Chapter 3
*Pauline's POV*
The moments she regained consciousness, you ask?
Let's see…
I was standing around the group as we tried to help Peach wake up. She was just lying there. She was pretty still, but I saw she was breathing.
"What just…happened?" Mario stared blankly at me.
"I guess now's a bad time for 'how-do-you-dos'." I looked back down at Peach.
"Whoa." Daisy looked at me with excited eyes. "You're actually…You're Mario's ex?"
"Yes." Mario said quickly.
No reason to be rash, Mario.
"Long story short, I'm just here to say 'hi' and see how things were going." I said, poking at Peach's side to get a reaction.
"Well, hi, nice to see you again, everything's fine, and goodbye." Mario grabbed Peach's limp body and carried her with ease.
"Hold up." Daisy pursed her lips and pulled everything to a halt. "Why are you really here?" She turned over to me and I felt my cheeks turn a flushed red. I could only hope it matched my dress.
"I'm just here because…I already told you." I scoffed.
"Yeah, and I responded, so…bye!" Mario called over his shoulder.
Daisy and Luigi looked at each other, as if they were thinking the same thing.
"Weird…" Daisy put her hands behind her back.
"Well," Luigi clapped his hands together which made Daisy and I jump back a bit. "I guess we can uhh…show you around."
"Yeah! Let's start with the castle!" Daisy led the rest of us to the castle to look around.
I was actually a little content with the fact that we were going to explore the castle. I wanted to see if Peach got amnesia and forgot about everything, leaving me with Mario.
As we looked around the castle halls, I saw Peach's room. She was lying down on her bed, staring at the ceiling. Her eyes were open, so she was awake again.
It was strange, but for a few long minutes, I felt SORRY for the girl. I mean, she has the kingdom to look after and some other things must be getting in her way too, so I should've had the least bit of sympathy for her.
I walked into the room and looked at her. Her eyes moved to mine and she sighed.
"I wonder why he never told me about you." She said faintly.
"We were in the past, it was nothing. I'm sort of happy for you…Really, I am." I managed a smile. "He's a great guy."
Peach laughed dryly, "Yep."
I breathed inwardly and put my hand out, "Friends?"
Peach shot up, making her hair fall to her eyes. "Friends." And we shook hands.
"So why are you really here? You can tell me, I keep secrets." She spat, pushing her hair out of her face.
I shrugged and smiled. I thought I could tell her; after all, we were friends…for now.
"Well, a while back, I admitted that I loved him. It was all fine and dandy until he really never said anything that deep back. I came back to…see if he would finally say it to me. I just felt so incomplete that day."
Peach's smile turned to a stiff expression of disgust. "He never said THAT to you?"
"No. It's the worst feeling in the world."
"Tell me about it! He never said it to me!" She shot up from her bed and began to walk towards me, making me back up in fear. "What makes you think that YOU deserve it more than ME?" Her finger was pointed at my nose.
I hate when people point at me.
It brings back memories of high school, being the outcast and all.
"Because," I said calmly moving her finger away from my face, "I was his first girlfriend. I deserve it before you, because I was first."
Peach shoved me out of the room and I tipped backward. "What did you say to me?"
I shoved her back. "I said: I was FIRST!"
I saw Daisy and Luigi looking at us through the corner of my eye. Luigi ran off to get Mario while Daisy ran over to us.
"I don't want to hurt you!" Peach growled.
"You won't. Not with your flimsy arms." I flipped my hair back.
"You're such a stick, aren't you?" She poked me hard on my chest.
"Don't touch me!"
Peach continued to poke me, each time harder than the last. Daisy stepped in between us and pushed us apart.
"Calm down. You're freaking out over a guy; it's not a huge deal." She tried to make us realize how silly this was but Peach didn't take what she said lightly.
"What do you mean 'a guy'? He's not 'a guy', he's MY GUY!"
Luigi and Mario walked in and Mario sighed. "I knew this would happen." I could hear him groan under his breath.
Then Peach blurted something very…awkward.
