Galinda felt her heels clicking against the pavement of the Emerald City as she took in her surroundings. The wind gushed under her cream colored hat, making the ribbon on it flutter. The blonde bounced along the streets, positively ecstatic about the prospect of being in the Emerald City finally.
She crossed an intersection, and made a quick detour into Ozbucks. The small bell above the emerald framed doorway tinkled merrily as she opened the door. In a chirpy tone, she called out to the cashier,
"Hello! How has your day been?"
The cashier looked almost disgusted at her perkiness, and answered gloomily back,
"Good."
That closed their conversation off quick, as Galinda had to wait in line till her turn to order. She twitched nervously with the hem of her cream dress, pulling up the skirt unintentionally so people could see her petticoat a tiny bit. When the cashier saw this, she looked in even more disgust at Galinda even before she could order.
"Hi, can I have a mocha latte with extra whipped cream please?" Galinda asked, way more shyly than normal.
Chewing her lip, Galinda paid and waited for her drink, which seemed to be taking forever. While she waited, she noticed a definite foreigner. What she guessed was a tattoo, diamonds ran down his cheeks and neck, even on his tan hands. This stranger stuck out like a sore thumb. She continued to look perplexed at him as they called an order out, which unfortunately, wasn't hers. She sighed but noticed that the name that was called out was very strange,
"Fe-r-a-i-ro," the employee called out, clearly butchering the name.
Shyly the foreigner retrieved his drink, embarrassed as people looked at him, as if it was a crime to have a somewhat strange name. He left the shop in a haste. After waiting fifteen more minutes, Galinda finally heard her name called out and relieved, left Ozbucks.
However, Galinda was determined that today was to be an amazing day, because it was a shopping spree! In a bouncy pace, Galinda continued to stroll down the streets of the Emerald City, looking at all the people like her who were also wearing green tinted glasses. Occasionally, one or so people would glance up at some of the towering buildings above them, showing that no doubt about it, they were tourists.
Finally Galinda saw her first quarry for the day, the shoe store! She giddily raced inside, skipping into the shop and immediately looking for her perfect pair of shoes. This particular shoe store, The Gucci Green Heel, was the blondes favorite shoe store in the entire land of Oz. Not only did the store provide for her, but also challenged her to see how tall the heels she was wearing could be before she would fall over. So far, six inches was her record.
"Omgiggle's!" Galinda screamed, overjoyed, holding the presumably perfect pair of shoes in her hands.
The shoe's she held were bright pink, with a somewhat rounded toe. The shoe had ribbon laced through it, until it would wrap around her calf. It was a bright pink, three and a half inch, gladiator heel. She loved it, and wasn't satisfied with anything else in the store except this particular pair of pumps. After finding her size, she went into the line to pay. The cashier was in love with her heels as well, and agreed that they suit the blonde extremely well.
After leaving the store, Galinda went into a different Ozbucks to get a refill on her drink, this time was different however. The workers were as perky as her fortunately. She was grateful that the employee's has as much of a positive outlook as she did.
Ambling down the street while holding the hot coffee, whipped cream smeared above her upper lip, Galinda walked in the swankiest clothing store in Oz, The Emerald Train of Fabric, or as all her friends called it, The ET of Fabric. As soon as she walked in, eyes bulging out of her head, Galinda saw it, the sign to the women's department. She was excited as all get out, trying to be calm and not break into the sprint that seemed inevitable to her. The blonde finally reached the women's department, ready to dive into the miles of clothing racks, but before she could, she was stopped.
"Excuse me miss?" A young man asked, whom Galinda recognized as the foreigner from Ozbucks.
"Yes?" She answered, trying to sound nice, although she was actually really thrown off by his really thick accent. What was it? Munchkin? She couldn't exactly place it.
"Um, well I was wondering," he stopped, his cheeks flushing,"I have a girlfriend?" He said as if he wasn't sure.
"Anyway, I want to pick out something really special and sweet for her. She wears a lot of black, but I want to get her something with more color, but that she'll still wear. Do you think you could help me? It's just that you seem to know your way around a clothing store." He explained, extremely nervous.
It was quite obvious that she did, the way that Galinda carried herself without question to the women's department was quite clear.
"Sure! I would love to!" Galinda answered, trying hard not to sound apprehensive.
Beginning to walk deeper into the women's department, the foreigner asked Galinda one more question,
"What's your name?"
"Galinda. Yours?"
"Fiyero."
