A gleeful reality

Chapter 5

"And playback!" Cory heard a voice yell from the set as he shot some baskets on the nearby small half court they had on the lot.

He usually only went out to the court when he had free time on set. It was really the rare time he did have and he liked using his time more actively than sleeping in his trailer or what not. Aside from hockey, basketball was his next favorite sport, well to play anyway.

As he dribbled the basketball around on the tar he could hear the echoes of the scene taking place in one of the buildings they used. He heard voices over megaphones and the constant start and stop of Lea's recording of Baby One More Time since they were filming the part in Britney/Brittany where she had to walk and dance down the hall in her, what Cory teased as, Naughty School Girl outfit.

Ryan was very serious about doing Britney Spears the right way, which included pretty much every outfit she ever wore in her videos. Who was Cory to complain though? It wasn't like he minded seeing Heather in her skintight suits or Lea in her Catholic school gone wild costume.

From reading over the filming schedule, Cory knew he had about another hour before he had to rejoin the filming on set. He had just finished his minor scenes of Rachel's Britney hallucination and wasn't needed until he had to film his scene where Quinn has to go up to Finn and try to ask him out again.

Normally, he loved every scene he got with Dianna but he felt very wary and kind of not excited to do it. For the last couple of days since the nightclub, Cory hadn't seen Dianna very often. When he did see her around the lot, she was always talking to someone or doing something. Sometimes when he would go into a room where she was just sitting or something and make eye contact with her, she would only look to him for a second if even that, then get up and move to speak to someone.

Plain and simple, she was avoiding him.

It sucked to say the least. After ruling out that there were that many coincidences where she was busy or not around, Cory found it blatantly obvious of what she was doing.

Really, he blamed himself. Since it happened, he thought back to the night where he made a move on a drunk Dianna and truly wished he hadn't. If he hadn't, she wouldn't be acting like she was and there would be no awkwardness. They would still be good friends and Cory could still have his secret that technically wasn't a secret since everyone but Di knew but well, to all the same really.

'God, I can't believe that I screwed it all up just for some stupid kiss that didn't even happen. How selfish can I be? Now she won't even talk to me never mind look at me if it doesn't involve the show. Why-' Cory snapped out of the thoughts he was having when he heard a familiar voice.

"Hey mate!" Cory looked over in the direction of the voice to see that it belonged to the one and only Alex.

"Oh uh, hey… what's up?" Cory slowly said to Alex, trying to take a jump shot at the same time.

No one said anything as they both watched to see if the ball would go in the basket. The ball bounced around the rim and dropped in through the net and back down to the ground.

Cory walked over to grab the ball from under the net and then made his way back towards the three-point line.

"Nice one! That was a good shot." Alex complimented him from the side of the court.

"Yeah thanks." is all Cory said in return as he continued to dribble the ball.

There was silence for a few short seconds before Cory stopped and looked to the Brit. "Um, I don't mean for this to come off the wrong way but, how did you get in here?"

"Oh, well…" Alex mumbled as he dug through his pocket. He pulled out a small white plastic card and handed it to Cory.

Cory took the card from Alex's hand and looked over it. "Oh, you have a visitor's pass."