Caged Roses, Forbidden Lilies
Rifiuto: Non Miriena
Summary: Sisters. Best friends. And the boys fascinated with them. College is supposed to be a time to experience, a time for adventure, not for death and tragedy. So when four girls become the center of an obsession and a deadly pact, it leaves the whole of Shiz University reeling. For Elphaba, Glinda, Milla and Nessarose are four girls who change the way you think, and how you look and deal with death.....
Love. Sex. Death. Passion. Fear. Obsession.
Just Like Life.
It was during our second year at Shiz University that the trouble began.
It centered- from beginning to tragic end- around four of the most mysterious, most beautiful girls at Shiz University: Milla Qyte, Glinda Upland, and the Thropp sisters, Elphaba and Nessarose. Elphaba and Milla were the oldest, both at age twenty-one, Glinda was nineteen, and Nessa was the youngest at eighteen. The girls were best friends, sisters, both blood and non-blood related; Elphaba and Milla were roommates, and Glinda and Nessa both lived in the dorm the freshmen and sophomores shared.
I guess you could say we became fascinated with the girls when school started, back when Milla and Elphaba were freshmen- we knew them, sharing the same classes, going to the same school, listening to the same lectures- but we never really knew them. They were forbidden, not allowed to associate with the males in the class, all had domineering parents who made sure their daughters stayed away from us.
Those first few days of class, we'd watch Milla and Elphaba at the front, taking notes or talking softly together. Two girls, who looked so different, yet so beautiful, who were so unattainable, became specimen, something to be studied from afar. And study them we did. They were polar opposites in looks and personalities, but got along well. Milla, with her short red hair and green eyes talked and smiled, chattering even when we were in class. And Elphaba, with her green skin, long, raven hair and deep, violet eyes, was as quiet and soft-spoken as Milla was outgoing.
We first met the girls one afternoon during lunch- or, rather, Fiyero Tiggular, Prince of the Vinkus, met Elphaba.
Not that he didn't know her, but he'd never spoken a word to her until the cafeteria incident. He accidentally ran into her as she was heading to the table she and Milla were sitting at. The impact caused the coffee on her tray to splash all over her, drenching her in liquid, and the salad to hit her chest, leaving a lettuce and dressing on her shirt as the rest landed on the floor. She didn't say a word, just looked at the spilled coffee and salad, before locking eyes with him. Of course, Fiyero couldn't keep his mouth shut.
"I'm so sorry, I didn't see you." Quickly, he began to clean the coffee and salad off her shirt. "I.... I'm Fiyero."
She pulled away, and brushed her bangs from her eyes, looking him up and down, a small frown on her face.
"I know who you are. You sit next to me in Ozian Literature." He nodded.
"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to."
Without another word, she stormed over to Milla, who grabbed her arm, and led her from the cafeteria, shooting an angry glance at Fiyero. Everyone watched as the girls disappeared behind the double doors, and once they were gone, the whole cafeteria erupted in chatter. Elphaba rarely said two words in class, and here, in front of everyone, she'd said a whole sentence- two whole sentences. As soon as we could, we hurried over to Fiyero, who hadn't moved from where they'd slammed into each other.
"She spoke. She actually spoke to you." Fiyero just nodded, and turned to look at the double doors.
After lunch, we gathered outside on the green to discuss the phenomenon of Elphaba actually opening her mouth and actually saying something. She never said anything to anyone, not even the teachers, and only ever talked to Milla, as the girls were roommates. We knew that Elphaba had a younger sister and a young brother, and we knew that Milla had a close cousin, one of the Uplands, but they were too young to be at Shiz. Elphaba was the oldest daughter of the Govenor of Munchkinland, where both she and Milla were from, and both girls had overbearing and protective parents, that they were watched at school, not allowed to associate or do anything 'wild'. Beyond that, we knew very little of them or their lives, and we craved for more.
"She's... exotic. Different. And not just her skin... it's everything about her. I've sat next to her in Ozian Lit for three months, and she hasn't said two words to or even looked at me since school started. And then....." He trailed off, indicating the incident in the cafeteria moments earlier, and turned to look over his shoulder- the girls were heading to their Mathematics class, arms linked. Neither looked our way, instead they talked quietly together. "She's.... beautiful. Absolutely beautiful."
Once they made it to the Karqu Building, Milla pulled the door open and entered; Elphaba caught the door and moved to go inside, when suddenly, she turned back, looking at us. Her eyes locked on Fiyero's, and she stared at him for several minutes. Then, Milla came back, grabbed Elphaba's hand, and pulled her into the building, and all we could do was watch the door close behind her.