Éponine looked around the crowded campus, it was move in day at Musain University. She had no idea where her dorm was, it would have been good to have a map but she was never that lucky. She had been dumped their rather unceremoniously by a grumpy bus driver at the front of the school, her parents hadn't even bothered to drive her. Everywhere she looked around there were hundreds of people her age carting large amounts of stuff in suitcases, boxes, and large rolling laundry carts. Éponine looked at her two duffel bags, backpack and messenger bag that she had schlepped all the way from home.

With a sigh she walked under the arch that marked the official entrance to the university. Never in her whole life had she felt more alone, not like she had many friends in her life up until then but there was not a soul on campus that she knew. Musain had offered her scholarships and a music production program, education was more important than friendship, that could come later.

"Excuse me?" A girl with light brown hair, bright blue eyes and freckles across the bridge of her nose approached her, she was wheeling a large bag. "You don't happen to know where Montfermeil hall is by chance?"

"Nope," Éponine shook her head, "but I'm headed there myself, we can get lost together," she shrugged her shoulders, "name's Éponine Thenardier."

"Éponine?" The girl knit her brows together, "your room wouldn't happen to be 115?"

"Are you Cosette?" Éponine put her hands on her hips.

"Yeah," Cosette smiled, "so I guess that makes us roommates!"

"Cosette? Have you found the hall?" A man with greeting hair approached the two, He was wheeling another bag and a cart, "who is this?"

"Papa, this is Éponine, my roommate," Cosette replied.

"Oh," Cosette's father nodded, "very nice to meet you Miss-"

"Thenardier," Éponine supplied.

"Hey all welcome to Musain University!" A girl with curly bright red hair approached them sporting a Musain University Student Ambassadors tee-shirt, "can I help you with anything?"

"Can you point us in the direction of Montfermeil hall?" Éponine asked.

"I can do one step better than that!" The girl winked, she then grabbed one if Éponine's bags, "follow me!" she practically sang the last part.

Éponine shrugged as she and Cosette walked down the brick pathway through campus.

"Just past the student union, down by Myriel Commons and next to Montrieul hall!" The girl narrated as they walked.

"Does everything on this campus start with'M'?" Cosette whispered to Éponine as she walked.

Éponine couldn't help but laugh, she liked this girl, this was a good sign.

"Here we are!" The girl stopped in front of Montfermeil hall,"let's go!" She walked on and led them to room 115, "oh and I mustn't forget!" she passed both girls silver whistles on red and black key chains. "This is the official MU rape whistle, don't blow it unless it's actually happening!"

Éponine just stared at the whistle as the girl walked away, Cosette was blushing bright red while he father looked exceedingly uncomfortable. With a sight Éponine used the key that she had been given after she checked in to open the door. The room wasn't large but decent for a dorm room, two beds, two desks, two dressers and two closets, Éponine dropped her stuff on one bed while Cosette took the other.

"Do you need help unpacking?" Cosette's father asked.

"No papa, I think Éponine and I have this covered," Cosette smiled.

"Are you sure?" He asked.

"Yes papa I'm sure," Cosette nodded her head.

"Alright," He sighed, "call if you need anything, be good, study, eat well-"

"Okay Papa," Cosette smiled as she hugged her father.

"Very well," He smiled, "I'll miss you."

"I'll miss you too," Cosette let go, "bye Papa."

Her father nodded and walked out of the room.

During this exchange Éponine had begun to unpack her bags and was now putting her sheets on the bed.

"That's a nice quilt," Cosette turned to her.

"Huh?" Éponine turned around, "oh this thing?" She held up a quilt made from tee-shirts, "my grandma made it."

"Cute," Cosette replied, "so we're roommates!"

"Yes we are," Éponine replied as she pulled out her clothes.

"This is going to be so exciting!" Cosette grinned as she started removing clothes and hangers from one of her bags.

"First time away from home?" Éponine asked.

"Yeah," Cosette sighed, "Papa can be just a bit over protective... So Éponine what can you tell me about yourself?"

"Oh... Well..." Éponine paused, "I don't even know where to begin, umm... I like Mint Chocolate Chip ice cream?"
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"I did choir in high school, I thought you knew that," Luc Combeferre laughed as he unpacked his books.

"How the hell are you balancing this with pre-med?" Aaron Enjolras scoffed.

"The same way that Max does, I make time for it," Luc shrugged, "music is good stress relief, and I enjoy it."

"An acapella group?" Aaron looked at him incredulously.

"So what?" Luc rolled his eyes, "just because you don't have fun-"

"That's not true," Aaron folded his arms across his chest.

"Anyway did you know that Jesse is here?" Luc asked.

"Jesse Courfeyrac? The boy who swore he was going to get as far away from home as he possibly could ended up at Musain University?" Aaron scoffed, "I figured if he had his way he'd be all the way in Nunavut, Canada."

"Probably couldn't find it on a map," Luc replied.

"Who is he rooming with?" Aaron asked.

"He went random," Luc shrugged, "some kid named Marius Pontmercy."

Marius Pontmercy had arrived early and had already unpacked when his roommate walked in.

"Yo Mar-Dog what's up!" A boy with floppy brown hair walked into the dorm.

"Are you Jesse Courfeyrac?" Marius asked.

