On a small bed, at a small house of a small town known as Echo Creek, a young boy can be seen, sighing to himself.
"Okay Marco, you can do this." The boy known as Marco said to himself. He has planned all of it out, even though it is greatly risky.
Marco stood up from his bed, taking a deep breath and muttering all of his courage, ready to do what he has planned.
He walks slowly but surely toward the door of his life, the only obstacle left between him and his life goal…
And he knocks it a several times, ready for the challenge of his life.
Despite his attempt to calm down, his body still can't stop shaking in fear, scare of what he about to do.
"Come on Marco! YOU CAN DO THIS!" Marco said to himself. "You can definitely do it's, you have been preparing this for months now."
But soon enough, his anxious side of his brain starts to taking over.
"OH GOD! WHAT WAS I THINKING? THERE NO WAYS THAT I CAN POSSIBLY DO THIS! I GOT TO GO NOW BEFOR-!"
Marco train of thought was soon cut mid-way as the door before him slowly swing open, causing him to jump back and yelp in surprise, falling hard to the floor.
"Marco! Are you alright?" A honey-sweet voice asked with concern.
Marco groan, slowly standing up to look at the owner of the voice.
She wore a sea green dress with a white collar, white lace on the sleeves and bottom, and a cute light purple squid design on the front. Her hair was long, wavy and golden. The girl's face was milky white, with large sapphire eyes and pink heart marks on her cheeks.
The girl was stunningly gorgeous, like a painting of a goddess brought to life. She smiled sweetly at Marco, her eyes sparkling like stars flaunted on the night sky.
Marco was quickly lost in her beauty, he seem to lost track of time as he stare at her gorgeous eyes, his cheeks redden at the sight. Although a part of him was screaming in embarrassment and told him to stop, he just can't stop staring at the beauty.
This was unnoticed however, as the girl blushing, for she was also staring at Marco dazzling brown eyes and his handsome features. After a while of staring dreamingly at each other, she quickly broke the silence.
"Umm, good morning Marco." The girl stuttered, still blushing. "What are you here for? We don't have classes today."
Marco quickly stood up, still blushing but it's enough for him to talk.
"Ah-ah ye-yeah. I'm her-here to as-ask you something." Marco stuttered out.
"Oooohhh, what do you want to ask me Marco?" The girl said with curiosity in her voice.
This however, only served to make Marco even more embarrassed. He really considering backing down and find another opportunity sometimes else.
"NO! NOT THIS TIME MARCO!" He thought to himself "There no going back now!"
"Uhh, yeah. I heard there is something called Chinese New Year celebration that's really cool, so I was wondering if you want to go and see it?'"Marco felt extremely nervous, his mind is screaming in terror right now.
"OH GOD! WHAT IF SHE DOESN'T ACCEPT? WHAT IF SHE THINKS I'M ASKING HER ON A DATE?" He thought. "NO NO NO! Calm yourself Marco. This is Star we talking about! There is no way that she will think that I'm asking her on a date." Marco reassured himself. He was calm by that thought. He keeps forgetting that Star is really carefree and oblivious most of the times. There is no ways that she will ever figure it out.
"Marco, are you asking me on a date?" Star said like it's the most obvious thing in the world.
If someone could see Marco expressions, then they would see Marco froze into a cube of ice.
"WHAT! No-no! I-I just want to see if you like to go with me and see this. You knows, do something "normal" sometime." Marco lied.
He hates to lie to Star but there is no way he will admit that he asking her on a date.
"Oh, okay." Star said with a bit of sadness in her voice, which is unnoticed by Marco. "Is this like the New Year Celebration we did last month?"
"It's kind of like it." Marco is still shaking from Star question earlier. He didn't know how come Star managed to figure it out, but she did. He mentally curses Ferguson and Alfonzo for making him do this. He swear he going to-!
His thought was cut short by a beeping sound coming from his wrist.
