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WARNING: THIS CHAPTER HAS SOME SPOILERS FOR THE MUSICAL SO IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN WICKED THE MUSCIAL AND HAVEN'T READ THE BOOK READ IF YOU DON'T MIND SPOILERS. IF YOU READ THE BOOK OR SEEN THE MUSICAL, DON'T WORRY ABOUT THIS WARNING.
Chapter 6: The Assignment that Brings Up Questions
Lance toned down the scheming after the food fight. That was not how he imagined his plan to turn out. Although, Conlan did point out that bringing up her dead father may not be the greatest idea to get her to date him but Lance had his mind set to the plan and he was going to stick to it no matter what. Fayba didn't say a word to him since that day. He tried to apologize when he saw her or tried to bring up a meaningless conversation in class just to talk to her but Fayba ignored it all. She was all miss sunshine with other people but with him, she wouldn't even say hello. He hated not being able to talk to her, he actually felt guilty and he never feels guilty. He felt so guilty that he couldn't even ask out a girl because he only thought about Fayba. Conlan told him that he was falling for her but he was wrong. Lance never falls for a girl, especially a girl that doesn't like him back. So here he was, a week later, giving up trying to talk to Fayba and deciding to actually pay attention in class, even though she was there, sitting right beside him.
Fayba wasn't angry at Lance despite what everyone thought. Her mother taught her not to hold grudges, and Pete seconded that. They both told her that it was unladylike and the daughter of Glinda the Good Witch of the North could not hold grudges because it would look bad for her mother. Fayba bet that Pete and Glinda would have frowned upon the food fight that she caused in the cafeteria about a week ago. Even though Madame Torrible decided not to tell her mother, she was sure the news would make it to Glinda, so she wasn't surprised when she got a letter two days after the food fight from Pete. It was all about how it was a disgrace to show the emotion, anger to her fellow pears and teachers, a quote from her mother. Fayba was a bit surprised though that Pete wrote the letter instead of her mother. She expected her mother to be so angry that she would have insisted on writing the letter but she figured her mother was probably busy with one function or another that was going on at Emerald city. The letter ended with Pete asking why she started a food fight and Fayba chose not to answer that question. She instead wrote back that she was fine, but very sorry and then talked about Jasmine and her classes.
Fayba didn't really want to relive the reason why she threw a sandwich at Lance, which was the cause of the food fight. She thought about what Lance commented about her father the rest of that day but decided that it wasn't true and she shouldn't think about it anymore. She took her own advise and chose to be in denial about the day. It was a bit hard though because Lance kept bringing up the day by apologizing over and over again every time he saw her. This ended up being everyday since they sat next to each other in Madame Torrible's class. Fayba decided just to ignore him and listen to Madame Torrible in hopes that he would get the message that she didn't want to talk to him. This plan wasn't going so well since he just passed her a note. Fayba opened it and read I'm sorry. She rolled her eyes and wrote back that she was trying to listen to Madame Torrible's instructions and to stop bugging her. Lance didn't write anything back.
"I do this every year in this course. Each of you will look at a particular person and decide what their motives were behind their actions. If you look at the sheet that I just handed out, you will see that you have a choice on who you will be studying. Your choices are the Wizard, Madame Morrible, Dorothy, Glinda the Good Witch of the North or Elphaba the Wicked Witch of the West. You can find the information in your textbook or at the library. Please tell me by the end of the class whom you will be studying. That will give you ten minutes to decide and to start the project. If you have any questions, you can ask me. Just to make sure everyone sees it, at the bottom of the page, it says the due date, which is one week from tomorrow, which is when we will start the presentations. The presentations have to be at least five minutes long. Any questions? None? Good," Madame Torrible said as she sat down at her desk.
Immediately a couple student went up to her, telling her which ones they were doing. Fayba looked over at the sheet again. She certainly did not want to study her mother's motives. She loved her mother but it would just be too awkward to talk about her as if she wasn't her mother. Madame Morrible didn't seem to interesting. She was the principal of Shiz then became second man to the wizard and the rest they keep a secret. The Wizard would be hard to do a project on since even the people that wrote the books on him never saw his face. The only time he ever showed his face in public was the day that he left on that balloon and he never came back. Fayba looked at her choices. All that was left were Dorothy and the Wicked Witch of the West. Dorothy was a possibility but for some reason, Fayba felt that something was calling her, telling her to study the Wicked Witch of the West. It certainly wouldn't be boring. Fayba thought, debating who she was going to pick.
