Elphaba’s “birthday”- part 3

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At the end of part 2, the birthday of Elphaba had been forgotten. Now it was the next day, and the talk with Frexpar had been horrible. Glinda was terribly worried about the current state of Elphaba and desperately wanted to help…

Glinda opened the dormitory door and saw Elphaba sat, reading. She wasn’t okay, although she looked it. Elphaba was good at keeping her feelings buried inside her and Glinda knew that if Elphaba kept all of these negative feelings inside of her, she could become terribly ill or all of her feelings could come up to nag her who-knows-when. She decided to take this slowly and calmly. Unlike how she usually would. She slowly approached Elphaba and asked, “Hey. Are you okay? I know you’re a little bit annoyed by last night still, but..” She began to notice Elphaba become more and more unattached to her book and more to the soft tone of Glinda’s voice. “Yes. I am fine. Well at least trying to be. I just feel so..hurt by all that father said to me.” Elphaba sighed. Glinda began to realise how Elphaba was feeling all last night.

Arousal.

“I know he wasn’t thrillified, Elphie. But you need to know that the stuff he said isn’t true. He’s just trying to make you feel bad about yourself. But I’m here to talk of you need me. Okay?” Glinda reassured her. Elphaba smiled. “Okay.” The two sides of Frexpar’s and Elphaba’s argument was that: 1:  It was Elphaba’s fault that Melena passed away, because Elphaba was born green-skinned. So Frexpar had to make Melena chew milk flowers so that Nessarose wasn’t born green as well. But that made Melena ill, and Nessarose had to be born early, and all her legs got tangled. She now has a wheelchair (Frexpar’s side). 2: It was Frexpar’s fault that Melena passed away because he’s the one that made her chew milk flowers and threatened to drown Nessarose if she was born green 😟(Elphaba’s side). Any ways, these thoughts kept racing in Elphaba’s head. Glinda must of been a mind reader, because suddenly, she softly said, “He is wrong. It is not in any way your fault, Elphie. Trust me.” Glinda began to feel pressure in her own abdomen. Sympathy pangs? Surely that must be it. Elphaba sighed. “I know. But… It’s hard hitting, what he says. I just feel… Like… Frexpar isn’t even the govenor of Munchkinland. I know he is, he’s just so unapprecive of me. I..don’t know how to describe it.” Elphaba buried her face in her hands. “I know he does that, but that doesn’t make it true.” Glinda went up to Elphaba. “Ssshhhh..” Many of the feelings built up in Glinda’s body surged forward at that moment.

Elphaba’s eyes shot to the window and Glinda couldn’t help but laugh at her best friends comic-like antics. “Please don’t tell me you’re afraid of storms?! How could someone who is so into Science be afraid of something so irrational? It’s not like storms are extremophile or something.” Glinda giggled. “Yes. It is silly. It’s just that father used to tell me that storms were a sign that bad things were going to occur in the future. But I don’t believe that anymore.” Elphaba sighed. A thought popped into Glinda’s head. “How about I take you to see my momsie? She’s the..person..who helps people in Gillkin, Vinkus or Munchkinland when they feel they are disrespected? Or..something like that. I could ask Madame Morrible if we could.” Glinda gasped. Elphaba thought about this thoroughly. Very thoroughly. She then nodded. She felt like this would help her a bit.

The next day..

Glinda, Elphaba and Nessarose (she’d decided to tag along) were walking to the train station (Morrible had let them.) to visit Gillkin to see Larena Upland and Highmuster Arduenna (Obviously why Glinda is called G(a)linda Arduenna Upland.). Glinda decided that she wanted to see Highmuster too, after Elphaba had finished talking to Larena. “This is so exciting! I finally get to go back to Gillkin! My home town!” Glinda shreiked. “Wow, someone’s energetic.” Nessarose whispered to Elphaba, and she giggled. They got on the train to Gillkin, and Elphaba’s negative feelings started to show themselves to Elphaba…

Another cliffhanger for you! See ya for part 4!!!! 🙂

 

 

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