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Ignorance is not Bliss- A memory

Last Time:

"I'm sorry Glinda, but I've got to get back to Milla. She and the kids are waiting for me back in Munchkin land. I told them that I wouldn't be more than a week. You know how travel is these days, slower than ever."

"I'm glad you stopped by Boq." Glinda said turning towards him. "We should have lunch sometime."

"Yes, I agree." and he silently walked out the door.

Boq's visit was highly appreciated by Glinda. She didn't know who else to talk to. All her other friends had hated and despised her Elphie, and Avaric was out of the question. She went back to sit down at her vanity.

"Oh Joy! That little girl Dorothy should be praised!"

Unable to control herself, she punched the mirror with her soft hands now rough with blood. The pain wasn't anything compared to what she was feeling for Elphaba.

Glinda looked up in her mirror, and in it she saw Elphaba's little green bottle standing on her night table. Its contents contained a green liquid. It had been her mother's. Glinda remembered. It caused Elphaba to be green. This time, it would have a different effect.

Glinda got up off of her elegant chair, and rushed over to the bottle. Its contents illuminated the whole bottle making it shine. After all these years, it still worked magic. Glinda thought about it for awhile, and came up with a crazy idea. She reached for the bottle, uncorked it, and raised it to her cherry red lips. All at once she tilted her head back, and drank the substance. She felt it slide down her throat and into her body. She began to feel dizzy, and faint. All of a sudden her body passed out on her bed, but her mind flew through time, and into Elphaba's form, as a child…

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"ELPHABA! Come here at once! I told you 3 times already to help your sister with her homework."

Glinda heard herself open her mouth to complain, but when she talked, it was Elphie's voice she heard. "If she could do it herself, and tell me what to write I wouldn't mind. But, I have to do everything! She's not learning this way."

"Shut up and do as I tell you!" Frex yelled. "My precious Nessarose deserves to have everything she wants." He muttered to himself.

Glinda felt her face sag into a frown at being yelled at again, and felt her legs walk down the hall to hers and Nessa's room. "It took you long enough! Nessa screamed. I've been waiting forever."

"I'm sorry Nessa." Elphaba said.

"Well, come here and help me. Today I have to do fractions for math."

"Oh, ok. Fractions are easy. You're adding fractions?"

"Yes."

"Well, this is what you do. It's very simple. You just make the denominators the same by using the lowest common factor and then add the numerators."

"Huh?"

"You have ½ and ¼ so what number goes into both?"

"I don't know-"

Glinda glanced up, and saw Frex at the door. "What are you doing? You're not helping her! You're just talking. She needs to get this done. Frex came over to her and slapped her hard across the face. Now do as you're told!"

Glinda felt her hand fly to her cheek. It hurt, a lot. Tears filled Elphaba's eyes. Glinda felt a burning liquid drip from her eyes and burn down her cheeks. Quickly, Elphaba's hands wiped them away.

"I'm sorry he treats you this way" Nessa said trying to comfort Elphaba.

"It's not your fault I'm green."

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Glinda sat up in her bed, she was herself again. Somehow, her cheek still hurt, and where Elphaba had been slapped, her face was bruised. Her heart was bruised as well. Poor Elphie. She thought. Little did she know that behind all of the sarcasm and laughs, and snickers she pulled off during their friendship, was a longing to be loved. They weren't just for the people who made of her. They were for her father. All of her life, her worst enemy had been the person she wanted to love her the most.

Somehow, it all made sense now. Glinda wished they hadn't turned their backs on each other. If only she were here, now, we could patch things up, and be old school chums again. Another tear rolled down her cheek at that moment. But, it came from a different place than the others. It came from her guilty conscious. She had been one of those who had made fun of her. She didn't know how much they really affected her. Elphie had always seemed immune to it.

A wind came through the window and wrapped itself around Glinda. It seemed almost like a hug. But, it left as quickly as it came. A smile crept upon Glinda's face; a sense of comfort was left by the wind, and with it, the gift of sleep.

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