Okay, chapter two. I had to make Fiyero do the "Too Sexy" thing cuz it just seemed so in character, right? Well, Boq will appear soon, if not in this chapter (I make this thing up as I write, no planning ahead.) Here goes!
I sit in my bed listening to my iPod. I hum the one song I get to sing solo and frown. It's a stupid song. It's all about Little Lurline wanting to fly, and flapping her arms around and dancing around stage. Ugh. Boq's going to laugh at me.
But I try to look at the bright side. In six days I'll get to get out of this wheelchair! I'll join the sports teams I like... well, if I have any talent for them. Sports that involve balls and throwing... not my forte.
That's beside the point. The points ARE, in this context, I'll get out of this chair, and look stupid dancing. "Nessarose." My sister walks in.
"Hey, Fae." I say, sitting up in bed.
"Something is bothering you." Did I mention she knows everything. She gets perfect grades AND manages to be popular!
"Nothing's wrong." I shake my heads and take my headphones out.
"Come on, Nessa, tell me."
I frown and shrug a bit. "I... like a guy..."
Elphaba smiles. "Really? Who?"
"It doesn't even matter, because he likes someone else." I nearly shout.
"Aw, I'm sorry." She strokes my back.
"How do I win him over?" I ask through my pillow.
"Just be yourself, and-" I groan, interrupting her.
"You ALWAYS tell me that, and look how well that worked out!"
"Galinda told me the same thing..." I hear no more. Galinda. Boq likes Galinda. What better to get advice from her on how to win a guys heart?
It was decided. I would ask her at the play rehearsals.
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Galinda was sitting in the auditorium, flirting with seven boys simultaneously. They weren't giving her weird looks or anything! I waited until most of them were gone and wheeled over to her. "Hi, Nessa!" She smiled down at me. "Excuse me, boys, but I really need to take this." She waves her hand in a slow motion, kind of dizzying motion and even blew one of them a kiss. "What's up?" She asked, applying some pink lip stick.
"Umm, I kind of like this guy, and-"
A squeal interrupts me. "Oh, Rosey! Your very first crush!" She smiles.
"And he kind of doesn't like me." She gasps a bit. "Can you teach me how to... flirt with boys?"
The blonde doesn't falter. She smiles wide. "Of course! Oh, sweet, this is going to be spectabulous!" She clapped. "You can come over to my house tomorrow after rehearsal."
"Thank you." I am so excited.
"Okay, students, let's start rehearsal. Glinda, darling, would you please set up for the fourth scene. Boq! Where's Boq?" The drama teacher, Miss. Sonny Reign, announces.
Galinda runs up to the stage. "Um, it's Guh-linda, and Boq was sick."
"Does he have his script?"
"Yes, ma'am."
"UNDERSTUDY!" The drama teacher calls, but no one stands up. That is until the incredibly cocky (and not just in one way) Fiyero runs up to the stage. "No." Miss. Reign narrows her eyes.
"I was born to play the lead! Come on!" Elphaba, who is backstage, is probably rolling her eyes. "Act out the scene with me."
"Cuz I sure won't..." Galinda mutters.
"Do you know the muffin man?" Miss. Reign asks. I know that's not in the script. I memorized Galinda's part just in case a terrible... accident happens...
"The muffin man!" Fiyero puts his hand on his heart, eyes wide. Actually a pretty decent performance. "Who... who lives on Drury Lane?"
"You're pathetic... Avaric! You'll be our understudy." I guess Miss. Reign still hasn't gotten over the time Fiyero put those snakes in her car.
"Mmmmm." Galinda hums, licking her lips. Something tells me that little acting kiss will be pretty realistic. "Tasty." I watch Avaric. He blushes a light red. Galinda winks. I can't tell if it's at Avaric or me, seeing we're next to each other. I think I picked the right mentor.
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"Miss Nessarose, are you positive you'll be able to dance by show time. We need you for the show." Miss. Reign wheels me to my sister's car, which I'm not sure I want to be in, considering the fact Fiyero has been in one of his "moods" which I hope to comprehend soon.
