Chapter 4
*Peach's POV*
I guess I went a tad too far with the whole thing. Exclaiming the secret and all. It just slipped out, though. You can't really blame me for it. If anything, I would blame Pauline. If she never had come here, then I wouldn't have shouted that out like I did.
But I did shout it out.
And I made my, she's ex-best friend now, cry.
I'M A MONSTER!
I'm not as bad as Bowser, but I'm still half to blame. It was my own mouth that said it I suppose.
It took about half an hour for everything to calm down and return to its natural state of blandness. I had supposed everyone left, so I opened my door just crack to see if anyone was out in the hall still. Luckily, no one was. I darted through the halls to the second floor, where Daisy's guest room was. Some servants looked at me like I was mad, but I ignored them. I had a friendship to restore.
I knocked on the door quietly and asked if I could come in. After getting no response, I repeated my actions. This time, the door opened just enough for Daisy to lean on the door frame, blocking my view of the guest room.
"What do you want?" She sneered.
Rude.
"I'm sorry about what I said earlier and that it just slipped out like it did." I kept my eyes away from hers. If we looked into each other's eyes, she would have tackled me and kept me down until I said "Uncle!" twenty times, or more.
"Oh really?" Daisy still blocked my view of the guest room.
"I really am." I tried to sound sincere as possible, because I really was, "It just came out like that. It wasn't me, I swear." I tried looking over her shoulder. Daisy was defiantly hiding something behind her. I couldn't see well, because she's a few inches taller than me. Curse genetics.
"Uh-huh. So you expect me to believe that you didn't actually say what you said back there?"
"I know it wasn't me. I would never do that to you. I would never scream a secret like that in public."
"Yeah, well whatever, Ms. P." She began to giggle at her little joke. "The Pink Lightning; I can see it now." She put her hands out in a glamorous fashion as if they were bright city lights.
Daisy was taking this far better than I had expected. I thought she would have strangled me by now, but she's taken my apology well.
Too well…
She was certainly hiding something.
"Yeah, well, apologies?" I put my arm out for a hug.
Daisy rolled her eyes and smiled. "You would keep bugging me if I didn't, wouldn't you?"
"May-…Yeah, pretty much."
"If I hug you, will you quit bugging me for the rest of the day?"
I shrugged and wrapped my arms around her. Daisy hugged me back and this time, I had a clear look of the room. I saw somebody in there, sitting on the bed, looking away from us. Her long brown hair covered her face, but I recognized the perfume.
"PAULINE!" I let go of Daisy and prepared to tackle Pauline to the floor. Daisy grabbed me by my arms and hauled me out of her room into the hall.
"Alright Peachy, hug's over. Now please, let me be." She closed the door and locked it before I had the chance to pounce back in.
That WITCH! She was talking to Daisy and probably sharing some kind of evil spells with her so Daisy becomes Pauline's slave! Or Pauline casted a spell on her that would make Daisy accept my apology and learn all my secrets so Pauline can blackmail me!
How DARE she!
First, she wants my royalty. Then, she wants my Mario. Now, she wants Daisy!
That's it, girlie!
This means WAR!
*Pauline's POV*
After Peach had slammed her door shut, Daisy stormed over to the door a prepared to knock it open. She lifted her fist towards the wood, but before she pounded her fist in, she kneeled to the ground, digging her face into her hands. She began to sob softly, as if she tried to hide it. It was embarrassment that made her cry, I could tell.
Mario shook his head in confusion. "What the heck just happened? What is seriously going on?"
"I have no idea." Luigi replied.
"Yes you do. Peach was saying something about you kissing Daisy."
Luigi scoffed, trying to hide the truth. "Pfft, that's nothing."
Mario rolled his eyes and laughed. "Yeah right, Romeo."
I sighed at the brothers. They always tried to back away from drama.
I crouched down to Daisy and put my arm around her. She was pretty much huddled in a ball formation. She looked up at me with small tears in her eyes. "Leave me alone, please."
"Come on, let's talk." I pulled Daisy up and we walked back to her room to talk.
Mario and Luigi turned back to the castle's exit.
"You suck at hiding stuff, Lue."
"Shut up."
We entered her room and she flopped on top of her bed. I sat down by her and she groaned.
"Daisy, is it?"
She sighed loudly, which I took for a yes.
"I think that everything will be fine. It won't really affect you deeply."
She shot up. "The whole castle knows that I kissed that…"
"He's a guy, not a word."
