A/N: I know I was thinking of doing a Cosette POV but I've decided to add a Marius one instead in this chapter. I separated it by asterisks to clear up any confusion. Thanks once again to all my reviews and followers. Please read and review!

Eponine walked away from the principal's office with a slip in her hand. Her punishment was detention for a whole week. It was completely unfair since she was only defending herself! Cosette was the only person who deserved to be punished for putting her hands on her and not to mention having the audacity to claim it wasn't over when they were outside the office waiting. What hurt even more was that Cosette had gotten the same punishment when Eponine thought she should have gotten much worse. She guessed having money and the reputation of an All American girl paid off for something around here. Azelma saw her and ran over. "Eponine, I heard what happened. Are you suspended? Did she hurt you?" She asked quickly.

"No and no. All I got was detention." She said holding out the slip of paper.

"Well that's so relief it's better than getting suspended but you know Cosette's not going to give up. If she wasn't mad at you before she definitely is now that Marius broke up with her over you."

"It wasn't over me. Marius doesn't care about me and I'm fine with that now."

"That's what everyone is saying." She said and shrugged. Eponine wished everyone would quit talking about what everyone else was saying only because it sounded better than the truth. She had hoped Azelma wasn't that way as well but she was wrong about that. She made an excuse about having to get the class and walked away. A part of her just wanted to leave school for the day and not risk having to run into Cosette again. The truth is she did feel bad about sleeping with her boyfriend but the way Cosette was acting made her guilt fade away. As far as Marius went, she thought Cosette could have him. He had shown his true colors to her over the past few weeks. Enjolras it turned out was so much better than him. Why did she waste her time with Marius again?

Later that day she was in the library during lunch period once again. She was ready for people to find something better to talk about but until they did this was where she was going to spend lunch. The library had students in it as well but it was mostly people who were mainly into studying and didn't care about being popular or about what was going on so she didn't get stared at once. Enjolras had decided to sit with her as he had been the past few days even though she knew he probably didn't want to. He likely wanted to sit with his friends in the cafeteria and she was glad that he had decided to come with her instead.

"Having detention sucks but was it really worth it though?" He asked her.

"I'm really not sure. Sure it'll stink to have to stay afterschool for an hour everyday doing god knows what but seeing the look on Cosette's face after I smacked her makes me wonder if it was." He laughed and she smiled as well. It was true though. The shocked and hurt look on Cosette's face was hilarious. It was like she didn't expect Eponine to hit her back. Plus knowing that detention here was not just sitting quiet in a classroom for an hour but cleaning up the restrooms and classrooms was even funnier since she wondered if Cosette had ever cleaned up a day in her life. Maybe she'll borrow Lauren's cell phone and take pictures of Cosette cleaning the toilets or mopping the floors and upload them to her Facebook page but she wasn't that vindictive even if Cosette deserved it.

"You know Eponine I was just thinking about something."

"Really what's that?"

"Well, I've been talking to you for the past couple of weeks but we've never really gone out before. I was wondering that maybe you would like to this weekend. Unless of course you don't think you will be able to. Would you be in big trouble with your parents after getting detention?"

"I seriously doubt that." She said and for that brief moment she was glad that her parents weren't normal since a normal parent would have grounded her and wouldn't let her out the house.

"Great so what do you say?" He said to her hopefully.

"Sure I'll love to." She said full of excitement. She was so happy and it seemed like for once things were looking up for her.

Marius had left school after first period. He had broken up with Cosette and then left shortly afterwards. He knew it wasn't going to go well but he had to do it. He had too much going on and right now he couldn't be in a relationship with her or at least that was what he had told her. She had cried and even begged but he had to stay firm about it. What he said was only partially true. After the truth had come out about him and Eponine having sex it was like Cosette had gone kind of berserk. She said she had forgiven him but she always reminded him of it. Ironically, it was because of Cosette that they even were together. He used to be friends with Eponine and he had confined in her about how frustrating it was that Cosette kept saying she wasn't ready to have sex even though they had been together for almost three years. "That's too bad Marius. If you were my boyfriend, I wouldn't make you wait so long." Eponine had said flirtatiously. It was then that he had realized that she really liked him. He used to be confused about rather she really liked him or if she was only teasing but that day he knew for sure. It was that day that he had kissed her and asked her if she wanted to go back to his place which she had accepted and they had sex for the first time. It had been going on for the past few months and he had to admit that he was taking advantage of her and even bragged to his friends about it. "That girl does whatever I want her to. Anytime and anywhere. We've even done it in school a few times. She has no shame as long as it's with me," he had told them one day. He had gotten plenty of slaps on the back for that one. At the time he didn't feel it was wrong. After all Eponine could have easily said no. She had allowed herself to get used. It wasn't like he told her that he would dump Cosette to be with her. In fact he had sworn her to secrecy. Now everyone knew about it and it didn't feel so good anymore.

