Don't Let Me Go:
Chapter 10:
Eponine's POV:
At the end of the night, Enjolras walked me back to my house.
"Are you sure you can't spend the night at my house tonight?" he asks, eyes wide.
"Awe, I would love to, babe, but I still have to take care of Gav."
"Oh right, okay. Maybe next time," he smiles.
"Thank you for being so understanding." I smile and kiss his cheek.
My phone buzzes then. I look down at it and Marius' name flashes across my screen. My face falls and Enj notices almost immediately.
"Everything alright?" he asks. I open the message.
"Can we talk? Tonight? Tree house?"
"Oh, yeah. It's just Gavroche wondering where I am," lie #3. I can't tell him that it's Marius. He's going to suspect something.
"Yes." I text back quickly and shove my phone in the pocket of my dress. We reach my house and I know we have to say goodbye. I'm really anxious though because I know what's waiting for me in a few minutes.
"I love you so much," he says, hugging me.
"I love you, too. So, so much." He kisses me goodnight and I walk into my house. He gets in his car and drives away and as soon as I know he's gone, I run to the backyard.
"Ep!" I hear Gavroche.
"What, Gav?"
"What is going on? I thought you were going out with Marius tonight?"
"Gavroche, there's just some things that you won't understand until you're older." I pat him on the head and try walking away, but he's not letting it go.
"I'm smarter than you think I am, Ep," he says.
"Gave, I promise I'll tell you whatever you want later, just leave me alone for right now." I say, looking out the window and seeing Marius running up the ladder to our tree house.
"Fine." He says and walks away. I go outside and quietly shut the screen door behind me. I bolt for the tree house and find Marius sitting in his beanbag chair.
"Hey," he says, getting up and running over to me.
"What the heck, dude?" I say, walking away from him.
"Me? What about you? I thought you and Enjolras were over?"
"Okay, well why do you care when you completely ditched me for your little blonde bimbo friend!" I yell, not meaning to be so mean.
"She is NOT a bimbo…she just gets excited over a lot of things."
"She is not your type," I say, walking over to him.
"Oh, and what is my type then? You?" he says, looking down on me. Ouch…I don't know if that was meant to hurt me or not.
"Don't be ridiculous." I say and I can see him getting upset. "Okay, what could you possibly be upset about now?"
"You're marrying him!" He yells.
"What business is that of yours?!" I yell back. "Why do you care? I thought you wanted me to be happy!"
"I do want you to be happy, but Enjorlas? He's not going to make you happy, Ep. He's only going to hurt you like he has for the past 2 years. You're too blind to see that, though." He says. Okay, that stung.
"I'm too blind to see that? Are you kidding me? I'm the one who has lived through the pain, Marius!" I yell up to him. This is enough. I thought he and I were going to talk things out and get our friendship back in line. Why is he doing this?
"Eponine, how can you not see it?" he leans into me. Oh no, was Gav right? Does Marius really like me?
"Um…see…see what?" I'm almost unable to form words. He's staring intently at me and I can't breathe. He's so breathtakingly beautiful that I…
No! No, Eponine. You can't. You're in love and engaged to ENJORLAS. Not Marius.
He's still staring at me. Before I have time to react, his eyes are closed and he leans in all the way, pressing his lips to mine.
So much for staying away from him.