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I was super busy! Omg, I'm soo glad its all over. Guess what? I just survived my first AP test! I actually passed! It was an 87. Not really that great, but it was AP, so I think I can get a better grade if I work much harder. I would have updated this weekend but I had a paper due Monday, and I've been spending the week working on a paper for another class. We also spent two days at Grandfather Mountain this weekend, and I had to spend Labor day, laboring over my homework. See what I did there? I decided to finish this today and get it out already. I've been working on a little each day for a while, so I haven't been neglecting this story. Sorry this chapter is kind of short, I would have made it longer, but the next one will be, and you guys have been waiting for a while now. Anyways, since this story will be over in a couple of chapters, I've also starting working on a new story. I know I've got two other stories I've been working on, but they aren't generating much interest so I've put them to the side for a while. Anyway, my new story will be for the Kickin It fandom, if any of you have ever seen that show. I have a lot of story ideas for that category actually that I will fic eventually, bu right now I'm working on one. After this story ends, do you guys think I should write a sequel? I think it would probably only be a one-shot, or a three-shot, something small like that. I've got a pretty good idea of where this story is going, but that might change depending on what you guys think. First off, Rosalina/Luigi, or Daisy/Luigi, and should Yoshi and Birdo be back together in the end? Review and tell me what you think.

Thanks again ya'll! You guys are the best! Love you, here's the next chapter! You know the drill, 30 reviews till next update!

~Sirius

Is he going to come today? That was the only thought that ran through her mind as she nervously tapped her nails on the kitchen counter and stared at the clock which read 7:10. On a normal day, Luigi would be here in 5 minutes, but Rosalina had serious doubts as to whether he would show.

5 minutes passed quickly. Maybe I should go? She wondered nervously, perhaps she should wait a few minutes more.

7:20. Maybe just 5 more minutes.

7:28, just until 7:30, she could wait a bit, perhaps he had a slow start.

7:35. Ok, she had to get to school on time. She wasn't going to wait too long.

7:45.

"Ok that's it!" she snapped suddenly, alarming her younger brother who had already come downstairs and started eating.

"Sorry!" She said quickly. "It'd be faster to walk to school."

And with that, she quickly rushed out of her house and walked quickly along the sidewalk. She then pulled out her watch, 7:55. Oh great, there was no way she could get to school by 8:15.

That was when she heard a honk.

"Hey, where were you today?" Much to her surprise, Luigi was leaning on his seat as he pulled the car to a stop towards the curb. Mario was sitting in the backseat, he gave a quick wave.

She raised an eyebrow. "Where was I? I waited for 30 minutes, you were a no-show."

He shrugged. "Mario got me held up."

"Hey!" His brother shouted defensively.

Luigi rolled his eyes. "Its not my fault you tried to drown yourself in the shower today. I had to wait for ages before I started banging the door for you to come out."

Mario hissed. "Hey! With all of that drama on Friday, I'm afraid to go back to school."

Luigi gulped. "Oh well, um..."

She frowned. Now it had just gotten awkward. Much to her relief, Luigi immediately diffused the subject.

"Anyway, we got to your house 5 minutes after your brother said you'd left, man you walk fast." He tried humorously, but her frown was still unfazed.

"Well, I kind of didn't want to be late to school. Why didn't you text me or something?"

"Well, you could have texted me, I was in such a rush I forgot to."

She groaned. "I don't know. Maybe because you haven't texted me all weekend."

She wished she hadn't said anything, because Luigi suddenly looked uncomfortable.

"You should probably get into the car, since we'll be late and all." He replied nervously, after a long silence.

She nodded and instead of taking her usual front seat, she sat in the back of the convertible with Mario.

Mario attempted to resume casual conversation about homework and such and occasionally the two of them would put in a reply, but all of them could sense the tension in the atmosphere.

Rosalina had never been so glad to get out of the car. Then she remembered something.

"Did you pick up Daisy?"

Luigi shook his head. Although treading on this topic was sure to cause more trouble, she hoped he hadn't passed her house.

"I was at her house first, only because its easier, although you live next to each other, but I'm not showing favoritism or anything-"

"Luigi," she cut him off, "Please stay on topic."

"Well, I was a little late to her place as well, but her mom said she had left earlier than I would have normally arrived because she needed to get to school early or something."

"Right..." Rosalina doubted Daisy had anything serious reason besides the fact she was avoiding her and Luigi.