Fayba chose who she was going to study and got up from her desk, walking towards Madame Torrible. No one else was at her desk since pretty much everyone picked who they would be studying. Madame Torrible was writing something down when she walked up to her. She looked up and smiled once she saw Fayba standing there.
"Have you picked who you are going to study?" Madame Torrible asked.
Fayba nodded. "I would like to do Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West."
Madame Torrible was a bit taken back at this. "Really? Not many people pick her; in fact, you are the only one from this class who has chosen her. Why?" Madame Torrible questioned.
"I don't know, I just had a gut feeling I guess," Fayba said, which was the honest to god truth. She had no idea why she was picking the Wicked Witch of the Witch.
"Alright, the Wicked Witch of the West it is. Be sure to go to the library, we have many books on her." Fayba nodded and walked back to her seat.
"Who'd you pick?" Lance asked as she sat down. Fayba sighed, she had been giving Lance the silent treatment for the week and decided to be ladylike. Wouldn't her mother be proud.
"I picked Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West. Who did you pick?" she said. Lance looked a bit shocked and she wasn't sure if it was because of who she picked or because she was talking to him.
"Madame Morrible," he said. Fayba nodded and looked down at her sheet so she could start the project. "I'm sorry," Lance whispered and Fayba rolled her eyes.
"I know. I got that the first fifty times you said it," she said, not looking up from her paper.
"And yet you haven't accepted any of them," Lance replied.
"I have," she reassured him.
"Oh sorry, my mistake, I guess the silent treatment made me think otherwise."
"Well I needed space now I forgive you and let's move on."
"You mean move on and go on a date?" Lance asked as the bell rang.
Fayba laughed. "You never give up," she said, leaving the classroom.
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After classes, Fayba walked into the library and went to the front desk to ring the bell. She thought this was going to be an easy project. Her motive for doing all of that destruction was probably because she wanted power or wanted revenge on those who teased her because of her green skin. She expected Miss Libree to appear from under the desk but instead, she jumped when she heard a voice behind her.
"Hi Fayba, how are you?" Miss Libree asked.
Fayba turned around and smile. "Just fine," she said.
"Are you sure something isn't troubling you because you seem awfully jumpy, well than again every student now a days seems to be jumpy," Miss Libree said.
"How 'bout that," Fayba replied. "Um, Miss Libree I was wondering if the library has any books on Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West," Fayba continued. "It's for a project."
"Oh of course we have books here on her. In fact, she has the most books written about her, I guess everyone wants to try to make sense of her actions. They are all in the restricted section though so you will have to work here," Miss Libree said.
They both started walking to the back of the library, towards the restricted section. Fayba hadn't made it all the way back here yet, she was still working on books that were on the front shelves. She was looking around, seeing the categories books were placed in when she saw a label that said yearbooks. Miss Libree stopped walking when she saw Fayba looking at the yearbooks.
"We order an extra one every year so that it can go into the library. We only buy one because the library keeps every yearbook and there are so many years that Shiz has been a school." Fayba nodded and they continued to walk to the restricted section.
Miss Libree grabbed dozens of books, handed some to Fayba and they both carried them to the tables at the front of the library. Fayba sat down and grabbed a random book, she was going to have to spend all her free time in the library since there were so many books on the Wicked Witch of the West and she wanted to read all of them.
She was sitting there, reading for about six hours when she noticed something. She grabbed one of the other books that she read before and opened it quickly, trying to find the page. She stopped turning the pages once she found it and grabbed her pen. She wrote something in her notebook and circled it. She tapped her pen on the table, thinking what to do next and decided to talk to Miss Libree who was sitting on the floor behind the desk.
"Miss Libree," Fayba said, which made Miss Libree jump and hit her head on the desk.
She stood up while rubbing her head. "Oh Fayba, you startled me, you shouldn't sneak up at people like that," she said, which made Fayba smile.
"Sorry Miss Libree, I'll be more careful. Anyways I was wondering if you happened to have a book on the cowardly lion."
