The Fanfiction

Chapter 4

"Ellie, can I talk to her first?" Sami asked, clearly about to burst from excitement. I said of course to that, and she cautiously approached Eponine. "Excuse me, are you new here? I like you coat. Does it ever serve as a disguise?" Sami asked, referring to the part where Eponine dresses up as a boy and goes to the barricades.

"Yes, thank you, and why would I tell you?" Eponine said in response to what Sami had said. 

"Fair," was Sami's only reply to that. Sensing that Sami had forgotten something important, I interjected.

"Miss, um,-" I had forgotten her last name.

"Thenardier" she supplied, with a note of bitterness. 

"Miss Thenardier, Eponine, what ever you would like me to call you, do you need a place to stay until we can figure out how to get you home?" I asked. "You can stay on our fourth floor, if you'd like."

"The fourth floor sounds lovely," she replied, clearly delighted by the idea.

We took her upstairs, and put her in the "Rose Room", a room decorated with the flower on its paper, furniture, and smaller decor. She was clearly amazed by the elegance of the room, which was one of my personal favorites. We allowed her to settle in and promised we'd come back up after dinner with my family.

Sami and I headed downstairs to tell my parents that she was spending the night, and and my mom surprised us by saying that, in honor of my older brother's birthday, we were going out to get pizza tonight and that we could bring home an extra pie for the two of us girls to eat late tonight if we wanted.

My family, Sami, and I piled into the car and my dad drove to the nearest pizza place, Penny's Pizza House. (The pizza place is inside a renovated pancake house, Penny's Pancake House.) We got out of the car and walked in. As we did this, I got the feeling that we were about to meet another one.

We were seated in a booth, with a couple at the table for two next to us, and I got that feeling even more as we walked past the pair, who seemed to be in some sort of heated debated, which the brunette girl seemed to be winning against the dark haired boy. As we sat down, I noticed more about the pair. The girl was wearing a full raspberry skirt and a matching vest over a striped shirtwaist and a blue tie, and the boy was dressed as a newsie, with a blue shirt, and a newsie cap.

I nudged Sami and she glanced over at me. I could tell she'd seen them, too. We made eye contact, and I went into action. 

"Hey mom, can Sami and I head over to the tech store after dinner? Earlier today, my phone broke because I fell down the grand staircase, and I need to go replace it," I said evenly.

To my surprise, she allowed it and gave the information I needed to put the bill on the family account. I wrote a note to the people next to me on a napkin, excused myself to go to the bathroom, and promptly bumped into Jack and Katherine, the couple next to us', table, dropping the note in front of Katherine. I went to the bathroom and waited. Sure enough, my note worked and Katherine met by the bathrooms to talk.

"You have no reason to trust me, but I know who you are, I know who your boyfriend is, I know his friend Race, I know you need a place to stay, and I know I must sound really creepy right now. But if you can convince that stubborn newsie to hear the right idea, meet my friend and I at the store next door," I said, and judging by Katherine's face she had decided I wasn't a serial killer and that I was safe to trust. I went back to my seat, hurriedly ate my meal, and Sami and I set out for the tech store to get me a new phone and bring in more Broadway borders.