Thank you for the wonderful response! I have decided to continue this, sorry Happy3611 :P the odds were against you this time… -hides behind Rachel and Louise-

Chapter 2

Your Eyes

Elphaba cracked the door open, checking if her blonde roommate was inside. "Galinda?" She asked hesitantly poking her head through the small crevice she had created.

Galinda looked up from her magazine; Elphaba thought it was called… "Oz Girl", or something of the sorts. She never saw her without a copy of that thing. Galinda blinked once, her eyes adjusting to the light that flooded through the door. "Hi, Elphie." She murmured.

"Oz, Lin, how can you see anything in the dark. I think one of us wearing glasses is enough." Elphaba reprimanded, walking to her bedside table and turning on her lamp. Galinda looked up at her. "What's with you? You're awfully happy for being Miss Elphaba." She teased, stuffing the magazine under her bed she sat up to face the young witch.

Elphaba sat across from her cross legged on her bed fingering the rim of the hat Galinda had given her fondly. "The Wizard," She began her eyes still downcast, "he's asked for me to come see him, Lin." Galinda tilted her head questioningly and hopped over and sat next to Elphaba.

"Now you seem sad. You should be happy. Why is that?" She asked and Elphaba cracked a smile.

"My, aren't we observant today?" A hint of her signature sarcasm came through and Galinda nudged her affectionately with a grin. "No but really, Elphie." She pressed.

"I don't know, I guess I'm really happy… there's just so much for me here, I'm only twenty-one and-"

"Wait, you're twenty-one?!"

"Yes, aren't you?"

"No, I'm twenty!"

"That explains a lot." Elphaba mumbled in amusement.

"You were twenty when we met though! I MISSED YOUR BIRTHDAY! When was it?" Galinda cried, gripping a pillow and hitting Elphaba in the arm with it. She didn't miss the comment.

"March tenth."

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" She wailed, performing a rather dramatic face plant dive into her bed. Elphaba raised an eyebrow in amusement and walked over to Galinda's bed, picking the blonde up.

"Come on, get up." She chuckled. "I didn't get to finish talking yet."

"Oh. Sorry Elphie. But next year we will celebrate!" She said decisively, sticking her pointer finger in the air. It went silent. Elphaba had forgotten she had yet to conclude saying what she had too. She was now staring off into space, a faraway look in her eyes with a hint of sadness.

"Elphie?" Galinda asked, waving her hand in front of her friend's face.

Elphaba shook her head and muttered under her breath in Munchkin. She had lost her train of thought thinking about Fiyero- again.

'Sweet Oz, Elphaba. Snap out of it, you're not doing yourself any good by thinking of him day and night.

It's not day and night!

Oh yea? Then what kept you up?

Galinda snores so loud! I just don't have the heart to tell her.' She settled her mental fight with herself.

"I was saying that I'll just miss you guys." Galinda flung herself onto Elphaba. "I'll miss you too!"

"Er… I'm going to go tell… Fiyero."

Galinda's gaze immediately brightened. "Oh! I just knew you two would eventually become friends!"

Fiyero sat hunched over on his bed, his lamp shining a narrow beam of light onto the paper in front of him. A few stray sheets of crumpled paper scattered the floor near a trashcan in the corner of the room. Avaric was out tonight, luckily for Fiyero. Whenever his obnoxious roommate left he would pull out his drawing tablet and draw whatever was on his mind…

And tonight like so many others it just so happened to be Elphaba.

Whenever he drew her there was something he wasn't happy with, he had watched her countless times perfecting her posture and body language, the way she held herself over others, but not with disdain. It was her eyes that puzzled him though, for someone so young there was so much pain and emotion, he just couldn't capture their chocolate hazel beauty enough. He was never satisfied. Fiyero sighed and put his drawing notebook away and put the drawings on the floor into the fire.

He looked around, his gaze falling onto his Vinkun guitar. He walked over to the mahogany beauty and took it from its stand. He strummed it a few times to check if it was in tune and began to sing softly, he could barely hear his own voice above the crackling fire.

"Your eyes, as we said our goodbyes. Can't get them out of my mind and I find I can't hide from your eyes. The ones that took me by surprise the night you came into my life where there's moonlight I see your eyes. How'd I let you slip away when I'm longing so to hold you? Now I'd die for one more day, 'cause there's something I should have told you… Yes there's something I should have told you when I looked into your eyes…" He was interrupted when there was a rapid knock at the door.

He sprang up and rushed to put away his guitar. He cleared his throat. "Come in!" He braced himself for a drunken Avaric to come spinning in with some girl on his arm.

"I can't Fiyero, you dimwit, I don't have a key." The voice came bluntly and he could feel the butterflies in his chest. "O-oh… Sorry I thought you were someone else." He met Elphaba in the doorway and stared at her a moment too long.

She raised a brow in amusement. "When you're finished ogling I'd like to come it. It's cold." Fiyero nodded and stepped to the side, gesturing her inside. "Sorry... So, why are you here?"

Elphaba settled onto a chair beside him. "I'm leaving Fiyero, really soon. The Wizard has called for me. I thought you might want to know…"

'Say it! Say it now!' Fiyero's mind screamed, three simple words… "That's great news." He managed. 'Not those words, idiot!' "I'm happy for you." Elphaba's eyebrows furrowed in confusion.

"Are you okay?" She asked.

"Yea…" He started, finally being able to meet her eyes he drew in a deep breath. "Just do me a favor, Elphaba. Don't forget me."