So ya chapter two. This is a bit more original so I hope you guys like it. Also thank you for all those lovely comments, you have no idea how happy it makes me that you like my writing, so please keep commenting and giving me feed back.
Disclaimer: Again, I do not own any characters although the story did come from my crazy, messed up brain, so please keep that in mind.
Fiyero came back to the table with some drinks. He took the seat next to Galinda who was incessantly talking to her new friend who looked a little perplexed, but happy all the same. Across from her was Boq and Nessarose, who Fiyero had just found out was Elphaba's younger sister.
"So what are we talking about?"
"I'm not quite sure," answered Elphaba as she grabbed her soda from Fiyero. Everyone laughed as Galinda looked confused.
"But you were nodding and agreeing with me."
Elphaba nodded dramatically. "Exactly" she said and Fiyero let out a chuckle.
"Here," he said handing out the rest of the drinks.
They sat around for a while longer until Boq finally got the nerve to ask Galinda to dance. She looked at Fiyero, who smiled and nodded encouragingly, then almost reluctantly agreed. This left Nessa a little miffed, but when one of the boys nearby asked her to dance too she smiled and and went with him.
Elphaba awkwardly took a sip of her drink and pulled out a book to read. Fiyero watched her quietly and only spoke up when he recognized the large book. He lunged for the book without her noticing and grabbed it from under her nose.
"Hey!" She protested but was unable to take it back from him as he quickly moved it away from her grasp.
"I know this book. A little painful towards the end, if you don't mind me saying," he smiled cunningly as he angled his body so that it protected the book.
"Give it back now!"
"How can you carry this around? Doesn't it hurt your back?" He said, inspecting the book, then turning towards her but stretching out his arm holding it as far away from her as possible.
She lunged at him, something he hadn't really expected her to do. They both looked at each other as the chair wobbled then toppled over. Fiyero fell flat on his back and Elphaba landed on him. She grabbed the book that had fallen with them and hit him again with it.
"This seems to happen quite often" he said trying to doge the book that came dangerously close to his nose. "You must really like me, Green Bean."
She stopped instantly at his insult. He hadn't meant it in a mean way. It had come out without him thinking about how she would take it.
"Im so sorry. I didn't mean it that way, I just..."
"Save it Tiggular. Do you think I care what you think about me? Do you think I've never heard that before? I've lived with narrow minded idiots like you my whole life," she said pushing herself off of him and quickly moving towards the door trying as hard as possible to not show how hurt she was by his words.
Galinda made he way back from the dance floor having seen her friend walk out. "Fiyero what happened? Where did Elphaba go?"
"I'm sorry I didn't mean it as an insult, it just came out."
"What did you call her?" asked Nessa, who had also seen her sister leave and come to see what happened.
He took a deep breath before answering "Green Bean"
"Oh no" Galinda and Nessa said in unison.
"Oh and she left her hat. I think I'm gonna go see if she's ok."
"Of course Galinda. And please tell her I'm sorry."
She nodded and left.
"I'm feeling a little tired. A long day of travel, ya'know," he said, to the remaining Boq and Nessarose, "I'll see you guys tomorrow."
He had been walking for almost an hour. Just looking at the ground not really knowing where he was going and trying not to think about what had just happened. Suddenly, he felt himself hit and fall onto something. For a second he thought it was a bush that had somehow ended up in the middle of the sidewalk, but he realized as the bush moved that it was actually a person. On instinct, he reached out and somehow managed to stop himself from falling. His victim was not so lucky.
"What the hell? "
Fiyero recognized the voice instantly. He reached out his hand to help Elphaba up, but she ignored it, throwing him a dirty look, which he barely caught in the moonlight. Unlucky for her, she managed to step on her dress as she stood and nearly fell again.
"I'm sorry I didn't see you," he said, grabbing her arm to steady her.
"Right, that's really what you should be apologizing for," she spat at him and tried, unsuccessfully, to pull her arm away from his surprisingly strong grip.
"Right, no of course," he muttered, releasing her arm, "About that, I didn't mean it the way it sounded. Sometimes I say things without really thinking and"
"Ya I know."
"Don't interrupt me! I'm on a roll here."
She rolled her eyes "Right, sorry go on."
"Look I really didn't mean it. It just sort of sounded right at the moment, you know as a joke. I didn't mean to insult you or anything and I'm really sorry."
"Right, well, ok." She said, squinting to look at him in the dim light. He seemed to take a breath as if he was trying to make himself say something.
"I also think you should apologize to me."
"WHAT!?" She could not believe he had just said that, "You steal my book then insult me and you expect me to apologize to you!? What the hell did I do that makes you think I owe you an apology!?"
"Ok I thought we'd gone over this. It was not an insult."
"THAT'S NOT THE POINT!" She roared.
"Right, no, no it's not. Well the thing is you called me a narrow minded idiot."
"Because you are."
"Why is it that you hate people judging you before they even know you, yet you do the same thing," He said angrily.
She looked back at him just as enraged, but taken aback by his response and realizing that he was right. "You're right. I'm sorry" she mumbled to the ground.
"What was that? I couldn't hear what you said," he taunted her.
"I said you're right and that I'm sorry I judged you." she said, standing tall, clenching her jaw and looking him right in the eye.
"Thank you"
She glared at him icily while he gave her his "I beat you" smile. He kept this up for a while, enjoying his small victory. Final she broke the silence.
"I should probably got back to my room," she said and abruptly turned to walk away.
"Say hey to Galinda for me." he said, trying to get her attention again.
"All right" she replied but didn't stop or turn around.
And with that they both headed in opposite directions towards their dorms.
