Comfort | A Lippa story

Chapter 4: Now

Last Time: Pippa what are you thinking. OF COURSE THERE WOULD. His wife just passed and your thinking about liking him. He's just being nice because we are best friends. That's how he always acts. He's naturally the best caring person. She blushed to herself. She went to bed thinking about the pros and cons of liking Lin.

*Continued*

*Lins POV*

That night Lin went to bed just thinking about Pippa and smiling. They woke up the next day and went to rehearsals. This cycle repeated like this day after day for 5 months. Pippa would stay in the guest room of Lin's apartment and they would go to sleep thinking about each other. Sometimes Lin would think about Vanessa but Pippa would always be there to pacify him if he needed and/or wanted it. Lin would always think about if Pippa was the one Vanessa was talking about it. But it would fly right over his head because that is his best friend. They couldn't be anything more. Right?

*Time skip to 1 year later: present | brought to you by sleep deprivation*

Lin came in early to rehearsals with Sebastian like he always does and was greeted by Tommy and Alex as he always is. About 30 minutes later the rest of the cast walked in like always and unfortunately as always, Pippa walked in with her hand over face. He knew what happened because it always happens. Lin can tell just by her posture that she's been sleeping on the couch. Which she promised him she would tell him if she was. The one thing Lin doesn't like it when people lie to him and don't keep their promises, especially when that someone is Pippa. He saw her and her sisters head over their dressing rooms. He asked Tommy and Alex to watch Sebastian, to which they happily agreed and he tried to beat them to their room but ended up getting there a little bit earlier than them. This was early enough for Jasmine and Renee to take the hint that he wanted to talk to Pippa. They gave her a sympathetic smile and walked away. Pippa just stood there with her head down knowing what was about to happen.

Lin motioned her to come closer with his finger and she silently obeyed. He put both his hands on Pippa's shoulders waiting for her to look up, but she didn't. So he decided to manually lift her head. He softly lifted her chin up wanting to look at her in her eyes. He could see she had been crying, but trying to cover it so he wouldn't see. The cheek she wasn't covering was covered in tear stains and she looked like she was in a rush. Lin took Pippa's hand that was on her cheek and slowly lifted it asking for permission to see her cheek. She hesitantly gave permission and lifted her hand all the way off her cheek. When Lin saw what Steven did, he couldn't tell if he wanted to be mad or sad. He was filled with anger but tear-filled eyes.

"Pippas what happened and don't you think about lying to me because I can see right through you." Pippa started to tell him the story and stopped when she was on the verge of crying. She blinked and tears started rushing down her face. As she cried, she would wince in pain every time a tear fell on her bruise. At this point, Lin was too mad. He didn't know what he was gonna do, but he had to keep it together for Pippa. Lin dragged her into her dressing room and closed the door.

"Pips I feel like a broken record but it's ok to leave him. He is literally the worst man on the planet." "Lin, he isn't a bad person, he just has terrible days and doesn't know how to handle them." "SO HE TAKES THEM OUT ON YOU?!"  Lin took a second to calm down because he could see he scared her a little when he yelled. He took a deep breath then continued. "Pippa, you deserve more than he's giving you. You can literally get it from anyone but him. You don't deserve to be treated like that and the only person who doesn't see that is you. I'm sorry Pip, but please for your sake and safety LEAVE HIM!" Pippa said something but Lin couldn't hear. He asked her to repeat it but in return she just let her head fall. Lin couldn't take it anymore. She wasn't seeing her worth and he had to show her.