If I decide to put her in there, Elphaba's mom is on bed rest, not dead. Frex is not a minister and scorns his green daughter. Melena is maternal to her daughters (both of them) Obviously, they're OOC (at least, if you've read the book) Maybe everyone's OOC, but honey, this is high school, the point in your life when you really figure yourself out, so they can be out-of-character in fiction. Fiyeraba :) P.S. I don't own Wicked :(
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Fiyero Tigular came into class late on the first day of tenth grade. Nearly four hours late, just in time for lunch. He sat right next to Galinda Upland at the table with all the popular kids. He looked so outcast compared to them, the only one with tattoos. And boy, he had tattoos. All over his arms and legs was a blue diamond pattern. Elphaba glared at him, at how well he got along with the class. His skin was nearly just as morphed at hers! Why couldn't she fit in like him? It may lie heavily on the fact that she has a brain, uses it, and uses it for stuff other than what to wear. Though, Elphaba could still detest them for detesting her. Her first year at a new school, and already has there been more commotion than the others. They're just lucky her dad took away her Grimmerie.
Then, something shocking happened. Fiyero stood up and sat right beside her, smiling cockily. "What do you want, Tigular?" She asked, biting into her BLT.
"Just coming to sit by my favorite green girl." He winked.
"In case you haven't noticed, I'm the only green girl. And this green girl has enough intellect to know you're only doing this too humor your friends." It was true, they were suppressing laughter at their table, and failing - like their grades. Fiyero stared blankly at her. "Intellect is smarts." She rolled her eyes. Normally Elphaba wouldn't use the word "smarts." It's such lower level vocabulary, but this guy was just so stupid. If he were a scarecrow, he wouldn't know how to scare the crows.
"Oh." Fiyero shrugged it off. "So what do you do, all by yourself, all the time?"
"Read, write, everything you don't do." She stood up to put her tray up.
"All those books do is teach you a useless skill." He scoffed.
"Explain." Elphaba instructed.
"If you read a manual, you know what to do. Then there's no thrill in trying something new, figuring it out on your own." He seemed a bit spacey and suddenly laughed. "Seriously, there's no use for reading."
"I bet you don't even know how to read." Elphaba muttered.
"And what if I don't?" Fiyero defended. She knew full well he could beat her up if he wanted to, so Elphaba took a step back. 'Please, not on the first day, at least...' She begged in her mind.
"How did you get to tenth grade without reading?" She asked, wide-eyed with mostly fear, but also shock.
Fiyero suddenly smirked. "My secret." He paused. "Maybe I know something you don't." Elphaba scoffed and stormed up to the library.
"Did it work?" Boq, the shortest of the popular crowd, asked.
"Oh yeah." Fiyero and he knocked fists.
"Fiyero!" When Fiyero heard that voice, he automatically cringed. Why? Because, nothing is worse than an angry girlfriend - especially when your girlfriend is Galinda Upland. "That wasn't very nice." She scolded.
"Come on, nobody likes her!" Fiyero waved her off.
"True, but... it still wasn't nice!" Galinda put her hands on her hips. "Go apologize to her." Fiyero looked at her like she was insane. He just steamed the artichoke! No way was he going to apologize to it. "Fine, then I will." And Galinda was off, pink bow and all. She strolled cutely all the way to the library. It was not like she pictured it at all. There were colors and cozy beanbag chairs to relax and read, almost comforting. And there in the green beanbag was exactly who she was looking for. "There you are!" She called and sat in the blue beanbag right beside her. "Hard to find you sitting there."
"That's the point." Elphaba looked up and raised a suspicious eyebrow. "What do you want?"
Galinda looked down. "I just wanted to say sorry, for Fiyero. He's not usually so unkind. He can be really sweet, when he wants to." The blonde smiled. "What are you reading?"
"Nothing you'd care for, it's a biography on the Wizard." Elphaba marked her page and closed the book. The only way to make friends is to at least attempt conversation.
"I don't see the point of that book. If you want to know about the Wizard, just ask him." Galinda rolled her eyes.
"Well, some people can't afford fancy trips to the Emerald City everyday." Elphaba remarked.
