Time to get Serious

Here's the 2nd chapter of Legally Wicked. I'm really glad I got so many reviews for just the first chapter, so here's the next one and I hope you all keep on reading and enjoy.
Also, thanks to my awesome beta GeekGirl18!

Dislcaimer – I do not own Galinda, Fiyero, etc. Etc. I also don't own Legally Blonde.

"You look absolutely gorgeous tonight." Fiyero smiled as he led Galinda into the fancy, expensive restaurant.

"Oh, Fiyero." She giggled, batting her lashes at him as he went ahead and pulled out her seat for her before sitting down himself.

"No, really, you're an absolute vision." He complimented her, staring into her eyes from across the table. "You're perfect."

"You're perfect." Galinda shot back, a lovesick smile on her face.

"So we're perfect together!" They laughed. Had they not been surrounded by other couples as equally in love as them, they surely would have been getting some jealous stares from people wishing that they could have a love as strong as the perfect couple's.

"I'm the luckiest guy in the world." Fiyero claimed. "Most men would kill to have a girl who looks as beautiful as you do."

"Most women dream about having a boyfriend as great as you." Galinda said, smiling sweetly at him.

He chuckled and they fell into a comfortable silence. Moments later, Fiyero spoke up again.

"Galinda... I think we both know why we are here tonight."

"It's not a surprise, really. We know it would come sooner or later."

He looked deeply into her eyes, as he said "So Galinda, give me your hand, because I want to get serious with you."

Watching him all the while, she reached out her hand to clasp Fiyero's larger one. She froze halfway as her eyes flicked down to her hand, and she began to move once again immediately instead stretching out her left hand to him, her bare ring finger prominent.

'Fiyero," She started, "I always thought that-"

"Um, dear?" Fiyero interrupted. "I wasn't finished yet."

"Oh, right!" Galinda laughed awkwardly. "Sorry."

"Anyways, Galinda, we need to consider our future." Fiyero continued, unfazed by the interruption. "And I have to say that it is VERY important to me. I'm usually a person who's brainless, but if we want to take what we want without holding back any longer, this needs to be said."

"Oh, Fiyero..." Galinda sighed lovingly. "I understand completely."

"Well, Galinda," He beamed at her, stroking the back of her hand with a thumb gently.

"Baby," He said, making Galinda smile again.

"Yes?" She asked in a breathless whisper.

"I think that you and I-"

"I do!" Galinda squealed, jumping up from the table. "I do, I do, I do, I-"

"-Should break up." He finished flatly.

"I'll give you my hand, I'll marry you, I'll-WHAT!?"

Galinda gasped, suddenly tripping and staggering as she fell. Fiyero leapt out of his seat and grabbed Galinda's hands, looking sheepish as he gently led her back to her seat.

"Dear-"

He couldn't even end his sentence as Galinda suddenly squeaked, tears building up in her eyes as she pointed at him.

"Sorry!" Fiyero winced, sitting back down, his eyes widening as he realized he was in front of her on a single bended knee.

"You're... you're breaking up with me!?" She gaped. "I- I thought you were.... proposing!"

"Well, Galinda, I've been thinking for one of the only times in my life, and I just figure that it's the right thing to do!" Fiyero said.

"And... I did think about marrying you, baby, but... well... the problem is..." He struggled to find the right words.

"Well... you know that I like to take chances. I'm a prince as well, and so I enrolled into a school on a lark, and I've been accepted-"

"Fiyero," She spluttered, "You're Mister dancing through life! You hate school!"

"But this is different!" He explained weakly. "I got into Shiz, the big fancy law school, and-"

"Fiyero, what do you need laws for?" She whimpered.

"Oz knows that you've broken at least five of them-"

"Galinda, one day I'm going to be expected to take on duties in the Vinkus! Duties that have to do with running a very large area and population, and I'm going to be good at it, I can't have someone like you there! They'll expect someone serious to be at my side-"

"So you're breaking up with me because I'm not serious enough for you!?" Galinda near-shouted, her tears streaming angrily down her face. "Because they won't accept me to be the kind of wife a leader should have? What is it, Fiyero!? Are my boobs too big for them!?"

