Daisy was thinking about what happened with Bowser as she stood looking out the window of the new room in her mother's castle. She felt a tear roll down her cheek when she heard her mother's voice and her trade mark knock coming from the door, "Daisy dear, may I come in?"

Daisy didn't want her mother to see her cry, so she dried her tears as she crossed the huge room to open the door for her mother Queen Rose.

Queen Rose was a very lovely woman. She had a lot of Daisy's attributes, the auburn hair, creamy white skin, and green eyes. She also had Daisy's sense of knowing when something was wrong.

Even though, Daisy had done a good job of drying her tears, Queen Rose still knew there was something wrong, as she did not have the same cheerfulness as she always did.

"Daisy, are you alright?" Rose asked as she stepped into the room.

Daisy did a once over of her face with her hand before she answered her mother, "Yes mum. I'm alright. Why wouldn't I be?"

Rose sat down on the leather bench at the end of Daisy's unmade bed, and motioned for her daughter to have a seat.

There almost wasn't enough room for both Daisy and Rose to sit on the bench because of Rose's big red and white hoop skirt. However, Daisy managed to squeeze herself on to the bench just in time for Rose to say, "You don't look alright darling. Now what happened that your father sent you back?"

Uh oh! Daisy was going to fall apart if she had to tell her the story of Bowser and how they became friends at such a young age and then how she fell in love with Bowser, but he never found out because she didn't want to ruin such a good friendship especially if he didn't feel the same way about her in return.

But surprisingly, when Daisy did tell Rose the story, she didn't start crying. She did how ever feel a huge relief though. Rose was confused however, if her falling in love with another was the only reason her father sent Daisy away then there was no reason at all.

"He, Bowser, is a Koopa." Daisy answered in her response to her mother's question.

"You are in love with a Koopa?" Rose asked in a shocked way.

Daisy just nodded as she felt there was no better way to respond.

"Well, now I understand why your father sent you back. He was always against the koopa breed."

From this Daisy came to the conclusion that her mother agreed with the mushroom king, "You agree with him?"

"No I never said that! All I mean is that the koopas do things a little differently than we human's do. Now that you're living here, you're living here, you're just going to have to accept the fact that you likely won't see the Koopa Prince again."

That's what Daisy was always hearing from people, you're never going to see Bowser again.

How was that going to help her get over her love for her at one time best friend? The sad thing was, it just wasn't. Nothing was going to fix that especially in that castle where there was never any alone time. There were always people around. Daisy was just plain sick of it!

So one night, she couldn't stay there anymore, so she took off her pretty silver crown with the green jewel and all of her jewels and left them on her bed side table with a note laid underneath them addressed her mother that read:

Dear mother,

I'm sorry to have to do this but I can't stay here and be a princess to a culture that hates koopas. I won't do it! I don't know when I'll see you again, if ever. I just need to find my own way.

Love,

Daisy

After Daisy placed the note under her jewels on the bedside table, she put on a dark cloak so no one would see her bright colored dress through the moon light, and opened the large picture window. Then she took one more look around her bed room before she made her exit through the window and climbed down the vine that lead out of her window into the darkness of the kingdom.

This was going to be the grandest adventure that Princess Daisy had ever been on. She was out in the country side with nothing but her memories of Bowser and everything she had experienced in her life.

(Memory)

Daisy was crushed when she found out that her mother and father were getting a divorce. She sat up in her room crying the day of the divorce was announced. When Peach heard her crying, she felt so badly for the girl she had come to know as her sister. She herself had lost her mother because of her overbearing father so she knew how Daisy must have felt.

"Daisy?" Peach asked as she poked her head inside Daisy's bedroom door to see Daisy lying on her bed clutching a pillow.

Peach then crossed the room over to her sister's bed, "Daisy, are you okay?"

"No I'm not Peach! What am I going to do without my mum?"

Now Peach only being about eight at the time, was still very mature for her age, so she just sat there stroking Daisy's auburn hair while she cried.

Then suddenly there was another knock on the big wooden door, it was the Queen.
"Daisy honey, can I talk to you for a minute?"

Daisy didn't say anything, Queen Rose just asked for Peach to leave the room. Peach then hugged her sister as she remembered when her mum left. Then she left the room making sure to shut the door as she left.

When Peach was out of the room, Queen Rose looked down at her daughter who sat there kneeling on her bed, "Are you alright honey? I know that couldn't have been easy for you!" her mother said referring to what just happened downstairs.

Daisy just nodded her head, "It's okay." then once her mum was sitting beside her, Daisy asked a very hard question, "Why does daddy have to be so mean?"

(Back to reality)

"Why does daddy have to be so mean?" that was always the question Daisy was asking when it came to her father. She asked that question even now, as she made her way to the forest on the edge of the kingdom. She figured she could rest there that night or morning as it was coming to now, until she figured out her next move on where to go.

Daisy didn't realize how tired she was until she found herself sitting underneath a huge oak tree. She felt herself slip into the clutches of sleep as she leaned up against the tree.

Just as her eyes slipped shut, her mind started to fill with memory filled dreams.

(Dream)

"Bowser Koopa! Get down from there!" fifteen year old Daisy practically screamed at Bowser as he stood on top of the dam that she had gotten caught in when she was young.

Bowser looked over at Daisy and laughed, "Shish! For a tom boy you certainly are a wuss!"

Daisy crossed her arms and rolled her eyes as she shouted back at him, "I am not a wuss! But don't you remember me getting caught in that dam?"

"Yeah I remember that. I also remember it kept you safe until I could get to you. Just like it's doing for you right now." he then extended his clawed paw to her.

But she still refused to climb on the dam because of her hidden fear of her getting stuck again. "No Bowser! I'm scared!"

He walked across the dam over to her and crouched down to her level, "Scared of what princess?"

Daisy just shot a very dark look at Bowser because he knew exactly what she was afraid of.

He just extended his paw to her again and very kindly said, "Well you have to concur that fear sometime!"

Daisy was just about to refuse once more until Bowser said, "Don't make me drag you up here!"

At that point she knew Bowser was not going to take no for an answer, so she took Bowser paw and stepped one by one up the logs until she was standing on top of the dam.

"See, that wasn't so hard, was it?"

Then Daisy, who had her eyes shut, slowly let them open to see Bowser's lovely reptilian face in front of hers. Then she looked around to see that she was in fact standing on top of the dam with water rushing underneath them.

"Told you, you could do this!"

"How is it you always know how to save me from my fears?" she asked with her bright green eyes still fixated on him

"I don't know. But I'll always be here to save you! All you have to do is trust me." he said as he tucked her damp auburn hair behind her ear.