Fifth Floor Common Room; Friday Evening [ 01/07 ].

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So Ariel's plans didn't turn out quite as she would have liked. Raven was appearing to have a bad day, but she still really wanted to have pizza, inspired by earlier with her idea, and, though it didn't have the privacy of her room like she was sort of thinking would be nice, she still could (try to, anyway) invite Chuck to come have some with her.

It just meant others might have some with them, too. But she could turn it into a party and go with it, and so she picked up a few more pizzas, with a lot of different toppings (no sardines or anchovies, yuck!), but the most prominent one, of course, was the inspiration for all of it.

Because at Pizza Planet, they said they would make a Cheetos pizza for her.

It was almost enough to make up for the loss of some...ahem...more private time to see how she and Chuck might handle some...ahem...private time...


[[ open common room is open! pizzas are moddable! I WILL NOT FEEL GUILTY ABOUT MY FAILURE TO TAG ANYONE YESTERDAY EITHER ]]

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Lurline, Ariel. Did you have to be so reasonable?

Elphaba swallowed, not just physically but figuratively as well.

"Some don't bother to get to know what's on the inside," she said.

As it was, Elphaba's problem wasn't so much being green on the outside, but being green on the inside.

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Yeaaaah, Ariel had a really bad habit of bringing reason into a situation when the person she was talking to it wanted it the least. How else do you think Anakin came to advise glee club?

"It's really hard to see something when someone doesn't let you see it," she offered in response, with a faint, almost apologetic smile.

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"I don't know how I'm supposed to share it," Elphaba said. "Am I supposed to wear a sign on my back that says 'I'm much nicer than I look'?"

Even when being sincere, she had an edge to her.

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"You could try just being nicer," Ariel suggested lightly. "Then you'll look as nice as you are."

Careful, Elphaba. Ariel was about three seconds away from a song.

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"I'm perfectly nice," Elphaba protested. "I never treat anyone who treats me nicely unfairly."

Elphaba frowned. "...well, most of the time."

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Ariel lifted one of her vapidly pretty eyebrows, just a little, though, since Elphaba did seem to pick up on the fact that her statement might not be entirely true.

But she did take a moment to go over what she had said, too, just to make sure. She didn't think she'd said anything mean, though; definitely nothing to earn the suggestion that she only liked romance because she was dependent on other people to be happy or simply because she was pretty.

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Elphaba grumbled. "I'm sorry," she said, but it was earnest. "But even here, it's hard to forget that so often I'm judged by what I look like at all times."

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Ariel gave a faint smile at that. "Anyone who judges you just by your looks isn't worth the time, anyway," she offered lightly, encouragingly, and kept the part about how Elphaba seemed just as guilty for judging about looks to herself.

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"Tell me," Elphaba asked, simply. "What you know about being judged by how you look?"

She was honestly wondering, here. "No offense is meant, but I don't it's all as simple as you think it is."

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"It's not?" asked Ariel, tilting her head. She wasn't going to say anything, but Elphaba was just going to come out and ask. "Maybe it's not as complicated as you think. I mean, just today, someone already judged me based on how I look..."

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"If you're referring to what I said, then you misinterpreted," Elphaba said. "While you are prone to insight, Ariel, you've always struck me as a little... flighty. That has nothing to do with your looks. I merely combined the two when you refused to let me have my my opinion on something."

Yes, because that cleared it all up, Elphaba.

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"Um, I was kind of referring to the whole vapid good looks part, and how that must be why it's so easy for me," Ariel bit her lip a little and started to wonder why she was trying to be so nice. "And so I guess you don't just judge on looks, but also on other things as well. I didn't refuse to let you have your own opinion, either. I just brought up mine which is different. Listen, I just thought maybe you'd be open to the idea of some fun, but I guess I was wrong, so I guess that's what I get for making my own judgments, too."

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Elphaba started crying. She hated this, she hated that it just got her all twisted up inside.

"You don't see it at all," she said. "Because perhaps you don't realize how easy it is, because you've never known what it's like to be so ugly."

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Ariel's eyes went wide. She'd...never really made someone cry before, and, really, she didn't think it was exactly fair that Elphaba started crying when Elphaba had started this whole thing herself.

She then sucked in a breath, her own temper getting the best of her, and she stomped her foot, crossing her arms in front of her as she pulled herself up defiantly.

"You're right!" she shouted. "I don't know what it's like! Because I'm not ugly and I don't plan to be, and I'm not going to stand there and accuse people of things based on assumptions and then go and cry to make them feel bad! You're not ugly, Elphaba. Not on the outside. But inside, you are, and that's why you have such a hard time! This is a party. Have fun, or go back to your room and cry about how no one likes you because you're a great big party pooper!"

And that, Ariel decided with a sniff and a lift of her chin, was that.

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Elphaba narrowed her eyes, looked very hard at Ariel, through the tears she was now fighting to hold back.

"And you just prove all my points," she said. "Enjoy your party. But if you think I'm ugly on the inside, you don't realize when someone is trying to open up to you. You see what you want to see, Ariel. Perhaps you don't want to deal with things that don't fit into your pretty little world."

And she turned to leave, because she knew if she got more upset, magic might happen. And since she couldn't control it, that'd be very bad indeed.

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Was this girl absolutely delusional?

Ariel was now pretty convinced that she was.

And her temper was sparked, and so it would take a lot more than a hypocritical statement that didn't even make much sense to simmer it down.

"Open up?" she shouted, and, even if Elphaba left, she wanted it to follow her down the hall. "Since when is trashing someone and putting them down for something they like opening up to them? And I'm sorry my pretty little world doesn't fit into your moody ugly one!"

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Elphaba froze in the doorway, took a few deep breaths.

She turned around. "I'm sorry that's what I said," she said, her tone very even.

"It's not how I truly feel. But it's what I must tell myself to believe because how often those avenues are closed to me. If you're happy with your beliefs, that is fine. But please don't tell me all I have to do is open up, when it hasn't worked for me."

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"And please don't tell me that I'm less of a person just because of what I like!" Ariel said, and she wasn't about to be moved just because Elphaba said she was sorry. Again. Because in two seconds she might say something else mean and try to pin it onto her again. "Now, I'm serious, you better go, because I want to have fun right now, and you clearly don't."

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"I will go," she said. "But if you want to, sometime, I'll share with you. I can't absolve myself, because I was being angry at you and that wasn't right. But if you'll let me, sometime, I'd like to show you what really is inside of this horrid skin."

She was even, and careful. It took a lot for Elphaba to pull down all her defenses like this, but she'd finally seen that she was taking out her frustrations on someone innocent, just because they seemed happy and committed the terrible crime of being pretty.