I got into the apartment not wanting to make any noise to wake up Dianna. Slowly on my tip-e-toes I started to walked towards my room when the living room light went on.
"Excuse me young lady but do you know what time it is?" Dianna said from the couch.
I slowly turned around to her and said "Well I believe it's almost midnight, ok good night."
"Not so fast" she said "Come here missy I think there is some explaining that needs to be done"
"Explaining?" I asked her "I text you remember it was a long night of shooting"
"Oh really? So is that the story that you are sticking to?" she asked.
I walked over to sit next to her to the couch. Besides my best friend Jon, Dianna was the other person who I would allow to interrogate me. She just sat there staring at me with an unconvinced facial expression and crossing her arms in front of her.
"Dianna stop looking at me like that I told her, don't raise your eyebrow like that."
"Fine Lea I will stop just tell me where did you go…..with Cory?" she said with a wide grin.
"Cory?!" I shouted "where did you get that crazy idea" I told her avoiding her gaze.
"Well first of all Ryan called looking for you, he said he tried your cell but it went straight to voicemail"
"Well that's because the battery was dying so I turned it off " I told her as I reached for my phone in my purse, turned it back on and threw it back inside the purse.
"Secondly" she continued, "he said he called Cory's cell once you didn't pick up because he saw you guys leave the lot together, but he said Cory didn't pick up his phone either." She raised her eyebrow again.
I just stared at her not knowing what to say. She was good at looking for clues.
"Ok then no answer" she said "Thirdly you have his coat on"
I then realized that I was indeed still wearing his coat. I took it off and folded it in my arms. I could smell his lovely cologne still in it.
"Well?" Dianna insisted.
"Fine, Di!" I exclaimed, "I was out with Cory" I got off the couch "Good night" I said and started towards my room.
"Hey! Hey! Wait right there" Dianna called after me. I turned to face her again looking annoyed. "Come back and sit in this couch we are not done with this conversation" she said.
I hesitated for a little and then walked over to the couch and sat back down.
"Now remove that pout off your lips. You have and spill the details." she said
"There are no details Di, there really is nothing much to say." I told her "Yes he took me to dinner but it was just a business dinner"
"Yea whatever, tell that to someone else Lea" she said sarcastically "Come on I am your roommate and your friend, I know you very well. There is something there and the whole "business dinner" deal yea you know you don't even believe that, are we not those kinds of friends who tell each other the good and bad stuff? Do you not trust me?" she said that last question sadly.
I stared at her for a bit. She was right she did know me well and I did trust her but what was there to say, nothing happened and deep down I can feel I was disappointed at that fact but I was not ready to share these specific feelings yet. Not until I figured what all these weird wrong feelings were.
"I do trust you Di, we are friends." I started to tell her. "Cory asked me to go to dinner with him because he wanted to talk about us."
"US!?" Dianna yelled "Oh man I didn't even know you two had an 'us", Lea you have been holding out on me. Should I heat up some popcorn for this story because it seems to me you have to start from the beginning, wait what happened to Theo when did that end? Or is it still going on? Uuuuuh interesting, yup I need popcorn" she said as she got off the couch to go the kitchen.
I rolled my eyes "Di, come on there is no "us" I told her "Get back on this couch if you want to hear the rest of this"
She quickly came back and took her seat. "Then what did you mean us?" she said.
"Well he said he felt like we had drifted apart, he thought he might had offended me in some way because I was kind of giving him the cold shoulder" I told her guilty.
"Yea that is true, I've noticed that too. I was going to ask you about that" she said.
"Stop interrupting me!" I told her.
She mouthed the word "sorry" and acted like she zipped her lips shut, locked it and threw the key.
I rolled my eyes at her again. "Ok so he took me to dinner to this little restaurant, we talked I told him everything was fine between us. We then walked over to the beach and it got cold that's why I have his coat because he let me borrow it. Then that was it. He dropped me off and now I'm here dealing with a crazy detective interrogating me at midnight!" I told.
She smiled. "Wait you said he dropped you off? Where is your car?"
"Yes he dropped me off, so that means you have to take me to work tomorrow. He dropped me off because I had some wine and I didn't want to drive after drinking." I told her. I didn't want to mention to her that HE wouldn't let me drive after two glasses of wine because I knew she would make a big deal and probably say something about how nice he is.
"Oh, see that wasn't so hard right to come out with the truth." she said "But come on Lea how cute of Cory to let you borrow his coat awe" she said. I rolled my eyes. "He was freezing and you were all nice and toasty, and then he goes the opposite direction to bring you home because you asked him to, he is so nice"
I knew that was coming. "Oh geez, Di you are impossible you make a big deal of such small things"
"Well sometimes is those small things, those small details that make more of an impact. Don't you think?" she said to me with a wink.
She was right it was little details I loved. I love small details of affection. Why make a public display of things when doing something so simple like open a car door for someone can have a better effect. At that moment my phone beeped. I reached for it in my purse. It was a text from Cory "Lea I know you and I have an early call tomorrow instead of making Dianna be there earlier than she has to be. I will stop by to pick you up at 7am and I will take you to work with me I'm not taking no for an answer. Sweet dreams. XO Cory" I smiled reading that text. Wait he was thinking about me? No Lea he was remembering you don't have a car because he made you leave it at work that is all. A friend being a friend I told myself.
"Tell Theo I said Hi" Dianna said interrupting my thoughts.
"What, Theo?" I answered confused.
"Yea, by the way you are smiling from ear to ear I am guessing that's Theo sending you a message right." she said "I mean who else could be make you smile that wide with a text, Lea" she said to me with a smile.
"Right, yea your right Theo." I told her. I got off the couch and moved towards by room. When I reached my door I turned towards Dianna. "Hey Di, um tomorrow you don't need to get up early to give me a ride I just remember that before he left Cory said he would come pick me up since we have early call tomorrow"
"Oh" she said as she got off the couch and walked towards me "I'm so glad you "just" remembered this"
"Good night Dianna" I told her as I walked in my room.
"Good night Lea. FYI this thing that is going on with Cory, you cannot keep it to yourself, sooner or later you are going to have to tell me about it or you know me I will find out what's going on"
"There is nothing going on Di, now I'm going to bed because I have to get up early" I told her.
"Uh-huh, you keep telling yourself that. I will find out" she said as she walked into her room and closed her door.
Was there something going on? So what if I didn't tell her Cory text me. That's not a crime. I read the text he sent me again. I then reached for his coat that I had placed on top of my dresser. I inhaled the fragrance of his cologne again. It was such a great smell. I laid down in my bed and started to think of ways to not let anything affect me working with him again. He was after all my friend. We have a great friendship and I would hate to lose what we have, our characters were moving forward and I will move forward with them.
As my thought slowly drifted into dreams, I fell asleep holding on to his coat inhaling every bit of cologne that was in it. I let myself drift away to the beauty of what was in my dreams.