"Where are they?" Dixie asked out loud when she entered Luigi's bedroom to find it empty. She went to check the bathroom that was closest by, but to no avail: they weren't there either. On her way back to the bedroom, Dixie ran into Rosalina.
"Where's Daisy?" Rosalina asked.
"That's what I'm trying to figure out." Dixie replied.
"Try the garden." Funky said while walking towards the bathroom.
"Garden?" Rosalina and Dixie wondered out loud at the same time. They decided to listen to Funky and made their way to the garden. Once outside, they spotted Luigi and Daisy on the garden swing, still asleep. They walked closer to them so that they were now in front of them.
"They're so cute." Rosalina whispered "Please tell me you got a phone to take a picture?"
Dixie was way ahead of her, as she was already unlocking her phone. She took some pictures of the couple, while she and Rosalina were giggling non-stop.
"What's so funny?" Peach yelled from inside. Dixie and Rosalina signaled her to keep it down, but it was too late, Luigi had woken up from the yelling.
"Hmm? What?" Luigi asked drowsy while waking up.
"Did you sleep well, Luigi?" Dixie asked while giggling, Rosalina joining with the giggling.
"Eh? Yeah? Why-" Luigi was saying, until he felt a weight on him and opened his eyes. The sight beneath him made him blush deeply. Daisy was asleep on his lap, while her head rested on his shoulder/neck and her arms were wrapped around him.
"Aww, that's so cute." Peach said, now having walked up to them. "Oh shit, did I wake them?" she asked.
Rosalina nodded in response.
"Oh, um my bad." Peach replied awkwardly.
Luigi, who was still blushing, said "W-we should probably go i-inside."
"Ugh, five more minutes." Daisy mumbled while nuzzling herself deeper into Luigi's neck, which only caused him to blush deeper.
"I'm pretty sure Luigi's uncomfortable from sitting on a hard, wooden bench, Daze." Rosalina said.
"Bench?" Daisy mumbled while lifting her head up slowly and looking around. "Damn, did we fall asleep outside? Your back must be killing you." she said worriedly to Luigi.
"I'm fine." Luigi replied while still blushing.
"I'm so sorry for fucking up your back, Weeg. I shouldn't have forced you to go outside with me so late." Daisy apologized.
"It's nothin-" Luigi said.
"Stop saying that." Daisy interrupted him. Then she turned her attention to Rosalina and said "Pick me up, will ya? Let him stretch his poor back."
Rosalina rolled her eyes and said "Always so bossy." but listened to her anyway. While picking her off of Luigi, Daisy grunted audibly in pain, receiving a look of pity from Rosalina.
"Once you're upstairs I'm giving you something for the pain." Dixie said "The painkillers from yesterday probably stopped working by now." she added.
Luigi stood up and stretched his back, which cracked loudly, making the girls look at him.
"You good?" Daisy asked concerned.
"Yeah, that actually felt good." Luigi replied.
"That sounded concerning." Dixie said.
"Maybe Dixie should do a checkup on you too." Daisy said.
"No." Luigi responded.
"That wasn't a question." Daisy answered.
Peach, Rosalina and Dixie laughed at the two of them.
"What?" Luigi and Daisy asked at the same time.
"Let's get you upstairs." Dixie said while eyeing Daisy.
"Yay, I'm gonna relive my dream of being a heroine addict." Daisy replied sarcastically, referring to all the needles.
Rosalina snorted and said "Let's go then, before my back is fucked up too."
"Are y'all calling me fat?" Daisy asked jokingly.
"Yeah, totally, that's why you're so toned." Peach responded sarcastically.
Rosalina made her way inside and upstairs to Luigi's bedroom. She carefully put Daisy down on the bed while Daisy failed to keep noises of pain silent. Dixie had already put bags on the roller thing beforehand, so the only thing left to do was to attach it to Daisy. "First I'll put the IV's on you again and then I'm going to check and clean your wounds." Dixie said to Daisy.
Daisy nodded in response.
"You want me to stay and help you out?" Rosalina asked, because she didn't see Diddy around.
"If you don't mind." Dixie replied.
"Of course not." Rosalina answered.
Dixie started doing as she said she would and Rosalina was helping her in any way that she could.
"Mario?" Donkey asked while knocking on Mario's bedroom door.
An annoyed Mario rose from his bed and walked to the door and opened it. "What?" he asked, clearly pissed off.
"You have to come to mine and Funky's room, now." Donkey demanded.
