Ow... I'm holding my computer propped on my knee and it fell and hit my nose... it really hurts. ANYWAY, here's another chapter especially dedicated to TheGirlDefyingGravity (even though the whole thing is dedicated to her...) for being my most loyal reader :o) btw, I'm getting her hooked on the ":o)" smiley (RENT!) haha okay, I'll stop rambling and you can.... read, then... REVIEW IT OR SCREW IT!
~obsessive-elphaba

I decide to walk to school today. It hurts a little, and I'm a bit sore... especially in the heels Galinda gave me. Oh well! It just feels great to be... average sized height again. I can't very well say I'm tall, what with the basketball players and...

"Nessa?" A familiar voice says, flowing into my ear.

"Oh, hello, Avaric." I smile simply. Avaric and I kind of sort of friends. We've acquainted once or twice. Just because Boq hates the guy doesn't mean I have to.

"Nessarose, you look... wow." He nods, looking me over a bit too much - making me very uncomfortable.

"Thank you." I reply with a nod. Another familiar face joins us. "Hi, Boq." I should take this route more often, knowing Boq lives here... or would that be stalking? And didn't Boq take that stupid yellow bus?

"Nessa." He nods politely, and I can tell by his wrinkly forehead that he's holding back a scowl. "Avaric."

Avaric ignores him, focusing still on me. "Do you want to do something after school today?"

"We have play rehearsals." Boq and I reply simultaneously. He must still be pissed with the understudy thing.

"We can skip it." Avaric leans in so close that I think he's going to kiss me, but I pull back.

"No thank you, Avaric." I say before strolling ahead of the boys, who start arguing.

This is getting out of hand. All I wanted was for Boq to like me. Now the popular boys like me too? Geek magnet be darned, I don't want to be the popular magnet either! I just want to be the Bog magnet.

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Boq and I lost Avaric a few blocks ago, and it was dreadfully silent for two best friends like us. "So..." Boq starts. "You and Avaric, eh?"

"What?!" I nearly jump with the surprise. "Where would you get such an idea???"

"Well he was..." Boq shrugs.

"Boq, how many girls do you see Avaric moon over daily?" I ask.

"But never you." He shakes his head.

"Is there a problem with me?" I raise an eyebrow.

"No." He answers quickly. "Just... boys aren't supposed to swarm around you like you're... Galinda." I frown. Not her again.

"Boys can swarm around me all they want." I cross my arms, wobbling on my legs a little.

"I know..." Boq mutters. "But it isn't right."

"But it is for Galinda."

"No, just..." I didn't let him get another word in as I ran down the street. "Nessa!" I hear him call. Before I can get much farther I fall onto a park bench and rest my aching legs.

A certain someone jogging with an iPod filled with Idina Menzel songs finds me. "Nessa?" Elphaba asks. "What happened?"

"Boys." I reply simply, careful not to say who. "Running."

"Hop on." she pulls my carefully folded chair out of her backpack. "Nice mileage, by the way." She comments and pushes me to school.

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I roll into class and see Boq. I see Avaric. I see everything. "Doctor Dillamond." I say, staying in the front.

"Hmmm..." He doesn't look up from his papers.

"May I use the restroom?" I ask, and wait for his stern nod. I know I just got there, but it's too much.

Trying to roll fast, I run into someone. "I'm sorry." The voice says, her papers dropped. I can't take it anymore; I burst out sobbing. "Miss Nessarose, deary, are you all right?" The voice belongs to Miss. Reign.

"No!" I wail, louder than I should. If the bell rings, I'll surely be teased.

"What's wrong?" She asked.

"Boq loves Galinda! Avaric loves me! And Galinda's going to kiss him!" Fake kiss or not, Boq will eat that moment up for life and die a happy man.

"Nessarose." Miss Reign tilts my chin up and looks at me. "You mustn't think that way. From what I've known, Avaric 'loves' every girl he lays eyes on. Boq, well you can''t very well decide how his feelings are, but I can guarantee you it isn't love." She shakes her head slowly. "Now, Galinda is a brilliant actress. She'll take care of that kiss and make it remembered, but it won't be the same as for real." Screw therapy; I was feeling better already. Miss Reign smiles at me. "Boq would be a lucky boy to love someone like you."

"And Galinda." I nod, my tears drying. I can tell she's confused by my sudden change in emotion. "Look at her. She's beautiful and amazing without even trying. She's sweet to everyone that she lays eyes on. If Boq does love her, he'd be very lucky to have her."

