Racing hearts ~Luigi x Bowser~

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Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Archive Warning: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Categories: F/F, F/M, M/M
Fandom: Super Mario Bros. (Video Games)
Relationships: Bowser/Luigi (Nintendo), Mario/Princess Peach (Nintendo), Princess
Daisy/Princess Rosalina (Nintendo), Princess Daisy & Luigi (Nintendo)
Characters: Luigi (Nintendo), Bowser (Nintendo), Mario (Nintendo), Princess Peach
(Nintendo), Princess Daisy (Nintendo), Princess Rosalina (Nintendo),
Kamek | Magikoopa (Super Mario)
Additional Tags: Mario Kart References, Implied/Referenced Homophobia, BAMF Luigi
(Nintendo), BAMF Princess Daisy (Nintendo), Alternate Universe -
Fashion & Models, Alternate Universe - Human, Alternate Universe -
Modern Setting, Bisexual Bowser (Nintendo), Gay Luigi (Nintendo),
Tags Are Hard, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Friends to Lovers,
Slow To Update, Making Out, Maybe - Freeform, Car Accidents,
Kissing, Smart Princess Peach (Nintendo)
Language: English
Stats: Published: 2024-06-30 Updated: 2025-02-16 Words: 16,934 Chapters:
6/?
 Racing hearts ~Luigi x Bowser~
by A_weird_one13

Summary

A different alternate universe where many of the original Mario characters are racers except a
few including Luigi, Luigi is a very famous Model possibly top 5 most famous, Luigi caught
the eye of his brothers biggest competitor, Bowser. Throughout many days and weeks the two
began to grow closer and a potential relationship starts growing between them.

!This fanfic is slow to update sorry if I disappear for 4 months and come back like a random
Thursday

Fanfic inspired by “Dirty Diana” by diamondempp and “burning leather” by

StarlightSummers
 First start
Chapter Notes
See the end of the chapter for notes

*Luigis 3rd POV*

“Wouldn’t it be funny if one day you guys get caught?” Luigi asked Mario as they drove
down an almost busy street, Luigi turned his head to the right to see the shopping mall and
other buildings a mile away or so, he’d rather be shopping than this,

“Nah, we won’t get caught, I mean we do this to let off steam and we do it when there’s little
to no cars on the road.” Mario responded, flicking up his turn signal to point left, away from
the shopping center,

“Whatever you say” the taller said, pulling out his phone after Daisy texted him when he
would get there, Mario and his race competitor, Bowser, usually had beef with each other
when one would win or one would simply get under the others skin, but it happens so
frequently that from an outside point, they look like two good friends just racing each other.

Luigi was always there to start off the ‘race’ and time which one was first, he was excited at
first but after a few times he got bored, sometimes if he was lucky Daisy or anyone he was
friends with would be there, this time Daisy and her girlfriend Rosalina were gonna watch.

Luigi saw Daisy’s car which was a nice orange Lamborghini with a sticker of a white flower
under the driver’s side door handle, both were sitting inside on their phones, “I guess Bowser
is late” Mario said, parking at the side of the road. Luigi stepped out of Mario’s black
Porsche which had red stripes, he walked over to where Daisy and Rosalina were getting out,

“Hey guys, are we still going to the diner after?” Luigi asked, putting his phone in his back
pocket, he was wearing a simple white fitted crop top with some green cargo pants and a
black sweater unzipped and off the shoulders. Luigi had actually made the pants as he
designed clothes on the side, his main job was as a model.

Luigi also noted the matching outfits Daisy and Rosalina had on, Daisy had an orange tank
top which tied at the back of the neck with some shorts and white converse, Rosa had the
same but with a light blue tank top on, “Oh yeah, I managed to get a reservation,” Daisy
leaned closer to Luigi, “for 4 people”

Daisy chuckled as Luigi’s facial expression turned to confusion, “We’ll tell you in a moment,
we can’t say who because of,” Rosa leaned her head to the side to glance behind Luigi, he
turned to see Mario leaning on his car texting someone, presumably Peach.

Almost immediately after they could hear some music and see headlights in the distance of
the road, Luigi turned his head and followed the car driving closer then parking near Mario,
the rock music stopping as Bowser walked out, wearing a black fitted top and gray
sweatpants, Luigi watched as Bowser swiped his curly dark red hair out of his face and
walked towards Mario, “Lu stop staring will ya?”

Luigi flinch as Daisy backed away, “Your making it obvious”

”I know, but he’s fine” Luigi said, half sarcastically, Daisy jokingly rolled her eyes as she
pulled out her phone after a notification went off, “Anyways, the next profesional race Mario
has the event organizers invited me to lower those checkered flags and I need an outfit-“

”No need to ask me I can already think of all the ideas, maybe one to get his attention” Daisy
giggled as she put away her phone,

“Lu! We’re ready” Mario called out, Luigi walked over to him to grab the megaphone he
needed to count down, he could feel Bowser’s gaze on him but it wasn’t uncomfortable, it
was hard to not stare at him back, he just did a simple smile at him hoping Mario didn’t see
or think about it too much.

He walked back to Daisy and Rosa as he heard both of the car doors close and the sound of
the engine starting, the two girls climbed onto the car’s roof to sit and watch, Luigi just sat on
top of the trunk with his legs crossed being careful to not dirty the car.

He waited till both of the cars were side to side to start counting from 3, “On go! Three..
two..one…Go!” The sound of the car's loud engine blasted loudly and zoomed off, in only a
few seconds the cars already reached the speed of 90 miles per hour.

“So about the 4th person~” Daisy said, making Luigi turn his body to look at her, “It’s
Bowser, I managed to convince him to tag along” Luigi felt his jaw drop a bit, it was obvious
he had a little crush on Bowser for a bit but he’s never really hung out or talked to him,

“That’s why we couldn’t tell you when Mario was here, we didn’t want him to freak out”
Rosa said after Daisy,

“Well he’s gonna flip out if someone gets a picture, well maybe not as much because he
knows you're cool with Bowser.” Luigi said, pulling out his phone to fix his hair which was
messed up by the wind of the cars,

“Yeah so you should be good” Daisy said, “anyways if you want I can make a sketch of an
outfit idea for the race”

“If your that bored, sure” Luigi scrolled on his social media checking the likes his post had
gotten, seeing a familiar user, “This name looks a bit familiar no?” He turned his phone over
the Daisy and Rosa as they read the user on the screen,

“Omg! Is that Bowsers account?! Just wait till someone takes a screenshot ” Daisy laughed.
A few minutes later they could hear the noise of tire screeching, in the distance one car’s
headlights were ahead of the other’s. It was hard to tell at first but as they got closer and
closer he could see it was Bowser who was winning.
Luigi heard both of the girls wooing as Bowser’s car past by, he slowed down and U-turned
back to where everyone was, Mario parked but stayed in his car for a bit, mad that he had
lost.

“Congrats Bowser” Luigi said as Bowser got out of his car and walked towards them,

“Thank you, was a bit hard but I managed” Bowser responded, looking at Luigi, “you might
want to check in with your brother, he’s not handling it too well.” Bowser told Luigi, turning
towards Mario. Luigi scoffed before hopping off the car and walking towards Mario’s car, he
knocked on the window and waited till he rolled it down,

“You okay big red? You seem mad.”

“ I am mad, I’m gonna go home you're gonna be with Daisy right?”

“Yeah, when you get home can you please bring Polterpup inside? I left him out in the
backyard” Luigi asked Mario,

“Okay I will,” Luigi waved him goodbye and started walking away, but he heard Mario call
him, when he turned back around to the car he saw Mario step out and signaled him to come
back, Luigi walked back and turned to where Bowser was, they were talking but saw of how
Mario needed to whisper to Luigi so they quieted down a bit,

“I know you’ll get a bit mad that I didn’t tell you before but two days ago ma called to ask if
her and dad can come visit us and, you know I can't decline ma so I agreed, they’ll fly over
here this weekend, just to let you know”

“Oh, okay thanks for telling me”, Luigi waved Mario goodbye as he stepped into his car and
drove off,

“Luigi! Hurry, let's go to the restaurant!” Luigi turned around and ran towards the car to get
in, “Bowsers just gonna drop off his car to a nearby friend's house and then we are gonna go,
you excited?” Daisy said turning to the backseat with a raised eyebrow,

“Ooo yes I’m veryyyy excited. '' Luigi responded sarcastically.

After bowser dropped off his car he went into the back seat of daisy's car next to Luigi, the
car ride was quiet except for the music playing on the radio, when they were a few minutes
away from the restaurant Daisy broke the rather comfortable silence, “How’s Polterpup? It’s
been awhile since I’ve seen my sweet boy”

“Oh, he’s good, still a brat like always” Luigi chuckled,

“Just like his father huh?”

“I’m not that bratty” Luigi’s responded to Daisy's comment, looking back at the window,
“Polterpup is your dog, right?” Bowser asked him, luigi turned his head away from the
window to look at Bowser who was looking at him too,

“Yeah, he is”

“I’ve seen some of his pictures from your account, what breed is he?”

“He’s a Maltese with a little bit of poodle”

“Cute” Bowser said, that simple word made Luigi feel weak at his knees, the way he said it
was soft yet his voice was a little deeper, Luigi liked that. Soon they arrived at the restaurant,
Luigi stepped out of the car and immediately heard two girls recognize him,

“OMG Luigi is that you?!” One of the girls yelled out, Luigi turned around to her and smiled,
“Can we take a picture please?”

“Yes of course!” Luigi energetically said, getting in between the girls and posing as they took
a selfie, meanwhile Bowser and the others stepped out of the car and closed the door, one of
the girls looked Daisy and Rosalina, then to Bowser and Luigi,

“Omg is this like a double date?” Luigi's eyes shot open as Daisy laughed and Bowser
chuckled quietly,

“No! No sweetie it’s not , we’re just getting dinner haha” Luigi said hoping he wasn’t
blushing too hard, the girl apologized quickly then walked away, Luigi turned to the rest of
the group and watched as Daisy was catching her breath,

“Sorry sorry, let’s go eat before we miss the reservation.” Daisy lead the group inside and to
the hostess stand, Luigi felt a little awkward standing next to Bowser after that but he didn’t
want to move, soon enough they got to a table near the corner and looked through the salad,

“What are you guys going to get?” Rosa asked, putting down her menu,

“I think I’ll get the ribeye steak” Daisy said, also putting down her menu and stacking it on
Rosa’s,

“I’ll probably get the chicken salad,” Luigi said, checking out the drinks after, “What about
you Bowser?” Luigi asked, shocked he found the composure to not stutter or even ask him at
all,

“I’ll probably get a rare steak” bowser answered, still looking at the menu, Luigi looked at
him as he answered but tried not to stare too long, their orders came along so they started to
eat, they talked about random things that came to mind which had Luigi think of how him
and Bowser actually do get along.

