Not So Misérables (Les Miserables Fanfic)

Azelma: Answerless Questions

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I looked at myself in the mirror that hung on mine and Éponine's bedroom wall in my parents' rundown shack and thought about today's occurences.

The girl in the mirror touched her lips, and I felt the press of warm fingers touch mine. As my lips turned upwards, hers did too.

Her hair was dark and curly, tumbling down her back. She barely ever let it down. I smiled at the girl, full out. She smiled back and song flowed out of our mouths.

"In my life, there are so many questions and answers that somehow seem wrong. . ." I was interrupted by the door closing.

I hurried downstairs. The only one besides me at home was Cosette. . .

Indeed it was Cosette. Her blonde hair was cut short, and the pretty ladylike Cosette was wearing man's clothes.

"'Sette!" I jumped in front of the door. "Where are you going?! Why is your hair short?! Why are you wearing that?!"

"I'm going out to. . . The market?" Cosette was always a terrible liar. Especially to Éponine and I.

"'Sette. Where."

"I'm going to school." Cosette firmly stated.

"School? 'Sette, you're a girl! You can't!"

Cosette just gestured to her hair and pants.

I was interrupted by our other three sisters, Élodie (my twin), and Arianne ('Ponine's twin) racing down stairs laughing. Élodie stopped short when she saw Cosette, and Ari ran right into her.

"Cosette!" Élodie looked shocked. "You're finally coming to an ABC meeting!" Élodie and Arianne jumped up and down in happiness.

"What? No!" Cosette looked confused. "I'm going to school."

Arianne and Élodie shared a look that I could not read. They'd always been close, as close as Ép and I. It's funny. I would've expected twins to stick together. Our parents didn't expect ANOTHER set after Éponine and Ari, but then they got TWO MORE. Éponine and Arianne, Élodie and I and Jaclyn and Gavroche.

"I know a room that you can stay in." Arianne finally spoke up. Élodie nodded in agreement.

"They'd be happy to share with you." Their expressions were solemn and unreadable.

With that, Élodie and Arianne whisked Cosette away, leaving me alone to ponder my situation. Why on Earth would Cosette be running away to school? And who were Él and Ari's secret roommates?

Éponine raced in, and once again my thoughts were interrupted.

"Éppy!" I called her by her nickname. "It's Cosette, she's--she's--"

"No time for that," Éponine said between breaths.

"Az, Gavroche is even worse. He needs you there." Without a thought of Cosette, Éponine and I raced back out the door.

"Gavroche!" The poor boy's body was battered and bleeding, as if he'd fallen from a high place.

"I--I took a piece of bread, and, and then I was on the elephant statue waving it at Javert and I f--fell off." Gavroche's wounds soaked his bandages with blood.

"Gav!" I tried to hug him without touching any of the bruises.

He smiled weakly, and the Cosette predicament reentered my mind.

"Cosette's off to college!" I suddenly told them.

"College?!" Éponine could not look more shocked. "Her? How?!"

"I don't know, she just cut off her hair, and left!"

"CUT OFF HER HAIR?!?!?!?!?!?!" Éponine's eyes widened.

"No! 'Sette left us?!" Poor Gav felt as if it was a personal offense.

"I don't know!!! I don't know where she is either!" I started to hyperventilate. I really don't work well under pressure. "Élodie and--and Ari know!"

"Az." Éponine said calmingly. "S'okay. Now let's find them and get Gav out of here."