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- When I was five, storms terrified me.

As soon as I'd hear thunder, I'd grab mr. Wuzzle,

my teddy bear, and escape into the secret magic fairy kingdom

inside my closet.

But I'm not scared of thunder anymore.

But sometimes, when life gets a little stormy,

I still feel like hiding.

- Holly.

- If this is about my missing assignments,

ugh... I know I'm two weeks behind,

but it's only because of my unusual circumstances

of living in a tv drama.

- I heard about your father.

- And then my grandpa showed up.

Because apparently, he's not dead.

- Twist!

- Anyway, I'm-I'm trying to catch up.

- I know, but your marks are down,

and if you don't turn it around,

you'll have to make it up in the summer.

- I have to go to summer school?

- Not yet.

We've got a verbal quiz on little women tomorrow.

Prove to me that you're committed.

(sighing)

- morning, ladies.

(giggling) - what are you smiling at?

- A text from oscar.

He sent me a video of baby pandas falling over.

Adorbs! (laughter)

- hey, what did alton want?

- Ugh. Only to deprive me of my constitutional right

to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

(sighing) he said that if I don't

catch up, I may have to go to summer school.

- What about camp eagle creek?

This is the year we get to be counsellors-in-training.

(phone vibrating)

(laughing) - what are you gonna text back?

- Oh, I was just gonna send a thumbs-up.

- Are you trying to break up with him?

No, you have to send something flirty!

- Okay, we're just having a really important

conversation here. Can't oscar wait?

- He has sent her two texts and she still hasn't responded.

This is urgent, okay?

- Amy, calm down.

I'm not going to summer school, okay?

I'll... Focus and get it all done.

Somehow.

- Okay, this is a code red.

We've got 11 assignments...

And it takes six hours to read little women.

- I'm never gonna catch up.

- Never say never.

I'll come over later.

I've been working on some memory-retention

experiments for my science grant.

We can work all night if we have to.

- I-I can't. Uh, uh...

My mom is... Is super stressed

and doesn't want anyone coming over.

- Oh. Of course. Yeah.

- Mm. - It's just we've been planning

on being counsellors forever.

I just don't want us to miss it.

- I'll figure it all out.

I promise, okay?

Now, piper, what should I text?

- Maybe a saucy chili pepper.

- That is so good! - I know. I'm good.

♪ you and me run to a different beat ♪

♪ we are brave lead the way, lead the way ♪

♪ be the you inside and watch the world take flight ♪

♪ we are brave lead the way lead the way ♪

♪ be the change ♪

♪ be the change ♪

♪ gotta be the change ♪

(bright music)

- oh! Forty miles per hour! That's a personal best.

- Forty miles? Argh!

Let me see that.

Ugh.

- What's the problem?

- At my age, I should be pitching at least 50

to have a shot at the major leagues!

- Maybe you'll get faster.

- To get faster, I need to get taller.

The shortest person in the mlb is 5'7".

- Well, how tall are you gonna be?

- If I take my mom's height, 5'4",

and add my dad's, 6 feet,

subtract five inches, divide by two. 5'6".

- Hey, that's still pretty tall.

- It's not tall enough!

Thanks for the genes, katherine.

(sighing)

- what are you doing?

- Packing it in.

I've got gender and genetics work against me!

For me, there's only a big l at the end of baseball.

- I think that's true for everybody.

- Holly's on the cover of the newspaper!

Do you know how many times

I have to hear how special she is?!

I can't be the least successful hobbie sister!

- Yeah, but you can't give up on baseball. It's your dream.

- I'm gonna be something, levi.

I'm just... I'm not gonna be the first female

cy young award winner.

Not at 5'6".

I've gotta find a new sport.

(sighing)

- hey. Any news from that jam lady?

New orders? Reviews?

- Do I look like a receptionist to you?

- Sorry. I was just asking.

- No, no, no, I'm asking. Do I look like a receptionist?

I'm applying for jobs. Okay, watch.

Ring-ring.

Hello. Dr. Banner's office. If this is a medical emergency,

please hold. Hmm?

- Robbie, that could kill someone.

(laughing)

- ooh, here's one. Marketing assistant.

Okay. "do you have people skills, a good attitude?

No prior experience."

- no prior experience is a good fit.

- This could be the one. Robbie hobbie,

marketing assistant.

How's little women?

(sighing) - I'm 10 chapters in.

I mean, who writes 47 chapters of something?

- I dunno.

- I gotta get my notebook.

(bag zipping)

- dad's coming home at the end of the week.

