Star happily sang, skipped, and danced around her friend Marco as he carried their volcano diorama. They were happy to get an "A" on their project.
As she was dancing, she flipped and spun around the Royal Magic Wand from her magical home dimension of Mewni; accidentally releasing purple and pink bunnies and squirrels behind her. It was a small purple wand with a blue ball on top with a yellow star inside, white wings on its sides, and a small yellow crown on top.
"We nailed that project!" Star said as another purple squirrel jumped out of her wand. "All thanks to your incredible sciencey knowledge."
"Actually Star, it's your magic that made this great!" Marco said and he high-fived Star. "What did you use for lava?"
Marco made the volcano out of rocks in his backyard and wrote the descriptions of the volcano's vents. Star drew the sunny background and added the lava. She originally wanted to use real lava for the project, but it burned through Marco's bedroom floor. It was useful for some good barbecue, though.
"I don't know!" Star joyfully said. "It was just a little something I whipped up from my wand!" Star was twirling her wand and accidentally made the volcano erupt hot orange gloop.
"Take cover!" Someone shouted and students scurried around to avoid the gloop. Many held their books and binders over their heads and hid under tables and inside classrooms.
"Oh, sorry!" Star shouted. She shot rainbows from her wand that stopped the volcano. The entire campus was covered in the orange gloop.
But when you're friends with Princess Star Butterfly of Mewni, you know this is nothing. When Star first got her wand from her mother, the Queen of Mewni, she couldn't handle its power and accidentally set a rainbow of fire over her whole kingdom. So, she was sent to train away from the magical craziness on Earth.
"NO!" Principal Skeeves shouted. "The homework room is burnt to pieces!"
"No homework? Awesome!" Someone shouted. And the students cheered and thanked Star.
"You're all welcome! Sweet!" Star shouted. "No homework for dayzz!"
"And more video games!" Marco delightfully shouted, as a big pile of hot gloop fell on his head. He screamed and ran for the boys' toilet.
When Marco came out dripping, Star blew some wind from her wand and made his hair look like a brown tumbleweed.
"Get yo' Valentines!" their friend and fellow spirit committee officer Ferguson shouted through a red and white megaphone. He was jumping around the quad, throwing around red and pink heart-shaped cards and rectangular ones with heart-shaped lace.
"Get yo' Valentines! Get yo' Valentines, Echo Creek Oppossums! Get 'em at the spirit committee room for just a dollar! Show all your love to the people you love with an Echo Creek Valentine! And the ladies love it when you show them your love."
Ferguson slid toward a tall, slender girl with long brown hair and pulled up his black shirt to show a funny face he drew.
"Hey cutie..." Ferguson said smoothly, moving the mouth on his flabby belly. "You wanna be my valentine?"
He handed her a red heart, but the girl scoffed and walked away.
"Get yo' valentines!" he said again, trying not to lose his smile.
Star smiled and her eyes grew into two shiny blue marbles; she thought of how sweet it would be to give all her friends Valentines. And especially to her crush, the keytar musician who hates his mom, Oskar, a red heart-shaped Valentine with an even redder rose. And then they would go off into the clouds with to see flying hearts, mermaids swim in puppy drool, and centaurs ride on candy sleighs.
"Valentine's Day looksso cute!" Star said. "So that's when you give cards to the people you love?"
"Pretty much," Marco replied.
Star's smile got bigger. "Excuse me Marco, I gotta go get me some Valentines!"
Star excitedly dashed to the spirit committee room on the other side of campus. As she ran, she saw spirit committee members greeting her as they werr putting posters advertising Valentines all over the place. It all sounded too good to be true.
A holiday where you give people you love a pretty card? she thought. Why isn't there something like this on Mewni? Maybe I should have Dad declare Valentine's Day a Mewman holiday!
The bratty spirit committee president Brittney Wong was sitting at a plastic table that was covered in Valentines in front of their office; with her legs crossed on top, calling for everyone to buy Valentines.
"Hey Awesome Opposums! she shouted through her own red and white megaphone. "Come get your Echo Creek Valentines for just a dollar!"
"And be sure to send them all to me..." she sneakily said off the megaphone.
"Brittney!" Star called.
"Ugh...Star Buttcheeks." Brittney said, frowning, "What do you want?"
The lovely heart-shaped and rectangle cards glittered in Star's eyes in all shades of lavender, pink, peach, coral, white and red.
"Pretty..." She said, intrigued. "So, I just heard about this Valentine's Day thing. And I need fifty of them!" Star quickly said. "Wait, I need something to carry them in!"
"FIFTY?" Brittney shouted.
Star took her pink wand and pointed it at the ground. Rainbows shot out and there appeared a small bottomless wooden basket.
"Hmmm...needs more Valentine's flair," Star said.
She pointed her wand down again and now the basket a bow on top its handle with a pink ribbon spiraling around it and the basket itself was covered in a white cloth with pink hearts on its sides.
"There we go!" Star exclaimed.
Brittney snickered.
"Sabrina!" she called militantly.
Sabrina, a nervous cheerleader with a short brown ponytail quickly sped out of the Spirit Committee room.
"Yes, Brittney!"
"Get Star Butterfly fifty Valentines."
"Yes, Brittney! Hi Star!"