"I do, it's in the restricted section," she said walking towards the back of the library as Fayba followed. "Can I ask why you want a book on the cowardly lion?"
"Oh well I found something interesting in one of the books," Fayba said.
"And what was so interesting?" Miss Libree asked, pressing Fayba to continue.
"I was reading the book, 'The Early Years' and it said that Elphaba was an animal rights activist."
Miss Libree nodded, "Yes that is true, she wanted animals to have the same rights as people do. Is that it?"
"No, when I was reading 'Destruction that She Cause,' it said that she took away the cowardly lion's courage making him, well, a coward but why would she do that if she was for animal rights?"
Miss Libree smiled for a split second but Fayba didn't see it. "I have no idea," she said as she pulled out the only book on the cowardly lion.
Fayba took it and walked quickly back to the table to read it. Once she finished reading the book, she was writing things down in her notebook. She realized that it didn't make sense that Elphaba would take away a lion's courage. Why would she if she was for animal rights and why only him? She decided to make a time line of Elphaba's life and of all the things she supposedly did. She closed the book, wanting to know more about Elphaba's life at Shiz.
She stood up and walked to the yearbook section. She knew the year that Elphaba went to Emerald city, most people called it the lost year because that was when Elphaba became evil. Fayba started looking at the yearbooks, trying to find the year when she saw that the year had two yearbook copies instead of one. Fayba grabbed both books and went to the front desk to find Miss Libree.
"Miss Libree," Fayba called.
"Yes," she said from behind her, which made Fayba jump. "What can I help you with?" she asked, walking behind the desk.
"You said that you ordered only one extra yearbook copy each year," Fayba said, making sure she heard Miss Libree correctly.
"Yes, I said that, why?"
"Well I found two copies for this year," Fayba said, placing both copies on the desk. Miss Libree eyes widened. "Why would there be two copies?" Fayba asked.
Miss Libree looked at the books then back at Fayba. "It's because one of them is hers. She must have misplaced it and any misplaced yearbooks are sent back to Shiz for the student to claim it but she never did. It was placed in the library ever since," Miss Libree said, touching both yearbooks as if there was more to the story.
"She who?" Fayba questioned.
"Elphaba," Miss Libree whispered.
Fayba looked at the yearbooks, surprised that one of them was the Wicked Witch of the West's. She grabbed one of the yearbooks and opened the front cover, then the back in search for signings from fellow students. Seeing none, she moved to the other one. She opened the book and saw a long one at the front top corner.
"'Dear Elphie,'" she read out loud, "'isn't this exciting, going to Emerald city to see the Wizard! I know you're going to read this in a second so does this dress make me look fat? Oh, who am I kidding, I could never look fat in anything, silly me. Anyways, I'm so excited, are you? Well of course you are! Seeing the Wizard has been both our dreams since like forever! Well that's it, see you in like two secs since you're sitting beside me on the train. Toodles! Your BFF, Glinda. Ps. see I didn't use the 'a'. I think I like my name better since I dropped the 'a'. Thank you Dr. Dillomond!'" Fayba stopped reading and looked at Miss Libree in utter shock. "The Wicked Witch of the West and my mother were best friends!" Fayba shouted.
"You didn't know? Well of course, I should have figured, it's not something your mother would brag about. Actually so few know that I don't even think that piece of information is in any of those books," Miss Libree said.
"How do you know then?" Fayba asked, not taking her eyes off the yearbook signing.
"Oh well I've been the librarian at Shiz for many, many years. I remember when they became friends. I was chaperoning one of Shiz's dances at the Ozdust Ballroom and I saw it all. Elphaba got Glinda into the Sorcery class that she wanted and Glinda in return, accepted Elphaba as a friend."
"Then what happened? Why did they turn on each other at Emerald city? They were friends on the way there, what do you think happened?" Fayba asked and Miss Libree paused for a second, thinking about what she should say next.
"Well, let me ask you this, why was there only four people in the room when your mother was deemed the Good Witch of the North? Don't you think they would have made it a public event," Miss Libree then stopped, she knew she couldn't say too much to her, she promised not to tell anyone. Fayba nodded and looked at the time, not noticing Miss Libree's sudden stop.
