The Meeting

"Having fun there?"

The dark haired girl jumped at the sound a a mans voice behind her. She had not heard anyone come up, and was surprised to get caught, which was something that never happened to her. She slowly turned around to face her captor .

He was tall, taller than anyone she had every seen. He had curly blonde hair that rounded out his face in a most tempting way. Despite her situation, she could not help thinking that the man in front of her was very handsome. His face wore a small smirk that did not match his hard-edged sea-blue eyes. He held out his hand and it took her a while to realize that he was asking for the pocket watch that she had been planning to take. She slowly handed it to him, making sure to stay as far away from him as possible. She looked around him to see if she could maybe squeeze through the door and make a run for it.

" I have to warn you, I'm a pretty fast runner." he said, as if he had read her mind.

She met his eyes with her own chocolate brown ones. "As am I, Monsieur" her tone dripping with defiance as she almost spat out the last word.

"You know, I just moved here and I don't have a lot of things. You are better suited to take from the man that lives downstairs, he is better endowed than I am."

"I happen to know the man of who you speak of, and he is a friend of mine."

"He is a close friend of mine as well."

"And yet, you offer me to steal from him rather than you. How close of friends can you be?"

The both stared at each other, unwilling to break the eye contact that seemed to spark a fire in the room. Finally he moved out of the way. "Go ahead" he said point out the door " I won't stop you."

She looked at him questioningly and slowly moved to the door. She kept her eyes on him as she passed him. He just stood there silently. As soon as she was out the room she ran to the front door and down the stairs. She had not been able to get as much as she had wanted. She cursed herself for getting caught, but she also wondered who, and why he had let her go.

~0~

"Enjolras! It's good to see you."

"Marius, I am certainly glad to see you as well." he said to the man who had opened the door. He was shorter than Enjolras and he had long dark hair. His light brown eyes were bright with the happiness of seeing his childhood friend.

"Come in, sit down. Tell me, are you settling in well?"

"Well enough" Enjolras replied. "I got quite the welcome from one who claimed to be your friend."

Marius gave him a puzzled look. "Who was he?"

"Not a him, a her. Short,dark hair, brown eyes."

"Eponine!? Oh no she wasn't robbing you was she?"

"No of course not." he lied easily, " She saw the door was open and thought that someone else had come in." he continued, unsure of why he was lying to his closest friend. He never liked lying and avoided it at all costs, but he could not bring himself to turn in the dark haired girl.

"Oh, well how nice of her." Marius said happily. He was always so gullible Enjolras thought. " Do you want something to drink?"

" No I'm sorry Marius, but I must be going. I just stopped to say hello."

"Well all right." his face fell slightly, but quickly recuperated when an idea popped into his head. "You should come to the Cafe Musian today at six. It's just across the street. My friends from school are meeting there."

"All right, I'll come" He wasn't very excited to go, but it was always hard to say not to Marius.

~0~

Enjolras slowly entered the crowded cafe. He looked around for his friend but was unable to find him. He looked it his watch, which read ten past six. He was usually never late, but he had gotten caught up in one of the books he had bought from a second-hand book store he had found during his walk around the city.

"Enjolras! Up here!"

Enjolras looked up to see the familiar smiling face of Marius, who was standing on the second level of the cafe. Enjolras quickly climbed the stairs expecting to find many of Marius' friends, but when he reached the top he saw that Marius was there by himself. Marius laughed at his friend's confused look.

"Over here, everyone is in the back."