A/N: Yes, Fiyero will really lick Elphaba. I do not own anything in here. If I did, this would be in the original book. Also, I know nothing about this Avaric character other than what I have read in either other fanfics and Wikipedia.
It was the weekend at Shiz. What made the students equally excited was it wast a long weekend and, in everyone's book, that meant "party time." Avaric had spent the whole week preparing a party at a house he rented a short while from the campus. He invited the entire student population to a night of "Drinks an insurmountable fun." Naturally, everyone said they'd be there.
"Elphie, do you think this dress will do tonight?"
Elphaba looked up from her book to see her roommate Galinda in a bright red dress barely covering the areas that should be covered. Elphaba smiled. "If I was a guy," she replied, "I would say 'yes."
Galinda looked rather puzzled.
"However," continued the green girl, "since I am not a member of the opposite sex and, as you can see, having very little fashion sense, I would have to say: no."
"Is it because of the cut?" the blonde asked.
The other nodded, "Oh, yeah."
Galinda turned back to her closet. "You know what your problem is?"
"What?"
"You're way too modest."
Elphaba frowned. "How so?"
The blonde held up some dresses to the mirror. "Well," she replied, "everyone's wearing these kinds of dresses these days. Come on: lighten up; show some skin!"
"Maybe it's just not my style."
"Maybe you're not comfortable with yourself" Galinda sighed as she went into the bathroom to change.
Elphaba returned to her book. Smiling she said under her breath, "Maybe I don't want to look like a slut half the time."
"By the way," Galinda called from behind the bathroom door, "Are you going to the party tonight?"
"Probably not" was the reply.
Galinda emerged from the bathroom, "Why not?"
"Because, knowing Avaric, if he said 'insurmountable fun' and I arrive, I will end up being the means to that 'insurmountable fun."
"Is that all?"
The other smiled. "That, and I have a paper due Monday."
"Do it tomorrow."
"But I already have my entire schedule planned out." Elphaba reached over to a piece of paper. "Here," she pointed out, "tonight, I'm doing the research; tomorrow, I'm organizing and putting everything into an outline; the day after, I'm writing the rough draft; and the following, the final."
"But those steps should take you all day" Galinda argued, "and you're also forgetting that we have an extra day this weekend."
"True," replied the other, "but don't forget that I also have to read for my other classes and prepare for the whole week. Then, after all this, I still have to rest."
"Then, do your resting now and be prepared for the whole weekend!"
"But..." interjected Elphaba.
"No buts" the other scolded, "Just to take one night off will not disrupt your schedule one bit."
"But..."
"Enough!" Galinda ran over to Elphaba's closet and began rummaging through her dresses.
Elphaba closed her eyes and took in deep breaths. She had been defeated—by the short blonde above all things! But that's not really what bothered her. It was Avaric. He was such a pest to her she never knew where he would strike next. It came to the point where she tried to avoid him all together and having him in several classes didn't quite help much.
"Here" Galinda squealed as she tossed a dress into her roommate's lap, "This one is good!"
Elphaba looked at the dress before her. It was one of her less modest clothes: sleeveless; rather low v-line cut; looked like would only cover the lower portion of her back; and its skirt flowed a little past her knees. She couldn't remember ever wearing it before. To her knowledge, she had never owned an article of clothing that was such a fine royal blue as this was. "Must have been to something special," she thought, "otherwise Father wouldn't have bought it for me."
"Well?" the blonde urged, "put it on!"
Elphaba gave the grin of defeat. Setting her books aside, she walked off to the bathroom. Galinda quickly ran and tried to pick out shoes for both her and her roommate. As she found the right ones, Elphaba came from the bathroom.
"Don't you look nice!" commented Galinda.
"I feel like I'm naked" the green girl groaned.
"Don't think about it."
"How can't I?"
"Just don't." She thrust the a pair of shoes into Elphaba's hands, "Here, put these on. We'll have to do something about your hair..."
"Why not just brush it?"
"Because," the other roller her eyes as she went to her dresser "it won't look as good."
Elphaba frowned but didn't bother saying anything. Obediently, she put on the shoes and through of ways of out thinking the torture of Galinda pulling on her hair.
"Okay" the other returned, "We'll have to make this snappy. Fiyero should be here to pick us up any tick tock."
Elphaba raised her eyebrows, "Yay."
"Oh," the blonde continued. She placed a chain in Elphaba's hand, "put this on."
Elphaba looked down at the jewelry in her hand. It was a small ruby on a gold chain.
"It goes well with the dress" explained Galinda.
Well, it took some doing but after taking the braid out, Galinda found that all she could do with Elphaba's black course hair was to brush it straight.
"Told you so" Elphaba smiled.
"Don't rub it in, greenie" the blonde playfully teased.
Just in time too, for suddenly there was a knock at the door.
"Come in" Galinda called throwing a light jacket over her shoulders.
"We're decent" finished Elphaba with a big grin.
"I should hope so" Fiyero chuckled as he entered the room. He looked over to see Elphaba all dressed up. "I thought you weren't too keen on parties" he commented.
"I'm not" was the reply, "Galinda just forced me into it."
"Oh..." he rubbed his hands together, "Well, lucky me: looks like I have two dates! You two ready?"
"Yep" Galinda spoke up for both her and her roommate.
"Very well" Fiyero smiled. He took both girls in each arm and lead them out to an awaiting carriage.