Mario had always told Luigi of how Bowser was rude and not fun to be around but Bowser
was actually polite and nice, he just has a tough guy attitude, Luigi drank the soda he ordered
as Daisy talked about a concert she's going to in a couple of days,
“What time is it? I gotta wake up early tomorrow” daisy asked, Luigi pulled out his phone
and watched as the digital numbers on his screen changed from “8:49” to “8:50”,

“It's 8:50, do you wanna leave now?” Luigi responded, putting the phone away,

“That's probably best, we're splitting the bill right?” They called over the server and split the
Close to $150 bill, not so expensive for a nice restaurant, before they started walking towards
the door Bowser spoke up,

“I gotta go to the bathroom real quick if that's okay?”

“Oh yeah I kind of gotta go too” Luigi said after Bowser Daisy nodded and told them that she
and Rosa would wait for them in the car.

After using the bathroom Luigi was washing his hands when Bowser washed his too next to
him, “hey, random question but how is it living with Mario? He doesn't seem like the fun
person at home”

Luigi dried his hands with some paper towels as he answered, “well.. sometimes he can be a
little hot headed and boring but he's usually just a calm person” Bowser hummed in response,

“Kind of like my dad, he can be grumpy most of the time but he's chill on most days,” that
reminded Luigi of his own father coming to visit in a few days, him and his father never
really had a great relationship but he managed when he lived with him,

“Okay let's head out, Daisy and Rosalina are probably bored waiting for us” Bowser said,
pushing the door open and letting Luigi through first, what a gentleman. They walked outside
to the car to see through the window Daisy and Rosa were making out.

Luigi tapped Rosas' side of the window and yelled, “We just had dinner, calm down!”, which
earned a laugh from Bowser, the car doors unlocked and Luigi and Bowser climbed in,

“Sorry guys you took awhile” Daisy said, starting the car and backing out of the parking
space,

“We were gone for like, 5 minutes” Luigi responded, pulling out his phone to check his new
messages, a shoe brand had reached out to him for a photo shoot, nice more money.

“I saw on the race roster that you were gonna be there, your starting the race huh?” Bowser
said, leaning his head back and turning to Luigi,

“Yeah, I am”

“Is it scary standing at the front of cars that can go from 0 miles to 90 miles in seconds?”

“Yeah it can be scary but I trust people enough” Luigi said, Bowser hummed and looked out
his side of the window watching the cars and trees go by, soon enough they made it to where
Bowser had left off his car, he said bye to everyone then closed the door, walking towards his
car.
 Luigi stared at him until Daisy got his attention, “what cha think of himm, hm?” Luigi looked
at the front mirror to see Daisy looking at him,

“He's nicer than I thought” was all Luigi had to say, a minute or so later Daisy had arrived to
Luigi's house, he stepped out and wished them a goodnight, he couldn't wait to flop onto his
bed as he was pressing the gate code to get in.

He opened the front door with his key and yelled a simple “I'm home!”, barking from
polterpup came from upstairs as Luigi walked towards them, he greeted his dog and carried
him up into his room, he put his phone on his vanity and started getting ready for bed, he
couldn't stop thinking of Bowser the whole time he changed, wiped off the little makeup he
had, and brushed his hair.

He made his way downstairs and into the kitchen to make himself a good night tea, while the
water was boiling he washed his face and brushed his teeth. After making his tea he went into
his bed and scrolled on social media, seeing the picture he took with the two girls already had
many likes and comments from his fans saying “so lucky!” And “wish that was me!”.

Luigi sighed as he finished his tea and slipped into his bed, thinking of the red head he
thought was cute, but he wasn’t entirely sure if he thought he was cute, or had a crush on
him, only time will tell.

Chapter End Notes

Sorry for any spelling mistakes:)

Have a good day! ❤️❤️

 Surprise shawty
Chapter Notes
See the end of the chapter for notes

*Bowsers 3rd POV*

Bowser woke up pretty late in the morning, it was practically noon when he got up and went
to brush his teeth. He checked all of his notifications he missed while sleeping to see a couple
missed calls from his dad.

He figured he would call back to see what happened after he had fully woken up and gotten
ready for the day. He finished brushing his teeth and got ready to work out in his gym room
when he called his dad back,

*Ringg..Ringg..Ring-* ”Finally you answered! I was worried sick about you!”, Kamek said
immediately,

“Dad..you called me twice a couple of minutes ago, what do you mean ‘worried sick’?”
Bowser replied to his dramatic father, “anyways what happened?”

“This one modeling company is wondering if they can take a few pictures of you for some
posters to put around to promote the race coming up, you’ll just need to bring your race track
suit”

“Sure I'll do it, when is it?”

“Today around 5”, Bowser looked at the time, ‘12:37’, he had time,

“Okay I'll do it, just send me the address and I’ll get there”, Bowser now had something to
fill his rather empty day, he wasn't complaining about it too much.

A few hours or so later Bowser had gotten out of the shower and got dressed to start heading
towards the location, he got a notification that someone he followed had posted a new thing
to their feed. It was Luigi, he was too at the place taking pictures and he simply took a selfie
of him and another well known model in the dressing room wearing matching outfits.

Bowser had a new thing to look forward to over there, the night before he felt like he and
Luigi became pretty good friends and he wanted to start talking to him more. Bowser caught
himself smiling as he grabbed his keys and his tracksuit then headed out the door, he paused
to rethink what he thought of Luigi, he thought he was gorgeous but that seemed too much to
call someone he barely became friends with.

Good-looking, yeah he'll go with that, he got into his car and started driving away, on the way
there he saw a billboard with Luigi posing in a more or so revealing outfit promoting a
skincare product, he looked nice in that outfit Bowser thought.
He got to a building with a few floors, when he walked in there were a few people standing
around or talking with their friends, Bowser could tell a few guys had recognized him as he
walked up to the receptionist and asked where the photoshoot was, she gave him directions
and after an elevator ride and a few turns he ended up in a dressing room where a few people
were getting makeup done and doing their hair,

“Oh! Bowser hello!” A voice said to the left of Bowser, he turned and saw a short girl with a
pink beret, the hat had big white polka dots on it scattered around, “I'm so glad you were able
to make it! I'm toadette by the way, let me lead you to where you can change into your
clothes”

She lead Bowser to an extra smaller room where there were a few racks with clothes on them
and a few accessories, the room itself was well lit with a big mirror, he set his bag down and
started changing into the race track suit, after he went in front of the mirror and fixed his hair
to be a not too messy mullet, he heard a few knocks coming from the door.

He walked towards it and opened it to see toadette outside, “are you finished getting ready?
You can just leave your bag in there, no one else will use the room for today.” Bowser
nodded and stepped out of the room, toadette told him he was after Luigi and that he could
roam around if he wanted to, Bowser looked around the room to see Luigi waiting for his
turn in the opened door which led to the photo shoot room.

He walked towards Luigi and stood next to him, “Hey Bowser! I didn’t know you were going
to be here”,

“Yeah, they asked if they could take pictures for posters and I had nothing going on today.”
Bowser said, seeing what Luigi had in his hand, “you brought your dog? He is so cute.”
Bowser raised his hand up to the dog’s snout to let him sniff it, almost immediately Polterpup
started licking his fingers,

“I guess he likes you haha, they let me bring him in and I’m hoping they let me take a few
pictures with him because he’s pretty photogenic.” Luigi let Polterpup down and held onto
the short leash, “do you have a pet at home? Like a cat or anything?” Luigi asked Bowser,

“I have a tortoise, I barely got him a couple of weeks ago”

“Aww, what is his name?”

“I named him Koopa, thought it was a cool name.” Bowser pulled out his phone and showed
Luigi a picture,

“Awww, he's so cute, now that I think about it you do seem like a reptile guy” Luigi chuckled
after, Bowser just smirked, soon someone called Luigi for his turn and he walked into the
room, he put his dog to the side and stepped up to the slightly raised platform, Bower
watched as Luigi took in the photographers directions and started posing.

Bowser just stared at Luigi pose in ways which made it seem like Luigi was born to do this, a
small bark from Polterpup woke Bowser from his thoughts as Luigi and the rest of the crew
turned their heads towards the small dog, “oh! Can Polterpup be in a few pictures? Pleasee”
Luigi pleaded with the photographer, Candy, she thought about it then agreed.

Bowser saw as Luigi called him over and sat Polterpup down next to him, when Candy
counted down and took the picture Polterpup opened his mouth and stuck out his tongue.
Most people aw’d in reaction to that, even Bowser but he kept it to himself, even catching
himself smiling once again at Luigi.

Once Luigi was done Bowser stepped up to the platform and listened to Candy’s directions of
how to pose and how to position his face, he did more simpler poses rather than Luigi and
less pictures.

