LEMONS

"I've been cursed!"

Elphaba was peacefully reading the last chapter of her new book when an angry-looking blonde slammed open the door of their dorm room.

"Okay,", the green girl started, closing her book and walking slowly towards the blonde. "Galinda, relax. Tell me what happened"

Elphaba was preventing herself from blurting a chuckle because her roommate currently looks not-so-Galinda-ish: distorted make-up, messy hair and dirty dress.

The sad blonde took a deep breath before speaking. "It's been a week since EVERYTHING started. I thought, at first, it was just a bad day but the next days that followed after that still messed up until my whole week is a wreck!"

"Monday, we were about to perform a dance routine as one of our performance tasks in Dance Class but then my group mates weren't into dancing so the whole performance wasn't okay. They weren't cooperating with the rehearsals so we messed that performance up. I think, we got a low grade with that."

"Tuesday, I was being positive because, I thought, maybe yesterday wasn't just my day, but in Science, we were supposed to have a role playing so I worked hard for the script but then they told us that our concept wasn't valid for the supposed-to-be content of the subject so yeah, that grade wouldn't be high, as well."

"Wednesday, there was another group work and I'm with the same old lame people but it was with a different subject, and then we were asked to do another performance, it was an impromtu performance so I have to go with the flow, come what may. They did an off-limits performance so we were all busted and I saw how our professor got disappointed with such act!"

"Thursday, I am so vocal with my love for make-ups and other cosmetics so I was really ecstatic to know that we have a subject that discusses about the proper use of those things. But then, that day, we had a test and I wasn't thinking clearly, because of all those things that happened on the previous days. We didn't fail. But I could have done better if I wasn't sticking on the bad happenings that happened days before that. I am such a disappointment.

"Then, today, I was walking towards our dorm when I suddenly stepped on an animal poop I wasn't aware of, so I was pissed and then there were men working on a house nearby and I didn't see a man heading towards where I was standing on so the paint that he was holding fell at me."

After saying all these, Galinda cried. Elphaba pitied her friend. She really was trying hard just to not disappoint her parents. She became grade conscious after being told that she would be transferred out to another school if she fail another subject again.

"You know what, make lemonades out of those lemons", Elphaba said.

Galinda looked at her friend, "What?"

"Life throws a lot of challenges at you, learn how to see the good side of everything and solve each challenge instead of asking why life gives you challenges", the green girl started. "You can't always have the good stuff, you know. You will always encounter bad happenings but it will never mean that someone cursed you or anything because it's part of life. You are being trained by experience to be tough. All these that happened shouldn't be a hindrance for you to achieve success. You just started, it's never too late to get back up again."

After that, the two girls embraced.

Elphaba concluded, "By the way, don't get too hard on yourself. Give credit to everything you achieved instead of focusing on the errors that you did. In there, you'll find happiness."

Galinda smiled.

Author's Note: To AJeff, thank you so much! I literally don't know what to say. I'm overwhelmed. xoxo