"Highness, Highness, you have to wake up!" "Why" said Peach. She opened her eyes and saw that is was 6 o clock in the morning. "It's so early, why can't I just sleep for another 4 hours?" "Mario is here, he had to tell you something very important!" said the maid. "He looked very up sad!" "You've woke me up for Mario? He is really cute and I love him, but he always is in trouble. Last week he called me, because he had done something with his toaster, that makes the toaster attack him!" "Yes" said the maid "I know, but now… He really looks anxious! Maybe you should better talk to him." "Okay, but if it's such a stupid thing again, I don't want to see him for the next few weeks!"
Peach went to the living room off her huge castle, were Mario sat on a chair nearby the hearth-fire. He looked really upset and Peach began to worry.
"Peach, help me" said Mario "I don't know what to do! It wasn't my intention, I just wanted you to have a very nice day, but I totally failed and…" Mario began to cry. Peach didn't know what to do or say, she has never seen her boyfriend cry! After a few minutes, Peach started to talk "Oh, Mario! It will all be all right." "No, it won't " said Mario with a broken voice. "It definitely won't." "What makes you so upset?" asked Peach whit her sweetest voice. She began to feel a little bit concerned about the situation. Then she came up whit a awful thought. "You are in love with a other woman" she said whit tears in her eyes. "Of course not" said Mario "I just told you that this whole problem started because I wanted you to have a nice day!" "Come here, give me a hug" said Peach who was happy that Mario doesn't cheated on her. "No" said Mario "I first want to tell you what happened." He dried his eyes "and we will see later if you still want to hug me."
"It all began a week ago. You know it's almost Valentine's day. I wanted to give you the best day ever, so I had planned a lot of cool activities, like a dinner in a restaurant, and going to a hill, from where we could see the whole city with al the lights. The only thing missing was a hot air balloon ride. I was discussing it whit Luigi in a coffee corner, when a man showed up. He said that he heard us talking, and he knew the perfect company for me to buy a hot air balloon ride. He gave me a card whit the name of the company, and the next day, I went to the address. When I walked in, I knew there was something wrong, but I was so excited that I put that feeling away. They said that they had special Valentines rides, that they could make for every girl different. I had to tell them everything about you. From your shoe size till your favorite color. It was so stupid from me to tell all that stuff to them! If I had known what kind of problems I could get… " Mario stopped talking an dried his eyes, and he began to talk again. "And then, they came up with the idea that I could give you a golden ring a surprise before the big Valentines evening. A ring like this. " Mario showed Peach his hand. Until now, he had hold it under his jacket. "And a ring like yours." "A ring like mine?" asked Peach "So I've got it from you, thanks!" "Don't thank me" said Mario "The ring is cursed. That company for hot air balloon rides, was fake. Bowers cheated on me. For so far I know, there's only one thing he can do to us whit this ring. But I know him, it will obvious be more…" Peach didn't know what to say. She watched her boyfriend, and asked herself if Bowser finally had won from Mario, after all that years. Mario continuous to talk: "If we try to put this ring off, we will turn into gold." "That is ridicules" screamed Peach, who was in panic "Nothing can change people in gold, I mean…" "I'll show you that it unfortunately can be" said Mario. He put his shoes off and showed Peach his foots. Peach couldn't believe her eyes. The foots of her boyfriend were turned into pure gold!