Authors notes:
im sorry for my long updates and what not. its been a long first two weeks of school. (le sigh)
disclaimer: i do not own les miserabes (sadly) or any characters in it or mentioned.
BEEP. BEEP. BEEP.
Éponine groggily sat up to the flashing phone on her bedside table. She sighed and cuddled back into the covers, determined to get up. Later.
It was another common day of school, probably some Wednesday or Thursday. She probably had some random math class with some random teacher and then she would...
"Shit!" She shouted. "Dammit, shit shit shit. Dammit! Oh damn no!" She swore as she jumped out of her bed and covers in her thin Pajamas.
She did not have a regular day of school today. Not close! It was a horrible new school. First day! She mentally punched herself for forgetting.
She had been at a French school, last year. She remembered vaguely the teachers names, well, she remembered Madame Lafourre, her music teacher.
She was exceptionally nice to her, not to mention a good listener, and she made her middle school and junior year bearable.
She remembered her best friend, Azelma, and her auburn hair and blue eyes. But she remembered even more the reaction she had when Éponine didn't come to school the next year.
This year.
She sighed as she dressed in a red shirt with black writing saying 'Haters gonna Hate' She pulled on her only jeans and tied her hair In a black pony tail.
She shuffled towards the smaller bed next to hers and shook her brother awake, surprised he wasn't already awoken from her loud swearing.
"What 'Ponine?" He growled.
"Hey! I'm just hear to wake you up!" She cried. "Get dressed. I'll have some toast for you downstairs."
She walked out of the room and walked across the hall to the kitchen- well, the room with a couple chairs, a table, a microwave, a cupboard, a toaster and a fridge- and took some bread.
She stuffed the toaster with two slices and pushed them in. The toaster wasn't very functional, so you actually had to push the toast in and pull it out yourself.
She pulled the toast out a couple minutes later and put the pieces on a napkin and brought them to the table. She was using a napkin because she never had the time to do the dishes.
She called Gavroche (her brother) and he came bouncing down the stairs a couple seconds later. He was obviously not a morning person.
"Éponine you need to eat." He said. Noticing the two slices pushed to him, and the one sister packing her bookcase.
"Oh I'm not hungry." It was a horrible lie, you could never catch one of the Thenardiers saying, 'I'm not hungry'. With their low supplies on food and all.
Gavroche gave her a doubtful look. "Gav' I'm fine. Eat now. I'll have something later." She said, tucking a five dollar bill in her bag and secretly slipping an apple into gavroche's.
He didnt reply and went to eat his toast, and soon they were walking out towards the school. It was about five blocks away, not to far for Gavroche.
She gulped when she saw her huge school passing by. She turned her head back to the map she got for herself, to find her way around. She had to get gavroche to school first- then she would face her own school.
Éponine shyly pushed the gates opened and entered her schoolyard. She was just on the, the bell rang and she was trapped in between hundreds of teenagers making their way into school.
She caught some younger kids, almost as nervous as her, and some older kids, looking around for their friends.
She pulled out a small school map and began making her way to her locker, locker 246. She took out a lock (a gift from Azelma) and locked it on, twisting the lock to open the locker.
She placed her books in, (all except math, which they apparently had next) and closed the locker door. She caught a boy looking at her, and heading over to her.
He smiled widely and greeted her," Im Marius. I'm your neighbour." She smiled slightly. "Locker, neighbour." He added. Her smile widened and She shook her head,
"I'm Éponine. Nice t'meet you."
He nodded and hooked on a locker similar to mine, and said," what's your first class?"
She guessed he expected her to search through her bag and pull out a crumpled paper, but she said knowingly, "math. You?"
"Me too. See you there then!" He skipped off without waiting for her to say goodbye.
She grabbed her books, and, unsure where to go, followed Marius, pushing through the crowd of teenagers.
She saw two teenagers holding a younger boy by the shirt, stuffing him in a locked while the kids around them cheered. Éponine gasped and dropped her bag and pushed through the small crowd to the centre of the Demi circle and pulled one of the boys back.
"What are you doing!?" She cried. The taller boy looked at her and snarled.
"Why don't you go mind your own fuckin' buisn-" he turned and looked at her. He was melted by her death glare and the other boy dropped the kid who ran away.
The other boy patted her shoulder. "Were justing havin' a little celebration party! "
"Well it doesn't seem very fun." She retorted, regaining herself.
"Then why don't you leave." The taller boy said.
"If I left then poor kids like that kid would be stuck dealing with dumbasses like you. You douche bag."
"There's a party in this locker for little sluts like you." He said, pushing her to the locker.
The circle got tighter around them until there was only a small space for the three of them- no wait, four- five- seven- fourteen- dammit. Soon she was on the ground with boys pinning her down and a couple other boys searching through her bag, which someone found. She saw her five dollar bill being stuffed into someones pocket, along as her books being thrown around.
She knew that after they've been in your bag the bullies would leave you there, on the floor but that's not what they did. The tallest boy pushed her against the locker and said "well next time don't be so snarky. We I have more connections then you know."
With that, the boys left her.
But she saw one boy, dark haired boy with a certain five dollar bill sticking out of his pocket. She grinned.
Cosette: how was that happy? Bullies ain't good!
Everyone: stares at Cosette
Cosette: what!? I can use slang to!
Enjolras: what ever.
Marius: it's happy because Im in it.
Eponine: doesn't anyone notice the ending where I sorta grinned and stuff!? I mean, that's only a cliffhanger!
Me: yes, yes, Eponine's right. It seems the wicked fanfic author has again, given you a cliffhanger.
Grantaire: stay tuned for the next chapter! And find out who committed this murder!
Me: wrong story... Back in the laptop!