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Elphaba Thropp had no choice but to detest her roommate. The blonde bounced and bubbled and wore brilliant colors; she called her parents "Momsie" and "Popsicle" and was nothing if not a Society beauty. Galinda had a following of "friends" within five clock-ticks of her appearance at Shiz (not to mention seven trunks and fifteen hatboxes).
Galinda Upland had no choice but to loathe her roommate. The green girl always wore black, owned three pairs of shoes (as opposed to her massive book collection), and rarely smiled. As far as Galinda knew, Elphaba never laughed. In fact, Elphaba had no friends (except Nessa), spoke kindly to Boq, and was entirely disgusticified.
The girls agreed on one point and one point only: their status as roommates was due to catastrophic confusion and was decidedly temporary.
Elphaba thought her brain might melt into boredom if she spent much time with her giggling roommate. As the semester progressed, the green girl fell into a routine: she haunted the library and returned home only to bathe and sleep. When the library closed or Elphaba was too restless to read, she haunted a Deki's Coffeehouse. The corner coffeehouse was always dim and served Vinkan whisky in its darker coffees. In fact, Deki's denizens were mostly aspiring musicians who sipped cold coffee and ate cheap bread. It was a perfect hideaway from the snooty bustle of Shiz.
Galinda thought loathing Elphaba was almost as entertaining as being friends. She garnered support from fellow students (who thought Elphaba was disgusticified) and hoped for scandalicious gossip about Shiz's favorite terror. Elphaba studied, read, and vanished rather often. The green girl was reputedly lived in the library and some students had spied her entering the least swankified coffeehouse in town. Galinda never wondered why Elphaba had no friends; it was obvious, really—she was antisocial and impossible.