Galinda just couldn't take it. Just a few days before, she hated, despised this girl, and now she was falling for her? Is that really how she felt? She burst into the suite, laying face down in her pink pillows, sobbing into them freely. "I don't believe it. I don't want to!" She muttered into the cushions between sobs. Galinda didn't hear Elphaba come in.
Elphaba had stood helplessly in the deserted toilets for some time, what felt like an eternity. In reality, only about 30 seconds or so, but considering the situation, she didn't know what to think. "This is another one of those nightmares…Galinda hates me. Doesn't she?" She spoke to herself quietly, reassuring herself that Galinda was still that dim-witted, self-centred girl from the "Upper Uplands" as she had so fondly called it. She opened the door slowly, revealing a broken down Galinda, as vulnerable as a mouse now her protective shell had been stripped away. Elphaba crept in, knowing the girl would either want space, or comfort, and she didn't know which.
Taking a deep breath, Galinda attempted to get her blonde, blissful brain to comprehend that she liked her roommate in such a scandalous fashion. It was almost as bad as the hat she had been sent, and had, ironically, given it to Elphaba, originally to show her up. But now it was a gift, and Elphaba had seen it as a kindness from her heart, just as she had planned. She sat up, facing away from the door, and Elphaba's bed, which Elphaba was quietly sat on.
"Galinda?" Elphaba spoke softly, feeling some flicker of sympathy. "It's…it's okay."
Hearing Elphaba's voice, she snapped. "No! No, it's not okay! Can you imagine the humilification if anyone found out?" Galinda stood, touching the mirror gently, still not daring to face her friend.
"Of course I can, look at me. But…what are we going to do?" She stepped towards Galinda carefully, almost within touching distance.
Galinda turned slowly, avoiding any eye contact. "W-we?" She was confused; all of this was her fault, not Elphaba's.
Elphaba sighed heavily, looking at her sympathetically. "Yes, we." She lifted Galinda's chin carefully. Elphaba never had felt anything for anyone; she always was an outcast, the one that got picked on. So when it came to relationships, especially with another female, she had no idea what she was going to do about it. "Do I really have to say it?"
Galinda let herself look into Elphaba's dark brown eyes. "What, that I'm obviously beautiful, popular, and a fool for being so stupid?" She smiled a little, watching Elphaba's expression.
Elphaba couldn't help but smile a little, her hand brushing against Galinda's. "You're not…stupid. You're…blonde." She smiled more, taking the porcelain hand into her own.
Galinda tossed her hair at the remark, returning the smile, slowly coming to terms that Elphaba's feelings had grown to be mutual. After all, she didn't know what having feels for someone else had felt like before now. Well, Galinda could only assume, but it was more than likely that it was true. "Well then…what do we do? We don't want a scandal, right?"
Elphaba nodded, looking down at their hands. "No…people talk about me enough. It's between us. Besides, people thought we hated each other until tonight. Our secret. No one will ever know."
Galinda nodded slowly, "what about Fiyero?" She mumbled. "We're together."
"No. He can't know. No matter what."
"But if I'm with him, and we're…whatever we are, I can't have two relationships at once, right?"
"Well, we'll only be "us" in here, okay?" Elphaba reassured her, gesturing to the door. "Out there, you and Fiyero are the couple of Shiz University."
Galinda smiled, glad that Elphaba was clever enough to think this would work. "So…in class, I have to pretend I don't like you?"
"Pretty much." Elphaba sighed.