About an hour later Elphaba was starting to think that her idea of letting Galinda have her fun was probably one of the worst decisions she had made in a long time. For the last hour Galinda had been pulling out dress after dress trying to find something that Elphie would agree to wear. It was turning out to be much harder than either expected. "What about this one?" Galinda asked bring out yet another pink and frilly dress.
"Galinda, how many times do I have to tell you? I am not wearing pink or frilly." Elphaba said sharply. When Galinda's face started to sink Elphie felt bad. She knew she shouldn't have snapped at Galinda. She was just tired of going through dresses. This was so not what Elphaba had wanted to be doing on her day off. She had wanted to get caught up on some of her extra reading, maybe even have a chance to go done to the lake and just sit there for a while. This, was certainly, not, what she had had in mind.
"Okay, you don't like anything I have we will just have to check your closet one last time then." Galinda walked over to the dresser where Elphaba kept the few clothes that were not part of her school uniform. "See," Galinda said, "You really don't have anything in here at all that work for a party." Galinda stopped talking though when she saw what looked to be an old dress folded very neatly in the back. "What's this?" She muttered to herself. She grabbed out the folded garment and let it fall open so that she could see it. The dress was very simple, black with an emerald colored ribbed around the waist. It also had a small amount of fine beading around the neck. The dress looked as if it would fall to Elphaba's knees when on.
When Elphie saw what Galinda had in her hands she let out a loud gasp and quickly stood up and took it out of Galinda's hands. "No," Elphaba said, she sounded almost as if she was about to cry. This amazed Galinda, she had never seen Elphie cry. "No," She said again more firmly this time.
"Elphaba, what's wrong?" Galinda was starting to actually worry about her friend. Why was this dress making Elphaba acted so strange? What Galinda didn't know was that the small green bottle that Elphaba kept under her pillow wasn't all she had of her mothers.
Outside rain was falling hard and thunder rolled across the sky. Seven year old Elphaba was sitting at her window staring out. The bad weather had never really scared her but she most certainly didn't like it. Elphie was starting to wonder if maybe she could find a book that she had yet to read. She had already read all the books in her small collection but the small wanted more. She wanted to travel to more places and learn about more heroes. That was what she would do. The girl hopped off her chair and made her way to the door. She knew exactly where she would start her search. Since her mother's death Elphaba's father had almost never set foot in their old bedroom. That was where Elphaba would start. She had only set foot in that room once and that time she had quickly been ushered out by the woman who took care of her and her sister.
When Elphaba reached the door she grabbed the handle with her small hand and slowly turned it. It took her eyes a second to adjust to the sudden light change but once they did Elphaba saw that all of the furniture was covered in a layer of dust. She headed over to a dresser that was in the corner and opened the top drawer. At first sight the drawer looked to be completely empty but then Elphaba noticed something stuffed in the back corner. She pulled it out and looked at it. It most definitely wasn't a book. Elphaba help it out and saw that it was a dress, a very simple but gorgeous dress. The black material felt soft and thin against Elphaba's small hands. The emerald ribbon that was around the waist was a emerald green, the exact color as her skin, Elphie noticed. The fine delicate beading along the neck she didn't even dare to touch.
Elphaba quickly turned around when she heard someone in the doorway. Her father stood there looking angrier than Elphie had ever seen him. She quickly hid the dress behind her back. "What are you doing in her?" Elphaba's father growled.
"I was just looking," She answered, scared.
"Get out of here right now." Elphaba quickly scampered passed her father still hiding the dress behind her back. When she got back to her room she refolded the dress and hid it in the back of her closet. She was never going to tell anyone that she had it. She didn't want someone to take it away from her.
When Elphaba realized that she had been remembering the day she found that dress she was scared to realize that tears were streaming down her face. She quickly wiped them away and turned to Galinda. "I have to go," Elphaba quickly ran from the room tears running down her face and the dress still in her hands.