Delavan High | The Greatest Showman | high school AU

Chapter three: a million dreams

I've been excited to write this chapter from the start. Hope u like it!

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•••Charity's POV•••
Once my parents fell asleep, I crept out my window and on to the sloped roof. I silently padded down it till I reached the gutter. Without making a sound, I lowered myself onto the wood pile below and made a run for it across my lawn, knowing exactly what path to take as to not trip the flood lights. Once I made it to the tree line, I was accompanied by my two cats, Helen and Caroline. We trekked through the woods together, with my cats prancing between my legs, chasing each other around the forest floor. I could tell we were nearing the spot because the oak and maple were making ways for the towering evergreens, which created a ring round out spot, with the higher branches making a canopy above our heads, thin enough we can still see the twinkle of stars up above. I walk between the trees, expecting to see an empty grove, but instead I'm greeted by a little white tent, made of sheets tied to the tree branches. Strings of white lights are littered around the tent,illuminating a figure inside. I walk towards it, the crunch of needles beneath my feet is all I hear. Caroline and Helen quick at my heels. I pulled the sheet aside and walked in, P.t is sitting on a blanket, fiddling with something behind the lid of a wooden box. I sat across from him. "Phin, this is beautiful!" I breathed, he looked up, a smile bursting on his face. "Well I had to do something grand for our anniversary." For it was the anniversary of him asking me to be his girlfriend. Three years ago, he had brought me to this place for the first time and gave me a ring, one he had make himself with wire and a piece of purple glass, its edges dulled. I said yes before he even finished asking me. Now he's finished with what he was making, he closed the box's lid and laid a small lantern with holes poked through illuminated by a candle inside. he spun its cover and small stars and swirling designs spun around them. Phin looked into my eyes and started to sing
"I close my eyes my eyes and I can see the world that's waiting up for me, that I call my own."
He pulled me to my feet, dancing me around the forest floor.
Through the dark, through the door, through where no ones been before, but it feels like home." He grabbed both my hands and now we are standing across for each other. 
"They can say, they can say it all sounds crazy,
They can say, they can say I've lost my mind,
I don't care, I don't care, so call me crazy,
We can live in a world that we design"
He let go of one of my hands but still had the other as we ran through the ring of ever greens I ask, "where are we going?" "You'll see." He pulled me away from our tent and into the dark forest, seemingly to know the way.
"'Cause every night I lie in bed
The brightest colors fill my head
A million dreams are keeping me awake
I think of what the world could be
A vision of the one I see
A million dreams is all it's gonna take
A million dreams for the world we're gonna make."  We came to a stone wall covered in ivy and  P.t walked through. He stuck his hand back out , which I grabbed and he pulled me through. Before me lay a huge mansion, overgrown with vines and trees but still retaining its regal beauty from many ages ago.
"There's a house we can build
Every room inside is filled
With things from far away
Special things I compile
Each one there to make you smile
On a rainy day."
We run up the stone steps and through the front door. P.t leads me though room after room filled with trinkets and tokens from long ago.
"They can say, they can say it all sounds crazy
They can say, they can say we've lost our minds
I don't care, I don't care if they call us crazy
Runaway to a world that we design"
He pulled he into a once elegant ballroom, and we dance on the remaining marble floor.
"Every night I lie in bed
The brightest colors fill my head
A million dreams are keeping me awake
I think of what the world could be
A vision of the one I see
A million dreams is all it's gonna take
A million dreams for the world we're gonna make."
I twirl away and sing,
"However big, however small
Let me be part of it all
Share your dreams with me
You may be right, you may be wrong
But say that you'll bring me along
To the world you see"
He joins in,
"To the world I close my eyes to see
I close my eyes to see"
Winding around the room we sing in harmony
"Every night I lie in bed
The brightest colors fill my head
A million dreams are keeping me awake
A million dreams, a million dreams
I think of what the world could be
A vision of the one I see
A million dreams is all it's gonna take
A million dreams for the world we're gonna make."
We pause our dancing, our heads leaning on each other,
"For the world we're gonna make."
And under the shine of stars beyond the window panes, we kiss.
Once we pulled back I see a twinkle in P.t's eyes "I've had an idea." His mouth forms a grin. " I know what we have to do."

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Did u guys like it? I tried to create something magical and I dunno if it worked. I know this is slow but I wanted to write this scene. Bye!
                                      -Winter