I knew something like that would happen. I don't want to fire him, but if his addiction start to interfere in his work I won't hesitate to send him back to Canada." I let out a breath and went back to the panel. Cory was already there looking way better and calmer. As soon as I sat beside him he held my hand under the table and I smiled at him. I couldn't let him know about the conversation I had with Ryan, it would hurt him so bad and I didn't want that.

After a while I was able to relax and had a lot of fun with the whole cast and the fans. We went to the pizza place right after the mall. I sat beside Cory on the van and while everyone was having a loud conversation I was just staring at the window.

"Are you alright Lee?" he asked calling my attention and I just nodded giving him a small smile. He smirked at me. "I don't believe you even for a second."

"I'll tell you later when we're alone." He just nodded and held my hand in a sweet attempt to show he was there for me.

-Cory-

My baby was sad and I had no idea why, it must have something to do with Ryan asking to talk to her alone, I'm sure. All I wanted to do was give her a bear hug and make her feel better, and I was so scared of this feeling seeing I've never, NEVER, felt this way about someone before. We played with our flip cams, Lea filmed me eating a huge slice of pizza, and almost burning my tongue, she was laughing so I didn't mind her making fun of me and filming it. Ryan kept giving me these weird stares, it was probably because I freaked out earlier and hugged Lea out of nowhere in front of him.

We arrived at the hotel late that night and I was sad because we would be leaving NY in the early morning, but we would go to Chicago, so it wouldn't be that bad, right? Dianna, Lea and I stopped in front of the girls room's door. Dianna excused herself and hugged me goodnight. As soon as it was just Lea and I, I held her hand.

"Why don't you pack all your stuff and then go to my room so we can talk?" I asked sweetly and she nodded going inside her room not even saying bye to me.

I went to my room and started to pack my stuff as well, I was a neat guy, so it was almost everything ready. I just didn't like underwear, that was all. I looked at them and remembered that Lea was the one choosing them, that brought a huge smile to my face. Damn, I was a lost cause when it came to her. After about half an hour I heard a knock on my door. It was her.

"Hi!" I said pulling her inside and hugging her tight. She pushed me away immediately. "What's the matter baby?" she shook her head and looked down.

"We can't keep doing this. It's over between us." My jaw dropped. WHAT?

"WHAT? Do you think I'm a puppet or something that you can just kick after you don't want it anymore? I have feelings and I demand an explanation on this sudden change!" I said and she just shook her head. "It was something that Ryan said to you, wasn't it?" I heard her gasp and then start crying. I got closer to her. "Lea, you can tell me everything. We're friends aren't we?" she finally looked at me.

"I can't handle all this Cory." She said and I held her hand.

"Handle what? Don't you have feelings for me?" I asked her and she broke down crying even more. I got closer to her testing the waters and when she didn't step away I hugged her tight. "Love, calm down." She glared at me.

"S-stop!" I widened my eyes.

"Stop what Lea?"

"Calling me by pet names. I'm not your love, or you baby, we're nothing but friends." I started laughing.

"Just friends? Are you kidding me or what? What did Ryan tell you earlier?" she stopped dead on her tracks and looked down.

"He listened to our conversation Cory, he knows about your drug addiction and he said that if it gets in the way of your work he is going to fire you! I can't let that happen, I can't carry on in glee without you." She confessed and I sat down in bed with my face hidden on my hand. She sat beside me. "I'm sorry." I looked at her with my eyes full of tears.

"I-I-I truly t-t-thought that I could escape my past, but I c-c-can't." I felt her hands on my face wiping my tears.

"You already did Cory, you're clean now, and that's all that matters. I just think Ryan thinks our relationship will get in the way of our work, and me, myself, also think that. So I really think we should stop seeing each other in more than friendly way." I felt my heart break at that exact moment, but what could I do? I couldn't force Lea to be with me.

"I respect your decision. I just want you to know that I do have strong feelings for you, and I wish you could be my love and my baby, but I won't give up on you, you'll be all mine someday."

-Lea-

That man would be the end of me, period.

"I think I should go now." I said and he shook his head.

"Can I ask you just one more thing?" I nodded and he smirked. "Stay here with me for the night and I promise I'll wake up being just your best friend, but stay here with me please?" he practically begged, I truly didn't know what to do. I knew I shouldn't stay there with him, but I wanted it so bad.

"Okay." He didn't seem to believe that I had just agreed to his crazy proposition.

"You understood that I asked you to stay here with me tonight as my lover, right?" I nodded and he jumped just like a child, he was so adorable. NO, tomorrow we would be just friends, and I couldn't hurt myself even more with that issue. He hugged me tight and kissed my lips passionately.

A few minutes later we were already in bed having a hot make out session. I pushed him away gently and smirked.

"Have you ever slept with a hooker?" he frowned at me.

"When I was like 15 or something, why?"

"'Cause tonight I want to have careless rough sex, can you give me that?" he smirked and pecked my cheek.

"Oh baby, you don't need to sleep with a hooker to have that. And YEAH, I can give you that, I can give you all you want." He said with lust in his eyes and that alone made myself wet.

"Why did you have to search a hooker? I've seen pictures, you were hot when you were 15!" I blushed a bit and he laughed.

"I had sex with a girl I used to go to school with and she said I was too big for girls my age, so I gave them up. I just went back to having sex with people my age when I was like 17 or 18. Yet here I am with a woman that is nearly 5 years younger than me." I laughed at him and brought his body next to mine.

"And I'm an inch shorter as well, yet I can handle you like a pro!" I winked and he bit my lower lip.

"I've slept with many women but I can guarantee you that none of them are like you. You're the best and I think it'll be hard for someone to beat you." I felt my heart skip a beat, why did he have to be so amazing?

to be continued.