"OH NO! WE ARE GOING TO BE LATE!" Marco panicked. The beeping sound coming from his wrist was his alarm clock. According to it, he only has five minutes left.
"WHAT IS IT MARCO?" Star asked with concern.
"WE WILL BE LATE FOR THE CELEBRATION IF WE DON'T HURRY! C'MON STAR LET'S GO!" Marco screamed, pulling out a dimensional scissor from his pocket.
Ever since the Castle Incident 8 months ago, Star gave him a dimensional scissor and an emergency equipment in case he got kidnap. Marco have been keeping it with him every days after that, which unfortunately, made Star's job of teasing him as the "safe kid" even easier.
Taking a moment of concentration, Marco opens a blue portal and push Star into it.
"Woooaaaahhh…" Star said in awe as she looked at her surroundings. The place is full and full of peoples, the streets is cover with peoples walking around in strange yet beautiful clothes she had never seen before. There are beautiful red lantern hanging all over the houses, strange food stands that smell really nice and best of all, some sort of firecracker that the children are playing with.
"Woahhhh…" Marco had the same reaction, he saw the pictures on the internet and all, but seeing this with his own eyes was far better.
"THIS. PLACE. IS. AWESOME!" Star suddenly burst out. She just can't hold her excitement at these new things. All of all sudden, Star hug Marco and gave him the biggest and cutest smile he has ever seen.
"THANK YOU MARCO!" Marco blushed furiously at her warm hug and smile.
"Uh-uhh ye-yeah. It's no-nothing!" He stuttered out.
"NOTHING? THIS IS AWESOME! THANK YOU SO MUCH MARCO!" She tighten her hug on him even more, making Marco blushed even harder, to the point he think he would faint.
Lucky for him, Star released him before pulling him to a food stands.
"Let's go Marco! There is so much to see!" Marco just can't help but gave her a goofy smile at her antic, even with his red cheeks.
"Sure!"
"That's was so awesome Marco!" Star said with a happy expression.
In the last two hours, she and Marco had been running around, trying foods and various clothes. There were so many cool and good foods here, such as Chinese dumplings, pasta and roast chickens. They are so much like at that Chinese restaurant but even better. Star even got herself a set of Chinese traditional clothes which she is wearing right now.
Marco got to admit, she looks really good in those clothes. Sure, he burn a lot of Chinese moneys for those clothes, but it's was worth it if he get to see she so happy and beautiful. Thank to his brilliant planning and saving for months to exchange his money for yuan- as the local peoples call moneys, he got enough to pay for all of their meal and clothes.
Guess that those two idiotic friends of him are actually helpful for once.
"Marco, what are they doing?" Marco snapped out of his thought and looks at the gathering crowd.
"They are preparing the fireworks." Marco answered as he looked at his clock. "It's almost 12. They are about to launch the fireworks."
"FIREWORKS? THIS DAY CAN'T GET ANY BETTER!" Star screamed in excitement. "Buttt…"
"But what Star?" Marco asked with a bit of concern in his voice. Star is clearly up to something.
"Flashy Cloud Plane!" Star yelled as she hold her wand up in the air. Soon enough, Marco found himself on a cloud above everyone else.
It's high enough for the both of them to see the fireworks, but not too high to get hit by it.
"I want the best sits for the both of us. After all," Star smile warmly at him. "You are my best friend."
"Uhh, ye-yeah." Marco said a bit sad.
After all this effort, every thing he had prepare, Star still only think he as a friend.
Maybe he just as might give up, Star will never like him. She only like stupid bad boy, like that stupid Oskar.
God, how much he hate being a "safe kid".
"No! I won't give up that easily! I will do everything to get her!" Marco mind screamed.
However, it didn't go unnoticed by Star.
"Hehehee, you're really are an idiot Marco." Star said teasingly, as she puts her finger on Marco nose. "But you're my idiot."
She imediately clap her hand over her mouth once she realize what she just said.
"St-Star?" Marco brain officially shutdown from Star's words.
