*Constance, age 8* I was sitting in the room I share with my elder sister Cosette, and we were both making dolls out of old rags and bits of string we found. We then decided to play with them since there was nothing we had to do at the moment, but before we could start we heard our names being called by Madame Thénardier. When we exited our room she was standing right infront of us, holding two buckets. "Now I want the two of you little brats to run down to the well and get some water." She told us very harshly, than shoved the buckets into our hands and pushed us out the door "Might as well make yourselves usefull, now off you go." As we started to walk out of the Inn we bumped into Éponine, well I bumped into Éponine and when we both fell to the ground I quickly got up to help her stand while saying "Sorry Éponine!" But she didn't seem to be fased by the fall and when she got up, she gave me a small smile before entering her home, to leave Cosette and I to walk to the well. After about 10 minutes of walking we finally entered the forest where the well was. And when we got to the well my feet were aching from the walk, and by the looks of how my sister walked I could tell that her feet hurt as well. When we were going to put the buckets down the well, we heard russling from the leaves, so we turned to look in the direction of where it came from and saw a man standing there staring at us, wearing fancy clothes. Than he started to approche us, and bowed his head while taking off his hat "Are you Cosette and Constance?" He asked us in a gental voice "Yes sir." My sister said causing him to smile "Well I'm hear to take you away." I got confused and asked him "Take us away? Why?" He took a few large steps and came to kneel down infront of us while placing his hands on each of our arms "Because mademoiselle, your mother asked me to take care of you. The both of you. And that is what I am going to do." He told Cosette and I, and stood up "Now come. Let us go get your things." When we got back to the Inn, Monsieur and Madame Thénardier stood at the entrance with their arms crossed with angry faces, and when we got close to them they pulled us by the arms towards them talking to the nice man quite rudely, than as soon as the man took out some money the Thénardiers got down on their knees saying they were going to miss us. When we were walking to a carriage I heard Monsieur Thénardier say "Goodbye Colette, goodbye Conscience!" But I heard Madame Thénardier tell him "It's Cosette an Constance." As soon as I steped into the carriage I looked out the window and saw Éponine standing outside her family's Inn, holding her doll. I have to admitt, I was going to miss her. So I waved at her and when she saw, she gave me a sad smile and a did a little wave before the carriage started and me, Cosette and our new Papa rode away.
