Chapter 3: Rock and Roll Music
Even though Elphaba has met with her long lost mother, her life is still the same. She still has a love/hate relationship with her Aunt Lily and she's still a troublemaker at school. The day after she saw her mother, Elphaba was doodling during a history lecture. When the teacher tried to call her to answer a question, Boq had to wake her up from her drawing.
"Elphaba, Tick Tock." Boq whispered to her.
"Oh, erm, General Tick Tock sir." Elphaba told the teacher.
"Too late!" the teacher said as he went over to Elphaba's desk to grab her drawings.
After school, Elphaba laid on the fields thinking about her mother the whole time. She decided to go to her home and visit her again. Elphaba knocked on the door and Nick answered the door, but he wasn't happy to see her.
"You know you just can't turn up like this." Nick told her.
"Nick, who's at the door?" Melena asked Nick from the inside.
"Oh, it's no one. She was just about to leave." Nick replied.
Melena went to the door to see who it was and she was happy to see Elphaba again. "I knew you would come back again!" Melena exclaimed and hugged her and Elphaba gave a look on Nick saying that her mother still wants to see her.
Melena took Elphaba to the cinema to watch a movie about Elvis Presley, who what some would say the King of Rock and Roll. The room is packed with screaming teenage girls with some boys cheering along. Melena was also cheering at Elvis while Elphaba is not cheering, but she's really interested at him. Elphaba was thinking that she wanted to be like him because many people are cheering for his name.
The next day, Elphaba and Boq went to the record store to find some rock and roll records. While everyone isn't looking, Elphaba stole some records in two shelves and left the store with Boq. While running back home, Elphaba wasn't happy in what she stole.
"Jazz. Jazz. Country. Jazz. Country. Country." Elphaba said as she threw each of the records to the port. "Shit! I've must have gotten the wrong stack, Boq."
"Well check again to see that you got what you wanted." Boq said.
"Okay, I think this one is the one... No just Jazz." Just then a man saw them and he doesn't like what Elphaba's doing.
"Hey. Hey! What are you doing?!" the man said, "You just can't just throw a good record out on the water. Music is music."
"But it's Jazz and Country." Elphaba said.
"They're cool to listen."
"They're shit."
"Hey, I know there's a lot of women in that area. Have you heard of Wanda Jackson or Ella Fitzgerald?"
"I heard about the second one but not the first one."
"Ah, I get it. You two are Rock and Rollers then. Well I got two Rock and Roll records straight from a friend in Wonderland just for you to swap."
"Who is it by?"
"Gene Vincent & His Blue Caps and Hank Ballard & the Midnighters. They're killers, baby!" the man remarks.
"Okay we'll take them." Elphaba said with the man leaving the records she stole, but Elphaba stopped him. "Ah ah. But I'm going to hold on these first." Elphaba said as she got the records back.
"I don't even know who they are." Boq said.
"So do I. But my mom listens to Rock and Roll so I'm sure that she knows about them. "'They're killers, baby'." Elphaba scoffed.
The man got back with two records and handed them to Elphaba by trading the records she stole from the store. While she and Boq are waiting for the bus, Elphaba looked the records that are called Be Bop a Lula from Gene Vincent and Work With Me Annie from Hank Ballard on the wrapper. When the bus arrived, Elphaba and Boq climbed up to the roof of the bus and hang on as the bus moves. When the bus stopped in their neighborhood, Elphaba and Boq climbed down and saw Kayline and her group of friends.
"Kayline, Oz's favorite daughter. I should report to the police that I found a missing fish." Elphaba joked.
"Well, then I should report you to the police instead." Kayline said and pushed Elphaba to the bus stop.
"Yeah. I like to see you try." Kayline wanted to punch Elphaba but couldn't do it.
"Just fuck off."
"As always." Elphaba said and she and Boq headed to the fields and Elphaba showed the records to Boq.
"Blue Caps and the Midnighters?" Boq said.
"Well, I might need to work with somebody if you know what I mean." Elphaba joked.
After she took Boq back to his home, Elphaba went to her mother's home and her mother the records she received and Melena was really happy about it. "Oh Elphaba, where did you get them?" Melena asked.
"I, erm, just got it from a friend who owns a lot of Rock and Roll records."
"Well it's very nice of you that you're getting along with Rock and Roll." Melena put one of the records in the record player and she laid down with Elphaba on the couch as the music plays.
Well, be-bop-a-lula, she's my baby
Be-bop-a-lula, I don't mean maybe
Be-bop-a-lula, she's my baby
Be-bop-a-lula, I don't mean maybe
Be-bop-a-lula, she's my baby love
My baby love, my baby love
Well, she's the girl in the red blue jeans
She's the queen of all the teens
She's the one that I know
She's the one that loves me so...
A week later, Elphaba and Boq are sent to the headmaster's office and the headmaster showEd them a bag of white powder which Elphaba claimed it's drugs, but in reality, it's just sugar. Boq is scared but Elphaba looked calmed when they're at the headmaster's office.
"I don't care if this is actually drugs but you almost killed a woman for claiming it's drugs to her." the headmaster told them, "I'm suspending both of you. Your parents and your aunt will get letters in the post. I don't want any of you to be near this school for a week. Maybe even longer. Any questions?"
"Any chance I get my bag back, sir?" Elphaba remarked.
