Wow, that took forever, sorry guys, been really focused on school, but it kind of sucks right now, especially my spanish teacher...I hate her.
Clearly you guys skipped the A/N, because no one answered the questions, (its ok though, it was pretty long, like obnoxiously long) but you did review quickly, so I thank all you dedicated followers, even if you're not reviewing, (but if you aren't it would be reallyyyyy awesome if you did :D),
Answer the questions please, I've made more space to read, so you can read it easier this time. Remember, I will definitely take your thoughts into consideration and use them to direct the final plot details of the story, but I won't stray too far from the originally planned plot line. If I feel so, I might write a few alternate endings.
1) Rosalina/Luigi or Daisy/Luigi, what should be endgame and why? I know most of you will say Luaisy, but I'd like to see how many people feel so and why.
2) Should Birdo and Yoshi end up together in the end? Again, I've got a few ideas for this couple, but my final verdict will probably rely on your wishes.
3) Who is your favorite character in this story so far? Who and why?
4) Should I write a sequel when this story ends? I estimate around 5 more chapters, so I think most of you might like to see a sequel, or you might prefer to leave it as it is. If I do write a sequel it will not be super long, probably a one shot, or 3-5 chapters at the most. I will be focusing all my energy on the Kickin It fandom, for which I am in the process of writing a story for right now, so any fans of this show, keep an eye out.
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I want to have 5 more chapters in the story to complete it, they may be long chapters though, and that might take a lot of time, but I'd like to finish the story before I lose interest in it; it happens wayy too easily.
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~Sirius
Bringg.
The bell rang and Daisy jumped out of her seat nervously.
Rosalina approached Daisy; her face still seemingly calm and somewhat friendly. She began to speak, "We should go walk."
Daisy complied.
The girls were strolling through the courtyard, during the 5 minute break, both had literature next, and Mrs. Miho wasn't one to fret over lateness, so the pair was free to meander aimlessly.
"Was what Peach said true? I need you to be honest." Rosalina asked, finally breaking the silence.
Daisy nodded her head meekly and faced the ground, fidgeting nervously with her fingers. Her voice began softly, "I kind of did like Luigi, I'm not really sure about everything she said about him."
Rosalina's eyes were almost unreadable, but when Daisy finally took a quick glance she could see a bit of hurt in her eyes.
"I'm sorry." She continued.
Rosalina was still silent. She was no longer facing Daisy, she seemed unfocused all of a sudden, staring at the brick wall as she continued walking at normal pace.
Daisy sensed no response would be coming soon, so it was perhaps better to finish her side of the story so Rosalina could judge fairly.
"I tried to get rid of it, but I couldn't. And, you and Luigi were just so...in love. So, I just kept it to myself. Or so I thought. Peach is a lot smarter than she acts."
She smiled a little, trying to get a reaction out of Rosalina with her slight humor, but it didn't look like there was much more to do.
"So, it would be really cool if we could just pretend it didn't happen." And with that she was done, awaiting Rosalina's final verdict.
They were silent for a while, until Rosalina finally spoke. "You're a good friend Daisy."
She was't sure how to respond to that, so Daisy figured it was best to let Rosalina do all the talking.
"I'm not mad at you. Its just going to be...different. Its going to be different now." She said in a calm manner.
"Yea...really different." was all Daisy could add.
This didn't exactly make things normal again, but at least most of the tension she had been feeling was cleared.
"Um...have you Luigi talked and stuff?" Daisy asked nervously, still curious.
Rosalina shook her head. "I'm not sure what's going to happen right now really."
Daisy felt guilt bubbling up inside her stomach.
Rosalina seemed to understand Daisy's intense feelings because she began to speak, "No, its better this way I guess. I don't want to be with someone who wasn't completely sure about his feelings. I just need some time to work this out."
Daisy nodded, not entirely relieved, but nevertheless glad they could at least talk. "So.." she started, "Should we got to class now?"
"I guess so." Rosalina answered, and the girls headed to class.
"Yawn, physics is such a bore." Peach stated as she draped her arm casually around Mario's shoulder.
Mario's eyes grew wide with surprise and disbelief. Yet he was still thrilled. Peach had never displayed the slightest of interest in him before.
