Two things real quick; 1) The '*..*' means i tooks lyrics from Les Miz in spanish and translated them in (what can i say some of those really speak to me, the english lyrics dont get a '*' since i am sure most of you can pick them when you see them)
2) While I will not admit an Enjy model will say my vision of Grantaire is Hadley Fraser, he is just perfect (but he was also a great Marius...and National Army Genral... and Raoul, dammit Hadley why are you so perfect!?)
I am now off to get a head start on my running away from certain people (e/e and m/e shippers alike) who are going to come after me and try to kill me after reading this chapter and the next
Enjoy, and please review :)
Cosette danced around her room, feeling light-hearted and as happy as she could possibly be. She may not have known much about the boy at the game but something about him made her heart flutter and something clicked when she saw him. She didn't understand why but she knew in her heart that what she felt was love. In her life she hadn't felt anything like it before.
"How strange….this feeling that my life has begun at last….*I've never felt like this before*" she said to herself as she spun around her room, "Oh what's the matter with you Cosette? You've been on your own too much haven't you? Oh but does it matter, the love in my life is no near now!" she squealed as she fell back on her bed, breathing deeply in delight as she stared up at her ceiling. Please find me….find me here, find me now.
Just then she heard a knock on her door and her father entered the room.
"Hello Cosette."
"Hi daddy!" she greeted gleefully
"Well you seem rather happy today; anything interesting happen in school?"
She bit her lip to try to- unsuccessfully- hide her smile, "I guess you could say that."
"That's good to hear; you know I worry about you. You are such a lonely child and I know it must be pensive to have only me for company."
"I don't really mind daddy, I have all that I want in life. You are gentle and loving and good."
"Thank you Cosette, but I still worry from time to time, a girl like you can't live her whole life without other friends."
"I have friends dad….well I have one."
"Oh yes, what's her name….Eponine?" He said, trying to play the ignorant father; he knew very well what her name was. From the moment they were introduced on Cosette's first day of school he knew she was the daughter of the Thenardiers- the people who had 'taken care' of Cosette when she was young. At first he was a little hesitant about Cosette becoming friends with her considering their history, but he had seen he could tell that she wasn't anything like her parents were and he trusted that Cosette had good judgment in character. She didn't remember much of her childhood days from back then so he never brought up his grievance to her; besides of all the people she could have befriended he saw that Eponine did seem like a good choice.
"Yes her. She is really nice and we just hung out last Friday at the game."
"I know I know."
"You don't have to worry so much about me dad. I know in your eyes I am still like a child who is lost in the woods but papa I'm no longer a child."
"Oh Cosette," he chuckled, shaking his head a bit, the phone in his office started to ring just then, "Now if you will excuse me, I do believe I have to go take care of some business."
She nodded politely and with that he left her room, leaving Cosette on her own to turn back to daydreaming.
Marius sat at his desk trying to do his math homework but after a few minutes he realized he could not focus. His mind was flooded with images of his angel. Her hair, her eyes, her smile, her voice, everything! In all his life he never had a girl made him like that before. He knew that everyone was getting annoyed with him but he couldn't care less. They didn't understand how he felt, especially Enjolras who showed to be the most annoyed with him. All that boy ever cared about was school, or rather getting into a good one. Every day since the first day of his freshman year he has had his focused settled on achieving- no over-achieving, achieving wouldn't be enough for him- whether it was acing every one of his AP classes, running the student government, community service, leading the speech team and football to victory or whatever else he had in his sleeve. A guy like Enjolras didn't have time for a relationship, or even getting lost in love for a bit. Due to that he tried to ignore most of what Enjolras said but one thing he mentioned stuck out to Marius.
"Hey Eponine, weren't you with…" He remembered him say earlier that day at lunch; a light bulb went off in Marius' head after that. Eponine knew his mystery girl….possibly, and it that was the case then she wouldn't be a mystery for much longer. He wanted to ask Eponine about her but she left before he could get two words in, something about meeting with a teacher. He had texted her earlier to but he was still waiting for a response. He reached over to grab his phone on the desk and checked to see if there were any new messages, there weren't. Marius sighed and threw his phone on his bed not really thinking much of her unresponsiveness, when it came to Eponine he knew it was best not to interfere too much, she had a tendency to close up and get defensive but she had a sensitive side too. He picked up his phone again and decided to send her one last text.
Hey 'Ponine, please call ASAP I need to talk to you about something.
Content with the text he pressed send and turned back to his homework, only to find that his mind filled with the girl once more.
Montparnasse sat on the grimy couch of the living room in the Thenardier household. Thenardier had called them all in to plan some big robbery that had just occurred to him and everyone seemed to like his plan and were keen on getting in on it. Montparnasse on the other hand just sat there, since he was in seventh grade he had been a part of the gang, and he defiantly earned his spot. He was a master lock-pick and he had a glare that could intimidate almost anyone, plus he had brains to match his brute, fair to say that he was one of Thenardier's despite his age. He looked out the window to see if he could spot Eponine, he 'liked' her so to say and he knew there was no way to escape him when he was at her house. It was raining heavily outside and he wondered how much longer it would take her to get home. He was still looking outside the window when he noticed what looked like a car, and a nice one at that, pull up in the driveway. He didn't recognize the car and he knew that it didn't belong to anyone in the gang, all their cars were crappy. The car stayed still for a moment and it looked like someone was going to get out when it jerked in reverse and sped down the road.
Something about that car and the people in it struck Montparnasse the wrong way. A car turning around wouldn't have taken that long in the driveway and the way it sped off made it seem suspicious. He didn't know that the deal was but he was determined to find out, and as everyone knew when he wanted something he went through the nose to get it.
