((AN: i put a twist on this story, it's based on the musical but would have a few information from the book))
"Elphier, Elphier! Stop acting like a female and get out of the bathroom now. You're going to be late for the science class ... Again!" Avaric shouted through the door, knocking as hard as he can, "not that I care about missing the class or anything but Miss Shen Shen and Pfanee saved us seats in the Briscoe hall auditorium and I plan to talk to them about our incoming date" I could imagine him looking smug, running his hand through his perfectly combed hair. I sighed, looking at the mirror to see the door shake slightly as he knocked yet again. "just go without me, like usual, Avaric, I'm sure they're dying to see you, why do you insist on going here when the class is in your school?" I shouted back, making my voice slightly deeper, not that it was needed, my voice wasn't high pitched like other females, it could pass as a boy's anytime. "you know I hate walking alone and Boq's the only one in the same dorm as me", I roll my eyes, id never understand why he insists on following Boq when he goes to my room and then complain the whole time I'm in the bathroom. Sighing, I put the last touches of concealer in my face, making sure my 'skin' wasn't dark on one side and too light on the other, wearing make up was one of the hardest task I had to do, how women can do it so easily, is a mystery. 'There, temporarily degreenified yet again', I scowl slightly at the thought of the routine and the time it took everyday to make my skin of normal color when I can spend such time studying. Master Avaric was right, I was acting like a typical female, taking a longer time than Avaric or Fiyero, it wasn't as if I cared how I looked, but my dear father had told me, threaten actually, that he didn't want children of high society knowing that he had another daughter, whose skin was as green as sin, thus the need to be Elphier Thropp, eldest son of the Thropp family, Thropp third Descending, future Eminent Thropp and future governor of Munchkinland. Why did I agree, you might ask, I usually didn't care about my father's threats but he did threaten me of losing my books and studies which had me shut up pretty quickly.
Elphier Thropp, what an intriguing mask and cover for me, I guess besides being the male version of me, studious, rebellious, like what Boq would describe me as, heart on his mouth, etc. He somehow attracts a few females to him, which shocked me of course, I never thought I looked manly enough that girls would fall for me with a pale colored skin and short hair. Though, Avaric did tell me, after I got quite the attention, that I looked like a feminine male or what they call a 'pretty boy' and also by having a slight sarcastic, rebellious attitude. Father would probably get shocked if he hears what's happening to me in school, friends, good grades and females crushing on his devil of a daughter.
I chuckle lightly at the thought before hearing Avaric muttering to my childhood friend, Boq. "Master Avaric, you really should get used to Master Elphier's routine, it's been like this ever since the first day, even Master Fiyero has gotten used to it after a few days, now he just waits for us to appear in class. If you don't like walking alone to class, I shall escort you like a proper gentleman" I smile at the implication of Avaric being the lady and more so when I hear Avaric sputter, "I'll catch up with you as soon as possible, alright?" Boq said, trying to calm Avaric from kicking the door open and dragging me out of the bathroom to walk with him. Good old Boq, always so helpful to me, I hear Avaric mumble a few curse at me and Boq before leaving the room, not before I could say, "goodbye, miss Avaric, next time, just walk with master Fiyero, I'm quite sure he'd escort a damsel in distress like yourself". The door slammed close quite violently, who knew that by going to Shiz and wasting 45 minutes to degreenify myself, I'd be smiling and lightly chuckling every day.
As I try to tie the bandages around my chest to cover my breast and make it smaller, I hear Boq lightly knock on the bathroom door, whispering, "I'll be off now, miss Elphaba, please remember that as much as the teacher appreciates your top grades, he'd still want you there for half of the class, at least" I roll my eyes, he always tells me that and I reply every time with, "you know, Master Boq, I would probably be early in class if Fiyero allows me to use the bathroom first, he knows how long I have to put this concealer on ". I slip on my polo shirt and button it up, fixing the collar, "well, if Master Fiyero let's you shower first, He'd be the one late for class". Opening the door, my hands start fixing my neck tie before putting on my suit, "how do I look?" I ask, wanting to make sure that I didn't miss anything, "you really are turning to a girl, miss Elphaba" he says, grinning, I rarely did ask about my appearance before Shiz, "but you look as if you're planning to break a couple of girl's hearts today" I nod at the usual statement before fixing my hair and telling my roommate, "you have a damsel waiting for you, I'll follow in a few" I couldn't see him nod but his footsteps grow softer as he left me.
