The sun was rising but Eponine hadn't slept a wink. Money was becoming even harder to come by, and she knew she was bound to face the rath of her father soon. Azelma and Gavroche were laying besider her sound asleep, innocent. The three of them shared a small bedroom, in the even smaller apartment the family lived in. Eponine crawled over Azelma and mad an attempt to clean herself up. She slept in the same dress she wore everyday. As she turned back to her siblings she couldn't help but notice how innocent Gavroche looked whe he slept. When he was awake, he was a dirty, lying, street urchin. But when he was asleep, none of that was visible. He was just a regular twelve year old. He wasn't an abused child, a criminal, or a lost cause, but just a kid with hopes and dreams, that he could be anyone he wanted to be. Eponine sighed. She knew the little boy wouldn't last forever , Eponine's childhood was long gone by his age. It was such a shame.
Eponine looked out of the window, just in time to catch the glimpse of the sunrise. Another sigh escaped her lips, but not out of sorrow, but instead happiness. This was Eponine's favorite part of the day. It was before her parents were awake, but the rest of the world was turning. She let her mind wander from the only life she's ever known. She imagined a life full of love. She knew one day she would escape the city. She would live with a handsome husband, and ten children, and they would all be happy, surrounded by affection all they would ever need is one another. After several minutes of this dream like state, she snapped out of it. She knew she had to get moving. If her father woke up to her dwindling, she might not see another sunrise. In a rush she snuck of of the apartment, shutting the door behind her. As she turned around she ran head first into a young man.
"Oh hello Monsieur Marius! I'm so sorry I was in such a rush to find work, I didn't even notice you there!"
"Oh Eponine, you are fine!" Marius laughed. Marius was the handsome young man who lived across the hall from Eponine. He acted like he didn't have any money, but Eponine could tell he was very rich. She wasn't dumb. Marius may have been fooling everyone else, but not her.
"I'm still very sorry Monsieur," Eponine apologized again, "I must really get going, please forgive me."
" 'Ponine, do you mind if I join you? I'm heading out as well."
"Oh yes I would love the company.:
Eponine and Marius walked for a while, making small chitchat about the weather, politics, anything that really came up. But finally in a moment of silence, Marius looked at Eponine and asked her the last question she expected to hear, "Eponine, if you could have one thing, what would it be?"
Eponine wasn't sure what to say. How was she supposed to respond? After a moment of thought, Eponine finally said, "If I could have one thing, I would take the three most important people in my life and take them somewhere else, somewhere happy."
Marius absorbed the answer, than asked another question, this one much easier to respond to, "And who are the three most important people?"
"My brother and sister, Gavroche and Azelma.
"But you have one more person Eponine, who?"
"My only friend in the world; you Monsieur Marius."