Alright, so, to anyone who finds this, thanks for reading! This is my first story I've written and put out, so I'm sorry if it's not great, but I would really appreciate some constructive criticism in reviews of you can give it. Anyway, this, like probably any story I might write for some time, is just starco stuff that i had an idea for and thought I'd write. It takes place in the canon universe, but Star went back to Earth after Toffee was defeated, and this picks up soon after.

The song I used in the story is "Yesterday" by Paul McCartney. I don't own any of Nefcy's characters or story. Enjoy!

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Star gingerly lifted the wooden body up under her chin, raising the fingerboard a bit higher than is typical so that she could reacquaint herself with the mid-sized string instrument. She took a deep breath as her hand rose with a bit of a flourish, carrying the instrument's bow up to it's four strings. Star had first learned to play back on Mewni, when she was six or seven, and her mother had decided that she needed a hobby (besides hunting monsters). At first, the bubbly, impatient girl hated the long lessons, but once she was able to play some music she actually found interesting, Star found that she was really enjoying the instrument.

She played a bunch of songs, but she particularly liked a few of the songs she found in the Inter-Dimensional Library, where music and literature from the other dimensions were kept. Many of her favorites were from the Beatles (she had constantly questioned how little bugs had a band, before Marco explained to her that it was just their name), but she also enjoyed a lot of the less traditional holiday tunes as well. Really, she just liked getting sucked up in either a beautiful melody or a fast-paced slur of notes, both of which were readily available from Earth's song section in the library.

That's why when Marco had briefly mentioned the orchestra program at school, she went right a way, signed up, and plucked a viola off the shelf, posing to play one of the Beatles songs she could still remember, having used to play it often. Her normally energetic self calmed into a more pensive expression and as a deep, flowing melody escaped the metal-cord strings, she began to lightly sing along:

"Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away,"

Star was deep in thought as she played. When she used to play on Mewni, she was often like this. Playing helped slow her down and think about stuff. She didn't really know why this song stuck with her, but since she'd learned it, she'd play it whenever she needed to think about something that had happened. Something important, or life changing. And on her mind now, as she played McCartney's song about a breakup, she thought about Marco.

After Toffee, Star wasn't sure what would happen. When her parents finally told her they'd let her go back to Earth, she was ecstatic about finally getting to see Marco again. It had only been a week or two since Marco had left for Earth himself, but Star missed him like it had been years.

"Now it feels as though they're here to stay,"

After confessing to him in front of not only his girlfriend, but nearly half the school, though, she wasn't sure if Marco would even want her to come back. He had Jackie, the girl of his dreams, and Star had probably upset her big time with what she did. Marco wouldn't want to have to live with the embarrassment she would bring him in front of everyone who had heard her that night. She was so selfish; why would Marco want her to come back? He already had everything he had wanted, and she was only getting in the way of his happiness.

"Oh, I believe in yesterday."

Even so, she couldn't keep herself from wanting to go back. When she finally did though, she was happy to find that Marco had missed her too. Summer had just ended and the new school year was beginning. It was the second week of school when Star stood in the orchestra room, delicately drawing sweet chords from the viola. Things were getting back to the way they were before. It was nice.

"Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be,"

But things weren't the same. Not for her at least. When she confessed to Marco she also kind of confessed to herself. Before that, she could deny it if she wanted. Even after the Blood Moon Ball, she could tell herself that she had just wanted to spend more time with her best friend. That that was all she wanted. Nothing more.

"There's a shadow hanging over me,"

Star wished that day had never happened. She wished she could go back to before she told him; before she admitted it to herself. Seeing Marco with Jackie was horrible, invoking one of the worst feelings Star ever had: jealousy. It was driving the two of them apart as Star would actively avoid seeing the two of them together. Moving lunch tables, sitting on the opposite side of the classroom, walking home alone. The worst part for her was that Marco didn't seem to be noticing. For all that, she couldn't help but hate herself for the fact that she loved him so much.

