AN: Hey! It's been a long time I don't upload something. That's because I didn't have internet connection for a long month and tomorrow I'm going on holiday (in Greece, yay!). That's the whole story because I won't upload for three more weeks but I'm writing a parody that I think I'll post when I come back. I still don't have a title for it, give me your suggestions in the reviews and then I'll choose. Please, make me happy. I love you! x

At the same time Avaric was shaking is head back and forth to see the whole playground, children were playing gaily. Avaric thought that, in the end, they were no more so different from them, children played joyfully, singing in circle, enjoying their painless life 'till they were able to do it.

He could hear clearly:

Ring around the rosie,

a pocket full of posies.

Ashes! Ashes!

We all fall down!

When he felt steady he decided to go through this definitely, looking for the last two players. After only two steps he saw a light brown tuft of hair behind a tree.
"Fiyero…" chuckled Avaric "I got you!" he placed himself in front of his buddy but he found him asleep and laughed hardly.
Fiyero woke up for the unexpected noise and started laughing himself. Avaric understood that he slept for all time and, helping him to stand up, he proposed to go meet the others. The Winkie prince agreed and, in less than five minutes they could see, from not a huge distance, Galinda and Elphaba.
"I'm back, Ladies." Fiyero smiled sitting, with crossed legs, next to Elphaba, and kissing her softly on her lips.

Elphaba blushed for the presence of Galinda, but in the end she was her best friend and she wasn't embarrassed at all, so she let it go.

The green girl let him hug her tight and the rested in that way for a long time, or, well, it seamed a long time, out of the blue they saw Boq limping in their direction.
Immediately Galinda stood up to help him and the two friends did the same.

Avaric had departed, looking for Nessa, who was the last not found player.

"What's up, Boq?" asked Fiyero worried for him.
"I… I just got hit by a ball on this foot, but that's nothing, really."
"Ooooooh, my poor Boq!" cried Galinda putting her hand palms on her cheeks.
"Let me help you, huh? As you did with me before." she smiled encouraging him.
"I can do it on my own don't-" but he stopped abruptly feeling her light touch on his arm; she led him next to her, on the grass, where the tablecloth formed a little elevation.

"Can I take care of you?" she whispered with her sweet voice he just couldn't handle.

"Yes, I suppose you can. But I don't want you to get stressed and…" the next words were all confused because Galinda had started massaging his foot and he was too stroke and excited to put together two words that made sense.

"Don't worry Boq, Avaric will look for Nessa, now just relax." said Elphaba looking at him before going for a stroll with Fiyero in order to get some more intimacy.

It was six o'clock and when Fiyero and Elphaba were back from their walk found Boq and Galinda asleep, resting on each other.
Elphaba rolled her eyes but she was happy for his friend at least to have reached this little victory with the woman he loved. The sun was already setting down and Elphie grew worried for Avaric and Nessa who weren't back at all.

The park was nearly desert because it was getting colder and children had to return at home with their parents. There was no sound, no noise and that made Elphaba feel really awkward, thinking the worse for her sister.

She never had a good relationship with her, in a nutshell she was her slave.

Father was always against her but with Nessa, her cute, NORMAL daughter, he was sage and lovely. Elphaba was stolen from her thoughts by Fiyero, who comforted her saying the were going to find her sister anyway.

After a while they saw Avaric coming back running, he said in few words that he couldn't find Nessarose in any place. She hid so well no one could find her.

They woke up Galinda and Boq and decided to go back home, or Madame Morrible would have convoked their parents.

"C'mon, she knows the road back home and I guess she is already in her dorm right now, she is a smart girl, you know." Galinda said hugging her friend.

Elphaba was so shocked that hugged her for a long time, incapable of leaving her.

"Okay, okay. Now let's go." whispered Galinda.

But Nessa wasn't in her dorm either and now Elphaba was really getting scared for this situation. Otherwise Boq was a little happy, if we can say it, because of not having her staring at him all time. He knew she loved him, but he had a crush on Galinda and he wasn't going to change in mind.

Avaric, Fiyero, Elphaba, Galinda and Boq were all in the girl's dorm, just for a symbolic way of being together. They heard someone knocking at the door, and they all got scared because boys weren't allowed to stay in the girl's dorm, but it was only Nessa, covered of leaves, angrier and bossier than ever.

"Maybe it was better if we had lost her" said jokingly Fiyero in Boq's ear, who liked the joke but would have never admitted it for its cruelty itself.

After Nessa had vented all the anger the boys decided to go back in their dorms:
Avaric wheeled Nessa to her apartment were she was finally safe, and then went back to greet his friends and, at the end, thank Galinda for the great day.

"In the end, it wasn't a bad idea." he said.
"Oh, thanks Av! I know, I'm always underestimated by you." she said looking at her friends.
"Yes, but I'm not going to do it again." snapped Elphaba.

Everyone laughed at her reaction, even the green girl herself.

When Avaric went away Fiyero greeted everyone and, then, kissed Elphaba goodbye. It wasn't a long kiss, but it was quite pleasant.

When also Fiyero was on his way to his dorm Galinda wanted to help Boq reach at least the door of his dorm.

When they arrived she said
"I hope you'll be… fine." and she flushed while kissing him with passion and then, in a flash, greeted him.

"Oh… I… I just… Damn it, I'm talking with myself!" said the mere Munchkin nearly stumbling when trying to reach the door.

"Was that a hallucination? Ouch, my foot, no it wasn't a dream, oh my Oz." he murmured closing the door and shouting for the happiness.