[Hidden Love] /Phillipa Soo& Sara Barreilles

The white towel

Author's note: Just realised that they did previews and stuff before the actual premiere but we'll ignore that and just pretend they immediately went from rehearsals to Broadway premiere. Thanks :)
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Phillipa's POV

The days passed quickly and it was finally the day of the premiere of 'into the woods'. Throughout the last days I wrote Hannah several text messages. Even though I was still a little bit mad at Sara for outing me without my knowledge, I couldn't let go of the fact that Sara got cheated on. So I texted Hannah to set all records with Sara straight and to tell Sara the whole truth, otherwise I would do it. To my disappointment I didn't get an answer and when I tried to call her, she immediately sent me to the voicemail.

I also wanted to make it clear that I didn't want to tell Sara the truth, so she'd break up with Hannah and I could he with her again. Hell, I'd never do that. I wanted to tell it because it seemed to me like Sara liked Hannah a lot and she'd get even more hurt, the closer they were getting. In this case I wanted to be the supportive friend, who didn't have any background thoughts.

It was the day of the premiere and I was pretty excited to be finally playing Cinderella on Broadway. The day started as usual, I got up and showered. As I got out of the shower, suddenly someone rang on the door of my house. I sighted as I looked at the clock. It wasn't even 8am in the morning, so immediately was questioning, who that could be. I quickly wrapped a towel around my body and stepped out of the shower. I didn't even care how I looked like.

As I opened the door, I was ready to send the person away, whoever it was. So I opened the door just a little bit, only to see Sara standing infront of my door. "Sara?" I asked suprised to see her. I still remembered what happened between us a few days ago, so I tried to be still mad at her. "Hey Pips, can I come in for a second?" I raised an eyebrow as I looked at Sara, who seemed to be stressed out. "Please I know you're still mad at me for telling your secret to Patina but I need to talk to someone and you're the only one who understands it."

I sighted and gave up. Maybe I'm weak or just too nice but I never can be mad at someone for a long time. So I opened the door to let her in. "Thanks Pips-" She came into my house and then looked at me. "Oh I'm sorry if I'm disturbing you." She immediately said blushing, as she saw me only in my towel. "Don't act like you've never seen what's beneath that towel." I said sarcastically, as I noticed Sara's reaction. "OK so what's up?" I asked then impatiently and crossed my arm as I was standing infront of her.

"I'm freaking out Pippa and don't know what to do." She explained further. "Today's the premiere and I feel like something is bothering Hannah lately. Like she's not the same as she was before we were separated." This immediately made my heart ache. I knew what was going on with Hannah but in this moment I felt like it wasn't my place to tell Sara. It should be Hannah who tells her since she's the one who cheated on her and not me. But Sara continued to talk and pulled me out of my thoughts again. "You see... we want to make our relationship official tonight and I already told her that it'd be OK if she didn't want to do it but she kept telling me that she's fine with it. I just don't want to push her to do anything she doesn't want to-" Sara broke off in the middle of her sentence as she looked at me.

I looked at her too and was a bit hurt, as I remembered how our ended. It ended because she pushed me to come out and I wasn't ready yet. And here she is, seeking for advice from me, so she doesn't do the same mistake anymor. The silent between us was intense, as we looked into each other's eyes. I felt how she suddenly moved forward to me and got closer and my breath got heavier.

"I'm sorry, I shouldn't have come here in the first place." She said and broke the silence in the room. I decided to brush that off, to make Sara feel better. "No it's fine, Sara. Don't worry. But Hannah is probably..." I stopped for a moment within my sentence as I thought about what to say. In this moment I could've told Sara about the fact that Hannah cheated on her. I had the opportunity to tell her but I decided not to do it. "She's probably just nervous about tonight. Hell I'd be so nervous." I smiled and earned a relieved chuckle from Sara. "Just stay by her side tonight and it'll be fine." The next thing I did was placing my hand supportive on Sara's shoulder. "Thank you Pippa." Sara said before she moved forward to me and pulled me into a surprising hug. I welcomed the hug and pulled Sara close to me. As we were hugging, I was able to smell Sara's hair again and I noticed that she did the same. Suddenly I felt the butterflies in my stomach, but Sara immer pulled away, as it got too intense.