Happy Valentine's Day everyone! I truly appreciate all of you, and remember- love yourselves, because you all rock.
Chapter Twenty-Five
Elphaba woke the next morning to an empty bed, with Fiyero just walking back into the bedroom, still in his pajamas. She rubbed her eyes and smiled at him and said, "Hey."
He went over to her and kissed her sweetly, "Hey." She kissed him back and she replied,
"What time is it?" she asked, stretching.
"About half past ten." He answered. "Why, do you have plans on a Saturday?" he said, kissing her again. She put her hands around his neck and said,
"That depends…" smiling against his mouth. She remembered the last night's events and glanced at her left hand, still wearing her ring. She said, "Are we going to tell people about us?"
He had a puzzled look on his face, "Well, usually I would have told my parents before I did this…and they won't want to find out via tabloid. So…no. Just let me get word to my parents," she frowned.
"Glinda is going to be hard to lie to, Yero."
He bit his lip, "Uh, try your best?"
She laughed and raised her eyebrows, "You're lucky I like you." He kissed her again and said,
"Thank you, Fae." He looked at the clock again, "You might want to get going back to your dorm. Glinda might be worried." She began to get out of the bed,
"You're right. See you later?" she said, looking at him.
"Yeah. I love you, Fae." She kissed him before she left, replying,
"I love you too, Yero." And with that she left the dorm, carefully removing her ring and placing it securely into her pocket. She walked back to her dorm and upon opening the door, heard,
"Elphaba Thropp! Where in Oz' name have you been!?" Glinda exclaimed.
Elphaba's eyes looked guilty and she blushed, replying, "Uh…I was…at Fiyero's-"
Glinda's face turned from concern to relief, "Thank Oz!" she hugged her friend, "I need details, Elphie." She sat Elphaba down on the bed and Elphaba explained the basis of what happened minus the proposal. She added a few extra details to satisfy her friend's desire for information and at the end of her tale, Glinda beamed at the green girl.
"I knew you two would make up!" she squealed. Elphaba smiled and laughed with her friend.
"Yeah, I'm glad we did." She added. She could feel the ring burning in her pocket, and she yearned to tell Glinda about her new look on life, however she knew it wasn't in her or Fiyero's best interests right now. Later on, Glinda mentioned that Nessa needed to see Elphaba, and she found that as a good excuse to avoid spilling the news. Elphaba then held casual conversation with her roommate until Glinda said, "Elphie! I almost forgot! Nessa told me that she needed to see you. She said it was urgent."
"Did she say what it was about?" she asked, raising an eyebrow to her friend.
She shook her head no, "She didn't look like she wanted to go into detail. She said for you to meet her in the cafeteria."
Elphaba looked at her friend and nodded, confused on why her sister had to speak to her about such an urgent matter. She wondered what it could be, and anticipated bad news. So she bid farewell to Glinda and made her way to the cafeteria, spotting her sister before she was about to leave.
She walked up to Nessa and said, "Hey Nessie. Glinda said you wanted to talk to me." she sat across from her sister.
Nessa looked at Elphaba with sad and tired eyes, and pulled out an open envelope addressed to Nessarose Thropp. She placed it in front of Elphaba, and she replied, "What's this?" she read the envelope, "From father?" she looked at her sister and her look deepened, "Nessa, what's wrong? You're scaring me."
Nessa avoided her gaze and said, "You should read that." Elphaba furrowed her brow, and eventually took the letter out of the envelope. As Elphaba read further and further, her head started to shake and her breathing accelerated. She slammed the letter down on the table and closed her eyes shut, "Please….tell me this isn't true." She said, opening them to look at her sister, who was in tears, and that answered her question.
Elphaba stormed out of the room, letter in han d, and went back to her dorm, where Glinda was reading a magazine. She stormed in, angry and mad, and startled her roommate.
"Elphie! What's wrong?" she said, confused. Elphaba slammed the letter down at Glinda's bed and the blonde read it. After she was done, her mouth was wide with shock, "Is this true?" she asked slowly.
Elphaba, more calmly answered by nodding her head, without looking at Glinda.
Glinda paused, "What…what are you going to do?"
Elphaba sighed a shaky sigh, "I-I don't know. I don't really have a choice."
"Elphaba, there has to be a way-"
"Glinda, there is no negotiation with him!" She said, her tears spilling over. She went over to her nightstand and pulled a small box out of the drawer. She went over to her roommate and opened it, revealing the engagement ring, "Fiyero…he proposed last night." She continued with tears falling from her eyes.
Glinda covered her mouth in shock, tears shining her eyes, "Oh, Elphaba."
She closed the box and said, "I-I said yes. We were going to get married."
Glinda went to her sobbing roommate and tried to soothe her, but both girls knew that nothing good could come from the situation.