"Wait..you wrote Hamilton?" (y/n) cries out a bit in shock. "I've known you for five months and you never told me?" she says a bit hurt by Lin not having told her.
"I er...well...you never asked...and well you were treating everyone on the cast like real people that I decided not to tell you?" was Lin's response.
"I just...my student pointed it out asking me why I was hanging around you and I was confused and they showed me things...I just...I thought we were friends," (y/n) says softly as she plays with her mug a bit. She had invited him over to her apartment to try and get some answers and clearly was a bit upset and hurt by his actions.
"We are friends! And I just didn't want to be seen differently by you, it's so hard finding a friend who won't see me as this amazing writer and stuff...I just wanted something normal..."
"But what does you telling me you wrote Hamilton and perform it have to do with treating you normal? I don't care about that stuff, I didn't ask you to be my friend because you're this amazing writer...I just liked you being you. You're goofy and down to earth and actually fun to hang around..." (y/n) says softly setting her mug down with a sigh.
"...You know Chris told me I should tell you and I told him no...guess I thought you'd react badly."
"I am reacting badly! I'm upset, we've been friends for five months, and you only said you were a performer in some show, and even when I asked about seeing it you said it wasn't that good...when clearly the world thinks better than it..."
"I didn't want you to see it and change your mind about being friends...I like you too much to want to lose you. And I guess I was worried that you'd find a flaw in Hamilton just like other historians tend to pick at."
"Why does it matter if Hamilton is accurate? If it's fun and might get more people interested in history I would call it a win. There are thousands of things that can be interpreted differently. And it can't be that bad...plays have to have a certain amount of characters right? So you probably had to push a few non-essential people out of the picture to replace with a more main thing. And maybe dates are pushed around a bit...but if it gives the gist of it, why does that matter?" (y/n) says with a groan rubbing her temples.
"...I guess I should have thought of it that way. I'm sorry (y/n/n)..." Lin whispers moving to her side and hesitantly placing his hand on her back rubbing it, "I just didn't want to lose this incredible friendship I've had with you...""Is this why you keep refusing to have those movie nights with me and my friends?" (Y/n) asks.
"Well one of the reasons, the other I was performing on stage and wouldn't be able to make them, especially on the weekends...hence why I was able to meet up today, a Monday, where there isn't a show."
"Explains why you always look so damn exhausted, and I thought my sleep schedule was fucked up with all my grading,"
Lin laughs at her statement, "Those papers really were that bad huh?"
"You have no idea, I can tell some only looked up on Wikipedia and copied it down. I tell them it's a start but you should look at the sources Wikipedia uses and try to go from there, but they think it's all clear for *just* using Wikipedia..." (y/n) says with a groan.
"So does this mean we're still okay?" Lin asks a bit worried about the other conversation.
"Yes, we're fine you damn Linamonroll? That's what Isabella said you were...I don't understand the kids sometimes..."
"No, don't call me that, please anything but that, they're ruthless those kids...if they got you started you won't stop!" Lin complains in a joking way.
"Yeah, better than 'Old Man Miranda' or something like that? Gosh, my students love gossip...no wonder they asked about you, always on Twitter or something..." (Y/n) says shaking her head.
"Hey! Don't diss Twitter, I have to get you on it, give me your phone you're downloading it now!" Lin says.
"I'm going to need wine for that...and I just so happen to have some...if you want though?" she suggests.
"Wine and Twitter..what could go wrong?" Lin says with a shrug.
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A Book Started This Whole Thing (Lin-Manuel Miranda x Reader)
Fanfiction(Y/n) is a History teacher in New York, and while looking for sources for her dissertation she happens to run into Lin-Manuel Miranda, without actually knowing who he was. Leading up to their friendship and eventually a relationship between the two...
