Sorry this took so long, things have been crazy around here. I'm glad my two reviewers liked my story, lol, and I promise there's more to come. I've got the basic story-line in my head, so, for now, enjoy what is here!

I forgot to do this before, but: I don't own wicked, I'm sorry, but I not that intelligent as to think of something like this.

Boq

The happenings of the past few days had spread around the school like a virus. Everybody knew what had happened to Dr. Dillamond, and everybody thought they knew who was responsible. Of course they blamed Elphaba. Boq didn't though, Boq had a rather large amount of respect for Elphaba. He was in no way in love with her, or something of the like, but he truly liked her. There was no way, in his mind, that Elphaba could have, or would have done a thing like that. However, Boq's concern was not of Elphaba, or Dr. Dillamond. He did feel bad for the goat, but he was still wallowing in his love for Galinda. Well, Glinda now. Ever since Dillamond died, Galinda changed her name to Glinda…her way of taking a stand and showing she cared.

Whatever…Boq thought, it's cute. He was still dwelling on the way Glinda had treated him the other day. Well, the way Glinda treated him every day, really. He couldn't help but think that she hated his guts. All this time, he had fooled himself into thinking otherwise, but he knew any of that wasn't true. Glinda had been nothing but a shallow, self-absorbed, bitch to him, and he took every moment of it. Why did he like her anyway? What was there to like?

"Oh jeez… I must be in love…" Boq said aloud to himself when he realized that there was no specific reason why he loved her, he just did.

"You say something?" Fiyero asked. The two of them had been in the library studying for final exams together. Boq had gotten lost in his thoughts somewhere around The Great Drought.

"Oh" Boq said, surprised he'd said that aloud, "No, nothing, I was just reading something to myself."

"Mmmf" was the response he got out of Fiyero. Some classy prince…he thought to himself. Just then, as if acting out his fantasies, Glinda came into the library wearing a stunning hot pink dress. Boq felt his stomach drop about 3 feet, while something else was threatening to rise up.

"Fiyero!" The high pitched voice of Glinda filled the library. That God-damn voice…it's so annoying! Yet, so sexy… Boq was in quite a fix at the moment. He was ready for his blood to begin to boil, seeing Fiyero and Glinda together. He liked Fiyero, very much, but as any normal male would, he hated him at the same time for having Glinda for himself. However, that never happened. Fiyero actually seemed to be, well, shunning Glinda!

"Fiyero! Why won't you come with me tonight!"

"Glinda, I'm sorry, I told you I have studying to do." Fiyero replied. "Sometime after exams."

"Fiyero!" Glinda retorted, "Since when do you ever study? Something is going on with you that I ought to know about, and you are going to tell me what it is right now." She sat down on a chair with a thud to make her point. So sexy thought Boq.

"Glinda, all you care about is yourself. You know, Glinda, you can't see the world through a mirror." Glinda stared at Fiyero in amazement.

"Who are you and where is Fiyero?" she hugged him tightly "Fiyero, if you're in there, please, please, come back to me. I don't know-"

"Get the hell off of me Glinda." Fiyero pushed her off. Glinda looked hurt. Suddenly Boq was mad at Fiyero. How could he be so mean to such an innocent face? "A relationship involves two people. Two people who respect and admire one another, and clearly, you have no respect for me. And what about Elphaba? And Dr. Dillamond? He was MURDERED last night, and you want to go out and party tonight? Do you not have a brain? Or is all that hair weighing it down? You're lucky to have a friend like Elphaba. You don't deserve her as a friend. And you most DEFINITELY deserve me." With that last thought he slammed his book shut, got up, and left.

Neither Boq nor Glinda had moved. Glinda was staring at the vacant space where Fiyero was previously sitting. Boq looked at Glinda. She had a faraway look in her eyes, misty, and dazed. That wasn't mist. It was tears.

"Miss Glinda?" Boq tested, "Is there anything I can do? Anything at all?" He moved a little closer to her, putting a shaking hand on her shoulder. She was still staring at where Fiyero was sitting. Suddenly he became very brave. With Glinda being very weak and vulnerable at that moment, he gained more strength, and boldly took her chin and moved her head until she was facing him. There were tears streaming down her face and onto her dress. Slowly, he wiped them with the back of his fingers and placed his hands on her upper arms. He rubbed her arms, not sexually or romantically, but reassuringly, showing her he was there for her, if she chose to need him. She took the hint and abruptly plowed her head into his chest and began to sob recklessly.

"Don't be upset Miss Glinda." Boq cooed into her hear as he rubbed her back lightly. "Please don't be upset." He didn't want to tell her why she shouldn't be upset, because he really didn't have a reason. He just wanted her to be happy and peppy again.