"I'll be able to do it. I'm not that important anyway." I reply curtly.
"You are absolutely wrong! Without Young Lurline, the story would just be confusifying as your friend Galinda puts it. The audience wouldn't understand the matter and why it means so much to her." Miss. Reigns snaps her finger at me. "Every role, your role especially, adds greatly to the show."
I smile a bit, loving the feeling of being needed. "Thank you Miss. Reign."
"Don't thank me, sweet girl. I merely stated a fact." She smiles, and helps me lift out of the chair and into the car. I decided right there that she was my favorite teacher. Even if she didn't let me kiss Boq.
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The back seat is the best view, if you actually want to see, of all the Fiyero annoying Elphaba drama. It starts with him playing with her hair. She snaps, pulling it back in a ponytail, which he bats at like a cat would. She'd side glare at him, and his smirk never fell. I wonder if Boq would be that way if I or anyone was his girlfriend. I immediately decided against that. I wouldn't like him if he were like Fiyero. "Fiyero, seriously! We are going to CRASH!" Elphaba growls at last.
"Fine..." He mutters softly, backing off. "Psycho lady..." I bite my lip to suppress my giggle. It basically described the seriousness of my sister driving. "Now you, Miss Nessarose." He turns to me.
"What honor do I have of informing you, Master Fiyero, of today? Please tell me you didn't forget your brain again."
"High five." Elphaba held back a hand, which I slap.
"You seem to have it made with that drama teacher, Sonny." He says, ignoring my jab.
"She prefers you call her Miss Reign. She's disgusted by all forms of disrespect." I correct.
"No wonder she hates you..." Elphaba muttered, Fiyero not hearing.
"Whatever, but you think you can score me a better part, like, I dunno, the lead maybe?" He seems to seriously want to be associated with theatre. That's a different Fiyero than I've seen.
"Why are you so anxious to be the lead?" I ask. "You don't perhaps want to kiss Miss Galinda." I wouldn't mind that actually. Getting him out of my life, and Galinda NOT kissing Boq, would be awesome. Elphaba cackles, Fiyero smirks. Did I miss something?
"Pssh!" He spits. "Galinda is the total obsessive girlfriend. She'll pout if you don't respond to her text within five minutes."
"What?" I didn't see how he would know that.
"Did we not tell you she and Fiyero used to date?" Elphaba mused.
"Not to mention her kissing skills aren't the best." Fiyero nodded. "Her stupid closed lip policy..."
"She breaks that after the fifth date." Elphaba informs.
"Well, I'm very impatient." Fiyero made a humoring noise with his mouth. "The lead is strictly to open some doors for me. I'm sixteen; I need to be thinking about college and my career." He shrugs, putting his hands behind his head.
"Dude, what happened to you?" I smirk at the exact opposite Fiyero behavior.
"Don't laugh." He frowns. "It's important."
I don't discourage him to being himself again. Elphaba's got a two of a kind. One kind a jerk, the other an actually decent guy. Sounds like a bunch of head drama. But Elphaba, being perfect, can handle such things with ease.
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I wheel into the house. "I smell cookies." And sure enough my father is making chocolate chippys from scratch.
"Nessa! Fabela!" Frex smiles.
"Oooh. Cookies." Fiyero raids the stash, whilst Elphaba and me grab one. I go upstairs and think. Didn't Galinda help Elphaba... does that mean I'll get a guy like Fiyero? I frown. Boq wouldn't like me just because Galinda made me pretty... would he?
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I am so GOOD! I have updated FIVE of my stories that people have been begging me for! I couldn't be happier! They SHOULDN'T be happier anytime soon. I'm giving them what I want. Reviews are very welcome (as I like to say, REVIEW IT OR SCREW IT!) I have decided. Boq will DEFINITELY be in the next chapter. :) just in case you were wondering. Mmmm'k! Later gaters!
~obsessive-elphaba