A gleeful reality

Chapter 6

Only about a couple of weeks had passed since Dianna and Cory had agreed to basically just be friends without actually saying the words, 'We are only going to be friends.' They had the mutual decision of things going back to the way they were before, before all the drama that happened at the club.

They were each genuinely surprised on how quick and easy it was to get back to what Cory liked to call 'Normalville' and continue being the close friends they were.

For Cory, the agreement to be friends meant keeping his feelings for her held back and controlled for longer. He obviously didn't like the situation, but if it was what Dianna wanted, he would do it to make her happy. He would do anything for her since she was just too much to lose; he would fill her every request. He was a sucker for love. Correction, he was a sucker for her.

On the day that they had just wrapped up the show's 'Duets' episode, they were approached by a representative from the clothing line of Op. The two of them had been asked to partake in an shoot for the marketing campaign of the Op line along with a group of other actors and singers.

They were honored to be invited to do something like this. Yeah, Glee was a big success but at the same time, who would have thought that anyone would ask them to do something like this? Of course they'd do this and since neither of them had done clothes modeling before, they thought, what the hell. Plus, it was their extra time they got to spend with one another since they hadn't been having many scenes together on account of Finn being with Rachel and Dianna's character Quinn now dating Chord's character Sam.

Cory had gotten to the shoot the earliest of the six of them since his house was the closest to the location of the shoot.

It was only about noon time when he got there. He had extra time so he walked around and met the photographer and some of the crew, one of which who showed him to the area where he could wait. After the assistant left, Cory looked down the line of fold up director style chairs with the names of each of them printed on the chairs. Right in a line, he read the names of the people who would be on the shoot since he didn't know who they'd be. They hadn't been told. It was supposed to be a surprise meet and greet kind of thing.

He figured, why not get the names before hand. The first two chairs read Cory Monteith and Dianna Agron, then there was Jessica Szohr, Cassie, then there was Trevor Donovan, and the last chair read Alex Meraz.

'Great, another guy named Alex. Hope this one is better than the last.'

He continued to shuffle around the room and explore. He grabbed a small finger sandwich off of the snack table and a water bottle out of a surrounding drink cart. Thank god, he thought since he hadn't eaten anything since six o'clock that morning and he was pretty hungry.

He ate his food while he sat in his chair and waited for the others to arrive.

About ten minutes later, two people walked into the room.

Cory looked up from his iPhone where he had actually been playing Solitaire to take away the boredom of the wait.

"Hey, how's it going." a tall blonde rugged man said to Cory as he shoved his phone back into his pocket and stood up and they shook each other's hand firmly. "I'm Trevor."

"Hey. Cory." he introduced himself.

"And I'm Jessica." the second person told him, holding out her own hand. Cory shook her hand as well but more gently than Trevor's. In Cory's mind, she just seemed very fragile. As they shook hands, Cory couldn't help but check her out. She was a pretty girl. Not as beautiful as Dianna but definitely pretty none the less. She was a good height for a girl, she had long chocolate brown hair, healthy tan skin, and beautiful hazel eyes. Yes, she really was pretty but he wasn't going to let his natural guy instincts take over. He was too into Dianna to try and hit on this girl.