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Ch. 1

The day was bright, and the day was good. At least, it probably was since Star was in the living room with the shades drawn watching her favorite show, and she'd been there since early that morning. She couldn't care less about how nice it was outside, or that the birds were singing, or that what she was doing right now was not the best for her mental health. What she cared about right now was that the main character was about to reveal something big, and if anyone disturbed her, she would-

"Star? Staar! It's time to go meet those new neighbors I told you about, the Diaz family!"

Right. Her mother existed. She'd nearly forgotten that. Just like she'd forgotten about the whole "greet people into the neighborhood (or whatever it was called)" committee her mom was in. "Ugh, mom, why do I have to go? You're the one part of that dumb committee thing!"

"I'm bringing Twizzlers."

"Okay never mind I'm in."

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Marco hated cleaning. Like, a lot. If cleaning had a face, he would punch it. But unfortunately, cleaning was a responsibility his mother had given him about twenty minutes ago when she gave him the news that they had guests coming over in less than half an hour. Marco had a sneaking suspicion that his parents were conspiring against him, not telling him when anything was happening until a half hour before the thing that was gonna happen happened. But he was getting off track. He took one final sweep of the broom and got everything on the floor into the dustpan, and dumped it into the trash can. Just in time too, as he heard the doorbell ring, and his mom answer the door.

Marco washed his hands (y'know cuz he was just touching a bunch of yucky stuff on the floor) and walked into the dining room. He offered a small smile to the lady and who he assumed was her daughter. The girl waved back, clearly bored of the whole thing and not really caring about anything in the room.

Except for the Twizzlers. She seemed especially fond of the Twizzlers.

"Marco, you want to show Star here the games?" Asked his mother.

So that was the girl's name. 'Actually that's a really weird name.' He thought to himself. 'Who names their kid that?'

"Marco? You in there?"

"What? Oh, right. Sure. Right this way." He lead her through the dining room to the living room where they kept the board games and chose a relatively easy one. "This game is pretty simple, Star. Basically you just put the pieces down and try and make the biggest pieces of land that you can. The bigger the land the more points you have. I think the highest number of points you can get is like fifty.

"Okay, sounds easy enough, lemme at it!" Star said, a bit too enthusiastically, punching her fists in the air for added effect.

"I'll go easy on you, since you're new at it and all."

Star beat Marco, 100-38.

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