Two days later and Galinda's lip was nearly healed, but she refused to attend classes alone just in case the terrible bullies picked on her again. She only went to classes she had with Elphie.
Elphaba returned to their room after the last class, setting her bag down and approaching Galinda, who was sat at her vanity applying eye makeup. "Going out?" she asked, stopping behind her and resting her hands on her friend's shoulders.
"No," Galinda said. "No way."
"Then why are you putting on makeup?"
Galinda rolled her eyes and looked at Elphie in the mirror. She could be so silly sometimes. "For you, Elphie."
"What?"
"Who else?" Galinda asked. "Honestly Elphaba, sometimes I wonder about you. I know you said you're not smart with socialities but who else would I be making myself up for besides my girlfriend?"
"Girlfriend?" Elphaba squeaked in an altogether un-Elphaba timbre.
"Aren't we?" Galinda asked, turning around in her chair and looking up, worried now.
"You want to be?" Elphaba asked, wondering why her heart was suddenly pounding. Why did she feel like she was ten degrees hotter at the thought of Galinda wanting to be her girlfriend?
"Don't you?"
"I asked first," Elphaba said lamely.
Galinda huffed and put her hands on her waist, standing up. "Of course I do you silly thing, or I wouldn't have mentioned it!"
Elphaba waited a few seconds to see if her friend was going to laugh, or say she was just joking, but when that didn't happen, she let out a long breath and grinned, a little high from the feelings running through her. She only realized she hadn't said anything when Galinda poked her in the chest. "Ow..."
"Well!" Galinda said indignantly. Elphie could be so... so... infuriafying sometimes! "Do you want to or not?" She tried to pretend she didn't care about the answer as much as she did. She would positively die if Elphie said no!
Elphaba picked Galinda up and tossed her on her bed. "Yeah," she answered, climbing atop her girlfriend amidst a sea of blonde giggles. Galinda really was beautiful, especially when she smiled. A genuine smile, not the kind she put on for the public. The smile that only Elphaba got to see these days. "You're really beautiful," she whispered, bending her arms so she could lean down and kiss her girlfriend. Carefully, even though her cut wasn't open anymore.
Galinda stopped laughing when she felt Elphie's lips on hers, and she kissed back eagerly, tired of not being able to because of her stupid lip. Finally it didn't hurt to kiss, and she intended to keep Elphie at it until all hours of the morning.
Elphaba pulled back and started to climb off of Galinda, but swirling blue eyes and a hand on her arm stopped her.
"Elphie, keep kissing me," Galinda breathed, moving her hand to the back of Elphaba's head to pull her down.
Elphaba went willingly, settling herself in for a long ride, on her hands and knees atop Galinda on the frilly pink bed. She would have preferred to do this in her own bed, but she didn't see any way to make that happen at the moment. She focused on other things, like the warm mouth beneath her own and the inviting way Galinda parted her lips. She slid her tongue between them, reveling in the little noises her girlfriend made.
Galinda accepted Elphie's tongue and licked it with her own, drawing it further into her mouth with each stroke. She had never wanted anyone like this before. She'd kissed a few boys, and it had been really good, but she'd never wanted more. Right now she wanted so much more, she wanted... she wanted to give herself to Elphie, all of herself, and even though that would make her vulnerable, she wanted it so much. She wasn't even sure how to go about it, or if Elphie would even want to have her that way, but she knew she was ready. "Elphie," she said breathlessly when her girlfriend moved to kiss along her jaw, giving her freedom to speak.
"Mmm?" Elphaba murmured, kissing her way along Galinda's strong jawline to the spot just in front of her ear.
"Would you-- that is-- I want you to--" The normally full-of-words Galinda Upland was suddenly at a loss, and she whimpered and arched her back, trembling as she took one of Elphie's hands in her own. She couldn't say the words, so she would show what she wanted instead.
"Want me to what?" Elphaba continued to murmur against her skin, kissing down the side of her neck and squeezing Galinda's hand in hers.
Trembling turning to shaking, Galinda guided Elphaba's hand to her ribcage, just below her breasts. "Here," she said pleadingly, and groaned when she felt Elphaba's fingertips dig into her ribs.
"I'm sorry, did I h--" Elphaba started to ask, her face flushed, nerves firing all through her body. She hadn't meant to squeeze... she'd just been surprised.
