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Chapter 5: The Flawless Plan with Flaws

"Alright class is there anyone else who has liquid on them; if so please leave my classroom," Madame Torrible said to the class, everyone shook their heads. "Unbelievable, the first day of classes and I already have to discipline a student," she muttered to herself. "Anyways, in this class we are going to study people's motives. Why someone does something good and why another does something bad. The two witches that we will mostly be focusing on are Glinda, the Good Witch of the North and Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West."

Fayba was a bit startled when she heard the name Elphaba. No one ever used the Wicked Witch of the West's first name. Most people are afraid to say it, thinking about the destruction and pain she has caused, and even when someone said the name, they had a hard time saying it. Madame Torrible said it with such ease that it was like a normal name, but of course, the name wasn't normal. No one would ever name there daughter Elphaba. The child would be ridiculed and the family would be accused of being one of the Wicked Witch of the West's followers. Even women who were named Elphaba before the Wicked Witch of the West changed their name, ashamed to share the same name with someone so evil. Fayba figured that Madame Torrible must have taught this course so many times that it didn't bother her anymore.

"Each of you will have a textbook, guard it with your life. You lose it, you write another one. The library will also help you with this course. There are many books telling what each witch has done. There are also books on the Wizard, Madame Morrible, and Dorothy, which will be useful when we study them," Madame Torrible said as she passed around the textbooks. Fayba made a mental note to go to the library today. She was planning to go this week anyways because Shiz is known for its amazing book collection. Now she thought she should go today so that she could look at some of the books that were for this course. Fayba jumped a bit when she heard the bell rang but quickly collected her books and followed Jasmine to their next class.

Fayba didn't see Lance for the rest of the day, which she was grateful for because she really didn't want to be bothered. She was so thankful that Madame Torrible walked in when she did because if she came a minute before, Fayba would have been kicked out of the class instead of Lance. Fayba really hated to miss class especially on the first day of school. She was happy though that the school day ended because she was able to go to the library and hopefully meet the librarian.

"Hello?" Fayba said as she stepped in. The library was huge and deafening silent. There were many tall and long shelves holding many books on them, and there were a couple of tables in front of the shelves for students to do their homework. It was sort of dark and gloomy in there but then again, most libraries were. Glinda didn't really care about the libraries in Oz. Unless someone asked her to fix one, she didn't touch them. 'I think people and animals matter more then books' Glinda once told Fayba. Fayba let go of the door and it slammed shut. "Spooky," she whispered. She walked towards the front desk as quietly as she could. "Hello? Anyone here?" she asked again.

"Hi there," a woman with white hair and huge thick glasses said, making Fayba jump back because she just popped out of nowhere. "Sorry, I like to read under the desk. Seems so peaceful except it's so hard to hear someone come in when you're under there. Anyways I'm Miss Libree, the librarian what can I be of assistance with?" the woman continued.

"Oh I just came to look around and take out a couple books."

"Alright you can go anywhere in the library that you want except the restricted section without supervision and anything in the restricted section has to stay in the library. So if you want to go in there, just ask me and I'll go in with you if I'm not busy, like now." Fayba nodded and smiled. Yes the librarian seemed a little bit weird but very helpful.

"Thanks, I'll just look around," Fayba said, stepping back and turning towards the books.

"Alright, sorry I didn't catch your name," Miss Libree said.

Fayba turned back, facing Miss Libree and put on a fake smile, she really hated meeting new people. "It's Fayba."

Miss Libree smiled. "Have you happened to meet a boy named Lance?" Fayba was really startled by this.

"Uh yes why?" Fayba said cautiously, not really knowing if she should have admitted that.

"And do you like him?"

"Not particularly, why?" Fayba asked again, still confused.

"No reason, just ring the bell at the front desk if you need anything," she said sitting on the floor behind the desk. Fayba was still confused at Miss Libree's questions but decided to just brush it off and went to the bookshelves. Under the desk, Miss Libree was smiling. "Glinda's daughter and Lance, my, my, some things never change," she whispered to herself.

Fayba was walking around, looking to see if any other book caught her eye. She already had three in her hand. She picked up another and started to read the back when she heard a high-pitched giggle near her. If asked, Fayba would say that she wasn't nosy and that usually you don't hear laughter in a library, so of course she had to investigate. The truth was though that she was a bit nosy. Fayba walked further back in the library until she saw who was giggling and who was with her.

