When Galinda awoke from the same nightmare for the fourth time, she gave up on sleep for the day. She got dressed and left the room, running into a waiting Elphaba. She stretched up and kissed her passionately, not caring that Pfanee and Shenshen were running down the hallway, calling her. Slowly, her eyes closed until all she was aware of were her friends yelling. She groggily opened her eyes, and cursed when she realized she had dreamt she was awake.
That dream, added on to her recurring nightmare was too much for the blonde.
In the nightmare Galinda chased after Elphaba, through a maze made of giant books. Schoolbooks, journals, books to read for fun… Galinda couldn't find her crush, and she couldn't find her way out of the maze. No matter what path she tried, the ending of the dream was always the same. Galinda would hit a dead end and turn around, only to have her way sealed by the sudden arrival of a new book. She would always wake in tears, crying out for Elphaba.
Before the sun even began to rise, Galinda was digging in her wardrobe and suitcases for her worst dress. She tried to think of people who would help her search for her missing roomie, and only came up with Doctor Dillamond and Nurse Daae. None of her school friends would help look for the green girl, and Horrible Morrible couldn't know about their relationship. She grabbed a blanket to keep away the cold, and went to see if her Animal friends were awake.

Elphaba curled tighter into herself, trying to keep warm.
"Oh, this isn't working!" She spat, and started circling the tree to create body heat. She quickly stalked into the woods to keep off dizziness, and somehow wound up back at the campus. Severely annoyed, she marched into the boy's dormitories and knocked on the first door she saw. A bleary-eyed teen opened the door.
"Do you have any idea what time it-" He froze mid-sentence, taking in her bedraggled hair, rumpled clothes, flashing eyes, and (most of all) green skin. He quickly ran back into the room and shut the door. She heard the sound of locks being turned, then something being dragged over and a thump as it was placed against the door. She rolled her eyes and knocked again.
"Go away!" A new voice, probably his roommate.
"I'm not going to eat you, get out here!" She shouted through the door.
"No! Go away!" Came the muffled reply. Elphaba sighed. She should've expected this.
"I just need to know where Fiyero's room is!"
"Hell no! You're not hurting Fiyero!" Stupid hero worship.
"Listen, I just want to talk to him!"
"NO!" Grumbling, she relented and moved next door. She knocked, then braced her back against the door and dug her heels into the carpet. The boy could only open it a few inches.
"What the hell? Hey, who is that?" Elphaba smirked.
"Where's Fiyero's room?"
"End of the hall on the right, 116 or something like that! Who's there?" A few fingers reached out of the gap. Elphaba quickly stepped out of the way, and the boy fell through the now open doorway. Elphaba walked off, ignoring the pajama-clad boy on the floor behind her. She found Fiyero's door, and rapped sharply.
"Whaaaaaaaaaat?" Yawned the Arjiki Prince, opening the door. "Oh! To what do I owe the pleasure?" He sneered sarcastically, upon noticing it was the green girl who had woken him. She glared.
"We need to talk."
"Really? I don't think we have anything to say to one another." He tried to use his masculine height to intimidate her, but Elphaba was nearly as tall as him.
"We need to talk about Miss Galinda." He started in surprise, then relented.
"Okay, okay. Give me a few minutes to get dressed." Elphaba waited calmly, but quickly lost her patience. She wished she had a pocket-watch.
"Jeez he's taking nearly as long as her!" She muttered, thinking of her pampered roommate. A while later, the door opened and Fiyero quickly ushered the green girl into his private dorm room.
"Did anyone see you?" He asked nervously, sitting down on a clumsily-made bed.
"Just the kid at the end of the hall, I think I scared him so bad he wet himself. And the boy next door to that, he might've seen a glimpse of me." She rolled her eyes. "Are you really that shallow, that you care about a few rumors? There are always rumors of the green girl getting whispered from person to person. But you shouldn't really worry; you're too popular to have slander spread about you. The first boy wouldn't tell me which room was yours, whatever did you do to him? Never mind that, I saw you with Miss Galinda in the lunchroom yesterday." She waited for his side of the story.
"Well, you saw the ninny run into me, and then you left. She apologized and ran off, too. Probably went to get a clean shirt."
"Really." She drawled, unconvinced.
"Yeah, I mean, if she didn't want to get her lunch all over herself, she should watch where she's walking!" He noticed the look she shot at him, and quickly held up his hands, as if in self-defense or apology. "Go ask her if you don't believe me!" She stood, and he quickly added an addendum. "Is there anyway for you to leave without being seen?" She leveled her gaze, and spoke in a clear, low voice.
"Should I tunnel out, then? Or perhaps you want me to click my heels together and magically disappear? I have no skill in sorcery, so I will be taking the normal way out."
"Just- just try not to be seen, ok?"
"I'll try, Your Highness." She fluttered her green fingers in his face to make the point that she was incredibly noticeable, and quickly left to the girl's dormitories.
Her door was locked. Well, she mused, the princess must be sulking for some reason or another. (She couldn't believe that the popular girl actually loved her.) She unlocked the door quietly, so as not to wake the blonde. To her surprise, she was alone. "Well, that's just great." She muttered, lying down on her bed. She knew from experience with Shell that trying to find someone who was fully mobile was nearly impossible, it was quicker and easier to wait for them to come to you.

Galinda, Nurse Daae, and Doctor Dillamond were steadily searching the city for the green girl, with no luck. Galinda sighed. She was cold, her worst dress was ruined, and her most sensible shoes still made her feet hurt. They had occasionally stepped into a coffeehouse to warm up and refuel, but she was still cold and hungry. Nurse Daae had managed to find pants, and was masquerading as a male Chimpanzee to ward off the chill and be more mobile. Poor Doctor Dillamond, however, was in only multiple long-sleeved vests, and was feeling the cold worst. Galinda wondered how the Goat managed to get into all those layers, and momentarily forgot why she was out in the cold with two adult Animals.
"Miss Galinda? No zoning out, now." She grinned sheepishly (no pun intended) at her Life Sciences teacher, and resumed looking for and asking passer-by if they had seen her friend.

"Excuse me, sir? I'm looking for a teen-aged girl, wearing dark colors. Have you seen her?"

"Sorry, Little Miss, that describes a lot of folks 'round here."
"Oh, wait sir! Her skin is green!" At that point, he walked off muttering about college pranks and insane asylums. "Argh! We're never going to find her at this rate! What if she's wandering the city, just like us? We'll never run into her, or anyone that's seen her!"
"One more candle-length more, Miss Galinda. Then we'll return to campus." The school nurse's words did nothing to comfort her. She simply kept quiet and kept walking, but there was little hope in her movements.