Vacation
Event 50: The Holiday of Holidays
It was a bright and sunny morning, and Peach was up earlier than usual. Since she would not be expected at the breakfast table for a little while, she watched a video in her room.
On the screen, she saw Bowser, trying his very best to say something nice to Ludwig, who happened to be the first person to cross his path after Peach tricked him into promising to say at least one unexpected nice thing.
The princess zoomed in at Ludwig's shocked and worried expression, "Father... are you indisposed?"
"Nobody's disposing of me!" Bowser retorted, the nerve of the boy saying such a thing after he put so much effort into being nice, if only for Peach's sake.
"I did not allude to such an idea, I was just concerned over your well being. You're acting quite comparable to the time when you suffered from bilious. Perhaps today's breakfast had an adverse effect."
"Billing what?" While Bowser became more confused, Peach became more amused.
The video was interrupted by a knock on the door, which Peach answered right away. There were several Toads at her door, with many heart shaped chocolate boxes, fifty to be precise. "You have a delivery from Bowser," and the boxes were brought in. Never mind breakfast, Peach had chocolate that morning.
Come lunch time, she too threw nutrition out the window and delighted in more sweets, this time chocolate eggs and marshmallow bunnies and chicks. Bowser had sent fifty baskets full of treats.
This time, just as the first time, Peach had called Bowser to thank him for the gift and find out why he was giving her all those presents, but he wouldn't say.
When dinner came around, Toadsworth was quite upset about Peach's choice of meals for the day. The same went for the Toads since obviously she couldn't eat everything alone and shared with everyone, giving many a blissful day of careless culinary indulgence. Fifty pumpkins full of candy had arrived in time for dinner.
Once again, Peach called Bowser for the third time that day, but couldn't get him to tell her what this was about. Peach had thought about it time and again, but couldn't come up with the answer. It was not her birthday, it was not the anniversary of when they started dating, it had not been a year yet. It was not a national holiday in the Mushroom or Koopa kingdoms, though the gifts reminded her of Valentine's Day, Easter and Halloween. Then, around eight at night, fifty wrapped presents were delivered to Peach, it was like Christmas.
Peach called Bowser again, and the interference and background noise, revealed to her that he must have been speedily traveling in his clown-copter when he answered his cellphone. He wouldn't say where he was going, but she knew he was coming to see her and maybe now she would get some answers.
When Bowser arrived, Peach did manage to get it out of him that it was an anniversary, but it couldn't be theirs because they had not been dating for a full year. It also wasn't the anniversary of their first meeting.
They were caught up with each other and time flew by. Finally, at mid night, there was a beautiful display of fireworks, which Bowser had arranged for Peach. It was like New Year's Eve. It was then, as they kissed, that the realization finally hit Peach. It had been exactly fifty days since their first kiss, and to Bowser, that had been the holiday of holidays.
End of Event 50
Disclaimer, I don't own Mario. The opening segment of this drabble was inspired by a chat with Razzi about nice unexpected things. The use of the number fifty was inspired by superblooper, who asked if I was going to do anything special for the 50th entry. According to the dictionary "bilious" means "indigestion", but I'm not as good with words as Ludwig so who knows if that's true.
