Bonnie sat down nervously on a cream sofa with pink fluffy cushions. Her and Glinda had snuck away from the celebrations and gone back to Glinda's home in the Upper Uplands.
"That was an interesting experience, I wish we could travel by bubble in England!" Bonnie grinned.
Glinda smiled.
"Well we can't all come and go by bubble," she winced at the memory of the last time she heard that, "that's what Elphie said to me."
"Oh I'm sorry Glinda…" She started.
"It's alright, I have to put up with people saying things about her that weren't true every single day."
"So Elphie was her name?"
"Elphaba…Elphaba Thropp, it's funny, we started out loathing each other when we first met but then we became the best of friends, I've had so many friends but Elphie was the only one that ever mattered."
"So how did you become friends then?"
"We met at school, Shiz University and we were accidently roomed together. I gave her a hat, played a trick on her to make everyone laugh at her but when they did, she pretended not to care though I knew she did so I joined her and we just became friends."
Bonnie smirked to herself at the realisation that Glinda wasn't as good as her name indicated.
"What exactly happened to make everyone think that she was…wicked?"
"All Elphaba ever dreamed of was making a difference, she wanted to save the Animals, they were forbidden to speak. She was as happy as anything when the Wizard agreed to see her and he gave her a book, the Grimmerie, it's an ancient spellbook written in a lost language but Elphie could read it, she had so much power. The Wizard asked her to recite a spell from the book that gave the monkeys wings, that's what the Wizard wanted, he wanted them as spies. He had no power at all, he wasn't who he claimed he was. When Elphie ran off, the Wizard twisted what had happened to make out that Elphie was evil and turned the whole of Oz against her, they were all out to kill her."
Bonnie looked in horror as Glinda told Elphaba's story of why she was called 'wicked'.
"So she wasn't in the wrong, the Wizard was the wicked one." Glinda nodded. "Why did she say she was going to kill my grandmother then? Dorothy."
"Elphie would never harm anyone, she wouldn't have killed Dorothy at all. She blamed herself for Nessarose's death, she didn't get there in time, she knew it wasn't Dorothy's fault. She thought that her sister hated her because she believed the rumours too but Elphie loved her sister, she only wanted the shoes to remember her by, not for the power." Glinda told her, tears streaming down her cheeks.
Bonnie, close to tears herself, went over and hugged Glinda tight.
"It'll all be okay Glinda, I'm going to clear Elphaba's name."
Glinda looked up.
"Even if her name is cleared, it's not going to bring her back."
"You said she was very powerful, right? Well, if you two had such a strong friendship, she wouldn't give up that easily."
Glinda hadn't a clue what the girl next to her meant but it still gave her hope. She knew it was a long shot but maybe Bonnie was right, Elphaba was powerful, with the best intentions, even though she was dead…she is dead, the good witch thought, nothing was going to be able to bring her back. She had already given up hope but didn't say anything to Bonnie, she was going to try and clear her name and Glinda was going to help. She was going to stand up for her best friend, what she should have done a year ago and if she had, Elphie might still be alive today.
"I'll tell them, I'll tell everyone the truth!" Glinda remembered how she tried to clear Elphie's name last time, when she was still alive.
"No! They'll only turn against you!" "I don't care!" "But I do."
Bonnie saw the pain in Glinda's eyes, it pained her too, not to tell her that she thought Elphaba was still alive but she couldn't, not yet, it was only a feeling, she would hate to let the good witch down if she was wrong.
Glinda looked at Bonnie.
"Do you have anywhere to stay tonight?"
The girl shrugged.
"I'll find somewhere."
"Stay here, there's a spare room, I must warn you though…it's a bit pink."