Sorry for delaying on posting a new chapter, my laptop was broken and finally got it fixed :)

The next couple of weeks went by pretty fast. Yet another award show. I like the rain but I really was not liking it today. I was wearing a black dress by Oscar de la Renta and I knew it was too big to be able to be covered by an umbrella. I had to make the most of it. I wanted the red carpet to be done and over with as soon as possible. Inside the awards ceremony everything seemed so unreal. I could not believe I was being surrounded by so many people that I have admired and almost all of them knew who I was and had seen our show. I did not really see Cory all night until we all went up stage to accept our award. Another surreal moment hearing the show won and our first season was not even over yet. After we all walked off stage we all started cheering so loud, I'm sure everyone could hear us. We all embraced in a group hug, then individual hugs while some of us began making our way to the press room. I was at the end waiting for Cory to finish hugging Ryan so I knew he would come down towards me next. No luck he walked into the press room with Ryan, I followed the others behind them. We did several interviews and unlike a few weeks ago when Cory was by my side the whole time, this time he was keeping his distance. At one point he was sitting next to Dianna and I could see his arm around her waist just like he would have been holding me. After our interviews I had my chance to go over and talk to him as he was chatting with Dianna. I walked over to both of them when I saw him embrace her in a hug I felt a sharp pain in the pit of my stomach. I brushed it off and approached them both with a big smile.

"Oh gosh I think I'm still dizzy from all the excitement." I told them both.

They released from the hug and both turned to look at me. I was still smiling. Dianna also had a smile on her face but Cory was just a blank stare.

"I know right, I was just telling Cory that is so unbelievable how everything is just happening so fast for us. Right Cory?"

He turned and smiled at her "Yea exactly, fast. Well I, um, I'm going to go talk to Mark." he said turning away from us.

"Wait Cory" I told him as I stretched to grab him from his arm. He turned to look at my direction very slowly but he would not look at my face. "Can we talk?" I told him.

"Yea of course, can it be later Lea I actually really need to go talk to Mark before I forget you know I have a short memory at times." he said giving me a weak smile but still not looking at me.

"Uh yea sure, yeah of course it's not important." I said letting him go.

"Cory wait" Dianna grabbed him again, "Whatever you have to tell Mark just tell me and I'll let him know. You can just stay here and talk to Lea"

"No Di, let him go" I told her "it's ok, I had nothing important to say" I turned and walked away from there as soon as possible.

Why would he not talk to m? I did not understand.

"Lea wait up" Dianna came up behind me. "Are you ok?"

"Yes I am." I told her still walking not turning to look at her.

"Ok stop then, I cannot run in these heels!" she shouted behind me.

I stopped walking but did not turn around.

"Thank you," she said as she reached my side, "I don't know what's going on between you and Cory but something is up, ever since the People's Choice awards I can see something is wrong. What happened?"

"I don't know, I wish I knew" I told her trying to hold back my tears. "We were fine, nothing has changed, nothing has happened." Except we kissed and I told him I wanted to be with Theo, I thought to myself. "I feel like he doesn't want to talk to me and I wanted to find out tonight what was going on but as you can tell he didn't want to talk. Come on let's just to the after party." I told her as I began walking again towards the limo.

Once inside the limo I had to fix my make-up as it was still drizzling outside from today's rain.

"Excuse me driver, can you please take us to the In-Style after party." Dianna told the driver.

"In style? Aren't we supposed to attend the networks after party? I asked a bit confused.

"Well change of plans, I overheard Cory telling Mark, before you came to talk to him. They decided to go to the network after party so we shall go to a different one."

I loved Dianna she did not know my entire story but she understood that I could not be around him at this time, I had to clear my head. The party was great I spoke with great people, but deep down I could not wait until I was at home. After the party Dianna and I returned to a hotel where our style teams were waiting for our dresses. We changed and headed back to our place.

"I'm going to bed its 2 a.m. and I am exhausted." Dianna said as she walked towards her room. "Good night Lea she said as she closed her bedroom door.

"Good night Di, I'll be going to bed soon too" I answered her as I headed into the kitchen for a glass of water. As I was drinking my water my phone beeped. It was a message.

Hey Lea, Are you awake? It was Cory. I debated to answer, if he had no time to talk to me before why would he want to talk to me now at 2 a.m. But deep down I knew I would be dying of the curiosity of what he wanted to tell me. I guess if text is all I was going to get than I would take it.

Yea, I am. What's going on? I answered back. Within a few seconds I received a response.

I am sorry about what happened earlier, but I want to talk to you, if that is ok with you?

Don't worry about it, yes we can talk. Do you want me to call you or you call me? I answered back.

Actually I am outside your apartment door, I didn't want to knock in case you guys were asleep. Do you mind opening the door for me please?

What?! He was here, outside my door. I quickly ran to the restroom to make sure I looked presentable. Obviously I had no time to change so he would have to see me in my short pajamas. I walked over to the front door, I stood there debating to let him in or just text him that I couldn't let him in. I removed the lock and opened the door slowly afraid to wake up Dianna.

There he stood at the entrance of my apartment, at 2 am in the morning, looking so handsome how was I to turn him away now.