A/N: I don't own wicked or any of its characters. I also don't own the story of My best friend's wedding (although this story doesn't follow that plot a lot, but just in case).
A/N 2: Rating might get higher in future chapters.
Chapter 1
Glinda The Good was sitting at a secluded table in a café she used to visit once or twice every week. Next to her was her dear friend Crope, eating what looked like a delicious piece of chocolate cake while Glinda herself was having a piece of lemon pie with some green tea.
"So… how's work been going on lately, your Goodness?"
At that Glinda punched him playfully in the arm.
"Don't call me that, we are friends you know? And if you wanna give me a title, I'd prefer Magnificent and Imperious Glinda or Your Magnificence or something like that, but you have to tell me which one you chose before throwing it out there, okay?"
"Out there where?"
"Out there, to all our dear Ozians. I'm hoping for one of those titles to become popular very fast".
"Ok, fine. But on the mean time I guess I`ll just stick with Glinda or Galinda, haha. Mmm I must be one of the few people who still remember that name right?
"Yeah, I guess so. That name brings so many memories back to me, good and bad. But in the end, it'll always stay with me in some way because that's how everything began".
At that, Crope raised an eyebrow, watching a dreamy look appear on Glinda's eyes. He thought he had an idea of what was going on through her mind right now.
"Speaking of which" (she continued, with a sudden smile on her face), "work has been great. Actually I just finished reviewing a speech for my wonderful employer, and I'll be sending it later today".
"And that's what is making you so happy right now?" Crope asked noticing the sudden change in Glinda's mood, which had become perkier when she started talking about her job. That was strange because it was actually usual for her to get sad when her boss and… co-workers… were mentioned in any conversation. Especially a certain co-worker.
"I do feel better, but it's not because of that", Glinda continued with the same dreamy look on her face.
"So… what's going on?" Crope asked. Sure, he had noticed the blonde feeling much… happier since she had come back from her last trip to the Emerald Palace a couple of weeks ago. But he still didn't know what had happened in the trip that made the blonde's attitude change so much, after all before that trip she seemed sad and distant most of the time.
"Well, as I said my job with the Wizard has been going great. Actually I might go back to the palace more often. I know that at some point I was relieved that the Wizard accepted my request to work away from the Emerald City, but now…"
"Ok, but now…" Crope said, encouraging Glinda to continue.
"Ok, but now…Oh Crope, I`m so happy" (Glinda said with a huge smile and a squeal). "See, this is the deal Crope… remember Elphaba?
"Mmm, that name does sound familiar. I wonder why…" Crope said, scratching his chin while it looked like he was trying very hard to remember an important fact. At that, Glinda punched him in the arm again.
"Ouch Glinda, this time it hurt!"
"Well, you better watch yourself then, because this is very important to me at the moment. And I don't enjoy your sarcasm"
"Ok, I get it, but no more punching please. I'm very delicate even if it doesn't look like it".
"Yeah, right" Glinda said with a small smirk. "Anyway, going back to our conversation…"
"Sure dear. Mmm, I do remember an Elphaba. Was she the one that went to Shiz with us? or the one with the green skin? Oh! or the one that totally hates pink and wears an awful hat…" At that Glinda punched Crope again.
"Stop! I just said I was Delicate, remember? Anyway, I promise not to tease you anymore, go ahead"
"Ok, but no teasing" she said with a big smile, the kind of smile that Crope hadn't seen in a while on her "I mean it Crope, I'm serious, this is very important to me. Today I received a letter from her. And in it she, she proposed to me! I'm getting married soon Crope! Very very soon!"
At that Galinda stood up and grabbed Crope by the hand pulling him with her, and then both of them started jumping up and down squealing and grinning. At that moment Croppe didn't understand very much what was going on, but decided to play along and ask all what he needed to know without actually going back to his seat. After all, being honest, he had never tried jumping and giggling at the same time and it was actually fun, especially if you did it with the bubbly Glinda.
While jumping, Crope said "I can't believe you're getting married! I can't believe you started dating each other again in the first place! Why didn't you tell me?" He finished pouting (something he had learned from his blonde friend).
"I'm sorry, but we decided to keep it a secret. Either way, it hasn't been that long since we got back together. But I don't care, as long as we stay with each other forever…"
"Yeah, I'm happy for you. Although" Crope continued a little bit less enthusiastically "I don't like the fact that she proposed to you through a letter" and before Glinda could say anything he added taking her hand and looking at her ring finger "did she also send you and engagement ring in the letter? I know she wasn't the best at showing affection in public, but doing all that in such an impersonal way doesn`t sound like her".
