Disclaimer: Nope, not mine.
A/N- Wow. It's been a looong time since I updated. Partly due to the threats of my parents, partly due to school work. Please R&R!
A/N2- A pie each for my reviewers
Pipping-hot crust covered fruit goodness for:
crazy-homeschooler
Drop Your Oboe
lostladyknight...LLK
MissWickedWitch
ape975
A/N3- LLK, because you went through and reviewed all the other chapters, but I'm too lazy to go through and edit, you get:
Cookies
Cupcake
Brownies
Chocolate-covered strawberries
Sundae
Crumb Cake
Milkshake
Cuz that's what I gave everyone else who reviewed, so it's only fair I give them to you too.
The blonde had been attempting to wake her roommate, and not very successfully either. Elphaba simply burrowed deeper under her quilt. Her pillow pulled over her pointed head. With a huff Galinda slipped on an outfit, gave her hair a cursory brushing, and all but threw on her makeup. Even though there were no classes today, it was no excuse to sleep in, especially when pie was on the breakfast menu. She left the dorm, not for the café but for Nessarose's room.
She knocked on the door and heard Nessa call: "I'll be right there". Followed by sounds of a slightly creaking bed frame, the light droll of wheels on the wood floor, and a soft thump. The wheelchair bound girl opened the door, still in her nightgown.
"Sorry I woke you," the blonde said somewhat sheepishly.
"It's alright, I don't mind. I was about to get up anyway." Nessarose brushed the apology aside.
"Elphie…is well…she's just…sad today, I mean, she didn't even grumble or tell me to leave her alone this morning…" she trailed off, chewing a well manicured nail with pearl-white teeth.
"I know why," Nessa replied curtly, "it's her birthday."
"Most people would be thrilled to have a birthday, let alone presents."
"Not Elphaba, her birthday was just another excuse every year for our father to neglect her. In fact, the only presents she ever got were from me. More often than not it would be whatever of the gifts I had gotten that displeased me."
"Oh," Said Galinda, dropping her hand to her lap, slightly embarrassed how much shorter her pinky nail was from the rest of her nails, with sudden inspiration she jumped up "Maybe we could give Elphie a birthday party."
"You may not have known Elphaba as long as I have, but I think you'll agree with me when I say she'll never agree to any of this."
"That's why it has to be a surprise party silly!"
"Elphaba doesn't like surprises, and frankly, you've seen how she gets when she's angry."
Galinda instinctively rubbed the back of her head at the memory of when she had been shot across the dorm room and nodded.
"Alright, we need to think of a plan, but first. I must get dressed."
The blonde watched as her roommate's younger sister dressed herself with lightning speed. She wore her uniform just like any other day, but her legs were still bare. On her lap were stockings, light boots, and leg braces.
"Galinda?"
"Yes."
"If I try to put on my footwear, I'll fall out of my chair. I usually put them on in my bed anyway."
"Do you want me to move?"
"Yes, yes I would."
Once the small blonde stood up, Nessarose maneuvered herself onto the bed. The stockings, followed by the braces, and finally the boots were slid onto pale, slightly deformed, legs. Elphaba had told Galinda her sister had been born with tangled legs, now she saw the effects. Nessa was back in her wheelchair and at the door before the blonde could react.
In the hallway Galinda asked, "Do you think Boq and Fiyero would want to help?"
"I don't see why not, but they're probably at the café by now."
"It would be better to meet them there anyway."
They turned a sharp corner and almost ran into—well, over in Nessa's case—Fiyero and Boq.
"What are you doing here?" Asked Boq and Nessarose at the same time.
Which just happened to overlap with Fiyero and Galinda's: "We were just looking for you."
"Boys, we have a dilemma. Long story short: today is Elphaba's birthday and she isn't happy about it." Nessa explained.
"I've never really taken Elphaba to be a 'happy' person." Boq put in. Fiyero slapped him upside the head.
"We need help from you two. Boq, get a pie from the café. Fiyero, we need decorations, flowers perhaps." the blonde said commandingly, before adding, "And don't forget presents."
"We're on it." Fiyero said, turning on his heel and striding down the hall towards the café.
"Yes, Miss Galinda!" Boq called back a little too happily as he followed the long-legged Fiyero.
Nessa shot him a glare before saying to her blonde accomplice: "She still won't go through with this. Surprise party or not, Elphaba's going to have a cow."
"What?! You want to give Elphie a cow?!"
"No. It just means she'll be upset."
"Oh…What are you going to give your sister?"
"You'll see…"
"Aww…tell me! Tell me! Tell me!"
"It's a surprise."
"Fiiine."
"Are you quite finished? We have a party to organize."
Galinda nodded and set off with Nessa wheeling beside her for the Shiz Store. There was no time to go to the various little boutiques and stalls set up outside the walls of Shiz University. The Store was divided into different sections. Clothing, which was simply the different pieces of the school uniform one could piece together, and this was then divided by gender somewhat. Academic supplies: notebooks, quills, ink, textbooks for various subjects. Personal paraphernalia, pretty much anything one could think of or had forgotten at home that didn't fit into the previously mentioned categories. Lastly was the bookstore; it contained all books that had been removed from the Library over time and were taking up room in storage, and so the books were sold to students.
The blonde picked up a pair of pale blue dangly earrings exclaiming, "Oh my Oz! They're so pretty!"
"Galinda, drop it. We're here for Elphaba. Remember?" Nessa scolded bringing one of her wheels dangerously close to the blonde's delicate foot.
"Okay," Galinda put the earrings back on the display with a half-hearted sigh, "Elphie likes books, but she has so many that I'm not sure what she'd do with another."
"Well then, while you figure out your gift, I'm going to go get mine." And with that she rolled away from the blonde.
She was determined not to give her roommate and best friend a book. The jewelry caught her eye, as did the makeup, but she knew Elphaba wouldn't like any of that. A black velvet bag with deep purple satin lining looked to be the right size for the green bottle under her green dorm partner's pillow. A notebook covered with iridescent black fabric that appeared green, purple, or blue depending on how the light hit it. A set of brightly dyed quills: two green, two blue, one yellow, one red, and a plain white one. The small assortment Galinda amassed rested comfortably in the woven basket she had picked up.
Everything she bought at Shiz was charged to her family, so the cashier simply wrote down all the information and waved Galinda out the door. Nessa was waiting patiently outside the door with an unidentifiable package resting on her lap. Beside her were Boq and Fiyero, both of whom also had their gifts for Elphaba, as well as the pie and decorations. All of this had been quite easy in comparison to what they had to do next. Now all that was left to do was set up the party in the dorm without waking the birthday girl. The four made their way back to the dorm, knowing such a thing was much easier said (well, thought) than done, much, much easier.
A/N- So, please review!
Next chapter is the party.