Once he was done he walked back over to where Luigi was one his phone, polterpup was still
on the leash wagging his tail as Bowser stood next to Luigi, “do you wanna hold him?” Luigi
asked,

“Sure” Luigi picked up the white dog and handed him to Bowser, Polterpup started trying to
lick Bowser's cheeks as Luigi just chuckled, “Has Mario ever shown you how to drift and do
all that kind of stuff?” Bowser asked once he got Polterpup to calm down,

“Oh, he's never taught me anything, he's only really taught me how to drive manual and that's
it” Luigi said,

“Would you like to learn?” Luigi thought about it for a second before answering,

“I would love to learn from you” Luigi said, not breaking eye contact, Bowser felt something
flutter inside of him but he ignored it,

“I can teach you, are you busy thursday?” Bowser asked, he had racing practice where he
would just drive around drifting and what not, he thought it was fun,

“I don't think so, so you'll show me then?” Luigi's face glowed with excitement as Bowser
nodded,

“We follow each other right? I'll message you when I can pick you up and when I need your
address” Luigi agreed and leaned his hands on a nearby counter,

“Just gotta make sure Mario doesn't find out, he'll probably get some what mad” Luigi said,
looking towards Bowser as he put down Polterpup,

“Yeah, he would get mad for sure if he found out me and you are hanging out,” Bowser said
following a sigh,

“Why do you guys not like each other very much?” Luigi asked, tilting his head, Bowser
thought about it for a bit, he thought he knew why but it didn't seem that serious,

“Probably some stupid highschool drama we had, but I don't really know” Bowser shrugged,

“You guys went to high school together?! How come Mario never told me, and now that I
think of it I never saw you there either”
“Were you a freshman while me and Mario were seniors?” Luigi nodded, “yeah I left middle
of Junior so I never got the chance to meet you”

“Ohh, that makes a bit of sense”Luigi said, he pulled out his phone to see the time, “well I
gotta go make dinner for me and Mario, see you soon byee~” Luigi said, picking up
polterpup and walking into a room to grab his stuff and change out of the clothes he was in.

Bowser did the same as he walked into his own room and quickly change out, he grabbed his
stuff and looked into the big mirror, taking a mental note that he needed to fix his haircut, he
walked out to the hallway and down to the elevator and into the lobby, now it was empty with
one or two people sitting in chairs.

Bowser walked out of his car but before he got in he saw Luigi in his own car, Luigi rolled
down his window and finger waved to Bowser, he waved back then got into his car, he turned
on his music and drove off to where he and his father lived. He got to the driveway in front of
his house and parked, but he didn't get out.

He sat in his car thinking about Luigi, he wasn't so sure of what about him he was thinking
and it annoyed him but, he just sat there listening to a indie rock song about love and what
not, how appropriate. Bowser didn't know if he liked Luigi, he's actually been thinking about
it for a week or 2 after seeing how nice and caring he was to other people and how good-
looking he was.

He knew he just officially met him the day before but he wants to be closer to Luigi but he
doesn't know, all he knows is that he's hungry. Bowser finally turned off his car and walked
out, he pulled out his house keys and unlocked the door to see his dad cooking some shrimp
Alfredo,

“Hey dad, how ya doin right now?” Bowser asked,

“I'm good, the foods almost ready if you want to sit down already” Kamek replied,

“Yeah, let me just put my stuff away and feed Koopa” Bowser headed up the stairs into his
rather large room, he put his stuff on his bed and walked up to the glass enclosure his tortoise
was in, dropping a few vegetables in his small food bowl.

He remembered what Luigi thought of Koopa so he pulled out his phone and took a picture
of him eating a small piece of broccoli and then sent it to Luigi, Bowser walked out of his
room then down the stairs to see his father finishing up the food,

“What did you do all day?” Bowser asked,

“Nothing much, how was the photo shoot?”

“It was fine, I just talked to a friend most of the time” Bowser told him, getting a plate to
serve himself,

“Who was it?” Kamek asked,

”Uh you haven’t met him yet, its Luigi, Mario's younger brother” Bowser knew it sounded a
bit weird that he was becoming friends with his biggest competitor’s brother,

”Oh Luigi, I’ve seen on tv of how nice he is, he also can seem like a bit of a flirt, maybe he
can teach you a thing or two so you can get a partner”

”Dad,” Kamek laughed as Bowser started eating, “I'll find someone when I’m ready”,
Bowser was thankful when his dad moved on from that topic and started talking about other
things.

When they were both done with dinner Bowser washed the dishes and walked back up to his
room, he checked his phone to see Luigi responded to his photo,

(L) Aww, he's so cute

(B)Ikr?, the way he eats is cute

(L)Hey, so can I know around what time you'll get me on

thursday?

(B)I'll say prob around 4:30-ish

(L)Okay!

👍
👍
:)

;)

Bowser closed his phone once he saw that winky face instead of the regular one like he sent,
did Luigi do that instead of smiley? Or was he just messing with him? Wait, why did Bowser
care?

He groaned as he took off his shirt and change into some comfortable PJs, he went and
washed his face then brushed his teeth and hair, once he was done he looked at himself in the
mirror, thinking about Luigi.

Once again it wasn't something specific about him, it was just him, he thought about the
outfit he saw him in today, they were nice, or even cute, Bowser didn't like how ‘cute’ felt
better, but it felt more natural than nice or good-looking.

Maybe Bowser was falling for Luigi, come to think of it he did think Luigi looked cute every
time he saw him either in person or on TV, he's been wanting to talk to him every time he's
raced Mario but he couldn't really find the courage to do so or even a reason.

“I'm thinking about this too much” Bowser said to himself as he walked back into his room
and got into his bed, he turned off the lamp on his nightstand and turned on his phone,
“10:47”, Bowser thought it was still a bit early but he was already in bed and tired so he put
his phone on his nightstand and closed his eyes.

A few minutes later Bowser snores would be the only noise heard in the room, the next day
Bowser would think about his feelings more, hopefully he would figure them out.

*2 days later (Thursday 😱)

*Bowsers POV*

I spent the last day trying to figure out what the hell was going on, I think I might have..
romantic feelings about him, I'm avoiding the word crush because then I'll sound like a 6th
grader talking to their friends.

I'm denying that thought because, me? falling for a whole model? And he's the brother of the
person I probably hate most? Nah, doesn't sound like me, or I at least hope it doesn't.

At this moment I'm getting ready to go pick up Luigi and go to the race track, I have to
practice but usually if I get there earlier then they let me do what I want. Is that
unprofessional? Probably.

I put on a simple black tank top and dark gray sweatpants, it didn't really matter what I wore
as once I start practicing I would have to put on a track suit and whole helmet which I didn't
like, it messes up my hair.

I grabbed all the things I needed and headed down stairs, although my dad is my manager and
he is supposed to go with me he didn't want to, he was too busy doing whatever he needed to
do so I would be alone in my car with Luigi.

I messaged Luigi before I opened my front door and walked out to my car, once I got in I
turned it one and put music on, I got a reply back from Luigi telling me where he lived, it
wasn't too far maybe about a 5 minute drive or a 25 minute walk, I'm thinking about it too
much again.

I parked in front of the big white house and waited till I saw him close the front door behind
him, open the gate, and walk out to my car, “Heyy, we should probably start going before
Mario recognizes your car haha” Luigi told me, I greeted him as well as I started to drive
away, the giggle at the end of Luigi's sentence made me a little warm inside,

“What type of music do you like?” I asked Luigi, briefly looking over at him then back to the
road,
“Put whatever you like, I'm good with any and I'd like to hear what type of songs you listen
to” I looked back over to him to see him smiling at me, I put on some grudge songs and
hoped Luigi liked them, upon hearing the first song from the corner of my eye I could see
Luigi nodding his head to the song.

Sooner or later we got there, I got out of the car as Luigi was putting his phone and whatever
else he had into his bag, I took this opportunity to walk around the car and open his door for
him, “ooh, thank you kind gentleman” Luigi said in a British accent, we both laughed as he
got out of the car.

We walked into the building where you can then walk into the stands but I took him to an
extra little entrance which led to the garage where my race car was sitting, turning on the
lights showed many cars in specific spots, “so you guys just keep your cars here a few days
before the race?” Luigi asked,

“Yeah, but as you can see from a few spots some people wait more closer, c’mon, let me take
you to my car” I walked over to where my newly cleaned car was, I designed mine to be
black with deep orange flames, on the side I made a medium sized silhouette logo of a
monster head with horns, not sure what it is yet but I liked it,

“I haven't seen your car up close like this, it looks way more cooler” Luigi said, cautiously
touching it with his hand, as he looked at my car I found myself kind of staring at him, I
noticed he had a baggy shirt of a band and some shorts, nothing that crazy but I still noticed,
“it is manual? Or auto?”

“this one's manual,” I said, snapping out of my thoughts, “okay, time to teach you how to ride
this, you said Mario taught you manual right?”

“Yeah, but it's been awhile so I'd appreciate it if you taught me a little more”,

“Yeah, I can do that” I grabbed a key I had and got into the car with Luigi following me after,

“Your car is two seater? Why if you race alone?” Luigi asked, leaning on the side of his hip
and looking straight at me,

“For anything like this” I said, turning on the engine and putting on the seatbelt, Luigi doing
the same soon after, as safe as I could I got out of the garage and into the track, I started off
by teaching him the basics of driving manual, then I did a lap around the track asking Luigi
what I should do after each time I moved the stick shift, it made it so Luig would get used to
knowing what came next, a tactic my dad used on me when teaching me things.

Once I felt like Luigi had it down I switched seatsats with him while he did a few laps, I
couldn't really resist myself to stop staring at my Luigi, I thought that the facial expressions
he did when he got frustrated were cute, I barely even paid attention to how well he was
doing, “just like that?”

“Hm? Oh yeah! You did it pretty great” I said, I don't know if he did great but I'd like to think
he did, “okay, next is drifting but it's actually easier than what you'd probably think”,
 “Does drifting help with speed? I noticed whenever you'd drift you would go a bit more
faster” Luigi asked,

“In a way yeah, I don't know how it works, so drifting is pretty useful you'd just have to be
careful to not go off track”

“Oh okay, thank you for answering my question” Luigi said, he reached his nearest hand to
me and placed it on my biceps, “I noticed your muscles, do you work out a lot?”, I took a
small breath hoping I wasn't starting to blush,

“Yeah, I work out a few days a week, I mostly focus on my upper body” He took his hand off
of my arm but kept looking at my eyes, I was feeling flustered and wanted to break the eye
contact but I didn't want to either,

“Bowser, I'm gonna be real with you,” Luigi said after a few seconds, “I'm honestly surprised
you aren't dating anyone, I mean you're really nice and, your actually handsome in my
opinion, I feel like if you really wanted to you can win over anyone you want to date”

*Enter sad impression of cliff hanger

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*No one's POV*

Bowser froze in place as Luigi finished up his sentence but Bowser tried his best to stay put,
he was just shocked to hear that the person he liked had just called him handsome in HIS
opinion, Bowser just kept his face straight to not show any emotion that implied he was
impacted by Luigi's little sentence.

