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Post by Boq (The Tin Man) on Sept 24, 2008 7:54:23 GMT -5
Boq pulled Glinda in close to him, and kissed her right back. It was the first kiss he'd ever had.
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Post by Glinda Upland on Sept 24, 2008 8:14:22 GMT -5
Glinda pulled back slightly, blushing. She wondered if that had really beed a good idea. Boq was infatuated with her, and she'd just kissed him. But for just a moment...it had been so nice.
The music in the room faded, and though she stopped moving, she didn't let go of him. A thousand thought coursed through her brain.
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Post by Boq (The Tin Man) on Sept 24, 2008 9:05:42 GMT -5
Boq brushed the hair out of Glinda's face. "What's wrong Miss Glinda?"
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Post by Glinda Upland on Sept 24, 2008 12:08:21 GMT -5
"I don't want to break your heart, again, not for my own selfishness..." She looked him in the eyes, tearing up a little. "I hurt you before...I don't want to do it again. I don't want to use you because I'm lonely." she wanted to walk away, but something compelled her to stay there in his arms. "I don't even know how I feel about you...I haven't had a conversation with you since we were in school...twenty years ago..." she shook her head trying to sort out everything in her mind. Someone loved her, and she wanted to be able to relish in that; but she didn't want to make the same mistakes again...
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Post by Boq (The Tin Man) on Sept 25, 2008 9:44:38 GMT -5
"It's all right Miss Glinda. You know, I never understood why Dr. Dillamond couldn't pronounce your name. You'll always be Galinda to me. You shouldn't change who you are just because other people are ignorant. Let's get to know each other. Tell me everything about you."
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Post by Glinda Upland on Sept 25, 2008 10:06:55 GMT -5
"There's not much to know about me. I'm different, of course...a lot less...shallow. A lot older..." she sighed. "Not a whole lot wiser." she laughed. "I just do the best I can. I made up my differences with Elphaba....and Fiyero, though that took longer. I raised their daughter...which I was so happy to do. Ellie was my joy.." there were a few tears in her eyes thinking about Ellie. It still hurt a bit that she'd never have children of her own. "I'm greatful for the time I've had with her. I love her just like my own...I opened the orphanage. I spent as much time with Polly as I could after her mother died. I took the stand in positions every time Oz didn't have a ruler. I never had much time for my own life, because I was trying to make up for all the pain I'd caused to my friends..." she sighed. "And that's me..."
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Post by Boq (The Tin Man) on Sept 25, 2008 10:08:53 GMT -5
"But what about before that? Don't bother with the others- they're at fault. Don't even concern yourself with them. Don't judge yourself Miss Galinda. What about your childhood? Before you came to Shiz?"
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Post by Glinda Upland on Sept 25, 2008 14:53:14 GMT -5
"They're not at fault, Boq. I wish you didn't think that. Elphaba is my dearest friend, and Fiyero and I...are friends, in our own right..." she sighed thinking back before Shiz. "I was just a very bubbly, carefree girl. I was an only child of very loving, caring parents. They are still alive: old and feeble. I don't see them often enough..." she realized she was going on a bit of a tangent. "Anyway. I was just a spoiled only child. I didn't know much about magic, had no natural talent, but I thought it was fascinating. I knew I could do anything because I was a people person. People liked me, worshped me almost..." she realized what she had said, it sinking in.
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Post by Boq (The Tin Man) on Sept 25, 2008 16:44:18 GMT -5
"Don't say that about yourself Miss. It's not true."
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Post by Glinda Upland on Sept 25, 2008 17:41:29 GMT -5
"No, Boq, it is true. I know you think i'm perfect, but I'm not. I'm just as screwed up as everyone else. At least when Elphaba did things it was with a good heart, I did things in my younger days for my own selfish reasons. I was the wicked one, and she was scorned..." she walked away from him, tears welling up in her eyes. "I know you don't like her, but she's my best friend. She never deserved the grief she got." she wheeled back around. "And neither did you. You didn't deserve to suffer on my behalf. That's what i'm trying to get you to understand. How can I make you understand? It was Morrible and the Wizard's fault ultimately, but because I followed them blindly for my own ambitions, I was the facilitator of the Wickedness in Oz! And I was Wicked to you, and to Nessa for tricking her into falling for you, making you take care of her. I never meant for it to be all that, of course. I thought the two of you might hit it off well, but I never cared enough to try and do anything when you didn't. I was so caught up in my little perfect world, I stopped caring about anyone else. And it's left me almost forty, alone, childless, and bitter at myself for spending my whole life trying to be the 'good' that everyone saw in me. I tried to live up to my name. You don't know the pressure that it is to be named "the good." People expect certain things!"
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Post by Boq (The Tin Man) on Sept 26, 2008 10:52:04 GMT -5
"But you are all those things Glinda!" It was the first time he hadn't called her Miss. "Oz...people have been horrible to you. Don't blame yourself. Think of all the good things you've done. Other people are responsible for their actions. Not you. You were just trying to be kind to Nessa - and I just kept on with it because, everything I did for her, I was really doing for you."
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Post by Glinda Upland on Sept 26, 2008 12:33:41 GMT -5
"Boq..." she took his hand in her own. "I'm glad you have so much faith in me. I lost all mind a long time ago..." she sighed. "but I a good portion of the things that happened to me were absolutely my own fault. We choose our own destinies. I could have moved on, but I didn't let myself...I'm still trying to let myself..."
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Post by Boq (The Tin Man) on Sept 26, 2008 16:06:15 GMT -5
"It's ok Glinda. Look at all the good you've done. Why, you've held Oz together for all these years - until Ozma came back. I can't even think where we'd be without you. There isn't anything you could do to make me stop loving you."
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Post by Glinda Upland on Sept 28, 2008 6:35:22 GMT -5
"I don't want to make you stop...I just want you to see...I'm not faultless, I'm human. I'm just like everyone else..." she smiled, taking his hand once more. "You haven't told me about your life before Shiz. I told you about mine. Now it's your turn..."
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Post by Boq (The Tin Man) on Sept 29, 2008 8:31:34 GMT -5
"I did. There really isn't much to tell. I grew up in Munchkinland. Nothing interesting. Then I came to Shiz."
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