The Long Night

Peach's POV

The storm was getting worse, and I couldn't continue walking to the castle under this weather unless I wanted to get a cold. Toadsworth now must be really worried about me, but still I decided to look around for a place where to stay at least until the storm drifted away. Trying to see through the violent water that fell from the sky, I could see a cave near and I headed there, hoping it would be dry.

Yoshi´s POV

After the thunders roared in the sky, I started to look for a place to stay for the night. We Yoshis never liked to get wet, we didn't even know how to swim, and I had the feeling that something was about to happen. I ignored it for now and entered a nearby cave I found, hoping that the rain wouldn't get in.

PXY PXY PXY PXY

Peach and Yoshi entered the cave from different sides, not knowing the other was in there. they looked around and looked around for any dry rock here to sit down. Peach went deeper into the cave and Yoshi started walking in the same direction as her, but didn't know.

They got closer and closer to each other until…

"Yoshi?" Peach asked

"Yoshi? (Princess Peach?)" Yoshi replied asking

"What are you doing here?"

"Yoshi (I came in here for the storm)"

"Well, I came in here too for that reason"

"Yoshi (we should stay here for a while together while the storm drifts off)"

"Ok"

Yoshi couldn't help but smile slightly, Peach looked so beautiful despite being half-wet…. Wait, beautiful? Did he just think Peach was beautiful? He chose to ignore it and followed Peach to a nearby rock.

Peach sat in the driest rock she could find and looked around; Yoshi rested next to her and rested his head on her lap. He felt his heart accelerating for a strange reason…

"So… how have you been doing?" Peach asked breaking the silence

"Yoshi (fine, everything is going as usual)"

"So you don't have anything to do neither. Since Bowser agreed not to attack our kingdom anymore unless we broke the pact, everything has been boring. I don't know why, but… my relationship with Mario isn't working like I thought it would."

"Yoshi (why?)"

"I don't know… we sometimes argue over little things like missing dinner. I think I should break up with him"

"Yoshi (but that might hurt him)"

"I know, but… I have been taught that love hurts… sometimes I agree with that…"

"Yoshi… (Oh…)"

"Well… I'm going to sleep…"

Yoshi wanted peach to be comfortable and allowed her to rest by his side. Peach cradled next to the dinosaur and rested her head on his arm. After a while, her eyes started to shutter.

"Yoshi… love can be painful… it's not that I don't want you to be happy… but don't fall on it…" was the last thing she said before drifting off into sleep. Yoshi smelled her hair, which had the fresh scent of peach; just like her name… he couldn't help ignoring the pulses of his heart.

"Peach… I already have…" was the last thing Yoshi thought before drifting into sleep once again.