Hello people! Yay, the Greg Awards are here (they've been here for a while, but whatever) and I'm so excited! I can't wait to vote for my favorite authors and fics and see who wins!

Also, it's my birthday! Finally! So, in honor of this special day, I give you a new chapter about a very special party for a very special blonde who has worked so hard to make a very special green girl popular. It's pretty short, but I really wanted to give this to you guys since I've been gone so long.

Elphaba was surprised. Of course, the makeover hadn't made her popular, but it had opened up new opportunities for her. People would ask her why she was suddenly covered in glittery make up, and then a conversation would start. Elphaba was glad about that, because it would make what she was about to do much easier.

"Umm, Phanee, Shenshen?" The green girl began, nervously clearing her throat. She inwardly screamed at herself for making it obvious how nervous she was. "I know that you guys are, um, friends of Galinda's and, as you may know, her birthday is a few days away so, um, here." She handed them each a pink envelope that had their names written on them in Elphaba's neat handwriting. Each contained a sparkling pink invitation to Galinda's surprise party. Phanee and Shenshen thanked the green girl and walked away, both opening the envelopes to get a peek inside.

Once they were gone, Elphaba made a mental note to kick herself really hard when she got back to the dorm for her obvious nervousness. Sure, it was okay to be nervous, but to Elphaba, it was not okay to display it. The rest of the day went by in a blur for the green girl. She handed out invitations to all of the popular crowd first, including Fiyero, before passing out invitations to most every body else, as long as they weren't enemies with Galinda. She wasn't positive, but she was pretty sure that she had seen Victoria Wesle glaring at her when she was the only person in the popular crowd not to receive an invitation, but she was not planning on giving her one. Victoria and Galinda were enemies, and everyone knew it.

In fact, Galinda was the one that started everyone on pronouncing Victoria's last name "weasel" instead of Wesel. Even though it really had been an honest mistake on Galinda's part, and the blonde had tried-and failed-many times to make up for the incident with her rainbow kisses and unicorn stickers and peace offerings, everybody had picked up on it and now everybody called her "Victoria Weasel". So Elphaba was not inviting Victoria to the party.

The next day, Elphaba went to the Ozdust, which she had actually rented for the party. There was a lot of work to be done to make the place perfect. The Ozdust was, of course, stunning and would be lovely even without decorations, but Elphaba knew that the place lacked the Galinda-ness that she needed to make sure that it was perfect for the blonde. So she got to work.

After she worked for 3 hours straight, she gazed down at her checklist of things to do for the party.

[x] Hand out invites

[X]Hang Streamers and Birthday banner

[X]Put out tables and chairs and put tablecloths on tables

[X]Centerpiece on each table

[X]Balloons

[X]Caterer arrives, sets out food

[X]Make punch and place it out with cups

[ ]Buy/put on dress

[ ]Hair appointment

[ ]Back to Ozdust

[ ]Live band arrives

[ ]Guests arrive

[ ]Galinda arrives/ surprise Galinda

[ ] Party time!

It was just then that Elphaba remembered that she had to buy a dress, get her hair done, and arrive at the Ozdust again in time for the live band she'd hired to arrive. She really didn't know where to get a dress, especially since she had spent so much money on renting the ballroom and hiring the caterer and the band. Then, she remembered something. Someplace inexpensive, someplace popular people shopped, someplace that had a display of rather cheap ball gown-like dresses on display. The Think Pink Boutique.

She eventually made her way to the mall and entered the store. It was funny, because Elphaba had always believed that she would never go there again, unless, of course, Galinda once again dragged her there. The store was so pink that it was sickening, and Elphaba was actually beginning to wonder if she would be able to find anything that wasn't overly pink in there. The pink was actually sort of blurring her vision, as everything was seemingly blending together into one big piece of pink until something else caught her eye. Black!

The green girl hurried over to where she saw it and immediately felt relief flood through her. She was face to face with a rather beautiful, if Elphaba were ever to admit it, black ball gown-inspired dress. The entire thing was silky and the bodice was covered in, though barely visible, very beautiful swirl designs of a glitter. The dress had one sleeve and the skirt puffed out just enough to be noticed but not enough to get in the way. Looking at the tag in the back, Elphaba was extremely delighted to find that it was her size. Though she knew that she should, she didn't have time to try it on, so she simply grabbed it and took it to the checkout counter. When she was who was working the counter, she was surprised.

"Phanee?" She asked. The girl looked up. Definitely Phanee.

"Oh, Elphaba, I didn't know that you shopped here." The girl responded. Elphaba noticed that there wasn't a hint of the snooty tone that she was used to.

"Well, you know, party." Elphaba said.

"Oh right. I was just about to go get ready for that. How are you going to get Galinda to come without telling her why she needs to come?"

"Oh, I told her to meet me there because we were having a party for Fiyero, but that it was a surprise and she couldn't tell him."

"Oh, well see you there."

"Yeah." The green girl was completely shocked as she took the bag containing the dress and left the shop. What was with Phanee's sudden change of heart? Elphaba was beginning to ponder that, but then she realized what time it was and rushed out of the mall. She made it to the hair salon just in time for her appointment. The stylist did her hair up in an elegant ponytail on the top of her head and curled the hair. Elphaba had to admit, she looked rather pretty, but she didn't have time to admire herself in the mirror. She only had twenty minutes to get to the Ozdust, get the band ready, and greet guests before Galinda arrived.

She wasn't sure how, but she did it. Elphaba was amazed by how quickly she had gotten there and helped the live band get ready to play, as well as greeting the guests. Galinda would be arriving any second now, and everyone was hiding, either beneath a table or a chair. One brainless idiot even hid behind the balloons, though everyone knew that he was obviously in plain sight.

But Elphaba supposed that it was Galinda, after all, as she didn't see him. She actually began to panic when she came in and saw nobody there, but she squealed, half in delight and half in fear, when everyone jumped out and yelled "surprise". The band then started playing and many went to dance with their boyfriend or girlfriend. Fiyero came out from his hiding spot behind the balloons and offered his hand to Galinda, who happily took it and went to dance with him.

As she went, she turned her head to flash Elphaba a grateful smile, because she knew that the green girl was the one who had planned all of this. "Happy birthday!" Elphaba mouthed to Galinda, who was now on the dance floor. The blonde smiled.

Best birthday ever.

Yay! A new chapter! No guarantees on when the next update will be, but hopefully soon!

Happy birthday to me and everyone else out there who's birthday is today! And a very merry unbirthday to everyone else!