Hello, everybody! I am BACK! Not that I was gone... Whatever. Anyway, I am going to TRY (Keyword TRY) to upload again on Saturday, but I might not be able to. I'm doing something with a friend on Sunday and I don't know how long I'll be gone. That means that I'll type the chapter on Monday, but a new one won't be up until Tuesday or later. So Sunday or sometime on or after Tuesday will be the next update. Okay, here's the chapter!


"I don't know about this, Glin. I'm nervous. Maybe I just wasn't meant to be popular. I mean, I've never been that type of person." Elphaba said as she and Galinda walked towards the university's cafeteria.

"Oh, Elphie! You worry way too much! It will be fine! You met them last night and they seemed to really like you." Galinda said, trying to make her friend feel better.

"Yeah, they seemed to really like me. Seemed to, not did like me." Elphaba pointed out.

"You have such a pessimist-y personality." Galinda said.

"I do not! I'm not pessimistic! I'm just...a realist."

"Whatever you say, Elphie." The blonde mumbled.

"Am I really a pessimist?" Elphaba asked after a few seconds of silence.

"No! Of course not! You're just a 'the cup is half empty' type of person."

"It doesn't matter if the cup is half empty or half full. It's just a dumb way to show the difference between positivity and negativity."

"Yeah, I guess you're right. I mean, why waste time talking about a silly cup?" Galinda asked. Elphaba smiled, wondering what went on in that blissful blonde brain of her friend's. "And why does it have to be a cup? Why not a mug? Or a... I don't know a glass or something? And what is it filled with? Is it water or lemonade or orange juice or maple syrup or..."

"A boy?" Elphaba asked.

"A boy? That's ridiculous, Elphie! How would you put a boy in a cup?"

"No, not a boy in a cup! There's a guy at the table with the girls! I refuse to go near him." she said, spinning around on her heels to leave.

"Elphie, stop overreacting. you see guys all the time!" the blonde said, confused as to why her friend was acting like this.

"But it isn't just any guy! It's that stupid prince. The one you have a crush on and that nearly ran me over in his cart! Now, I'm leaving, unless you want to risk me punching him in the face. I can't stand one second near him."

"Oh." Galinda's face suddenly lit up. "You like him! You like him!" A new light came into her face, an angry one. "You like him!" She yelled, harshly. "You can't like him!" She grabbed the green girl by the front of the dress and pulled her down to the blonde's height. Elphaba was surprised by the blonde's strength. "He's mine!"

"Galinda! I don't like him! Let go of me!" She pulled out of her friend's grasp.

"I saw the way that you looked at him! I know that look."

"Galinda, calm down."

"But you like my boyfriend!"

"He is not your boyfriend."

"I know, but he will be."

"Okay, let's just forget this ever happened."

"Okay." The blonde sniffed and dabbed at her eyes with a handkerchief before regaining her composure. " Elphie, I'm sorry. I just... I've never liked anyone like I like him. I just really want him."

"It's okay, Glin."

"And I know that you don't like him." The blonde said, but she didn't mean it. She had seen the look on her face. Elphie liked Fiyero and she knew it.

"Thanks. You're right, I don't." The green girl said, but she wasn't sure if she meant it. She felt something when she saw him. She was beginning to think that she liked him. In fact, she was beginning to know it. She liked Fiyero and she knew it. But she didn't like the fake him, the one that "danced through life". She liked the hidden him, the one that only pretended to be happy, the one that she knew was hiding. The one that only she could see.


I know that is was REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY short. I'm sorry that it was. I just wanted to get this part done because I wasn't sure exactly what to do with it. I'm going to work tomorrow and some Sunday on the next chapter, so it will HOPEFULLY (Keyword HOPEFULLY) be longer than usual to make up for the shortness of this one. I don't know how I feel about this chapter, because I wasn't sure what direction to take it in. This entire story is taking a whole new direction than I originally planned, but I like it. Okay, until the next update (hopefully Sunday), bye!