Chapter 1
The 5th period bell rang and everyone shouted with glee. "LUNCH TIME! WHOOP!" Every student evacuated the class room as if there was a fire.
Luigi looked around the door way carefully, eyeing his locker. A group of girls were hovering around Daisy and Peach, as usual. They were laughing and giggling.
"So, you're dating a geek, huh?" A girl blew on her painted fingernails. "Is he hot, at least?"
"Uh…" Daisy flipped to the first number of her combination.
"He's Mario's brother." Peach flipped her hair.
"No…Luigi? Are you cereal?" Another girl scoffed.
Daisy flipped to the second number. Peach looked quickly at her for a look of approval, but with no sign, she continued on. "Yeah, Luigi."
"OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH HHHHHH!" All the girls squealed with shock.
Luigi slammed his palm on his forehead. Daisy flipped to the last number on the combination and slammed her locker open. It made a loud crashing sound on the next locker which made the girls immediately stop and the halls were quiet for a few moments. Peach snapped her fingers and the girl's attention turned to her. "Alrighty ladies, let's go to lunch, I think Daisy had enough company for one day."
The girls said bye to Daisy and followed Peach to the cafeteria. Luigi gulped hard, his palms sweating. He walked over to Daisy, trying not to look at her. She grabbed her purse and zipped it quickly open, almost making the zipper fly off. Luigi rolled the lock back and forth, too nervous to think about his combination.
"Those girls are jerks." Daisy grumbled, tossing her purse back inside the locker.
"W-what?" Luigi quickly opened his locker, almost giving his hand a cramp.
Daisy slammed her locker shut. "Don't you talk to me. Don't talk to me, don't touch me, don't look at me…Don't even THINK about me!" She strut off down the hall, swaying her hips from side to side. Luigi couldn't help but look at her and think about what the hell he did to deserve that. As she walked down, she picked her hand up and called over her shoulder. "STOP THINKING ABOUT ME!"
He directed his eyes back to his locker. Remembering that Bowser had taken his lunch money, he closed his locker and twisted the lock. Since the lockers were old, they could be opened if the dial was on the last number of the combination. He had noticed that Daisy left her lock dial on the last number. He gently turned the lock to the left, making the locker lock correctly.
Mr. L kept his hands in his pockets and played with the coins inside. Mario looked around for Luigi. He had guessed that Luigi would have already lost his lunch money to Bowser, so he came with 3 extra dollars.
Daisy angrily stabbed her salad. She sat away from the popular girls today, which Peach didn't object to since Daisy wasn't too popular herself. Mario slid on the bench-like seats and grabbed a fork. He joined Daisy in stabbing her salad. "I love stabbing salad." He said playfully.
Daisy didn't even smile. She put her fork down and sighed. "Can you just…"
"Just what?" Mario nudged her.
"I'm having a bad day. Just please, leave me alone."
Mr. L slid on the bench-like seat next to her. "I'm afraid I can't do that, miss."
Daisy sighed again. "Thunder, please, I'm a little down today."
"Why?" The boys both asked, nudging her again.
"Peach's little…posse. They're all jerks."
"Tell me something I don't know." Mr. L blew the strands of hair out of his face.
"What he meant to say is: What did they do to you?" Mario knew he was the only one who was actually trying to help Daisy feel better.
"They think I'm dating your brother because our lockers are, like, right next to each other." Daisy glared at Peach's table.
Rosalina was sitting by the three and she looked over at them. Mr. L glanced up at her. She turned her head away.
"I'll be right back…" Mr. L's voice trailed off as he walked over to Rosalina.
The girls at Peach's table kept talking about Daisy. Their voices were soft enough so that only they could hear themselves, but Daisy and Mario could clearly see that the girls were talking about Daisy. If they listened closely, they could hear parts of the conversation.
"I totally think she likes him." A blue haired girl laughed.
Peach breathed inwardly and looked at the girls. "I think we talked about Daisy enough today."
"Peachy-kins," Another girl started.
"Yes, Lexi-wa?" Peach looked over at her.
"Do you like anyone?" The girls all looked up from the table and stared at Peach, hungry for information.
"Well…" She began.