"Could I take some restricted book to my dorm room please, it's almost curfew and if I'm not at my dorm in time, I get a detention," Fayba pleaded as Miss Libree shook her head.
"Sorry, I can't, it's against the rules but I'll tell you what, I will open the library two hours before classes start tomorrow for you to do more research," Miss Libree offered.
Fayba nodded and smiled. "Alright, can you save those books so I won't have to look for them tomorrow and can I take out this book," Fayba said, pointing to Elphaba's yearbook and Miss Libree nodded.
After she checked out the yearbook, Fayba grabbed her stuff and ran out of the library to make it to her room before curfew. "She may be the answer to this twenty year problem," Miss Libree mumbled to herself as she started to collect the books to put aside.
Fayba saw Jasmine waiting for her at the dorm room. "There you are," Jasmine said as Fayba walked in the room. "I thought you weren't going to make it, where were you anyways?" Jasmine asked.
"Library," Fayba said, pulling out her notebook and Elphaba's yearbook and placed them on her bed.
"Library? Why? I don't bug you about Lance anymore."
"I wanted to start working on the project."
"Wait, you decided to start a project on the first day it was assigned?" Jasmine asked.
"Ya," Fayba said as she sat on her bed and began to look at Elphaba's yearbook.
"Ew, that's almost as bad as reading for fun."
Fayba laughed. "Hey who are you doing your project on?" Fayba asked.
"Dorothy. I chose her because she was a teenage girl when she came to Oz and I'm a teenage girl now, see the connection?"
"Clearly," Fayba said, rolling her eyes.
"Who did you pick?" Jasmine asked.
"Elphaba."
"Elphaba? As in the Wicked Witch of the West?"
"Yup."
"Wow. I've never heard of anyone just say her first name. Even Madame Torrible says the title after the name."
"Ya well it's just easier than saying the full title and besides all of the books that I read use just her first name. What's the big deal?"
Jasmine was a bit shocked. Most people would never even say the Wicked Witch of the West's first name and here Fayba was saying it with such ease. She then thought why it was such a terrible word to say and couldn't think of a reason.
"Hey what are you looking at?" Jasmine asked, trying to change the subject.
"Elphaba's yearbook."
"Really?" Jasmine said sitting beside Fayba. "Wow look, your mom is in like every picture," Jasmine continued.
Fayba nodded. "And beside her is always Elphaba."
"Wow, they look so normal."
"And happy. Total BFFs."
"Who's that?" Jasmine asked, pointing at the male teenager with his arm around both Glinda and Elphaba in a picture. Fayba looked below for a name.
"Fiyero," Fayba read.
"The scarecrow? He knew Elphaba?"
"I guess," Fayba said as she turned the page.
"Something doesn't seem right," Jasmine said.
"What?" Fayba asked, pressing Jasmine to continue.
"Look at Fiyero and Elphaba in this picture," she said turning back the page and pointing to the photo they just looked at.
"What about it?" Fayba asked not seeing what Jasmine was connecting.
"He looks awkward in touching her. If they were friends, he wouldn't have a problem with having his arm around her."
"So? Maybe they weren't that close," Fayba insisted. There had to be a perfectly normal reason to why Fiyero looked a bit awkward.
"Ya, but if you look at this picture," Jasmine said, turning the page, pointing to another picture. In this picture, Elphaba, Glinda, and Fiyero weren't looking directly at the camera. Glinda and Elphaba were beside each other with Fiyero across from them at one of the cafeteria's lunch tables. "He's looking at Elphaba, not Glinda even though Glinda is clearly talking in the picture. And in this one," she continued, pointing to a picture of just Elphaba and Glinda. She pointed to Fiyero, who was in the background. "Look, he's staring at Elphaba, not Glinda. Weird huh," Jasmine said, jumping off Fayba's bed and going to her own to finish her homework.
"Ya weird," Fayba said, sill staring at the pictures. Was this the reason why Elphaba and her mother became enemies? Did Fiyero maybe like Elphaba, the friend with the brains instead of Glinda, the friend with the looks? Fayba wondered. It was a possibility but Fayba couldn't help shake off the feeling that there was so much more to the story then just two BFFs fighting over a boy.