"Boq." She sniffled. "You're a very nice boy, you know that? I'm so sorry I've always turned you away." She gulped, clearly having more to say, but too hysterical to say it.

"Shhh" Boq said to her "You don't need to apologize to me Miss Glinda. I know I've told you many times before, but I love you. I'm in love with you. I have been for three years, and anything you do will always be forgiven in my book." Glinda smiled and kissed him on the cheek.

"Listen, Boq…" Boq gulped, he was not sure if he wanted to hear this. "I'm not sure if I feel the same way about you as you feel about me, obviously as, I am still well, kind of in love with Fiy-, well, having very mixed feelings at the moment, but let's be friends. Just to start with. For now. Okay? I want to change things between us Boq."

Boq smiled. "I'll take it." He gave her one last squeeze and let go of her. "…are you all right?" Her eyes were still red and puffy from crying, and there were some stray water marks on her face, but she seemed to be calming down.

"I don't know Boq." She shook her head. "I think I'm going to go for a walk and mull some things over." She stared at him for a few seconds, and finally took his hand. "Listen, how about you, Elphaba and I get together tonight for some coffee? We can establish our newfound friendship!" she said the last part in a bit of a singsong voice.

"Miss Glinda, there is nothing else I would rather do, than to spend time with you."

"Aw Boq!" she pinched his cheek "You should be a poet!" With that she skipped off towards the door. "Eight O'clock in the café!" she called back, and suddenly she was gone. When he was positive she was out of earshot, he leaned all the way back in his chair and gave a violent whoop. He nearly tipped the chair over backwards with enthusiasm, but caught himself in time. He nervously looked around the library to see if anyone had seen. Luckily for Boq, students chose to study in their dorms at this time on this day. Boq looked at the empty chair sitting next to him. Her aroma was still in the air, her presence was with him. Suddenly he noticed he was sweating. He had no idea what came over him, but apparently his bravery paid off. Glinda wanted to be friends with him! There was so much excitement building inside of him. When he got up to leave, he looked down at his shirt and noticed there was make-up all over it.

"Now I have proof she hugged me!" Boq said with a smile as he walked out.

Fiyero

Fiyero trudged through wet forest in a heated fury. "She is such a bitch!" He said aloud to himself. "What is her problem!" He stopped abruptly at the end of the forest in the clearing by the lake leaning his head against a tree. "It's not her." He said still talking to himself. "It's me." He closed his eyes, and just then, a single tear came out onto his cheek. He sank to the ground and buried his face in his hands. "What is wrong with me?"

"Nothing." said a familiar voice. Fiyero whipped around and saw Elphaba standing looking at him quizzically. He hastily wiped his eyes and stood up quickly to face her.

"Hello Elphaba!" He put on a fake voice. "Beautiful day isn't it?"

Damn. He cursed himself, the sky was overcast, and it had been raining all morning. This was not very sly of him. Why was he acting like an idiot? He knew he had feelings for her, but were they true feelings, or was he just rebounding from Glinda? It didn't matter anyway, he had no plans to pursue these feelings. She was a very independent girl. She would reject him for sure.

"Fiyero, is everything all right?"

"Why wouldn't it be?" He said still with his fake happy voice.

"Fiyero, I saw you just now…"

"…yeah?"

"Well, It looked like you were-"

"Elphaba," he said to her matter-of-factly, "I was just looking into the lake." Damn it! He thought to himself, Pull yourself together Fiyero! You're a chick magnet for Lurline's sake! How come you're having trouble securing a GREEN girl!

"Fiyero," she said stepping closer, "it's okay. We're all humans here."

Crap. She hit the nail on the head. Fiyero looked down into the dirt, and he knew he was beginning to cry again. He refused to look up again. Elphaba however, stepped forward, and touched the side of his face, tilting his face up so he could meet her gaze. When she saw his eyes reddening and glistening with tears, her expression softened even more, if possible. She brought her hand around to the back of his neck, where his hairline ended, and pulled him to her with the other one. At first he didn't respond, but then he decided it would be best if he took advantage of the situation at hand. He put his arms around her, his hands resting on her lower back, while he let his forehead drop to her shoulder. They just stood like that for what seemed like ages. After an eternity, finally Fiyero spoke up.

"Elphaba?"

"Yes?" Elphaba pulled away from him looking concerned. Fiyero wiped at his still watery eyes.

"Elphaba, Glinda and I broke up."

Elphaba looked very indifferent to the situation, but none-the-less said, "I'm sorry Fiyero. Is there anything I can do to help?"