Toad was starting to get irritated. Peach had initially began giving Mario flirtatious waves and glances throughout the period, but now she seriously getting out of hand. Toad could see Bowser on the other side of the room, crushing his pencil giving Mario the evil eye.
From what Bowser had been complaining about this morning, he gathered that the pair had a minor spat on Sunday because Bowser wouldn't accompany Peach on her shopping trip due to a mandatory football practice.
Peach was quite unreasonable in this aspect, but he supposed she must have pulled the argument that he never wanted to go shopping and made excuses even if he wasn't busy.
But did she actually expect Bowser to enjoy carrying her heavy shopping bags for hours?
Although the couple hadn't split again this time, they were obviously tense with each other, something that was easy to tell because they handled it the same way every freaking time.
While Bowser chose to angrily punch things, Peach went out of her way to flirt with other guys every given opportunity.
Tie this in with the fact that she had finally identified Mario, and all three of them were in the same room; you could only end up with disaster.
"Oh my god I am like sooooo tired now." She said batting her eyelashes as she nestled her head into Mario's shoulder while taking a sneaking glance at Bowser.
He was furious. This was evident to Peach as she returned his dangerous gaze with a devious smirk.
"Wow. Isn't this weird how my head fits perfectly on your shoulder Marshall?" She gave a quite fake but good romantic sigh while Mario had a lovestruck expression on his face.
"His name is Mario actually." Toad stated, hoping to intercept this interaction and keeping Mario from being pummeled by Bowser.
"Oh whatever. I was pretty close." She retorted angrily, reading his intentions.
"Mario, don't let her play you like a fool." He hissed into his ear.
"Shut up dude. I've never gotten this far with her before." He replied back, not heeding his words.
"Mr. Groban, I think there's a little too much PDA here." Toad shouted.
His teacher turned to face him and raised an eyebrow.
The rest of the class turned curiously and stared at Peach and Mario.
Peach was flustered and quickly got away from him. "Ugh get away from me you creep."
Mario looked devastated and confused.
Bowser looked plain angry at the pair, but nevertheless pleased that they were separated. He nodded curtly at Toad.
Peach kept her eyes glued to her work for the rest of the period, much to a visibly upset Mario's disappointment.
Toad figured he might have to intervene and set Mario straight; Peach was never into him and she never would be, but Mario approached him on his own.
"Dude! I thought we were friends. Peach totally freaked when you called her out. She won't even look at me now." He barked at him before he could even open his mouth.
"I was saving your butt from getting kicked. Bowser looked about ready to murder you." He retorted. "If you can't be grateful for that, just don't complain next time when Bowser dunks you in the toilets."
"You think there will be a next time?" Mario asked hopefully.
Toad sighed, clearly frustrated. "Why are you such an idiot? All you think about is Peach. Don't you ever want to come out of your fantasy and focus on the better things in life?"
Mario frowned. "She's your friend too man. Why are you badmouthing her now?"
"Because she's not a good person! I don't know why you and everyone in the school loves her so much. Or they pretend to at least, because I know that none of them actually do."
Toad bit his lip, surprised with what he had just said. Given, he had been the one to say it, but still, it didn't particularly sink it until just now.
Mario shook his head. "I'm not catching your drift bro. I'll catch up with her after class."
Toad sighed. He knew there was no way that he could get anything more through Mario's thick skull while his mind was still on Peach, so the best thing to do was accept he had done everything he could.
"So girl?" Toadette quickly approached Birdo after the bell rang. She had managed to avoid Toadette for the first 3 periods because she knew she was inevitably going to ask about Yoshi. But it was lunch time and Birdo could put her off no longer.
"Yea?" She purposely avoided looking at Toadette and instead starting walking more quickly to the cafeteria, seeming disinterested.
"Do you actually like Yoshi?" Toadette asked, attempting to make eye-contact with Birdo.
"Uhh, no." She lied.
It was, however, apparent to Toadette that she was lying.
"Alright, maybe I do." Birdo responded to her friend's questioning stare.
"Girl...I knew it! Why did you break up with him then?"
Birdo gave her the are-you-actually-asking-this-question look.
"Ok, so Peach told you. You didn't have to listen to her." Toadette insisted.
"Look who's talking. You're the one afraid to be seen with your other friends in front of her. I reckon you'd dump them if Peach made you." She retorted.