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Fayba spent all of her free time at the library. Miss Libree opened the library two hours earlier each morning for Fayba to work on the project. Fayba came in the morning, during lunch, and after school. Her notebook that was once filled with drawings was now filled with notes about Elphaba. There were arrows everywhere as she tried to connect something that would make sense of the story. Why was Elphaba green? Why was her sister not be able to walk until suddenly, one day she can, with the help of the red shoes that everyone said was so powerful. Were those shoes really powerful? How did the tin man lose his heart and became tin? How did the cowardly lion lose his courage? How did Dorothy get here? Did Fiyero cheat on Glinda with Elphaba? And the million dollar question, what happened in Emerald city that cause Glinda and Elphaba to become enemies? These were only a few of the questions that Fayba had written down. She found that the more she investigated, the more questions popped up with very few of them answered. She stared at the sheet, hoping that something, anything would jump out at her, telling her the answer. Her essay was due in two days and she had no idea what she was going to say. Fayba put her head down and started banging on the table.
"Hey, hey," Miss Libree said. "Stop that! We'll have to call home if you get a concussion," she continued and Fayba looked up.
"That's it! Why didn't I think of that before!" she said standing up quickly.
"You didn't think of what?" Miss Libree questioned, completely confused.
"I can ask my mother, can you call her?"
Miss Libree shook her head. "We only call parents if a child is sick or did something wrong or extremely homesick."
"But this is for a school project, doesn't that count? Please Miss Libree," Fayba begged.
"Well… alright," Miss Libree said, walking to the front desk as Fayba followed. She pulled out a huge bowl from below the desk, which made Fayba wonder what else she had under there. Miss Libree filled the bowl with water, chanted a spell, and then turned the bowl to face Fayba. "It's calling; someone's image will appear in the water once they pick up." Fayba looked in the bowl and a moment later, Pete appeared. Fayba recognized that Pete was in the dinning room of the castle.
"Fayba? Why are you calling? Is something wrong?" he asked, looking very worried.
"No, I just want to talk to mom, it's for a project."
Pete hesitated. "Uh, your mother isn't, uh, here right now," he stuttered.
"Then where is she, I can call her there," Fayba said. She really wanted to talk to her mother.
"Oh, uh, actually she is here, I uh, forgot but she is very busy." Fayba knew something wasn't right. Pete never lied and he was clearly lying now. Fayba took a closer look at Pete and saw the dark circles under his eyes and saw how stressed he looked.
"What's wrong?" Fayba asked, forgetting why she called.
"Nothing, everything's fine," Pete said quickly, trying to reassure her.
"Uh, Fayba, you don't have much time left," Miss Libree whispered.
"Pete since mom is busy, maybe you can help me," Fayba said knowing that Pete wasn't going to say what was bothering him.
"Alright," Pete replied while nodding his head. He was glad Fayba decided to change the subject because he wasn't so sure how much longer he could have lied to Fayba about something so important.
"Well, you were there the day that Elphaba put a spell to give monkeys wings in Emerald city, right."
"Right," Pete said cautiously.
"And that was the same day mom was deemed the Good Witch of the North right." Pete continued to nod. "Well are you sure that Elphaba was the one that cast the spell, I mean if she was jealous of Glinda, wouldn't she have taken it out on her instead of innocent animals."
"Yes I am sure that she did it. I saw her read from the Wizard's spell book and-"
"Wait, the Wizard's spell book?"
"Yes, then after she read from the book, she stole it."
"Why would the Wizard have a spell that would give monkeys wings if he was good?" Fayba muttered to herself.
"I have no idea," Pete said.
"Unless he wasn't as good of a person as everyone thought he was. What kind of person would just leave one day and never come back?"
"I don't know but Fayba, I should be going, it was nice talking to you-"
"Wait! Pete, one last thing. Can you get mom's yearbook and read me Elphaba's signing, please," Fayba begged.
Pete sighed. "Wait a second, I'll go get it." He ran quickly to the library, knowing exactly where the yearbook was. Glinda looked at it from time to time, imaging about how things use to be. He grabbed the yearbook and ran back to the dinning room. He had no idea why Fayba wanted to know what Elphaba said and wasn't sure if he should tell her but he figured he wasn't telling her something very important so he felt that he at least owed her this.
