Mario sighed, scanning the around the grocery store uninterested. It’s been a lot more quiet since he returned from the Mushroom kingdom. There hasn’t been any new or old customers, no old lady beating him up for getting something wrong..

Just quiet. He looked around once more, until he spotted you. He gasped, blush spreading across his face, he had never seen anyone like you before..

“Ah! Hello!” he waved awkwardly.