"All I wanted was to break your walls

All you ever did was wreck me"

Wrecking Ball, Miley Cyrus.

Prologue:

She couldn't believe it. She kept staring at the window like the words Elphaba had just said a few minutes ago weren't true. This had to be some kind of horrid nightmare.

Her heart was hurting more than she thought possible. It stung with the harsh, painful reality of the situation she had just been thrown in to.

Elphaba had just left her. She hadn't boarded the cart and had disappeared with a whispering wave of her fingers into the crowd. She had gone like a ghost but the impact of her decision was weighing down on Glinda like a bullet to her heart.

Glinda's throat hurt and her vision was poor due to the massive amount of tears flowing down her face. Sniffles and cries escaped her lips as she buried her head in her hands in anguish.

She hadn't expected to be this distraught after Elphaba's departure. She hadn't even liked Elphaba until a few months ago. Now here she was, sobbing her heart out over her leaving. Her emotions puzzled her greatly sometimes. She wasn't co-dependent or anything like but the fact that Elphaba had left her so suddenly was the thing that jolted this crying fit. She had associated Elphaba as a friend, a confidant, someone much more trustworthy than Pfannee or Shenshen. When Elphaba had left, she had made it seem as if their friendship had meant nothing to her, obviously a tactic Elphaba used a lot. She didn't like to admit she had feelings for whatever it was that she was leaving because that would mean that there would be heartbreak on both sides. It had deeply hurt the blonde beyond words that she had done that. Glinda had trusted Elphaba with her secrets and vice versa. She refused to believe that Elphaba would throw away their friendship on this crazy, suicide mission. She paused her sobbing to look up at the seat next to her to check if Elphaba was truly not there, just in case she had reappeared while she had been crying.

The Munchkin who sat in Elphaba's supposed seat looked as though she was uncomfortable and she scooted as far away from Glinda as it was possible without falling off her seat. They had only started the leg of their journey and they had a few hours to go before they arrived anywhere close to Shiz. Glinda realized that this woman probably thought her crazy or at least certifiable. A smile tugged at her saddened face, Elphaba would have thought that funny since she believed the blonde to be crazy as well.

The tears bloomed in her eyes again. This was pure agony. Not having a companion was something Galinda never would have done… Glinda was too fond of it either. The blonde and green woman had grown close in the last few months, closer than anyone would have ever thought. They balanced each other out, were yin and yang to each other. One couldn't survive without the other. They both knew that too, or Glinda thought Elphaba knew that.

Life at Shiz without Elphaba would be unimaginable. She knew that her own motivation for school would plummet due to the lack of Elphaba's persistence for her to study. Nessarose of course would be devastated. She'd probably go into some religious mindset. Boq would be sad as well; he had looked up to Elphaba on many levels. Crope and Tibbett would be upset but not devastated. Fiyero had barely known her so her absence wouldn't affect him as much. It would mainly be Glinda who would be utterly crushed by Elphaba's departure. Morrible would be glad though, she hadn't really grown to be fond of the green girl ever since she had stepped through the doors of Shiz University. If Doctor Dillamond were alive, he would be as upset as Glinda.

Falling back into her seat as the cart jolted to life, the blonde felt her tears slow. The pain was still there but the tears weren't. That's what Elphaba did though; she would come into your life and then leave just as quickly causing a gaping hole to form in your heart where she had been.

You're being ridiculous, the blonde scolded herself, it's not like you loved her or anything.

But that was a lie and Glinda knew it.

In the time of their friendship, the blonde had grown to have an attraction to the green woman… and she hadn't had the chance to tell Elphaba of her feelings yet.

She needed a second chance to tell Elphaba everything.

It was then that Glinda decided her next course of action, in that split second. Wiping away her own tears with a wave of her delicate hand, she got up from her seat, signaled the driver to stop and gracefully got off without so much as another word.

For everyone else on the cart it was an insignificant moment but to Glinda her decision to leave was the bravest action she had ever took in her short life so far. It felt like she was finally finding her path in life by deciding to go after Elphaba.

She couldn't just let the green woman go that easily. She at least had to confront her, make more of an effort to change her mind. How could Elphaba give all of this, all that Shiz had to offer, up? She had worked for the chance to study at Shiz her entire life and now she was going to throw it all away just because she didn't like how the political system was in Oz? Glinda had never been one to be studious but she expected more out of Elphaba, the brainiac of them all. She had at least figured Elphaba would finish college first before going off and making a fool out of herself. But then again maybe Elphaba had realized early on that most of what schools taught was useless out in the real world with real issues and that schooling wasn't necessary.

Deep down, the blonde was also hurt that Elphaba could just leave her that easily. She was determined to prove to Elphaba that deciding to desert her was the worst decision she could have made.

As Glinda descended down the dirt pathway back into the city, the cart leaving a cloud of filthy air in its wake, she realized that she had no idea where exactly she was going.

Think like Elphie, she told herself, if I was Elphie where would I go? But these questions led her to think of nothing and nowhere.

She aimlessly wandered around the crowded city streets just trying to get somewhere. She passed by horse-drawn carriages, couples taking a stroll, and people window-shopping. None of it felt real though, at least to Glinda it didn't. She was in her own little numb, angst-ridden trance of pain. The sunlight beamed down on her and her cream white dress like a spotlight. She felt her heart break as she wandered the streets of the EC with no signs of Elphaba. Glinda asked anyone and everyone if they had seen Elphie. She described her quite clearly. The green skin was a dead giveaway she told all of them. But no one had seen her.

Glinda, in truth, should have expected that answer. Elphaba was notorious for disappearing in thin air, hiding in the shadows.

The blonde felt like crying as she sat down by her lonesome on a bench in the middle of a park. Her feet were killing her; this hadn't been the best day to wear high heels. She was tired too. This journey had not been the most restful one. It was by the far the most stressful. Collecting her thoughts, the blonde regained her self-composure after crying for a few moments. It had been a quiet moment of crumble, something that any onlooker would have missed if they had not been staring intently at her face, but it was a breakdown nonetheless.

She felt better though after she cried. Within her tears she found strength in her that she didn't even know she had.

She could do this. She could find Elphaba and convince her to come back to Shiz… and maybe convince her of something else too or she would die trying.

New story! Yay! This one is more bookverse than any other story I've written. Hope you guys like it!

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