Meanwhile Luigi had a smug face, he was hoping he could catch anything from Bowser but
all he saw was a small flinch once the word “handsome” came out, that was a relatively small
reaction but it was something, Luigi was about to turn his head to the windshield until
Bowser said, “I could say the same about you,” Luigi focused on Bowser again, “especially
of how outgoing you actually are”

“Oh really? So you think i'm also handsome?” Luigi said in a playful tone,

“Sure, you could say that” Bowser said, slightly catching Luigi off guard, he wasn't expecting
a reply back but in this case we was glad he did, maybe Bowser and him liked each other the
same way, “anyways were both getting sidetracked” Bowser continued on teaching Luigi of
how to drift, telling him it's more simpler than what people thought.

Luigi carefully listened to Bowser's words and followed them the best he could, they both
tried not to get the fact that they called each other handsome in their head, they both thought
that they were basically teasing each other in a joking matter but they both ment it,

“Okay so you'll just put all those steps together and just step on the gas” Bowser said, he
watched as Luigi took a breath before stepping on the gas and race forwards, once he got to
the orange cone which symbolized the beginning of the turn he switched to first year and
turned the steering wheel all the way to the left, not even a second later they could hear the
tires screeching as Luigi yelled in excitement, he slowed down and stopped to see if he did
good, “first try and you did good! It took me a few days to figure things out”

“Really? I would think you were a fast learner, didn’t you start racing younger than the
others?” Luigi asked Bowser,

“Yea, most of the others started around their mid twenties and I was about 17? Around that
time I managed to get my permit” bowser replied, taking out his phone from his back pocket
to check the time, “it’s almost time for me to actually practice, do you need a ride
somewhere? Or do you have someone to pick you up?”

“Mmm, how long does your practice usually take? I’m thinking I can stay, I got nothing
going on today” Bowser thought for a moment,
“It’s about 2 hours but sometimes I leave a little early”

“Okay, I’ll stay and you can take me home, hope that’s not a problem” Luigi said, unbuckling
his seat and opening the door,

“Nah, it’s not” bowser said, doing the same thing, Bowser was about to lead Luigi where he
can sit and watch but Luigi came up next to him and locked his arm with the taller, Bowser
looked down and raised an eyebrow as they both walked to the bleachers. Luig sat in the
shade and pulled out his phone as Bowser went back down to start his practice, Luigi texted
Daisy letting her know who he was hanging out with, the reply back was topical Daisy
joking,

“Don’t hurt your legs too much!”

“wouldn't want anything happening”

Luigi scoffed as he sent “shut up”, he lifted up his head as Bowser can be seen walking to the
car with his red hair in a low ponytail, Luigi always wondered if his hair was soft, it looked
soft. He was honestly jealous of Bowser’s hair, the natural shade of red and the way it was a
soft curly type was perfect, Luig just had simple brown hair which he maintained to be in a
small mullet, not great enough as Bowser.

Since it was the middle of summer Luigi pulled out his fan to cool himself down as Bowser
started up his car and backed up into the start line, a beeping can be heard which was the
timer, once it reached the end of the timer Bowser sped off faster than the speed both of them
were at just a couple of minutes ago, Luigi watched as Bowser drifted seamlessly at the right
time, making it seem as he had gotten a boost in speed.

Once he was done with three rounds they timed him off at which he was faster than the last
time he practiced, Luigi took out his phone once again and recorded as Bowser did another
lap, sending it to Daisy. While he was sending it Bowser from below was looking at him, he
found it cute that he wanted to stay and watch, he could of easily called someone or ask
Bowser to drive him home but he stayed, when Luigi Lifted his head up Bowser quickly
turned his head hoping he didn’t see him stare.

After about an hour Bowser managed to leave early, both of them walked back into the car
parking lot and got into Bowser's car, “wanna stop by for boba?” Bowser asked as he turned
on the car,

“Mm, sure!” Luig said, putting on the seat belt, Bowser turned on some music and used the
maps his car had to find the closest one, he backed out of the parking lot and started driving
down a road which led to the highway, soon they reached a red light and as they waited a car
drove next to them and rolled down their window, Bowser did the same as the guy tried to get
his attention,

“Yo! Your browser right?!” The guy yelled out of the car,

“Who else would I be?!” Bowser yelled back, the guy and Luigi both laughed,
“I’ll race ya! First to the shopping center wins, how ‘bout that?!”

“Of course kid!” Bowser said, “you ready?” Luigi looked at him with a small smile and
nodded, soon enough once the red light turned green the engines were loud, they both sped
off trying to get ahead of each other, although the other guy was fast Bowser was faster,
managing to maneuver around cars and making to to the shopping center faster than the other
guy, both Luigi and Bowser stepped out of the car to see no sign of the other car, “hah, that's
lame he's not here”

“Is that how it feels like when you and Mario race?” Luigi said, stepping more closer to
Bowser,

“Yeah, that's why I like it though, the adrenaline,” Luigi looked around the center to see the
boba place, “let's go get boba,”

“Good idea, I've been craving it since last night” they both walked across the street into a
relatively small boba shop with very few people, after ordering at the counter Luigi started
pulling out his money before he saw Bowser already handing his card over to the lady, “hey
it's fine I'll pay”

“Nah, I'm already paying no need to worry”

“Okay then I'll give you the money”

“Nuh uh, it's on me” Luigi knew he wasn't gonna get around this but he figured he might as
well mess with Bowser, turning to the counter to see if the lady wasn't there anymore he
looked Bowser in the eye and said,

“I'll pay you back in a different way” Luigi gave a small wink then walked over to a nearby
table and sat down, was that too much? No I don't think so, well I hope not, he pulled out his
phone as Bowser walked over to the table and sat down as well, Luigi shot up a place at him
to see that Bowser was smiling while he also pulled out his phone, making Luigi smile a little
harder.

Luigi was dropped off by Bowser once they had gotten their boba, Luigi got his favorite
flavor, honeydew, while Bowser got a simple mango flavor, Luigi waved Bowser goodbye as
he opened his door and stepped inside, seeing Mario sitting on the sofa while the TV was on
a comedy channel, “I'm home, did you take Polter out to the backyard?”,

“Yess, he's still out there I barely took him out” Mario replied, still fixated on the TV, Luigi
put his bag on the counter and went to the screen door that led to the backyard, polterpup ran
in jumping on Luigi, “oh, tomorrow night ma and pa are coming so what should we cook for
them? Some simple pasta or what” Luigi walked over and sat on the couch, Polter on his lap
and sipping his boba,

“Mmm, I say we should cook some ravioli, isn't it their favorite food?” Luigi responded,
“Speaking of food, what's for lunch? I only ate breakfast today”,
“There's some leftover in the fridge, just warm it up” Luigi put polterpup down as he went up
to the fridge and found the container of leftovers, while heating it up he checked his phone to
see a new notification from Bowser,

“So what was your other method of payment?”

Luigi huffed a laugh at the screen as he grabbed the plate of food and headed upstairs to his
room, he placed his food in the night stand as he sat down and pulled out his phone to
respond to Bowser's message,

(L) You know what I meant ;)

(B) Maybe
Care to elaborate? :)

(L) No >:)

Seeing no new messages Luigi pulled out his laptop and started looking on websites for
inspections for his outfit. The race was less than a week away and he needed something to
wear. He wanted it to be sexy but knowing his parents and Mario were gonna be there he
decided that wasn't the best choice.

Meanwhile Bowser lied on his bed scrolling on social media, seeing people's post and
mentions towards him, Bowser got to a modeling page where the company he went to had
posted the pictures of a few celebrities, swiping to them he made it to where Luigi was sitting
criss-cross with Polterpup on his lap, the way Luigi smiled and positioned himself he made it
seem so easy and natural.

Bowser swiped again to see another one of Luigi, a little more serious this time, the angle of
his face and the clothes he was wearing made Bowser feel warm inside, he wanted to have
Luigi know of how he felt but he didn't know when was the time or how to bring it up. He
never liked to admit it but he wanted a bit of help so things would become more simple if he
was really going to go through with this.

After thinking for a moment he remembered Luigi's bestest friend in the whole universe,
Daisy, Bowser was sure Daisy knew everything about Luigi that he would need, he was
already somewhat of a friend to Daisy but he didn't feel all to comfortable calling her out of
the blue asking about Luigi, maybe it would be better to simply message her but, what would
message her about? What does he like in men? yeah, that might be a good starter.

He slowly got up from his bed and walked over to his glass enclosure where Koopa
peacefully slept. Bowser took another picture and sent it to Luigi before heading downstairs
to grab a snack, he figured he would message Daisy later in the day and to just chill for now.
As he got to the bottom of the stairs he saw his father on the phone while sitting on the sofa,
he thought nothing of it and continued on opening the pantry door, seeing many chips and
whatnot.

“Bowser” his father called out,

“Yeah?”

“Apparently a controlled fire got out of control and is heading towards the race track”

“No wayy, let me guess they called you to say they're delaying it” Kamek nodded, “for how
long? A couple of days?”

“Eh, only about a week, so instead of this Tuesday it's gonna be next Monday” Bowser
sighed as he reached for a bag of chips,

“As long as I still have a chance of beating Mario” Bowser could tell his dad rolled his eyes
as he walked back upstairs to continue on the rest of the afternoon, not before getting a text
from Luigi,

(L) That sucks they delayed the race

(B) more time for me to chill

(L) Real.
I still hadn't gotten anything to wear so at least I got more time to figure something out

(B) That's great, means less stress

(L) Ugh I hate stressing out, makes my outfit look bad

(B) Well you always end up looking pretty :)

(L) oh why thank you ;)

I just know Mario is gonna be annoyed about the delay

(B) Good luck with that guy 😂

(L) ikr?

Bowser went ahead and sat down on his bed, turning on his tv and putting a show as he
scrolled on his phone, he now had the whole week free so he might as well use the time to
find something to do, munching on his chips he saw as people and his friends posted about
the delay, even sharing photos and pictures of the fire, it seemed only a few hundreds of yards
away, good call canceling it.

