Chapter 10: First Day in Paris

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A/N:

This one's a longer one but a fun one!  Hope you enjoy!  And if it would be easier if it were split into two parts, comment below!

~Vive La France~


The next morning, I awoke and they were gone.

I leapt up, and a note fluttered down onto the floor. It had seemed someone had placed it on me while I was sleeping. Why hadn't they just woken me up?

I read the note from Courfeyrac:

I read the note from Courfeyrac:

Oops! Bu görüntü içerik kurallarımıza uymuyor. Yayımlamaya devam etmek için görüntüyü kaldırmayı ya da başka bir görüntü yüklemeyi deneyin.

I smirked.  Of course they wouldn't want me discovering the back room of the café! But I wasn't about to argue a trip to the Musain. 

Courf had left his pocketwatch on the table next to the couch, and I read it. 8 AM.

I quickly left the apartment, eager to go to the café and also eager that these were my last moments in my tattered dress. In the next hour, I would be a student! As I walked, I thought of the kindness of Marius and Courfeyrac, and I sang:

Suddenly you're here
Suddenly it starts
Can three anxious hearts beat as one?
Yesterday I was alone
Today you both are beside me
Something still unclear
Something not yet here has begun.

Suddenly the world
Seems a different place
Somehow full of grace, full of light
How was I to know that so much hope was held inside me?
What has passed is gone
Now we journey on through the night

How was I to know at last that happiness can come so fast?
Trusting me the way you do
I'm so afraid of failing you
I'm still just a child; I cannot know that danger follows where I go
There are shadows everywhere
And memories I cannot share

Nevermore alone
Nevermore apart
You have warmed my heart like the sun.
You have brought the gift of life
And hope so long denied me.

Suddenly I see
What I could not see
Something suddenly
Has begun...

I had reached the café, and entered, eyes scanning for any of the students. No one. In fact, not many people were there. I went up to the bartender, a young girl with fiery red hair. "Is Madame Hucheloup here?"

A burly woman burst out from the back. "Someone call?" she barked.

"Hello. Courfeyrac sent me, I'm a friend."

She smiled. "'Ain't that nice. What can I do for you? Breakfast on the house? Done!" she called, hurrying to the back. I stared at the bartender again. She stared back, and for good reason. My tattered dress must have been a sight to see.

Madame returned with a creamy éclair and a glass of milk. "Sit anywhere you want, honey!" she hollered.

I peered just to the right of the bar, down a long, dark hallway.

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