"Cause I mean, there are some pretty hot boys here." Lexi continued. "You know that guy?" She pointed to Mr. L by the corner of the room, "Lucas is what the teacher calls him, but he calls himself Mr. L. He's probably the only guy in this entire school with the hottest abs."
"How would you know?" Another girl called out.
Lexi blushed madly. "Lucky guess."
"Somebody's been sneaking into the boy's locker room." A second girl coughed.
"Come on girls," A dirty blonde tapped on the lunch table, "We all know that Lexi is a perv and that she craves a good six-pack, but we have a question floating in the air and it needs an answer."
Peach felt her face turn a vibrant red. "I don't really…Brandon was the last guy…I barely know the guys here."
"But you've been friends with this one guy since kindergarten." Lexi tapped her lips gently, making the lip gloss stick to her finger. "What was his name again?"
"Mike!" A girl called out.
"Michael!" Another shouted.
"Martin!"
"Malcom!"
"Mac!"
"Martino!"
"Mario!"
Peach and the other girls picked their heads up at the girl who shouted his name. Mario even looked over at them. "Who said that?" Peach didn't break eye contact with Mario, even though she really wanted to. All the other girls pointed to the girl with dirty blonde hair.
"Niki…I'll get you for that." Peach hissed quietly.
Mario almost broke the stare, but only turned his head half way towards Daisy. "What were they talking about?"
"Probably how my social life is dead." Daisy slammed her head on the lunch table.
Lexi put her hand out in front of Peach's face. Peach looked as if she was entranced by the stare. They both snapped out of it quickly as Daisy poked Mario in the face. "Wha-what was that for, Lexi?"
"You have the hots for him." Niki said, proud with herself.
Peach pursed her lips. "Do not."
"Do to."
"Do not."
The two continued bickering, which led to the entire table to join in gradually.
Daisy stood up from the table and walked over to the trash. She didn't feel like eating at all. Luigi was just walking back into the lunch room. He looked at Daisy and quickly hid behind the pillar in front of the trash can. His heart paced as she tossed the plastic bowl out, looking at the lettuce sprinkle across the rotting garbage and food. She didn't notice Luigi and walked back to her table, continuing her chat with Mario.
"I don't know how I'll wiggle out of this one, dude." She sighed.
"We give them something new to talk about." Mario's eyes light up with the idea.
"Like what? If it doesn't have to do with me or Peach, then they don't care." Daisy looked over at him. Mario's plans were normally risky and daring, a sign that he obviously thought outside the box. Daisy knew that Mario was very devious on the inside.
"I know…I know." He smirked. Before Daisy could ask what his plan was, the bell rang ending 5th period. All the students groaned, remembering that they had 5 more periods of school left.
First, the popular girls got up and strut out of the room. Then, the popular boys tackled each other out of the room. Next, the nerds snorted out of the room. Lastly, the extras walked casually out of the room. The bullies and jocks were already stalking the halls for unsuspecting prey.
"I'll see you in class." Daisy walked over to her locker. Mario simply waved bye and kept walking to his locker.
Luigi followed slowly behind Daisy, making sure she didn't notice him. The cheer squad prepared to pelt Daisy with coos and smooching sounds. Daisy was defiantly one who didn't care what people thought about her, but the cheer squad could really bring her down sometimes.
"So, Daisy, where's your boyfriend?" Niki smirked. "Is he playing around with some stupid books?"
"Shut up." Daisy quickly flipped to the first two numbers in the combination.
Peach walked in between them and laughed nervously. "Come on, we have to get ready for gym. Let's just leave her alone. I have a new nail polish if you want to try it out."
"Wait, I want to congratulate the new couple."
Daisy opened her locker and rolled her eyes. "Shut up."
"I never knew that you swung that way. Dating a geek…pretty risky, for your reputation and all."
"Niki," Peach pulled at Niki's sleeve. The girls around them began to hiss and meow like cats. "Come on."
"What? You got a problem with your new boyfriend?" Niki flipped her hair; the smell of sweet perfume filled the air around them.
"He's not my boyfriend."
"You sure? You hang around him a lot, or are you using him as an easy pass for Mario?"
Daisy slammed her locker closed. "WHAT DID YOU SAY?"
"You heard me. Oh no, did I anger the little desert flower?"
