I stood at the door entrance just looking at him. He had changed from his earlier black tux, white shirt and his silver tie, he looked so handsome before but I loved the current Cory standing at my door. Wearing his usual clothes his jeans, a black T-shirt and his navy blue hoodie with his sneakers.

"Is it ok if I come in?" he asked in a whisper.

"Oh yea of course, sorry Cory come on in" I gestured for him to come in. He walked in just a few steps from the door. I closed the door and turned to find him still standing at the same spot. "Cory come on have a seat in the couch, you don't have to wait for me. I think we are good enough friends that you can come into my place and have a seat." I told him with a smile.

"Sorry" he said as he walked around to the couch and took a seat. "Is Dianna asleep?"

"Yea she is, she actually had just gone in before you text me, I was here in the kitchen getting a glass of water." I told him as I took a seat away from him on the couch

"Guess I better talk low don't want to wake her up" he said looking towards her room. He then got off his seat and sat at the empty space that was separating us. "Lea first off I want to apologize for earlier, I really didn't mean to blow you off like that."

"Cory its ok don't worry I understand you needed to talk to Mark, don't worry. I just want to make sure we are ok. Wait, this talk seems familiar." I told him with a giggle. "I guess it's my turn to ask you if I have done or said something to upset you, If I have I am sorry" I told him looking down at my hands.

He took his right hand and brought my face to look at him.

"This is what I was afraid of, that you would think you did something wrong. There is nothing wrong with you Lea, you are perfect." he said to me almost in a whisper. Staring into his eyes and seeing his apologetic eyes staring back at me I felt tears start running down my face. He took my face in both his hands and with his thumbs wiped the tears away.

"Please don't cry, let me explain myself to you." he put his forehead against mine. "Please Lea trust me you have done nothing wrong. Everything is ok between us." He brought his face up again to look at mine. "If you stop crying I will give you a surprise" he said as he raised an eyebrow and gave me his beautiful smile.

I wiped the last tears from eyes and put a smile on my face. He chuckled. He knew that I loved surprises. He reached into the pocket of his hoodie and took out a small little brown box. He looked at me and opened it, I looked to see what was inside. I just stared at him a little confused. He laughed. He took out a gold necklace from inside the box, it had a little "R" charm on it.

"This Ms. Lea Michele" he said as he unbuckled the lock and started to put the necklace on me. "is for you, I know you feel close to Rachel and this "R" is a symbol for her. I just wanted you to have something to remind you of her and well of me." he said. His face close to mine as he was struggling locking the necklace in place. I could feel his warm breath on my cheek. He finally locked it and followed the chain down to the "R" charm with his fingers.

"Thank you so much Cory. I love it" I hugged him tightly holding on to him from his neck.

He hugged me around my waist. "Your welcome" he whispered in my ear. I held on to him for a minute and I would have held on longer because there was no effort made in him to release me. But I decided I had to let him go, I sat back down and took the small "R" charm between my index and thumb, I looked up and smiled at him. I could see it in his face he was happy to know I had like it. I actually truly loved it because it was coming from him.

"Now I want to talk to you about everything, I want you just to please listen to me I need to tell you everything and If you talk I know I won't get it all out." he stared at me waiting for my agreement, I just nodded yes to him.

"I want you to understand and know you have done nothing to me, I have no problem with you, It's all me. I hate myself for allowing myself to treat you the way I have treated you for the past few weeks. I know me not talking to you is not the solution and seeing your face tonight after I went to talk to Mark I told myself I would not do such a thing to you anymore. I need to take care of this myself and I will get it taken care of. I just ask that you please be patient with me Lea."

"Cory please, you…" he put his finger to my lips.

"Please Lea, let me finish. I have to be completely honest with you about everything because I will be a little distant from you for a few more days. Trust me if this wasn't better for the both of us I would not do this, I adore you Lea, you are such a great person, such an amazing girl. I have not met anyone like you. I see you and all these feelings of when I kissed you come back inside me. I thought I might have a chance that I might be able to deal with everything as long as I had you in my life. But I can't, I cannot look at you with out wanting to hold you, without wanting to be near you, without…wanting to kiss you again." he said the last past as a whisper. I sat there in disbelief.

"I told you I would respect the relationship between Theo and you and I will do it. When he called you the day of the people's choice awards. It broke me. I was ready to kiss you and it was a sign for me that I was doing everything wrong. I had to put space between us and that was the only way I knew how, not talking to you and avoiding you was the way I thought would be better but I was dying inside."

"I am sorry Cory, I truly am" I told him, as I went to hug him.

"Like I told you Lea it's not your fault, it's not your fault you are so adorable" he said with a chuckle. He embraced me in a hug. "It's all better now, trust me I am better. I just wanted you to know so that you don't think I was being an ass"

"I am glad you told me Cory, is there anything I can do?" I asked him still holding on to him.

He laughed "Oh Lea, just keep on being you, I am fine now that you know. Well I guess I better go now, its 3 am and you need your rest." he released the hug and got off the couch, I followed him towards the door.

"I will see you tomorrow on the set right" I asked once we were at the door. He opened the door and stepped out.

"Of course you will" he smiled and gave me one last hug. He kissed my cheek and whispered in my ear "Please stay in my life"

"Always" I whispered back as I kissed his cheek. We finished hugging, he smiled at me before walking out the door and towards the stairs. I closed the door and locked it. I walked over to my room and laid on my bed. I grabbed the "R" on my necklace I began to think on his last words "please stay in my life". Oh sweet Cory I thought I will always be in his life because I needed him to be in mine