summary: a tale of young recklessness, bad decisions, and summer romance.

a/n: if you don't like the first chapter, i promise the next chapter will be better.

this is suppose to be long one-shot, but eh, i'll broke it up because there are too many plot bunnies.

based on vanessa carlton's white houses.

Cosette Pontmercy sets down the telephone. She rubs her temples as she sighs deeply. A thousand words run through her head as she thinks about what Enjolras said over the phone.

Commuter flight.

Pilot Error.

Small crash.

No survivors.

She sits in her kitchen table staring out the window and toying with her silver locket as she reminisced of that summer.

Crashed on the floor when I moved in
This little bungalow with some strange new friends
Stay up too late, and I'm too thin
We promise each other it's 'til the end

*Seven Years Earlier*

"Are you sure you're going to be okay for the summer?" Jean Fauchelevent asks his young daughter as he lifts the last of her boxes from his car. The bubbly blonde girl smiles up at him.

"I'll be fine, daddy," she beams as she brings the box into the seven bedroom house. She places her things in her assigned room and races back outside to say goodbye to her father.

"Are you sure?" He asks once again. She nods enthusiastically as she gives him a hug.

"Be safe," he whispers into her head. She giggles at his fatherly advice. As they let go, they say their goodbyes. She watches him drive from the house. Cosette lets out a loud scream of joy as she did a victory dance.

Here she is: twenty-one and free. She is one year away from finishing her undergrad degree and has a fabulous internship for the summer away from her loving, but protective parents. She's finally free from them. She has high hopes for the summer.

"Nice dance," a deep voice interrupts her dance. She spins herself around and sees a tall, handsome blonde stranger watching her. He was wearing a bright red v-neck. She notices his crystal blue eyes staring at her.

"Oh hi, I'm Cosette," she holds out her hand. He smiled down at her and shook her hand with his. She blushed at his touch.

"Ah the new girl. I'm Antoine Enjolras, but you can just call me 'Enjolras'." She smiles at him.

"Enjolras," she repeats him. "It's nice to meet you."

Cosette and Enjolras spend the next hour in her bedroom unpacking and getting to know each other. She learns that he's a first year law student, he's strongly into politics, and that his favorite color is indeed red.

"What's going on in here?" A female cuts in as Cosette's explaining her summer internship. Leaning against the doorframe is a crossed-armed petite brunette. Her hair is up in a messy bun, and she's wearing pajama bottoms and wife beater. To Cosette, she looks absolutely stunning.

"Just helping the new girl out," Enjolras holds up a box full of books. Cosette saunters up to the brunette and holds out her hand like she did earlier with Enjolras.

"Hi, I'm Cosette," She says happily. The other girl does nothing but stare her down.

"Be nice," Enjolras warns from the room. The girl sighs and relucantly shakes her hand.

"I'm Eponine." Despite her initial coldness towards the bright-eyed girl, Cosette and Eponine get along quite well. They are opposites, but their personalities, as it turns out, compliment each other. Cosette learns that Eponine's a college drop-out. She's currently a dance instructor at the local dance academy.

Cosette learns that there are eleven, original occupants in the house. She's currently subletting her room from a guy named Feuilly who was currently traveling for a year. She's one of three people who has a single room.

Enjolras is the other single room which is right next to hers. (She could barely hide her giddiness. She won't admit it, but she already had a crush on the blue-eyed law student.) His best friend Combeferre, who she hadn't met because he was out of town, had the other. In the master bedroom, there are three occupants. She quickly met two of them: Musichetta and Joly, but they were rushing to the hospital and couldn't talk much. (Something about their third roommate's unluckiness?)

Eponine had a male roommate (which Cosette thinks is kind of weird, but he's her childhood friend) who is gone for the whole duration of the summer. Cosette doubts she'll meet this Marius character. She met Jehan next. He's a shy, English major who has a knack for making anything into a rhyme. She immediately likes him. He's the polar opposite of his roommate, Baherol, a overly-friendly, burly man with a violent streak. He's a little older than her, but she could tell he had a clear attraction to her. (He's not her type.) Then she met Grantaire. He's an art student with an alcoholic tendencies. His roommate, Courfeyrac, is apparently the house flirt. Strangely enough, Courf is also a first year law student with Enjolras.

Although she's only been here for a couple of hours, Cosette could already tell that she was going to have an awesome summer. She's living with a bunch of cool kids for the summer while working at a great internship. She just knew that she and Eponine were going to be the best of friends for life.

Cosette's a bit naive.