A/N: Thanks for the reviews and to my new followers but other than that I have nothing except to say please read and review once again!
Eponine looked down at the ring Marius had handed her. Was she dreaming? The funny thing is that when she first found out she was pregnant she had hoped Marius would ask her to marry him and now she wasn't sure if she wanted it anymore.
"So what do you say Eponine? Will you marry me?" He asked her again.
"I don't know Marius. This is kind of sudden. I'll have to think about it first." She said.
"I understand that but think about it. This is perfect. You can move into my place and we'll start our family the right way." He said excitedly. She thought maybe he was a bit too excited it was as if he was having the same type fantasies she had once before he had started treating her like crap. What about Enjolras? He had to know that they were sort of seeing each other now.
"Marius, I'm kind of dating Enjolras now. I think you know that. What would Cosette think about this? You know she's not going to like it. "
"Right now I really don't care what Cosette thinks. Plus it's not like you are in a committed relationship with Enjolras. Do you really think he's going to stay around once the baby is born? Come on Eponine be realistic here." He might have had a point but she didn't think that was true though. Plus who knew if she and Enjolras would even still be together by then? She never told him that she wanted him to commit to her or anything. They hadn't even had their first date yet.
"I still need to think about it, Marius." She told him.
He let out a frustrated sigh and then said "Fine. That's fine but just remember this is the only way this will work. I'll just give you a ride home." He said. They drove back to her apartment in silence and he even walked her to the front door before he left again. She was surprised by that. Marius was never a gentleman, at least towards her. She walked into the house which was surprising empty and went to her room to lie down. She had a lot to think about now.
A couple of days later she was still confused about what to do. The good thing was that she had went to the doctor the day before and they said she could have her cast off which was a good thing since she was tired of having use of only one arm. Marius was being extra nice to her and sat with her during Chemistry class and had walked her to class at times. He had even told her that he would be at her doctor's appointment next Tuesday. Cosette as usual shot daggers her way. During detention the other day she had said "So you're dating Marius and Enjolras at the same time now? Marius should definitely get a paternity test on that bastard kid you're carrying." Eponine didn't even dignify that with a response. She was sick of Cosette's jealousy and figured the best way to get rid of her was to ignore her and hopefully she'll go away. What Cosette said was what everyone was thinking and some girls were actually jealous of her for it. Lauren was as well but she never actually came right out and said it. She whined to her when they were in the hallway. "How can you have two hot guys and I only end up with the ones who don't call back?" She wanted to tell her that maybe she should have chosen wiser since she should have known better than to have sex with guys like Grantaire and Courfeyrac then actually expect them to call her back, or maybe she should have not given it up so easily but a part of that would have been hypocritical. Lauren wasn't the one who was pregnant.
Marius hadn't asked her if she had made up mind yet since he proposed so when he had come up to her when she was at lunch she figured correctly that was what he had wanted. She had started back eating lunch a couple of days ago. It wasn't good for her to ignore her hunger pains in her condition so she had sucked it up and started eating lunch. Every day she ate with Enjolras and sometimes Lauren would join them. At the moment she was sitting alone waiting for Enjolras to come sit with her when Marius sat in the chair in front of her instead. "Look Eponine, I was just wondering if you've given my proposal any thought. I know we haven't talked about it the past couple of days but I really need to know."
"I still don't know Marius. I really don't."
"Eponine, I'm not trying to pressure you here but it's harder for me the longer you have to think about it."
"It's hard for me too Marius. I'm sorry to keep you waiting but I still need some time to decide."
"That's fine but in the meantime would you like to go out with me? We can go to a movie or something Friday night," he suggested. Wow what was going on here? She never thought she would be thinking this but would everyone please stop trying to be with her?! "Come on Eponine what do you say?" He said smiling at her. She used to love it when he smiled at her in fact she sort of still did.
"Sure Marius why not," she said hoping she wasn't making a big mistake.
"Great I'll pick you up at your house tomorrow night around six and…" he stopped when he saw Enjolras coming up to them.
"Hey…um…Enjolras we were just talking but I'm going to go now. I'll talk to you later Eponine." He said then walked away. Enjolras sat down and then asked her "What did he want? What were you guys talking about?"
"He asked me to go out with him on Friday night." She said deciding not to lie to him.
"It didn't look like you were turning him down."
"That's because I didn't." Enjolras face fell. "Eponine, why would you do that? I thought we were going out."
"We are. It's not like we said we were exclusive. Plus there's a lot more to it that you don't know about."
"Eponine, I don't share girls with my friends. Did you think me and Marius were like Joly and Bossuet? We're not like that Eponine or at least I'm not." He said referring to his two friends who did share a girlfriend. Everyone knew Joly and Bossuet both dated a pretty petite sophomore named Musichetta, who Eponine didn't know much about besides that and the fact that she was a really good dancer who had the potential of being a professional ballerina. There were rumors about what really went on in their relationship and Eponine wondered if they were true herself. But she wasn't like Musichetta though. Her circumstances were very different.
"Enjolras I never said I wanted you guys to share but he is the father of my child though. I need to at least be friendly with him."
"If you want to be friendly with him fine let him buy your lunch every now and then but you don't go on dates with him." He said furiously.
"Enjolras it's not like that okay? Look I need to tell you something. The other day Marius asked me to marry him."
"What the hell?!" He screamed out so loudly the people at the nearby tables looked at them. She now wished she had of left that part out. "So you need to go out with him so you can decide rather or not you want to marry him? When were you going to tell me about this Eponine on your wedding night?"
"Enjolras just calm down, okay? We can work this out."
"I don't think so. It's either going to be me or Marius but you can't have us both and until you decide I can't do this anymore." He said then he got up grabbed his tray and walked away from her. If Eponine didn't think this was a mess before then it definitely was now. She got up and ran out of the cafeteria before the tears fell.
A/N: I know, I know some of you are probably very mad at me right now and I'm sorry! I'll update next weekend, since now weekends are my only free time.