While looking at more recent posts and videos he got a text from his friend DK, his online
name is Donkey Kong but they called him DK for short, pressing on the notification Bowser
read his message,
“Hey bro, I figured since the race got delayed I could host a pool party, wanna come
Sunday?”

Bowser thought that was cool, if he was being honest he hadn't gone to a pool in ages, with a
little thought he agreed to go, he knew DK was really friendly and knew many people he
figured it would be a good chance to talk to more people too, Bowser felt as if he always
came off as rude to others.

He feels like he was rude to his ex, Peach, maybe that's why she broke up with him to be with
Mario, Mario was just way more friendly to people. Bowser sighed,hated the way he thought
of himself, he got up and went towards Koopa, by this point he had woken up and was slowly
making his way around his enclosure, Bowser went ahead and put more food in the little
bowl he had for him, he figured he might as well go ahead and work out to help take his mind
off things.

Walking into the room where he had all of his equipment he warmed up and went straight to
the bench press, he needed to cut anyways.

[Sunday]

(Luigi's POV) 😲
I wasn't able to go to DKs pool party because of my parents, they came on Friday and it's
been pretty stressful. My mom isn't the issue, she's very caring and kind and she always
supported me in what I do , but my dad on the other hand.. good lord he can't go a day
without whispering a snarky remark about me or gay people in general. He doesn't even
whisper it, he outright yells it!

He got mad at me Friday because I “acted to feminine”, thankfully my mother is there to

defend me, but each day I still have to put up with it, right now I'm currently sitting on the
couch while Mario and Ma cooks a traditional meal from Italy, they had actually gotten mad
at both me and Mario because our Italian is getting worse,

“Quando sarà di nuovo la gara? è passato un po' di tempo dall'ultima volta che ti ho visto in
pista (When is the race again? It's been a while since I've seen you on the track)”, Ma said,

“I think they sai-” Mario got interrupted by ma,

“A! In Italiano” she said, helping Mario stir something in the pot,

“hanno detto marte..dì prossimo(They said next Tuesday)” Mario said, butchering a word or
two, I snickered, causing Mario to get a bit annoyed, “Oh! Like your Italian is any better!”,

“What! What did I do?!”

“You snickered when I stuttered”

“Abbastanza!(Enough!)” We both quickly shut up, “Parlerete entrambi italiano tutto il giorno,
fa male sentire il tuo italiano peggiorare (Both of you will speak Italian the whole day, it
hurts to hear your Italian getting worse), we nodded our heads, I knew she made the right call
though, my Italian has gotten worse,

“Comunque, Luigi è stato presentato all'inizio, giusto? (Anyways, Luigi your featured in the
beginning, right?)” Ma continued,

“sì, aiuto a iniziare la gara (yeah, I help with starting the race)” “riesco anche a creare il mio
vestito ( i even get to make my own outfit)”, without another breath my dad came out of
nowhere,

“It better make you look like a man!” He said, walking over to the couch and sitting on the
opposite side than me, “all of your outfits make you look female, I hate it”,

“Hey! We are not starting this, you need to chill okay!?” Ma yelled at dad, I stayed quiet
while looking down at my phone seeing if anyone had texted me, I wasn't the type to yell or
fight back, thankfully Bowser started messaging me so I took it as a chance and went upstairs
to my room, closing the door behind, I decided to FaceTime Bowser to see how he was doing
and to take my mind off of stuff,

“Hey, what's up!” Bowser said, moving into frame,

“niente di così folle” I said without thinking,

“Huh? It's that Italian?”

“Oh sorry! Nothing that crazy is happening, I was just talking with my mom earlier and
dealing with my dad”

“He's still bothering you?” I nodded my head slowly, “ that must suck huh?”,

“Yep, so I decided to call you just to kind of avoid my dad, anyways I think it would be great
if you told me the highschool drama between you and Mario” I said, taking a sip of a water
bottle I had,

“You really wanna know?” I nodded, “well it kind of started in sophomore, this was around
the time I decided I wanted to actually be a racer, and so did mario, so it started off as a little
joke that I told him he would always be second and what not but it got personal fast, we
always kept arguing and even got into a fight one day”

“Woah.. about race cars?” I said half jokingly,

“Well around this time I also had many people kind of crushing on me, even Mario's friends
and I guess his girl at the time, so long story short I wanted to get Mario pissed and because
whoever he was friends with I would kind of steal them so he got mad and it turned into us
doing shit to each other” I laughed,

“Really? So this whole enemies thing started because you were too hot for Mario's friends to
handle and he didn't like that?”
“Well, if you put it that way it sounds dumb”

“Because it is dumb,” I laughed again, “I still can't believe Mario never told me this”

“Well I see why he would want to hide it” we both chuckled, “well I need to get ready for the
pool party, sad you couldn't go” Bowser said, fake crying after,

“Oh I knoww, seeing you shirtless would've made my weekend exciting”

“Maybe another day you can” Bowser said, winking, “okay I have to go now, bye”

“Byeeee” I said before the call hung up, I wasn't lying about that statement, just don't let my
dad hear, I flopped onto my bed and texted Daisy, she had actually told me that Bowser is
trying to impress someone, doesn't take a genius to figure out who but she won't say who he
said, I texted her about going to the mall soon or just having a shopping spree, I needed more
fabric for a few outfits.

-time skip- 😮‍💨

It was around 9 or so, I've spent the day hanging out with my parents and trying to avoid
conversations that my dad would hate, overall it was a pretty good day, half way through a
show rerun I was watching my phone started vibrating, picking my phone up I saw it was
Bowser calling, I answered and heard the sound of a car like he was driving, “Hello?” I said,

“Heyy, Im driving back from the party and felt like calling you,” I heard him stumbling his
words,

“Any particular reason why you wanted to call me?”

“I like talking to you,” a small pause, “oh, I think I drank a little much and I wanted to call
you incase anything”

I sighed, “you're drunk driving? You couldn't have gotten a taxi or called for me to get you?”

“I didn't think of that, plus I'm finee, nothing is gonna happenn”

“Just stay alert, or if you want you can drive to my house, it's closer anyways”

“Mmm, I wanna but what about Mario?”

“I can make something up”

“Oh, there's people racing each other,” Bowser said almost interrupting me, “ they are getting
too close to this lane if I'm gonna be honest”

“Wait, what.” Before I could get any explanation I heard a crashing noise on the other end,
“Bowser!” I screamed into the phone, after a few seconds the call disconnected. Good lord I
got so worried.
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I immediately slipped on some shoes and put a jacket on, I was rushing and got Polterpup
rattled up, he started barking while I swung open my door, I ran down the stairs and when I
got to the bottom both my parents and Mario stared at me as I breathe heavily and ran to the
door, “something came up I'll be back soon!” I yelled out, swinging the door open and
running out to my car, I turned on the engine immediately and drove out.

Bowser didn't say a specific street he was on but I knew he couldn't of been far from DK’s,
soon enough I saw many cars stopped and police going a specific way, I drove as close as I
could and got out to start walking until I saw Bowser's car, the front of it looked totaled along
with two more cars, I guess when the first driver ran into Bowser the second didn't stop in
time.

I watched as two men stepped out of their cars with paramedics guiding them, walking even
closer I managed to see a familiar face, the guy who raced Bowser only a couple days ago, he
was in the car which hit Bowser, I was too fixated on the one guy I almost didn't realize two
police men struggling on bowser's car, they were trying to pry open the driver door.

I stood there in disbelief, I wanted to go and help but I couldn't a muscle, I wanted to scream
for his name but nothing came out, I felt tears streaming down my face as police started
asking people to step back so the ambulance could have room to move, I don't know how
long I was standing there staring at the car before they managed to move him to a stretcher,
he was knocked out and from afar I could see he had blood rushing down his face.

I felt my phone vibrate in my back pocket, looking at the screen I could see Mario calling me
for the 2nd time, I put the phone up to my ear and listened to Mario's panicked voice, “Luigi
where are you what's happening?”

“Sorry something happened I'm sorry for worrying you guys” I said in response, keeping an
eye on the ambulance which started to drive forward, “ I'll explain everything later but I have
to go somewhere real quick, I'll be back before 11 I promise”

I ran to my car and started driving towards the closest hospital I knew. A few cars in front of
me were the ambulance, I hoped nothing bad happened to Bowser and that it was only minor
injuries which could be healed with a few bandages and what not. Once I parked into the
hospital parking lot I sat still and tried to control my breathing, I was hyperventilating and it
was getting hard to breath properly, I was still getting a few texts from Mario and now Daisy
asking if I was okay and if everything was alright.

I texted Mario a quick summary of what happened knowing I would have to answer his
questions if ‘why was I on call with Bowser?’ or something along those lines, I must've took
too long to respond to Daisy because she started calling me, “hello?-”

“WHAT HAPPENED YOUR GIVING MARIO AND I HEART ATTACKS” Daisy

interrupted,

“Uhm,” I hesitated, thinking of how I would word this, “Bowser kind of called me and a few
minutes into the call a car, presumably racing another, crashed into him and I didn't really
hear anything after that so I panicked and ran out saw the crash a few minutes away, now I'm
in the hospital parking lot about to go in and see if bowsers alright” a few moments of silence
followed soon after,

“Shittt, I hope he's alright, hopefully he's recover for next race, well I'll call you later or
maybe Mario will, go check on your boyfriend and be safe” I sighed, a little too tired to call
Daisy out with what she said, “okay I gotta go, bye!”

“Byee” I hung up and brought my phone down into my lap, a few minutes passed and I got
out of car and headed into the hospital, I got to a desk and asked the person behind it if I
needed to fill anything out to check on Bowser, she handed me a short form which I filled out
in under 5 minutes, I was planning on only seeing him, if he was even awake, for about 20
minutes.

After an elevator ride and a few corner turns I made it to the room where Bowser was,
peeking through the window I could see one nurse in there, the curtain was halfway pulled so
I could see only the end of the bed, I pulled the door open and did an awkward wave to the
nurse who was now facing towards me, I walked more into the room until I saw Bowser in
the bed.

