A LES MISERABLES FANFICTION
THE LOVE STORY THAT ALMOST WAS
THE PAIRING OF ÉPONINE AND MARIUS...
••••••PROLOGUE••••••
I yawned as I woke up from yet another long and sleepless night. I thought about my current situation. My parents had always treated me relatively well, but with that little girl Cosette gone, they've been a bit meaner. I never thought I would miss her as much as I did in that moment in bed. I still remembered her singing about her castle on the cloud. I couldn't help but laugh outwardly as I remembered the precious times we shared.
But time started going by. A man named Jean Valjean took her away, like a thief with a sack of money, and left me with my mother and father; alone in this joyless world.
Some days after, I ran into a boy: short, dashing, and an aura of bravery emenating from every pore. "Oh, dear, I'm dreadfully sorry!" I stammered, smoothing out the folds in my ratty dress.
"That's quite alright," he said in a charming voice, "What is your name?"
"M-my name?" I started hesitantly. My mother always said to stay away from strangers, but this boy seemed different somehow, "Why, I'm Éponine. Éponine Thenardier."
"And I am Marius. A pleasure!" The boy beamed brightly and I curtsied in such a way any French girl of eight ought to do. "MARIUS!" I heard a shrill woman's voice cry out, "BACK TO WORK WITH YOU!"
"Yes, mother," Marius replied, giving me a small kiss on the hand before turning on his heels and rejoining his mother. I blushed profusely and vowed right then and there to become better friends with the boy named Marius. And we started to meet each other every day behind the inn.