"So then I said watch out, honey and of course she didn't believe me until the next thing she knows, she is covered in honey."

The girl continued to giggle. "Oh Lance that is so funny, you think of such funny things," giggle girl said and Fayba rolled her eyes.

"And then I offered to get the honey off her, since you know I'm such a nice guy but she was so angry that she ran out of the room before she let me finish my sentence," Lance said, smirking.

"Well it serves her right for calling Jasmine the wrong name then insist that it was a nickname," the girl said, still giggling. Fayba assumed that she must have drunk a whole gallon of giggling liquid because no one could possibly giggle that much normally. She was annoyed by giggle girl but was more annoyed that Lance was lying and decided to butt in.

"As I recall, I was the one that told you that you called Jasmine by the wrong name and then when I declined going on a date with you, you poured honey on me. You did offer to get the honey off me; at least you were telling some of the truth but only if I would go out with you. Little did you know I knew the spell to get honey off me and the spell to pour honey on you, which led you to be kicked out of the class. Karma's good," Fayba said and both Lance and giggle girl stared at her in shock.

"So you're Daphne," giggle girl assumed.

"No my name is Fayba, wow Lance you really do have a hard time with names."

"Fayba? As in daughter of Glinda?" giggle girl asked.

"The one and only," Fayba said smirking because Lance looked really nervous.

"Oh well it is nice to meet you but you must be mistaken because Lancey doesn't lie," giggle girl assured her. Fayba's smile grew wider once she heard the word Lancey come out of giggle girl's mouth.

"Oh well if Lancey doesn't lie then it must be true, I'm sure everyone in that class would back him up, why don't you ask them."

"I think that's unnecessary," Lance said, looking paler by the second.

"Why?" Giggle girl asked.

"Ya, why Lancey?" Fayba piped in.

"I think we should just drop it," he said.

"Did you lie to me?" Giggle girl asked, tears in her eyes. "You did, didn't you, well we are not dating anymore!" she said storming off.

"Bethany, come on," Lance called after her.

"Wow, she's a keeper. Better go after her," Fayba said.

"You know if you really wanted to go out with me, all you had to do was ask, you don't have to jealous," Lance said smirking at Fayba.

"Wow, you sure bounce back quickly," Fayba said.

"So how 'bout it," he said backing Fayba into a bookshelf and she rolled her eyes; he really liked to get physical. This time though, she was able to push him off.

"I will never go out with you!" Fayba said in an angry whisper, and then stormed off, leaving Lance by himself.

"Ah come on!" he shouted.

"Shhhhhhhh! This is a library," Miss Libree whispered making Lance jump.

"Where did you come from?" he asked.

"From the stars," she said sarcastically, (at least that was what Lance hoped), "now be quiet or I will be forced to kick you out," she continued. She then turned and walked away, towards the front desk, being the third person in less than a minute to walk away from Lance, leaving him stunned.

After Fayba stormed off, she checked out her books that she had, and went to her dorm room. When she got there, Jasmine was standing at the door eagerly waiting for her arrival. Once Jasmine spotted her, she started jumping up and down.

"There you are. Where have you been?" Jasmine questioned.

"The library," Fayba said, motioning to the books that she was carrying.

"Why?" Jasmine asked, looking a bit shocked. "No teacher assigns homework on the first day."

"I took books out to read," Fayba replied, walking into the room and putting the books on her bed and dropping her bag on the ground.

"Wait you took out books to read, for fun," Jasmine asked as she followed Fayba into the room.

"Yes."

"Ew," Jasmine said completely disgusted that someone would actually voluntarily read.

"Why were you waiting for me outside the dorm room anyways?" Fayba asked, trying to change the subject.

Jasmine forgot about her disgust with Fayba reading for fun and started jumping up and down again. "These came for you," she said, pointing to the flowers on Fayba's desk. Fayba walked to the flowers and held them up, looking for the card. "It's right there," Jasmine said, pointing to the envelope beside the flowers.

Fayba opened it and read the card aloud, afraid that Jasmine would soon faint if she wasn't told what the card said. "'Dear Fayba, I enjoy spending every minute I am with you even though most of the time you are declining my offer to go on a date with me. I hope that this will change your mind. Waiting for your answer, Lance.'" Once she read the card, the flowers became butterflies, flew around for a second then went back as flowers. "How romantic," Fayba said sarcastically, rolling her eyes.