His face lit up as he saw me wave to him, he waved back, he had an eye patch covering his
left eye, his right hand was in a cast of some sort and he has bandages on random parts of his
face, his neck, and his arms, “Oh thank goodness you're okay” he pulled a thumbs up with his
left hand as the nurse spoke,

“Yep, just a few scratches and cuts, the only big injury was a fractured bone in his right hand
but it's very minor, could be healed in a week or two if he takes care of it” I nodded as I
focused my gaze back at him, “I'll be right back I need to go take care of something”

The nurse left the room so it was only me and Bowser, “you scared me half to death when I
didn't hear anything but the sound of metal hitting something” I said, trying to not have the
room turn to awkward silence,

“I'm sorry?” He smirked, “I'm fine though, I was told the other drivers were gonna get a
month or so in jail, I'm just hoping they don't know I was a bit drunk myself”
“That a whole different thing it self, your a full grown adult you should know you can drink
and drive, even if this accident was the other stranger's fault imagine what could've happened
if you were the cause because you were too stubborn to call someone or even an Uber” I few
moments passed as Bowser looked down at his hand resting on his lap, flexing it to release
some tension,

“I'm sorry” Bowser apologize, his voice barely above a whisper, “I know it could've been
worse because of my buzz”,

“You now know to not drink and drive?” I said, sounding like a mom scolding her child,

“Yeah..”

“And now you know to not race illegally with other cars? This includes with Mario” I asked
again, this time raising my eyebrow,

“Yeah..” Bowser responded again, a little louder, I made a mental note to do the same to
Mario considering he also likes street racing, “uh.. can you text my dad or call him? I don't
know where my phone is”,

“Yeah, let me check if I have his number” I pulled my phone out of my pocket, calling
Kamek’s number after a few scrolls, when he picked up I explained to him what happened
and he was understandably worried, I handed my phone over the Bowser so they can talk, I
fidgeted with my hands until I hear Bowser end the call, I grabbed my phone back and sat on
the side of the bed, “better hope your okay for the race next week”

Bowser sighed, “I think I'll be okay by then, with enough rest and what not I'll be okay”, I
stood up from the bed and stood next to him, slightly running my fingers through his hair,

“I gotta go know, I'm gonna have to explain to Mario why I got so worked up and ran out the
door,”

“Well thank you for coming so quick”

“No problem,” I walked to the door before turning around to Bowser, “ good night” I walked
out and went back to my car, after a short car ride I made it back to my house where my
parents were on the couch and Mario was sitting on the kitchen counter, “Get off the counter
I cleaned it this morning”

“Whatever, so how did you know what happened so quickly? With Bowser I mean” I
hesitated a bit before explaining that Bowser had called me and the crash happened and blah
blah blah, “but why would he call you?”

I stiffened a bit before finally telling him about our friendship, “ we've gotten closer and now
we are pretty good friends so I guess he called so see how I was” Mario rolled his eyes when
he heard the word ‘friends’. I rolled my eyes back and walked upstairs, I got into my room
and started cleaning to help get my mind off things.
Once I was done it was already 11:30, I went ahead and got ready for bed as I had a sleep
schedule which I hated when it got disrupted. It took a bit to finally get into a trance of sleep
but soon enough I did.

*~~~~~~~~~

Bowser woke up rather cold, when he opened his eyes and looked around he noticed almost
everything was white, the walls, the bed, the curtain, even the floor. It took him a bit but he
remembered what took place last night and how he ended up here, he remembered Luigi
visiting him first then his father soon after, he was tired as he looked to the clock on the wall,
‘8:17’, he fell asleep pretty late, maybe around 1 or 2?

He never really had to sleep in a hospital so it just felt weird sleeping in one, he was told last
night that there was a chance that he could be discharged today, if he took it easy with his
arm he was pretty sure he would still be able to compete in the race, that was one of the
biggest things Bowser was concerned about.

He wondered if things would be different if he hadn't drunk more before driving, maybe he
would've noticed when the cars were starting to get dangerously close and swerved out of the
way in time, he couldn't remember much so he guessed he blacked out in impact, at least he
didn't feel the initial pain.

Out of the corner of his eye he could see the door creak open and a nurse walk through, “oh
you're awake,” the nurse said, walking over to the side of the bed where there was a
computer, “now since your injuries weren't life threatening or in other words very minor we
have decided to let you go home now!”, she said with enthusiasm.

Bowser was soon enough outside of the hospital waiting for his dad to come and pick him up,
thankfully the bill wasn't all that expensive because he still needed to repair his car, the
windshield was basically obliterated, the hood of his car was in pieces, and there was massive
dent of where the car had hit him. If he had to guess he would say all of those repairs would
cost a little more than 12k, which isn't that much but he's still losing money.

‘Oh thank goodness you're okay’, Bowser remembered Luigi's words, he was glad he cared
about him, Bowser wondered how fast Luigi rushed to the hospital hoping his friend was
okay. Soon enough he saw his father pull up in his own car, it was a simple car you would see
anywhere mostly because Kamek didn't like driving flashy cars, “Get in I'm about to start
cooking”,

“What are you making?” Bowser asked, getting in the passenger's seat,

“I'm making cheddar broccoli soup, oh and your friend Luigi called me an hour ago!” Bowser
perked up a bit,

“Luigi called? What for?” Bowser asked,

“He just wanted to make sure I was okay, he's very caring I could tell!” Luigi called to check
on my dad? Bowser thought to himself, maybe Luigi was a bit more caring than he thought.
After a bit of driving and a few turned they made it back home, once they were in the house
Kamek made Bowser sit on the couch, “I'll tell you when I'm done with the soup, you have to
take it easy so you can be in next week's race!”.

Bowser pulled out his phone and started texting Luigi, asking basic questions like ‘how are
you’ and ‘what you doing?’, a few minutes later Luigi responded by saying “I should be the
one asking if you’re okay”

(B) I guess so ha

I’m doing goof rn, just gotta heal my arm

(L) that’s good, do you remember anything from last night?

(B) yeah

Well all the way up till the crash

(L) how was the party then?

(B) it was fun I wish you were there though

Wario almost drowned in the shallow part of the pool though haha

(L) XD

Wish I could’ve seen that

Well I gotta go now take care :D

*~~~~~~~~~

Luigi put down his phone and continued on his outfit for next week, he wanted to make it
race tracked theme but to be able to wear parts of it outside of car stuff, so far he had a tight
black top which is meant for guys with muscles but Luigi thought it looked good on him, he
had already cut it to be a crop top but only enough to show half of his stomach. He was
currently sewing a red-orange fabric to the bottom of the shirt, though he did think the color
was closer to red than orange.

Luigi had called over Daisy to help with making the outfit then to hang out for a bit, checking
the time he could see it was 1 pm. How long has he been working on the shirt alone? Well he
did have to go buy the materials. Soon enough Luigi heard friendly commotion coming from
the first floor, then footsteps making their way up the stairs, “YOUR MOMS SO
FRIENDLY!” Daisy exclaimed as she sung open the door, she was wearing a simple white
tank top and denim shorts, along with black converse, Luigi was wearing a slightly oversized
band t-shirt and also denim shorts, it was a hot day anyways,
 “She said I was so cute and she loved my hair!” Daisy sat down next to Luigi on the floor,
“Anyways how’s the outfit going?”,

“Alright I guess, I’m just working on the shirt for now” Luigi responded, tying off the thread
to work on other parts of the shirt,

“And how’s Bowser? Any bad injuries?”, Luigi thought back to the little visit in the hospital,

“He’s good, just a fractured arm that could be healed in a week or so, gosh it was a scare”
Luigi continued to look at his notes and measurements in his sketchbook, he wouldn’t say
he’s the best sketcher but Daisy taught him a few things, “I just hope he’s good by the time
the race comes”,

“Mhmm, so he can see your cute little outfit?” Daisy teased, "don't cha think that little flame
design looks eerily similar to the flames on Bowser’s race car?” Luigi slightly froze as he
tilted his head back to the sketchbook, did he subconsciously draw Browser's flame onto his
outfit?

“Sure.. let’s just say that” Luigi said, “Anyways I need you work on the crop top jacket, the
measurements are in the sketchbook”

The duo worked on Luigi outfit, though Daisy kept teasing Luigi about Bowser but Luigi just
tuned her out, yet every tease Daisy would throw out at him Luigi wondered if Bowser liked
him back, or if he just saw them as friends who clicked immediately, but unlike Bowser or
Luigi, Daisy knew the answer to that.

Chapter End Notes

So long story short school started, dance class and life 👍

😀
I also got caught up on Mha because I found out they released like 2 seasons so I’ve
been a bit hyper fixated on that

Anyways HAVE A GOOD DAY/NIGHT 🫶

 So close
Chapter Notes

Ahhhh, sorry I was gone fore so long 😓😓😓

Will tell reasonings at end 🫶
See the end of the chapter for more notes

Luigi and Daisy just got done making an outfit for him for the race coming up soon, it
included a black cropped tank top with red sewn onto the bottom, a matching cropped jacket,
black shorts with a black and white checkered pattern running down the sides of the shorts
which reached a few inches above his knee, some combat boots to add some height, and a
matching black bag which they only put a few fire embroidery onto. Luigi liked the design a
lot.

Luigi sighed and promptly flopped on the floor, “dramatic much?” He lifted his head up to
Daisy, who was folding the jacket she helped make, “We did this faster than I thought we
would to be honest”,

“Well last time we did something like this we got high because we thought it would be faster”
Luigi said, recounting the amount of times they poked themselves with a needle or managed
to mess something up.

Daisy shivered, “Still can’t believe we did that, pretty sure we had to redo everything because
we forgot to save holes for the arms” Luigi snickered, “Anyways, one of my friends not too
far away has a cat who just gave birth to a few kittens,”

“Awww” Luigi interrupted, sitting up, “are you going to get one?”