Galinda interrupted her quickly with a shake of her head. "No, it doesn't hurt," she promised, arching again into the touch.
Elphaba wasn't sure what to do with her hand, second-guessing herself that she was reading the signals correctly, so she just caressed the skin through Galinda's dress, where her girlfriend had placed her hand.
After a few minutes of the gentle stroking, Galinda was about to go crazy. Her nipples were hard and begging for attention, and Elphie wasn't getting the hint! She didn't want to be as bold as to rip her own clothes off, but Elphaba was really going to have to step it up before she lost her mind! She'd never been this worked up before and she needed something to relieve the tension! "Elphie, please," she whimpered, kicking her feet against the mattress. With her shoes still on, she realized! Oh! Shoes on her bed!
"You want me to-- higher?" Elphaba asked, not sure how to phrase the question, so just going with her instincts for once instead of relying on prior experience or knowledge.
"Yes, yesyesyes," Galinda rushed, relieved that Elphie'd finally gotten the hint.
Sweet Oz, she was nervous. What if she did it wrong? What if she did it right and Galinda still didn't like it? What if Galinda didn't want to do it anymore if she made a mistake? Oh, but she wanted to touch. She had never been able to touch anyone like this before, and it was new and exciting even if she was terrified of being unsatisfactory. And... her girlfriend said please. How could she deny that?
"Galinda," she whispered as she finally covered one breast with her hand. She gasped, surprised to feel the hard pebble of Galinda's nipple pressing into the center of her palm, even through the dress. Jaw slightly dropped, she looked at her girlfriend. "Is this-- am I doing it right?"
"I don't know, I've never done this part either," Galinda whispered. "But it feels good," she added with a sigh. "You feel good. Don't stop, okay?"
"Okay, but what if I--"
"For Oz's sake Elphie just stop thinking and feel," Galinda pled frustratedly. She reached beneath herself and unzipped her dress, slender fingers wrapping around Elphaba's wrist to guide her hand inside it. The first touch of Elphie's skin on her sensitized nipple made her groan, a feminine little sound when coming from her.
Elphaba groaned too, a much deeper sound, which was followed by a fierce growl and an even fiercer kiss, Galinda's words and actions awakening something in her that she'd never felt before. She claimed the little blonde's mouth with her lips, teeth and tongue, as she claimed Galinda's bare breast with her hand, pinching and squeezing possessively, and not too gently. She wanted to see... see what lay beneath the ribbons and bows and lace. See what her fingers were able to feel. "Get out of your dress," she demanded, her voice harsh and raspy.
Galinda gasped and whimpered, feeling utterly claimed in that matter of five seconds, and immediately began to shift her dress down, barely getting the top past her chest before Elphaba's mouth was on her, hot and wet and oh-so-wonderful. This was more like it. She liked being a princess most of the time, but sometimes she wished people would stop trying to protect her so much. Being perfect didn't mean she was made out of glass. She wasn't going to break if someone dropped her.
Galinda's attention snapped back to the moment when she heard Elphie's soft hiss.
"I told you to get out of your dress..."
"You distractified me," the blonde defended herself, then continued trying to wriggle out of her clothes. Elphie wasn't even helping! It would be SO much easier for her girlfriend to pull it off... but finally she got it over her hips and then kicked it down her legs, and then... blushed because she realized she was laying in front of Elphie in just her knickers, stockings, and shoes.
Elphaba's breath caught in her throat as she stared down at the amazing sight before her. Galinda was truly magical... even her skin seemed to sparkle in the dimly lit room. And the rosy flush in her cheeks only made Elphaba appreciate the sight even more. She couldn't believe this was happening. Even more than the last time she thought she couldn't believe it was happening. She was... how to put it delicately... excited. Very much so. And by the looks of things, so was Galinda. Which just served to excite her to an even greater degree. She held back the sudden urge to push aside those frilly yellow panties and put her fingers inside. She wanted to so very badly, but she couldn't just do that. She might hurt Galinda, in the unpleasant way. So she gripped her thighs instead, forcing them apart just an inch or so - just to show that she could, that she wanted to, but not enough to suggest she was going to go between them. Her fingernails left half-moon marks on the pale, creamy skin, and Galinda's whimpers were driving her to distraction. She looked up to see her girlfriend's chest heaving, a light sheen of perspiration dusting her collarbone and forehead.
