A LOVE STORY

"Elphieeee!", the green girl is in their dorm room but she can hear her roommate's high-pitched voice coming from the hallways.

The sound gets louder as Galinda comes nearer to the room. When the blonde successfully made her way inside, she locked the door and hurriedly approached her roommate.

"Elphieeee. I need to tell you something!", Galinda started while jumping up and down in front of the green girl. "MADAME MORRIBLE IS IN LOVE!"

Elphaba's eyebrow raised initiating her friend to elaborate.

"Okay, so I accidentally told her that my parents and the Wizard are actually like friends and stuff, because you know, when I was still a kid, we would travel to the Emerald City and my parents would negotiate with him. Anyway, my point is, after that, she started being nice to me! It's so creepy", Galinda exclaimed while trying to gasp for air because she ran the whole way through.

"So you're saying, Morrible likes the Wizard?", Elphaba said in an okay-i-don't-really-care-to-be-honest tone.

"Yup! And, she started giving me cupcakes and some sorts of sweets. She stopped being mean to me and she even gave me a high grade, which I didn't expect because I failed that big exam in our Sorcery Class!", the blonde exclaimed, still in wild amazement about what had happened and the things that may happen next.

"She did all that, ey?", Elphaba said interestingly, a smirk drawn on her face.

The blonde nodded like a puppy, completely unaware of what her roommate was thinking.

The next day, as the two girls walk in the cafeteria, they saw Fiyero, Boq and Nessa on a table near the counter. Fiyero waved at them.

"Here!", the Winkie said motioning for the two girls to seat in their table.

"So," Nessa started. "Have you heard about the news?"

"What news?", the green girl asked.

"Duh. About the wizard's sudden visit to the University! There will be a ball tonight and all the students are required to attend", the wheelchaired-girl told her sister.

Elphaba met Galinda's gaze. A grin was drawn on the green girl's face. Something is gonna happen tonight that they will not soon forget.

7pm at Madame Morrible's office. Elphaba and Galinda, now in their fancy dresses (much to Elphaba's annoyance) ran in the Head Shizstress' room.

They found the door room slightly open. "Hey, Glin. Whatever happens, just try me, okay?", Elphaba said.

The blonde's brows faced each other. But she replied, "Okay."

"Dear Journal", Madame Morrible started. She is currently recording herself in a cassette. The two girls are now inside the HeadShizstress' office and the old woman isn't aware of it.

"I've been liking Oscar since I was in college", she sighed. "I want to tell him how I feel but I'm scared-", Elphaba trimmed what Morrible is about to say.

"Go tell him tonight!", two pairs of eyes are now staring at the green girl. Madame Morrible gave the two girls a what-are-you-both-doing-here look.

Elphaba cleared her throat and stepped nearer to the old woman. "We're sorry Madame. We got curious because your door was open and we heard that you were talking to someone. Turns out, it was just your journal."

Madame Morrible sighed. "What you heard was true. If I tell him how I feel, what if he doesn't like me back?". Galinda's face was shocked. She didn't expect their Sorcery professor to open up about her love life.

"He likes you", Elphaba blurted out. Galinda's shocked face looked even more shocked. Is she-

"Good evening. Everyone is now required to go to the gymnasium because the program is about to start", the announcer said from Madame Morrible's speaker.

"You should tell the Wizard how you feel in front of everyone tonight. In that way, he will think you are sincere because you have the courage to do it in front of your students", Elphaba immediately said with an assuring smile.

The three girls immediately went out of the room and headed for the gymnasium not talking about the previous topic.

In the venue, all the students are sitting on white tables and eagerly waiting for the program to start.

Madame Morrible is uneasily standing near the stage and when her vision caught Elphaba's, the green girl gave ger a thumbs up. The old woman sighed as the announcer called her to start the venue.

The HeadShizstress read the preliminaries then it's now time to introduce the Wizard because he is giving his speech and then they'll soon find out why he is here. She suddenly remembered what Elphaba said. The Wizard likes her too? But why is she with a girl tonight? Madame Morrible set her thoughts aside then did something even she didn't expect herself to do.

"Everyone, I want to tell something tonight", she started and this captured everybody's attention. She looked directly at the Wizard's eyes and said, "Oscar, I like you ever since I was a young girl like these students in their tables tonight. I have been dreaming of telling you this ever since like forever and thankfully I have the courage now", she glanced at Elphaba. "And I know that you like me too".

Everyone gasped except Elphaba who is laughing hardly at the back. Did she set all these things up?

The girl beside the Wizard stormed off and the Wizard ran after her giving Madame Morrible the I-can't-believe-you-did-all-these look. Turns out, the reason why the Wizard had a sudden visit was because he was going to announce that he is now engaged with this girl who just ran away.

Madame Morrible found out about everything and she gave Elphaba a look before running away, crying.

"Did you plan all these, Elphie? I can't believe you", Galinda asked.

"Why? Aren't you happy that the person who made your life miserable finally got what she deserves?", the green girl said while wiping the tears in her eyes because of laughing too hard.

"Madame Morrible did mean things to me but she is human too. She has feelings and I don't think embarrassing someone in front of everyone is deserved by anyone", Galinda said before leaving her friend.

Nessa, Boq and Fiyero got disappointed faces too after realizing what their friend had done. Then the three of them also left. But Elphaba held Fiyero's arm. "Wait."

"Way out of line, Fae. Way out of line", Fiyero said before going away too.

Elphaba sighed and realized that what she really did is messed up. She rose from their table and searched for the old woman.

She found Madame Morrible near the University's broken bridge, crying. "I hope you're happy now", the old woman said with sarcasm as Elphaba sat beside her.

The green girl sighed. "You know, sometimes people do things they don't even think about. They just do it".

Madame Morrible looked at the green girl, "What I did was messed up and I want to apologize".

"Apology accepted", Elphaba's face got shocked.

"Really?"

"In one condition", the old woman started. "You have to clean my office for a year", Elphaba's face dropped but at least she got her forgiveness.

The two woman hugged each other and they explained to everyone what really happened.

Sometimes, those people that we think are mean, are not mean after all. They are just misunderstood by other people. All we need to do, is to not judge a book by its cover. Read the book up to its last page, then decide what you want to do with it.

Author's Note: Thanks to everyone who followed and favorited the story. Keep them coming! To AJeff, thanks! It was based on a short film that I saw. More chapters are coming. I just need time to write lol.