Chapter 1

Glinda ran away, closing the door behind her, tears streaming down her face. She was trying to keep the sobs from bursting, but she knew it would happen soon. She ran as fast as she could to the room 22, her and Elphaba's dorm.

As soon as she opened the door she ran to her bed bursting into wild sobs. This took Elphaba by complete surprise, she always saw her roomie with a smile and almost bubbling away.

Glinda... Elphie said as she sat in the edge of the bed almost afraid of touching her. "Glinda, please..." She touched Glinda's back gently as she rubbed in an almost whisper touch. Glinda had her face buried in a pillow, and little by little she turned to face Elphaba covering half of her face still sobbing

"I'm okay Elphie... Really"

"Glinda, it is obvious that you are not, but I'll go if you want" Elphie said as soft as she could.

"No! Please, please don't go" She started trembling and Elphie pulled her into a comforting hug

"It's okay my sweet, I'm here" they stayed in a comforting silence for a few beats and Glinda pulled away sniffling. "He... He slapped me. Right accross the face" she said as she uncovered the hidden part of her face reveling a huge red mark in her cheek. Elphie gasped at the familiar sting she imagined her friend was feeling. But suppressed the anger and sadness she felt.

"It hurts doesn't it?" Elphie said touching it gently and Glinda just nodded.

"I can help, if you want" Glinda nodded again and Elphie stood "I'll be right back my sweet" she said as she walked to the bathroom quickly grabbing one of her oils and a soft silk handkerchief.

She walked to the bed again and poured oil into the hadkerchief in her hand.

"It will feel a little cold, but it won't hurt okay?" Glinda nodded again silently feeling a little ashamed of herself and Elphie rubbed softly. "It feels good" Glinda said barely whispering.

"I know" Elphie smiled "Do you want me to help you change into your nightclothes?"

"Please hold me" This took Elphie by surprise again, but pushed away the uncomfortable feeling and pulled her friend into a nice hug. "It'll be okay, I promise" Elphie whispered as she let Glinda go and saw the look on her eyes, she wasn't used or even prepared for this, but she was willing to learn just to help her usually bubbly friend. "I'm scared" Elphie heard Glinda's voice say, it was the voice of an ashamed, frightened, vulnerable little girl that she didn't know. Glinda was always brave, nothing seemed to scare her, but this did.

"Of what?" Elphie said.

"Of seeing him, maybe he will come looking for me, maybe he..."

" Shh.." Elphie said cutting her off "Don't go there my sweet, I promise I will protect you, if he comes I will send him away"

"You promise?" Glinda asked with a pleading tone that matched her eyes.

"I promise"

"You deserve to know what really happened..." Glinda said

"Only if you want to tell me, but don't push yourself"

"I need to tell you..." She said and took a deep breath "Fiyero and I went to a date, it was lighthearted and fun... When we came back, he invited me to his room for a nightcap, I thought we were just going to talk and maybe make out for a while... So I said yes" "she stopped and looked at a dark green Elphie. " Elphie you're a deeper shade of green, are you okay?" Elphie smiled slightly, "I am blushing my sweet, I've never heard someone talk about... Making out. I assure you, I am fine please keep going" She said reassuringly and Glinda nodded "We went upstairs and he offered me a drink, I accepted and we started talking... Until he leaned to kiss me and we started a nice making out sesion." She took a deep breath "he started taking off my shirt, and I pulled away and told him that I wasn't ready, but he didn't care and kept kissing me with his hands wandering everywhere... I pulled away one more time, pushing him but he pulled me back violently forcing me to kiss him so I started screaming and kicking, by that time, we were in bed, he was on top of me taking his shirt off... Then I don't remember what happened, I just know that I made him angry and he slapped me, hard, luckily I ran away." Tears returned to her beatiful blue eyes and Elphie wiped them away feeling a familiar sting but ignoring it.

"He tried to force me Elphie..." Elphie's eyes filled with unexpected tears but bit them back before her beautiful friend could see them.

"You are safe now my sweet, I promise" She said trusting her voice not to crack.