Pete opened the cover once he got back to the bowl. "It says 'Dear Glinda, yes I am very excited to go see the Wizard and yes I love your name since you decided to drop the 'a'. I'm so happy you decided to come with me to Emerald city. I couldn't imagine this trip to be as much fun without you. You are truly my best friend. And yes, we are very close now as the conductor just said. Your friend, Elphaba,'" Pete finished reading and looked at Fayba, who seemed to be deep in thought. "Uh, Fayba, I got to go, it was nice talking to you, keep writing okay," Pete said.
Fayba nodded. "Bye," she said as she saw Pete's image fade away until the water in the bowl became clear again.
"Fayba? Fayba what are you thinking?" Miss Libree asked. Fayba took her eyes off the bowl and looked at Miss Libree.
"I was thinking, I am thinking that I finally know what to write for my project."
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Fayba ran into Madame Torrible's classroom just as the bell rang. She spent that morning in the library, finishing her project. She was really nervous. Her project was differently going to be unique but then again, what wasn't unique in her life?
"Alright class I want everyone's essay on my desk before we start the presentations. It said on the instruction sheet, you will lose marks if you read off your essay so I am not even going to give you that option," Madame Torrible said after the bell rang. Everyone got up and handed her their essay. "Alright, who wants to go first?" she asked.
As a reflex, Fayba put up her hand. Usually she loved to go first and always volunteered. She loved getting the presentation over and done with but she didn't want to go first with this project, her mind decided but apparently her arm did not get the message.
"Fayba, thank you for volunteering," Madame Torrible said, smiling at her.
Fayba became more nervous than she has her entire life. She didn't get stage fright. 'You have to get over it because everyone expects us to be perfect' Glinda told her when she was four years old. Of course that didn't help her get over it, what did was the thousands of parties she was made to go to and made to say a speech, by her mother of course. Therefore, Fayba never had stage fright anymore but she was nervous about how people were going to react when she finished her presentation. There were two ways on how this could go, they would throw rocks at her until the evil spirit left her body or they would throw rocks at her until the evil spirit left her body. Fayba realized that the two ways were the same thing and that made her even more nervous. It's now or never. Fayba said as she went up to the front of the class. A big part of her was telling her to choose never but the responsible part of her was telling her she would fail if she chose never and Fayba always had a fear of failing.
"Whenever you're ready," Madame Torrible said, sitting at the back of the classroom, holding the marking sheet.
And that would be never. Fayba thought but decided to start anyways. "I decided to do my project on Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West. Everyone knows the story about her. She was evil and did many horrible things such as giving monkeys wings, turning a person into tin, taking away a lion's courage, turning Fiyero into a scarecrow and more until Dorothy threw water on her causing her to melt. Many have wondered why someone would do these things. When I first started this project, I thought it was going to be easy to write about her motive. I thought it was either she went power mad or decide to take revenge on the people that teased her and shunned her because she was green. As I was researching the Wicked Witch of the West though, I found many things that did not make sense in this story. The Wicked Witch of the West did her first evil act at Emerald city when Glinda was deemed Good Witch of the North but that didn't make sense. Everyone assumed Elphaba was a loner at Shiz and that was the reason why she went after my mother but I found out that Elphaba did have a friend, a best friend in fact," Fayba paused. She knew the next thing was going to shock everyone but she wasn't going to stop now. "Glinda, the Good Witch of the North and Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West were BFFs." Fayba looked around her and saw shocked faces except for two, Jasmine and Lance. That confused Fayba a bit. She expected Jasmine to not be shock, since she knew but not Lance. "I can prove it because Shiz's library has Elphaba's yearbook and my mother signed it 'your BFF, Glinda.'
"When I saw that, I knew the motive of Elphaba taking revenge on everyone that teased her couldn't be right because my mother and she were friends but Elphaba still hurt her. Glinda signed the yearbook on the way to Emerald city. It says in the story that Glinda went to Emerald city, and was deemed the Good Witch of the North but I read what Elphaba wrote in my mother's yearbook and she said that the Wizard wanted to see her and she invited Glinda to come along. It could be a lie but the signing was done on the train to Emerald city and it seems that Elphaba and Glinda were still friends at that point.