"Come on guys, hustle!" Mario said, grabbing the pair and dragging them into the school building.

8:10. She had made it on time.

Although World History was typically her favorite subject, Birdo couldn't concentrate today.

"You're such a wimp." Well, that was what Peach would say. Right now she didn't want to think about Peach. She didn't even think Peach cared that she was upset, but it wasn't like she could actually show her true feelings to the girl. This was PEACH after all.

"Hey, are you going to pay attention? Mr. Goomba is going to eat you alive." She was brought back to reality by the snap of Toadette's finger.

"Sorry, I'm still kind of hung up about Friday." She answered with a sigh.

Toadette raised her eyebrow. "Oh come off it now. It wasn't all too bad for you."

She frowned at her seemingly unsympathetic friend. "Like you'd understand."

Toadette shrugged apologetically. "Sorry babe, but Rosie has it harder than you do."

Birdo groaned in frustration. "Don't you ever just get mad at her?"

"Rosalina?"

She shook her head. "I mean Peach!"

Toadette bit her lip. "Um, I kind of get annoyed with her sometimes, I mean its super rare. It almost like never happens, but you know, no matter how great a person is, you get annoyed with them sometimes."

"Uh-huh." She faced her friend with a suspicious expression on her face.

"So sometimes, I get pissed." Toadette admitted. "But don't you dare tell-"

"I wasn't going to." She interrupted. "Actually, I think I'm really mad right now. Think how Yosh must be feeling."

And then a smirk appeared on her face. "You!" She shrieked.

Everyone in the class turned to face them with a confused expression on their faces. Before this the girls had been in mere whispers.

"Ladies, care to share something with the class?" Mr. Goomba's stern controlling voice was frightening enough as it was, but now his expression looked annoyed.

"S-sorry." Toadette replied with a stutter.

He mumbled something under his breath that none of the students could hear, and then he resumed teaching the class.

"You still like him." She hissed under her breath, pointing a finger at her best friend.

Birdo shook her head. "NO WAY!"

This was once again quite loud. Mr. Goomba was quite impatient now.

"Ladies, if you would please, I can see you are obviously very distracted so let me help you out."

He tapped his fingers on his desk before quickly pointing to Luma. "You girl."

She looked shocked. "Me? What did I do?"

He ignored his question. "Toadette please switch with Mario for today."

Toadette looked at him in disbelief but grabbed her things and purposely bumped Luma on the shoulder while they switched desks."

Although Luma was a quiet student, Birdo had difficulty concentrating when Luma was constantly taking fearful glances at her.

"Hey!" she said finally, irritated enough. "Quit staring at me, it's freaky."

She muttered an almost inaudible apology before keeping her eyes plastered to the board.

After a bit the class got assigned a worksheet, which would probably take up the rest of class and maybe some time at home too.

Birdo was usually good at World History, but seeing as she hadn't paid attention for a good part of class she hadn't gotten a few questions.

"Hey Luma, what'd you get for 16?" She asked, keeping her eyes on her paper.

"Um, well, I'm not s-s-sure if my answer's right, so um, you might not want to ask me, but I can t-t-tell you anyway I guess." Luma stumbled through the whole sentence.

Birdo rolled her eyes. "Just tell me what you put, I'm not asking you anything difficult. What are you so afraid of anyway?" She was starting to get pretty annoyed.

"S-sorry Birdo, I j-just thought you might," she paused for a second, "nevermind."

"Now just tell me what you were going to say, I'm not going to call you out on it." She raised her eyebrow questioningly.

Luma shook her head. "Its just something that Peach did. It was a long time ago; it doesn't matter."

"I know that Peach is mean to you all the time, but that doesn't mean I'm the same as her." she whispered, not wanting everyone to hear again.

She shook her head, "Sorry, I just figured since you were friends with Peach, you'd hate me as much as she does."

She smiled sympathetically at Luma. "She doesn't hate you. She just needs someone to pick on so she can make herself feel better."

Birdo never imagined she'd be comforting Luma of all people, about the way Peach could act, but she felt bad for this girl all of a sudden, it was as if the reality of Peach's cruelty was finally hitting her.

Oh who was she kidding? She'd known for a long time, but she hadn't been smart enough to do anything about it. And here she was now, doing everything Peach told her to do.

Perhaps she had been wrong to blindly follow Peach. Things were going to have to change.