Cosette had offered herself to him the same day she found out about them hooking up and he turned her down. He already had one girl pregnant and he didn't need another one but Cosette didn't know about that at the time. She was furious. "You can have sex with that slut but not your own girlfriend?! Do you only like whores now, Marius?" She had screamed.

"Eponine's not a whore, Cosette," he said telling her what he knew for a fact. He had his doubts about it at first since he knew her friend Lauren wasn't exactly innocent since she had hooked up with a couple of his friends but he knew that Eponine was a virgin the first time they were together. She even said that she was glad that her first time was with him.

"Oh so now you are defending her?"

"No I'm just telling the truth." Then she had gotten mad and left. The next day was when she and her friends had attacked Eponine in the girl's bathroom. When she found out Eponine was pregnant, she had gotten even worse always saying how she was going to give Eponine what she deserved. Frankly, he was just sick of it and felt that it was another thing he had to deal with but in this case he really didn't have to so he had to break it off. He did it at school since he felt she was least likely to cause a scene there.

He left because he didn't want to look at Cosette's hurt face or even Eponine's for that matter. He hadn't really talked to her since that day her parents brought her over to his house to get money from his grandfather. The whole Eponine situation wasn't going to disappear and his grandfather wanted to kill him. He had gotten so many "How can you be so irresponsible" speeches over the past few days it was insane. He had been up in his room ever since he left school. He didn't want to see or talk to anyone right now. His cell phone had been ringing off and on for hours and he didn't even look at it. He figured it was Cosette trying to talk to him into take her back or something. When it was ringing now he looked at it and saw that it was Grantaire. What did he want?

"Hello?" He said when he picked up.

"Marius, where did you go and why haven't you been picking up? We've all been trying to call you for hours."

"What are you talking about? What's going on?"

"You missed it. Cosette and Eponine were fighting over you in French class. I heard it was insane. Man I'd love to have two hot chicks fighting over me. You're the man!"

"Yeah that's nice Grantaire, I have to go now." He said then hung up. Great, now this was something else he would have to deal with. Normally, this kind of thing would be an ego boost for him but under the circumstances it wasn't. He thought about what Eponine must have been feeling right now. It was bad enough that she was pregnant and had selfish parents but now she had to deal with Cosette as well and it was all his fault. He got up and grabbed his jacket to leave. He hoped Eponine was still at school and if she wasn't he would have to try her house. He didn't know if he was doing the best thing. All he knew was that he had to do the right thing.

Eponine hated detention and reminded herself never to do anything to get stuck there again. She spent the past hour mopping the hallway floors and helping dump the trash in the classrooms. It was light compared to the bathroom cleaning that Cosette and the other students and detention had got stuck with but it still sucked. The one good thing was that at least they decided not to have her around Cosette. It was a wise choice on their part to her. Who knew what she might try to do next? The one thing that kept her going was thinking of Enjolras and that they were going out this Saturday night! Afterschool he had told her his plans for them. They were going to dinner at this restaurant and then going to see "Wicked" which was in town during a touring production. She didn't even know that he knew that she was a fan of the musical but he told her that he figured it out when she sang "I'm Not That Girl," during the school's talent show last year. Ironically, the reason she had chosen to sing it was because of Marius. She even looked at him at times when she was singing the song. She couldn't wait and she also had to decide what she was going to wear. She had mentally been going through her and Azelma's closets for choices ever since.

She was walking towards the bus stop when Marius's Maserati pull in front of her. He rolled down the window. "Eponine, I need to talk to you."

"I don't want to talk to you right now Marius." She said and walked away. He drove the car up to her once again.

"Please just give me a few minutes. Just get in the car we don't even have to leave the parking lot," he said then opened the door. She sighed then got in. He drove towards the back of the school parking lot and then stopped the car. "Look Eponine I'm sorry about what has been happening with you lately. I know that you and Cosette got into a huge fight and…"

"It wasn't a huge fight. I don't know who you've been talking to but they exaggerated a lot. She slapped me and I slapped her back, the end."

"Okay fine but I'm sorry it happened. I didn't know that she would act like that but I didn't come here to talk to you about Cosette. I know that you know that Cosette and I broke up and since then I've been doing a lot of thinking. I haven't been very nice to you. I mean I didn't even visit you in the hospital when you got hit and I tried to force you to have an abortion. I know now that wasn't right but I want to make things right, now." He said and grabbed her hand.

"What do you mean. 'make things right'?" She asked. He let go of her hand and took the ring he always wore off his finger and held it out to her. What was he doing?

"I know this isn't a real engagement ring but it's all I have right now. I'll get you one later I promise. I want us to become a real family. I know you really like and possibly love me and I know you would be a great wife. But let me make a long story short. Eponine Thenardier, will you marry me?"

A/N: Sorry to end it like that but I'll try to update soon though! XOXO