Sad news, everyone. We are coming to an end! One more after this! I have something a bit important to ask you all in the end A/N, so please stick around for that! Thanks!
For the first time in the two weeks that Glinda had suffered through without her friend, she had finally convinced herself to go out with friends. She knew that her green friend would have told her to do it, not to stop her life on her account, and thought that maybe she would even be able to distract herself from missing her friend. She was wrong. So very, very wrong.
"Galinda, isn't that boy that sits next to you in history so cute?" Came a voice, one that the blonde didn't even hear.
"Galinda?" Came another voice.
"Galinda?" This time, the voice was loud enough to shake her out of her thoughts. She shook her head slightly, her blonde curls bouncing slightly as she did so, and turned to look at her friends.
"Hmmmm?" She asked, still not paying full attention.
"What's up with you lately?" One asked.
"Yeah, you haven't been yourself, like, at all."
"You've been locked in your dorm every second that you don't have class."
"And look at this," one of the girls sitting next to her gently took hold of the blonde's wrist and held it up for the rest to see. They all gasped dramatically.
"You haven't painted your nails in weeks, have you?" One asked. Glinda shook her head, the far-away look she'd had from the beginning grew more and more obvious in her eyes.
"She most certainly isn't herself."
"Perhaps we should give her some space."
"She's probably still recovering from rooming with the artichoke."
"Yeah. It might be, like, post-traumatic stress syndrome or something like that."
Glinda was barely able to resist the urge to roll her eyes. How did I ever put up with these people? Seriously, how are such babbling idiots popular? They- She thought about it for a moment. Is this what I was trying to turn Elphie into? She felt tears begin to well in her eyes, and she abruptly stood up, shaking the table they were at and startling the girls sitting with her.
"I suddenly feel slightly ill," she began shakily, "I think I need to go lie down." And she left as quickly as she could, attracting more than a couple of stares as she did so, though she didn't care. Not anymore.
"What's up with her?"
"Something's been seriously wrong with her lately."
"Can you believe the way she just runs out?"
The whispers of people as she rushed by them resounded in her ears. Is this what Elphie put up with everyday? She paid no attention to the multiple people she dashed around and nearly knocked over as she ran across campus, her blonde curls flying behind her as the wind seemed to cut into her. She didn't mind the way it hurt. It was a different pain from what she felt inside. She would prefer it over the sadness any day. As she ran, she could feel the stares of those surrounding her burning into her. She was used to having people look at her, but not in that way. She wanted nothing more than to make it to the dorm and be alone for a moment, and when she finally did reach her destination, she threw herself onto the bed and sobbed into her pillow. She cried until she couldn't take the exhaustion anymore and she had fallen asleep.
When Galinda lifted her head from the pillow, the first thing she did was look over at the clock. 8:30 AM? She thought. How in Oz had she managed to sleep through the night?
"It's about time you woke up." Came a voice from the other side of the room, one that was peculiarly familiar, but that she had believed she'd never hear again. Turning her head in the direction that the voice came from, she couldn't help but gasp.
"E-Elphie?" She asked, her voice trembling as much as her body as she sat up slowly, not taking her eyes off of the green girl, who was sitting in a wooden chair, holding a book. "Is that really you?" How was this possible? Had it all been a dream?
"Of course it's me, Glin." Was Elphaba's only response before she decided to look back down at the book, her eyes scanning the words that spanned across the pages.
"Elphie!" Galinda cried then, unable to hold in her joy any longer as she thrust herself off of the bed and onto her friend. Elphaba made a noise of surprise, and looked genuinely confused at the blonde's sudden outburst, but didn't protest as her friend wrapped her arms around her. "Oh, Elphie!" She realized that she was crying as she pulled away. "I missed you! I couldn't stand it without you! I was-"
"Missed me?"
"Yes, you you left after The Wizard and Morrible-"
"The Wizard? Morrible? What were You dreaming about?" Elphaba asked. A dream! Galinda thought. Yes, it was all a dream! My Elphie really is here with me!
"Oh, it was the most horrendible thing! I was stuck living without you, and I simply couldn't take it!"
"Oh, Glin. Please tell me you wouldn't get that upset if I did actually leave."
"Of course I would."
"Oh, Galinda..."
"What?"
"You're stronger than that. I know you are. With me or without me, you're going to be just fine. Please promise me that, if I did leave, you would let yourself move on." Elphaba said. It was unexpected and, quite frankly, Galinda found to be a bit unlike her friend, but she agreed nonetheless.
"Okay. I promise." She said, and Elphaba smiled. "But please promise me that you'll never leave me in the first place."
"Glin..."
"Please?"
"Okay." The green girl chuckled. "I-"
A sudden jolt pulled Glinda out of that wonderful world where she was still with her friend, and she found herself still laying on her bed. 11:09 PM. She thought when she looked at the clock. It's 11:09. I was dreaming. She's not here. She's not really here. And she began to cry.
Due to the fact that this was my first fic and I wasn't really sure exactly what I was doing, you probably all noticed how little this was oriented by plot. Because of this, I'm thinking of writing a more plot-based fic much like this one a little while after I finish this one. Please tell me if you think I should do that!
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