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Elphaba smiled as she finished the letter to her family. Setting it aside, she quickly grabbed another sheet of paper, dipping her pen and starting to write. Galinda looked at the paper and scoffed.
"You have more friends to write to?" she asked, staring at her roommate in disbelief.
"This one's for my brother. He's going to school in the West Vinkus so it has to be mailed separately," she explained. "And then I'm sure Gaylette will want to know what I'm up to, and Fenian down in Quox, and..."
"They let an ape in the school?"
Elphaba took in a breath. "He's not an ape, he's a Monkey. A Monkey who's gotten straight A's ever since he started school."
"Uh-huh. And he's your brother?" Galinda asked. "Is he adopted, too?"
"Yeah, Mom and Dad adopted him when he was eight." My roommate, Miss Glinda, is a little annoying, but she's not awful…she wrote.
"What about his birth parents?" Galinda asked. Elphaba shrugged.
"Died when he was five. He never really talks about it."
"Did your parents just look for the charity cases?"
My roommate, Miss Glinda, is a little annoying, but she's not awful an insufferable twit. "No, and I'll thank you not to ask me that again."
Galinda shrugged, looked at the paper, and frowned. "It's Galinda. With a GA. You're spelling my name wrong again."
"My apologies, Miss Ghhhhhlinda, but my family doesn't really pronounce those sounds all that well, so I don't write them."
Galinda blinked. "You're kidding me. Your whole family has trouble with GA sounds?"
"Yep." She continued writing, looked at the paper, frowned, crumbled it up in a ball, and threw it in the trash. "Don't you have friends to go see?"
"Don't you have classes to study for?"
"I studied on the train." She started writing again. Dear Chistery, Life here is good enough so far
"Opps!" Galinda "accidentally" knocked over a bottle of ink right on to the paper. "Clumsy me!"
Elphaba took in a deep breath, and looked at Galinda with a fire in her eyes. "You have five seconds to run."
For once, Galinda listened to her roommate.
Dear Chistery,
My roommate is driving nuts. I told Mom and Dad she wasn't as bad as Cruella, and it turns out I inadvertently lied. I know what you're thinking, that I'm exaggerating and she can't be that bad. I'm not. As I write this letter, she has purposely spilled ink on one of my letters, strangled me when I mentioned I was dating Fiyero, called you "ape" and "charity case" more times than I can count, and almost threw my family photo in the trash, to name a few! I hate her, I hate her, I hate her!
But besides that, Shiz seems ok. I've met some of my teachers, and I'm excited to go to class. Actually, funny thing about one of them. I happened to run into my History Professor in the halls, an Ox named Dr. Plower, and he says he knew Dad back when they were in college! What are the odds? Apparently, he'd also seen me before Mom and Dad moved to the Vinkus. But of course, him and Dad don't exactly talk to each other that much, what with that non-family Communication Ban. I swear, I find more things to tell the Wizard daily.
Well, enough about me. How's your roommate? Is he a Monkey, too? Please tell me he doesn't have a sister. If he does, remember what happened last time. I know you want a girlfriend, but...well...I just don't want you getting hurt like that again. It's bad enough you broke up with her, I can only imagine having to share a room with her brother. And how are classes? Still having trouble in math? You really should get tutoring if you are. Doctors have to use math a lot, don't they?
That's all from me. Hope to hear from you soon.
Love,
Elphaba.
Chistery smiled, shaking his head gently. He was, however, interupted by his new roommate, Azure, who flopped onto the bed with a groan. "That professor is going to kill me, I swear." Azurereadjusted himself to lie on his back. "Who's the letter from?"
"My sister, Elphaba."
Azure nodded. "She's the green one, right?" he asked, cautiously. "Not that there's anything wrong with that, I'm just clearing it up."
Chistery sighed. "Yes, she's the green one." He sat up on the edge of the bed, stretching. "Not that it matters what color she is. Why do you say Dr. Niddick's going to kill you?"
"Did you see that glare he gave both of us?!" Azure paused. "Come to think of it, have you seen the glare he gives every Animal in the school?"
"Yeah, I have, the bigot," Chistery looked up to the ceiling. Dr. Niddick was a fairly new professor from the Emerald City, who was of the opinion that higher education was an oppertunity for humans only. "Lurline help us all. But what exactly brings this up?"
Azure sighed. "Well, we got our tests back today, and he said I failed…"
"So? He's a tough professor, I'm sure a lot of people-"
"I missed one question."
Chistery's jaw hit the floor. "You missed one question and you failed?! How many questions were there?"
Azure shrugged. "About sixty, maybe? I asked him about it afterwards, and he said I was lucky I got a grade at all!"
"Well, that's just-"
"I did bring it up with the headmaster later, so I got an ok grade." Azure assured him, noticing the fire in his eyes. "But if looks could kill…"
"Why not just switch out? There has got to be a better biology professor in this school."
"Too late now." Azure sighed. "Wish I knew that before I signed up for his class. Oh well, hindsights twenty-twenty."
"Yeah, so they say."
Oh, well. At least the Animal situation outside the Vinkus can't get any worse…
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