"Yes sirreee!" Courfeyrac winked as he dropped his bags, "be right back," he ducked out and reappeared with a laundry cart full of stuff.

"Jesse?" A girl with long curly hair peered in, "You don't have one of my bags by chance? It's not in the car..."

"No Charles," Jesse shook his head.

"It's Charlie," the girl hissed.

"Whatever, Charlotte!" Jesse winked.

"Arrrgh!" Charlie stormed out of the door.

"Who was that?" Marius asked.

"My twin," Jesse shrugged as he unzipped a small bag, he pulled out the contents and flushed red, they were boxes of tampons and pads,"Fuck." Jesse grabbed the bag and bolted out of the door shouting his sister's name down the hallway.

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Everything was starting to settle down and Éponine had Cosette had finished unpacking, the sun was still shining in through their widows creating a friendly light.

"We should go to the activities fair!" Cosette bounced up and down.

"Really?" Éponine replied, she was hanging upside down off her bed.

"Sure! It'll be tons of fun! Come on let's go!" Cosette then proceeded to pout, "please?"

Éponine rolled her eyes, "Oh alright," she smiled, "I'll go."

"Yay!" Cosette clapped her hands together, "come on! Come on!"

They walked out of the dorm and followed the crowd of people going to the student green where a large number of booths were set up.

Nothing was catching Eponine's interest, there was Anime, Robotics, Pilots of the Future and Panda Activism (whatever that was Éponine was not too keen to find out.) that was until she found a booth for campus internships, "Hang on Cosette I want to check this out."

"Okay! You gonna do an internship?" Cosette asked.

"Maybe," Éponine shrugged shoulders as she went and read the flier containing the list of internships available.

Across the green Jesse and Marius were perusing as well, and had stopped in front a small group of guys who appeared to be just lounging. Then there was a brief count off, "5, 6, 7, 8!"

The guys broke out into Acapella version of the song "Let It Whip".

Jesse and Marius were mesmerized, "Who are these guys?" Marius asked.

"They are the Musain Treblemakers, a rather preposterous name if you ask me," A boy with blonde hair seemed to be glaring at a boy with glasses in particular who just smiled back.

"Aaron!" Jesse exclaimed, "it's you! Geez, I didn't know 'Ferre did acapella! That's wicked cool!"

"Whatever," Aaron replied.

"So you know these guys?" Marius asked nodding to the Trebelmakers.

"We went to high school with Luc," Aaron nodded at the boy with glasses who acknowledged them before, "he graduated a year before us but I'm his roommate, he convinced his friends to do this little show to convince me to join them."

"Why not?" Jesse asked, "your voice is awesome."

"No," Aaron glared at Jesse, "not happening."

"We'll just have to see about that," Jesse replied as he bobbed his head to the beat.

When they finished a large number of people clapped, Luc stepped forward to talk to Aaron, "So what do you think?"

"You guys have skill and talent," Aaron shrugged, "but I'm still not interested."

Not even a hundred feet away there were three girls eying them, and not particularly in the kindest of lights.

"There they go showing off again," A girl with straight dark hair and blue eyes glared.

"Steph, chill," A girl with wavy red hair sighed, "The Trebles aren't bad guys, they are just doing it for the for the joy of singing! Lighten up!" She neglected the part that they actually used modern songs in their repertoire.

"I won't 'lighten up' Bella until we have enough girls to keep the Prima Donna's going for this year," Stephanie Grantaire glared at the red head, "We need another shot at finals at the Lincoln Center, now take some fliers and start passing!"

Bella rolled her eyes, picked up the fliers and walked away.

"Stephanie," The girl with blonde hair sighed, "was that necessary?"

"We have to show the Trebles!" Stephanie repeated, they Prima Donna's were going to have their day, and she also didn't want her brother getting involved with those guys either, not that he would necessarily have the motivation to do so.

The blonde sighed, she knew her friend was upset about 'losing it' rather physically during her solo last year at Finals but perhaps she was taking it a little too far?

"No one is interested," Stephanie grumbled as she sat down, "what are we going to do? This is my last chance to make it right!"

"What about those two?" Musichetta suggested.

"The girl on the right looks okay bit the other one is a bit too alternative," Stephanie shrugged.

"You are the worst," Musichetta rolled her eyes, "I'm gonna talk to them," she grabbed a few fliers.

"Ladies!" Musichetta approached them and held out a flier, "I am with Musain Universitie's Prima Donna's, an all female acapella group and would like to know if you would be interested?"

Éponine took the flier and skimmed it, "An acapella group?"

"Yeah, we do covers of popular songs using nothing but our mouths!" Musichetta paused, "wow that came out weird... Anyway we do all sorts of competitions and last year we went to Lincoln Center!"

"On purpose?" Éponine laughed.

The blonde ignored her, "Would you girls be interested?"

"Maybe!" Cosette replied, "what do you say Éponine?"

"I dunno," Éponine shrugged, "not one for singing."

"That's a shame," Musichetta sighed, "keep the flier, just in case you change your mind alright?"


A/N: Plot Bunny attacked me! I will get back on track on "How Do You Measure" soon enough, I swear! You may have noticed I've changed up some names... If this confuses you please let me know and I'll get you the list that works for this particular story! Okay? I don't bite, I swear.