Daisy nervously tapped her pencil on the desk, as she tried to focus on her math homework. It was hard enough, since the teacher had been stupid enough to leave the classroom unsupervised so he could go flirt with the literature teacher in the teacher's lounge. Obviously, the students had gone crazy when he left.

"Hey, don't worry. I know you have to talk to Rosie next period, but there's no need to panic. She's pretty chill."

Daisy looked over at him and smiled. Who knew he could be so helpful?

"Thanks." she managed. "I just don't think this will end well."

"Well, its better to sort things out than to make it more awkward for the future."

She sighed. "You're probably right."

The bell rang and Daisy was still nervous, but she headed out the door, ready to talk to her friend.

"Oof watch where you're going!" Birdo's first instinct was to snap at the idiot who had whammed into her, when she had rushed out of the class.

"I'm not in the mood right now. Besides you were the one who wasn't paying attention. I couldn't move out of the way in time."

Birdo was surprised to see Daisy retorting, as she typically would have ducked her head and scurried inside.

"Oh, well sorry then."

Daisy rolled her eyes. "Whatever."

Birdo frowned. Maybe she didn't believe her. Daisy was probably still pissed at Peach. Was it time to make amends?

"I meant it."

Daisy looked puzzled.

"I meant it. I'm sorry. For...everything."

It was surprising to see Birdo saying such things. Yet her tone sounded sincere, and there wasn't a hint of fakeness in her facial expressions.

"Oh, well um..." Daisy tried to string together a sentence, but she wasn't sure how to respond. "It doesn't matter anyways. It was mostly Peach anyhow."

She hoped they were talking about the same thing at the least.

Birdo shook her head. "No, I bullied you because Peach wanted me to. It wasn't just her who made your life miserable. It was me too."

She shrugged. "Why the sudden change of heart? Did she have to force you to break up with your boyfriend in order for you to realize this?"

"I don't know. Maybe." Birdo admitted. "Um, how is stuff going with you and Rosalina and Luigi and stuff. You know?"

Boy this was really awkward. The girls had rarely exchanged words. Unless you counted all the times that Birdo had taken pot shots at her.

Daisy gritted her teeth. "To Be Decided. I'm unsure of whats going to happen. But I'm hoping for the best. If it doesn't work out, I guess I still have Mario and Yoshi."

Birdo's eyes flickered with sadness at the mention of her ex-boyfriend's name, but she immediately regained her composure. "Oh, that's cool then."

"Oh no. No its not." Daisy buried her face in her hands. "They're alright, but I can't hang out with them all the time."

Birdo chuckled slightly.

"I'm serious. Mario spends so much time complaining. And Yoshi is such a geek."

Birdo nodded instantly in agreement. "I know right! He used to play Call Of Duty all weekend when I called him up. It was so obnoxious because he would keep ignoring them for a stupid video game."

Both the girls laughed slightly, before Birdo remembered that she was no longer with Yoshi. And that she was talking to Daisy.

"Well...um..." she stood there awkwardly.

"Later then." Daisy stated, followed by a deafening silence.

At that instant the late bell rang.

"Oh crap. I'm late for physics. Mr. Larson is going to kill me." Birdo ran off.

Saved by the bell. Daisy thought to herself. That hadn't been too bad. She walked into class where the students were just settling down into their seats. Her desk wasn't next to Rosalina; they were separated by Toad's seat.

Mr. Goomba began his boring lecture while she took out her pencil and started taking notes.

Suddenly, Toad was tapping her.

She turned around. "What?" she hissed. "You better take your own notes this time, because I'm not letting you copy mine this time."

He ignored her and handed her a tiny slip of paper.

We need to talk.

She didn't have to ask Toad if the note was from Rosalina.

She attempted to make eye contact with her, but she was glued to her notebook.

Instantly, she turned the note around and scribbled, Ok, right after class, before handing it to Toad.

"Here. Give this to Rosalina."

"I'm not your messenger." He insisted, but he took the note anyway. "That's the last one." And with that he handed it to Rosalina.

Daisy attempted to focus on her notes, but all she could think about was what she was going to say. She felt nervous, but like Yoshi had said, it had to be done.

Cliffhanger! Mwahaha, I'm so evil! I would have made it longer, but I figure it would be best to get this out all ready. I can assure you, I'm pretty sure that the next chapter will be next week or the week after. I'd like 30 reviews, but the more that come, the faster I write. I didn't feel like this chapter was that strong though. Answer the stuff I asked you guys at the author's note at the top guys! Gracias!

~Sirius