Chapter Thirteen: Deal With It!
"I don't know what to tell her," Daisy said now. "You'd think we would have known better."
"Well, the cat is out of the bag," Boo said. "I don't know what to do."
"Waluigi?" Daisy asked, in hopes that he'd have an answer. However, he shrugged.
"All we can do is explain," he said, though he knew that wasn't what she wanted to hear.
Slowly, Daisy cracked the door open, waving her arm for them to follow. Boo floated through the walls, being a show off. Waluigi swallowed hard, a nervous wreck!
"Peach?" Daisy called. "Where you at?"
She heard Toadsworth's voice from downstairs calling to her. Hesitantly, the three of them made their way down the spiral staircase. Both of the royals were staring in shock as she and Waluigi came down the stairs. Inconspicuously, they had clasped their hands together.
A long conversation ensued in the great room, where they sat in chairs as Boo floated about the room, only staying because Waluigi was here and Toadsworth was frightening even to him at the moment. Peach sat in a chair nearest to the fire, but it seemed that every moment, she was about ready to faint.
"Why did you-I'm sorry let me rephrase that...How did this even happen?" Toadsworth asked after many questions had been answered.
The two looked at each other, when Daisy remembered suddenly, her eyes lighting up and widening as she flashed back moment by moment.
"He caught me...he saved my life. I was up in a tree and I slipped. He caught me," she said, a smile on her face. Waluigi remembered that very clearly.
"Then we just started, hanging out," he added.
"Were you two really golfing at the Badlands?" Toadsworth asked.
"Oh you bet your mushrooms they were, Gramps. I was there with 'em!" Boo confirmed.
The old toad sighed.
"Well, I guess that's all I got. You can explain the rest to Mario and Luigi if they ask," the old toad said.
"What are you saying? You're letting Daisy go out with Waluigi? You're going to allow him in the castle?" Peach exclaimed in a rather whiny tone of voice.
"I don't see why not. As long as it's just Waluigi and Boo, I see no problem if they are okay with this. Love is a precious thing, my princess. I can't keep Daisy from hers," Toadsworth said, giving Daisy a small wink.
He'd known since he caught her returning late that one night she went out.
Peach couldn't believe this, and already the gossip was around the very next day. Daisy and Waluigi spent a lot of time in the castle walls, fearing what people would say to them if they were seen together in public. It didn't feel hot for a few days, but when they couldn't take being shut indoors, they decided to head to the tennis courts out back.
There was no one there except Mario and Peach, as usual. Mario looked at Daisy and then Waluigi. He didn't shake his head, but it seemed he was afraid to say a whole lot.
"I don't have much against a-you," Mario admitted. "It's-a Wario. Tennis?" The two accepted the challenge with a smile. Peach could not wrap her head around them though, and that caused a lot of tension.
There were people who gave them dirty looks, and Wario almost never spoke to Waluigi... for about two weeks. Then he got lonely and started calling more often. Daisy figured that if no one liked them together, then they just didn't really like her at all as much as she thought they did. They weren't true.
That evening, Waluigi took Daisy down by the beach. It was just them, and they sat on the sand, Daisy in her shorts and short sleeved shirt, and Waluigi still in his overalls. His hat was not there though.
"I never thought this could ever happen to me," Daisy sighed.
"What?" Waluigi asked.
"This...you, me, this whole thing. A love like this...I never thought it was possible for someone like me. But, I found it," she said, staring off at the beautiful seawater before them.
"I'll admit, I tried. Many failed, yet the one I thought would never work proved me otherwise," he told her honestly. He pulled a rose from out of thin air and gave it to her.
She accepted it willingly, finally feeling the freedom she'd always longed for.