Jasmine didn't seem to catch the sarcasm. "Aw isn't that sweet," she said, still in la la land.

"Very," Fayba replied, walking towards the dorm room door. She opened it and stepped in a girl's path that was passing the room. "Here," Fayba said handing her the flowers, "happy birthday."

"It's not my birthday," the girl said, completely confused.

"These are beautiful flowers just take them and run," Fayba said shoving the flowers into the girl's hand and shutting the dorm door in her face.

"Why'd you do that?" Jasmine asked.

"Because I don't want to date him so keeping the flowers will seem like he won the round, I couldn't let that happen," Fayba said, walking onto the balcony.

"You're just being stubborn!" Jasmine called as she rolled her eyes.

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Lance had been pacing back and forth for the past week. Once he got back to his room after his classes, he'd ignore his homework and would pace. He couldn't understand Fayba. Usually he was so good at figuring out girls that most guys asked him for advice about the female mind. He got any girl he wanted just by snapping his figures. Well there was one girl that didn't want to date him, Penny, no Paula, no that's not it. Well whatever her name was, she agreed to date him the third time he asked her. Every girl agreed to go on a date with him, except Fayba. He had asked Fayba at least twice a day in the past week. That was at least fourteen times and she turned him down every time. He couldn't understand the reason why, yes her roommate was Jasmine and they did date but he always made sure girls still liked him after they dated. Jasmine wouldn't say anything negative about him, or would she? Lance pondered. He couldn't imagine why Jasmine would say something bad about him, she seemed to still like him even though he called her the wrong name on the first day of school.

"Dude if you keep pacing you're going to create a whole in our floor. Look I can already see the path where you pace every night," Lance's roommate Conlan said. Lance continued to pace, staring at the ground, still deep in thought. "Dude!" Conlan shouted, causing Lance to jump.

"What?" Lance questioned, looking up.

"What are you thinking about I have never seen you in deep thought since, well, I've never seen you think actually so what's bugging you?" Conlan asked.

"Nothing, it's nothing," Lance said sitting down on his bed.

"Dude you can tell me, please tell me, it's driving me crazy with the pacing back and forth," Conlan said.

Lance sighed. "It's just, there's this girl that keeps rejecting me when I ask her on a date and I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I've been charming, sending her flowers and love letters but she sends back the letters and gives away the flowers."

"Well I think dumping honey on Fayba's head to get her to date you wasn't that charming but funny," Conlan said, looking down at his homework, trying to get as much done before Lance starts to pace again.

"How did you know about that, you're not in that class?" Lance asked.

"Please. Everyone knows. It was the main gossip at lunch that day."

"Does everyone know then that-"

"You've been trying to get Fayba to date you, ya, pretty much."

Lance groaned and lied down on his bed, covering his eyes with his hands. "Perfect, just perfect. Everyone knows that I have been shot down more times than any man in Oz history."

"Which would kind of give you the hint to give up and move on to the next bubbly girl that would love to date you for a week," Conlan said while trying to do a question in his head, which wasn't going so well.

"No I just have to keep thinking of a plan that will make her say yes," Lance said as he stood up and began to pace again.

"That's it!" Conlan shouted in frustration. "I can't take it anymore! I'm going to the library so I can think and not listen to you pace and mumble!" he said collecting his books and leaving the dorm room while Lance continued to pace, not realizing that his roommate just left.

Conlan slowly entered the library, trying not to disturb any other person that was trying to do their homework. He was a bit surprised to see only one student in the library, doing their homework. He figured though, every other student had a considerate roommate that didn't pace until they decided to go to sleep. He walked closer to the tables, deciding to go to an empty one to do his homework until he saw the face of the student.

He walked up to the table the student was sitting at. "So you're Fayba," he said standing at the table, making Fayba look up. She was at bit annoyed at whoever approached her.

"That's me, and you are…" Fayba said trying to speed up the conversation so she could finish her homework.

"Conlan and I hope you know you are the reason why I am going insane," he said sitting down, across from Fayba.

"And why is that?" Fayba asked, still annoyed. If he said he was madly in love with her, she was going to get herself kicked out of the school because that was all she needed, another stalker.

"Lance is my roommate, the person you keep turning down for a date. Every night he paces in the room, deep in thought, which makes it very hard for me to do my homework, thus making me resort to the library."

