A gleeful reality

Chapter 24

It had been a little over three weeks since the cast had begun their summer tour in Vegas. Since then, they had performed a slew of shows in California starting in Sacramento then to San Jose, Anaheim, Los Angeles and San Diego. They had moved out of the state when they journeyed into Minnesota for their Minneapolis show then shows in Indianapolis, Chicago, and Boston followed.

The cast couldn't help be a just a tad tired as they traveled via their tour jet to Philadelphia for their next in line show and therefore, Cory was going to take the hour it took to get there for a nap.

Pulling the hood of his sweatshirt over his head, Cory shifted in his seat so he was laying somewhat on his side (his best sleeping position by far) before closing his eyes. He sat there for a few minutes trying to get comfortable and attempted to ignore the light that shone through his eyelids before he figured he wouldn't sleep like this. It was too bright on the plane for his liking. He was more of a- it needs to be pitch black like a cave for me to sleep- kind of guy.

Knowing how he could easily solve this issue, he pulled his ray bans out of his backpack along with his dark blue travel blanket he kept, perched the sunglasses on the bridge of his nose and threw the blanket over his head and torso. He sighed contently with the darker results.

"Going to sleep, babe?" Came Dianna's voice from his side. They always sat next to each other on their plane or on the bus.

He pulled the fleece material from over his head to see his girlfriend.

"Yep, I thought I'd get some shut eye for a little. I've been kinda tired lately."

Dianna smiled sympathetically and nodded her head in agreement.

"I know what you mean. I'll wake you up when we get close to landing, okay?"

"Sounds good. Thanks, Di." He replied and tossed the blanket back over his head.

Ten minutes later found him in that awkward stage where you're "asleep" but are still aware of your surroundings. He liked to call it "lazy sleep" because you're so aware of everything you hear and feel around you but you're just too lazy to open your eyes to see what the commotion's all about, either that or you just don't give a crap.

It was in his lazy sleep that the first commotion happened. Cory was in the process of moving in his seat when he felt some extra weight on the area around his right arm but being lazy, he wasn't that interested in figuring out the mysterious pound. Only a few minutes later did he groan because curiosity peaked when the weight shifted on him again.

Poking his head out of the top of his fleece blanket, he noticed who else but Dianna strewn across the aisle with her lower half in her own seat and her head resting on the side of his body.

"Hm, Dianna," He called out sleepily and wiggled himself further out of his blanket. "Dianna... Di… Dianna."

At hearing her name, Dianna sat up and giggled while she stared back and forth between her boyfriend and Darren who held his iPhone up in his hands clearly video taping the scene.

"Smile, Cor, you're on candid camera!" Darren laughed along with Dianna. Cory stifled his smile and shook his head disapprovingly. He had to act somewhat upset with them even though he knew he totally would have done this to someone else too.

"Are you taking a video?" He asked to which Darren nodded. "You guys are so weird."

"We're documenting the tour." Dianna informed him as she grabbed her small bowl of fruit from her tray and popped a grape in her mouth.

The tall brunette threw the blanket back over his head and huffed fronting his slightly annoyed façade.

"No, it seems to me that you're being weird and actually documenting me sleeping. People find that creepy, you know."