Celia wait Marco says standing but not moving closer to her. You are breaking my heart. You told me once that I reminded you of your father. That you never wanted to suffer the way your mother did for him but you are doing exactly that to me. You keep leaving me. You leave me longing for you again and again when I would give anything for you to stay and it is killing me. It has to kill one of us Celia says quietly.

Do you remember all of your audiences Marco asks. Not all of them Celia says. But I remember the people who look at me the way you do.What way might that beAs though they cannot decide if they are afraid of me or they want to kiss me. I am not afraid of you Marco says.

And there are really never endings happy or otherwise.

He forgets that he was someones dream once himself.

Do you know why I gave my daughter permission to marry your fatherNo Bailey says. It is not a topic that has ever been discussed in his presence though Caroline once told him in secret she heard it was something of a scandal. Even almost twenty years later his father never sets foot in his grandmothers house nor does she ever come out to Concord.Because she would have run off with him regardless she says. That was what she wished. It would not have been my choice for her but a child should not have their choices dictated for them...Follow your dreams Bailey she says. Be they Harvard or something else entirely. No matter what that father of yours says or how loudly he might say it. He forgets that he was someones dream once himself.

I would have written you myself if I could put down in words everything I want to say to you. A sea of ink would not be enough.But you built me dreams instead Celia says looking up at him. And I built you tents you hardly ever see. I have had so much of you around me always and I have been unable to give you anything in return that you can keep.

Something about the circus stirs their souls and they ache for it when it is absent.

Follow your dreams Bailey. Be they Harvard or somehing else entirely. No matter what that father of yours says or how loudly he might say it. He forgets that he was someones dream once himself