[Hidden Love] /Phillipa Soo& Sara Barreilles

The girlfriend

Sara's POV:

I'm leaving the rehearsal room with my dog Louie, after talking to Pippa about us. This day in general went by differently than I expected it to be. I was afraid the tension between me and Phillipa would be weird, since our relationship didn't end the best way all these years ago. But I was very happy to see that Phillipa moved also on, just like me. She seemed so fine and cool about working with me and it was refreshing. I'm really looking forward to work with her as friends and work colleagues in 'into the woods'.

As I was finally leaving the building, by going through the front door, I immediately saw a familiar car, which parked right infront of the building. It looks like my girlfriend is already waiting for me. I went to the other side of the driver's seat, picked up Louie and got into the car. "Hey." I was immediately greeted by the smile of my current girlfriend Hannah. We've been seeing each other since 5 months now and I started to fall for her every day even more. She had beautiful brown curly hair, which was cut just above her shoulders and eveytime she looked at me, I felt like her darkbrown eyes were staring into my soul. I liked her a lot and was so happy to have her in my life.

"Hey Babe." I answered back, as I gave her a soft peek on the lips to greet her properly. "How were the rehearsals?" Hannah asked me, while starting the engine of the car. "They were unexpectedly refreshing and good. I came out a bit later because I got lost in a conversation with Pippa." I answered her. "I know how it is with Pippa. Once you start talking to her, you forget the time completely."

Here's one thing, you probably should know about Hannah. She had been also quite active and successful when it came to theatre and Broadway. She's been already on tour as Eliza in 'Hamilton' and was recently a part of the cast of 'Suffs' which was performed at the public theatre until the end of May. Since Phillipa and Hannah were both in the production of 'Suffs', they knew each other very well.

I didn't tell Hannah that I used to date Phillipa years ago or even told Phillipa that I'm currently dating Hannah, since I didn't want to make things weird or complicated. I know how good Hannah and Phillipa got along during their time at work and I knew telling Pippa that I'm with Hannah, wouldn't only destroy their friendship but also my friendship with Pippa. So I didn't tell them about it and thought it'd be fine.

We drove to my apparent together. Hannah and me didn't live together yet, but she already spent most of the time with me at my apartment. I changed into comfortable clothes and then went into the living room just to see Hannah sitting with Louie on the couch together. I sat down next to Hannah and started cuddling with her. We sat like this for 5 minutes before I couldn't resist the urge and started to kiss Hannahs neck. "Urgh Sara." She moaned as I continued to kiss down her neck. "I missed you today." I whispered in her ear, which gave her goosebumps. "Me too," she answered but before I could continue to kiss her, she talked again. "I actually wanted to talk with you about something." I distanced my mouth from her neck and then looked at her. What did she want to talk about? Did I do something wrong?

"What is it, Babe?" I asked her. "I wanted to talk about us." Now this sentence freaked me out. I definitely did something wrong. "Are you breaking up with me?" I asked bluntly but immediately earned a chuckle from Hannah. "No you silly goose." She said smiling. "I wanted to ask you, if we should confirm us." "Us?" I asked still confused about what she wanted. "Yeah, I know you already came out in 2015 but maybe we should make our relationship official?" I was taken a bit by surprise as she said this. She was right, for me it wasn't that big of a deal, since I already came out and the world knew about me. And I knew that our relationship was getting more serious everyday and I would be fine with taking this step, but I never knew, if Hannah was ready to do it too. "I've been thinking about it a lot lately and I really wanna show the world how much I love you. I hope I didn't overstep the line with my thought." Hannah continued to speak worried.