Author's note! I've decided to cut down the characters' ages to make this easier to write so Mario and Luigi are 15 and Daisy is 14. All the opinions in this chapter are not mine, tey are Mario's so don't hate me!
Chapter 2: Mario
Dear diary,
I didn't see it coming.
I should have known it would happen eventually, but I never really thought about it. And now it has happened, and I feel terrible.
Daisy and I were walking in the rose garden. There was an icy silence in the air and I knew something was up.
"Mario," Daisy said, breaking the silence. "There's something I need to tell you. "Something important."
I stopped. "What is it?" I said.
I looked at her; she was chewing her lip and avoiding eye-contact. I knew it was something bad. She kept opening her mouth to say something but shutting it when she realized she didn't know what to say. Alarm bells started ringing in my head.
"Come on Daisy," I said putting my arm around her. "It can't be that bad, just tell me."
"I… I think… I think I'm in love with someone else," she said.
I snatched my arm back. This wasn't what I expected! I didn't know what to say. I felt like she'd just thrown a bucket of cold water over me. I was astonished, but most of all upset. I hate how things have to come to an end. I wish they could go on forever and ever. But as they say, all good things must come to an end.
All I could think to say was: "Who is it?"
Daisy hesitated. "It's Luigi," she said.
This hurt more than I could imagine. It was bad enough being dumped, but being dumped for my cowardly, clumsy stupid, shadow of a brother felt terrible. I turned my back to her so that she couldn't see the tears in my eyes.
"Does he know?" I asked.
"No," she replied. "I haven't told him."
I said nothing. I gave a small sniff.
Daisy realised I was upset and put a hand on my shoulder.
"I'm sorry Mario, I don't want to hurt you, I just didn't think it was working out. I knew I couldn't date you any longer when I love Luigi so much," she said.
"I know," I said though I wasn't sure I did.
I started to walk off, slowly. I didn't want to stay here in the rose garden with my ex for a minute longer.
"No, Mario, come back. I'm sorry. Where are you going?" she asked.
I turned around. "Home," I said and burst into a run.
I ran all the way home, hating Daisy more and more with every step I took. I didn't understand it. I'm Mario. The hero of The Mushroom Kingdom. The very same who's been rescuing kidnapped women for as long as most people can remember. How am I not good enough? What does Luigi have that I don't? I will admit that I'm not proud of my past at all. I used to be a massive jerk. I went out with Pauline for a while but eventually got sick of her and dumped her for Princess Peach. Pauline was always around though, and one night when she asked me if I wanted to give it another shot, God help me, I said yes. I don't know what I was thinking; I dumped Pauline about a month after for the same reason as before and started dating Daisy, announcing that I had changed my ways. I wasn't going to do any more chopping and changing, I was going to stick with Daisy forever. Only it didn't work out that way. At one and a half years, it was the longest relationship I had ever been in but naturally, it couldn't last and she broke up with me. I finally knew what it felt like to be Pauline and Peach. I have never been dumped before now and I didn't realise it could hurt this much.
When I got home I tore up to my room and slammed the door. I lay back on my bed staring up at the ceiling. I clutched my teddy bear to my chest and tried not to cry. I failed. I wasn't really crying because I wanted Daisy back, I hated her now. I was crying because things were changing and I was powerless to stop them. I hate changes; I just want everything to stay the same, forever.
There was a knock at the door.
I sniffed and turned over onto my stomach. I wasn't in the mood for talking right now.
"Mario? Are you OK?" a voice from the other side of the door asked. It was Luigi. As we're twins, we can always sense when the other one is upset. He'd sensed it now.
He opened the door and came and sat next to me on the bed.
"What's the matter?" he asked.
I feel bad about what I said earlier. Luigi may be cowardly, clumsy, stupid and most of all, my shadow but it was wrong to say so. He's kind, considerate and selfless. Here he was, trying to find out what was upsetting me, and I could tell he meant it too. I was thankful for that.
I didn't want his sympathy though. "Nothing," I said wiping my eyes on the duvet. "Just relationship problems, that's all."
"Oh," he said. "I can't help you there."
Luigi hasn't had a girlfriend yet and he couldn't help being jealous of mine.
"I wish I had a girlfriend," he said wistfully.
"You will," I said smiling. "Soon enough."