Grabbing my books, I look at myself in the mirror, if someone looked right now, they would have seen a male looking quite vain at the mirror but I just make sure that I didn't miss anything, no one else but a few people had to know of my verdigree. I walk out of the room, making sure to lock it, when I hear the bell ring, 'Shiz' I cursed, sprinting to get to Class which was on the other side of the whole university, oh how I wished that they just put the colleges together
Running as fast as my legs can take me, it took a few minutes until my eyes got a glimpse of the auditorium door. The want to get in made me forget to listen around on my surroundings to hear clattering of heels. You can guess what happened next, I met a girl running, I actually ran at her. The impact made me and the female fall down, it was like a typical romantic cliche in one of the Emerald City plays, except they never told you how embarrassing it was, they all focused on their eyes meeting and falling in love at first sight. I'm going to focus on the embarrassing part, I was on top of a female, which was embarrassing already itself with us lying down on public with the chance of people finding us and thinking of something else to the lines of erotic. I also had her huge cups against my bandage chest and one of our legs were in between the other's legs, I feel her leg move to brush against my center which made me jump away from her quickly as if I was electrified.
"do I even want to ask what you two were doing on the floor? Simply scadalacious" I hear a high pitched voice and turn to find miss Galinda looking at us with a teasing look on her face, I look down at the person who I bumped, slightly sad to find that it was miss Milla, I guess it wasn't a romantic cliche, or else it would have been miss Galinda on the floor with me or so I hoped.
I shoot her a glare which just made her giggle, and as much as I love hearing her giggles, I really want to forget about what happened just a few seconds ago. I look back to miss Milla and offer her a hand to pull her up, she blushed, shyly taking my hand, I pull her quickly and wrap my arm around her waist to steady her, "sorry bout that, miss Milla" I watch as she blushes and nods before looking at the floor, I was quite certain miss Milla had a crush on Elphier, it was practically screaming at me every time I watch her when she's near me. I kneel down to grab our books that were scattered on the floor, giving the girl her share of materials.
"ohhhh! Miss Milla and Master Elphier, we need a couple name for the two of you, like me and Fiyero, Gliyero! How about Millier? Elphilla? Ella?" Galinda said, squealing. I roll my eyes at the blonde beauty before pointing at the door, "rather than waste your time on meaningless couple names, I suggest we get inside class, miss Galinda" she did the obvious thing and pouted, which made me quickly look away, it was hard to deny my bestfriend what she wants when she pouts. I feel her arm encircling my arm before saying, "oh come on, Elphie" I wince at the name, it sounded so feminine and perky, "you ruin my fun", "class, miss Galinda" I remind her, trying to tug my arm away from her grip, has she forgotten that I was still a male? And that this was highly inappropriate? She just gripped my arm harder and I sighed, giving up and letting her cling to my arm as much as she likes. "alright, alright" she says, pulling on my arm lightly before motioning for Milla to follow us. We entered the room, my head down, trying to avoid people's looks, this must have looked like a good thing to gossip, I can already see the headlines, "Elphier Thropp, future Eminent Thropp, royalty turned playboy?" oh oz, that would be hard to explain, especially to father. I quickly pull miss Galinda and miss Milla to our reserved seats not before glaring at Avaric and Fiyero, who decided to wolf whistle as soon as they saw us.
I decided to sit beside Boq, Galinda quickly occupying the seat open beside me, I smile slightly at the fact that she always seems to be close to me but not enough to make me self conscious about how I look in her eyes. I can honestly say that me and miss Galinda really hit it off as soon as I didn't act like the other guys who were fawning over her and even, gave a sarcastic remark to her ('yes, and we all care about your newest clothes. we all know that even if you wear a potato sack you'd still look the same') ok, maybe not that, after that talk then, when Galinda was about to ask me if I just told her that she looked hideous all the time and Boq told her that I just complimented her in my own way.
"hey Elphier" Avaric muttered, leaning forward and pushing Boq to lean away slightly to be able to talk to me. I do my best to ignore him but he keeps persisting until I glare at him and whisper "what?" angrily, he suddenly goes to a speech about me taking his steps and being with Galinda and Milla at the same time, which I easily ignored as soon as the professor started writing down on the board for us to copy. My mind went on auto-pilot, copying and listening to the teacher, this was just like the first day of school, everyone staring and judging, zooming out of Avaric's talk. I began to reminisce on the past, my lips curling up at the thought of my first day in school, the first time I had to wear Elphier and the first time, I actually felt accepted.