“Possibly in a couple of weeks, I’m just going to go see if I do want one. If I do wanna come
with me to the store and get everything in like.. a month?” Daisy asked, starting to stand up
to grab her things,

“Of course, you know I love shopping for animal stuff” Luigi said, starting to put away the
sewing kits and fabrics, “Who knows, might get another pet so Polterpup isn’t so lonely”

“Oh my gosh like a cat? Or another dog? You look like you would get a weiner dog”

Luigi gasped, “I should, I’d name it.. actually I don’t know what I would name it”

“Well we can hangout and think about future wiener dog names, for now I gotta start going,”
Daisy double checked her things before heading out the door, “Bye Lu~”

“Bye Daisy!” Luigi watched as Daisy closed his bedroom door, then listened as she headed
down stairs then out the front door, he was sure Mario headed out somewhere with either DK
or peach, Luigi walked down stairs and noticed his parents weren’t there anymore, oh yeah,
they wanted to go shopping in the shopping center near here. Now Luigi was alone, with
Polterpup of course.

Luigi hummed a song from an album released not that long ago as he opened the fridge and
got a few fruits, including a banana, some frozen mango, a piece of celery, and some orange
juice, he was going to make a simple smoothie and he’ll figure out what to do from there. He
started to put everything in a blender when his phone vibrated, turning the screen on showed
Bowser had texted him.

(B) Hey

(L) Hii :)

(B) Are you busy today?

(L) No
I was planning on going to the store but

I can go tmr

(B) Wanna come over and bake something?

(L) Sure!

I’ll be there around 5:30?

(B) yep

Luigi eternally squealed, he wondered what they would be making, either way he was
excited. WOW he was acting like a middle schooler texting their crush for the first time.
Luigi blended up the fruits and started pouring it into a cup, his phone vibrated again from a
notification, grabbing a straw and sipping the smoothie he grabbed his phone again and saw a
picture Daisy posted on her social media with him tagged.

Luigi sat on the couch and turned on the tv for background noise while he scrolled through
countless posts and videos. For about an hour he just sat there on his phone until the front
door started opening, it was Mario and Peach, “Hi Luigi!”

“Hi peach!” Luigi waved back, he would like to say that him and peach are more fashionable
than most of the people they know, peach’s favorite colors were soft pinks while Luigi’s was
basically any shade of green, so most of their closets were filled with those colors, though
others, Mario for an example, had plain clothes with few fancy pieces for events.

“Me and Peach will go out for dinner later tonight just to let you know” Mario said, going
over to the fridge to grab a water while Peach sat down next to Luigi, “Maybe you want to go
out with friends or something”

“Don’t worry about it,” Luigi started, “I have plans already with a friend”
“Which friend?” Peach asked, wait.. will Peach be bothered if Luigi goes out with Bowser?
As far as he knows they dated for two years or so and broke up on good terms, but Mario
might not be happy, he’ll keep it vague,

“Just a friend I met maybe 2 weeks ago? Maybe 3 weeks now, anyways, I’ll probably be at
his house till 8 or 9” Peach watched Luigi under observant eyes, lots of people think she’s
just another dumb blond but one look at her past school grades and getting to know her better,
you’ll find out she’s freakishly smart, so much it scares Luigi, and Luigi would think he’s
also pretty smart.

Maybe Peach noticed the lack of a name? Not sure, Luigi’s never sure, “Well whoever it is,”
yep, she noticed, “I hope you have fun with him”

“If he does anything tell me and I’ll beat his ass”

“Mario! Chill I can protect myself”

“What? You’re still my younger brother, I need to look after you” Mario threw away the
water bottle,

“I’m literally 4 years younger than you but okay”

“Exactly, practically a child”

“Okay enough” Peach finally spoke up, though she was trying not to laugh, “I’m sure your
friend would never hurt you” Luigi looked at the time on his phone, it was currently 3, he had
a lot of time, he could go and start thinking of new clothing items to send out to his company
to make, but he’s been working too much today, he’ll do that tomorrow, it’s still sunny so he
could go get ice cream and walk Polterpup around the nice areas of town, yeah he’ll do that.

“I’m gonna go and take polterpup pup on a walk” Luigi said, getting up from the couch and
walking upstairs into his room, where his beloved baby was sleeping on his bed, putting on
some comfortable shoes and changing his shirt from an oversized band tee to an off the
shoulder seaweed color shirt, keeping his denim shorts on. He grabbed matching sunglasses
and opened his small drawer dedicated to Polterpup’s clothing, he pulled out 3 green collars
and laid them in front of Polterpup who had woken up.

Luigi watched as Polterpup realized they were going on a walk and started barking and going
in circles, then taking a second before grabbing the baby green collar, “Great choice Polter,
stop moving so I can clip this on you” Luigi clipped the collar then went to grab the matching
leash, walking out of his bedroom and down the stairs he said goodbye to Peach and Mario
before heading out and going into his car.

“Okay so first ice cream and then we’ll walk around a park alright?” A bark from Polterpup
was heard next to him, he started the car and headed towards an ice cream shop which had
animal friendly ice creams, parking the car he attached the leash to the collar and headed in,
he ordered a strawberry ice cream and a blueberry ice cream for Polterpup.

A couple of minutes later he got his ice cream and walked back outside onto a small table,
putting the ice creams down on the table and pulling a chair closer to him, Polterpup jumped
onto the chair and sat down patiently as Luigi sat down and pushed the blue cup towards the
dog.

While Polterpup started licking the ice cream Luigi started enjoying his own, his ice cream
was in a cone instead of a cup. After finishing up (and cleaning Polterpup’s previously white
face as it was now dyed a nice color which was in between blue and purple) he led them back
to the car where he drove to a nice dog park a couple minutes away.

After about an hour or so Luigi made it back home, it was currently nearing 5 and Luigi still
needed to get ready, not knowing what to wear he threw on a light green slightly oversized
sweater which he liked to describe as a smoky green, then regular colored jeans which had a
little flair at the bottom, putting on some comfortable black shoes he grabbed his bag and
headed back out the door, sitting in his car he checked the time, “5:14, still got time” he
muttered to himself as he started to drive off and into the direction of Bowser's house.
After about 15 minutes later he started to pull up into Bowser's driveway, causing the sensors
to open the gates, he parked behind what seemed like Bowser's car and got out, he hasn't
actually been in this house so he didn't know what to expect when he walked up to the door
and rung the doorbell. Taking a step back we waited until the door handle twisted and the
door opened, showing a Bowser on the other side,

“Hi bowser!” Bowser took a step to the side and let Luigi in,

“Hi Luigi, how are you?” Bowser closed the door and started leading Luigi to his kitchen,

“I’ve been good, what about you? How’s that arm?” Luigi placed his bag on a counter,

“Eh, been better, they said if I just rest it I have a chance to continue driving by the time the
race comes along, even then they said I have to wear a cast of some sorts” He responded as
he started pulling things out of a paper bag, his right hand was still in a cast which made it
hard for him to bend his wrist.

Bowser pulled out a bag of flour, baking powder, and sugar, “what are we gonna make?”,
Bowser started pulling out a few bowls before answering,

“I figured we can make muffins,” he walked to the fridge to get more things, “I’ve never
made them though so we are winging it”

“I’ve never made muffins before either, but I do like to bake” Luigi stepped closer to where
the bowls and ingredients were on the counter,

“You like to bake?” Luigi nodded, “hm, maybe you should make me something”

“Just tell me what you want and I’ll make a few” They both cackled, “do you have
instructions?” Bowser started to pull out his phone,
“I saved a page,” after a few seconds of fumbling with his phone he managed to open a
screenshot with steps on how to make blueberry muffins, “First we need to preheat the oven
to 400 degrees, then put 2 cups flour, 1 cup sugar, baking powder, and ½ teaspoon salt in a
bowl”

“I can start on the dry ingredients and you can preheat the oven,” Luigi rolled up the sleeves
of his sweater and washed his hands, “do we have the pan and cupcake liners?”

“Yeah ill do that after I set the heat” They started putting and mixing ingredients in bowls and
reading off instructions off of Bowsers phone, at one point Luigi had his hand covered in
flour and lightly swiped it on Bowser's face, causing them to start goofing around and
throwing flour at each other, the previously white with dark colored kitchen was now covered
in white powder.

They managed to get the unbaked muffin dough into the oven and now were cleaning up their
mess, “No I’ll clean up the mess don’t worry about it!”

“No! I was the one who was the reason this mess started, let me clean the floor at least” Luigi
started to grab the broom before Bowser reached for it,

“No, you're the guest! I’ll clean up, don't worry about it” Luigi pulled the broom away and
sent a glare to Bowser, “Okay fine, I’ll do the counter then and put away the bowls”. After a
couple of minutes they cleaned up and were just talking about random things at this point.

The timer they had put went off, stopping their conversation on whatever they were on, “okay
let’s see the muffins,” Bowser said as he handed Luigi a rag to pull out the pan, Luigi placed
it on the counter showing 12 muffins with little dark berries,

“They look good” Luigi said, sticking a fork in a few to make sure they were baked well,

“Doesn’t mean they’ll take good” Bowser jokes,

“We’ll see” Luigi put two muffins on a plate, they each grabbed one and took a bite, “omg
wait, this actually tastes good!”

“We did a great job at not fucking up!” they both laughed, Luigi took another bite,

“Next time we should do raspberry, ooh or even strawberry”

“I feel like raspberry would taste good,” Bowser said after taking a few more bites, walking
over to the cabinets he grabbed a medium sized Tupperware and started to place muffins in it,
“here, you have half of the muffins and I’ll have the other half”

“Oh, okay! Thanks, I’m sure my parents would like these, Mario too”

“Yeah, I’m sure my dad will like these too”, Bowser handed the glass container to Luigi,

“Is your dad home? I wanna say hi to him” Luigi asked, grabbing the container,

“No, he went somewhere and I don’t know when he’ll be back” Luigi took a little breath in as
he was about to say something but he was interrupted when a hand was placed onto his jaw, a
thumb swiping near the corner of his mouth,

“H-huh” Luigi stood still, tracing his eyes from the hand to Bowser's face

“You still had flour on your face,” Bowser said, still swiping his thumb, but after another
second or so the swiping slowed down until his thumb rested just next to Luigi’s mouth.

