A little over a week had gone by and classes had already began for everyone.
Galinda had just finished placing her lunch order in the cafeteria. She got her favorite chicken salad with a side of grapes. Sadly she and her girlfriend weren't on the same lunch schedule everyday. She sat with her cousin and one of her friends. Milla came over several minutes later and joined her as well.
"Miss Galinda?" Galinda heard as she felt someone tap her on the shoulder. It was Boq.
"Can I sit here?" the munchkin asked.
"Oh sure, we don't mind." the blonde responded. The munchkin boy sat down beside her.
"So I understand you and Miss Elphaba are…"
"Yes, Elphie is my girlfriend." She answered.
"I know. Any chance I had with you is gone now." he said quietly.
Lets be honest, its not like you really had a chance in the first place. Galinda thought.
"Oh don't be upset Biq!"
"Boq."
"I'm not the only fish in the sea. I'm sure you'll find somebody else." Galinda looked around and noticed Nessa on the other end of the cafeteria, sitting with Nanny.
"Have you met Elphaba's sister?" she asked.
"Miss Elphaba has a sister? Is she...is she green too?"
"No she's not. Her name is Nessarose. She's that tragically beautiful girl over there. The one in the wheelchair." Galinda pointed out.
"It seems so unfair that she doesn't have many friends to hang out with aside from her sister and I. I'm sure a charming boy like you will definitely help her feel more welcome."
Boq blushed at that last part.
"I guess I could talk to her sometime."
"I can introduce you to her right now. Come on!" Galinda stood up.
"Wait, now?"
The blonde nodded and led the boy over to Nessa.
It was late Monday afternoon. Galinda was done with her classes early on Mondays, but Elphaba had one later class to attend. Galinda was in her room when she heard a knock on the door. She open it to see Nessarose there.
"Oh hello Nessa, Elphie isn't here." she said.
"May I come in anyway Miss Galinda? Nanny is resting and she snores. Its rather annoying."
Galinda gave a small laugh.
"Sure, you're alway welcome here."
Nessa wheeled herself into the room.
"Thank you Miss Galinda."
"You can drop the honorific Nessa. We're both friends, right?"
"Oh of course. Any friend of Fabala's is a friend of mine. Although its not like she actually had any friends before you…" Nessa mumbled that last part.
"Oh Nessa, I forgot to mention I have good news for you!"Galinda exclaimed. "Remember that boy Boq I introduced you to last week?"
"I do. He's so adorable!" she smiled.
"I'm glad you think so because I talked to him about and the two of you are going on a date next weekend!"
"Really! A date?" the brunette asked enthusiastically.
"I helped make arrangements for you two to go to this fancy restaurant in town."
"I'm so excited! I've never been on a date before, thank you so much for setting this up for us Galinda!"
Nessa stayed in the room with Galinda and chatted for a while, then went back to her room after about an hour.
It was about another two hours before Elphaba came home. She came inside and set her bag down. The blonde was sitting at her desk with her sorcery textbook open.
"Elphaba Melena Thropp! Where have you been?" she questioned.
"I had to stop by the library to get some research for an assignment, my sweet." she explained. "And I don't ever recall telling you my middle name…"
"Nessa told me it. She was in here for a while earlier. I really like the name Melena." Galinda said.
"It was my mother's first name." Elphaba said as she sat down on her bed. The blonde came to sit beside her.
"Its very pretty." she said. She didn't know much about Elphaba mom besides the fact that she died and Elphaba had always been convinced that it was her fault. Which it wasn't.
"I technically don't even have a middle name. Its just Momsie's maiden name, Arduenna."
"Well thats a nice name too. " The green girl gave a small smile.
"What was your mom like?" Galinda asked. She wasn't sure if she should have asked that. She didn't want Elphaba getting all sad and stuff.
Elphaba remember Nessa use to always asked that question, considering the girl never got to meet her mother. Though she was only three years old when her mother died, she still had fond memories of her. The green girl didn't realise she had been hesitating for quite a while. Galinda was about to tell her she didn't have to respond, when she did.
"She was beautiful." Elphaba started. "She looked at a lot like Nessa. She was the only person from my childhood who actually made me feel somewhat loved. Everyone always made me feel like I was some unwanted monster, especially my own father...but mama was never like that. She cared and she loved me and treated me like an actual human being. Of course if it wasn't for me she would still be-"
"Elphie stop." The blonde cut her off and held her hand. "It is not your fault. Do you hear me? Your father was the stupid one for choosing to give her that kind of treatment. Please don't blame yourself. It wasn't you."
Elphaba nodded.
"I'm just glad I have you now my sweet." she said. "You make me feel cared for and wanted."
"I love you." the blonde squeezed her hand reassuringly. "And I'm never gonna leave you."
The green girl and kissed her girlfriend on the lips then pulled her in for a long embrace.
"Do you still have your bottle?" Galinda asked after they parted.
"Of course I do." she remembered she hadn't taken it out of her bag yet, so she went to get it and put it under her pillow for safe keeping.
"Oh Elphie, I forgot to mention I found a solution to our little sound problem." Galinda brought up.
"Oh really? What's your solution?"
"Drum roll please" The blonde drummed on her desk.
"Magic!" she held up her sorcery textbook with a big smile. The green raised an eyebrow.
