Piper ~ H.S

~Forty-One~

A/N: I don't think I've ever done so many double updates for a book lmao. Oh well, you guys don't seem to have a problem with it so why not lol. Oh, and I was wrong - this chapter isn't long as shit, but it's definitely longer than the previous one :p

P.S - for any of you who are interested in The Greatest Showman but haven't seen it yet, this chapter does contain pretty big spoilers for the movie. If you don't want the movie spoiled, I'll mark exactly when the spoilers start and end so that, if you want to skip through the spoilers, then you know when to start skipping, and when to stop.

Even just halfway into The Greatest Showman, the movie was already more amazing than I could've ever imagined. The actors were all brilliant, and the soundtrack was so fantastic that I swear to God the whole thing was going to be stuck in my head for weeks.

(SPOILERS)

Harry definitely seemed to be enjoying it, too. I've seen him bobbing his head along to the more upbeat songs (especially the one Zac Efron and Hugh Jackman were singing in the bar) in the film, and he really seemed to be into all the choreography. And I'm pretty damn sure he ships Zac Efron's character Phillip and Zendaya's character Anne just as much as I do.

You think it's easy
You think don't want to run to you?
But there are mountains
And there are doors that we can't walk through

I know you're wondering why
Because we're able to be just you and me
Within these walls
But when we go outside, you're gonna wake up and see
That it was hopeless after all

This scene between Phillip and Anne was very quickly becoming my favourite scene of the whole movie. It was so cute seeing how in love they were - and it actually hurt me knowing that they, especially Anne, felt so forced to conceal their love because of their racist, judgemental society. I swear to God I almost cried when Phillip started holding Anne's hand and then abruptly let go because his stupid parents spotted them. His parents were fucking dicks - I wanted them both to fall down a deep dark hole and die. When Phillip defended Anne against his parents in the previous scene, I was struggling to stop myself from whooping out loud.

Rewrite the Stars was the perfect song to describe their relationship, and their feelings - and all the acrobatics that Zendaya was doing on the trapeze literally blew me away. She looked so gorgeous in this movie - and her long legs were honestly just goals.

No-one can rewrite the stars
How can you say you'll be mine?
Everything keeps us apart
And I'm not the one you were meant to find

It's not up to you, it's not up to me
When everyone tells us what we can be
How can we rewrite the stars?
Say the world can be ours
Tonight

My jaw immediately dropped as Anne spun down one of her ropes as if it was no effort for her at all. Did Zendaya really do that scene herself? Because if she did, then holy fuck. She deserves an Oscar just for that.

I was actually fangirling so much inside at how Phillip was trying so hard to hold on to Anne's hoop and her ropes just so he could follow her when she went up in the air and stay close to her. Fuck the age difference between them - Zac Efron and Zendaya are my new OTP.

All I want is to fly with you
All I want is to fall with you
So just give me all of you

It feels impossible
It's not impossible
Is it impossible?
Say that it's possible

They grabbed two ropes and swung away from each other, but they soon came flying right back together - and I gasped and let out a tiny squeal as they caught each other and swung around and around - singing to one another as if they were the only two people in the world.