(scoffing)

- things are gonna be a lot different.

- Yep. Yeah, it's starting to sink in.

Dad will need help, mom's interviewing farmhands.

I'll need to step up.

(knocking)

- hey, man. - Hey.

- Ah, oscar! I didn't know you were coming.

- I know you're super busy, so I brought you this.

- An old notebook. You shouldn't have.

- A notebook with everything you need to know

about little women. (laughing)

it's a family heirloom. It was my eldest sister's,

passed down through the siblings and now to you.

- I will treasure this until my dying day.

- Well, I'll leave you two lovebirds.

- So, uh, any word about the next leg of gwen's tour?

- Nothing yet.

But I could really use some good news.

- Okay, I was thinking about it.

Maybe it'll help if you write a song.

One that'll get them excited about you.

- That's a great idea. (laughing)

but I can't. I mean, even with these notes,

I still have a ton of reading to do.

- Holly, school is important, but writing this song right now

could be life-changing.

It could get you back on tour and on the way

to being a superstar.

- You're right. Okay. (laughing)

(levi grunting) - just tap.

Come on, let's go! Tap out.

(groaning) just tap out.

Right.

(laughing)

- okay, I get that wrestling's your new thing,

but I have a delicate décolleté.

(heather laughing) - okay.

Here's the deal. I've crunched the numbers and this sport

offers the highest chance of a college scholarship.

I'll be able to compete in the world championships

in my junior year, so I only have four years

to become the most dominant wrestler in history.

Let's go.

(wincing and groaning) you're turtling again.

- It's my defence reflex!

There's gotta be someone else you can wrestle.

- You like wrestling! - I like watching wrestling.

On tv!

- There aren't any teams anywhere near here.

That's it! I'll start my own league!

(gasping) get markers and glossy paper!

We're making posters! Whoo-hoo!

(laughing) best idea ever!

♪ I don't want to wonder what could've been ♪

♪ my heart is full of thunder and lightning ♪

♪ rising like a storm ♪

♪ so maybe I've been dreaming of flying faster ♪

♪ oh but wouldn't you rather ♪

♪ fight for a day laying in the sun ♪

♪ I don't want to waste my dreams of fun ♪

♪ run through the streets ready here I come ♪

♪ oh yeah ♪

♪ wouldn't you rather shake off the troubles ♪

♪ and the trials ♪

♪ sing so they'll hear your voice for miles ♪

♪ take everything leave it for a while ♪

♪ oh yeah ♪

♪ wouldn't you rather ♪

- that was amazing.

- Oh, you really think so?

- Holly, that was the best song you've ever written.

You just wrote a hit! (laughing)

everyone's gonna love it, not just gwen's management.

- Do you think they'll pick me?

- They'd be nuts to turn you down.

(chuckling)

ready to record it? - Yeah.

Oh, shoot. It's 8:00. Ugh.

Where did the time go? I still have to read the notes.

- You know, if you book the tour,

you can hire someone to do the homework for you.

- You always know the right thing to say.

(yawning)

(school bell ringing)

(indistinct chattering)

- you didn't finish the book? (holly sighing)

- I was going to, but then oscar came over

and brought me his sister's notes and--

- oscar was over?

- And then we got to songwriting.

- Holly, I thought you said you couldn't have friends over

because your mom was too stressed.

- Oscar surprised me. Okay? He just showed up.

- Do you not realize that the chance of becoming

a professional singer is, like, 0.00002%?

- Well, maybe I'm part of that 0.00... Whatever percent.

- Holly, you're about to lose your whole year.

Why don't you get? (sighing)

- I get it, 'kay? (sniffing)

I read, like, half the notes oscar gave me. I-I'm fine.

- You're not fine, holly.

Do you not see how badly you're messing everything up?

(phone vibrating)

(holly sighing) - it's oscar.

Saying he knows I got this.

It's nice to have someone believe in me.

He knows I can do it.

- Alright, I hope everyone's ready to discuss the lives

of the March sisters. Little women has many themes.

Holly, what's a theme that stood out for you?

- Uh...

Obviously, an important theme of the book is...

Love.

And how sometimes... Love is worth sacrificing for.

- I actually disagree with holly.

It's clear louisa may alcott thinks romantic love

is less important than familial bond.

But you'd only know that if read until the end.

- Ah. - I would agree with amy.

Did you finish the book, holly?

- Not all of it. Sorry, mr. Alton.

- Holly, I know it's hard to read when you've got

a lot going on. That's why my book club

never meets during playoffs.

