Soulmates

Telepathic Link

Elphie, I'm really bored! a high-pitched whine echoed in the green girl's brain.

Well, Galinda, sadly, I cannot do anything to remedy your situation. You're just gonna have to grin and bear it. Elphaba deadpanned back telepathically. She felt a small gust of air hiss across her brain and she knew that her Soulmate had just huffed in annoyance. Then, a sort of static feeling wrapped around Elphaba's head and, when it lifted, so did her brief connection to her Soulmate. Elphaba couldn't stop a chuckle. The girl who had become her Soulmate was most definitely the last person she would've ever expected, but here they were. Somehow, Elphaba had caught Galinda's pretty blue eyes and, after a period of loathing, the two became friends. Then, they became more than that. But they had discovered the Soulmates thing quite on accident.

It had only been about a week after they had become friends and the two had opened up to each other quiet thoroughly. And they opened up in more ways than just the verbal. Galinda had, at one point, stubbed her toe while getting up from her desk in class. Elphaba, who had been all the way back in their dorm and reading at the time, suddenly sat up with a yelp as she felt a sharp pain in her toe. The very same one Galinda had just stubbed. Because Elphaba hadn't realized this, however, and because there appeared to be no real cause of that random surge pain, she could only shrug it off, puzzled, but not too concerned. Maybe it was just a toe cramp? Either way, it didn't take her too long to forget about it.

Then, only about a day later, it was Galinda's turn to experience something.

"Hey! Galinda! What happened?!" it was Boq who noticed first, having been staring at Galinda all class.

"What? What?!" Galinda demanded, turning to the Munchkin in surprise and being quite worried to see how distressed he looked.

"Your arm, Ms. Galinda! You're bleeding!" then he hopped at once with a valiant expression on. "I'll get you a first aid kit!"

"Oh, no, no, no, no, that won't be necessary!" Galinda said quickly, urging Boq to calm down and knock it off. He still didn't seem to get it that they weren't Soulmates. Maybe neither of them had found theirs yet, but Galinda was certain it wasn't Boq, Boq seemed somewhat hurt by Galinda demanding that he not help her, but all she needed to do was flash him a charming smile and he sat back down at once. At least his sickening infatuation meant he pretty much did anything and everything Galinda asked him to.

But then Galinda finally took the time to actually look down at her arm. There was a small nick in it and, as Boq had pointed out, it was bleeding. But how? Why? She hadn't moved at all during this whole stupid, boring lecture. Why had she randomly started bleeding? Funniest of all, though, it didn't hurt. She hadn't even realized... But in other Shiz building entirely, Elphaba certainly did.

"Stupid test tubes!" the green girl hissed in pain as she clutched a bloody arm. One of her little lab experiments had exploded, sending some of the glass shards of her test tube into her arm. It wasn't too bad, but it still stung and she was bleeding a fair bit. Dr. Dillamond sent Elphaba to the nurse at once, but in only about 10 minutes, all was well again. It certainly had made for a funny story to tell Galinda later, though. And Galinda had been able to give her a similarly humorous tale about how she'd randomly stated bleeding in class, only for Boq to come in and try to "save" her.

But the incident that finally got Elphaba and Galinda to realize that they were Soulmates happened when Galinda was complaining to herself about history class. Even though she was in the lecture hall and Elphaba in the dorm, Elphaba heard her as plain as day. What?

Ugh, I hate history! It makes no sense! I wish Elphie were here. Elphaba shook her head in surprise. What in Oz? Was that Galinda? And why did it sound like Galinda was speaking inside of her head? Elphaba paused for a moment, busy thinking up a reply, then, she tried to speak it.