"What you've done was plenty Elphaba. I'm actually rather glad I ran into you here."

"Good to know" Elphaba said with a smirk. Her smirk quickly changed to a questioning look of concern. She seemed to have trouble forming words, "If you don't mind me asking, do you still love her?"

"I don't think I ever did. I broke up with her."

"Oh," moaned Elphaba "great. That mean's I won't be sleeping tonight. Thanks a lot Fiyero!" Elphaba playfully hit him.

"Yeah," Fiyero laughed, "but, well, I kind of did it in a nasty way. I said some things I shouldn't have. I don't want to be enemies with Glinda, I just don't want to date her anymore."

"Well," Elphaba seemed to still be having trouble forming words, "Why exactly did you break up with her?" Fiyero thought for a moment. Why did he break up with her? It couldn't have been because of Glinda being an airhead, or high maintenance, he was used to that sort of thing. He loved Elphaba, that was why.

"Well," he said even more delicately than Elphaba had "I'm in love with…someone else."

"Oh." Elphaba's face fell. There was a long awkward silence. Then Elphaba spoke again. "Well, Fiyero, I'm glad you're all right, but Glinda's far more delicate than any china doll, and I should probably be getting back to my dorm. I'm going to have to nurse her wounds I suppose."

"Actually," Fiyero said as Elphaba started to leave, "if you see her, could you tell her I wanna talk to her as soon as possible? I really would like to apologize." Elphaba gave a weak smile.

"Will do. See ya later Fiyero."

"Bye."

After she was out of sight, Fiyero leaned back against the tree again, his mind going over the encounter he'd just had with Elphaba, and how unproductive it was. "FUCK!"

Glinda

Glinda started out of the library to take her walk, and decided it'd probably be best to mull things over back in her dorm, remembering what she found last time she decided to roam around in the evening. As she was walking back, many thoughts crossed her mind. What were all these new feelings for Boq? Was she still in love with Fiyero? Did she ever love Fiyero to begin with? Despite all this, the one thing she noticed was that, she was no longer, dragging, or unhappily happy. She was fairly content. Was it Fiyero that was bogging her down? Ugh, too many different thoughts she thought I'll have to chat with Elphie about it, and organize all these thoughts.

As she walked into her dorm, Elphie was sitting on her bed reading a book. "Elphie, can we talk?"

"Of course Glinda, come and sit."

Glinda stopped short and stared at Elphie "Do you know already?"

Elphaba sighed, "Yes, I do know. How did you know?"

"Please, Elphaba, when do you ever say 'of course' in response to 'can we talk'?"

"I guess you're right."

"Of course I am. So, how did you find out?"

"Well," Elphaba started, "I found Fiyero, uh, crying by the lake really…"

"He was crying! What for? He was the one criticizing me!"

"Well, that's what he said. He feels really badly about it though. He wants to apologize to you."

"Ough, I don't know if I'm ready to talk to him yet, I don't know if I could resist the urge to strangle him to death!"

"No!"

"Elphie, I was joking."

"Oh," Elphaba sighed, "of course you were."

Glinda was slightly suspect of this previous exchange of thoughts, but thought no more on it when Boq's face came into her thoughts. "Elphie, can I trust you with a secret?"

"Who would I tell Glinda, all of the millions of friends I have?"

"Good point, but I know you talk to Fiyero and Boq, so just keep this to yourself, but I think Boq likes me."

"Really? Hmm, I would have never guessed." Elphaba said sarcastically.

"What?" Glinda said clearly confused.

"Of course Boq likes you, you dimwit, he confesses his undying love to you every single day!"

"Yes, but I never knew he was serious, I always thought he was trying to annoy me!"

"Oh, Glinda, you are so oblivious."

"Elphaba…"

"Yes?"

"I think I may like him as well…" Elphaba gave her infamous cackle to this statement. Glinda however, didn't find anything funny.

"…you're serious?"

"Of course Elphaba, he's a sweet, lovely kind-hearted boy, and so what if he's a munchkin, it's not like I'm taller than him."

"Good point. But Glinda, it's Boq! You've always hated him!"

"Well, people change."

Elphaba just stared at Glinda. "Whatever Glinda, maybe I'm not the person to talk to about these things, especially if you're not looking for an honest answer."

Glinda just sat on her bed and pouted. Then she remembered what else she wanted to talk to Elphaba about. "Listen Elphie, well… I feel like I have been dragging for the past few weeks, and I have no idea why. I know you noticed it, and it was really starting to worry me, I'm always happy, I didn't know what was wrong. But now, since Fiyero broke up with me, after the initial shock, I really couldn't be happier at the moment."

