Madame Morrible sat down regally behind her desk. Elphaba waited calmly, while Galinda was nervously picking at her nails.
"Do either of you have any idea why I have called you here?" She boomed.
"Do you have any idea why you called us here?" Elphaba replied, crossing her arms. Her roomie stared at her in shock, and the headmistress's face pinked from anger.
"Miss Elphaba! You have no reason to say such things!"
"Really Elphie! You're not helping us!"
"Elphie?" Madame Morrible repeated, scandalized. "Well, that brings us to why I had thingy go get you." She glared at Elphaba. "Many people have noticed you two spending more time together as of late. While I am overjoyed that you're becoming friends, I don't want this to get out of hand. Miss Galinda, I heard you had asked Mister Fiyero out. How charming for you." The green girl's head snapped over to stare at her at her roomie, her eyes full of hurt and bewilderment.
"Miss Elphaba, I recommend you do the same."
"I will be sure to ask her all about it, ma'am. But I find it rather odd you would be encouraging us to go out, given what us young people are given to do in those situations. Papa will be quite surprised. Will your parents be surprised, Galinda?"
"Er, yes. Momsie and Popsical will be amazed." Galinda was trying to keep up. How had Madame known about that misunderstanding? Luckily, Elphaba rescued them from Morrible.
"If that is all you wished to speak with us about, it's getting close to lights-out and we have yet to get to our dormitory."

On the walk back to their room, Elphaba didn't speak a single word or glance at Galinda even once. She was enraged that the blonde could ask out a boy when she had told Elphaba her feelings! Perhaps Elphaba hadn't replied quickly enough. Maybe since she hadn't responded last night, the princess had gone and hooked up with the eye candy to spite her. By the time they got to the room, she was fuming.
"Elphie?" Elphaba cut her off by quickly raising a green hand. "Elphie, it's not like that!" Galinda pleaded, on the verge of tears. Elphaba whirled around and stalked over, glaring down imposingly, failing to hold back her own tears.
"It's not like that?!" She shrieked in disbelief. "What, you think it doesn't count because he's a boy and I'm a girl?! You think it doesn't hurt?!"
"No!"
"What is it like, then?!"
"I never asked Fiyero out!"
"Don't lie to me!"
"I'm not lying! Pfanee and Shenshen made it up!"
"I don't believe one word coming out of your pretty pink mouth!" With that she ended the screaming match by locking herself in the bathroom. She fell asleep with her tears falling painfully into a towel being used as a pillow.
When she awoke the next morning, her eyes and cheeks were red and purple; as if bruised. She cursed and waited for the traitorous princess to leave the larger room for classes, then went and curled up in her bed. She hoped her long hair didn't peek out of the covers; she just wanted to be left alone.

Galinda stared at the bathroom door, then ran over and kicked it before letting her silent tears become heaving sobs. She cried herself to sleep and cried upon waking. The drab bed hadn't been touched during the night, and the bathroom door was still locked. In a fit of rage and hurt, she yanked her roommate's suitcase out from under the drab bed and shoved it under her own, piling clothes around to hide it. She held her breath until her tears stopped, then carefully applied water-proof makeup to mask the signs of crying. She shoved tissues in her purse, and left in a huff to talk with Nurse Daae.
When she got to the Nurse's Office, she almost started crying again when a Cheetah informed her that Miss Daae was taking a sick day. Why was everything blowing up in her face? Shenshen and Pfanee found her sobbing in a girl's bathroom. They tried to empathize, but she only cried harder.
"Oh, Galinda!"
"What's wrong?"
"Is it Fiyero? Miss Elphaba?"
Her 'water-proof' makeup had long since run off, and she had run out of tissues. She was presently sitting on the floor, fending off her friend's hands that tried to get her to stand up. She got so mad, she finally blubbered out a plea to her friends.
"Just leave me alone!" Humiliated and confused, they sadly left her.