Nothing could have prepared Galinda for the rushing thrill that raced through her when she felt Elphie's hands on her thighs, and she mewled softly in protest when Elphie didn't go for her... you know... panties. She whispered the word even in her head.
"Galinda," Elphaba husked, crawling over her to get away from those tempting panties, lest she lose her self control and do something wicked.
"Yes, Elphie?" Galinda managed, looking up into her Elphie's dark, dark, much darker than normal eyes.
"You told me this is the first time you've ever wanted more instead of wanting to wait," Elphaba said, her voice hesitant but still smooth.
"It's true," Galinda replied, a wispy little sound.
Elphaba captured one delicate earlobe between her teeth and gave a light tug, then bathed the spot with slow licks of her tongue. "It's the first time for me, too," she confessed. "I want to do things to you... things I've never even dreamed of doing to anyone before..." She paused, and then continued breathlessly in Galinda's ear. "For the first time... I feel... wicked."
Galinda wasn't quite sure how it happened, because the only time she'd ever felt it was when she touched herself, snuggled under the covers back home, and once here when Elphie was down having dinner, but an electrifical spark shot through her when Elphie said those things in her ear. She shuddered, clinging to Elphaba desperately, needing more but unable to articulate it. She wanted Elphie to be her very first... she was sure of it. "What-- what kind of things?" she asked quietly.
Elphaba may not have had any experience with this, but she had instinct, and she had desire, and she had intensity. She bared her teeth and dipped her head down to nip Galinda's collarbone, reveling in the gasp from beneath her. "Things like seeing you naked," she exhaled slowly. "Kissing you here..." Her lips made their way to the top of Galinda's breast. "And here..." They closed around her nipple, sucking softly for several long moments before Elphaba picked her head up and moved one hand down to the blonde's hip. "Touching you here..."
"On my hip?" Galinda asked, a whiny quality creeping into her voice as she wiggled, uncomfortably warm and tingly between her legs.
"Somewhere I can't say," Elphaba whispered, not quite confident enough to really talk dirty. Her pulse was rushing, her head reeling, and her face flushing, but what she felt was so far from loathing that she couldn't believe she'd ever felt anything of the sort for her roommate, even when they'd first met.
"Elphie, I'm ready for you," Galinda pled with her, parting her legs in clear invitation, her chest rising and falling rapidly with the labor of her breathing. "Please," she added, her blue eyes full of need.
Elphaba shivered, unused to feeling so powerful over another person. "You're ready for me?" she asked, her hand shaking with the effort to hold back. "Are you sure, Galinda? You can't take it back, and you might change your mind tomor--"
"I'm sure," Galinda interrupted in a hurry, not wanting her Elphie's head filling with such nonsense. "Do you want me to beg?"
"No," Elphaba said just as quickly, covering Galinda's mouth with her own, finally letting her fingers dance lower until they rested snugly between her girlfriend's parted thighs. She had never heard such a delicious sound as the one Galinda made then, and she instinctively curled her fingers, groaning quietly at the heat she found. "You're very warm, little girl," she breathed, nipping at Galinda's jaw.
There it was again... little girl... making her shiver instead of scream. "Your fault, Elphie," she managed to whimper. "You do this to me... oh please, please?" Elphie had said she wouldn't make her beg, but it was getting impossible not to. She wiggled her hips, pressing upward into unmoving fingers, and moaned, a sound quite unbefitting of Galinda Upland.
"Like this?" Elphaba asked, squeezing softly, rubbing her fingers back and forth, needing Galinda to guide her. She wasn't ignorant, she knew about sex logistically, but it was something altogether different when it came to being in the moment, and wanting desperately to please your lover. She didn't want to use intellectual knowledge, she wanted raw feeling and base desire.
"Elphaba please," Galinda groaned, arching her back, her face flushing a deep red as she begged, "pull down my panties."
Elphaba swooned slightly, unable to believe she was causing this kind of reaction in Galinda. The blush only served to excite her more, and she complied with the hoarse request, tugging the yellow lace and ruffles down to Galinda's knees. "I don't want to hurt you," she said softly as she moved back up over her girlfriend, one hand returning to the warm slickness between her legs.
"I'll die if you don't have me, Elphie, and that's worse!" Galinda cried.
Elphaba couldn't stall any longer without driving Galinda crazy. She'd just have to be extra careful not to hurt her, that was all. She'd have to trust herself. She could do this gently. She could.