The entire hall was filled with students staring at the two girls. Many began to hiss and claw at the air. "Fight, fight, fight, fight…" The students chanted, getting louder and louder every time. Luigi couldn't help but just stand there, looking helpless.
Mr. L and Mario looked over at the crowd of students. "What are they doing?" Mr. L closed his locker.
Mario could hear Daisy shouting. He needed to find a way to the center to break the girls up. Mr. L sighed, but followed after Mario.
"You just stay close to guys so you can stalk them!" Niki exclaimed.
"I do not! You stalk every guy you get your filthy little paws on! Every time you get your wimpy little heartbroken, it's because you stalk the poor guy!" Daisy repelled.
"Go make out with your geek!"
"Go make out with your teen posters!"
Some of the boys put their hands up to their mouths and shouted "BURN!"
"It's going to take a miracle to get their eyes off those two." Mr. L mumbled.
"Exactly." Mario looked at the clock. Five more minutes until the bell would ring for 6th period to begin. He pulled Mr. L to the side. "Give me a hand, I have an idea."
Mr. L stood back. "Oh great." He cupped his hands and Mario climbed up the lockers. Mr. L pushed him up as Mario grabbed hold of the clock's hands.
Daisy clenched her fist as Niki played with the bracelets on her wrist. Niki put her hands on her hips and her lips pursed. "I'm not the one who has a thing for geeks, now do I?"
"Will you shut up? You're being such a bi…"
Mario lined up the hands to 1:05, making the bell ring. He jumped down, looking at all the students run to their classes. Luigi had to get to his locker, but Daisy was still there. He hid by a corner and hoped for the best. Mr. L patted Mario like a dog. "Good luck in detention."
The boy's bathroom door opened and Toad got kicked out, being slammed into a locker. He stood up, but was quickly pinned to the locker. Bowser laughed, his groupies laughing as well.
"Are you going to stop dissecting turtles?" Bowser prepared his fist.
"Yeah, I promise! But…I'll get a…a C in biology." Toad stammered his body shivering.
"Do you think I care?"
Mario turned back around, glaring at Bowser. "Pick on someone your own size, jerk."
Bowser slowly turned his head to Mario. First his expression was confused, and then it softened to laughter. He dropped Toad to the floor. Toad quietly thanked Mario and ran off to class. Mario and Bowser walked closer to each other, both narrowing their eyes.
"Well if it isn't the school's favorite dumb ass." Bowser smiled. His troopers snickered behind him.
"Drop the bully act, Bowser." Mario crossed his arms across his chest.
"What? I'm just having some fun. Can't a guy have a little fun?"
Mario opened his mouth to speak, but shook the thought away. There was no point to argue with Bowser anyway. He walked off to class as Bowser continued to shout snappy comebacks at Mario. Luigi knew that if he walked out at this point, Bowser would attack him for sure. He'd rather be unprepared for class than be late again. He snuck over to math class.
"Unprepared?" The male teacher pounded on the desk. "I cannot believe you! How DARE you walk into THIS class room unprepared!"
Luigi stared at the desk in shame. A chair screeched on the tile floors and a girl stood up. Her voice was familiar and smooth.
"Mr. Genero, it is only the first day. Please let him off the hook."
Luigi and the rest of the class looked over at the girl who dared to speak back to a teacher. Luigi leaned back in surprise, his voice faint as a whisper. "Rosalina?"
"I don't know." Mr. Genero sneered. "Just this once, I suppose." He slammed a fist on Luigi's desk, making him flinch back. "You come to my class unprepared again and I am bringing your grade down by 50 percent! Understood?"
"Y-yes." Luigi nodded. He was still surprised that Rosalina was sticking up for him like that. She had never made it known that she wanted a friendship between them.
Rosalina was popular for her smarts and for her looks; she was teased, but also praised. Luigi was a loser. He was teased and picked on, never helped or praised by anyone in school. Why would Rosalina stick out for him? If anything, he thought she would help and/or date the smartest guy in school. But the smartest guy in school was practically…Luigi.
Luigi looked back at Rosalina. She smiled at him kindly. He turned back around, his mind flooding with questions and his blood racing with anxiety.
These first few chapters are a little short because it's just for newer views to get a taste of everything. I hope you enjoyed! Leave any comments or reviews for me because I really appreciate your support! And as always, I will see YOU...in the next update!
