scene: lea & cory, cory’s house.

like rachel berry, lea could cry on demand. she hadn’t really used that talent in real life because she knew exactly how cory felt about tears. well, she used it when she was younger, but now she just refused to. because it wasn’t fair. and it didn’t matter that it worked on cory, she could never do it. if anyone took one good look at her, they would know that she had spent the last how many every days or months or whatever, just crying. her eyes were puffy all the time and she never took her sunglasses off when she was outdoors and she made sure that no matter what, nobody other than her closest friends saw just how depressed she was. nodding as she chewed on her lip, lea glanced at him briefly, “yeah, i know.” it wasn’t like he was expecting her to say anything to that really, but she had to get something out.

lea shook her head as cory apologized and wiped her face properly before turning to look at him, “don’t apologize, cory, you have every right to be an ass or whatever.” she shrugged, tugging on her sleeves for lack of nothing better to do. she looked at her feet as she shuffled in place and then sighed heavily before looking up at him, “i shouldn’t have come, i should have tossed everything out and i should have just left things in a text message or something.” no matter how much she tried to keep the tears at bay, just looking at him and knowing that she couldn’t take those four steps and sink against him made everything so much worse. “i really should go, i can’t be here,” shaking her head, she tugged on the bottom of her shorts and hurried to the front door. he wasn’t going to stop her and that was fine. this was what they were now. their relationship? that was officially over now. and it didn’t matter that she would never stop loving him or that this was literally the end of the road for her. relationship wise anyway. 

sometimes you just can’t let go of the one person that you should.