Toadette rolled her eyes. "As if."
"Um, I think you know the honest answer too."
"I refuse to dignify that with a response" She answered stiffly.
Birdo smirked. "You just did."
Toadette turned red. "I meant a legit response."
"Right..." Birdo responded with a slight grin.
The girls laughed as Toadette punched her lightly in the shoulder.
"So..." Toadette began.
"So what?"
She smiled. "What's going to happen between you and Yoshi now?"
Birdo shrugged. "I don't know. I really wish I could fix things with him."
Toadette frowned. "What Peach did to you was uncalled for."
Birdo tried to smile. "I did it to myself. I can't blame Peach for everything. I ruined everything."
For Rosalina this was going to be hard. She had been with Luigi for a long time and she knew that the impending break-up would leave her devastated. But like the very much awkward conversation with Daisy, it had to be done.
She stood at the entrance of the cafeteria, and she caught a glimpse of Luigi, Mario and Yoshi at the lunch table. Mario and Yoshi were engaged in deep conversation, probably about some video game, but Luigi wasn't emotionally present. His gaze was drifting towards Rosalina, but he quickly turned away and attempted to appear as a part of Mario and Yoshi's discussion.
Luigi, I think we both know this conversation has to happen at one point or another. I'd like to have it now." She stated bluntly as she quickly paced towards the table, causing Yoshi and Mario to scamper off with haste before having to be told.
"Uhh...maybe you should talk to Dai-" he started nervously but Rosalina quickly cut him off.
"I already did and that's my own situation. But right now I need you to answer this question right now. Do you or do you not have feelings for Daisy?" She asked.
But before he could open his mouth. "And don't even think about lying to me." she added with a slight smile. "I've been with you long enough to know how to tell."
Long awkward silence.
"I...might, I think I do, no I don't, I just...I don't know." He barfed up word salad.
Rosalina raised an eyebrow.
"Yes ok. But its confusing, because I like you in the same way, but I don't even know if its possible to like two people at once. You're both great, and its even worst because you both are best friends too, I never suspected she liked me either, so I just pretended there was nothing about her that I liked in that way, and we were happy." He finished.
"That's deep. I'm going to be honest with you. I'm heartbroken. I feel like you lead me on even though I know that's not what it is." She replied uncharacteristically. Rosalina wasn't the type to let people know how she felt if it was going to hurt them. Luigi was surprised.
"I'm sorry, you're the last person I want to hurt like this, but it just turned out this way." he said sighing.
"Then, it's just best if we end it off like this then." Another, slightly unlikely statement from Rosalina. Everyone seemed to be full of surprises lately.
"Friends then?" He asked hopefully, offering his hand.
Rosalina didn't shake it, instead she shook her head. "Don't get me wrong, you'll always be special to me, but if we're going to be friends again, its going to take a long time. I don't want to cut you off, but realistically speaking, a girl needs some space after a break-up or she'll keep thinking there's hope. Just let me be for a while."
"O-O-Ok. I can live with that." He finally managed to say after a little stuttering.
"What are you going to do about Daisy then?" She asked, not wanting to tread on their broken relationship for much longer. She supposed a nice conversation with him before parting ways for a while would be nice. If he wasn't happy with her, maybe at least she could get him with Daisy.
"I don't think I'm ready for a commited relationship again just yet. Only time will tell where I'm going after this. We'll talk again soon then?" He asked hopefully, "I don't want to loose your friendship."
She smiled. "You won't. I just need the same as you do. Time." She stood up from the table and walking off. She didn't know where her friendship with him was going to go after that, but she could only hope for the best.
Well, I know a ton of you have been waiting for that to happen, so how did I handle it? was is good, bad, ok? Answer the questions at the top in your review, it will help in the final tying up of plots. I know I've been neglecting Mario a lot in this story, but he will be featured heavily in the next chapter, and I hope to resolve the whole Mario-Peach-Bowser conflict, I think it might get a little intense next chapter. Birdo/Yoshi storyline I like, I hope to do something with it next chapter as well. I don't think it'll be quite what you expect. So it looks like some of the populars aren't so sure if their friends are all they're cracked up to be aren't they? Wait and see what happens. :) Don't forget to review! It would make my day!