Peach slept in the next day. She was tired and weary from struggling to tell Mario the truth, and honestly, it just felt good to sleep.

Mario was considerate. He tiptoed around when he got up, turning on the Wii but muting it. When Peach finally did get up (Stupid morning sickness, she thought), a robe wrapped around her that she had gotten from Daisy, her hair was messy and her coffee lukewarm, but she had a glow radiating from her. She was happy.

Peach plopped down on the couch next to Mario, leaning her head on his shoulder. He placed his arm around her briefly before going back to the Wii remote.

"Does the baby kick?" he asked, his eyes intently focused on the television.

"A little," she told him, scooping her hair up into a light ponytail. The cool air from the window felt good against her skin.

Mario paused his game and looked over at her. "Hey, you want me to make you some breakfast?"

He's so thoughtful, Peach thought, nodding. "That would be great. Thank you."

While he was in the kitchen, the Toadstool princess just went off into space. She fantasized about the wedding - and after the wedding.

But her bubble was broken when she heard a scream of "Oh, shoot!" from the kitchen.

She ran into the room to find it filled with smoke.

"Ow!" Mario yelped, shaking his hands.

"What happened?" She said, running up to him.

"I burned your toast."

Relief took her over. Peach laughed and kissed him.

"You're silly," she told him once she pulled away. "I'll finish breakfast."

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"Tomato." Luigi said, eyes narrowed.

"Oodle." Daisy replied.

"Egg."

"Great."

"Tomorrow."

"Woohoo?"

"Ha!" Luigi leaned back in his chair. "I win. I told you I'm awesome."

What he hadn't told her was what was in his pocket - a shiny diamond ring.

Luigi was a whole lot shyer than his brother. He knew Daisy was the one, but how do you ask someone with more guts than you to marry them?

He decided to try it on her.

"Hey, Daisy… I have this friend and like he wants to marry his girlfriend, right? Well he's like super shy and they've only been dating for a few weeks but he knows she's special and is his true love. What should I tell him to say? Should he do it?" Luigi blurted.

Daisy stared at him. "Um, if he truly believes she's the one, then yeah. It all depends on the girl, honestly."

"Oh." It felt cheesy wanting to propose to Daisy so soon after Peach and Mario had gotten engaged.

People would probably snicker and say, "There goes Luigi. What a copycat" and throw darts at him and eat his soup and…

"Weeg!" Daisy was screaming in his ear. "Wake up, dude! Mario's on the phone!"

Luigi grabbed the phone and said hello.

"Hey, Luigi," Mario said. "Whattt is uppp?"

"Nothing," Luigi muttered. He went into the other room and lowered his voice. "Do you think it would be good if I… you know…"

"What?"

"I kinda wanna get married to Daisy…" Luigi blushed wildly. "Should I propose even though we've only been together for a short time?"

Mario was silent for a moment. "Mario?" Luigi said desperately. "Really! What do you think?"

"Aww, that's so romantic!" He heard Peach squeal from behind Mario. Mario came back, saying "I think you should do it."

"Really?" Luigi squeaked. "It's not too soon after… you and Peach?"

"No, man, just don't get her pregnant." Peach and Mario laughed.

Blushing even harder, Luigi said goodbye. He knew what to do now.

Silently walking into the kitchen, he took the ring out of his pocket. It sparkled in the light and it looked

beautiful.

Daisy was at the microwave, punching numbers in. She turned around and jumped a little. "Whoa! You scared me, man." She smiled - then her eyes saw the glint of the ring and went wide.

Getting down on his knees, Luigi's face was absolutely red. He felt sweaty and nervous.

"Daisy, will you… uh…"

Daisy just looked at him.

Isn't she supposed to be all teary right now? Like, uh, "OH LUIGI YOU'RE SO SEXY PLEASE MARRY ME"

"Can you, like, marry me?" He finished, staring hopelessly up at her.

"I can," Daisy said, smirking.

"Will you?"

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"MAMA MIA! DARNIT!"

Peach looked at Mario. "What? Does it not taste good?"

"No, I juhsh boon muh tong," Mario said, holding his tongue out and fanning it.

Rolling her eyes, Peach got him some water. Then she sat next to him.

"Listen, Mario, I was thinking…" She clicked her tongue and looked over at the stove.

"What?" Mario said, after cooling his tongue off.

"Do you think we should move the wedding up? I mean, it'll be really confusing if the baby just… like… you know. It'll almost be time for the baby and I don't want to go into labor during a wedding."

"That would be suckish," Mario remarked, biting his breakfast reluctantly.

Peach nodded. She laced her fingers into his. "So what do you think?"

"Well… we could move it to July, but that's a limited amount of time. It's mid-March."

The princess thought for a moment. "We'd also have to wait until the last minute before getting a dress, because my size is bound to change, you know."

Mario stared briefly at her body and nodded. "Yeah. But still, it's not a lot of time to plan a whole wedding."

She flicked a piece of hair out of her face. "I think we should do it. We could move it to August. It's not a lot of time, but I planned Princess Éclair's wedding and I think we could crunch time."

Sighing, Mario said okay.

They had four and a half months to plan the wedding. It sounded like a lot of time, but with a baby on

the way, it wasn't.

Boy oh boy.

Sorry for the lateness on this one! I've been busy. Also I've been dry on ideas, which is why this chapter sucks.

GASP! Will Daisy say yes? She's certainly not as smitten as Peach is, don't you think? And when do you think Peach and Mario will go back to the Mushroom Kingdom?

And how will Bowser react to Peach's pregnancy?

I think I'll write another chapter later to make up for the suckishness of this one. But yay LuigixDaisy!

Happy Holidays!

xoxo

ME