Galinda was about to really cry when she felt one finger tentatively circling her opening, and a mewl of pleasure forced its way from her lips as Elphie pushed slowly inside her. "Oh," she gasped when the feeling settled. "Oh... oh."
Elphaba was taking everything in, committing it to memory for eternity. Galinda's flushed face - the way her lips were slightly parted and her eyelids fluttered, the rosy tint to her cheeks and the almost imperceptible sheen of sweat along her forehead. Her chest - the way it rose up and down so shallowly and with a hurried slowness that didn't seem possible. Her hips - the way the bones jutted out with a muted softness so abjectly feminine, the subtle rocking in an attempt to fill herself further. The scent - like sweet musk burning the insides of her nostrils, she wanted to smell it forever. And the feel - warm, wet, slippery, tight around her slowly thrusting finger, giving way to her will and molding around it.
There was no fire, no scalding, from this liquid source, just a mild heat tingling along the skin of her finger, sensitizing but not causing pain. Not as much water here as in Galinda's mouth. Very wet, but chemically different. Nothing in her physics class could explain that.
Galinda wriggled and squirmed, trying to get used to the feel, but soon realized there was no getting used to it. The whole point was to feel it, new and different every second, and as soon as she understood that, it immediately became comfortable. She had heard it said that life was a journey, not a destination, and well... so could sex be. Elphaba was inside her. Inside. She had never felt so close to anyone. Never let anyone touch her like this. Never wanted to before Elphie. "Oh Elphie," she exclaimed, panting slightly, looking up at her best friend and girlfriend in adoration.
"Yes?" Elphaba murmured, brushing her lips across Galinda's as she continued the slow rhythm in and out.
"Don't ever stop liking me," she said pleadingly.
"You silly thing, I love you," Elphaba whispered with a smile, moving her weight to her knees so she could use her free hand to stroke a lock of hair out of Galinda's eyes.
"You do?" Galinda gasped, her lips forming a perfect 'o', a squeal escaping as Elphie's finger hit just the right spot inside her.
"Mm," Elphaba answered, feathering her fingertips down her girlfriend's face.
"I love you too, Elphie," the blonde said tearfully, nothing else in the world mattering at that moment besides her and Elphie and what they were sharing. She didn't care about dresses or shoes or popularity... in fact they all seemed silly and unimportant compared to the gravity of what she felt now. Something real. Something that mattered for real. Something that healed things that were broken. Something not superficial, but deep and meaningful. It was scary.
Elphaba kissed Galinda then, and trailed her lips to her girlfriend's ear. "Can you open a little more for me?" she asked, grateful her blush couldn't be seen from their current positions.
Galinda breathed out slowly and moved her legs further apart, stopped by the panties around her knees. Elphie seemed to realize the problem at the same moment, because the hand left her face to pull them down and off over her shoes, and then she could properly accommodate Elphaba's request.
Once she had Galinda spread wider for her, she inhaled sharply, hoping to increase her confidence, and was assaulted by an electric twist low in her belly at the sight before her. Galinda looked so wanton and pure at the same time, and as she watched her finger disappear inside, she groaned, her belly tightening even more, her own face flushed and her panties wet. Carefully, she positioned a second finger alongside the first as she pulled out, and even more carefully started to slide them back in together.
Galinda whimpered and she froze immediately, starting to pull back out but for the hand that suddenly gripped her wrist.
"Stay," Galinda said quickly.
"But--"
"I want it, I want it Elphie, even if it hurts."
Elphaba swallowed hard, closing her eyes and burying her face in Galinda's neck as she took her, pushing in with a smooth, gentle thrust that made her love cry out and dig manicured fingernails into her shoulders deep enough to leave little marks. She lowered her entire body over Galinda's then, covering her, protecting her, trying to somehow shield her from everything wrong in the world.
Galinda squeezed her eyes shut tight against the moderate burning, stretching sensation between her legs, and tried to concentrate instead on how good Elphie felt laying on top of her like that. And how grown up she felt, sharing this with someone she really cared about instead of giving herself to someone just for status sake or because everyone else was doing it. She bit her lip, holding very still for several minutes until the pain began to subside, and then loosened her grip on poor Elphie's shoulders. "You know this means I'm yours forever, right?" she murmured, trying to mask some of her vulnerability behind confident words that didn't come out sounding confident at all.