"Magic? What do you plan to do, put a sound proof spell on our room?"
"Its worth a shot." Galinda said as she flipped through the book to the right page. She picked up her training wand and concentrated intensely then chanted a small spell under her breath.
"Did it work?" Elphaba asked.
"I don't know, we'll have to test it."
"How are we gonna test it?" Elphaba asked. The blonde sat her wand down and then screamed at the top her lungs. Moments later they heard a knock at the door.
"What is going on in there!?" Nanny called. "Is somebody hurt?!"
"Oh, sorry Nanny! We were just testing something." Elphaba said.
"Goodness gracious! Y'all are trying to give an old woman a heart attack!"
"So I guess that didn't work." Galinda said once she was sure Nanny was gone. "I must have read it wrong. Let me try again." She read over the spell, then pointed her wand and chanted again.
"Now time to test." she said, then screamed at the top of her lungs again.
"Sweet Oz, Galinda!" Elphaba said holding her ears. "I'm going to need a hearing aid by time this is over with!"
They waited about 40 seconds to see if Nanny was going to come back and she didn't.
"I guess it worked." Elphaba said.
"Yay!" The blonde squealed. She was about to put her textbook away, but Elphaba asked if she could see it.
"Sure. The writing is really funny though, some of of words are hard to pronounce. Especially for me." she warned. Elphaba sat the book down on the bed and flipped through some of the pages. It was really funny writing.
"Elka atum ateh atum eka akah…" she began. "Elka atum ateh atum eka akah elka atum…"
Galinda was surprised at this. Elphaba was reading the foreign words fluently like it was her second language. She hadn't even taken the sorcery class. The green girl continued to chant and her hands involuntarily began to move as she said the words. Seconds later, Galinda's notebook that had been sitting on her bed began to levitate all the way to the ceiling. The blonde gasped and Elphaba stopped and looked up. The notebook stayed there for about 5 seconds then fell back down.
"Elphie how did you do that!? It took me a whole almost semester of practice last year before I could do my first spell!"
"I...I don't know, it just... came naturally."
"You're a witch!" Galinda exclaimed.
"A witch?" Elphaba wrinkled her nose.
"Well a good witch." She added with a smile.
"My sweet, just because I seem to have a talent for sorcery that I was completely unaware of doesn't make me a witch."
"You should take sorcery with me!"
"I don't know, Lin…"
"It'll be fun! And when we graduate and move to the Emerald City like we've planned we can be famous!"
Elphaba just stared at her in disbelief.
"And maybe we can use our skills and someday meet the Wizard!" She added, knowing Elphaba would like that last part. The green girl smiled.
"I can see it now! Elphie and Galinda: The greatest witches of Oz!" the blonde said dramatically.
"Don't dream too far, my sweet. I think you're getting in a little over your head."
Just then they heard another knock at the door. Elphaba went to answer it. It was Nessa.
"What is it my pretty?" she asked. Nessa wheeled herself into the room.
"Did you hear any noises Nessa?" Galinda asked.
"I heard you screaming a while ago Galinda. Is everything alright?"
"Did you hear the second scream?" she asked.
"Uh, no. I just heard one."
The blonde smiled at Elphaba. "It worked!" she mouthed.
"Anyway, I have great news to tell you Fabala!"
"What might that be?" Elphaba asked.
"I'm going on a date!"
The green girl's eyebrows shot up.
"A date? With whom?" she asked.
"This Munchkin boy Galinda found for me, Boq!"
"Boq?" Elphaba gave Galinda a look.
"Oh Fabala! Isn't this wonderful! I'm about to have the first happy night of my life! Thanks to Galinda!" Nessa exclaimed. Galinda smiled but Elphaba didn't.
"Boq and I deserve each other and Galinda helped it come true! Please Fabala, try to understand." Nessa begged. The green girl hesitated for moment. She wasn't sure she had ever seen Nessa so excited. Maybe it wasn't such a bad thing.
"I do." Elphaba said with a small smile.
"Yay! I can't wait!" Nessa exclaimed. "And also do you have anymore of our juice boxes Fabala?" she asked.
"Yes, they're in my bag." the green girl nodded.
"Feel free to take the rest of them." Galinda mumbled. Elphaba gave Nessa the unpleasant juice and she went back to her own room a few minutes later.
"So you set this up?" the green girl asked Galinda.
"Yes."
"That was nice of you."
"Really?" Galinda wasn't expecting that response.
"Yeah, Nessa doesn't get very excited about a lot of things. Its nice to see her happy." Elphaba explained. "But...are you sure Boq is serious about it?"
"What do you mean?" Galinda asked.
"I just don't want my sister getting hurt."
"He is. He promised he would do it for me." the blonde explained
"So I won't have to have a violent conversation with him if he just so happens to break her heart?"
"That won't happen." Galinda reassured.
"I'm taking your word for it."
"So Elphie, you know we have sound proof walls now." Galinda brought up moments later.
"Yes, I commend you on that my sweet. Excellent job." She smiled.
"Nessa and Nanny can't hear us, and its not very late yet."
"What are you implying my dear?" Elphaba asked, already aware of what her girlfriend was suggesting.
"You know."
The two enjoyed the rest of their evening with a bit sensual fun and got to be as loud as they wanted about it.