"Oh, yesterday came suddenly."

A flow of tears came trickling down her cheeks as she played now, and just after the last line her hand jerked, tearing a jagged note in the melody. A moment passed, and as she collected herself, wiping the tears from her face, she started again.

"Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away,

Now it feels as though they're here to stay,

Oh, I believe in yesterday.

Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be,

There's a shadow hanging over me,

Oh, yesterday came suddenly.

Why, she had to go I don't know, she wouldn't say.

I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday!

Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play

Now I need a place to hide away

Oh, I believe in yesterday

Why she had to go I don't know she wouldn't say

I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday

Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play

Now I need a place to hide away

Oh, I believe in yesterday"

Tears began to stream now as Star thought about what had happened between her and Marco. It was her fault. She was breaking the close friendship that the two of them had. Things could never go back to the way they used to be. She and Marco couldn't be besties anymore, because she was greedy and jealous and wanted to be more than friends. She wanted to hold his hand everywhere they went. She wanted to snuggle up close to him when she was cold. To kiss him. To be with him, every second she could.

As she lowered the viola and placed it back in its case, her movements became shakier, giving way to the fountain of tears that were beginning to well up in her. She rushed out of the room, nearly colliding with Marco who had been coming to get her so they could go home. She didn't pay him any mind though as she charged out of the room, looking for someplace to hide and cry her heart out.

"Star! Wait! What's wrong?" Marco called out to her as she turned the corner, slipping into a closet nearby. Marco rushed after her stopping in front of the closet when he heard Star's sobbing. He thought about trying the door, but thought better on barging in on her. She was obviously upset, and it seemed as though she'd gotten it in her head that she couldn't talk to him about it. "Star, come on, please let me in. What happened?"

Star's cries became a bit slower as she pushed the door open from the upturned bucket she was sitting on. Marco came over and knelt down next to her, pulling her in for an embrace. They stayed there like that for a moment, but Star began to sob harder, pulling away from him.

"I- I sh-, I think I should ju-, just go!" She cried though intermittent sobs, shoving her face into her hands.

"What are you talking about Star? You can talk to me. What hap-"

"No Marco, I mean I should go back to Mewni! You're happy here with Jackie and all I'm doing is getting in the way of that! I've seen the way she looks when we hang out; I don't want to ruin that for you!"

There was silence as Star could feel Marco's stare fixed on her" Star pulled away from her hands and her tear-laden eyes met Marco's. And for a moment, just a moment, there was silence, as Star looked at him for a response. All she wanted was reassurance, something, anything but silence, just so that she didn't feel like she had to go. Like she was right about everything.

But Marco's eyes began to tear up in stunned silence, so she pulled further from him and rushed back out the closet, and just ran. Ran anywhere, just away, she didn't care where. She just wanted to leave.

"Star! No! Wait!" Marco rushed after her. He left the closet just in time to see her speeding down the hallway toward the exit of the building. He began wiping the tears from his face in favor of a look that can only really be described as… determined. Determined that after the last time she ran away crying, he wouldn't let her leave again. Determined to tell her what he had first come to tell her. Tell her how he felt.

With an almost inhuman speed, Marco chased Star down, hoping to God, to anyone that could hear him, that he could catch her before she did something stupid. He bolted out of the school after her, dropping his bag on the side of the road to pick up his pace. It wasn't until they found themselves approaching the Diaz household that Marco started to gain on her as her shaking form fumbled with the doorknob. As she opened the door, Marco nearly tackled her, sending the two of them onto the floor in the house together, Star in Marco's arms.

Star's weeping grew quieter and her movements more tired as she gave up trying to rip herself free of Marco's caring embrace. As she calmed down, Marco turned her around and pulled her deeper into his arms, quietly pushing the door closed with his foot and motioning his parents, who had gathered around the two of them lying on the floor to see the spectacle, away with his head. This was something between him and Star and he wanted it to stay that way. No nosey parents watching them.

