"you know I want you, it's not a secret I try to hide. But i can't have you, we're bound to break, and my hands are tied."
In which Iris Michaels finds her home within a circus of outcasts and finds herself in a forbidden love.
Phillip Carlyle x oc
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"15"
"I'd do 8"
"12"
"Maybe 9"
"10."
Phineas Barnum pat his pant pockets looking for coins to give a bartender, noticing he had used all of his money on him. Phillip Carlyle standing across from him slapped multiple dollars on the table for the drinks.
"Sir, it looks like you have yourself a junior partner." Phillip says holding out his hand to shake on the deal.
Phineas grabbed the two shots off the counter handing one to Phillip, "What i have, is an overcompensated apprentice."
The two clink their glasses together and slam it down on the counter before continuing to grab shot after shot off the counter that the bartender prepared for them.
"Don't you wanna get away, to a whole new part you're gonna play. Cause I got what you need so come with me and take the ride t the other side."
The two gentlemen grabbed their scarves and top hats and continued to head to the circus.
"So if you do like I do, so if you do like me. Forget the cage cause we know how to make the key. Oh, damn! Suddenly we're free to fly, we're going to the other side."
"We're going to the other side"
"So if you do like I do."
"To the other side"
"So if you do like me"
"Goin to the other side"
"Cause if you do..."
"We're going to the other side... We're going t the other side."
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Iris Michael's, Anne Wheeler and W.D Wheeler were performing their acrobatic performance in front of the hundreds of people in the stands. Iris had just spun down to the ground in her silks, she held out her hand above her head and W.D swung by her on his rope grabbing her hand and rising her up into the air.
W.D let go of Iris' hand while mid air, causing the whole crowd to gasp in unison. As Iris began falling to the hard ground below her, she grabbed onto her own rope. Her rope swung her from one side of the stadium and continued to swing her back to the other side.
When Iris got to the other side of the stadium, time seemed to move in slow motion. Her chocolate brown eyes caught another pair of icy blue ones. She recognized those eyes. She could identify them anywhere. The man standing in front of her was Phillip Carlyle. Her stomach turned in knots, not only because she was being swung back to the other side of the stadium once again.
Once she was on the ground again and her portion of the show was over, Iris stumbled back stage as her head spun in circles. She stumbled to the nearest seat as she held her head in her hands.
"Hun, you okay?" Anne said coming up behind Iris rubbing her hand on Iris's back.
"No," Iris said lifting up her head to look her tear stained eyes into Anne's. "I saw someone. Someone who I used to care deeply about. Someone who I lost due to the color of my skin. And he's here! Right now Anne. He's here! I can't see him, Anne. I really can't."
Iris was crying now. Tears streamed down her face now. She caught a red jacket in the corner of her eye as she turned her head to see P.T Barnum guiding Phillip in her direction.
"W.D, Anne, Iris. I'd like you to meet Phillip Carlyle." P.T said. W.D shook Phillips hand and continued to shake Anne's hand, introducing himself to the siblings. Phillip moved to introduce himself to Iris when his eyes caught hers. He stopped mid action, his eyes wide with joy.
"Iris!?" Phillip said with hope in his voice.
Iris' mind was moving a mile a minute. She was trying to get herself to respond but her mouth just wouldn't let anything come out. She couldn't let Phineas know that they knew each other. She didn't want to get Phillip in trouble for being associated with a girl with brown skin. She had to act quickly before people started to question her actions.
"My name is Iris, but i'm sorry... do I know you?"
