Hello, all! You guys get two flashbacks this time, because you guys are so awesome. Thanks for your support!
They were going to take away Elphaba's bed. It was just a bed, but it meant so much to the blonde. She had been so grateful that they didn't give her a new roommate (she had been assigned a private suite, after all). If they had tried to put a new girl in there with her, she wouldn't be able to call that girl her roommate. Elphie was her roommate. Always had been, always would be. But she wondered what was worse, seeing a new girl sleep on that bed or watching workers take it away to Oz-knows-where for Oz-knows-who to do Oz-knows-what with it. Because that bed was special. So many memories were made on that bed.
Thunder crashed, shaking the building, and lightning illuminated the room. On one side of the room, a green girl somehow managed to sleep through it. On the other side, a pair of shining brown eyes poked out from beneath pink covers, the petite body they were attached to shrinking back every time lightning flashed or thunder rumbled. The pounding of the rain against the building drowned out the blonde's yelps.
"Elphie?" Came a small voice. "Elphie?" No response. "Elphie!" Again, no response. "Elphaba!" She cried. Her outburst just so happened to occur at the same time as a particularly loud roll of thunder, the combination of which was just enough to wake the slumbering green girl, who jolted awake and looked around, clearly still groggy. Elphaba looked outside for a moment through her window before trying to fall asleep again, but her roommate called her name again.
"What, Glin?" She asked sleepily, trying not to sound irritable, even though she was because she didn't necessarily appreciate being woken up this early.
"There's a storm." Came the blonde's shaky voice. Elphaba noticed that it sounded muffled, as though she had her mouth underneath the covers. Light from a flash of lightning confirmed that the only parts of her body that weren't below the covers were her eyes and forehead.
"I noticed."
"I'm scared."
"Don't be. It can't hurt you."
"But it's loud! And scary!"
"And how do you expect me to fix it?"
"I don't know. Talk to me or something. Momsie and Popsicle let me sleep with them when there's a storm."
"I thought only little kids do that."
"Well they always let me sleep with them when I'm scared! And storms are scary!"
"So...you want me to let you...what? Sleep with me?"
The blonde paused. "Maybe."
"If I do let you...sleep in my bed, will you let me sleep?"
"Hmmmm..." The blonde thought this over for a moment. "Deal!" And she flung the covers up and off of her, taking long strides across the room and pouncing onto her bed.
Elphaba soon learned that the blonde wasn't the best at keeping promises when she was scared or worked up, and she talked the green girl's ear off for the next thirty minutes or so as the storm raged outside.
The blonde sighed. That was one of her favorite memories of Elphaba's bed. It hadn't been as fluffy as Galinda's, but it had been quite cozy. Both girls were quite skinny, so they had actually fit quite well. That was when she'd last laid on her best friend's bed.
Some workers came in, beginning to disassemble the bed and prepare it to be taken out of the room. As they did so, Galinda's mind began to wander again, this time to the last time she had seen workers in the room. Or, more specifically, she thought about the events leading up to it.
"I want my bed! I want my bed!" Galinda sang, bouncing around the room. It was the night of the party at the Ozdust, when the blonde had first decided to attempt at making her friend popular. The green girl sat on her own bed while the blonde bounced about, singing about how she longed to have her bed. Galinda had known that there were people going to take away her bed and do some upgrades on it, pretty much just because her parents couldn't help but give her the best everything. But she hadn't known that it would interfere with her new project. That bed was very important to the process of making people popular. And not to mention that those people who had taken the bed had not handled it with care, she could see scratch marks on the doorway that weren't there before. They probably scratched it up by hitting the bed on the doorway. She didn't really care about the doorway, but what had they done to her bed? Plus, they were supposed to have taken only two hours. Her bed had been gone for seven.
"Oh, Elphaba! What if they stole it?" She thought out loud. Her green friend only shrugged with a small smile on her face.
"I love that bed!" She cried before she resumed singing and bouncing around. "I want my bed! I want my bed!" She did this a few more times before turning to her new friend and standing still.
"I wouldn't give up that bed for one million dollars! One! Million! Dollars!" She then resumed her jumping around the room. She needed her bed. Maybe Elphaba could get it for her.
"Come on, Elphaba, use your power. Get my bed." She instructed, but Elphaba held up her hands as if to show that she was pretty much powerless here. Galinda sighed, looking around for a way to get her bed.
"Why don't you come sit on my bed?" Elphaba asked suddenly, patting the bed on the spot next to her.
"Okay!" The blonde gushed, dashing over and sitting on the bed. "Now, Elphie... is it okay if I call you Elphie?"...
Galinda missed sitting on that bed. It was where she had first started making Elphie popular. Now it was being torn apart right in front of her. She sat on her bed quietly as the workers pulled apart the bed and began to take it away. Even long after they left, the blonde sat on her bed and stared at where the bed had been. She sighed when she heard a knock at the door, slowly getting up to answer it. Standing there was Shenshen.
"Galinda, we haven't seen you in days! We're all going out for lunch at this new cafe. It's super cute and the donuts are really good. We were wondering if you wanted to come." She said. The blonde thought about this for a moment. She realized that her popular friends hadn't really been hanging out with her since she and Elphie became bestest friends. But she really didn't feel like spending time with them. She only wanted to be with Elphie, but she couldn't.
"I...can't. Sorry." She responded, looking down at her glittering pink heels. Shenshen paused for a moment, but, after reminding her that she could come if she changed her mind, turned quietly and left. Galinda sighed. If this was how it was going to be without Elphie, she was going to have a problem. She couldn't hang out with her popular friends, they were just too annoying compared to Elphie (was she that annoying, too?), but maybe she could spend time with Fiyero. Maybe he had stopped thinking, and she could go and talk to him. He had known Elphie, too. Maybe he could help her deal with losing the green girl. It was worth a try. She didn't want to forget Elphie, just to stop being sad about it.
So the part about Galinda's bed disappearing might seem kind of random, but it's based on a blooper with Kristin and Idina where Galinda's bed doesn't come out for popular. I obviously added things to it and changed a few lines. If you guys are interested, I can put the video with the blooper on my blog. Thanks for reading! Summer is here! Hopefully, I'll be able to update more, since I have nothing planned this Summer except for a possible vacation in August. See you all next update!
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