8:30pm, Mario's house...
Luigi was sitting in front of Mario's door, looking down.
"Mario's taking so long to arrive... I hope he doesn't get stuck at the hospital... Why I had to forget my keys at the mansion?" Luigi was complaining to himself.
After some more minutes, Luigi hears step sounds. Mario just arrived home. Mario was wearing a black shirt with long sleeves and some jeans, with a brown shoulder bag.
Luigi stood up, cleaned his pants, and waited there, until Mario arrived at his door, Mario was holding a pizza.
"Don't tell me you was waiting me outside here all this time?" Mario asked.
"No, of course not Mario. I forgot my keys back at the mansion..." Luigi said embarrassed.
Mario just smiled. He took his keys out of his pants pockets, showing to Luigi smiling.
"Please hold this for me." Mario asked Luigi handing him the pizza. Mario then opens the door, while Luigi smelled the pizza, saying: "Hmmm is it mushroom pizza?"
Mario looked ast him and smiled, saying: "Your favorite!"
Mario and Luigi entered Mario's house, Luigi was saying:
"Ha you still remember, huh?"
"How could I forget this?" Mario said.
Mario put his bag on the ground next to the door, while Luigi went to the sofa, and put the pizza on a small tabble in front of it.
Mario went to the sofa, sat on it saying:
"You must be hungry, let's eat. Wanna watch something while eating?"
Luigi just nooded.
Mario turned the television on, a movie was on tv, Luigi opened the pizza's box, and got a slice, Mario also got a slice. Luigi took a big bite of it, he said:
"In Evershade Valley there isn't a pizza as good as this... Actually, there isn't nothing there!"
"So, are you catching up lots of ghosts, Luigi?" Mario asked.
"No, these days are peaceful, the ghosts are friendly as always. I'm just doing lots of works for the Professor. He asks to me to do everything there."
"Oh I see... In the hospital, well, there is a wave of flu happening, so I'm attending a of patients with flu..."
An awakward silence came after Mario said that. They started paying attention to the television.
A scene with a Toad girl and a Toad boy were happening:
"Oh Robert! Our love is forbidden! Our family are enemies. We can't be together." The toad girl said.
The toad boy approached her, saying: "I know. But we can stay together, but we must run away from this city. Our love can't die because our family are enemies."
Mario and Luigi kept watching the scene, the Toad Boy and Toad girl were kissing.
Mario blushed, but looked sad, he look at Luigi, who was looking at the television and eating his pizza.
Mario was silent for a few more minutes, thinking. He decided to say something:
"Luigi..."
Luigi looked at him, and said:
"Yes?"
"Can we talk?" Mario said sounding serious and sad at the same time.
Luigi nooded.
"Do... Do you know... Our love... Well, we've been hiding this for so many years."
Luigi just looked at him shocked, also kinda scared, he asked:
"What's wront about it?"
"Luigi... I love you too... But... Isn't this... Kinda of... Wrong?"
Luigi was looking at Mario, with his eyes wide open, looking more scared. He couldn't say a word. Mario stayed silent again for some time.
Both of the bros were looking down, shocked and sad. After some time, Luigi decided to say, still looking down:
"So... Do you want to end it?"
"I... I..." Mario only muttered some words, but nothing really came out of his mouth, he then approached Luigi, tried to hug him.
Luigi didn't let Mario hug him, angrily, he stood up, he started to cry, and said:
"You are ashamed of me? You always were!" He crying, and by his stinct, he ran to their old bedroom.
Mario stood up trying to stop him:
"No, I don't... Wait!"
Luigi arrived on their old bedroom, he looked at his bed, noticing that wasn't his house anymore, but he looked at his bed, everything was the way Luigi usually let. All neat and tidy.
Luigi was looking at his bed still crying, when Mario arrived on the door, Mario leaned on the door entrance, before Luigi notincing Mario was there, Mario said:
"Yes, I couldn't get rid of your stuff. It's still with the sheets you used last time you were here." Mario said looking down, with his arms crossed.
