It's me again! Here with a brand new story to show you all for your reading pleasure. Now a quick note, this story was started just before the season three movie … you know, the cluster of episodes that looked like it should have been the end of season two? Anyway, that's the context I was working with, and thankfully, things actually worked out for me with the events in the movie so I can work with the context of everything up to that point. Now a quick note, I am using two of my OC's in this story. Now I know a lot of people out there don't like it when I use my OC's but A, I had to in order to make some of the plot points work, B, it's been forever since I used them and I really want to include them in a proper story of mine, and C, it's my story. Now how about we get to the actual story?

Disclaimer: Star vs. the Forces of Evil characters belong to Daron Nefcy.

Marcus and Faith are my OC's

Beta read by Sabrina06

(No one's POV)

It was another wonderful day in Echo creek, the sun was shining, the birds were singing, and everyone's favorite dynamic pair of the blond haired princess Star Butterfly and her hoodie wearing best friend Marco Diaz were sitting across from each other eating breakfast while one of them was trying hard to bring up a specific conversation.

"So." Marco began awkwardly. "It's … really nice weather we've been having these past few days."

"Huh?" Star asked as she looked up. "Oh yeah, totally." She nervously returned to eating her breakfast, pretending to not have a care in the world. "It has been nice ever since we defeated Toffee."

"You Star." Marco clarified.

Star looked at Marco confused. "Huh?"

"You defeated Toffee."

"You were there." Star explained. "And I'm glad that you were."

"Yeah." Marco began as he stirred his cereal with his spoon. "Speaking of … us coming back … or more specifically … when you left-"

"I told you I was sorry, okay?" Star exclaimed. "I didn't mean to embarrass you in front of everyone like that, especially your girlfriend. It was rude, inconsiderate, unfriendly, and very … spur of the moment." She looked to the side and began playing with a strand of hair. "I'm sorry that I caused things to go sour between you two, it was never my intent, especially since the whole crush thing was just a-"

"Your confession had nothing to do with it!" Marco interrupted. "It's just … you were the only reason Jackie and I got together in the first place and after you left we … took things into perspective."

"Meaning that it was my fault."

"It wasn't …" Marco paused as he began to think about it. "Well … it's not like it could have been prevented, we were going to drift apart sooner or later." Marco let out a sigh. "Look, this … this isn't what I wanted to talk about."

"It isn't?" Star asked curiously. "Well … what is it then?"

Marco froze. Since Star left, and he broke up with Jackie, he's had more than enough time to think about how he felt about Star and realized that his feelings were anything but platonic, the only problem being he was no longer sure that she still felt the same way. "Uh … what … do we have planned for this week?"

"I haven't thought about it." She replied. "I mean … I thought that if I ever did defeat Toffee … I didn't think my mom would actually let me return, let alone want me to."

"Well, you did learn a lot here."

Star looked at the boy before her and felt her heart jump. "Yeah, I have." She said as she tried to hold back a blush. "So … what do you want to do this week?"

Marco paused to contemplate what she had asked him. "I don't know, I hadn't really thought about it either."

They continued to sit there, staring at each other awkwardly until the doorbell provided a welcome interruption. "I'll get it." Marco said as he jumped to his feet.

He made his way to the door, leaving the young princess by herself and allowing her to calm her racing heart. Star had more or less given up on the notion that her feelings for her best friend would go away, but she was more than determined to make sure that they wouldn't get in the way of things returning to normal. That task however was proving to be getting more difficult with each passing day.

After a moment, Marco returned holding a pile of mail. "It was only the mailman."

"Why didn't he just leave it in the mailbox?" Star asked.

Marco shrugged before sitting down and going through it. "Let's see … not important, not important, bill, not important …" He paused at a blue envelope and read who it was addressed to. "It's for you." He handed it to Star who looked at it quizzically as she took it and opened it.

"Oh." She exclaimed as she pulled out its contents. "Looks like I won."

"Won what?" Marco asked as he continued going through the mail.

