Eponine looked all around her. She's known these boys all her life, and no one's really changed. Enjolras, Combeferre, and Courfeyrac were at one table, looking at plans of some kind. Gavroche was beside them, trying to take it all in. Joly, Feuilly, Bossuet and Bahorel were cracking jokes at another table. By the corner, Jehan was trying to use song and dance to cheer Grantaire up. It was not working very well.
And then there was Marius. Eponine loved Marius. Out of all the boys, he was one of the sweetest and one of the most sensible. (You might not know this, but most of them are bottom line crazy) Not to mention how handsome he was. But he never noticed her. He just thought her as good ol' Ponine, young girl who'll do anything for a friend. She had spent an entire hour looking for Cosette! The boys never seemed to appreciate her.
Gavroche, being her little brother, was supportive, but he was always too busy these days. Joly and Jehan sometimes sympathized, but they never stayed for long. Grantaire, though, was good company when he wasn't too drunk. He really seemed to understand her.
Eponine was spacing out when she heard Marius' voice.
"Hey, Ponine!" said Marius. "Can I sing a song for you? I'm testing it out."
Eponine blushed. "Any-anything for you, Marius." she stuttered.
"Great!"
And so Marius began to sing,
"You're tall and fun and skinny, you're really, really pretty!
Ponine!"
Eponine smiled. Marius had written a song for her?
Marius continued,
"I'm the Mickey to your Minnie, be the Tigger to my Winnie,
Ponine!
Your heart, I'd like to win! I would follow you to London!
(That's in England!)"
"Ha!" exclaimed Eponine a bit too loudly. Everyone stared for a moment. "Continue, Marius." she said awkwardly.
"Ponine, Ponine, Ponine- you know what, no." Marius stopped singing. "So, what do you think? Will that song make a girl fall in love with me?"
"I think it already has!" said Eponine with a goofy smile.
"Great!" Marius hugged her. "'Cause it's for Cosette!"
Those words wiped the smile right off Eponine's face. So the song was for Cosette. Of course. Marius then struck a conversation with Courfeyrac. The cafe returned to its own business.
"That was the worst one yet." It was Grantaire. "Have a seat, Eponine."
Eponine did. "I just- I just thought-"
"Your expectations are too high," said Grantaire. "People are odd. Sometimes, they just don't see you the way you want them to see you. Take you, for example. To yourself, you're a nice girl who deserves a decent life. To Gavroche, you're the big sister he hasn't seen in years. To Marius, you're a friend. To the others, you're the errand girl."
"How about you, Grantaire?"
Grantaire looked at her sadly. "You're the only one I can talk to, Eponine."
Eponine thought for a moment. " I guess I feel the same way."
"Anyway," continued Grantaire, "People look at you differently. Sometimes," He glanced at Enjolras. "not the way you like it." He looked up at the clock. "Oh no, I promised my friend I'd- My apologies, Eponine, I must go!"
"It's alright, Grantaire." Eponine sighed. "I'll see you around."
After Grantaire left, Eponine sat there on her own.
"All my dreams." she sang. "I'm chasing after,
I'm chasing after,
They don't need
all this laughter...
I take a grain of salt,
stiff upper lip.
It's not their fault
I'm not as hip.
Wake up kid, you know you're more than this..."
The cafe was beginning to empty out.
"Ponine, I need help with-"
"No." Eponine snapped.
Eponine looked at the boys. They were all basically idiots.
"I'm the smartest person
that I've ever met.
So why do I allow myself to
possibly forget:
There's so much I know how to do,
so much more than all of you.
The only thing I wish I knew
was how to make them see
the girl that I can be...."
She sang out louder, yet no one seemed to notice.
"I am
the coolest girl in the whole wide world
I know it
but I can't show it at all.
I am
sick and tired
of low, not higher
places, where I should belong...
It's about time I proved them wrong..."
She marched up to the counter.
"Give me a shot
to show what I've got!" She received a bottle of wine.
"I'm a hell of a whole lot more
than this frizzy hair,
these frumpy clothes I wear,
though I rock 'em like nobody you've seen
before!
'Cause I am
the coolest girl in the whole wide world
I know it
Below it all.
I am
done with losin',
on with choosin'
The coolest girl on the face of the
planet,
The coolest bitch on Earth, goddammit!
The coolest chick you've ever seen or
heard!
So you can try to bring me down,
but sorry guys, I'm stickin' around!
I've thought about it, and I've found
That I am
The coolest girl!"
Eponine walked out Le Musain satisfied.
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Look Down to Get Back Up! - A Les Miz Story with a Starkid Touch
FanfictionI was awake one night and realized that, "Oh my god, Eponine is Ginny from AVPM." So here I am, writing Les Mis with a drabble of Starkid songs. Oh, dear. _____________________________________________________________ A story where our friends learn...
