Corey could not believe it….he had just blown it and BIG TIME with Lea. He just couldn't stop himself seeing her magnetic golden brown eyes, kissable pink lips, and dark strands damp from the rain. The truth had popped out like a balloon loosing air and his biggest fear was that he would even lose her friendship. She was everything to him.

She was at first to him the high maintenance girl who didn't appreciate red meat and didn't have the lure of his usual long legged companions. Social and world conscious chicks were not his thing but just like the surprise of Lea's tattoos, there were other sides to her as well. And for Corey he never really saw the package she was until she was linked arm in arm with Leo. If the world could see her uniqueness displayed on every magazine in America, why hadn't he?

He heard the quiet but steady rhythm of a knock on the door. So, he looked in the peephole and saw Lea standing there. Her arms were crossed by her waist and her expression bore the look of a person frustrated, cold, and angry. He wasn't sure if he should answer the door he was scared.

Her eyes splintered like dark angry coals.

"You walked away" and she didn't look too happy about it.

His hands brushed through the top of his strands, a nervous habit. "I was scared….that I said…and did too much". All he could was look at the floor.

He felt her nearness as she walked toward him. Lea lifted his chin to make sure that he had no choice but to delve deep in those pools of darkness. Then she said and did something that would forever change his life, not that she hadn't already.

In the softest whispers, she said the surprising words. "I love you too Corey".

It was like the best slap in the face ever. Before he knew it, she was in his arms and he was whooping for joy. Lea laughed as he twirled her around. And for Corey he knew that he had hit the jackpot.

He felt so lighthearted when he saw the truth in her eyes. His questioning eyes bore into hers as he carried her to the couch. Gently, he laid her back into the cushion.

"You are cold from the rain"…

"And warm from your love", Lea interrupted smiling.

So, his lips touched down on hers, gently. Before he knew it, the kiss was like an instantaneous explosion and the fireworks began. His hands cascaded on her skin as they kissed like there was no tomorrow and he was literally drowning. He would never again be the same. Lea was and would always be his girl.