"A girlfriend?" Nicaise echoed blankly. "Whose girlfriend- my girlfriend?" He asked each one after the other, quickly figuring out what was going on here. Except for the part where it didn't make any sense? He had no memory of Eponine becoming his girlfriend, and though he'd never been in a traditional relationship he was almost certain one person had to ask the other before it happened.

He hadn't asked her. He didn't remember her asking him. Had he fallen asleep during class?

"When did you become my girlfriend?"