"And I hope you know that I have to resort to doing my homework in the library because my roommate keeps bugging me to date Lance," Fayba said looking back down at her homework; she only had two questions left and she wanted to get them done quickly.

"What's wrong with the library?" Miss Libree asked, again appearing out of nowhere.

"How did you do that?" Conlan asked.

"By walking," she said in a 'duh' tone.

"Nothing is wrong with the library, we just like to do our homework in peace and we can't seem to get that in our dorm rooms," Fayba said, making sure Miss Libree didn't feel insulted. "We love the library," she continued.

"Alright then, carry on," Miss Libree said, walking towards the front desk.

"How did she do that?" Conlan asked Fayba once Miss Libree was out of earshot. Fayba shrugged her shoulders and Conlan decided to just drop it and went back to the reason to why he was talking to Fayba. "If your roommate is such a bother then why don't you do everyone a favour and go out with Lance," he suggested.

"Well why don't you do me a favour and convince Lance to move on and stop pestering me," Fayba suggested back.

"He won't. He sees this as a challenge."

"Well I have dignity I want to keep so we are just going to have to suck it up. Now if you excuse me, I'm done my homework and I have to help my roommate with hers," she said standing up, saying goodbye to Miss Libree, and leaving and library.

A couple minutes later, Lance came running in making as much noise as possible. "Conlan I got it! I have the perfect plan! Even you will think that it is full proof!" he yelled not really realizing or caring that he was in a library. He stopped right in front of the table, across from Conlan.

"Shhhhhhhh! This is a library!" Miss Libree whispered harshly at Lance. Conlan was again surprised; he didn't see her walk up to the table.

"Ya, ya I know, I'll be quieter," Lance said. Miss Libree nodded and went back to the front desk.

"So what's your great plan?" Conlan asked while looking at his homework, not really caring about the plan.

"It's top secret, come to the dorm room when you're done whatever you are doing and I will tell you then," Lance whispered. He then ran through the library door, letting it slam shut behind him.

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The next day, Lance and Conlan walked into the cafeteria for lunch with their trays full of food. "Dude I'm telling you the plan had flaws, big ones that will only end badly," Conlan said trying desperately to talk his friend out of going through with the plan.

Lance didn't seem to hear him, he was looking for Fayba. He knew what table she sat at but she wasn't there yet. Then he saw her, walking with her own tray full of food. Beside her was Jasmine talking about one thing or another. They sat down at the table and Fayba immediately became the center of attention.

Lance walked towards the table and Conlan followed, hoping that maybe he could stop the situation in turning into a terrible one. Once they reached the table, everyone immediately made room for him and Conlan. Lance sat beside Fayba but there wasn't enough room for Conlan to sit next to Lance, which would make it harder for him to keep Lance in line. There was enough room for Conlan to sit next to Jasmine, and he immediately felt a bit shy. He always had a crush on Jasmine, even before Lance took an interest in her but he was always afraid to make a move. He knew Jasmine was like every other girl, she fell for Lance and saw Conlan as the dorky best friend. Conlan decided this to be just business and not let his feelings get in the was because he had to make sure Lance wasn't going to do something stupid. Who was he kidding though, Lance usually did something stupid but Conlan was at least going to try.

When he sat down next to Jasmine, she turned her attention away from Fayba and towards Conlan in hopes that Fayba and Lance would talk and then date. Everyone else around the table started talking amongst themselves because they knew Lance would want a private conversation with Fayba and Jasmine and Conlan weren't popular enough to hold everyone's attention.

"So how are you liking Shiz?" Jasmine asked Conlan.

"I really like it. I love my classes and teachers, how about you?" He said, tearing his eyes away from Lance but keeping an ear open to listen to Lance and Fayba's conversation.

"I love it. Fayba is a really good roommate." Conlan smiled because he knew about Jasmine's roommate the year before at their old school, and knew Jasmine called her the devil. "What classes do you have?" Jasmine asked, trying to continue their conversation.

Conlan tried to say his classes and still keep some focus on Fayba and Lance's conversation but couldn't do both at the same time. He decided to say his classes as quickly as he could and ask Jasmine what her classes were. Jasmine said her classes and talked about which one she liked the best but Conlan was having trouble listening to both conversations. He nodded his head trying to make sure Jasmine didn't think he was ignoring her until Fayba stood up and shouted.

"How dare you, you jerk!" Fayba yelled.