He never speaks this way unless it's important. Mario thought. "Okay." He answered while closing his bedroom door behind him and following the muscular man. Once inside, Funky was also there. "What's going on?" Mario asked upon seeing their serious expressions.
"Last night our window was open and we heard that Luigi and Daisy went outside for a bit." Donkey said.
Mario raised his eyebrow and asked "What's wrong with that?"
"We heard their whole conversation." Funky said.
Mario still looked confused, until Donkey took in a deep breath and said "It was about Daisy's past..."
Now Mario understood why they were so serious. "Did you find out anything that we didn't find online?" he asked.
"Her situation is a whole lot more fucked up than we thought." Donkey replied while rubbing his hands over his face.
Mario sighed and said "Fill me in."
After a long explanation and a lot of built up anger forming, Mario asked "What did Luigi say?"
"He didn't exactly know how to react, but he was clearly pissed off." Funky answered.
"Good. We were right about assuming that Daisy's brother is unrightfully in juvie-" Mario said, until he was interrupted by a knock on the door.
Donkey stood up to open the door and it was Luigi. He saw that they all were in inside and asked "You all got time?"
"Come in." Donkey said while stepping aside.
Luigi walked inside and took a seat next to Mario. He noticed how tense the room was and asked "What's wrong?"
"We kind of overheard you and Daisy talking yesterday night..." Donkey replied carefully.
Luigi's expression angered as he said "That was a private conversation!"
"We know, it's just, our window was open and we happened to hear." Funky responded.
Luigi stood up, still angry and said "And you didn't think, let me just close this window, this is invasive?!"
"Weeg-" Mario said.
"Don't you dare Weegee me, Mario! None of you three have boundaries! And you two had no business hearing that conversation!" Luigi interrupted, clearly upset.
"Lou-" Donkey tried saying.
"No! You two will not excuse your way out of this one! She said stuff that not even her closest friends know and you thought it was a good idea to keep eavesdropping?!" Luigi yelled at this point.
"It's for her own safety-" Funky said.
"Don't you give me that bullshit! I would've told you guys what you needed to know to keep her safe, because I have Daisy's consent for that. Ever heard of that word?!" Luigi interrupted annoyed and angry. "That's why I was originally looking for you guys, but since you invasive stronzi don't have any fucking boundaries that won't be needed!"
"Luigi-" Mario said.
"Good luck getting her to ever trust you cazzoni, I fucking wouldn't after the shit youse pulled." Luigi said while going to the door of the bedroom, opening it and slamming it hard while leaving.
"Well, fuck." the three men said at the same time.
"Did I hear Luigi yelling?" Daisy asked while being a bit woozy from the new flood of painkiller going through her veins.
Dixie and Rosalina, who were in the room with her, heard part of their conversation clearly after Luigi started yelling. "Did I give you too much medication at once? You're starting to hear things, Daisy." Dixie said, trying to swoop it under the rug, hoping that Rosalina would go along with it.
Rosalina put the back of her hand on Daisy's head and said "You're heating up a bit, you alright, Daze?"
"Yes, I'm fine, just a bit dizzy." Daisy replied annoyed, she knew she heard something, but decided to drop it and ask Luigi himself about it later.
Stupidi stronzi, chi si credono di essere? Origliare una conversazione privata come questa. E perché Mario li ha difesi? (Stupid assholes, who do they think they are? Eavesdropping on a private conversation like that. And why did Mario even defend them?) Luigi thought to himself while aggressively punching a punching bag. After storming out of Donkey's and Funky's room, he made his way to their private gym, which resulted in him grabbing boxing gloves and letting out his anger.
Toad slowly entered the room and carefully asked "Yo, Luigi? You alright bro?" as he had never in his 10 years of knowing him seen Luigi as angry as he was right now.
Luigi continued punching and sarcastically remarked "Never felt better."
"You want to talk about it?" Toad asked even more careful, as he didn't know how the youngest brother would react.
In between punches, Luigi asked "How would you feel if someone purposely eavesdropped on an important, private, conversation you're having with someone who has it difficult to trust people?" At Toad's silence, Luigi added "Especially if the conversation is about childhood trauma you suffered throughout your life."
That's fucked up. Toad thought, but he stayed silent.
"The kind of trauma you haven't even been able to open up to to your best friends you've had for years." Luigi added.
"Mario?" Toad asked carefully.
Luigi scoffed and said "No, but he didn't seem to think that there was anything wrong with those other two fucks who eavesdropped."