"Really!" Elphaba said extremely overly excitedly

"Umm…."

"I mean," She cleared her throat, "really now…."

"Elphie, do you have a thing for Fiyero?"

"Sweet Lurline, no!"

"Elphie…"

"Come on Glinda, would there even be a point to me liking him even if I did? Would I ever have a chance with him?"

"I'll bet you Boq would never think he's got a chance with me…"

"You do have a point Glinda, but I just don't think Fiyero's into me, and I can tell you that I am NOT into him either."

"Fine."

"Fine."

"Good."

"Good."

"So how long did he cry on your shoulder for?"

"A few minutes…wha- HEYY, how did you know about that!"

"Elphaba, I know these things, and I also know that you are very into Fiyero, and I'm almost positive, that he broke up with me for you."

"Glinda, don't be an idiot." Elphaba thought for a moment and continued. "I'm sorry, I shouldn't say that, I know you can't help it."

"Elphie, whether you like it or not, Fiyero likes you very much. He would have never cried in front of you if he didn't like you. He's never even cried in front of me, and I was his girlfriend for 6 months."

"Ugh! I just don't know Glinda! Maybe I do like him, and I've just been brushing aside my feelings because I knew I would never have a chance with him."

"Of course that's the problem Elphaba. With a girl like you – no offense – of course that's going to happen…especially when your self esteem is so low.

"I guess we'll just play things by ear for now. Whatever happens happens. We'll see."

"Oh! Elphie!" Glinda became frantic and threw herself into her vanity chair and began applying make-up and putting curlers in her hair.

"What?"

"I almost forgot! We're meeting Boq for dessert and coffee tonight in the café. I volunteered you to come also, so you have to."

"I have to?"

"Yes, you have to."

"Oh, Glinda, why in the world do you do these things? I'm not in the mood to go out now, especially because of that that little chat we just had! I have so many things running through my mind, I'll be a scatterbrain!"

"Elphie, you've hid your emotions before, you can do it once more!" Just then there was a knock at the door. Crap! She knew this would happen. As if it were rehearsed, Glinda grabbed everything she could off her vanity and ran into the bathroom. "Elphie, please get the door."

Glinda left the bathroom door open a crack and watched as Elphaba opened the door. There was Fiyero, standing looking deeply sad and apologetic.

"Oh, damn!" Glinda whispered to herself in the bathroom, "I need to go apologize!" She hastily re-applied some eyeliner and lipstick, and ran out of the bathroom. "Fiyero! I'm so sorry!" She ran into his arms, and hugged him tightly for a few seconds. Fully aware Elphaba was watching, she let go after a reasonable 5 seconds.

"Listen, Glinda, I'm sorry about what I said to you, but I still strongly believe that we should just be friends."

"I agree Fiyero."

Fiyero let out a long breath. "I'm glad you feel the same way Glinda, thank you for making this easier on both of us." Fiyero looked back and forth from Elphaba to Glinda for a few seconds, then seemed to remember he had to be somewhere. "Well, I'll see ya around…"

"Wait!" Glinda looked at Elphaba who seemed to have an oh-what-are-you-going-to-do-now kind of look on her face, but she bravely stepped forward and put her hand over Fiyero's. "Listen, I know you said you didn't want to go out tonight, but in case you changed your mind, Elphaba, Boq and I are going to the café for coffee and dessert. Would you like to come with us?" Glinda saw Fiyero's eyes divert from hers to Elphaba's and back again.

"Sure!" He smiled at Elphaba and Glinda was positive she saw a wink.

"Great!" she exclaimed "Meet us at 8!"

"All right, see ya there!"

"Bye!"

"Bye!" and Glinda closed the door. She turned around to tell Elphaba 'I told you so', but Elphaba was nowhere in sight. "Elphie?"

"What?" she heard Elphaba call from the bathroom.

"Where are you?" she asked.

"I'm in the bathroom."

"Oh, are you throwing up?" Glinda figured this could be the case, since she never used the bathroom to do anything other than bodily functions.

"No!" answered Elphaba "I'm getting ready."

Glinda gasped excitedly! "Ooooh! Can I help!"

"No!"

"Okay," she sighed "I told you Fiyero likes you!"

She received no answer.

"He definitely winked at you Elphie."

The bathroom was still silent.

"I thought you didn't want to go Elphie."

Finally, she spoke, "Well, I do now, so kiss my ass Miss Glinda."

Glinda just smiled and said to herself, "Elphie can never admit that someone else is right…"

"….I HEARD THAT!"