"It's like saying you are 'just a girl'! Or how when you kissed Luigi, it was 'just a kiss' and it wasn't! You were practically making out! I saw tongue and everything!"
Absolute silence.
I could see the expressions on both Luigi and Daisy's faces. Luigi was more terrified than anything, while Daisy's eye twitched with anger and she balled her fists.
"What…did…you...say?"
"You heard me!" Peach continued, "You two were sucking each other's faces!"
Peach seemed pleased by her little outburst, but it didn't last for long. I couldn't really say anything because I had just met these people and I have no idea what was going on before me, but I could tell that Peach had just royally screwed up.
Pun intended.
*Peach's POV*
I really wish I never said that.
I can't believe I actually said that.
I actually said THAT!
I must've had some kind of brave outburst because that took guts to say.
What did I say, you ask?
It all started when I woke up from fainting.
I had just found out that that stick was dating Mario. I was shocked. I usually never get shocked that easily, but that was shock-worthy.
I woke up in my bed, staring at the white ceiling.
Or egg-shell. Both are whites, get over it.
Pauline walked into my room, looking awfully sorry for what she just did to me. She should be. First she looks at me as if she's plotting some kind of revenge, and then admits to loving my Mario before me! I should have her arrested…but I'm getting ahead of myself.
She apologized with this little fake apology that I could see through. She didn't mean it at all. That little smile of hers was also plastic.
She called for a truce and put her hand out.
She put her filthy hand out for me to shake.
I should have called the guards. But again, I digress.
I decided to shake her hand because I wanted to find out what she really wanted from Mario. Nobody I know would travel miles and miles away from home to say "Hi."
I said, "So why are you really here? You can tell me, I keep secrets."
Well, that girl is as gullible as she looks. She actually told me, but it wasn't what I wanted to hear.
She said: "Well, a while back, I admitted that I loved him. It was all fine and dandy until he really never said anything that deep back. I came back to…see if he would finally say it to me. I just felt so incomplete that day."
Wait just a second. She told Mario that she loved him and he never said it back?
You know, that reminds me of the time when I said that I loved him but he never said it back.
*crazy laugh* Ah, what a coincidence.
What made her think that he would tell her that before he told it to me?
That's when I lost it. I shoved her out of my room. "What did you say to me?"
"I said: I was FIRST!" And she shoved me back.
Luigi and Daisy both went their split ways to try to break us up. Luigi ran to get Mario while Daisy ran to stop us from fighting.
I didn't want to hurt her, so I just poked her. But, my annoyance did the trick and she got angry. I poked her harder and harder every time so she would get the point that Mario is OFF-LIMITS.
Daisy eventually pushed us apart. "Calm down. You're freaking out over a guy; it's not a huge deal."
I was pretty angry at that comment. I was also blinded by fury, so that wasn't a good combination.
I raged. "What do you mean 'a guy'? He's not 'a guy', he's MY GUY!"
Mario and Luigi had walked in the hall about this point. Mario groaned saying that he knew this would happen or something. It's hard to hear when you want to tackle someone.
Then I shouted something. Something I had sworn never to shout in umpteen-billion years.
"It's like saying you are 'just a girl'! Or how when you kissed Luigi, it was 'just a kiss' and it wasn't! You were practically making out! I saw tongue and everything!"
It got quiet in the castle. I couldn't even hear the servants walking around.
Daisy looked at me and her eye twitched. Her eye never twitches unless she's really angry, and I mean REALLY angry.
"What...did...you...say?" She hissed.
"You heard me!" I exclaimed, "You two were sucking each other's faces!"
I was happy that I finally got that off my chest. Then I realized what I just did. Daisy walked closer to me, her fists clenched so tightly I swear they were going to explode. For my own safety, I ran back into my room, locking my door.
For a few minutes I could only hear muffled, angry speeches.
Then, I heard sobbing.
Sobbing that came from my ex-best friend.
I made Daisy, the strongest female in the kingdoms, cry.
Thanks for reading! Leave comments or reviews if you want and I know there are a lot of fragments, but that's because this is how the characters would sound. It just sounds more natural that way.
