A Grofflin Fanfic

Chapter 5

Groff POV

I walk into mine and Lin's dressing room. He was getting changed. "Hey, do you need help setting up the furniture in your new apartment later tonight?" I ask.

"No, its fine, Anthony's gonna help. Thanks though" He doesn't look at me. I sigh and start getting changed. He walks out.

I finish getting changed and walk out. "Lin Are you ok?" He just nods. "Lin seriously whats up? I know you're not telling me something" I persist.

"Groff I'm fine, honestly" He starts going through some choreography and still won't look at me.

"I know you're not-" He cuts me off.

:Jonathan I'm fine! Just leave me alone!" He yells and walks away. He never calls me Jonathan. I walk back to our dressing room and see his phone blowing up with messages. I walk over to it to put it on silent when I see some of the messages and tweets, as far as I can see they're all hate. It still breaks my heart that people are doing this to him. I open his phone; we have matching passwords. His is Groffsauce and mine is Linnamonroll. I start deleting them before he can see them, then he walks In. "What are you doing on my phone?"

"Oh umm" I don't wanna tell him I was deleting the messages. He takes his phone before I can come up with something, he looks at what I was doing and tears fill his eyes, he tries to hide it, but I can still tell how upset he is."Lin I'm sorry. I was just trying to delete them, so you didn't have to see it"

He looks at me and smiles softly "Thank you I'm sorry for getting mad" He mumbles.

"It's ok, are you sure you're, ok? You know you can tell anything" I ask again, I'm so worried about him. I know he says he's fine but something just seems off with him, so much has happened recently with Vanessa and the show and him coming out, I doubt he even slept last night, I mean he doesnt even have furniture for his apartment yet. Theres no way he's ok.

"Yeah, I'm all good. Don't worry Groffsauce." He replies, clearly only adding groffsauce to add to his fake smile. I sigh and start walking out.

"I really wish you could trust me Lin, I care about you" I say before walking out to the stage.

Lin POV

Groff walks out, I feel bad for not telling him, but I can't. I know he'll just turn be down. Then again it could be better to just get it over with, that way everything's out in the open and I can just tell him not to worry about it and I don't feel like I'm keeping secrets from him. That'll work....right? Anthony walks into the dressing room I blurt out "I'm gonna tell him."

"Wha- You're gonna tell Groff you like him?!" He exclaims.

"Yes... I'll do it onstage though so I don't have to talk to him after." Anthony just smiles excitedly. I roll my eyes and walk out. A couple hours later I wait offstage. Groff Is onstage for the beginning of the Adams administration so I'm waiting to go on. I'm gonna tell him when he walks past me in the Reynolds Pamphlet. My hands are shaking, I don't even wanna think about what he's gonna say when I walk offstage. Maybe He'll forget, I hope he does.

I hear my queue and walk onstage. I accidently make eye contact with Groff and get even more nervous so I quickly look away. Before I know it I'm standing in the middle of the Reynolds pamphlet. I watch as Groff does his little bit then starts walking over. He When he's close enough I whisper "Jonathan I like you, that's what I wasn't telling you" He continues walking so maybe he didn't hear me.

When I walk offstage I see him and hide behind Chris. I'm pretty sure he heard me. The look on his face... I don't think he even realised I'm offstage. I use this as my opportunity to run to our dressing room and lock the door. Why did I think this was a good Idea?

Groff POV

"Jonathan I like you, That's what I wasn't telling you" Lin whispers as I walk past him. I keep walking before I process what he said. Then I walk off stage and it hits me. He likes me. Lin Manuel Miranda like me! Holy shit. So this is why he left my apartment and why he's been ignoring me? I smile to myself, I have to talk to him. I have to tell him I like him. omg he must have been so nervous, I mean he bought a damn apartment to avoid having to tell me. While I'm thinking I notice Anthony start singing shit that means Lin has to go back on in a minute I run to our dressing room but the door's locked.

He opens the door before I even knock with his head down and headphones in. He bumps into me and looks terrified. Before I can say anything he runs to the wings and talks to Chris so I can't talk to him. I wait for him to come back off stage but he just puts headphones in again and locks himself in the bathrooms. This continues for the rest of the show. After the show I see him run to the dressing room but before I can go after him Renee comes up and starts talking to me.

After I finish my conversation with Renee I try to Find Lin, but when I can't I ask Chris. He tells me he went home. Great. Now I gotta find where he lives. I'm telling him I like him tonight someway or another.

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