School has started. Yay I'm so excited can't you tell? Anyway two weeks till I see wicked! I'm so excited but I wish our seats were better. Oh well that's what binoculars are for right?
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Galinda was jerked out of her sleep by Madame Morrible's booming voice. "Miss Galinda?"
"Ye-Yes Madame Morrible." Galinda replied standing and smoothing out her wrinkled dress.
"Miss Elphaba has regained conscience now but is in a severe amount of pain. She will need to be kept here for a few nights until the swelling goes down and the pain subsides."
"But…she'll be alright?" She asked fretfully.
"The doctor said there might be some scaring but other wise yes, she will be fine."
Boq who had been sleeping the chair across from Galinda sat up. "What about the people who did this?"
"We are investigating but without a confession I doubt we will be able to punish anyone."
Galinda groaned. "But Madame Morrible something must be done they could have killed her!"
"Miss Galinda we are doing the best we can but I assure you there is nothing that you can do. So now both of you go back to your dorms it is late and you have classes in the morning."
"Oh no! I couldn't leave Elpha-"
"To your dorm Miss Galinda. You can visit tomorrow after supper."
"But…"
"Come on Galinda, let's go." Boq gently took her arm and led her out of the infirmary.
"But Boq! I can't just leave her there."
"You heard the head, you can see her tomorrow."
"But she's there all alone. She has to be scared."
Boq snorted. "Elphaba? Scared? Never. I'm sure she is just fine."
"But she is there all alone, and in pain…"
"Galinda I promise she will be up to her old self in no time. Tomorrow I'll ask around with the guys see if they know anything of who did this to her." He could still see her hesitation as he tried to lead her back to the dorms. "Come on, I'll walk you home."
Finally she relented, too tired to fight. "That's so sweet of you Boq."
He nervously played with the hem on his jacket. "Umm Galinda?"
"Yes Boq?"
"I was wondering since we couldn't go out tonight, would it be possible for me to take you out to dinner tomorrow evening?"
"Oh Boq." She whispered. He was such a sweet guy but she had absolutely no feelings for him. "I'm sorry but with Elphaba…she is going to need me."
"She never has needed anyone in her life why would she start now?" He answered coldly.
Galinda sighed as they approached her building. "I know she says she doesn't need anyone but I can see it in her eyes. No one has ever believed in her. I doubt she has ever had a friend before and I want to be there, even though she is cruel and mean at times."
"She doesn't deserve you."
Galinda glanced at Boq. "She's my friend." She answered simply because she didn't know how else to react to his strange behavior. Before he could say anything else she thanked him for the use of his arm and headed up to her room.
After an hour of tossing and turning Galinda realized it was pointless to sleep. Her mind kept drifting to the green girl. She stood and dressed into a simple frock. It was still in the wee hours of the morning, for the sun wouldn't be showing it's self for least another three to four hours. Galinda went over to Elphie's nightstand and picked up the current book she was reading, something about the great speeches of Oz. She smiled and placed it under her arm.
Elphaba found that if she laid on her right side and didn't movie (that included breathing) she wasn't in pain, but as not breathing wasn't an option she grinded her teeth and put up with it. Her body was in too much pain to think about how all this came about so she had been counting the past three or four hours. She had lost count a few times but was now on 4,389. When she slowly muttered 4,400 a loud thump echoed from the left side of the room. Not being able to turn to see what caused the noise Elphaba stiffened. That's when she heard it, the high-pitched squeaky voice cursing at something or other. "Galinda?"
"Oh Elphie!" She said a bit loudly.
"Shhh…They got a nurse right outside the door." She said hoarsely for it hurt to talk above a hushed tone.
Galinda quickly walked over to Elphaba. "I'm so sorry Elphie." She whispered taking her hand and kissing it. "I was so worried." She gently kissed her palm but let go when tears started streaming down her face so she wouldn't burn her friend's hand.
"Hey…don't cry I'll be okay." She said gently touching her knee. Her movements were stiff in part because of the pain and part because of unfamiliarity with the act of consoling.
Once Galinda's tears where reduced down to sniffling she pulled out the book from her cloak. "I thought you might want to read tomorrow and Horrible Morrible said I couldn't see you till after supper and I couldn't picture you just lying here all alone with nothing to do and no one…in all that pain. Oh Elphie! I was so scared." She said as the tears started again.
"Ohhh sweet Galinda." She whispered. "I'll be okay. They said I could go back to the dorms in a few days. No long term damage."
"But your skin…"
"It looks worse than it is."
"Oh no Elphie. I saw it; it turned from red to purple to black. I can only imagine what it looks like now."
"Well when you come back after classes you can see for yourself. They said they could only bandage it at night. It needs to breath, or so they say."
"Your so brave."
Elphaba blushed and did not respond. She kept her eyes on the wall next to Galinda's figure. She only looked up when she felt Galinda's fingers in her hair.
"I…I love you, you know that right?"
Elphaba smirked. "Well that's quite a turn around from when we first met."
Though it was not the reaction she had hoped for the comment elected a small smile from Galinda.
"I hate to go back to that dreadful room. I hate to sleep alone." Galinda caught her self and blushed. "Er…I mean alone…in the room."
Elphaba smiled and felt drowsiness enter her. She slowly opened her arms. "I'll let you lay with me on two conditions. One you mustn't touch my chest and two you are out the window and back to our room before dawn."
Galinda smiled and lay down. She sweetly kissed Elphaba's lips. "I promise." She replied taking Elphie's hand in hers.
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