"Of course it would've been the three of them." Toad said "They don't have any boundaries." he added.
"That's what I said, but apparently that doesn't matter to them." Luigi replied while still punching the bag.
"I get why you're angry Luigi, but um, Donkey's and Funky's room is right next to yours..." Toad carefully implied.
Luigi stopped punching the bag and asked "You think Daisy heard?"
"There's a fat chance she did..." Toad responded.
Luigi punched the bag a few more times before stopping. He started removing the boxing gloves and said "I'll go check on her."
"If she's, um, not upset anymore, or um, in a better mood, can you come tell me?" Toad asked quietly.
Luigi looked confused and asked "Why?"
"I'm kind of missing my Playstation you know." Toad admitted "Don't worry, I won't take it back or anything, I'll play a multiplayer game with her and keep her company." Toad added.
"So just for your Playstation, eh?" Luigi asked.
"For your information, I like Daisy the most out of those girls." Toad admitted "Don't tell the other two though."
"Really?" Luigi asked.
"She's also the most close to my age you know." Toad said. And she's hot, but I won't tell you that. he thought.
Luigi had put the boxing gloves back where they belonged by now and started making his way to his room, but not before saying "Whatever helps you sleep at night." to Toad, who rolled his eyes in response.
After making his way to his room, he carefully opened the door and walked inside. Rosalina was sitting next to the bed on a chair and Daisy was asleep in bed.
"Um, did you hear me yelling around an hour ago?" Luigi whispered.
"Yeah, it was kinda loud." Rosalina whispered "But I don't think Daisy heard, she just started to feel the painkillers take effect, but I'm not 100 percent sure."
"I have to talk to her about it anyway, but I'll let her sleep for now." Luigi whispered.
"I'm not sleeping." Daisy said with her eyes still closed.
Rosalina turned towards Daisy and asked "Then why did you have your eyes closed for half an hour?"
"Because otherwise y'all would complain that I'm not resting." Daisy said mockingly while opening her eyes.
Rosalina gave her a hard stare for a minute, but then she got up and said "I'll leave you two."
Luigi nodded at her as she left his room.
"So, what was the yelling about? I didn't exactly hear what you were saying, these painkillers were hitting too hard, but I could make out that you were angry enough to yell." Daisy asked.
Luigi sighed as he walked closer to her. Daisy slowly and carefully seated herself upright and patted on a spot on the bed that was free. Luigi slowly sat down on the spot and avoided Daisy's gaze. "I already knew that it wasn't anything good considering that you, the most calm person in this house, were yelling." Daisy said to reassure him. When he didn't respond or even looked at her she slowly grabbed his hand and started rubbing it to calm his nerves and anger. "You can tell me." Daisy reassured once again.
Luigi took in a deep breath, but still avoided her gaze. "Our conversation that we had last night... It was eavesdropped." Luigi said slowly.
Daisy's face fell and she stopped rubbing Luigi's hand. She slowly brought her hands up to her face and covered it with them. Then she sighed loudly and a pissed off grumble followed. "¡¿Puedo controlar al menos una cosa en mi maldita vida?!" (Can I control at least one thing in my damn life?!) she said annoyed.
"I'm sorry." Luigi said quietly.
Daisy lowered her hands and said "This is not your fault, you couldn't have known that some mamón would listen to us." She grabbed his hand and started rubbing it again. "I wanted to sit outside, remember? None of this is your fault, Lou."
Luigi turned to face Daisy and said sincerely "It's not your fault either. You were very strong last night and I'm proud of you for being able to open up to me like that."
No-one's ever said that they're proud of me, except for my brother, my dead family and maybe Rosie. Daisy thought while her eyes started to water.
Cazzo! Luigi internally cursed. I didn't mean to make her even more upset. he thought, but his thoughts were interrupted when Daisy all of the sudden hugged him.
In their hug, Daisy said "Thanks, Weeg." Then she sniffed and added "That's just what I needed to hear."
Luigi carefully tried to hug her back, but was afraid that he would hurt her. "I would hug you back, but I don't know how to without hurting you." Luigi said to her.
Daisy giggled, stopped hugging him and grabbed her stomach immediately after. "You're cute." she said through the pain.
"Are you alright?" Luigi asked worriedly, while a small blush formed on his face from Daisy's last comment.
"As alright as I can be." Daisy replied. She turned serious and asked "Who eavesdropped? Mario?"
