A gleeful reality

Chapter 22

"Come on, Cor…" Dianna whimpered into her cell as the recording of Cory's voicemail began.

"Still not answering?"

The blonde sighed and pressed the 'end' button. There was no use leaving a message. She had already left about twenty.

"No, he's not." She told Lea who had been with her since her and Cory's fight.

It was hard for Lea to sit and watch her best friend be so upset. She had been right next to Dianna comforting her while she cried and giving her support since Cory stormed out of the restaurant the previous night.

"Maybe you need to give him more time." She lamely said, knowing that no suggestion was going to resolve the blonde.

Dianna sighed again and fell back against her bed.

"But it's been forever! He's had enough time."

"It hasn't even been a complete day yet, Di."

"Oh my god, you're right," She huffed and glanced at the clock on the nightstand. "It's only three in the afternoon and yet it feels like it's already been days… I'm so pathetic."

Another stream of tears streaked down her already wet face and she buried into her pillow to hide them.

Seeing this, Lea slowly made her way over to her sniffling friend and rubbed comforting circles into her back.

"Di, you're not pathetic," She informed her with a weak chuckle. "You're upset and you have the right to be. He walked out-"

"Yeah, because I was being a jealous bitch that couldn't control herself and had an outburst at Katie!" Dianna interrupted before slamming her face back down into her pillow, which had become her second comfort.

The petite woman shrugged and internally agreed with what she had said. Yeah, she did get jealous and finally exploded but she couldn't let her friend think what she did was wrong.

"Everyone gets jealous, Di. You're human. You have human emotions. You had the right to be upset with Katie and put her in her place. Cory just showed up at the wrong place and wrong time."

"Who would have thought the wrong place to keep something from a guy would have been the women's bathroom." Dianna deadpanned.

Lea exhaled deeply. "This is my fault too. I should have been better at keeping him away from there."

Dianna wiped her tears on the pillow before she pulled up to look at Lea.

"No, don't think that," She chastised. "Don't think any of what happened is your fault."

"But I feel like it is!" She shot back. "I made it my role to keep him at the table so you and Katie could have privacy."

Dianna let out a light breath of chuckles at the ironic situation they were in now. Who would have thought the comforted would become the comforter.

"Well thanks but it was coming to the point that he would have found out sooner rather than later."

"You're probably right," Lea agreed. "It just sucks it was like that."

"Ya think?" Dianna tried to laugh to make them feel better but it was just too hard. That's when she felt fresh tears arise and she dug her face into Lea's shoulder.

"Shh…" Lea soothingly consoled and wrapped her arms around her best friend.

"I don't know what to do," She cried. "Why won't he talk to me?"

"Just give him a little more time." Lea repeated her previous statement. "He'll come back to you, I know it."

Mean while on the Monte Carlo set…