Mario quickly headed out the door to find Peach. Then he noticed Luigi's kart was gone. He found out too. But Luigi would understand, right? Mario hopped on his kart and headed to their home. He jingled his keys from his pocket and slowly inserted it in the doorknob, nervous. By the time he walked inside, he was jittering to see his brother. Luigi was sitting at the table with the light on, his hands folded. "What do you want?" he asked flatly. "So um, what happened over there…" Luigi held out his hand. "I don't want to hear it." "Luigi…" he started, trying to convince him to listen. "You let it happen!" Luigi yelled in an angry voice. "You just had to take the one thing I had that you didn't. I always have to be the second one don't I?" he continued, his fist clenching. "Well maybe you should get more courage when you see her." Mario blurted out, gasping after his outburst. Luigi punched his brother square in the face. Mario fell backward and onto the floor, Luigi standing above him. "Get out." he said, pointing him toward the door.
"But Luigi, w-where will I-I stay?" Mario asked, trembling on the floor. "I could care less about where you are sleeping tonight, but it better not be with Daisy." he replied hastily. Mario looked up at his brother, who was glaring at him, full with anger. He sneered at him once his brother got up and slowly walked out, and he slammed the door on his face.
Mario got in his kart and drove off to the castle, hoping Peach would accept his apology. Once he reached the castle and made his way toward the doors, the toads blocked the doors. "You may not come in without identification." they stated. "It's-a-me Mario… the prince…" he said with barely any enthusiasm in his voice. "The princess does not wish to see you." one of them said. "I-I just need to talk to my wife…" he pleaded, trying to make his way to the doors. "You may not come in. She is royal blood, so her commands overrule yours." they said. As Mario turned around to leave, one of the toads started yelling "What the hell is wrong with you? The princess would do anything for you, but you just go ahead and throw it all away?" Mario turned back around to face the toad. "Congratulations, Mario. Who do you have now? Your 'royal subjects'?" he asked. Mario turned to walk away, his face weary with sadness. "Son of a bitch." one of the toads muttered as Mario headed toward his kart.
Mario drove around Toad Town, hoping to find an open hotel room. He stopped from hotel to hotel, finding out they were all full. Finally he ended up at the park on a bench, with a pillow he had bought from a store. He shivered, realizing he forgot to get a blanket. He closed his eyes and slept, knowing whatever nightmare he got would be better than the one he was starting to live.
Daisy held the phone, her hands shaking and the phone getting splashed with her tears. She slowly dialed Luigi's number and almost reached the call button, but she broke down in sobs and chucked the phone across the room. She screamed in anger. Why would he want to marry a slut of a princess? She cried harder and harder and pulled the covers over herself.
She then received a call on her phone. Daisy's heart stopped, thinking it was Luigi calling. She picked up the phone, and it read Private Caller.
"Hello?" Daisy sniffed over the phone. "It's Waluigi. I heard about the news… everyone knows about it. But if those two dimwits don't want you I'm available, sweetheart." Daisy's face reddened with rage. "They might hate me, but no way in hell I'm doing that with you." Waluigi's tone angered as he said "Well who do you have then?" "I'd rather have no one than you!" she retorted. "Well your life is over slut! You might as well do everyone in the kingdom!" he yelled through the phone. Waluigi hung up on Daisy and she practically broke the phone as she threw it against the door again.
Luigi finally went to bed with a lump in his throat, and his heart sunken. He half-heartedly pushed down the picture of him and Daisy. He couldn't even pick up the phone and call her, afraid he would lose his temper like he did with Mario. What were the chances of that? He twisted and turned, not able to fall asleep in bed. He couldn't stop thinking about Daisy. I loved her.
Daisy's mind kept flashing about what happened at Koopa Troopa's party. She remembered herself sitting on top of Mario, legs wrapped around him on the chair, madly kissing him while he pulled at her hair. She sobbed into the pillow, as she had never cried this much in ages. How the hell could she do this to Luigi? He loved her so much and proposed to her, but now he probably hated her. But I loved him.
Mario woke up, still on the cold park bench. His back ached from lying on the hard metal and he shivered from the wind blowing on his bare skin. He knew Peach wouldn't want to talk to him after he did, after he lied to her face. He had no one, not even Daisy after what they did. Daisy. Why had he told her that he loved her? Was it what he really felt? All he knew was that he loved Peach, and nothing would ever change his feelings for her.