"Actually, I've never been to the Emerald City." She admitted. "I bet it would be magnifical..." Galinda looked at the big novel on the floor beside Elphaba. "Are there any books other than biography?"
"Absolutely." Elphaba said. Had this girl never read a book either? "There is poetry, adventure, drama, romance."
"Romance! Gimme a good fairytale story!" Galinda squealed. "I'll be the princess... and Fiyero can be the knight in shining armor..." She sighed dreamily.
Elphaba chortled. "Well I'm heading to the dorms."
"Oh, before you go, what is your name?"
"Elphaba."
"Thropp?" Galinda was wide-eyed, hoping for a no.
"Yes."
'Darn!' "We're roommates!" She tried to sound excited, but truthfully did not like the idea of sleeping anywhere near her. It wasn't good for her image, and all she was doing now was saving herself from being known as "the blonde with the jerk of a boyfriend" by anyone - even her. Two opposites in one room just did not work out.
"Joy..." Elphaba wasn't too happy about this living arrangement either. She walked off and sighed remorsefully. The last thing she needed was to be forced to share a room with that ditz of a girl. First Day at Shiz Academy: Failure.
Nessarose Thropp giggled at her sister. "You talked to Galinda? That's amazing."
"And I talked to her snobby boyfriend." Elphaba snorted, wheeling her sister to her dorm.
"I heard they make the cutest couple."
"More like perfect couple. Dumb and Dumber. I'm not quite sure who's who yet." The green one chuckled.
"Don't be rude. Galinda seems like a nice girl." Nessa snapped, always looking up to the popular kids, wishing so much she could be like them. "All the popular kids seem nice... especially that Boq boy." She giggled.
"Keep dreaming." Elphaba said stopping in front of the door. "Is your roommate in there?" Nessa nodded. "If you need anything, just call."
"Okay, Elphaba." Nessa wheeled herself into the dorm. Elphaba sighed and walked to her dorm, dreading the sight she knew she'd see. Opening the door, she saw Galinda along with that insensitive excuse of a boyfriend... making out. Elphaba's eyes widened, and she nearly fainted. Elphaba had never seen anyone make out before; hell, she hadn't even had her first kiss yet. What an embarrassment that was. She didn't blame herself, just her skin. Truthfully, she didn't care to kiss boys... Elphaba drifted out of her thoughts and loudly cleared her throat.
Looking up, the show seemed to have only started. Galinda turned as pink as her dress, and Fiyero merely frowned at the sight of her. "Look, the froggy decided to show up." He muttered, monotone filling the room.
"Swapping brains, I see. Galinda, deary, have you figured it out yet that he doesn't have one?" Elphaba said. Galinda giggled a bit, but shut up when Fiyero gave her a glare.
"At least I have friends." He scoffed.
"Well, I have a family, and that's all I need." Elphaba bit her lip, timid on the subject of people.
Fiyero seemed to freeze before scowling "See you later." He muttered to Galinda before angrily pushing Elphaba out of the doorway, who fell to the ground with an oomph.
"That wasn't very nice." Galinda sat up, arms crossed.
"What?" What did she do? There was always some reason to be upset with her. Always a reason for her father to get out the belt and whip her bare green bottom. But they couldn't possibly hate her for standing up for herself.
"Like you didn't know Fiyero was adopted." The blonde glared.
"What?" Elphaba asked, a sudden concern in her voice.
"His parents abandoned him when he was three! He was raised by a nanny his whole life!" Galinda snapped.
Elphaba froze, then and there. Was there really a possibility that that snobby, spoiled, creep was just s lonely as she? "I... had no idea..." She whispered.
"Yeah, right." Galinda sneered.
"If it helps at all, my parents never even took care of me for that long! My mom was stuck in bed all the time, and my father hated every bit of me! And all the while, he expected me to take care of my sister before even worrying about myself. Not to mention, I don't have friends or a boyfriend!" Elpahaba replied snidely.
"Elphaba, really?" Galinda asked, a sudden wane coming over her.
"Didn't even have me a nanny." (A/N: I know she did, just pretend, ok?) Elphaba looked down.
