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"Il dort. Quoique le sort fut pour lui bien etrange. Il vivait. Il mourut quand il n'eut plus son ange. La chose simplement d'elle-meme arriva. Comme la nuit se fait lorsque le jour s'en va." Ponyboy read aloud, from the last page of the over-1,000-page novel, 'Les Miserables.'

Now, what the hell does that mean? At the bottom of the page, he realized that there was a small translation.

"Oh, okay…"And he read out loud again. "He is asleep, though his mettle was sorely tried. He lived, and when he lost his angel, died. It happened quickly, on its own, the way night comes when day is done."

"That don't rhyme," accused a familiarly timid voice from the front door. "At least the last two lines don't." Johnny Cade, hair in his eyes, walked in over to where Ponyboy sat, on the couch. Leaning over his shoulder to look at this brick-of-a-book his friend had, Johnny said,

"Damn, Pony, you finished that book already?" Pony nodded. Johnny's jaw dropped in awe. "Man, that'd take me my whole life and afterwards to read."

Ponyboy laughed. "Well, it was one tuff book. I didn't always understand it sometimes; had to go to the library to find out who this 'Robespierre' Hugo kept talking about was, but I still liked it."

Johnny sighed. "Then it probably didn't have no greasers or Socs, to be a tuff book."

Smiling and nodding, Ponyboy replied, "No, no greasers or Socs or nothing. But there were this group of guys, kind of like us I guess, but they were fighting to overthrow their king and get a Republic. They believed in Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity…Pretty cool motto right? And…"

Pony, on a roll now, began to get really animated in his description of the Friends of the ABC and their plans. He was flailing his hands around, and using words like "sublime" and "juxtaposition."

Poor little Johnnycake tried to listen, he really did, but a bunch of, probably gay, Frenchies fighting for, as Pony said "Liberty, Equality and Fraternity", was not exactly attention-grabbing.

Dally? Johnny thought desperately, hoping to reach Dally telepathically. Two-Bit? Anyone who'll shut him up about, whoever the hell, Bonaparte is?!

Today was Johnny's lucky day.

"Jeez, Pony, what's that you're going off about now?" yelled Two-Bit from the Curtis's front yard. "I could hear you from down the block!" Bursting through the screen door, about as subtle as a kid on a sugar rush, beer in hand, he knocked 'Les Miserables' right out of Pony's grasp. Ponyboy whimpered faintly as it landed with a thump. Looking at the frowning little French girl on the front cover, Two-Bit snickered and asked Pony, "That your new girl? Seems a bit glum to me. What's her name?" Playfully, he punched Pony's right shoulder, as Pony knelt down to pick up the book. He half-answered, in a whisper, "Cosette."

**

That night, Ponyboy wrote a letter to his one true authoress, S.E. Hinton.

Dear Ms. Hinton,

As you may know, I've recently finished 'Les Miserables' by Victor Hugo. I was thinking if maybe, us, greasers, could switch places with them, the Friends of the ABC. I've heard of it happening in other fandoms! The seven of us would switch places with seven of them, and two of them would stay in 1832. You know, to show us the ropes or something. This letter definitely sounds crazy, but please give it some thought.

Yours until copyright expires,

Ponyboy Curtis

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The next day's mail, for once, did not bring anymore trouble for Darry. It brought excitement to Ponyboy, and maybe more trouble to all of our greasers.

Dear Ponyboy,

I love your idea! This is why I gave you the creativity and brains. If Dally had them, well…you're the artistic one, use that imagination. Anyway, I've worked out something with Monsieur Hugo, who seemed oddly delighted to be rid of seven characters for a while. Something like, "Why did I screw over their lives so badly? Now, all they do is complain!" But yes, Dally and Bahorel will switch, Darry and Combeferre will switch, Soda and Courfeyrac will switch, Johnny and Joly will switch, Two-Bit and Grantaire will switch, Steve and Feuilly will switch, and you and Jehan will switch. Enjolras and Bossuet will stay behind and "show you the ropes." Oh, this is so exciting!

Stay Gold,

S.E. Hinton

Outside the sun was setting and, grinning widely Pony thought, I wonder how Jehan can see the sun setting in Paris.

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