Hey guys! Sorry that took so long. I had a lot of other stuff to do and never could get around to publishing the next chapter, but without further ado, here it is!
Disclaimer: I do not own the Mario franchise. Nintendo does.
Chapter 2: Grad Night
"I can't believe it! You asked a random girl out instead of Amber!" Mario yells at me. "For the last time Mario." I say calmly. "I like Daisy so I asked her instead." Not giving her the entire story. "Okay, okay… we better start getting ready. After all, grad is in an hour." He says to me. "Right" I agree, and we rush off to our rooms to try and make ourselves look presentable. Naturally, my brother is good at that stuff, and I fail. But I try my best anyway. By the time we were done, we had half an hour left before we had to go pick up our girls and head to the grad dance.
"So…" I say to Mario. "What're we gonna do now?" "We play video games of course!" he says. And so, for the next half an hour we play Smash Bros. Brawl, as ourselves, and I totally demolish him. Of course…
Our mom drives us to Peaches house first, and Mario goes in pretty boldly in my opinion. I really look up to my brother you know. Anyway, I am soon dropped off at Amber's with a quick "good luck" from mom, and I am left there, I hate to admit it, but I was pretty nervous. I ring the doorbell and hold my breath, hoping against hope that Amber is the one that answers. She does. "Hi! Luigi!" She says, and invites me in. Amber introduces me to her parents, who seem really nice, and off we go to the dance.
Once we get to school, I've learned from Amber that I look great in a green tuxedo and my signature hat. Good. I chose the right outfit. Finally, we are on the dance floor, and I am surprised at how good we look together, although I get surprised looks from the crowd, I don't worry about it. (I totally understand though, since the entire school thought I had a crush on Daisy.) At the end of the night after many interesting conversations about things like Amber's brother and her favorite things to do, the romantic songs start to play softly from the speakers. Finally. The time has come for me to do something I've never done before. I want to kiss Amber.
Right as the slow songs come on, we look at each other, and I say "Amber, will you have this dance with me?" "Of course." She replies. YAYY! And so, all the pairs in the grade come on to the dance floor. Me, Mario, Wario, Waluigi, Bowser, and Toad, just to name a few. Amber and I hold hands and dance around each other. Looking into each other's eyes the entire time. This is unreal. After the last song of the night, everyone knows what all the pairs are going to do, so the crowd of onlookers start chanting "Kiss her! Kiss her!" Over and over again. So, we get closer and closer still. Until I realize the crowd is chanting my name. I kiss Amber and Amber kisses me back.
It's a wonderful feeling. Your first kiss. Warmth and affection fill your body and you are practically deaf to everything going on around you. That's exactly how I felt. When we break apart, she is still hanging onto my hands. I know she loves me, and I love her back, so we retreat from the dance floor and the school altogether, heading to the school gardens. (Making our conversation a little bit more private. If you know what I mean…) "Charlotte," I say. "Yes?" She replies, but all dreamy. "I-I love you." I stammer out. "Well, aren't we a little ball of emotion." She replies cheekily. I blush like mad and she giggles. "I love you to Luigi" she says, and we plop down on a garden bench and kiss again. With her hands in my hair and my hands holding her close to me. Then, she does something I have never let anyone do before. She takes off my hat, and even though I usually lose my mind if someone does this, I let her take it. I know it sounds kind of lame that I love my hat so much, but I do, and now I realize that Amber is one of the most important things in my life, and right now, it feels like our love will last forever.
We finally break apart and we look each other in the eyes, and that is when I realize that she is wearing my hat. She looks kind of cute in it to be honest… We decide to head back into the school, so we get up and walk back. All the while holding hands. Once we get back inside, I notice Mario running up to me. "Hey bro! wanna come with me to get some food?" "Umm.." I stall uncertain of what Amber would think of the prospect of me leaving after the experience we just had together. "You go ahead. I'll go with my friends for a while." And with that she disappears into a big crowd of girls, who start bombarding her with questions about what we did outside. I decide not to eavesdrop.
Soon enough, it's time to go home, and so our mom comes to pick us up. I give Amber a kiss on the cheek, a hug, and a quick "See you later," and off we go back home. Once we are there, I get on my phone to talk to Amber, and see that she had already texted me a bunch of questions, like "Can we see each other tomorrow?" or "How was it?" and things like that. I answer all of these questions with the best answers I can think of, and head off to bed. As I lie in bed, I think of all the things that happened today, and notice that I didn't take my hat off before I got into bed. And that is because I never had it on! 'Oh well…' I think to myself. 'Amber will give it to me tomorrow.' And as if on cue, my phone beeps with a text from Amber saying that she still has my hat. I sigh, and after a while, fall asleep.