But I can't keep giving you free passes.

- I know.

- This is your last chance.

Be prepared to answer questions tomorrow.

- Thank you... Sir.

- Okay, now, who can tell me

which of the March sisters is the most stubborn?

(soft music)

(sighing)

- our posters worked.

- There's way more wrestlers in collinsville than I thought.

- People, welcome to backyard wrestling club.

First rule of backyard wrestling club?

Please pick up your litter.

Second rule: If it's your first time,

you have to wrestle... Me.

(laughing) - you're just a kid.

- You're just a kid.

Scared you'll get taken down by this mass of pure muscle?

- Oh! - Scared someone'll see this

in 10 years and not give me a job.

- Come on, really? No takers?

Does no one have the moxie? - I have the moxie.

- Claudia? - Claudia? There's no claudia.

I'm luchadorable. Cute, but deadly.

- This is freestyle wrestling, claudia.

You don't need a costume.

- I don't care what you think of it!

All that matters is who the winner is.

That, indisputable fact, is me.

(grunting)

(indistinct chattering)

- take her out, luchadorable!

(heather): Fine.

Game on.

- Piper, amy is completely off the hinges.

I mean totally unhinged! How could she do this to me?

Well, if you do talk to her,

tell her that I don't want to talk.

Amy and I got into a stupid fight.

- What about? - I don't know!

All I know is that we were talking about oscar

and little women, and then next thing I know,

she's telling mr. Alton I didn't do my reading.

- You said you were talking about little women and oscar.

- Yeah.

- It's oscar.

- Amy's mad at me because of oscar?

- When lyla and I started dating,

lyla's best friend tyra started picking dumb fights with her.

It turns out that tyra was jealous

because lyla was dating and tyra wasn't.

- So amy's mad because I have a boyfriend?

- And she doesn't.

- Well...

Well, it's not my fault she doesn't have a boyfriend!

- That's, like, the whole flaw of jealousy.

- I can't believe amy sabotaged me.

- Look, feelings are complicated.

- And yet, somehow,

you of all people seem to have a handle on 'em.

(crowd cheering on)

(crowd): Let's go luchadorable!

Fight, fight, fight!

(laughing)

- it's like watching a leprechaun trying to catch

its lucky charms. - Quit running around

and wrestle!

(indistinct comments)

(grunting)

(crowd): Come on, heather! - She's down!

- Oh! Down!

- One, two, three!

(whistling) luchadorable!

- Whoo! - Ugh!

- Whoo! (crowd applauding)

whoo! - That was a cheap trick.

- She gets your pot of gold now.

- Claudia, do you know how I knew it was you?

You're the worst!

(bright music)

(phone vibrating)

- oscar. - Any news from gwen's people?

- No, nothing yet.

- They're gonna call soon. I know it.

- You always know what to say to make me feel better.

- Are you still reading that?

- Ugh! It's awful.

The dad's sick, all the sisters are fighting,

and jo's got bad hair? It's a total bummer.

- You sure there's not something else?

(sighing) - I got into a fight with amy.

Robbie says it's because she's jealous

that she doesn't have a boyfriend

and that I have you.

- I guess we either have to break up

or we set amy up with my identical twin brother,

marco. (laughing)

- you don't have a twin. - You didn't see him?

He was just here. Marco? - Okay, okay.

So, if we set up amy with marco,

who's gonna date piper?

We all know she wants a boyfriend.

(laughing) - we can just set piper up

with, uh, my other twin or triplet, miguel.

(laughing)

see, rock star? It all works out.

- Did you just call me rock star?

- You know it.

Anyways, where should we go on our triple date?

- How do marco and miguel feel about mini-golf? Hmm?

(light music)

(birds chirping)

- need a rally partner?

- What, so you can humiliate me again?

- How do you think this looks?

- Since you ruined wrestling with your... Cheating,

I'm getting into badminton.

Could be my ticket to a scholarship.

- I won with a perfectly legal inside trip move.

- Whatever.

- Perhaps the real reason

you don't want to wrestle me again is because...

You lost?

Life isn't a competition.

- It absolutely is!

I'm gonna be the loser hobbie that never did anything.

- I wrestle, not because I'm a dominating force,

but because I enjoy it.

Especially the costumes.

- The luchadore thing was pretty cool, actually.

- Not partaking in things just because you think

you're gonna lose...

Means you'll miss out on a lot of fun.

Ah!

(claudia sighing) - I guess it was kind of fun.