"Well… as I said, I wouldn't care, as long as I could have my Elphie with me. But, going back to the ring…I don't know if she actually sent one".
"How come?" asked Crope.
"Well, because I haven't opened the letter, silly" Glinda answered giggling. "It looked too pretty, and it's a memento I want to keep intact"
At that Crope stopped jumping completely. "WHATT!" he yelled instead.
"What, what is it?" Glinda said, also stopping her jumping completely.
"Ok Glinda, listen to me" Crope spoke seriously taking her by the arms and looking deeply into her eyes. "Actually, better yet, I`ll ask you very simple questions and just answer to me please".
"Ok" Glinda said suddenly sounding very serious.
"Ok, did you open the letter?"
"No, didn't we just establish that?"
"Yeah, I just wanted to make sure. So… was there a note attached to the outside of the envelope where Elphaba asked you to marry her?"
"Nop"
"Ok, so even if you didn't open the letter, you were able to see through the envelope and caught sight of elphaba's handwriting and the words marry me, or something like it, at some point…?"
"No Crope, and what's with all these silly questions?".
"Glinda, if you didn't open the letter and you have no clue of what it says, then how do you know Elphaba proposed to you?" Crope almost yelled.
"Well silly" Glinda said, clearly taken aback by her friend's sudden reaction and change of mood. "Why else would she be sending me letters so soon to…"
"So soon to what?"
At that Glinda took a deep breath before continuing. "Crope, there's something that happened between Elphaba and I that I never told you about…"
-flashback-
"There was something about her, I knew it the first moment we laid eyes on each other in our first day at Shiz. At first we both felt it was loathing, but then…."
"Wait wait wait wait"
-sudden end of flashback—
"What?" Glinda said clearly angry at being interrupted.
"Well…" Crope continued actually feeling ashamed for interrupting his friend. "Are you sure there's something new in this whole Elphaba/Glinda story that I haven't heard of?"
"Yes"
"Ok, I'll trust you on that. But do you really have to start at the very beginning? Can't you just tell me that new little fact?" And at Glinda's furious look he added "I mean that incredibly important but yet seemingly small fact?"
"You know I can't" Glinda answered now pouting. "You know how I love to remember our time at Shiz and all the good things that happened there. Although talking about them also makes me regret many of the decisions I made." she added with a distant look Crope saw very often when the talked about their green friend. "Anyway, you know I have to tell you the whole thing to get you involved in the story and to make you remember the kind of love she and I shared…share… shared, share and will share".
"Ok, fine, lets do it your way. But now I`m dying to know what's in the letter Elphaba sent. So, please go pick it up, bring it here, we'll read it and…"
"And then we'll take a trip to the Emerald City" Glinda interrupted, "because I'm more than eager to go see my fiancé".
"Yeah, right. Fiance… Please let's just read the letter first and after that we can take that trip to the Emerald City. And you call tell me all about the new fact in the Glinda/Elphaba story I don't know about".
"Ok" Glinda said, grinning and jumping once again, although this time she also added some clapping. "Ok, let's do that. So, meet me at my place in like an hour".
"Great, see you there".
"Yeah, bye" Glinda answered, giving Crope a quick hug and taking the last byte of her cake on her way out of the café. Now it was time to open Elphie's letter and prove Crope once and for all that she was right after all (as it usually happened).
When Glinda got to her apartment (which was like 2 blocks away from the little café she had just left), she went straight to one of the drawers she had in her vanity.
If anyone saw that particular drawer they wouldn't be able to tell if there was any difference between it and the other drawers the vanity had. But if you looked close enough you could have noted some differences because this drawer was very special to Glinda.
One of the signs of that was the fact that it was the only drawer that was locked all the time and only opened with a key hidden under Glinda's pillow. Also, once looking inside instead of finding all kinds of jewelry, you could only find random things, which to anyone might simply look like garbage. But not to Glinda, to her these little things were a treasure and nothing less. That's why she had hidden there a picture of herself and her old roommate, one of her history tests (which Elphaba had helped her study for), an essay about animal rights that she had written to impress her rommie (she still could remember the pride she saw in Elphaba's eyes when she had read it to her), a necklace with a beautiful stone (that looked like a combination made from an emerald and a pink diamond), a few straws (which could have easily come from a broom), a recent newspaper article that talked about the good deeds the Grand Vizier did around Oz (and showed a picture where that vizier looked utterly beautiful), and some other things. On top of everything laid a white envelope with the Wizard's seal and Glinda's name written on it with gold ink.
Glinda picked the letter up and held it close to her heart for a moment. Then, after giving it a light kiss, she decided it was time to open it, so she did just that.