The Couple We've All Been Waiting For

Chapter 3: Building Up the Courage

"Luigi, you're the only person in this entire castle that is not out partying your socks off in that ballroom right now. You are making this a bigger issue than it is!"

Rolling his eyes, Mario watched as Luigi paced back and forth in his room nervously, his cheeks still bright red.

Halting and turning towards Mario, Luigi finally started to speak.

"Mario, do you have any idea how embarrassing and violating what I did to her is? Mama mia. . ."

"Luigi, Daisy moved on from that little incident. She's out on the dance floor dancing by herself as we speak. You can't leave her a beautiful girl like her hanging like that."

Not even registering what Mario had just said, Luigi's eyes grew wide with fear.

". . .What if her dad saw what happened?"

Raising his eyebrow, Mario gave his brother a signature 'Are you serious?' look.

"Little bro. . ." He stepped closer to Luigi, placing his hands on his shoulders.

"Get back out there, you have nothing to worry about, I promise. Plus, I need to get back to my bride."

Luigi smiled softly, nodding and thanking his brother for cheering him up, Mario was the only one that could do that most days.

Slicking back his hair and giving his mustache and bow tie a quick check in the mirror, he made his way downstairs, Mario close behind.

Entering the ballroom, Luigi made his way through the crowd, spotting Daisy as he did so. His courage shrinking slightly, he decided to instead, take a seat at the head table and enjoy the delicious salmon dish that the chefs had prepared.

Mario stood, shaking his head yet again at his brother, Peach sneaking up beside him. She took his hand, yanking him onto the dance floor.

"Hey there handsome, I missed you."

Lost in her eyes and completely forgetting about practically everything, Mario just smiled at her.

"You my dear, are the most breathtaking bride on the face of this world. Nothing compares to you." He kissed her hand delicately.

Peach blushed profusely.

No words needed to be said any more; just a gentle sweet kiss was all they needed before they started to dance.

Daisy, even though she was dancing and moving her body to the music, was totally uninterested in the man she was dancing with; Waluigi. Paying no attention at his attempt to woo her, she looked for that signature green and the famous plumber.

Yanking her close to him, Waluigi wrapped an arm around her waist, the other in her hand, wagging his eyebrow suggestively.

"Come on hot stuff, you know you wanna dirty dance with me."

Daisy rolled her eyes, prying herself away from the abomination in front of her.

"Not even in your dreams you walking plank!"

Turning on her heel, she made her way through the dancing people, away from him.

It was as if steam could come out of Waluigi's ears, he turned red with anger, going straight for her.

"Oh no you don't princess!"

Catching her wrist, he dragged her back through the dance floor into the kitchen. A tiny toad servant was cleaning when he was startled by the loud bang of the swinging door hitting the wall.

"Scram you little pea brain!" The servant shrieked and scurried out the other door.

Daisy opened her mouth to yell at him, but he grabbed her again and pushed her up to the wall.