Luigi turned back to look at Mario.
He stared Mario for a few seconds, Mario was still looking down, Luigi noticed some tears where coming out of his eyes. Luigi couldn't stand to look at Mario crying. He went near Mario, he hold Mario's shoulders, and said:
"Come here."
Luigi went with Mario to his bed, and sat down. Luigi said:
"Do you want to talk?"
Mario took a long breath. Then he said:
"Yes. We need to."
"Mario... I always knew that this was wrong... That's why I hide it from everyone... Even from you for so many time... But... Even since we were little boys... I admired you... I wanted to be you... I liked you... I loved you..." Luigi said, crying.
Mario was silent. He didn't even know what to say anymore.
"Do you want this to end Mario? Do you think will be better, if... We just ended... If we just not... meet ever again..."
Some tears came out of Mario's eyes, he said:
"That's not what I want... I... I love you too."
"But how are we going to work things out? Even the princess might have noticed... You always refused her invitations to dates, we were always together... Even me... I've got a lot of girls stalking me... And all I can think about are... You..."
Luigi looked at Mario sad, then he continued:
"You know why I decided to accept full time work with the Professor?"
Mario looked at him, confused, but still sad, he said:
"The money? You said the payment was good?!"
"Mario, why are you so oblivious about this? Of course not. The Professor can't even remember he has more than one toad working for him... I always have to remember him about my paycheck... I wanted to stay away from you... I wanted to forget this, try to live another life... I wanted you to be happy. I always saw you worried about we getting caught..."
"Luigi, I'm sorry if I made you feel like that... I... I went to the medicine college for this reason too... But I wanted to understand what was wrong with us... But... I ended up more questions than answers..."
"The answer is obvious Mario. It IS wrong, and we should stop..."
"It's not easy... It's not easy to stop loving someone..." Mario said sad.
"I know that more than anyone else Mario." Luigi said looking down.
"We... We don't need to tell this to anyone..." Mario said, trying to cheer Luigi, and himself. "The most... harmful effect of this is... your children... But... We can't have any so..."
"I don't understand you Mario... You started all this, now you just want to... Stay like we were before?"
"I... I... I wouldn't mind telling everyone about this... I think..." Mario said unsure.
"You wouldn't? Mario! You are always afraid of someone seeing us! You started saying this was wrong... I know... I know it is... But... How can... I don't even..." Luigi said confused, mad and sad, with a lot of mixed feelings.
"I just want to see you happy... But I don't people making fun of you, or being rude..." Mario said looking down.
"I don't want that to happen to you too... I'm sorry about today... I could have made you fired. I'm sorry." Luigi said, sad.
Mario blushed, and said:
"I... I actually liked that a lot..."
Luigi blushed too, he then gave his bro a big hug, and said:
"How can we change from hysterical crybabys to this so easily?" Luigi said, a little happy.
Mario still hugging Luigi, faced him, still with some tears on his eyes, and said:
"True love do this..."
"I don't understand why people can't understand this type of love..." Luigi said.
They kept hugging for a while. Luigi then stoped the hugging, but he hold one of Mario's hands.
"So... Do you think we can keep living like this?" Luigi asked, ashamed.
"No I don't think we can. Today, If that nurse arrived a little before... You already know what would happen." Mario said.
"I know... I'm so..." Luigi said, but it was interruped by Mario:
"I want to take the risk. Well... If you... If you want too, of course..."
"I wouldn't do that if I wasn't aware of the risk... I just don't want to put you in trouble..."
Mario just smiled to Luigi. Mario laid on the bed, he dragged Luigi, and they laid in bed together. Mario just hugged Luigi and said:
"We always managed to solve our problems... So if something happened... We would solve."
Luigi smiled, gave a little kiss on Mario's forehead.
They stayed on bed hugging quiet until they ended up slepping together.