Elphaba came to the conclusion that there was one thing about being Galinda today. History was her first class! Meaning her favorite professor would be the first one she'd see today.
She sat at the front chair, like she was used to do it, taking Galinda's notebook out of her pink bag, even if she couldn't show how much attention she was actually paying on the class, there was this need of writing at least...something.
Elphaba had no idea of how to act naturally. She had never noticed how Galinda did in class, mostly, the blond would be gossiping or doing something in her notebook, probably drawning or writing notes to her so called friends.
'Oh, shit, her friends...how am I suppose to deal with them? What do they talk about anyway? Besides how hateful I am?' the girl's thoughts were interrupted by a pat on her shoulder:
"Ahn, Galinda?"
"What are you doing?" Elphaba turned Galinda's little blond head round to gaze at two girls, one was redhead with brown eyes, and the other blond with green eyes. This was the girls her roomate used to walk with...
What was their names again?
"Oh, nothing!" she giggled, trying to act the best she could, tough Elphaba was sure she didn't have not even half of the energy Galinda had.
"Well...let's sit in our places, then! Shenshen and I need to talk with ya!"
'Shenshen and Pfanee, yeah! Those are their names! I remember Galinda talking about'em!'
"Sure..." the girl smirked, both girls stared at her, frowning, then shrugged and went to their seats at the middle of the room, Elphaba followed them, taking Galinda's stuff.
Her roomate's friends sat around her, writhing over her body.
"So, Galinda, we need to tell you something! Do you remember the twins from the last night's party?" asked one of them, probably Shenshen. Though Elphaba didn't had the slightest idea what they were talking about, she couldn't let her mask fall...the girl smiled.
"Of course! How could I forget? After all, they were so..."
"Rich! I know!" Pfanee ended the phrase for her, with sparkling eyes. At that moment, their talk were interrupted by Dr. Dillamond's entrance.
"Good morning, students!" Elphaba couldn't help but smile by seeing her fave professor. The Animal gazed at her, frowning.
"Miss Glinda?" Her smile faded at the same moment. At least she was capable of remembering Galinda's egocentrics attitudes near the Goat.
"It's Galinda, remember? With a Guh. And not Glinda." 'I'm sorry, Dr. Dillamond..." her mind murmured.
"Yes, miss Glinda. Well, class..." so, the class started. Elphaba couldn't avoid her impulses. She took the notebook, opening on the table, frowning and staring at the black board.
"Are we going to pass notes?" asked Shenshen.
"Or are you going to draw a new dress?" said Pfanee. Elphaba lift an eyebrow.
"Draw?"
"Yeah, I thought you did that in your last pages...Galinda, are you sure you're okay?"
"S-sure!" the girl couldn't resist the curiosity that took over her. She opened her roomate's notebook, trying her best to not call attention.
Elphaba was surprised to see Galinda's drawning. Dresses, shirts, shoes, hair styles. Even acessories. Things that had a futile nature, but so beautifull and with such a peculiar style that it was easy to mistake for a professional. That made Elphaba realize that somewhere deep in that blond head...there was a brain. And extremely creative. Or maybe, in that green head now.
This situation made Elphaba's mind create a thousand different questions. If Galinda and her had switched bodies...did it mean that people really had souls? Or was this just a dream or a strange magic that made them think they were the other?
What if this was actually Galinda, deluded, thinking she was Elphaba?
How was it possible that such different girls switched like this...?
This questions, for now, would not have an answer.
/~~/
Meanwhile, Galinda was in Madam Morrible's magic Seminary. Actually, she had just got there (since she had no idea where she was supposed to go), and the horrible woman had gave her a lecture.
However, the girl didn't care that much. She dreamed so much about this, and now, even if by accident, there she was. Just a little worried for not having any ideas of what Elphaba used to do in that class.
Firstly, Madam Morrible gave the training wand to Galinda. And even if the girl had never even touched one, she could feel the energy that came throught it passing all over her body. She smiled softly, enchanted.
"Alright, miss Elphaba. I have something different for you today..."started Madam Morrible, Galinda shaked.
"Different...how?"
"Today we'll be training your deffensive magic. I believe you have enough knowledge and experience to summon somekind of shield. Let's use Grometik on the training. He'll come to attack you. When he does, I want you to stay firm and think about something that can cover you up. Remember, it's defense and not counterattack, we just want to block his movements.
"Oh...o-okay" Galinda shook like a leaf (and being is Elphaba's body, this sentence seemed almost literal). She composed herself by noticing that attitude didn't had anything to do with Elphaba. "Call him"
Madam Morrible whistled, bringing the tiktok creature to the room:
"Be ready, miss Elphaba." Galinda gulped, while raising her wand the best she could "Let's start!" without another warning, Grometik came in the girl's direction, she screamed and started moving her wand frantically.