Miss. Reign's eyes move upward and widen a bit. Then she looks back to me. "You're both lovely girls." She smiles, a bit awkwardly, but I can't tell because she's some professional actress. Turning my head I can see a bit of blond hair running around the corner of the hall. Definitely male... but who? "Don't worry, my pet. Everything will be okay." I don't hear, I'm too preoccupied with the boy.

"You saw him, right?" I whisper. "Who was that."

"Nessa, I haven't a clue what you mean." Miss. Reign shakes her head and tries to go back to the previous conversation, but I roll off, eager to find out who he was. Who had heard. Who would spread the gossip. Who would be getting a visit from my sister's boyfriend, who just so happens to be great at beating people up.

But I turn the corner and find, much to my surprise, Boq. Had he heard me? Many emotions ran through me and I forced them not to come out my cheeks. "Hi, Nessa." He smiles shyly, a hint of discomfort evident. He's not a professional actor. "What's up?"

"I was using the bathroom." I say.

"Oh, right. Me too." He nods swiftly.

"The bathrooms are at the other end of the hall." I comment.

"Yeah?"

"Yup..." I look down. "Boq, you didn't perhaps hear any of that, did you?" My face does turn red. Elphaba and I can be Christmas for Halloween. She green, me red.

"What do you mean?" That already tells me he had, the way he laughs.

"Oh." I turn around and roll back towards Doctor Dillamond's room.

"Wait, Nessa!" I hear and stop in my tracks. "Where you going?"

"Class."

"Oh yeah..." He mutters to himself lamely. "You want to get a smoothie instead?" I give him a look.

"Skip class?" I ask.

"Uh, yeah... I guess. We'll check out first, if you'd like." Boq shrugs.

This was the weirdest thing ever. Boq heard every word and wants to buy me a smoothie? There has to be a catch... He's probably going to report me for skipping and use his acting skills to say otherwise. "Sure..." I find myself accepting the offer.

He smiles softly. "Awesome. Let's go." He wheels me to the elevator shaft. I don't know why I'm happy. There'll surely be trouble soon.

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(Think of it anyway you want - I call it a date XD)

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Play rehearsals was great. Just wonderful. And when I say wonderful; I mean horrible. I'm not the best at sarcasm like some people... Well, Miss. Reign is working on the kiss scene. After all I said to her, trusted her with, she does this to me! Boq looks very nervous, almost like he was about to betray someone. "Argile." Galinda says, though it seems like she's whispering.

Boq rushes to her side. "You're all right, my sweet?" He asks, holding her hand. The same hand I want to bite off right now.

"I'm afraid not..." Galinda coughs. "She got me Spurella struck me, right before her death." Galinda smiles weakly. "I magicked her. I really did it..."

"Deanna, no. Stay with me!" Boq says, louder than he should I notice.

"Argile. It's too late for me. Her spirit's still out there... You'll hunt for it."

"I'll find it and destroy it." He stomps his foot. "But you can't die on me now. You won't!"

"Argile..." Galinda cups his face. "Go on..." She is supposed to kiss him now, right now, but she sits up and smiles greatly at her audience. Pfannee and ShenShen are crying their eyes out at such a performance, Boq looks more relieved than disappointed. I wonder really what's gotten into him. Avaric, smoothies, relief. He shouldn't have been fighting with Avaric for looking at me; he shouldn't have bought me a smoothie after I just ripped the seams holding our friendship together out; and he definitely should NOT be relieved he didn't kiss Galinda Upland, love of his life. My world is being turned upside down right and wrong. I bite my lip and think. "ROSEY!!!!" A very peppy voice said.

"I don't get it..." I shake my head. "Why didn't you kiss him?"

"Silly!" Galinda rolls her eyes and bops me on the head. "You can't do the kiss until the show, duh! It just makes no sense if I had kissed him now."

"Oh." I still didn't get it, but I smile and nod as she wheels me out. I don't remember much more about the night, except that Galinda was doing make up and jewelry. Boq was, what's that word, confusifying me. And I just don't know what he's doing...

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Hilooooo, folksies! It's obsessive-elphaba's latest chapter. Hope you know what's going on with Boqqy because Nessa sure doesn't! Okay, this was a lot of filler and a lot of Bessa. But not complete filler because Boq's thinking is a major part of this story. Kinda like it would be with Fiyero and Elphie, but that's a totally different story. If you notice any typos, please ignore them because I'm not the perfect Elphaba so, muahahaha. REVIEW IT OR SCREW IT!
~obsessive-elphaba