A/N: Hello! Welcome to the second chapter of Shadows of the Past. I hope you enjoy it! I really don't have much to say
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Glinda wiped her eyes tiredly, as she looked out from the balcony of the Emerald City Palace. "Two years since…" her voice trailed off into the slight breeze. She looked below her; the Emerald City was gleaming in all its glory. And the streets still bustling with people celebrating... celebrating Elphaba's death.
It was the first day of a weeklong celebration of the Wicked Witch of the West's death. Glinda, being the new ruler of OZ, was expected to be celebrating with the citizens of OZ, but she had decided otherwise.
"I can't do this anymore!" She choked; tears were filling her eyes again. "Always pretending everything is alright; denying that I was ever her friend. This wasn't the way it was supposed to be!"
She quietly left the balcony, shutting the doors behind her. She wiped her tears away with her hands, ignoring the makeup that stuck to her hand when she did. "Elphie. How could I let them do this to you! You should've stayed with the Wizard; if you would've you'd still be here! None of this would've happened!" She paused when she realized what she was saying.
Glinda stood still for a second in thought, "No, Elphie, you did the right thing. If you would've stayed here, you would've never been happy. Because I stayed with him, I suffer for it now. I should've gone with you."
She said no more, but she began to stomp on the wooden floorboards of her room, the same sound came out every time she took a step. Until, she stepped on a certain board, a hollow noise was heard, "Yes!" She whispered, almost to keep it a secret from the air.
She bent down, moving her skirts out of the way and she lifted the floorboard. Under it wood were her two most precious possessions, The Grimmerie, and the Green Elixir. Glinda carefully removed them both from the hole; she stood up and moved the board back to its original position.
She looked down at the book in her hands, so now it's up to you, for both of us. Now it's up to you…Elphaba's words echoed in Glinda's head.
Glinda carefully made her way to her large vanity on one side of her bed. Various cosmetics and bushes were scattered about the expanse of the table. She quickly cleared the space and dusted the face power off the surface. After, she carefully set the Grimmerie and the bottle on the vanity. "Now, where to begin?"
She cautiously opened the cover of the book, and then flipped to a random page. "It's blank…" Suddenly, something slightly moved on the page. Glinda looked down again to see a jumble of letters and symbols. She gasped as they continued to move about the open pages.
"Elphaba… could read this. How?" The woman asked as she shook her head. She squinted her eyes, looking for some clue of how to decipher the book. "It will take time. I know, but I will figure you out." She spoke to the book.
After minutes of concentration and frustration, Glinda gave up (for that night anyway). Clenching her jaw in frustration she shut the book again, and a small cloud of dust rose from the pages of the book.
So yet again, with great care, Glinda lifted the book off her vanity and set it on her neatly made pink bed. With the brown cover that was dirty and beat up, it looked out of place in Glinda's large pink and white bedroom. Even so, that book had become Glinda's most prized possession (along with the elixir).
Glinda quickly scurried around her room, getting ready for bed. She washed all the caked on make-up off her face, as she did, dark circles under her eyes became visible. She sighed as she took the tiara out of her hair.
She turned to face her bed, when half way through the turn, she came face to face with herself in the mirror. She didn't like what she saw. This Glinda was tired, and broken… she was weary of ruling OZ. She'd rather be dead. This Glinda had dark, visible circles under her eyes. They appeared shortly after her best friend's death. Her hair was knotty, and she really didn't give a damn about the people of OZ right now.
This Glinda was the real Glinda. "What… what… have I become?" Glinda stammered, she looked at herself again, "Elphie didn't want it to be like this. She wanted me… to live… to be happy…"
Tears welled up in her eyes as she continued to look at her reflection. "I… I can't do this anymore. I can't be happy, not when I... have to lie about her!" She chocked, her tears were beginning to flow on to her cheeks. "I have to leave this place, I can't pretend for ever...Oh Elphie why did you leave me here?"
Glinda, for the last two years, had done so well to conceal her sorrow over Elphaba's death. All reserve was gone now; she was alone in her room sobbing. While the rest of OZ celebrated what she cried for, 'if they only knew the truth' Glinda thought.
Soon, she made her way to her bed, tears still streaming down her face. She slowly sank beneath the covers, by then her sobbing began to subdue, and her tears began to fade away. In a matter of five minutes the only evidence were the tear streaks on her cheeks and her eyes were still puffy.
She took the Grimmerie and gently placed it under her pillow. She flicked off the light and quickly fell to sleep, all the while a plan was beginning to form in her mind. A plan that would free herself from the horrible lies she was forced to tell.
A/N: So! How'd you like it? I slaved over this chapter, I'm serious, it took me forever. I lnow we've all seen moping Glindas before, but please bear with this one. She will be better in no time! I swear it!
So, I hope you like it. Stay tuned. O.0 R n' R! ;)