Time to take a ✨oneshot✨

"Let's Start a Rumor"

Pippa pranced into the grofflin dressing room, all giddy and riled up after belting out beautiful harmonies with her beloved schuylar sisters. She opened the door to find the two sprawled out on the ground playing Uno.

"Haha, draw four!" Jonathan cheered, causing Lin to pout like a child.

"FriCk you Grooffsaucee." To this, Groff reached over to ruffle his hair, to which Lin, in an attempt to slap his hand away dropped all his cards.

"FUCK." Groff sputtered out the water he was drinking and proceeded to roll in laughter.

Seeing Jonathan smiling caused Lin to blush so hard from what he would deem shame but anyone (other than Groff, of course) else would deem infatuation.

They were so oblivious.

Pippa stood in the doorway, silently fangirling until she felt a bit awkward just watching them.

"Heyyy, could I join you guys?" she asked. Neither knowing the door had been opened, poor Groff nearly choked and Lin made some sound at a pitch nobody knew he could reach. Both had turned an impossible deeper shade of red.

Apparently that had scared the shit out of them.

Woops. :)

"U-uh- ya sure Pippa, come on in!" Lin stuttered out.

"Yeah, we can start over. I was gonna win anyways."

"Pft, no you fucking weren't!" To this, Groff gave him a look and, "okay fine yeah, yeah, whatever."

"Ha! Victory."

The three of them played two more games of Uno, neither of which Lin won.

By this point, they were all three juice boxes in and very hyped up on sugar; enough to not really give a shit what they posted on twitter.

Lin pulled put his phone.

"Pretend to make out, let's start a rumor!"

They didn't miss a beat.

He snapped the photo and posted it to his account. This was probably the funniest thing he'd posted in all his 6 years of being on twitter.

He didn't think much of it until the next day.

POV Lin//

God, what was I thinking?! Do I just enjoy making myself miserable?

I woke up this morning to dozens of twitter notifications, which I guess is normal but-

@———
@lin_manuel you and Groffsauce making out would be the better rumor!

@———
@lin_manuel I hope it was you. XD

What- I- they expect me to- I mean.... 

My cheeks got very red. I slammed my phone on the bed and turned to hyperventilate in my pillow. A tear rolled down my cheek.

Jesus Christ. Dios mio. It was painful enough having to watch my stage wife and real life crush pretend to make out- but to make out with him? I can't do that? Can I? What if he doesn't want to? What if he rejects me? Oh god, I can't get rejected again.... especially not by him- he's my best friend- it would make things so weird, I can't handle that.

Then again- he didn't reject Pippa and- he's gay. Okay.... maybe this could work!

I threw on a blue sweatshirt (Groffsauce said it was a good color on me) and some pants before grabbing my keys, headphones and a cup of coffee and bolting out the door to the subway.

I unlocked the Richard Rogers and raced to my dressing room to, thankfully find no one here yet. I needed some time to chill out.

I spent 30 minutes fidgeting, pacing, tying and untying my hair until I decided to leave it down. If I know anything, I know Groff likes to play with my hair.

I was sitting in my chair, facing the mirror when you know who finally trotted in, looking giddy as ever in his blue bike helmet. He was positively beaming. Hopefully this didn't change that.

"Heey Groff!"

"Hi Lin. What's up?"

"I got this crazy cool, funny request- you know how I told you and Pippa to pretend to make out yesterday?"

"Oh my godd, yes that was hilarious!"

"Yeah, well, what if- like- we did that?"

"Made out?" He turned beet red.

"Oh- w-well if you don't want to actually make out we don't have to obviously, I just meant like pretend to; you know, like how you and Pippa did."

"Oh.... yeah, okay that's cool..." He looked kind of sad, which broke my heart. But why?

No matter. I pulled out my phone. Holding it at arms reach, I tapped the camera icon and faced him.

Our faces were now inches apart. I could smell his cologne. My heart was hammering out of my chest. Holy fuck.

Holy fuck. This is happening- almost. He leaned in, fluttered his eyes shut and parted his lips. I did the same until I felt the tingling energy of almost.... almost there. His breath brushed my lips and his nose grazed my cheek. I felt the weight of his sturdy hand secured in my hair- thank all hell I'd left it down. I placed mine on the back of his head, just barely the feeling of his soft, fluffy hair, too nervous to really let myself go.

"Are you gonna take the picture?" When he spoke, this time I really felt the brush of his lips against mine.

Fuck.

This was too much. I snapped the picture.

"Yeah," I whispered. He didn't move. Neither did I.

"Can I- can I kiss you?" aka the most terrifying question I've ever asked in my life. I felt him smile and my heart melted.

"Thought you'd never ask..."

Then it happened. Did I say fuck already? Can I say it again?

Fucking fuckishit sonofaturd goddamn.

His lips were softer than I'd imagined. I never imagined myself the submissive one with a guy but- damn he makes me helpless.

I melted into his arms. I let myself go.

He tentatively nipped and ran the tip of his tongue across the seam of my lips. I whimpered in shock but let him in. I followed his tongue with mine as he explored my mouth. It got heated real fast- I gave his hair an experimental tug and the moan I received vibrated from his throat to mine, sending butterflies and other things I'd rather not mention to my stomach.

Afraid of what was next, I pulled away. I cleared my throat, willing the blood in my body to stay the hell away from certain southern regions- did it work? Of course not.

"Wow- th-tha-that...." I couldn't seem to get a word out. Of course, he smiled; always one to lighten a mood. Nope- not helping my current dilemma.

"Did I just render the Lin-Manuel Miranda speechless?"

"I-I.... maybe...." Thank God, the blood transferred back to my face; granted, still embarrassing but just a little..... less shameful.

"Oh shit I still have to post that!" Finally the tension was gone- mostly.

@Lin_manuel : Let's Start A Rumor, Day 2: Just Add Groffsauce! #LookingSeason3

Later that night....

@Lin_manuel : Lesson learned, if you want something, take it. Shove your fears down deep and you just might surprise yourself! Life is fuckin awesome! Goodnight everybody ❤️