Even though this chapter doesn't feature Melena, it will feature everyone's other favorite character from Wicked.


Chapter 6: Blue Suede Shoes

Elphaba and her band, the Ozkids, played well on their very first gig. When they were done playing, the group met on a public hall near the Munchkinland fair to celebrate. "That was great. I thought all of you will be shitting yourselves." Elphaba said.

"And I thought that you were going to kill us for messing up." Crope joked.

Their celebration was interrupted when Flipper, their "manager", brought in the blonde girl from the audience who is holding a guitar. "Hey Elphaba. I want you to meet a friend of mine from Gillikin Country. She plays music too." Flipper told Elphaba.

"With what, a bottle pipe?" Elphaba joked and group laugh, but didn't bother the blonde girl. "Oh it's alright. Playing a bottle pipe is good for the lungs. I'm Elphaba." she introduced herself and held out her hand to the girl.

"Galinda Upland." the girl introduce herself and shook hands with Elphaba. "But people mostly call me Glinda just to make it sound easier."

"Wanna beer, Glinda?" Elphaba asked.

"No thanks, I just want a cup a tea." Glinda said and found it surprising for Elphaba.

"Are there any tea left, Boq?" Elphaba sarcastically asked.

"No, I don't think there is, Elphaba. I think we ran out." Boq joked.

"So, did you watch us play?" Elphaba asked Glinda.

"Oh yeah, you're alright." Glinda replied and the group laughed again.

"She thinks we're alright." Elphaba said and Glinda still doesn't seem bothered by it which pleased Elphaba. "Oh you're alright then. If Flipper thinks you're alright, then you're alright. How about your guitar playing?"

"Well I'm alright." Glinda got her guitar and she hold it the other way than how Elphaba holds her's.

"You got your guitar backwards." Elphaba said.

"It's comfortable for me. So, any requests?"

"Yeah, how about we borrow your blue shoes?" Elphaba joked.

"Okay, 'Blue Suede Shoes' it is." Glinda started playing the guitar and sang a verse as she plays along.

Well, it's one for the money,
Two for the show,
Three to get ready,
Now go, cat, go.
But don't you step on my blue suede shoes.
You can do anything but lay off of my Blue suede shoes.

Glinda's playing style is very different from Elphaba's and Elphaba was really interested about it. "How old are you?" Elphaba asked.

"I'm 15." Glinda replied.

"When?"

"Last month. I could do Little Richard and some Jerry Lee Lewis if you want to-"

"Sorry, not interested. Nice to meet you though, but we have to rehearse for our evening gig."

"Well I've got to get off anyway-"

"Bye bye." Elphaba said and Glinda left. As Glinda is leaving, Elphaba looked at her thinking that she's the right person the band needs now.

"Do you still want that girl to be in the band?" Eve asked.

"I might think about it."


The next day, Elphaba was at her room practicing her guitar while Lily was cleaning up the house. While she cleaned up the fireplace, Lily heard a knock and looked out in the window and found Glinda standing in the front door. "Elphaba, your little friend is here." Lily told her.

Lily let Glinda in and called Elphaba the second time to get down. Glinda brought her guitar along so she and Elphaba could practice together and try to teach Elphaba some chords and tricks. "It's nice of you to change your mind about me joining the band." Glinda said.

"Yeah, I did some thinking after you left and I realized that I needed you for my band." Elphaba said.

"Okay, but to make your band more likeable like Elvis, you have to learn some guitar skills that even Elvis' band couldn't do."

Glinda and Elphaba went to the living room to practice their guitar playing. Glinda showed Elphaba some new chords for her to learn, but Elphaba struggled due to her fingers are hard to adjust to the strings. She put on her glasses so she can have a better look on the chords, which Glinda surprised when she saw Elphaba with her glasses.

"It's my Buddy Holly look." Elphaba told her.

"Oh. Good, good. I really like it though." Glinda said, "Right then, start on the D chord. Then it goes to a G chord and ends at A. Try to play it."

Elphaba tried out the chords that Glinda tells her and played it perfectly. While playing it, Elphaba sang along and both Elphaba and Glinda are tapping along to the beat. Lily could hear Elphaba and Glinda playing from the room next door that she led both of them out of the house, but the two didn't care about it.

"So, mommy's cool about Princess Galinda wanting to be Elvis?" Elphaba said.

"She would have loved it." Glinda replied.

"That's a lie."

"She's not around anymore." Glinda calmly said.

"What? Did she-"

"She sort of died last year. It's just me and my father and sister back at home. Me and my sister love the Everly Brothers and we would sometimes call ourselves the 'Upland Sisters' whenever we want to play music together." After spacing out for a few seconds, Glinda focused back on Elphaba's band. "You know, if we're going to do this, we should write our own songs. That way, you won't get hassled by the record companies."

"I write stuff." Elphaba said, "Not songs, but more like poetry. You know, stories and all that."

"Oh. All you need is just add a tune and you got a song."

"How many songs you written?"

"A couple." Glinda said and Elphaba's still find it surprising.

"How do you know so much? When I first saw you, I thought of you as one of the girls who would gossip a lot. You don't seem like the Rock and Roll kid."

"What you mean I don't smash things and act like a dick?" Glinda remarked, "My father was a musician and he taught me a lot about guitar playing and songwriting. But for me, it's just music. Simple as that."