Luigi looked into Bowser's eyes, now noticing the new thin scar line that went over his left
eye, of how his eyes had a deep cherry red hue to them which went along with his hair, Luigi
wondered if he could make his lips that same shade.
Meanwhile Bowser was thinking similar things, of how in the light Luigi’s blue eyes seemed
to glow and hold stars from the universe, of how soft his face was. Before realizing what was
happening Bowser started to lean closer in, Luigi doing the same, just as they were inches
apart someone spoke,

“Bowser, I'm home!” The two broke apart immediately as Kamek walked into the kitchen,
“Oh hello!”,

Luigi waved while trying to stay calm, “H- uh.. Hi!”, he silently cursed at himself for
stuttering, Kamek eyed both of them before walking deeper into the house, “Uh, I should get
going now.. Yeah,” he grabbed his bag and had the muffins before walking out of the front
door and clearing his throat, “Bye Bowser!”

When he got out of the house he sped walked back to his car and started the engine, he took a
second to look in the mirror, he was red in the face, a color similar to Bowers eyes. Oh yeah,
Luigi is wondering what exactly that moment was, he didn’t even notice he was leaning
towards him until they had to pull apart. Luigi finally started driving away trying to keep his
mind on driving but now Everytime he sees the color red (example: the damn stop signs or
red traffic lights) he would think back to how pretty his eyes looked at that moment, of how
he would like to run his hands through the red soft hair while- oh he’s home already.

Luigi grabbed his stuff and walked as fast as he can to the front door, once he got inside he
saw his parents and no site of Mario, “Hi mom, hi dad”,

“Hi Luigi, cos'hai in mano? (what are you holding?)” His mother asked,

“Me and a..” Luigi hesitated for a second before he finished speaking, “..friend baked some
muffins, I got a few so go ahead and get some if you guys want”

“Meh I’ll get a few later” his dad said, still flipping through different things on the tv, his
mom on the other hand showed some optimistic emotions,

“Ne prenderò uno più tardi (I’ll get one later)” she brushed off Luigi speaking English, she
must be feeling nice. Luigi put the muffins in the fridge and headed upstairs, going into his
 room he closed the door behind him and started changing into more comfortable clothes,
once he got on his bed he face planted into his pillow and proceeded to scream in it.

They were so close to kissing.

Chapter End Notes

OKAY quick run down:

-school in general
-planning for a big party
-spending time with family
-lack of motivation
💪 you guys have no idea how many fanfics I have
But I refuse to abandon another fic
kept hidden in notes and whatever

Also finals are coming up in literally a week so next update might be a while

HAVE A GOOD DAY/NIGHTTT 🫶🫶 take care of yourselvesss

 Small steps
Chapter Notes

💀
OKAY this chapter was supposed to be published on Valentine’s Day but I forgot so
now here it is 2 days late. This might be the second to last chapter of this fic sorry if it
wasn’t that good just many things throughout the year distracted me. ANYWAYS here’s
a chapter of randomness

See the end of the chapter for more notes

Luigi woke up and almost immediately remembered what happened yesterday. He had to take
deep breaths so he wouldn't scream into his pillow early in the morning. What happens now?
Should he text Bowser? What would he even say! “Hey I know we almost kissed in your
kitchen but wanna hang out?” Yeah..no, he should text Daisy of what to do next huh? But
Luigi didn't want to, he feels like he's depending too much on Daisy for stuff like this, sure
he's had had previous partners and he knows about the awkwardness the first few days can
be, but they weren't even dating yet! They are still friends, right? Ugh, it's barely the morning
and Luigi needs a drink already.

He got up and went to go have breakfast downstairs when he saw he had a notification on his
phone, Bowser had texted him last night after he had gone to sleep, he was a little too scared
to see what he had sent so he started making himself eggs and waited till after he was done
with his breakfast to check the message,

(B) Hey
I think you forgot your lip gloss here

Luigi rushed to his bag and looked through it to find his cherry lip gloss wasn’t in it, geez and
he thought he would be able to go through today without seeing Bowser, so he quickly sent a
text back.

(L) thanks for telling me

I have to go somewhere today so I’ll get it passing by

Luigi did need to go shopping for a few things and he was going to hang out at home with his
parents the rest of the day so he had all the time to stop by his house for a couple of minutes
and get his lip gloss, but he didn’t really want to. He didn’t want to deal with the
awkwardness that he knew was going to take place, he didn’t know if he should bring up
what happened or just ignore it. He’d much rather ignore it.

Checking the date on his phone he reminded himself what day it was, Thursday, it wasn’t that
long till the race but he still felt excited to see the winners, every race he knows it will be a
close call between Mario and Bowser (the latter being less but that doesn’t matter) but it was
fun when another person managed to beat either of them, even if it happened once every 5
races or so, Mario and Bowser really were good at racing.

Opening his phone from a notification Luigi flipped the sizzling sausages in the pan and
scooped up the sunny-side-up eggs onto the plate next to the stove and he quickly went into
his morning routine.

⋆★

Bowser groaned at the alarm he set his phone, usually on some days of the week he would
wake up a little more early to work out but ever since his accident the heaviest he can hold is
his phone, he had to take it slow to even have a chance at being allowed to drive on the track
Monday. He kept forgetting to turn off the alarm so now he’s awake, tired, and hungry.. did
he eat dinner yesterday? Oh yeah, what the hell happened yesterday?

Bowser has had a few awkward situations like this in high school but not for a while, he
hasn’t had a relationship since he graduated.. it sounds sad but he was only 24 going onto 25,
hasn't been that long. He tells himself he can deal with it later, He needs to take a shower and
do all that stuff, he’s hungry though he’ll get cereal or something.

Bowser finally got out of bed and headed his way down to the kitchen, apon nearing the
counter he sees a small tube on the surface, picking it up he sees it is a type of lip gloss,
peaches delight-lip tint, Luigi must have left it by accident, Bowser mentally cursed knowing
he was going to have to reach out to him, he already knows it’s gonna be awkward.

Sending a quick text to Luigi he went ahead and poured himself a bowl of cereal and went
onto his phone, he wanted to see who was on the roster for the race so he knows if he had to
watch out for anyone, the main ones being Mario, DK, and this dude they like to call knock
off Mario, seriously that guy thinks he’s the next Mario or whatever, its rare to see an
interview or anything without him comparing himself to to Mario, from height to ‘better
talent' he would say anything to make himself seem like he's on Mario's level.

Bowser sometimes thinks he says that for his own validation, but that's not his problem, that's
between Wario (a self proclaimed name) and Mario, Bowser almost feels bad for Mario,
almost. It's almost amusing to see Mario side eye him every race, even every party there is,
sometimes it's Peach who steers him away, or even Luigi, Bowser never really paid much
attention to Luigi during any event he goes with Mario mostly because he's always near the
corner talking to a few people despite his social butterfly personality, he thinks Luigi wasn't
always the talkative one before he started his modeling career.

Oh yeah, ever since yesterday Bowser is thinking about what exactly his and Luigi’s
relationship is now, they are still friends, right? Well obviously they haven’t actually kissed
yet but that doesn’t exactly mean they didn’t have feelings for each other, Bowser figured he
could just bring it up when Luigi comes over to grab the chapstick.

⋆★
Luigi was purposely getting ready slowly, he needed to go to a few stores for different things,
one to get more fabric for a dress he wanted to make, one for regular clothes, and one for
groceries, so he really needed to go shopping but he didn't want to see Bowser so soon.

He can't tell if he's being dramatic or not but he didn't want to see Bowser till the race or
something, but now he was ready with a simple outfit so he decided to suck it up and just go,
he walked outside and got into his car, he put a CD with chill songs he got for one of his
birthdays and sent a quick text to Bowser saying “omw” and started backing out of his
driveway.

Going towards the direction of his house Luigi was split between asking Bowser if he wanted
to go somewhere to hangout and eat or try and ask him what exactly happened in the kitchen,
Luigi had a lot of questions now like does this mean Bowser likes him? Luigi knew he liked
Bowser but it was always a small crush and now he doesn't know anymore, he can feel his
face get warmer everytime he thinks about Bowser, it's like at that moment Luigi realized just
how much he liked Bowser.

But his main question was whether or not Bowser wanted to stay friends after this. What if he
read the situation wrong, but now that he thought about it, what other meaning comes from
almost kissing your friend in their kitchen? Yeah, not that many. Luigi could see Bowser’s
house appear not that far away so he just took a deep breath and parked in front of the house,
knowing it shouldn't take long he turned on his hazard lights and sped walked towards the
house.

He awkwardly rose his hand and knocked a few times, waiting a few seconds Luigi realized
that he should’ve texted Bowser that he was here already, but it was too late as footsteps
could be heard on the other side of the door, Luigi felt all of his blood rush to his face as the
door opened and Bowser was standing in the doorframe holding a lip gloss,

“Oh, uh- sorry I should’ve texted you that I was here,”

“Oh no it’s fine, really,” Bowser awkwardly held out the lip gloss, “Uh- here you go”

Luigi took it and shoved it into his pocket, he was contemplating if he should make small talk
or just go, deciding on the latter Luigi missed the way Bowser took a breath in and opened
his mouth as if he was going to say something, “Thanks- thank you for telling me I left my
lip gloss, I didn’t even realize. Uh..I have to go now soo.”

“Oh, right yeah, have a good day”

“Yeah, you too” Luigi turned around and walked towards his car, getting in the driver's side
he grabbed both sides of the steering wheel and immediately head butted into it, startling
himself when he hit the horn and the car let out a loud honk, deciding it was better to go on
with his day rather than think about all his life choices in front of Bowser's house Luigi put
the car in drive and drove away.

‘That was so awkward that was so awkward omg omg omg-‘ a phone ring brought Luigi out
of his little breakdown, glad he connected his phone to the car he clicked ‘answer’ on the
screen and greeted whoever was on the other side of the phone,
 “Hello?”

“Hi Luigi,” It was Rosalina’s voice, “So me and Daisy are thinking Sunday or Saturday we
can go to that new bar that opened a couple days ago.”

“That sounds fun, I don't think I'll be able to do it Saturday though, I got a small photoshoot
and they want to do it kinda late”

“Oh it's fine, Daisy was thinking of doing it Saturday either way, we might invite other
friends so once we all agree I'll send you the location”

“Yeah, alright.” Luigi continued talking to her for a few more minutes before hanging up as
he saw the Mall's parking lot appear, throughout the whole conversation Luigi forgot about
the awkwardness that just happened less than half an hour ago.

Chapter End Notes

Im bad at writing filler I’m Soz 😔

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