Faithful readers, welcome back! I'M FINALLY ON SUMMER VACATION!
NiatheWickedLover: *laughs nervously* …no promises. This soon enough?
Broadwaygirl21: Thanks girl!
WickedFrenchHorn: Yeah…it is.
Disclaimer: Yes, I'm the owner of Wicked. (Jevous mentir. Translation: I lie to you.)
"So what do we do about Galinda?" Elphaba asked as they walked (or, in Azure's case, hobbled back to Shiz.)
"It's temporary. It's possible that when she sees someone she cares about in pain," Azure gestured to herself, "it might bring her back. Or it'll wear off eventually." Azure said.
"Okay then."
Evella had tagged along, now deciding she wanted to help Azure considering what happened.
They finally arrived, and Evella was allowed to stay, saying she was going to be a gymnast on the Shiz team. She enrolled in classes and roomed with Azure. The two sat in their dorm, and Azure was filling Evella in on what was happening.
"So, who's Galinda?"
"Okay, imagine the most perky, popular, pinkified person you can think of."
Evella closed her eyes. "Got it."
"Now multiply that…by six!" Azure said happily.
"Whoa…that's a lot of pink." Evella commented.
"Yup. That's Galinda for you." The blue-eyed girl said.
Evella just nodded.
"What about this Zeke fella?"
"Zeke…is a horrible person. He constantly bullies me and Elphaba, he takes our stuff, and he turned Galinda evil."
"How?"
"One of my inventions. It was supposed to help me remember stuff, but it malfunctioned and allowed someone to influence the thoughts and actions of another." Azure explained.
At that moment, Elphaba burst through the door, along with Galinda. Her blue eyes still glinted red.
"Azure, don't you have something you wanted to…show Galinda?" Elphaba asked.
Azure showed Galinda the red-turning-white scars from the whip of her Father.
"You did this Galinda. Inadvertently, but you still did it." Azure said sadly.
The redness faded from Galinda's eyes and she gently touched Azure's back, which caused the other girl to flinch.
"Oh Azure…I'm so sorry. Wait…what happened?" Galinda asked softly.
"You were mentally manipulated by Zeke. It was an invention that I built that malfunctioned that my parents gave to Zeke to use against me."
Galinda gently wrapped her arms around Azure, and pulled her into a hug.
The four sat down on the beds and began to talk. They told stories and became really close.
"It was great, he randomly yelled 'I'M A GRAPEFRUIT! GIVE ME YOUR CROSSANTS!' in the middle of the cafeteria, took a pineapple, chucked it at a wall, and ran out the door. That was one of the funniest things I had ever seen!" Azure recalled a story from when she was at the orphanage.
Suddenly, the lights went out and everyone in the room passed out. Someone was dragged out of the room.
The lights flooded the small room. The person in the chair struggled against the ropes holding them down.
"Yeah, you can totally break those ropes." A voice said sarcastically.
"Let me out!" The person in the chair yelled.
"No." A person stepped out of the shadows. That person was Zeke.
"Dear Oz, Zeke let me go!" The person yelled again.
"NO!" He yelled back. He strapped something to their head and turned it on.
"You will not remember Azure Maddox as a friend. You will remember her being annoying and you hating her. You will also remember Zeke Lancaster as a nice guy." Zeke said slowly, like a machine. The person in the chair nodded in response.
Zeke unstrapped the machine. The person looked around. They saw Zeke.
"Oh, hey Zeke." They said.
"Hi. How do you feel about Azure Maddox?"
"Ugh. Her? Ditched her the first chance I got, never looked back." The person said.
"Good…good." Zeke rubbed his hands together maliciously.
"Zeke?"
"Oh," Zeke laughed nervously, "n-nothing."
"Suuuurrrreeee…" the person said sarcastically.
"Now, the most important thing. What is your name?"
"You know my name! It's Elphaba Thropp!"
It worked. Zeke thought.
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