"One of the contests I entered … now which one was this?"

"You don't even remember what contest you entered?"

"I entered a lot of them, I don't remember which one this is specifically." She took another look at it then smiled. "Oh … Love Sentence tickets."

"Wait, really?" Marco asked excitedly as he looked up from the mail. "That's amazing!"

"Yeah." Star replied half heartedly. "I mean … it's been awhile since we've gone so … yeah." She handed him the letter before going back to her breakfast. "I mean it would be nice and all … just the two of us … as friends of course … going to a Love Sentence concert."

"This is for six people."

"Huh?"

Marco looked down at the letter and began reading it. "Congratulations Star Butterfly, you have won our second place prize for you and up to five of your friends to attend the upcoming Love Sentence concert-" he stopped and looked up at her. "Always read the fine print."

"Oh." She said as she took the ticket back. "Well we can sell the rest of them, right?"

"It's one ticket for six people." Marco replied. "Plus they're tied to your name."

"Of course." Star said as she looked to the side. "So … we invite four more or it's wasted."

"Well … if you want to." Marco said as he scratched the back of his head.

Star looked up at him as she snapped to attention, her last trip to a Love Sentence concert was still fresh in her mind but she was determined to not let that stop her from having a good time with Marco and other friends. "We … could ask Alfonzo and Ferguson. I mean it's been forever since we've talked to them, so why not?"

"The concert is this Saturday, right?"

Star looked at the ticket and sure enough, the date was for the upcoming Saturday. "Yeah, this Saturday."

"Then I think they all ready have plans, plus, they're not the biggest fans of Love Sentence."

"Okay." Star said before looking down in thought. "How about … Kelly and Todd?"

"Didn't they break up not too long ago?" Marco asked.

"Yeah, but they got back together yesterday."

"Yeah, I mean this morning, I heard that they broke up again."

"I wouldn't put it past them." Star said as she ate another spoonful of cereal. "Let's put them on the bottom of the list." She paused for a minute before looking back at Marco. "What was the name of that boy with the name that sounds like yours?"

"Who?" Marco replied.

"You know, the guy with the fireworks."

"Marcus?" Marco asked. "His name doesn't sound that much like mine."

"Right." Star replied sarcastically. "Does he like Love Sentence?"

"I think so, if you want to invite him, then go right ahead." Marco swallowed a spoonful of cereal, then looked at Star. "If you're inviting him you might as well invite Faith as well."

"Who?" Star asked.

"The girl with the crutches."

Star looked back at the ticket then glanced back at Marco. "You're sure she will survive the experience?"

"You could ask her, but they're like best friends so you can't invite one without the other."

"Kinda like us." Star replied. "Okay then, that leaves two more."

"If Marcus and Faith say yes."

"Right, so how about Janna?"

Marco nearly choked on his breakfast. "Janna?" He asked. "I … well … they are your tickets, you can invite whomever you want."

"YAY!" Star exclaimed. "Now we need a fourth … Starfan?"

Marco looked up and sighed. "I think she's getting tickets anyway."

"What makes you say that?"

"A hunch, but we can still check." He turned around and faced the window behind him. "Hey Starfan, you have tickets to the concert?"

After a moment, Starfan's homemade headbands began slowly rising from the other side of the window along with the rest of her. "I got them as soon as I saw the letter in the mail."

Marco turned back to Star as Starfan ducked back behind the window. "There, see? She all ready has a ticket."

"Then we still need to find a sixth." Star noted.

"If Marcus, Faith, and Janna say yes that is." Marco added.

Star nodded then went back to eating. "I'm sure we'll find our sixth, but let's see what everyone else says first."

A quick note before I leave, I do plan to keep this POV seeing as people seem to like it when I keep one POV and I need to switch between characters so it's going to stick. Now about the upcoming chapters, I plan to finish the masked Charro on Monday, and my other story will be what's updated the week after. That means that this story isn't going to be updated for a whole two weeks, I'm sorry.

Enjoy your day and please leave your tears in the collection bucket.