During Life Sciences, Galinda ignored the lecture and passed a piece of paper to Pfanee, who was seated to her right. Galinda certainly wasn't going to tell anyone about her and Elphaba's tenuous friendship, so she pretended the hollow feeling happened when she thought of Fiyero. Fiyero was the hot new kid, rumor was he had been kicked out of all his previous schools. Every girl Galinda heard wanted to date him, except –of course- Miss Elphaba. When Galinda got the note back Pfanee had written that the hollow feeling was good, and she should ask Fiyero out. Galinda bit her lip, worrying. She got the hollow feeling around Elphie, not Fiyero. (Woah. Did I just think of her in nickname form?) She decided to try again with Shenshen, wording the note so it didn't say any one person as giving Galinda the hollow feeling. She got a similar reply, that the hollow feeling meant she should ask that special someone out on a date. But how did one go about a date with the green girl? Especially when that one was a girl herself? Galinda thought about asking her friends if they liked girls, but decided it might scare them. She would talk to Nurse Daae right before lunch.
When class let up, Galinda hurried down to the nurse's office, and asked for Miss Daae. She was slightly taken aback as a chimp- erm, Chimp came walking in.
"Hello again, Miss Galinda." Said the Chimp, who sounded like Miss Daae. Oh, Miss Daae is the Chimp! Galinda mentally smacked herself for expecting all adults in her life to be human.
"Um, hello Miss Daae. I have a few questions I was wondering if you could answer?"
"Yes, of course, dear. Why don't we step somewhere a little more private." She beckoned the blonde girl into a neat, tidy office. "I imagine this has to do with your roommate, Miss Thropp, yes?"
"Yes! How did you know?"
"Dear child, everyone wants to know what ails that girl. As far as we can tell, it's simply bizarre pigmentation and a previously unheard-of allergy." Galinda stood, puzzled, until she realized the Chimp thought she was here about Elphie's skin color! She quickly told Miss Daae that that was not why she was here, that she had different questions.
"First off, do you have to tell others what's said here?"
"Of course not, within limits. Patient confidentiality, we can't talk about it unless you say we can."
"Good, I don't want Horrible Morrible hearing about this. Well, it started earlier today, with her…allergy. She got wet and there was this feeling inside me, right here." And she pointed, "I felt kinda…hollow, airy, light. I get that feeling when I think about Elphaba. My friends say it's butterflies, and I should ask the person out on a date; but they don't know it's for the green girl. I was wondering if you could help me." Miss Daae sat quiet for a few moments, taking all the information in.
"Well, Miss Galinda, you've got yourself quite a quandary, don't you? All I can recommend is to go with whoever makes you feel that light, airy feeling. But be careful, some people don't know they need love, and some try to control love." Galinda didn't know what 100% of that meant, but she understood enough to know to take it slow with Elphaba, and not tell adults you couldn't trust.
"Thank you for answering my questions, Miss Daae."
"Thank you for talking to me, Miss Galinda." With that she hurried off to get 2 lunches up to the dorms for her and her new friend.