Author's note: I accidently deleted this story from my computer and I had to write this chapter as well as chapter three. I'm not completely happy with this chapter, but it was either this or stare at it for the whole night being sad. So here it is, please leave a review. They make me happy!

Disclaimer: I don't own Les Misérables.

Chapter 2

So give me hope in the darkness that I will see the light,
Cause they gave me such a fright,
But I will hold as long as you like,
Just promse me, we'll be alright.

- Ghosts that we knew (by the wonderful Mumford and Sons).

Three weeks later, Combeferre storms into the apartment again.

"You lied to me!"

This time he does shout and not because he is enthusiastic, it is because he is angry. He didn't think he would be the last one to know anything. Ever. He was someone who was genuinely liked by almost everyone and he had never met anyone who he couldn't get along with.

And the ones he did meet that didn't like him, well, he simply ignored them.

And it hurts even more that it was a thing concerning his best friend. It hurts because he is the guy who has lived with Enjolras for almost five years now, he is the guy who has been friends with Enjolras since they started university together. So why is he the last one to know about this? Why is he the one being left out?

He thinks to himself that he wouldn't be this pissed off if he hadn't asked Enjolras about this girl about three weeks ago, but he did. And Enjolras had denied it, he had denied that he liked Éponine. So why was Grantaire saying now that they were obviously dating. Why was Grantaire absolutely convinced that Éponine and Enjolras were very much in a relationship? And why was he the last one to know, merde!

But his storming in doesn't have any effect because Enjolras isn't in the living room to witness it. His bedroom door is still open so Combeferre know he can't be in there. He would have come out if he had heard Combeferre yell the way he just did.

It is only then, when his breathing has slowed down (four flights stairs are a lot, okay!) and he gives himself time to listen, he hears the shower running. In a normal world he would have waited patiently for Enjolras to finish his shower and come out to talk to him. In a normal and rational world he would even make himself a cup of coffee and calm himself down before talking with Enjolras.

But he isn't a normal and rational man, not right now. He feels left out and he just wants to know what is going on. So of course he strides over to their shared bathroom door and starts banging.

It doesn't take long for Enjolras to appear in the door, his body blocking Combeferre's view in the bathroom, a towel hanging low on his hips. His body is still covered with foam. Combeferre feels a little bad, but he reminds himself of his rage instead of the guilt.

"The apartment better be on fire right now," Enjolras grunts. Combeferre normally admires how threating Enjolras can sound, especially when it is directed at Grantaire for being pissed drunk again or at Éponine because she is challenging everything he says. But when it is directed at him, he stands a little taller matching his length to Enjolras'.

"You lied to me. I don't like it when people lie to me," he can be threating as well. If Enjolras can be threating than he sure as hell can be threating. He gets all personal with Enjolras as well, stepping a little closer to the other man's body so he can feel the heat of Enjolras's body.

Enjolras's face has looked blank until he hears what Combeferre says. He actually looks a little upset that Combeferre thought he lied to him, and Combeferre wasn't expecting that. He excepted he could do more yelling towards Enjolras, he didn't get the chance to yell at Enjolras very often. But here was the man looking sad, he didn't expect the man to look sad.

"What do you mean, I lied?"

Ok, this is it, Combeferre. You can't show your confusion at his reaction right now. You know he lied to you. He probably knows that he lied to you as well but he is just really good at masking his emotions from you. You are mad, remember! You are furious, merde!

"I asked you a couple of weeks ago, a question about dimples remember?"

Enjolras's face shows some signs of recognition, "and you think I lied to you?"

"Well, yeah Grantaire says you are together."

"And why would Grantaire say that?"

"He saw you two together at the coffee place you always go."

"And that means we are together?"

"Grantaire says he saw you smile at her. You almost never smile, Enjolras. At least not at girls. Even you have to admit, that is weird." He was used to his friend treating girls as if they weren't there, he was used to his friend sighing in disapproval whenever a conversation turned to girls, but he wasn't used to his friend going out for coffee with a girl. Even if that girl was Éponine.

"It is not weird," Enjolras tries to reason "Éponine is a friend. She is my friend as much as you are my friend. You and I go to the coffee shop, so why can't I go with her?" Enjolras' eyebrows disappear in his wet curls, challenging Combeferre to answer his question.

"Because when we go, we are there to meet our friends, but you went with her together."

His acquisition is again met with a blank stare. He swears if this is going down the same route as the first time, he is never going to listen to any of his friends again. He should know better than to believe a word Grantaire says. He is almost as bad as a romantic as Jehan when he is drunk. And he was drunk last night when he supposedly saw Enjolras and Éponine together. For all Combeferre knows the pair Grantaire saw were just a boy and a girl and Grantaire had automatically assumed that it must Enjolras and Éponine because they were bickering.

Enjolras sighs and Combeferre knows Enjolras has reached his limit to deal with Combeferre's irrational thinking.

"Look 'Ferre, yes I went out with Éponine for coffee last night, she was upset about something her parents had done and she just needed someone to talk to. She called me because either Cosette or Grantaire was available. That is all that it was."

"But..but you smiled at her," Combeferre says lamely. He is beginning to sound like a whiny child but he thought operation dimples was back on track. He thought he could be captain again, it was finally his chance to be a leader instead of following his roommate.

"Yes, you know I can smile. See." Enjolras says, forming his mouth in a clenched smile. Combeferre can only hope that he didn't smile the same way when he was with Éponine last night because he didn't want Enjolras to freak the poor girl out. Especially if she was already upset. She would probably run away as far and as fast as she can.

"I really hope you didn't smile at her in that way, you are going to scare the girl away" Combeferre couldn't help but comment. He could have sworn he heard a noise coming from behind Enjolras, but that couldn't be. Enjolras was out here with him, it were probably the downstairs neighbours. They had a tendency to laugh whenever Ellen was on.

To be honest, he was actually kind of glad nothing had happened between Éponine and Enjolras. He really thought Enjolras would come to him if something had happened. He was his best friend after all. He was so lost in his thoughts, he missed Enjolras looking back in the bathroom at the random sound.

Enjolras quickly focused his attention back on Combeferre before saying, "Look, can I go back to my shower now everything is cleared up?"

Combeferre had forgotten about the nearly naked Enjolras, still standing in front of him in nothing but a towel. "Yes, of course. Uh.. I think I'll be going to la Musain" he said turning away from their bathroom.

"Did you at least see the dimples when she smiled back?" Combeferre couldn't help but question.

His answer was a door in his face.

When he walked out of the apartment after that conversation, he could have sworn he heard the noise of laughter coming from the bathroom. It were probably the neighbours again. It had to be. Enjolras doesn't laugh in showers and Combeferre had never heard him giggle. So it was defiantly the neighbours, it had to be. He should ask them which episode they are watching, he might enjoy that one as well.