"Hi Sabrina!" Star replied.
As Sabrina went back into the spirit room to get 50 Valentines, Brittney let out some sarcastic laughter.
"Star, who do you think on Valentine's Day would want one of these from you? I mean you're so weird and crazy and you're just stuck on your wittle Mewmi planet or wherever you're from. Besides there's no way you could fit fifty of them in your stupid basket or even afford them. "
Star handed Sabrina the $50 she got from when Marco's parents celebrated her 131st day on Earth.
Brittney kept going, "I mean this Valentine's Day, I'm gonna be the one getting all the Valentine's. I'm the prettiest, richest, smartest-"
"Thanks guys!" Star said, as she quickly left with her basket.
Marco was at his locker, putting his books into his backpack.
"C'mon, Marco, let's go!" Star shouted, as she hurriedly put her books and the volcano diorama in her basket.
"Hold up Star! It's 3:00," Marco said.
"Wha-?"
Just as Marco turned around, someone was coming through on her skateboard.
"Hey Jackie!" Marco called and nodded. It was Jackie Lynn Thomas, the tanned skateboarding girl he was in love with since kindergarten. And he loved every second of his brief gaze at her. The light blue highlight coming down the left side of her short, fluffy blond hair. The gorgeous orange seashell necklace. The purple helmet with a blue shell on the sides. And those big, beautiful aqua blue eyes.
"Whaddup, Star and Marco!" Jackie said, and nodded back as she did a flip and skated away.
"Hi Jackie!" Star replied, waving her hands.
"Yep, can't forget my 2:57 nod," Marco said. "There's the 7:56 nod before school, the 10:02 nod at the start of snack, the 1:00 before lunch and the 2:57 afterschool," Marco explained to Star. He couldn't go home without that last nod.
A thought struck Star as the two pink hearts on her cheeks turned into yellow light bulbs.
"Y'know, I could give you one of my Valentine's for you to give to Jackie," Star said. Getting Marco and Jackie together would make her Valentine's Day.
"Uhh...I don't think so. I'm not there yet on my 23-step plan," Marco said as he unfolded a large piece of paper from his front hoodie pocket.
"I just got to step 5 the other day: talk to Jackie. Step 6 is giving a Valentine,"
Star gasped. "Perfect opportunity! Besides, you should do more than just say 'hi' to her. And what better day to get you two together than the day of love? I'll even help you write it! Then you could bring the Valentine with your nachos in the shape of a heart with meat and sour cream in the middle!"
Star drew a glowing pink heart in front of her with her wand, and it burst into flames. She kept smiling.
"Uh...no," Marco said.
Star then sprayed the flaming heart with water and accidentally got Marco wet. She then blasted some more air to dry him off and his funky looking hair gave Star another idea.
"Hmmm...how 'bout taking her to that street racing movie?"
Star began acting out an action movie.
"There's lots of shooting and fancy cars racing and punching and kicking and
heard the main character falls in love! What a coincidence!" Star sighed with her arms around herself.
Another thought struck Star and she gasped. "I could give you a nice haircut!" Star pressed a button on her wand and out popped nozzles that shot shaving cream and mousse, then rows of gigantic razors, then gear-shaped blades, and then scissors.
"No!" Marco screamed in terror.
"Oh...OK," Star said, as she hurriedly pressed the button to put the blades back. "Hmm...maybe something sweeter...something gentler...Hey I know! We could set up tea for you two! I could ask my mom for some good Mewman teas! They're really sweet, especially when you add lots and lots of honey!"
"No!"
"Putting the Valentine in a heart-shaped box of chocolates?"
"No!"
"Give her one of my perfumes?"
"No!"
"Give her a shiny necklace from a crystal dimension?"
"No!"
Marco and Star went back and forth all the way home. She lived with Marco after he was assigned to be her guide, since he was considered "the safest kid in school." By the time they got to the house, Marco's face was a nervous red balloon ready to pop and he had pulled up his red hood.
"You could take her to that new Italian place! I heard they make great spaghetti!"
"No," Marco said as he went up the stairs to his room.
"You could take her to a Scum Bucket concert!"
"No!"
"You could say in the Valentine you'll cheer her on everyday when she skates at the beach!"
"No!"
"Go see a movie with her? Wait...I already said that."
Marco was about to enter his room.
"Hey, what if you took her to dance classes?" Star held out an ad for a free lesson she cutout from a magazine she found.
"Oh, who am I kidding?" Star tossed the magazine. " You're a great dancer!"
Star took Marco's hands and started waving them around.
"C'mon Marco! I know you can dance!"
But Marco threw their hands down.
"No Star! I'm not ready for this!
He slammed the door.
Star's plain face widened to a grin.
"I'm totally gonna hook 'em up," she whispered.
"No!"
Marco then threw his backpack on his computer chair and laid on his bed, sighing with his hands on his face.
Why would I give Jackie a Valentine? he thought. I mean talk about awkward. What if she thought I was asking her out? What if then and there, Jackie would laugh and never want to talk to me again? He hoped Star wouldn't bring that up again. Since she was going to be writing a lot of Valentines and the big day was on Friday, which was only four days away, she probably would be too busy. Marco knew his friend was only trying to help, but now wasn't the right time. He felt he could rest easy now.