"Go away, go away!" she kept saying, almost like a mantra. Sure that wasn't enough, the creature kept coming closer. That made Galinda ran around the room, stopping on the other side. The tiktok kept following her. The girl squeezed herself in a corner, closing her eyes, holding the object in her hands with strenght. Being controled by fear, she let her emotions take over her body and go to the point of the wand, just waiting to be killed by the creature.
It was when everything seemed to stop all of sudden. Galinda couldn't hear the sounds around her anymore, like Grometik's gearings or the birds outside
She opened her eyes, intrigued, realizing she was inside some kind of shield. It covered her whole body like a bubble and it was pink. The girl frowned, confused. Then, her body was taken by a sense of euphoria.
She had done that. Not Elphaba, her.
Galinda smile. She did had magic inside her! That thing was in her soul, not her body.
Madam Morrible got close to her, analyzing the bubble that started dissapating itself slowly as the girl inside stopped being afraid.
"Miss Elphaba, I have to admit I would never imagine a shield like this to you, mas...congratulations! The Wizard will be really proud when I tell him about it!"
Galinda smiled, tough she was taken by a will of telling the truth to Madam Morrible. She didn't want Elphaba to take over her credit.
What would happen if she revealed the truth to Madam Morrible anyway?
"Actually, Madam Morrible, I want to tell you something..."
"Yes?" the woman gazed her, deeply, almost like a predator stalking its prey. Galinda gulped, wishing she was back in her bubble. But she was capable of composing and gazing the old woman back. In Elphaba's body, her look and her size could intimidate. While in her own, she could conquer people by a smile, it seemed that here it was the complete opposite.
But revealing the truth without Elphaba's approve was wrong, right? Weren't they, as weird as it may sound, together on this one?
"I thought about miss Galinda, accidently on this sessions and... I guess that's why my bubble came out pink. I guess if I try that again some other day, it will come out black or maybe green..."
"Of course, miss Elphaba. Now, don't get so worried about miss Galinda. She doesn't have half the talent you do."
The girl took an annoyed expression, was Morrible really saying the artichoke was better than her? She crossed her arms, pissed, letting go just after, knowing she need to keep the acting.
"You're right, Madam Morrible. Well, now if you excuse me, I'm not feeling that well...Excuse me!" the girl ran out of the classing room, going straight at the bathroom, staring at her face in the mirror. Or Elphaba's, for that matter.
That was weird...she looked totally wrong. Green definitely wasn't her colour, and what about those clothes?
However, while analyzing the reflex, her attention was caught by two things in Elphaba's image. First, that magnificent hair of her. Dark, shiny, perfectly on place and naturally straight. And, if the girl was allergic to water she didn't washed right? How was it possible to be so beautiful just by nature?
And second, it was those dark-brown eyes. They were so full of emotion, like they could penetrate in people's souls. There was something good in Elphaba. And not that hypocrite goodness that humans pretend to have. It was that kind of good that makes people pure.
It was when Galinda, finaly, realized why she loathed Elphaba so girl seemed to be...so much better than her. And to the gilikin girl, no one could be above herself. That was one of those things her parents had teached her by force.
Her reflexion was interrupted by the entrance of two girls in the bathroom. Without knowing what to do, Galinda ran to lock herself in one of those cabins.
"Galinda was so weird today..." she recognized Shenshen's voice, which probably meant she was talking with Pfanee.
"Weird, indeed. She didn't draw and for a clocktic, I could swear she payed attention on what the old Goat said...did you saw her hair when the class was ending, Pfanee? What in Oz was that? And she didn't took her mirror out of her bag..." Galinda almost fainted by imagining how messy her hair should be looking now. It was supposed to be brushed every half hour.
She took a deep breath and got out of the bathroom.
"Well, well. Hello there, artichoke." said Shenshen, making fun. Galinda rolled her eyes.
"I don't have time for this, now. Where's El-Galinda?" again, she took advantage of Elphaba's height to make the two girls scaried. They shaked, like in front of a lion, better yet, Lion. They really were nothing without Galinda in the group.
"W-what do you want with her?" asked Pfanee.
"Well, she is my roomate. And I need to talk with her..."
"I think she's having lunch!"
"Alright, thanks!" Galinda made a reverence, before being capable of controling her movements. The girl ran out of the bathroom, letting Shenshen and Pfanee full of questions behind her.
A/N: Yay, second update in a day! I told you guys I'd do it, with a longer chap! ^^
Anyway, thanks a lot, again for reading my story, and please, keep reviewing *-*, and remembre, I'm always open for ideas ^^