THAT got people's attention. All the couples stopped being so wrapped up in each other, and started to pay attention to the blonde who had screamed about her breasts, and her uncomfortable looking boyfriend.

"Your boobs are fine, Galinda." He mumbled, eyes flicking back and forth between the other restaurant patrons and the hysterical woman in front of him.

"You promised me you would always love me, Fiyero!" She sobbed.

"W-well, I do love you Galinda!" He protested, "But I just can't marry you!"

Suddenly, she couldn't take it anymore. Galinda began to wail at the top of her lungs, restraining her cries no more. Even as the other customers (and some of the staff) began to whisper and throw dirty looks at Fiyero, he just smiled as best he could, while Galinda made cries that were so high pitched that they would rival those of her precious dogs.

Still crying a river and sobbing the Nile, Galinda got to her feet. Blinded by her tears, she dashed out of the room, her bawls audible even as the door slammed shut after her.

Left among the other couples all alone, Fiyero sighed heavily and called for a waiter.

"Check, please."

"Galinda, darling, just wait-"

After the dinner, Fiyero had driven her home. Through the entire trip, Fiyero had tried to speak to Galinda. However, it was to no avail. For no matter what he tried she would not respond to him.

They were at the front door to her house now, and though the driver was waiting for him, Fiyero still chased after Galinda.

"If you would just take a minute to listen..."

"What do you want Fiyero?" She snapped, turning back to face him, defiant, even though there were tear tracks staining her perfect cheeks.

"Baby, I have my future to think about. I thought that maybe you would understand-"

"I can't Fiyero! I just can't!"

She stomped her foot on the ground, a childish action (and a stupid one, considering how expensive her designer shoes were) but it served its purpose, emphasizing just how strongly she felt.

"You say that I'm not serious, Fiyero..."

"Galinda..."

"But I am seriously in love with you." She whispered, tears filling her eyes again. This time however, she did not let them fall. She just turned back around, refusing to look at his face any longer.

At that point, Fiyero realized there was nothing left he could do or say to make her feel better. Heaving another heavy sigh, he hopped into his ride and drove away, leaving Galinda standing on the porch, alone.

Though her makeup was ruined and her heart was breaking, Galinda held her head high. She stepped inside the house, where her sadness was overcome by shock as she saw all her sisters waiting, almost exactly in the same spots where they had been when she left.

"Congratulations, Galinda!" They all shrieked, rushing up to hug her. It was only Pfannee, who noticed that something was off.

"Galinda? What's wrong?" She asked over the cheers and celebrations.

Galinda said nothing. She just bit her lip, smudging the perfectly applied pink gloss as she finally let her tears roll down her face once again.

"It's over." She croaked, before kicking off her shoes, lacking her usual finesse and grace, and sprinted as fast as she could up the stairs.

As the door to her room shut and all the girls were left staring blankly at the door, Shenshen blinked.

"Um... did anyone notice that she didn't have the ring?"

"Galinda? Dear?" A girl asked cautiously, knocking on the door to the woman's room. "Can I come in?"

"Just a clock tick!" Someone called out from inside the room.

Galinda, however, said nothing.

A minute later, Pfanneee slipped out of the room, Sheshen beside her.

"Is she okay?" The girl asked, peering worriedly into the room.

"She's still in there, snuggled up with Maddie, bawling her eyes out." Pfannee replied, to which the girl pouted.

"She's been in there for twelve days!" She exclaimed.

"I know, it's terrible!" Milla exclaimed, emerging from another room with several of her sisters following her.

The sorority girl had indeed been in her room for nearly two weeks. Ever since the night that she had come back with a bare finger and a broken heart, she had holed up in her room, only allowing sporadic visits from anyone other than the other frat girls.

"This is all Fiyero's fault!" One woman cried. "If it weren't for him, Galinda wouldn't be so... so... un-Galinda like!"

There was a murmur of agreement among the women.