"Yeah, well, I kissed him because Peach wouldn't shut up if I didn't. It was totally unfair."
"Life isn't fair."
"Are you mocking my pain?"
"Listen, Daisy, you wouldn't have freaked out if you didn't like him. Is there something between you two?"
"NO WAY!" She jumped up from the bed and paced around the room. "We are two completely different people! If anything, he'd need to be less wimpy and more…hot."
I giggled. "Opinions make the world go 'round. Is there anyone that you like that would possibly take what Peach said offensively?"
She hesitated, but the slowly shook her head. "Nope."
"Then there's nothing to worry about." I straightened out my dress.
"But, everyone's going to think that I…like him." She lowered her voice.
"Do you?"
"It's complicated." She plopped down right next to me. "Sometimes he's cool, other times, he's just…eh."
"When I first met Luigi, I thought he was okay. He was pretty nice, but pretty quiet."
"I know, right! He's as shy as a shy guy. If he could wear a mask everywhere, I bet he would."
"Once you get to know him, he's much more talkative."
"How do you…" I looked at her with a tired glare. "Oh, right, Mario."
"Yes, well, Luigi and I were pretty close friends too. We could go on for hours over the same subject or absolutely nothing. Sometimes, I could never get him to shut up."
Daisy laughed. "Sounds like me and Peach. We never shut up…" Her voice trailed off as she looked at the door. She uttered something foul that ended with "you, Peach."
"Love is a really complicated thing, Daisy…I mean, Princess Daisy."
"Just call me Daisy. I don't really respond to the formal stuff." She smiled at me. Her smile was much more different from Peach's. Peach's smile was vague and plastic, while Daisy's smile was much more sincere and friendly. "I'm just surprised that you traveled…I don't know how many miles, just to see Mario again. That sounds pretty serious. You two must have had something."
"We did. Again, I don't want to intrude on Peach," this was obviously a lie, but I tried to sound nice; "But I just want to hear him say something and I promise that I'll leave them alone."
"I don't know. Peach and Mario are pretty…together." She crossed her index and middle fingers together. "It's hard to split them apart, even for a minute. Peach goes crazy and Mario…Well…I've actually never seen him snap before. But, he could snap without his 'princess'."
Planning. It would take days of planning to get them apart and keep Peach away. If everything works well, Peach might go insane and as a bonus, I might get Mario back.
Only if I played my cards right.
"You're not as bad as Peach says, Pauli." Daisy smiled again with that cute, little smile.
"Pauli?"
"Yeah, like a nickname for Pauline. I'm sorry. It's a habit of mine. Peach is Peachy, Luigi is Weege, Mario is Mar, Bowser is Bow Bow, Toad is Toady, Toadette is Toady-kins, Yoshi is Yo-Yo, and yada yada. I normally do that with my closer friends but hey, you're getting there."
"Cute."
Even though I didn't know half of the people, I still thought it was a cute habit to have. It was a fun way to remember everyone's name, I suppose.
"I guess. It's just a thing I have." She sighed.
We both heard a knock on the door and Peach's voice followed. I told Daisy to act nice to her if she was going to apologize. She agreed and pulled my hair over my face. It was supposed to hide me from Peach's sight, but it didn't last.
By the time they hugged, I had moved my hair back from my face. Peach's eyes met with mine and she fumed. Daisy luckily kept Peach away from the room. I appreciate Daisy for not giving me up to that cotton candy monster. She locked the door and sat back down.
We began to talk again, but this time about nothing of interest, just simple topics, like the world and everything. I actually got to know Daisy better that day and so did she, but I knew that Peach would probably be all over me and Daisy the next day. I decided that the only way to keep her from messing up my plans to get Mario to admit that he loves me was to keep Peach as far away from him as possible. Daisy said that she would see if she could do anything to help, since she was defiantly not going to trust Peach anymore.
With Daisy on my side, this was going to run much smoother than I had hoped.
My first plan is to keep Peach as far away from Mario as possible, which would cause Peach to go crazy and turn mad.
The question is: What would work?
Perhaps being locked up in a basement.
Or…being kidnapped.
That's the fourth chapter! Kidnapping Peach, huh Pauline? Daisy becoming friends with Peach's new enemy? This can only lead to one thing! But, I don't know what that is, tee-hee! I hope you liked this chapter and the story so far, it's just a little side project for the real stuff. Leave any reviews or comments for me if you want, I always appreciate them and as always, I will see you…In the next update! BYE-BYE! (a quick shout out to markiplierGAME)
