Hey everyone. So, sorry I haven't been replying, but thank you so much for reading this story. So here are some nice rehearsal shennanigans for you. Also, school is ending soon so I can update more often, unless I'm at camp.

~a few days later~

Enjolras's P.O.V

Eponine could finally come back to school and it was so nice to be there. Someone always had to be with her and Gavroche so Montparnasse didn't try to come after them. Valjean was exceedingly happy to have his Elphaba back. I think we all were, her understudy had been especially obnoxious about 'getting' the role. And I was happy to be dancing with Eponine again. Cosette had been very happy. She had literally tackled Eponine in a hug when she walked into rehearsal. Marius had been happy too. We now stood on the stage, doing a warm up game. We found a song and danced to it the way our characters would. I was simply twirling and jumping on everything that could hold me. Poor Joly was down on all fours. Eponine, being true to her character, wasn't dancing at all, and Cossette kept 'trying' to dance with me, and Marius was doing the same to her. The girl who was playing Nessa spun around in her chair. It was a lot of fun to say the least. Soon we weren't even dancing as our characters, but ourselves. Eponine couldn't resist it for much longer so she started the whole thing. Marius and Cosette were quickly waltzing around the room and Grantaire and Combeferre were doing a mix of salsa and tango. As for Eponine and I, we danced around like we were in an ozian ballroom. We were so wrapped up in the moment that we didn't see, but we were the only ones dancing. Suddenly it was nothing but a slow spin in the same place over and over again. I looked into her sparkling, milk chocolate eyes and she stared back at me. I smashed my lips against hers and she passionately kissed back. We heard cheering and looked at our friends, who were all smirking or laughing. I rolled my eyes and we broke apart.

"Alright guys, come on, let's get to work." Valjean started. We nodded and got to work. We went through the first couple of scenes and it was fun.

"There's been some confusion, for you see my room mate is.."

"Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and all together quite impossible to descirbe.."

"Blonde." Everyone laughed. The coreography started and I danced in the wide wings. I wasn't in this scene unfortunately, but everyone was having so much fun that it was hard to not dance along. Before long the song was over, and Gavroche, who was in the audience, which was the usual as of late, was clapping and whistling. They all mock bowed for him. He stood and mock bowed back and they all smiled. The other performers that weren't in out own group thought Gavroche was adorable, and often said so. He was polite enough about it and didn't get fussy like whenever we called him that. Eponine walked over and swapped out her pointed hat for a water bottle."Man, that song is much more tiring than it seems." I smiled.

"Please, you try doing dancing through life ten times in a row, then we'll talk." She looked, or more so glared, at me.

"Two words, defying gravity." I conceded after that one. I lowered my voice to a whisper.

"Are you doing okay, your injuries I mean." I asked her. When my thoughts allowed themselves to wonder, all I could do was worry about her.

"Please, it's fine. Just a little achy, nothing more." I raised an eyebrow.

"Oh really, like how you were just achy at the christmas party?"

Combeferre sat Eponine down on the sofa with a little help from Grantaire. It was christmas of the freshman year and I hadn't gotten to know Eponine that well at this point. I still had anger problems at the time. Earlier that night Gavroche had burst into the cafe we were usually at, the musain, looking distressed and had informed us that his sister was being mugged, and beaten. We had gone to help and luckily got there in time.

"Guys, it's fine, it's nothing to-"

"Worry about? Eponine, you got mugged and almost got..." Joly trailed off, I could tell he didn't want to finish that sentence. (not that ya pervs!)

"Killed I know, I was there, remember?" She joked. But it was no laughing matter. She had multiple bruises and a few cuts on her face and arms. Joly pushed the rest of us away to carry on.

"Enjolras, I'll need some help over here. You bandage her arms, I'll go get some bruise cream." He rushed off, leaving me to deal with a temperamental woman. I wasted no time in tying the cloth around her arms, but she was more slippery than a fish in water.

"Stop it that hurts." She moaned.

"Well maybe, if you didn't fricking move so much it would hurt less!" I protested, already fed up.(blame the anger)

"Well maybe you should control your temper!" She replied hotly.

"THAT'S WHAT WE SAID!" Everyone shouted at once. We jumped and I stopped for a second.