"No." Luigi scoffed "But he didn't see anything wrong with it either so he might as well just have." Luigi's face angered as he said "It were Donkey and Funky. They said that their window was open but didn't bother to close it either."
Daisy's serious face turned into an angered one with a hint of disappointment. "When I'm no longer on bedrest anymore I will kick them in the balls so hard they'll come out the front." Daisy mumbled annoyed.
"As you should." Luigi added.
Daisy looked up at him and asked teasingly while smirking "I thought you didn't condone in violence?"
"Only when it's justified." Luigi replied.
"If laughing didn't hurt so much I would." Daisy answered with a genuine smile.
Luigi smiled back at her. Before he could say anything, his phone rang. He grabbed the phone out of his pocket and saw his mom on the caller ID. "I'll be right back." he said to Daisy while getting up. She nodded at him and laid back down on the bed before he left the room.
"Ma?" Luigi asked after picking up the phone and making his way to go outside to call with her in peace.
"Luigi, Mario called-" his mother said.
"I don't give a fuck about what he said. I meant what I said to him- to all three of them." Luigi interrupted.
His mother paused for a second and asked "Honey? Did you two get into a fight?"
Oh this isn't about that. Luigi thought. "I don't want to talk about it, ma. Why did you call?" Luigi replied.
"Mario filled us in on some lawyer business, if you know what I mean." his mother hinted.
Daisy's brother. Luigi thought. "Yes, I think I know what you're talking about." he responded.
"We're on our way to you, we'll discuss this later. Bye honey, see you soon." Luigi's mom said quickly, trying to keep the call under 30 seconds so it can't be traced.
"Bye." Luigi replied quickly while his mother ended the phone call.
I've gotta inform Daisy about this quickly. Luigi thought while walking back to his room. Once inside, he took his seat next to Daisy again as she sat back up.
"That call didn't last long." Daisy noted.
"We have to keep calls under 30 seconds-" Luigi said.
"Otherwise they can be tracked down." Daisy finished.
"Yes, anyway my mom called. She's a lawyer and on her way here." Luigi explained.
At Daisy's raised eyebrow he added "Um, I think she's gonna try and get your brother out of juvie, we couldn't exactly discuss that on the phone, but I think that's what she meant."
Daisy's eyes softened as she said "I know you're just trying to help, but trust me, I've tried to get him out of there a million times, but the bastardo paid everyone to blame my poor brother."
Luigi carefully grabbed her hand as he said "My parents are both respected lawyers who deal with wrongfully accused cases all the time. If anyone can help your brother, it's them."
"Lou, I appreciate what you're trying to do, but I don't want to get my hopes up just to have them crushed once again." Daisy said honestly. "I can't go through something like that again." she added quietly.
Luigi continued rubbing her hand as he said "I get where you're coming from, Daze, but you have an advantage that you didn't have before."
Daisy looked up at him again and asked "Decent lawyers? I don't know if that's enough, Weeg..."
"And the bastardo wasn't dead before." Luigi said "When someone's dead, people dare to talk." he added.
Daisy got a bit of hope again, but pushed it down immediately because of fear. Fear of losing her brother again.
Luigi saw her grow uncomfortable and said "It won't hurt to try."
Daisy sighed and said "Okay, I'll amuse the idea, but don't give me false hope, alright?"
Luigi smiled at her and said "I have a feeling this will work out."
"How can I help?" Daisy asked, still a bit unsure.
"I don't know how much Mario filled my mom in, as we can't do that over the phone, but she might ask some hard questions." Luigi admitted. "However, mom's got a soft character, relaxes you and is easy to talk to."
"Kind of like you?" Daisy asked.
Luigi blushed a bit and said "Um, if you say so."
Daisy smiled at him and said "I know so."
A knock was heard on the door. "Come in." Luigi said. Rosalina opened the door, walked inside, closed the door again and said "Your brother has been talking downstairs to your parents for a while and no-one is allowed down there except for them, Funky and Donkey. I thought you should know."
"We know what this is about." Luigi replied.
"Oh? Can we know or is it um, personal-" Rosalina said.
"My brother is wrongfully in juvie for attempted murder." Daisy blurted out.
Rosalina blinked a couple of times and asked "What?"
"I've been wanting to tell you, but I didn't know how or when, and since I was living with you- and my trust issues and shit and-" Daisy was rambling until you couldn't even make sense of her anymore.
"Calm down." Rosalina interrupted. "That's some hardcore accusation, Daze, but of course I believe you. You're my best friend."
