Eponine sat up and looked at her alarm clock 2:30 AM it read. She had a horrible nightmare that she and Marius had broken up for no reason at all. Eponine shook her head and went back to sleep.
"Are you going to switch to French 2?" asked Mademoiselle Le Chance.
"No, I'm not. My friends are in this class are in this class and I'm staying as long as they are," said Eponine. It was first hour the next day and Eponine and Mademoiselle Le Chance were talking about Eponine's transfer to French 2. The bell rang for class to begin.
"Liz," said Eponine in a sad voice as her best friend entered the room.
"'Ponine, what's wrong?" asked Liz as she sat down.
"I'm thinking about switching to French 2 tomorrow, so Marius and I want you to come over after school today, just to hang out. Can you make it?" asked Eponine. Liz turned away from Eponine.
"All right class, open your books to Chapter 3 and read silently to yourselves while I grade your tests that you took two weeks ago, okay?" said Mademoiselle Le Chance. The class got out their books and read silently. The bell rang for class to end twenty-five minutes later.
"Liz, can I talk to you?" asked Eponine. Liz ignored her and continued walking.
"Liz, I really need to talk to you," said Eponine again. Liz turned around and said,
"You're not my friend anymore,"
"Wha-why?" asked Eponine.
"Because you're transferring to French 2, that means we'll never see each other again," said Liz angrily.
"Liz, it's during first hour, same as French 1. Plus, we'll see each other at lunch. I don't understand why you're so mad at me," said Eponine.
"I'm mad at you because you went out with my ex-boyfriend without telling me," said Liz. She was even angrier this time.
"Whoa, wait a minute. You're mad at me because I went out with Tony?" said Eponine. She was angry and confused.
"No, not Tony," said Liz. The first-warning bell rang.
"I gotta go to science. Can we please discuss this at..." Eponine's voice trailed off. Liz had disappeared from view. Eponine sighed and entered her science class, wondering why in the world Liz was mad at her about.
"Marius, I don't understand why Liz is so mad at me," said Eponine. It was after school and Theo, Marius, Cosette and Eponine were hanging out in the school library, looking up animals for their science reports. Enjolras and Liz had decided that they (or at least Liz) weren't going to hang out with Eponine anymore. Enjolras tried to hang out with them once in a while.
"Shh. I'm trying to concentrate," said Cosette. Eponine ignored her and turned back to Marius.
"Marius, did you even hear a word I said?" asked Eponine.
"You don't understand why Liz is so mad at you," said Marius, his eyes in a large book.
"Shh!" whispered Cosette.
"Eponine, can we drop this? I'll talk to Liz tonight and find out what's wrong," said Theo. Even though his sister hated Eponine, Theo kept hanging out with Marius and Eponine, which made Eponine happy.
"Graduation is just around the corner and we have a lot of stuff to do," said Marius.
"Graduation isn't until May, genius," said Cosette sarcastically. Marius stuck his tongue out at Cosette, which was a rather childish thing to do. Eponine and Theo giggled at them from behind their palms of their hands.
"Let's check these books out at head on over to my place," said Cosette. The four of them checked out their books and went over to Cosette's house, where they could be as loud as they wanted.
The four friends made their way to Cosette's house, talking and laughing.
"Which animal are you doing for the science project, guys?" asked Cosette.
"I'm doing a horse," said Eponine.
"I'm doing an otter," said Marius.
"I'm doing a gorilla," said Theo.
"Is it because you like the movie, Tarzan?" asked Eponine playfully.
"No, it's just I find gorillas fascinating," said Theo.
"Well, I'm doing a clownfish for my report," said Cosette.
"Hey guys," said a voice from behind them. Eponine turned around to see Enjolras standing about four feet back, smiling.
"Why aren't you with Liz today?" asked Cosette.
"Well, we just decided that just for today we wouldn't hang out with each other. Whatcha talkin 'bout?" said Enjolras. Marius walked over to his friend and said,
"Enjay, we were just talkin 'bout our animals for our report that we need to do for science. What are you doin?"
"I'm doing a dolphin," said Enjolras.
"Coolio," said Eponine.
"Dolphins are like the most coolest animals on the planet!" exclaimed Cosette.
"Ditto," chimed in Theo.
"Hey, Enjay. Do you want to come over to my house? We're going to be working on homework until five and then I have to baby sit the Smith twins. I can't get together tomorrow after school because I'm watching the Jones girls. Luckily, Therese is eleven and Polly is twelve, so it should be a slice of pie," said Cosette.
"Sure. That sounds awesome," said Enjolras. Eponine smiled and was happy that at least one of her best friends didn't hate her forever.