"People say that she went power mad and cursed innocent monkeys with wings the day that Glinda was deemed Good Witch of the North but why would she have taken it out on monkeys? Not only would it make more sense if she went after Glinda instead of the monkeys but Elphaba was an animal rights activist. She wouldn't hurt an animal, well not on purpose. Also, the spell that cause monkeys to have wings was in a spell book that belonged to the Wizard. The same Wizard that took off and decided to never come back. I don't think Elphaba just found the book and flipped it to a random page and by coincidence that the Wiz had a bunch of monkeys captured. The Wizard wanted to see Elphaba not Glinda that day. Something must have happened besides just Glinda being deemed the Good Witch of the North. And even if that was the plan, why would Elphaba be mad? She was best friends with Glinda. Elphaba would be happy for her and also see this as a plus because having a best friend in that power would help get animal rights. I don't think she would have been angry. Not only that but why was Glinda deemed privately? Wouldn't something like that be a public event?
"As many wonder then what could possibly have caused Elphaba to be evil, we have to think who told us she was evil. The Wizard's second in command, Madame Morrible, the woman who is now spending the rest of her days in a jail told us. If Madame Morrible is evil and told us Elphaba was evil, could there be a possibility that she was lying? And if the Wizard's second in command is evil, who's to say the Wizard wasn't evil. There are only a handful of people who were alive during that time that saw the Wizard's face. Everyone else just saw a mechanical face that he could hide behind until the day he left.
"I think Elphaba became a target because she ran off with the spell book. Why else would the Wizard care about catching Elphaba? He didn't seem to care about Oz. If he did then why did he leave?
"Many pieces of the story do not make sense. Take Dorothy for example. Everyone said that she was a witch because how else could she have gotten here but she said that there was a hurricane that brought her to the land of Oz. Madame Morrible's speciality was controlling the weather. Dorothy's house dropped on the Nessa, the Wicked Witch of the East, Elphaba's sister. Supposedly, Elphaba came to get Nessa's shoes because they had power but I don't think the shoes had any real power except helping Nessa walk. They didn't even take Dorothy home, my mother did. They had no doom and gloom power. I think the only reason Elphaba wanted those shoes was because they belonged to her sister. She was just a grieving sister.
"I know that I am completely going all over the place but this story doesn't go together properly. I think that Elphaba was just misunderstood, she had no evil motive and I'm not even sure if she did all the things that people say like changing a man into tin, changing Fiyero into a scarecrow and taking away a lion's courage. There are too many questions that all lead back to what happened at Emerald city that day. Someone is lying and I intend to find out who." Fayba stopped talking and looked at her classmates and Madame Torrible.
Everyone looked shocked, including Lance and Jasmine. No one said anything, not knowing what to do. Then Lance started clapping and was followed by everyone in the class. Fayba walked back to her seat beside Lance, taking in deep breaths. She wasn't expecting anyone to clap.
"Well Fayba you certainly did a lot of research. I look forward in reading your essay, now who's next?" Madame Torrible asked and another student put up his hand.
"That was really good," Lance whispered. "How'd you find out about all that stuff?"
"Library," Fayba said before turning toward the student starting his presentation.
By the time lunch rolled around, everyone knew about Fayba's presentation and everyone was talking about it. A few were saying that it was a rumour while others talked about the possibility that Fayba is one of the Wicked Witch of the West's follows and others talked about the questions that Fayba brought up. It wasn't only students but teachers who were talking about it. When Fayba sat down at her lunch table, everyone crowded around her like usual but this time instead of talking about the upcoming dance, everyone was talking about the questions Fayba brought up. Everyone was asking her questions from why Elphaba was green to what happened to Fiyero. There were even a few that were giving their own theories, which helped Fayba. Talking about it with other people helped her mind think of her own theories. Fayba was listening to someone's theory when Madame Torrible came up to the table.
"Fayba, please accompany me to my office," she said. Fayba stood up immediately and followed Madame Torrible thinking this was it, here comes the rock throwing. As they walked through the cafeteria, Fayba's eyes contacted with Lance's for a split second before she walked through the doors. Madame Torrible was silent all the way to the office. Once they got to their destination, Madame Torrible stepped in the office and Fayba followed shock to see who was waiting in the office.
"Pete? What are you doing here?" Fayba asked.
Pete looked at the ground. "It's about your mother, she's dying."
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