'Give me an S!'
'S!'
'Give me an H!'
'H!'
'Give me an I!'
'I!'
'Give me a Z!'
'Z!'
'What does that spell?'
'Shiz!'
Fiyero watched as his girlfriend cheered for the school. His view was blocked suddenly by a green face.
'Aah!' The fright threw him backwards off the bench. 'What are you doing here?'
'As it happens, I'm here to watch her,' Elphaba gestured towards Galinda, 'make a fool of herself'.
'Well, as it happens, she's doing surprisingly well.' The Unnamed God chose this moment to push Galinda off the top of a pyramid of cheerleaders.
'I'll try to believe you.' The pair sat and watched in silence. Well, silence until Galinda stuffed up 27 more times. That's when laughter filled their lungs.
Galinda limped off the field, battered and bruised. She spotted Fiyero and Elphaba sitting in the stands watching. She waved her pom poms so vigorously she fell over again. As she scrambled to her feet she thought, Boy, I hope no one saw that. And with that, she was tackled to the ground by some of Shiz's buffest OFL* players.
Galinda woke the next morning in the grumpiest of moods. She'd been kicked off the cheer squad. I only stuffed up a few small things. Nobody would have noticed. Her thoughts were immediately contradicted when she tried to get out of bed.
'Ow!' Galinda certainly noticed the pain coursing through her body when she tried to move. Suddenly, Elphaba burst through her thoughts of pain.
'Rise and shine! Today is a new day and you, my friend, are going to be a part of it!' Galinda groaned at her abrupt awakening.
'Why? Why do I have to get up? The world doesn't need me, my pillows do!' The racquet she made must have woken up the entire university.
Elphaba crept up to the screaming girl's bed, and spoke through clenched teeth, 'I don't care if you take your pillows with you or not, you are getting out of bed. Right now!' Galinda sat up suddenly, only now realising Elphaba was being serious.
'Why?'
To be continued…
*Oz Football League
