Chapter Four:

A/N: I am very frustrated right now as I seem to have broken my blackberry, gahh! Anyways, I didn't get any reviews last chapter ahaha, but that's okay. Hopefully at least someone is still reading it, and reader traffic indicates that is so, so continue I will!

Disclaimer: Still do not own anything.

"Look at you two, getting along!" Elphaba smiled, desperately hoping the jealousy in her voice was masked. "I brought juice, tea and an assortment of breakfast foods."

"It looks delicious, Elphaba." Nessa smiled as her sister unpacked the food. "It was very nice of you to offer to bring us breakfast, we could have gone down, you know."

"But I wanted to give you two time to talk- it seems you never get a chance to really know one another with me constantly hanging around." Elphaba explained, realizing after the words left her mouth that she was possibly being a little too close to blunt. Nessa just smiled in gratitude, the conversation she had with Glinda did make her feel quite a bit better about her relationship with Boq- a conversation which would not have taken place had Elphaba been present. Her sister would have intercepted and changed the topic, chastising Nessa for making accusations towards Glinda. It seemed, to Nessa, that Elphaba was always ready to protect her roommate from any kind of harm. Glinda, on the other hand, let confusion cloud her features. It was true, she supposed, that she and Nessa had never really taken the time to get to know one another, but had she the inclination she would have found the time. It wasn't the younger Thropp sister she was overly interested in- though Nessa, she was discovering, could be rather pleasant when she chose to be.

"Well we did talk." Nessa informed her sister. "And we cleared a lot of things up. Glinda proved to me that she isn't interested in stealing Boq away from me in the slightest. And I have to say, I'm relieved. The way he was talking this morning, I feared he would abandon me for her. But I see now that that won't be the case at all." Elphaba, at this, turned a much darker shade of green.

"Glinda... proved that to you, did she?" Elphaba gulped. "Well that... that's... I'm really happy that..."

"Oh Elphie!" Glinda exclaimed, interrupting her, "Isn't it wonderful how well Nessa and I are getting along?" She had hoped Elphaba would be well, more visibly pleased, or proud of the efforts she was taking to make nice with Nessa. It was all for Elphie's sake, after all.

"It's wonderful, indeed." Elphaba nodded. It wasn't fair of her to feel upset. It wasn't as if Glinda or Nessa knew how she felt. They didn't know she liked women. In fact, Elphaba had never really expressed feelings towards anyone before. She couldn't be upset because they didn't know.

"Glinda is even going to go and explain everything to Boq!" Nessa smiled brightly.

"I just want to make sure he understands how both Nessa and I feel. Once I explain it, I'm sure he won't be hurt or confused anymore." Glinda told Elphaba. Surely this act of kindness, of goodness on her part had to make Elphaba pleased! The forced smile she received was not exactly what she had been hoping for.

"That's very nice of you, Glin." The forced smile refused to look anymore natural, and there was nothing, Elphaba realized, she could do to change this. There was nothing she could do to change anything in this situation. Glinda obviously liked Nessa, and apparently, by some random trick of fate, Nessa had abandoned all of her prior reservations and principals and seemed to like Glinda back. And how did they know Boq would understand? He could be jealous, he would be jealous, and he could tell everyone and then not only would her best friend's reputation be ruined, but her sister's too!

"Well I did allow Boq to walk me home last night which could have been a bit misleading, maybe. But Nessa understands I was drunk and Boq was the only boy there whom I trusted enough to take me home, right Nessa?"

"Right. See Elphaba? Glinda and I allowed jealous and misunderstanding keep us apart for so long! I was angry at first, but I'm glad you gave us some time to talk. You always seem to know what people need Elphaba!" Elphaba wasn't used to seeing her sister this... happy. Nessarose was bubbling in a very Glindafied way and Elphaba found it a bit disconcerting. What kind of person was she, finding her sister's happiness disconcerting? Contorted, jealous, and well... green. Exactly the kind of person Glinda would never go for. Reasoning that Glinda and Nessa probably couldn't last forever, she decided to be happy for them for now. If she was supportive and happy, she and Glinda could remain best friends and eventually maybe they could be more. It was at that moment Elphaba realized she was quite possibly becoming clinically insane.

"I'm suddenly not feeling that well. I think I'll lay down." Elphaba muttered, making her way towards her bed.

"Oh no, you're getting sick, Elphie? Nessa, can you stay with her for a while? I'll go find Boq, and get some medicine from the Nurse and then I'll take care of you, okay Elphie?" Elphaba grunted in response. Glinda was out the door before either of the Thropp sisters could really register her standing up in a flurry of pink.

"I've never known you to get sick so suddenly, Elphaba. You always seemed to be rather immune to common sicknesses which plagued me as a child." Nessa wheeled over towards her sister's bed.

"I'm sure I'll be fine Nessa, I probably just ate too much." Elphaba lied.

"You barely touched anything at breakfast. You were brooding and staring off into space. I don't know what has gotten into you this morning!" Nessa shook her head.

"What's gotten into me? What's gotten into you?" Elphaba demanded, sitting up in bed and abandoning her created sickness.

"Me?" Nessa all but shrieked. "What do you mean?"

"This morning you nearly bit my head off at the mere suggestion that Boq was not the one for you, and now you're not with him at all? After one conversation with Glinda? Everything changed?" Elphaba asked vehemently.

"Elphaba, what are you talking about? Of course I'm still with Boq! Weren't you listening to our conversation earlier at all? Maybe you are sick! I do hope Glinda brings back enough medication!" Nessa sounded concerned now. Elphaba was utterly confused.

"You're still with Boq... but I... I thought..." Elphaba trailed off. How had she misunderstood?

"I love Boq, Elphaba. I know you don't really understand love, and I know that he hasn't been around much lately, but it doesn't matter. I love him, and because of that I loathed Glinda. She was a threat, or at least until this morning I thought she was a threat to my relationship with Boq. But she assured me she wasn't, that she likes someone else. She's going to explain to him that she meant nothing by her allowing him to walk her home yesterday and of course, to say some perfectly nice things about me- to remind him why he love me too!" Love does make one jump to conclusions, Elphaba groaned inwardly. How had she been so completely wrong?

"Well I'm glad for you, Nessa. I really am. And I'm sorry for saying you and Boq aren't right for each other. I see how happy he makes you." Elphaba still wasn't convinced that Boq and Nessa were meant to be, but there was no telling Nessa that, so she decided it was best to let it go.

"I know Glinda isn't back yet, but I'm going to go and see Boq after she's through talking with him, and I need to go get ready. But if you're really as sick as you seem, maybe I shouldn't leave you alone..." Nessa said.

"No, go. I'm fine, Nessa, really. I'm feeling much better already."

"I'll see you later Elphaba! Thanks again for breakfast, and for understanding!" And with that, Nessa wheeled herself out of the dorm room leaving Elphaba alone with her thoughts.

A/N: I hope you enjoyed it! I stopped midway through aha, to plan in better detail exactly where this story is going just so I have an end in sight, and I think it will probably have six chapters in total, maybe also a short seventh. Review, please?