A/N: …I'm not even going to try to excuse myself. I could only dig my hole deeper. But here's a doubly long drabble for your consolation prize! And this drabble may explain some of the delay, anyway. I'm sure y'all can relate. And oboefae and I are seeing Wicked on Saturday! At long, long last, we finally get to see it together, so this time oboefae won't be forced to make any secret phone calls from the bathroom.

Disclaimer: I don't own Wicked. I do, however, own the original story that I'm working on that still has four unnamed characters. Frustrating. Very frustrating, indeed.

Galinda was pacing; she went back and forth, back and forth so many times that Elphaba was absolutely convinced that she was going to wear a path into the floor.

Elphaba gave up trying to de-stress with her book. "Galinda, will you please relax? You're making me stress all over again!"

"Sorry," Galinda said shortly. "Can't relax. Relaxing not possible."

Elphaba sighed in exasperation. "G'lin, you're going to make yourself sick. No amount of pacing is going to change your grade and I know you did fine anyway."

Elphaba did know; she had been the one to study with her after all.

"Easy for you to say, little Miss Curve Breaker," Galinda muttered and merely paced faster.

Elphaba groaned and grabbed her friend's hand, pulling her out the door. "Come on," she growled, "We're going to go settle this once and for all."

She dragged Galinda through the Shiz halls until she reached Dr. Dillamond's room, where she curtly knocked. Dr. Dillamond willingly handed the exam to his favorite student and Elphaba looked up at Galinda smugly. Galinda took one look at the bright red letter at the top of the exam and threw her arms around Elphaba, mumbling something about "curves and angels."

A/N: Even though our month of January (well, my month of January. Thank you for not pushing me, oboefae) hasn't reflected it well, oboefae and I actually made a joint New Year's resolution to update on a weekly basis. So from here on out, you can expect weekly updates. Even from me.