"He should be shot for what he's done!" Another yelled, causing an even louder shout of agreement.

"He's not even that hot." Pfannee snorted.

"I think he is." Shenshen smiled dreamily.

"Well, you're a slut." Pfannee sneered.

Shenshen's blissful expression turned into shock.

"Look who is talking!" She shot back fiercely.

"Um, Shenshen..." Milla piped up rather timidly. "May I remind you of spring break last year?"

Shenshen tried to respond, but it was drowned out by the sudden wave of whoops and laughter. Each girl, remembering the scene quite clearly, began to do their own rendition of the drunken dance that Shenshen had done the year before. She had had one too many drinks, and had gotten up on a table and began to dance, amidst a group of boys to boot.

"That's a lie!" A voice moaned suddenly.

Realizing it was from Galinda's room, Milla, Pfannee and Shenshen ran inside, the rest of the sorority girls crowding around the door and squabbling amongst themselves for a better view.

"Galinda?"

Inside, Galinda was lying in her pink and frilly bed. But instead of looking like her normal dazzling self, she was looking tired and haggard. Her blonde hair, usually curly and perfect, was messy and dishelved. Her entire body was swallowed by the massive, fuzzy pink blanket she had wrapped around herself, and the mountains upon mountains of pillows resting all around her. The only visible parts of her body were her arms and neck and head.

"It's a lie, it's a lie, it's a lie!" Galinda repeated her face buried in her hands. Maddie stood beside her, nudging Galinda's hands with her nose, staring bemusedly at her owner.

"What's a lie, sweetheart?" Shenshen asked, seating herself beside Galinda as she began to stroke her hair soothingly.

Galinda just shook her head and let out a muffled sob. She removed a hand from her face, and pointed to something on the floor; it was a novel, entitled 'forever'. Emblazoned on the cover, there was a man and a woman staring passionately into each other's eyes.

"Oh." Shenshen said quietly.

Galinda groaned heavily (at which half of the girls outside cringed to hear) and slowly pulled off her covers. Clad in a bathrobe in her trademark pink, she rolled out of bed with Maddie tucked underneath an arm, and made her way to the door where all her sister's leaned in to give her a sympathetic embrace.

"Galinda, honey, it's so good to see you!" One girl cooed, the rest of them following suite.

"Look!" Milla smiled, holding up a stack of glossy covered books for Galinda to see. "We brought you new magazines!"

"We got all your favourites right here!" Another patted the magazine stack fondly.

"Thank you girls, but it may take me a lot more than the annuals to make me feel completely like myself again." Galinda smiled sadly. Nevertheless, she hugged Milla in appreciation, handed Maddie to another sister, and took a journal, flipping through it aimlessly.

"Galinda you're just going to have to hold on then," Shenshen said, "Because I don't think that we can make a trip to the beauty parlour this early."

The girls all shared a tiny laugh, stopped abruptly by galinda's sudden scream.

"Wh-what is it?" Milla panicked. "What's wrong?"

"Pictures of Shiz."She mewled as the women around her pushed and shoved each other to look at the pictures in question.

Several photos of the school were shown, some of them of the building itself, but most of them with students.

"Pictured left," Pfannee read, "Shiz student Muffy smiles for the camera."

"Muffy." Shehshen giggled, the rest of her sisters joining in as they laughed at the name of the girl.

"Hold on!" Galinda breathed, her eyes widening as she clutched the magazine tightly. "This... this is the kind of woman that Fiyero wants!"

"He wants someone who suits his tastes right now! He wants someone serious for a change; someone who is lawyerly! He wants... he wants..."

"Someone who is practically deformed!" One girl said sceptically, gazing at the picture of the buck-toothed girl with overbite and thick glasses.

"No!" Galinda beamed. "Girls, I've gotten a brilliant plan!"

"And that is...?" Milla asked.

"I've decided!"

A confident gleam came to Galinda's eyes.

"I'll become who Fiyero wants; a law student! I'll get into Shiz and I'll show Fiyero how we still deserve each other!"