"Me a jerk, well at least I'm not a spoiled princess! Oh look at me I'm Fayba, the daughter of Glinda the Good Witch of the North," Lance mocked also standing up.

"You don't know anything about me!" Fayba shouted, causing everyone in the cafeteria to stop talking to listen to the screaming match.

"Oh yes I do, you are just a spoiled brat who gets everything she wants because her daddy died! People don't like you, they pity you!" Lance blurted out but the wished he could take it back, seeing the tears in Fayba's eyes.

Fayba grabbed her sandwich; she was angrier than she ever had been her entire life and threw it at Lance, then grabbing her drink, poured it over his head. Lance stood there in shock as well as everyone else. Lance grabbed his drink and threw it at Fayba, causing everyone to gasp.

"Food fight!" someone shouted and every student started throwing food.

Fayba jumped on Lance pulling him down and both started rolling around the floor, kicking and screaming. Conlan grabbed Jasmine and pulled her under the table where they would be protected. Yes, that plan was not full proof and yes, Lance did something stupid. Conlan shook his head; he felt that he should have known that there was going to be a food fight. How he did not see this coming surprised him.

Madame Torrible ran as fast as she could to the cafeteria once a teacher told her that there was a food fight. Never in two hundred years at Shiz had there been a food fight, she was appalled and was going to punish whoever started the fight. She burst threw the doors and blew the emergency whistle that was made for a time like this. Everyone in the cafeteria stopped whatever they were doing whether it was throwing or ducking. It seemed like time stood still, until a garbage can fell over and Lance and Fayba appeared, still rolling on the ground attacking each other the best they could. Two teachers grabbed them and pulled them apart, which brought back Lance and Fayba to reality. The teachers held them but at a distance because not only did they have food on them but garbage too since they rolled around the floor.

"Who started this?" Madame Torrible demanded. She was so angry that it was surprising she didn't blow something up. Everyone, in fear of Madame Torrible, pointed to Lance and Fayba, including a few teachers. Madame Torrible turned to them. "Fantastic," she muttered under her breath. "I want every student to clean this mess up, now!" Madame Torrible shouted. Suddenly brooms, mops, and other cleaning supplies appeared for the students to grab and clean up. "Except for you two," Madame Torrible said pointing to Lance and Fayba. "You two follow me."

The teachers let go of the two students and they followed Madame Torrible to her office. "Please have a seat," Madame Torrible said to Lance and Fayba. "Now what seems to be the problem?" she asked, once everyone was seated.

Neither Lance nor Fayba said anything. Fayba just stared at the floor, ashamed at what she did; her mother would have a hoot if she found out. Well, when she finds out, Fayba assumed Madame Torrible was going to tell the parents. Lance just stared at Madame Torrible. He was afraid if he said something, Fayba would blow up, say her side of the story and that would be it for Lance. He would be sent back home to be home schooled, never to see his friends again.

"No one wants to tell me what happened? Fine, I really don't care anyways, let's just move onto the punishment. Now since Fayba hasn't gotten in trouble yet so far and Lance only had that prank on the first day of school and since everyone joined the food fight I am going to let this go with a warning." Both Fayba and Lance looked at Madame Torrible in complete shock.

"So you aren't going to tell our parents or kick us out?" Lance asked.

"That is correct except I would like you two to get along so in my class, you will have to sit next to each other and if there is another fight of any kind what so ever, both of you will be punished severely. Do I make myself clear?" Both Fayba and Lance nodded their heads. "Good, now go clean up. I'm sure the cafeteria is clean since I didn't say they couldn't use magic." Lance and Fayba stood up and left Madame Torrible's office as quickly as they could.

They both used magic on themselves once they were outside the office, getting off whatever was on them. Conlan and Jasmine were outside the office waiting for them, both clean and free of food.

"So what's the damage?" Jasmine asked.

"We got a warning and we have to sit beside each other during Madame Torrible's class," Fayba said as she started walking, taking her school bag from Jasmine who collected it for her.

"Really, wow it pays off being the daughter of the Good Witch of the North sometimes," Jasmine said as they continued walking.

Conlan and Lance were still outside Madame Torrible's office, neither of them talking but Conlan decided to break the silence. "No flaws huh," he said.

"Well there might have been a couple of small loop holes," Lance said, starting to walk to his next class.

"Uh-huh only a couple of small ones," Conlan replies as he followed Lance, shaking his head.

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