Too Far Gone 1. Normalcy is a Myth
How had it come to this?
He had promised to himself that it would never get this bad. This habit that he had picked up through the years. He couldn't believe how far he had let it go. How out of control it had become. He wanted to stop, however, he couldn't think of living a life without it... So empty he had become. The closest he came to even remembering an emotion left him in hollow sadness.
Luigi stood on a bridge. A stone bridge over looking the boundaries between Mushrooms Kingdom and the small forest just south of it. He stood there on the edge, but behind the wall that was the difference between you and a messy, untimely death. He had just gotten back from one of his and Mario's adventures the previous day and just needed some normalcy, a walk, to get all of the stressful thoughts out of his head. Luigi took a step closer to the edge of the bridge. 'Why?' He thought. 'Why do I have to feel so alone?' He went to take another step, closer to the wall, which was the only thing keeping him from a steep vertical drop. 'Why do I only hurt people? Why do I only get in the way? Why doesn't my home, even feel like a home? Why don't a belong?' All these thoughts pounded through his head. He wanted to take that step, the step on top of the wall. The step where the wall was no longer guarding his life, but providing a few extra feet underneath his. He lifted his foot...
"Luigi!" Luigi quickly put his foot down, hid his arms and just acted as if nothing had happened. "Luigi, what are you doing out here, it's dinner time? I made mom's alfredo pasta tonight." Luigi looked up at his brother. He never knew how Mario could be so happy all the time. So energetic. Well, he was the most loved hero in the Kingdom. Kids would look up to him, men would want to be friends with him, and the women would just swoon around him like he was a king. Peach would get so mad over that, but she knew he was always faithful to her.
Luigi sighed "Oh, sorry Mario, I was just taking a walk... Just getting some (sigh) fresh air... I'll be in, I'm-a right behind you." Mario looked questionably at his brother. "You okay? You look a little pale?" Luigi quickly thought of something to dismiss the curiosity. " I'm just tired and have a headache. Don't worry about me. I'm fine. " Mario just sighed and went back to the house that was less than a quarter mile from the bridge. "That was close...Sorta." Luigi rolled down his sleeves and continued his way back to his house. Just thinking. 'I'm not asking to have-a million girls, or have every person in the neighborhood, my friend. All I'm asking for, is to not be alone. With those thoughts he walked in to the door way of their small, yet homey house.
Mario and Luigi weren't as close as they had normally been to another. It wasn't because of Mario. It's just Luigi had grown exceedingly distant from him in the past year or so. Mario missed the brotherly conversations and the fun they used to have together. The brotherly love was still there on Mario's part, but on Luigi's... Mario wondered why they had gotten so distant. He was so busy they hadn't really had the time to hang out.. That was most likely it... Mario just hoped this wouldn't be the way things were forever. Luigi would snap out of it and be the happy-go-clumsy green wearing brother he always had been. You know, up until recently...
Okay! That was the first chapter to my story 'Too Far Gone' I hope you guys liked it and I will be updating it very soon. Don't worry, I'm not gonna flake out of anything. So guys, if you could please review, that would be great! But if you don't want to, it's okay too : ). Thank you for taking the time to read the 1st chapter!
Disclaimer: I don't own Mario, Luigi, or any of the Mario bros franchise... grr