Galinda slowly wrapped her arms awkwardly around the green girl. Elphaba didn't move, didn't know what to do. What was she doing? Was this a hug? What Elphaba had seen her father give Nessa all those times? There was something about the hug that felt... good, warm. "Oh, Elphie, I'm sorry."
The mood was ruined right there. Elphie? No, not a nickname... "What?"
"I'm sorry?" Galinda repeated confusedly.
"No, what did you call me?"
"Elphie. Don't you love it? I thought it up myself." The blonde smiled optimistically. "Do you mind I call you that?"
"Would you mind if I did?"
"Oh, Elphie! I just know we're going to be the best of friends!" What? They just hugged. Since when did that make you my best friend? Elphaba thought to herself. "And you and Fiyero can be friends, too! This is just spectaculaciosis!" She didn't stop with the glee.
Elphaba cringed at the thought of that boy. If there was one person she could say she absolutely resented and feared, it was Fiyero. "G-great..." She croaked.
"Come on, Elphie, let's go out to eat. Me, you, Fiyero, and Biq."
Covering up a grimace, the green bean asked, "Biq?"
"Oh, he's one of my friends. And he's single." Galinda suggested with a wink. Elphaba rolled her eyes. "Come on, we have to get ready."
"Can't we go as we are?" Elphaba saw no problem in her black frock. It was comfortable and her favorite colour.
"Oz no!" Galinda gasped. "You're insanitarily psycho it you think so! No, no. We have a lot to do to be ready on time." Galinda pulled a brush from her vanity and began brushing her curly blond locks. "For one, we have to do something with that mess of hair of yours." She said, biting a bobby pin to hold it while styling. Elphaba, in all her attempts at comprehension, saw no flaw in her hair; in fact, Galinda's hair was the perfectest hair she'd ever seen. "Hmm, what do you think of our headmistress, Madame Morrible?"
"She's Horrible Morrible if you ask me." Elphaba muttered.
Galinda exploded in a fit of laughter. "I know! She looks horrindiferous!" Elphaba couldn't believe that someone like Galinda could actually like her.
Fiyero waited impatiently for the poor sap to come back. "Good, now don't take my stuff ever again." He growled.
"Y-y-yes... Fiyero-o, s-sir." The munchkin stammered, knowing nothing was worse than to be beaten by Fiyero. Though the munchkin could've sworn Fiyero let him borrow it.
"Okay, bye." Fiyero waved angrily. No one was going to steal his stuff. Sure you could make fun of him, call him a brainless idiot, even diss his girlfriend, but family matters were off limits. What would that witch know about families and problems? In her state, she probably took over the land and had her way. Survived without a care, her family beside her - green and proud. Why they let a green girl here was none of his concern, though certainly troublesome.
"Fiyero!" Galinda called gracefully and wrapped him in a tight embrace.
"Oh great, what's it doing here?" he grimaced without even trying to cover it up.
"Hey, I wanted to say sorry. I had no idea about your parents..." Elphaba looked so sincere. So gentle and contrast to every other time he'd seen her.
"And why should I forgive you?"
"Because I'm actually nice enough to try to apologize!" She snapped, but it didn't seem she was in the mood for a fight.
Fiyero looked at her for the first time. "What happened to you?" He smirked. "Your hair, your dress..."
"You act as though you've never seen a pretty green girl before." She narrowed her eyes, a smile fighting it's way on her face.
"Ooh! Here's Biq!" Galinda squealed and waved the short boy over their way. "Biq! Finally, you made it!" Galinda gave him a short hug.
"Thank you... uh, Miss Galinda, but... but my name is Boq. Remember?"
"Come on!!!" Galinda clapped delightedly.
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Hey, so this is my first Wicked fanfic. I am reading the book, have the script, and am going to see the show on Labor Day weekend. Melena may be put in as Elphaba's parental figure, after a series of dramatic events, she might come in. Tell me if that sounds good. Frex hates Elphaba, Fiyero and Elphie are heated rivals. So... tell me what you think, mmm'k? Thanx
~obsessive-elphaba (AKA fandango2girl)
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