Mario tosses and turns until he wakes up from the noises outside.
His unfamiliar surroundings confuse him for a moment before he remembers, then sees the note on the nightstand.
Morning, bro!
Thanks for staying here while Ma and Dad are away. I'm sure once those thugs from Cranky Kong give up on looking for you, they'll just move on to someone else.
Back to this note, there's some rules you need to know.
No food in the living room. Hands off anything green. –
Mario tosses the rest of that paper only to find more notes on it.
40. Stay away from Dad's bathrobe.
Moments later, he comes out of Ma and Dad's bedroom, Dad's bathrobe tied around him, chuckling.
He goes into the bathroom and sees another note taped to the mirror.
Don't touch Ma's fancy soaps or bath salts.
He picks up the bottle of fancy soaps, drops a few in his hand, and gets to work scrubbing away.
He wanders into Dad's office, noticing the accordion case and pulling it out.
He plays the first song in the sheet music, but upon getting to a certain part of the song, repeats it, he realizes there's a reed out of tune.
He gets to work identifying it, marking it, opening the accordion, removing the reed block, then starts slowly sanding off the tip to change the tip, then once he's sure it's fixed, reassembles it.
He laughs his head off listening to Luigi's party records, he cries reading A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. He even goes through Luigi's old dresser, pulling out what looks like an old diary.
He looks at Princess Peach's measurements with the TV on while smoking a cigar, then upon measuring himself in comparison, he swears.
"Fuck."
He dumps the notebook back in the dresser, but just as he's closing it, he sees something on the bottom, then pulls out a joint.
He sniffs it, then grins.
He smokes the joint out on the fire escape, shaking his head.
"17 inches."
YOU ARE READING
I Just Want to Be With My Wife
HumorSequel to Thank you and Goodnight! Starting the career was the easy part. Keeping it is a whole other ball game. Disappearing for the whole summer and starting a new romance? Forget it. And yet, Luigi's gonna do it all. What could happen?