"Sorry. I have anger issues." I admitted.I was somewhat shocked by myself. Normally I wasn't really that forward with people, even Combeferre. She bit her lip.

"It's okay." Joly came back with the bruise cream and our conversation ended there.

She rolled her eyes.

"No, like a headache kinda ache." I made like elsa and let it go after that. The rest of rehearsal was filled with notes, dancing, singing and lots of complaining and catching up. At the end of it, Valjena was happy, we were happy, everyone was happy. Gavroche rested on Courfeyrac's shoulders as we all walked home together. Joly was still questioning Eponine about the virus, Combeferre and Grantaire had each other's arms over the other's shoulder. I simply watched it with a smile. This was my family, no doubt about it. And nothing could convince me otherwise.

"Come on guyyys." Courfeyrac drawled."Let's go out tonigh- oh crap."

"We're going OOOUUUOOOOOOOOOOT TONIGHT! WE GOT TO GO OOUOOOOOOOOT TONIGHT!" we all burst into song. That was a thing that happened with us, one word, or phrase could trigger a song.

"God you guys are so annoying sometimes. Let's go eat out okay." I smiled.

"Let's go eat, I'll just get fat, it's the one vice left when you're dead meeat." I sang. He sighed as we all walked back. By the time we got into the apartment we had sung all the happy songs of Rent.(minus la vie boheme because of Gav). We did indeed decide to let someone else cook so we simply ordered pizza. We sat on the couches and happily slurped down the greasy, cheesy goodness.

"Mm, it's so good." Gavroche smiled as he finished his third slice. We al agreed."So, are we having a movie night tonight?" He asked.

"Not tonight bud, it's a school night." Combeferre replied. The ten year old pouted but walked to his room anyways. Courfeyrac chuckled and went to tuck him in. Eponine stretched out on her couch that she had claimed for the night.

"I think I might tuck in tonight too." She stood up. We nodded.

"Alright, call me if you need anything." I told her and kissed her cheek before she walked back to her room. Grantaire, Joly, and Combeferre smirked at me. "What?" I asked.

"You actually did it."

"The mighty Enjolras Hugo has asked the fair Eponine Thenadrier out and she has said yes."

"And are now showing PDA!" I rolled my eyes.

"It's my life, I think I know what's going on." They smiled.

"Yeah, but it's much more fun to tease you about it."

The next morning started out normally. We had art and dance. I worked on my special present for Eponine, which was almost done, and she continued working on the painting of our group. In dance, we continued to work on our ballroom dance project. But then, it happened. Since the snow had started falling the night before, we couldn't go out into the clearing, so we sat in the dreaded Cafeteria. We found an empty table and made some new friends, who instantly became new additions to the group. Bossuet and Jehan. Gavroche seemed to really like the both of them. Anyway, we heard a sickening voice behind us.

"So you're finally back you little slut." Montparnasse's voice snaked it's way into our ears. I Felt Eponine tense up and I slightly tightened my grip on her. I had heard about the incident with him and Combeferre, and I was not about to let him hurt her.

"What do you want Parnasse?" Gavroche glared at the older boy. It was only then that I realized in horror that the ten year old was in front of Montparnasse. My eyes widened in horror as he pushed Gavroche to the ground.

"Out of the way you little twat. Or you'll be next." We just sat there, frozen as Gavorche lept onto the older boy's leg and Montparnasse punched him in the face.

"YOU BASTARD!" Eponine lept from the table and onto Montparnasse, tackling him and repeatedly punching him and kicking too. It was only a matter of seconds before his arm was behind his back and his face was pressed into the floor."I've got a little message for dad, so send it to him, will you? Tell him that he, and his minions like you can come after me, but if you lay a finger on Gav, you'll wish you were dead." She released his arm and we all watched as he scampered off. There was a silence as we realized the whole cafeteria had been watching. Suddenly we heard clapping, and more joined it, and soon eveyrone was cheering. I smiled and lifted my girlfriend onto my shoulders.

"Well miss thenadrier, I do believe you've become school hero." I teased her and she flicked my head.

"Oh shut it you."

Yay! new chapter. So Bossuet and Jehan finally make an entrance, and Eponine has some badasserey. please R & R.