- And if you try again, you might just win.

Follow your jubilation.

(bright music)

(indistinct chattering)

(sighing)

- look, amy... I know what's going on with you.

I just... Want to make things better.

(chuckling nervously)

(sighing)

you're probably too embarrassed to say it, but...

...It's okay for you to be jealous.

- Jealous? Of what?

- Well, that I have a boyfriend and you don't.

- Oh. You are so boy-crazy.

Not everything is about boys, holly.

- Okay, oscar and I were actually songwriting.

It is important. And, fine, I was having fun,

but what's wrong with that?

At least oscar doesn't keep telling me

all the ways I'm failing.

- I was just trying to help.

Okay? It just seemed like you weren't worried

about anything.

- Of course, I'm worried!

I'm worried that my dad may never walk again

and that we might lose the farm and not have a place to live

and that my whole family lied to me

about my grandpa being alive, and that the one thing

I could possibly do to help my family...

I have next to zero percent chance of doing.

I'm not worried about failing school.

I'm worried... About failing everything.

- Alright, let's get started.

Holly, did you get a chance to get through the book?

- Yes, mr. Alton. - Alright. Tell me about amy.

- Amy. Well, let's see.

She can be self-absorbed,

and juvenile,

and obsessed with things that don't really matter.

Like pickled limes. - Okay.

Perhaps amy was obsessed with those things

because they were important.

Like, she needed them to marry into high society

and provide for her family.

- Oh, so now it's cool to have a boyfriend?

- Uh, so, holly,

in your opinion, why did amy burn jo's book?

- Because she was feeling vindictive.

- Or she felt ignored.

Jo was in this fantasy of being a writer,

and amy was just trying to bring jo back

to the real world.

- Things were tough in concord.

They lost all of their money and all jo wanted

was one moment to fall in love with professor bhaer

and feel okay.

- So she just ditched all her sisters?

- It's not like she felt good about it.

She was overwhelmed.

- For what it's worth...

I think amy felt terrible about burning the book.

She was really sorry about it.

- Okay... So, holly,

what do you think louisa may alcott

wanted to say at the end of the book?

- Jo's sisters are the most important people in her life.

No boy could ever come between them.

- That's why it's a classic.

- What happened to wrestling?

- Jim abbott! - Who?

- He was a major league pitcher.

He got a gold medal in the olympics.

And he only had one hand!

- No way. - He pitched with his left hand,

balancing his glove on his right forearm.

Then he'd slip it into his glove, catch,

then swap out of his glove and throw out the runner.

- What? That's impossible. - Except he did it.

I love baseball and I don't want to miss out on my dream

just because I'm scared I won't get it.

- Forty-five. You're getting faster.

- Who knows? I might just have a shot.

(pop music playing)

(laughing)

- okay, that song could cheer up adele.

(laughing)

- I'm sorry I didn't come to you guys sooner.

I just... I wasn't ready to talk.

But now... - We're here for you, holly.

- And we always will be.

(phone vibrating)

- you can talk to oscar if you want.

(laughing) - it's okay.

It's probably just...

(phone vibrating)

it's gwen taylor's manager.

I can't do this! Take it, piper! Piper!

(shushing) - okay, okay.

(with new york accent): Hello. Holly hobbie's phone.

You're talking to her manager.

(normal voice): Oh, okay. Okay, yes, I...

I will pass that on. Thank you.

They're going with someone else.

- Oh.

So that's it, then.

I actually thought my song was pretty good.

- No, no, it was, but sometimes it's not about that.

They're going with casey halshford.

- Who? - That rainbow-lipstick girl?

- Yeah, the 16-year-old girl from chicago

with a ton of followers. Her music is mediocre at best,

but everyone loves her rainbow lipstick.

- You okay?

- I just wanted to help my family.

But I guess music wasn't the answer to all my problems.

All that means is that it is time for me to focus

on school and forget about my dreams.

- Holly, if this is what you want,

you can't give up.

We're gonna help make you such a star

that the world will forget this casey halshford

ever existed. - Mm-hmm.

- Okay, I'm in.

(laughing)

let's do it. Okay, okay. - Okay, ideas.

(indistinct chatter)

- guess you don't need to hide when you choose the right people

to weather the storm with. (chuckling)

♪ lately life's been feeling hard ♪

♪ like my world's falling apart ♪

♪ can't help thinking does it get better ♪

♪ take me to another place ♪

♪ I could really use a change of pace ♪

♪ my head's spinning ♪

♪ faster and faster ♪