Daisy took a deep breath and looked at Luigi.
"You want m-me to tell her?" Luigi asked carefully.
Daisy nodded and whispered, only for Luigi to hear "It hurts too much."
Luigi nodded back and turned to Rosalina. He motioned for her to take a seat on the chair next to the bed and explained the whole story as to why Daisy's brother is in juvie. By the time Luigi was done, Rosalina was full on crying audibly. With teary eyes she looked towards Daisy and said "I'm so sorry you had to go through that Daisy, neither of you deserve that."
Daisy slowly looked at Rosalina and said "That's why Luigi's parents are here. Luigi said they can help."
"If you would've told me sooner I-" Rosalina started, but Daisy interrupted.
"I don't want to hear it, Rosie, please don't argue on this I'm not comfortable." Daisy said.
Rosalina wiped her tears and simply said "Okay."
Another knock was heard on the door. Luigi looked at Rosalina and Daisy first before saying anything. When the two of them gave him green light, he said "Come in."
The door opened and it was his parents this time. "I'll leave you all." Rosalina said while getting up, still crying.
"Don't leave me alone, Weeg." Daisy whispered for only Luigi to hear, who nodded in agreement.
"Shouldn't you hug your parents?" Daisy joked.
Luigi rolled his eyes in response, his mom however agreed with Daisy. "I think she's right, Luigi." she said.
Luigi got up from the bed and hugged his parents. When they were done hugging he said "Mom, dad, this is Daisy. Daisy, these are my parents, Louise and Marco."
"Nice to meet you, if I could get up on my own I would come and greet you two properly." Daisy replied friendly.
Louise walked closer to Daisy and said "Nice to meet you too, I also wish it was under better circumstances that we met." she said while going in for a hug.
"Don't!" Luigi yelled "She's hurt on her stomach." he explained.
"You're acting like your mom is going to crush me or something, stop worrying." Daisy butted in, while Marco seemed to think the whole thing was hilarious as he started laughing out loud.
Daisy hugged Louise, while Louise, carefully, did the same. "I didn't break, now did I?" Daisy asked sarcastically.
Luigi gave her a death glare as his parents thought their interaction was hilarious.
"Nice to meet you too, but I'm not gonna come closer or otherwise lil Weeg might have a heart attack." Marco joked while continuing to laugh.
By now, Luigi was death glaring everyone in the room. Louise took a seat in one of the chairs next to the bed as Marco did the same. Luigi sat down on the bed again where he was sitting before.
Louise cleared her throat as she said to Daisy "My other son filled me in on your brother's situation." Then she turned to Luigi and asked "Any reason why he and those two knuckleheads didn't want to come in here?"
"Because they're invasive stronzi." Luigi replied annoyed.
Before his parents could reply, Daisy said uncomfortably "They eavesdropped a conversation that shouldn't, under any circumstances, be eavesdropped."
Marco and Louise put two and two together and figured out what Daisy meant by that. "I think we have everything we need to try and get him out of there, Daisy, except for the location of the juvie." Louise said.
"I brought a pen and paper so you can write it down." Marco said while handing it to her.
Daisy accepted the pen and paper and scribbled the address and name of the juvie down. Then she handed it back to them.
Louise averted her attention towards Luigi and said "We should get going, we're very busy and have work to do as fast as possible."
"I'll see you soon." Luigi responded.
"H-How positive are you that you can get him out of there?" Daisy asked carefully before they left.
Marco and Louise looked at each other and then back to Daisy "Don't worry about it, you'll be able to see your brother, free, soon." Louise said with a reassuring smile.
Daisy smiled back at her, but was still unsure about the whole thing.
"I'll walk you two out." Luigi said while following his parents. Once they were outside and ready to get in their car, Louise said "She's a nice girl, I can see that you like her." to her youngest son, who in return turned as red as a tomato and stuttered "I-I don't k-know what y-you're talking a-about."
Marco laughed, put his hand on Luigi's shoulder and said "When she's feeling better, ask her out."
Luigi turned even more red and said "Dad! Stop meddling in my life."
"Trust me." Marco said.
"We do have to leave now, we'll see you soon." Louise said while getting into the car, soon followed by her husband.
"Bye." Luigi said. As the car drove off, Luigi thought Should I ask Daisy out? Who am I kidding, she's been kidnapped, abused and in hiding at the moment. I should be ashamed of myself for even thinking this.