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Ch. 14 – Chocolate and flowers kind of guy.

-Cory-

I bought the flower and the cookie, and as soon as the flower girl left all the guys, except Mark, looked at me.

"So, are you and Lea serious?" Kevin asked and I looked down.

"It's so complicated." I used Lea's definition for our relationship and Matt turned to me confused.

"But you love her, don't you?" He asked and I turned bright red.

"Yes, very much."

"Does she know that?" I looked away.

"I asked her several times to make our relationship serious, but she always says no. Lea keeps giving me mixed signals and it's driving me crazy." I confessed and Matt got even more confused.

"That doesn't sound like Lea at all. She's the type of girl that after the first kiss she starts planning the wedding and all." He said and I felt like crying. Mark came to my rescue.

"Lea's afraid. She loves you like she never loved anyone and she's fucking scared of it. Dude, you already met her parents! Of course she loves you and it's planning your wedding and all, she's just doing it secretly." Mark said and Matt turned to me.

"If you met her parents then she is completely in love with you, even if she doesn't know it yet. I remembered that I wanted to go to a dinner with her and her parents just as friends and she didn't let me. She told me that family would come in the way only when things were dead serious." I couldn't help but smile.

"Anyway, I'll keep trying till the day she's mine, all mine." I said and everyone laughed cheering to what I had said.

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I arrived late at the hotel, I was tipsy. Lea was sleeping in her bed and I noticed that she left my pajamas on top of my pillow in my bed and had made the bed for me, which was really cute. But never in my life I'd let her sleep in her own bed alone. I changed and went to her bed, I laid down beside her and held her tight in my arms. I wasn't as gentle as I thought because she woke up.

"What time is it?" She asked sleepy. I chuckled.

"Almost 2am, go back to sleep baby." She turned to me and smiled shaking her head.

"How was your night? Had fun?" I nodded and got up.

"I have something for you!"

-Lea-

Cory was tipsy, I could see, but he still was coherent and all. As soon as he stood up and grabbed a pink rose with a beautiful ribbon and a cookie, my heart went wild.

"For you my baby!" He said with a cute face. "Pink roses mean love, the flower girl told me." I nodded and then I read the frosting on the cookie and my heart melted. Did he really love me?

"Thank you so much! You are the most amazing guy ever!" I said hugging him tight. I put the flower in a glass of water and held his hand. "Let's go, my love, it's time to sleep." Yeah, he was my love.

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I woke up the next morning with Cory spooning me. He was so adorable, and in times like these I really feel like dating him and finally call him my boyfriend, but something inside me was screaming at me to keep him away from my heart. As if that was possible. I'm starting to agree with Dianna and thinking that I was just really fucking scared of giving myself to him and end up hurt in the end. I felt him squeezing me and then I knew he was awake.

"Morning Lee." He said putting his hand on his head. I giggled.

"Morning, I'm gonna get you an aspirin, you are hungovered my dear." I said sitting on bed and he blushed immediately. "What?" I asked and he put his hands on his head covering his eyes.

"Did you like your flower and cookie?" he asked embarrassed and I understood his blush, he was shy about giving me two things that indicated love. I smiled.

"I loved them. Why are you blushing? It was super cute to know that you were thinking of me in a guys' night." He pushed me making me lay beside him again.

"I'm always thinking of you." He whispered in my ear and I shivered. Cory was so sexy without even knowing. "Do you know what I love more about you?" I shook my head. "Your eyes, they are so big and brown, and I can swear I see your soul just by looking at them." My heart was now beating like a crazy tambourine. Before I could speak anything, he kissed me passionately. I felt his tongue licking my lower lip and gave him passage. Cory moaned a bit and pulled me between his legs, I could feel he was getting a little bit more excited than I wanted him to, and also we had to get ready for an interview in 1 and half hours.

"We can't baby." I stopped him and he pouted.

"Why not? I want you so much." I bit his lower lip and giggled.

"I'm on my period AND we have to get ready to work." he rolled his eyes playfully at me.

"Could I have found a more righteous girlfriend to myself?" his eyes widened up as soon as those words left his lips.

-Cory-

OMG! Now, I know I'm fucked just by Lea's expression. She opened and closed her mouth countless times before she was able to speak. I left Lea talkative Michele speechless. Damn, then I knew I was totally fucked.

"Cory, I'm not your girlfriend." She said coldly and got out of the bed. I held her hand.

"I'm sorry Lee. Don't be mad at me." I said and she ran to the bathroom. Big dumb me had to ruin everything, as always.

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Lea and I went to an interview by ourselves with only Ryan Murphy accompanying us. Lea didn't say a word to me though. We were waiting for another interview to start when Ryan came and at beside me. I knew he wasn't that friendly about me after Lea told me he said he would send me back to Canada if he needed to.

"Are you alright? You look tired and sad." He asked and I looked down, suddenly I broke down. I knew I was about to lose my job. He did the unexpected and hugged me.

"Calm down. I don't know what happened but everything will be alright. We're here to help you." he said kindly, I took a deep breath and looked at him.

"It's personal business, am I letting my sadness show on the interview?" He shook his head.

"No, but it's so unusual to see you down like this, you're always the cloud one on this group. I'm just here to let you know that you guys are like family to me, so if there's anything I can do to help just tell me." I nodded and thanked him. He changed the subject to try to improve my mood when Lea arrived and sat beside Ryan. She was a great actress but I could see something different in her eyes, was it fear?

...to be continued.