Give and Take

Eponine never liked these big charity galas, she liked being invited by Marius, but actually being there she felt less like a date than a show piece. ‘Look! Look a real life piece of poverty!’ she could feel their eyes saying as she walked.

Apart from one and Eponine felt an unfair stab of jealousy, she had to remind herself that this girl couldn’t help being rich and she seemed a hell of a lot nicer than the rest of them, yet in her apparently cheaper dress with her make up quickly done by another one of Marius’ acquaintances (who honestly did her best to look like she was happy to do it despite her back handed comments the entire time), Eponine couldn’t help but still feeling slightly inadequate and the jarring thought ‘this is the sort of girl Marius would love’ wouldn’t leave her.