The two of them slowly got to their feet, Marco still holding Star, and Star finally giving in to holding onto Marco as well. For a while, there were no words between them. No spoken message was sent or received. But in his arms Star could feel just how much he cared for her. It made her feel guilty, almost, for trying to leave. But she said nothing, and neither did he, and the pair just stood, locked in an embrace. It was several minutes before Marco pulled away from her, giving her a sad smile, which she weakly returned.

"Come on Star, let's head upstairs, we can talk there."

They pulled open Marco's bedroom door, Star taking a seat on his bed while Marco pulled out the chair from his desk. The two sat in silence; Star, now feeling the guilt of what she had tried to do set in, tried to do anything she could to avoid Marco's gaze out of shame. Marco, on the other hand was looking down at his feet, trying to figure out where to start. After a few more moments, he looked up at her and began:

"Jackie and I broke up, Star."

"Marco..." Star gasped, going wide-eyed. "I… I'm sorry… It's my fault, I shouldn't-"

"Star don't you dare say it's your fault!" He cut her off, sighing, "It just, wasn't working out. When we started dating, I didn't think I could ever dream of anything more. But earlier today I realized that I had, and not only was it making me unhappy that I wasn't chasing that dream, it was making Jackie unhappy too. So, as much as I wish it could have worked out, I... broke up with her."

"But… Marco, you-"

"Star, I'm in love with you." Marco sputtered out, cutting her off. Star's eyes shot up, opening even wider, tears beginning to well up again. "I think, whenever you told me before you… left, to deal with Toffee, that's when I realized I had been too, ever since the Blood Moon Ball. I guess you only really know what you have when it's gone," he smiled weakly, still looking down at his feet. "I know I should have told you before, but I… I kind of needed to tell myself too I guess," he finished, finally picking his head up to look at her, only to be greeted by a flash of her hair as she pressed her lips against his, catching him by surprise.

While it only lasted a few seconds, for the two of them, it could have been years that they were locked in heavenly passion. As they slowly and reluctantly pulled away, Marco stared into Star's perfectly deep, beautifully blue irises, and Star reflected the gaze into his chocolatey brown ones, holding their moment of peace and love together for as long as they could before the snap of a camera caught their attention.

The love birds jumped back from each other, fiercely glaring at the two figures standing in Marco's now open doorway.

"Mom! Dad! What are you doing!?" Marco yelled.

"Mijo, that was your first kiss that wasn't with your mother! We had to get a picture so we can put it in our book of pictures you didn't want us to take of you!" Marco's dad responded, burning a deep red onto Marco's cheeks.

"DAD! Didn't you see me trying to get you two to leave us alone downstairs? And anyway, I kissed Jackie before so you missed your chance!"

"Oh Mijo, that was downstairs, and now you're up here so we thought it was fine. And even if you did kiss Jackie before, this is you first kiss with the girl you really like!" his mother returned. Star, who had begun chuckling throughout the beginning of the exchange flushed a deep shade of crimson as well, sending Marco's parents into their own fits of laughter. "Well, we'll leave you two to it now, just don't do anything either of you will regret!"

"Yes, we do not want grandchildren quite yet son." Marco's dad said with a laugh as the two of them shuffled down the stairs back into the kitchen.

After a minute passed, and the couple moved to sitting on the bed, Marco spoke up, "Well that was… unnecessarily awkward."

"Yeah, you're right… So, what does this make us, then?"

"I dunno, I guess… are we dating now then?" Marco asked with a hopeful smile.

"Not yet we're not," Star jeered with a smirk. As Marco opened his mouth to ask, Star's lips shot onto his and they shared another blissful kiss. "We, dearest Marco, need to go on a date first."

Once again, thank you so much for reading. I'm still figuring out how FF works, so thanks for putting up with any mistakes I made in that regard. And if you have the time, please leave a review if you can, it would be greatly appreciated!