Out of all the ways to spend a Friday night, this was by far Marco's least favorite. His parents had gone out of town for the day and had planned on being back before school got out. But little did they know a huge storm was about to pass through and hold them up for the night.

Any other time he would love having the freedom of no parents. But the storm had sent the kids home from school early that day and, to put in lightly, Star was not handling it well at all. When the two kids got home they got the call saying that Marco's parents wouldn't be home until the morning. Everything was going smoothly until the first wave of thunder crashed outside. Never in his life had he seen someone jump so high.

"Marco, what was that? Was it a monster?" Star began asking questions.

"It's just thunder Star nothing to be worried about." Marco quickly calmed her down and finished making dinner for the two of them.

By the time they finished eating it was pouring outside and thunder and lightning could be heard. Star was curled up on the couch with a pillow over her head when Marco came into the living room. He sat down next to her and turned on the news to see what was supposed to be happening with the storm. It only looked like it was going to get worse. Another clap of thunder shook the house and Star sat straight up.

She shook her head, "Marco I don't like this."

"It's just a storm, it's ok." Seeing her like this kinda made him feel upset. He didn't want her to be scared or unhappy. He thought back to when he was younger. He used to be terrified of storms. H eventually grew out of it and sitting here now he wanted to help Star with her fear. He was surprised though that she was scared. I mean this girl fought monsters on a daily basis. He looked back over at her and stood up. He held his hand out to her to help her up. She put her hand in his and he pulled her up. "Come on, I know what will help." He led her upstairs to his room and sat her down on his bed. He walked over to his closet and started looking for his headphones and IPod for her to help block out the sound.

All of a sudden a bolt of lightning crashed across the sky, making the power go out. Star jumped up and ran over to the closet, She pushed Marco in and they both fell to the floor. Star reached up and closed the door.

"Star, the power just went out. It happens sometimes during storms." He tried to open the door but she pulled it closed again. He fixed himself on the floor so he was sitting with his legs crossed and his back against the wall. 'Looks like I'm not going anywhere.' He thought to himself. "Are you ok?" He hadn't heard her say anything for a while. He reached over to try and find her, his hand coming in contact with hers. He could tell her hands were covering her ear due to the fact he could feel hair as well. He scooted closer to her and brought his hands up to cup her face. He could feel that her cheeks were wet, signaling that she had been crying. Quickly, he wrapped his arms around her pulling her into a hug.

He ran his hand over her hair "Shh.. It's ok. I'm here." He tried his best to comfort her. He could feel his shirt slightly damped from her tears, as he continued to hug her. After sometime she lowered her hands from her ears and looked up at Marco. He felt her move a looked down at her.

"Thanks Marco," She whispered. "You're the best." She pulled away from him.

"Hey!" All of a sudden Marco's hand touched something on the floor. He picked it up and by feeling it he was able to tell that it was his headphones and Ipod. He turned it on and the light from the screen cut through the darkness. He hit play on a song and placed the headphones over Star's ears. The sound of the thunder and lightning was replaced with the sound of music pouring into her ears. She wrapped herself around Marco again and soon she fell asleep, lying against him. He tilted his head down and kissed the top of her head. "Night Star." And with that he fell asleep.

Out of all the ways to spend a Friday, Marco couldn't think of anything better than this moment.