"Look, it's snowing again!"
Fiyero let out a frustrated grunt at his girlfriend's excitedness over something that was cold, wet and pricking like tiny needles when it met his skin.
"I honestly don't understand your fuss about this season, I could very well do without all of this snow."
"Oh Fiyero, stop being so grouchy, you just have to get to know how much fun winter can be!"
She tugged on his jacket and hesitantly, Fiyero followed the quirky blonde outside, putting his coat on while walking.
As they arrived at the glade behind the east wing of the school, Fiyero stopped and looked at Glinda questioningly.
"And what do we do now?"
"Have fun, of course! We're starting with building a snowman."
Elphaba was on the way back from running some errands in town when she was suddenly struck in the face by something very wet and very cold.
Startled and with a burning cheek, she turned around to see where it had come from.
"Elphie, come quick, we're going to show Fiyero that snow can be fun!"
"She must be joking", Elphaba muttered, disgruntled by the unexpected smack to the face.
Sometimes she wondered if Glinda never ever did something entirely careless, such as throwing a rather hard snowball at her unsuspecting roommate with full force.
Reluctantly, Elphaba made her way over to her friends, eyeing the results of Glinda's attempts to eradicate Fiyero's aversion against the winter.
On the clearing Elphaba discovered three snowmen, all rather crooked and alltogether not very pleasing to look at, several snow angels and a shivering Winkie prince, lips blue and nose red.
"S-so f-f-far, I d-don't re-e-ally li-i-ike it", Fiyero brought out between chattering teeth and Elphaba felt a wave of compassion coming over her.
"Glinda, what have you done to him? He's going to become an icicle!"
She hurried over to the freezing boy and took his hands into her gloved ones.
"And with bare hands too, Glinda, what have you been thinking? He's gonna catch his death out here!"
Glinda started to look a little concerned and walked over to the pair.
"Is it really that bad, dear?"
"N-n-n-no, I-I'm p-p-p-perfectly fi-i-ine", Fiyero stuttered.
"See, Elphie, everything is alright."
Elphaba gave her a disapproving glare and started dragging the stiff Fiyero towards the door.
Suddenly she was struck by another snowball.
She turned around infuriated, to see a grinning Glinda aim a second snowball at Fiyero.
The smack to the back of the head seemed to awaken the half-iced prince as he suddenly jumped around yelling "Hey!" and bowing down to grasp a handful snow to fire back at his girlfriend.
Glinda started cackling in a high pitched, hysterical tone as she suddenly found herself under attack from two sides.
"Stop! Help! Not in my face!", she yelped between snowballs and protectively raised her arms in front of her head.
Elphaba made use of Glinda not being able to see anything for a short moment and slowly creeped up to her roommate, both hands filled with snow.
The second Glinda took away her arms, Elphaba planted the fists full of snow in the blonde's face, sending her tumbling to the ground, shrieking with laughter.
Fiyero ran up to them and started shoveling snow onto Glinda's wriggling body until she was mostly covered in white powder.
"Two against one, that's not fair at all!", she exclaimed, panting, as she got up again, brushing the snow off of her clothes.
Fiyero and Elphaba were still laughing loudly at their friend who looked like she had fallen into a bowl of powdered sugar.
Glinda used their moment of unattentiveness and shoved a load of snow under the collar of Elphaba's coat.
As a result, Elphaba started wincing and squirming, trying to get the cold substance out from under her coat.
"You little beast! I'm going to take revenge for that!", she yelled and started chasing Glinda around the glade.
Huffing, they came to a halt in front of Fiyero again, faces flushed and sides burning from running and laughing.
"I don't even know when I played in the snow the last time", Elphaba exhaled, "must have been years."
"Well, I have to admit, that this has been a little bit of fun after all", Fiyero said, smiling at seeing the usually so stern Elphaba letting loose and having fun.
"See, I've told you, winter is magnificent!", Glinda said with an uppity attitude, but broke into a broad smile right after.
"I could really use some hot tea right now, though", Elphaba said, still breathing heavily.
"Me too", Fiyero and Glinda replied simultaneously and the three friends broke into laughter again.
The they stepped inside, leaving nothing but a snowfield full of footprints and a couple of crippled looking snowmen.