Elphaba didn't know how to answer that, so she just lightly bit Galinda's neck, leaving a small pink mark on the pale white flesh. She moved her fingers and felt Galinda shudder beneath her. It was hard to tell if it was a pleasurable or painful shudder, but when the blonde's back arched, hard nipples pressing into her own, and a keening cry filled the air, followed by 'Elphie, yes!', she relaxed.
The discomfort was almost entirely gone now, replaced by wave after wave of roiling, white-hot pleasure bubbling around and through her, radiating outward from the source - Elphaba's fingers. Elphaba's fingers that had started to move, slipping in and out easily even though she could feel the tightness. And then Elphie touched her right there, and she gasped, arching desperately, her whole body shaking with the most delicious feeling, her thighs clamping shut to hold Elphie's hand in place. She was loud, she knew, as the pleasure reached its peak and she fell over the edge, but she was too exhausted and pleased to care. The tide ebbed slowly away, dissolving into less intense shivers until she was still again, relaxed, her legs falling open and releasing their hold.
Elphaba was stunned into silence, filled with awe and affection, and disbelief that she could cause that kind of reaction in anyone. When she saw tears leaking down Galinda's cheeks, though, she snapped into action, carefully pulling her fingers out and taking her love in her arms. "What's wrong? Did I hurt you?" she asked fearfully.
Galinda shook her head, her arms going around Elphaba's neck and squeezing tightly. "No," she laughed softly. "Nothing's wrong. Everything's perfect, right at this moment, actually."
That made Elphaba smile, and she kissed the side of Galinda's head. "Oh. This might be a stupid question, but... why are you crying, then?"
Galinda's smile faded and she stared at the ceiling. "Because I'm a silly girl, not smart like you, and everything's perfect right now, but I'm certain you'll get bored with me fairly quickly, and then I--"
"That is silly," Elphaba cut her off. "It's nonsense. You're smart in your own way, and you challenge me every day, and even if you didn't, I could never be bored with you, little girl. You said you were mine forever, and I intend to hold you to that. I said I love you, and that's not something that comes easy for me. I don't say it to just anyone, Galinda. I said it because I mean it... and now I'm rambling..."
Galinda's whole face lit up, her smile back full force. Elphie really knew what to say to make her feel better. It was like her whole big fear just disappeared with a snap of Elphie's fingers. "Okay," she agreed, settling a bit.
Elphaba started to settle a bit as well, when a sharp rap sounded on the door.
"Miss Elphaba!" came the shrill, piercing voice of Madame Morrible.
Elphaba cringed.
Galinda groaned and rolled her eyes. "Not exactly what a girl wants to hear after her first time," she whispered.
Elphaba choked on a laugh and wiggled out of bed, pulling the covers up over Galinda before going to answer the door. "Yes, Madame?"
"Miss Elphaba, I've just gotten wind of an incident that occurred the other day, and I must say I am quite displeased not to have heard it from you."
Elphaba cringed again. "I handled it," she said stiffly. "I didn't think your attention was required."
"Perhaps the way you handled it is what's causing me grief in my position as head of this school! We have parents threatening to pull their children!"
"Shiz would be better off without them," Elphaba said, doing her best to stay cool and unruffled.
"Be that as it may, we cannot afford the financial backlash of such an action."
"What's done is done," Elphaba said, crossing her arms over her chest. "I don't see what you can possibly want me to do about it now."
"The six of you will attend a problem-solving lecture together."
"What?" Elphaba shouted, the lights in the room flickering.
Galinda pulled the blankets over her head.
"I expect your cooperation, Miss Elphaba. It is a six hour lecture this Saturday. Anyone of you who does not attend will no longer be part of this school. This is not my decision, it is out of my hands."
Elphaba stood there fuming long after Morrible walked away, then she slammed the door and pounded her fist against it.
Galinda peeked cautiously out from under the blankets. "Elphie?" she asked.
Elphaba made sure not to snap at Galinda just because she was frustrated. She turned slowly and walked back to the bed, sitting down on the edge of it. "Yes?"
"I don't mind going, as long as we're going together," the blonde offered, biting her lip.
Elphaba stared for a few seconds and then melted, a bright smile spreading over her face. "When you put it like that..." she said, trailing off as she slid back under the blankets and wrapped Galinda in her arms. "Then I guess I don't mind either."