*two hours later*

"Doctor, how is he?" Daisy asked when the doctor entered the waiting room. Mario, Luigi, Daisy, Boo, and Rosalina had taken Yoshi to the DK Summit Infirmary.

"He is definitely injured, but it could have been worse," the doctor replied. "Yoshi's right femur is fractured. He has to use crutches for 9 weeks."

"Is that all?" Mario asked.

"Also, Yoshi needs to have a surgery done now," the doctor said. "We will insert a rod at the center of his bone. Would you like to stay here or be contacted when the surgery is done?" The friends discussed what to do.

"Here's my number, you can contact us when the surgery's done," Luigi wrote his number on a post-it that he got from a stack in the waiting room.

"Alright. Would you like to see him before he undergoes the surgery?" the doctor offered.

"Sure!" Everyone entered the room where Yoshi was. He grinned when he saw his friends.

"Hi!" he said.

"Hey, Yosh," Rosalina sat down on the edge of the bed. "We're going out for a little bit while you have your surgery done. What food do you want us to bring you?"

"Hmm..." Yoshi thought for a moment. "Maybe a party-sized order of fries from McShroom, a blue raspberry slushie, and an eight-cheese pizza from Goomblio's Pizzeria for all of us to share."

"I don't know if those places are open, it's still Christmas," Boo pointed out. All 6 of them had completely forgotten the holiday because of Yoshi's unexpected hospital visit.

"Room service then," Yoshi smiled. "Order what you think I'd like most."

"Ok, Yoshi. See you later!" Mario, Luigi, Daisy, Boo, and Rosalina left.

"Thanks, guys!" Yoshi called after them.

*three weeks later*

Rosalina had arrived at school around 10 minutes early, as usual. She first went to get things at her locker, where Peach was brushing her hair nearby. Rosalina avoided eye contact as she got her things for class. “Hey, Rosalina,” Peach said in a friendly tone, which Rosalina thought was nonexistent. Peach saying hi startled Rosalina so much that she dropped her very heavy math textbook on her foot. Rosalina made a strange noise of pain. “Oh, sorry,” Peach giggled as she picked up Rosalina’s book and gave it to her. Rosalina accepted the book, utterly confused. Once Rosalina had gotten everything else she needed, she rushed off. “See you in class!” Peach called from behind. Rosalina saw Mario, Daisy, and Yoshi chatting and went to join them.

“Guys,” she started. “You have no idea what just happened a few minutes ago.”

“Umm… You were getting things from your locker?” Daisy said slowly.

“Not just that,” Rosalina replied. “Peach was being friendly. To ME.”

“Elaborate, please,” Mario said.

“She said hi and bye to me, picked up my books, and kept smiling at me,” Rosalina shuddered at the memory. “It was so weird.”

“That kind of thing happened to me today, too,” Daisy said. “Dixie complimented my outfit and asked me what my answers were for the math homework. I didn’t tell her, of course.”

“Well, Bowser and Toad were talking to each other and sneaking glances at Yoshi and me if that means anything,” Mario shrugged.

“Just ignore it. They’re probably trying to make us look like fools,” Daisy stated. Then, Luigi and Boo joined them.

“Hey,” they said.

“Hi,” Mario said. “Have the populars been treating you two differently?”

“I think so,” Luigi answered. “Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong waved at me.”

“They waved at me, too,” Boo added.

“What do you think is going on with them?” Rosalina questioned.

“Maybe they’re developing a plan,” Luigi said.

“Or they could finally be trying to be friends with us,” Mario suggested. Everyone in the group gave him a “Seriously?” look.

“Ok, maybe that’s kind of impossible,” Mario admitted. Yoshi glanced at his watch.

“We should go to class now,” Yoshi said. The 6 of them headed to their first class of the day, Literature.

*at lunch*

Mario, Luigi, Daisy, Yoshi, Boo, and Rosalina were ordinarily eating their lunches at their usual table. The lunch of the day was pesto pasta and it was one of the best meals the school provided. They were talking about how weird the populars were acting. The populars hadn’t done anything mean to the nerds yet and that was certainly odd. Suddenly, Rosalina’s phone began to vibrate. She had just gotten a text. A moment later, the other phones started vibrating. Before school, during lunch, and after school were the only times of the school day when students were allowed to use their phones. Daisy’s eyes widened when she read the text. “Guys,” she said. “Read your new text.”

Toad: hi daisy! im having a party on jan 31 which is a friday. ur invited!! this will take place from 8 pm to 2 am at my house. its super important bc it’s the 1st party of the yr tht  im hosting. :) i hope u can come! ps, b prepared 4 urine showers from yours truly…

The nerds looked at each other in surprise. “This is surreal,” Mario said.

“There are so much grammatical errors, though,” Luigi groaned, being the grammar nazi he was. Rosalina playfully slapped him.

“Of course, there are! It’s a text, after all,” she rolled her eyes.

“The last sentence is weird…” Daisy laughed.

“I’m only going if all of you are going,” Boo said.

“Let’s go!” Mario said eagerly. “It’s not every day that we’re invited to a party for populars. Besides, I heard that Toad hosts the best parties.”

“Remember what happened last time the populars invited us to something?” Yoshi asked Mario.

“That’s the past. It’s a new year, maybe this time they’re asking us for real,” Mario said.

“Well, the party takes place after school on January 31st, which means that it’ll be held right after the sem exams have finished,” Daisy pointed out. “So we could go, just for the sake of celebrating that sem exams are over.”

“That’s a good idea,” Rosalina agreed.

“I don’t care, as long as we go!” Mario said enthusiastically.

“So, we’re going?” Luigi asked.

“Yeah! What could possibly go wrong?” Mario grinned.

“Umm… A lot of things actually,” Luigi muttered.

*meanwhile, at the guy populars’ table*

“So, you sent it?” Waluigi asked Toad.

“Yeah, I’m gonna check if it delivered,” Toad unlocked his phone and reread his message. His face turned red. “WHAAAT?!” he exclaimed. “Who wrote the last sentence?!” He showed his phone to everyone at the table. Wario and Waluigi glanced at each other and broke into laughter.

“He hacked your phone,” they said at the same time, pointing at each other.

“It doesn’t matter which one of you it is,” Toad said. He then sent a message to each of the nerds.

Toad: lol srry abt the last sentence. wario or waluigi hacked my phone. :P

“You talk in text speak too much,” Bowser said.

“Why not? It’s a text after all,” Toad grinned.

Hey! Sorry for not updating during the past month but if you've been following me for awhile you probably already know that I couldn't update bc I had sem exams. Luckily my summer vacation just started so expect more updates than before! I hope you liked this chapter and apologize if you find it quite short. Anyways pls add, comment, vote, etc. Thanks!

- pinkandpeachy