One Long Day
Chapter 1
Staring out the window as Oz's landscape zoomed by in a blur, Elphaba wondered how she'd ever got herself into this situation. Never in a million years did she think she would be sitting on the train to the Emerald city with -TightWhitePants opposite it her. Trying to ignore the hair tossing prince, Elphaba wondered how different the day would have been if Glinda hadn't got sick.
"Galinda," Elphaba screamed bursting into the room in a surprisingly Galinda-like way, "Galinda, I'm going to the Emerald city to meet the wizard! The wizard, can you imagine?" skipping up to the closed bathroom door, she added, "And Madame Morrible says I need someone to come with me, so what do you think? Do you fancy a trip to the emerald city?" Elphaba paused waiting for the moment where Galinda would run out of the bathroom like a headless chicken, screaming with such a high pitch Elphaba would be deaf for hours. But the door never opened.
"Galinda are you ok?" Elphaba asked, resting her ear on the bathroom door until she heard her best friend being sick.
Opening the door, Elphaba did a double take as she saw the person who sort of resembled her friend.
"Galinda?" she asked, watching as her friend looked towards her. The sight of Glinda in a ruined pink dress, make-up staining her checks and normally perfect hair escaping in every possible direction, shocked even Elphaba.
"Galinda, what's going on?"
"The stupid school poisified me, my parents warned me never to eat anything prepared by Animals, I should have listened to them," she mumbled in response. As she was ill, Elphaba let the comment pass, making a mental note to convince Galinda otherwise once she was well.
"Oh no! Will you be better by tomorrow? You have to come to the Emerald City with me!" Elphaba exclaimed, trying not to admit the obvious truth to herself.
"Elphie, there's no way, I'll be up for coming with you tomorrow. You'll just have to take someone else," she sighed, before returning her head to the toilet bowl.
"But I don't have anyone else," Elphaba replied mournfully.
"What about Nessa?" Glinda suggested.
"She wouldn't come with me, she's embarrassed enough to be at Shiz with me. But once I'm with the wizard, she won't be ashamed. Maybe I should just go alone."
"You can't do that, it's not safe for a girl, let alone a green girl, no offence, to be walking around the Emerald city alone. You might be muggified!" she said as if it was the most horrific thing in all of Oz.
"Muggified?" Elphaba asked, holding back a snigger.
"Yes, muggified. What did you think I said? Anyway you should ask Fiyero..."
"NO way!" Elphaba interrupted trying to kill the idea before it was even born.
"No, it's a great idea. You should ask Fiyero, he'll protect you," Glinda decided, "from evil men." But not from myself, Elphaba thought dreading what she might do without thinking if Fiyero and herself spend the day alone together.
"No, Glinda. I'm not going to take your boyfriend with me."
"But if you take him with you, it will be like I'm there too and you know I've always wanted to see the Emerald City," Glinda used her biggest puppy dog eyes in an attempt to gain my sympathy but with her new ill look it simply scared Elphaba into giving in.
Why did I give in so easily, Elphaba asked herself over and over again as Fiyero's eyes burned into her brain, but she refused to meet them. There was no way she could let a repeat of the lion cub moment happen again, it would only break her heart again. After a while her rage built up and she couldn't stand it anymore,
"STOP LOOKING AT ME!" she yelled, causing the rest of the carriage to turn round and stare even harder than Fiyero had.
"I'm sorry I'm bored, as we're having such an interesting conversation to while away this long train journey," he said sarcastically.
"Maybe if you had some brains, we'd have something to talk about," she retorted.
"Well when we see the Wizard I'll be sure to ask for some," he yelled back at her.
"You do that," she replied, trying to be quick but was unable to come up with a witty retort, yet, she thought, desperately trying to think of something to say.
"This is going to be one long day," Fiyero mumbled under his breath as he too stared out the window, almost thinking he could see the famous yellow brick road.
Author's note: This is deciated to Dee who spend all afternoon helping me plan out this entire story. :P x