Rifiuto: Non Miriena
A/N: Sorry this chapter is so short.
Fiyero and Elphaba set their wedding for spring break, planning and keeping everything secret. Two weeks before spring break, Elphaba slipped cards onto Milla, Glinda, Avaric and Boq's desks, and with a secret little smile, she dismissed her class. Unfortunately, the four had to wait until lunch to open them. When lunch finally rolled around, they got their lunch, settled at their usual table, and looking at each other, pulled their cards out of their bags.
"Ready?" Avaric asked, as the others nodded. On the count of three, they opened the envelopes, and pulled out- not cards- but invitations.
Wedding invitations.
They were beautiful sapphire blue invites with emerald green lace design at the top and bottom.
Together with their parents
Elphaba Isabella Thropp
and
Fiyero Alexander Tiggular
request the pleasure of your company
at the joining of their union
The fourteenth of May
two thousand and ten
at dusk
At The Rose Garden at Suti Shiz Park
Reception to follow
"They're wedding invitations!" Milla cried.
After lunch, they tried to get a moment alone to thank their teachers, but ended up going home without thanking them. Well, except Glinda. She thanked Elphaba as soon as they got back to the apartment.
"What are you going to do once you and Mr. Tiggular get married? With the apartment?" Glinda asked, as she and Elphaba sat at the table with bowls of ice cream.
"Well, I'm going to move in with Fiyero, and we're going to live in his apartment. And as for this one, well... would you like to stay here, Glinda?"
"Can I? I'm only fourteen."
"Well, you can if you have a guardian looking after you, then you'll be able to stay here. The landlord knows the situation and trusts me, and she said she'll keep watch on you too, until we can find a permanent place for you. Okay?"
After a while, Glinda nodded.
Spring break rolled around fast, and so did the wedding. So it was on May fourteenth that Glinda and her friends found themselves in the rose garden at Suti Shiz Park at dusk. As she slipped into her seat next to Milla. She'd chosen a light pink halter and black heels. She looked very grown up in her spring dress. As for Milla, the girl had dressed in a sky blue spaghetti strap dress with black heels. Both girls wore their hair in curls and excitement danced in their eyes.
"I wonder what her dress looks like." Milla said.
"I bet she looks absolutely beautiful!" Glinda said, excitement in her cheeks.
"Have you noticed, we're the only students here?" Boq asked, looking around. Slowly, the other three did as well, realization dawning.
"Maybe they only wanted us here." Milla said.
"Doesn't that mean we're special?" Glinda asked, playing with a wayward curl. The others shook their heads, all silently excited by the fact that their teachers had asked them to their wedding and not their classmates.
As the four sat chattering, they didn't even realize that music had started and the procession was starting down the aisle. Avaric gently tugged on Milla's shoulder when Elphaba started down the aisle.
"Look."
They turned, standing with the others, as Elphaba and her father started down the aisle.
"She looks so beautiful." Milla whispered, the romanticism she was raised in coming out. Elphaba glanced around quickly, and spotting her students, winked to them, before turning back to Fiyero. All four knew what it meant.
A silent thank you for everything they'd done to help.
Turning back to the man in front of her, all Elphaba could see anymore, was Fiyero. Her childhood sweetheart, her first love. And now, the man she was going to marry and spend the rest of her life with. Her heart skipped a beat, as butterflies erupted in her stomach, at the thought of spending every day and night with him for the rest of her life, through the good and the bad, through having children and grandchildren, he was going to be there with her through it all.
Like he promised her that night.
He was going to be there for her for every good and bad night, every good and bad day, every memorable vacation and forgetful weekend.
He promised her.
And he was going to stick to it.
He'd promised her.
And as she made her way towards him, a smile bloomed on her features, a smile that mirrored his own. It was a smile filled with promise and excitement, love and happiness, fear and hope. And as she took his hand at the altar, she knew that everything would be all right.