"I-I mean you are my idiot friend. Ye-yeah, that what I said." Star cheek flushed in embarrassment.
"Umm, yeah." Marco respond dumbly.
Soon enough, an awkward silence is upon them for none of them know what to say to the others.
*BOOM*
The duo jumped back in surprise, only to behold a magnificent sight.
Dancing above in the sky were bright sparks of colours which illuminated the dark, black sky. The night was filled with loud and colourful explosions of flickering ignite in the atmosphere. It was like a dance of colours above them. It seemed as if the sun was shining bright at night and they had a "sunny night" instead of "sunny day!" The glimmering sparks of fire looked as vivid as a shelf full of food colours.
The neon ostentatious orange and yellow fire-like flamy splash of fluorescent thin threads exitingly bursted in the sky as if disco lights were rotating rather pirouetting from the top of the planet. It seemed like a curvy rainbow had changed shape into broad and bright spiky stars and twirled erraticly. Many of them harmoniously exploded in a ear-splitting yet a unique flowing sound as if they were frizzling intoxicatingly. Emerald green, sapphire blue, tourmaline pink, amethyst purple and red garnet flashed in the clear black background in a smooth slideshow-like display ,continuously featuring a dash of all these electrifying colours which were twisting like a whole paint pallete being mixed then splattered together to create a improvised piece of art on one gigantic canvas. The gleams of radiant colours were as captivating and scintillating as the iridescent gemstone, ammolite.
"Woooaaaahhhhh..." The duo said in awe. They were both stunned by the beautiful sight before them.
Sure, they do have fireworks in Eva New Year but this was beyond that.
The duo stared silently at the beautiful scene before them. Their eyes were glued to the beautiful colors and sky.
Well, one of them at least.
Marco only looks to the sky for a bit, before some unknown force make him turn around and secretly gaze at Star.
He can't help but opens his mouth in awe.
Star- his best friend, the girl princess from another dimension, the one who always put him into so much trouble, the one who is a great friend, the one who always save him from the monster or the trouble he can't get out himself, the friend who always tried to match him with Jackie.
All of that, make him forget that she also a girl.
And a very beautiful girl at that.
Right now, Marco is staring at her beautiful, glistened golden hair swaying across the wind, her red dress covering her, revealing her slim but sculpted figure. The dress hugging her body tightly, but not too tight, only enough to increase her womanly look, that and the black sky seem to illuminate her overall feauture, making her look like a beautiful goddess, not a 15 years old girl.
Marco really didn't regret those money that he spent for her dress.
He started to think how thing have gone this ways. And he remembers about Jackie and Oskar.
"Grhh, that Oskar jerk!" Marco thought in anger.
He remembers back about 3 months ago, Star was able to asked Oskar to be her boyfriend. But only one week later, she returned home crying uncontrollably. She refused to talk to Marco and lock herself in her room for days. Only after 3 days of being too worry about her, Marco picklock her door, and come in to talk to her.
Unfortunately, too startled of someone enter her room, she blasted Marco.
Right in the groin.
Really, really hard.
Her spell sent him flying at the wall, and he swears he can still feel it like it was just yesterday. He had to go to the hospital a couple day after that.
After sometimes recovering, Star finally confronted him. She instantly tackled him in a tight hug as she burst out crying and said sorry constantly.
Marco took a lot of time convincing her that he was fine. Finally after she stop crying, he managed to asked her why she was crying and acting strange like that.
Only to make Star broke into tear again.
Star told him that, when she go and look for Oskar at the band concert he told her to go to, she overheard his conversation with the band that appeared to be his friends.
She heard that he told the band that he only using Star for his own fame. Her popularity will be able to drawn many peoples to his concert and listening to his music, as what he told the band. He said he will ditches her after he is famous himself, that she just a stupid and blind girl. Soon enough, he regretted his words as Star blasted him with a spell that make him had a terrible rash for the rest of his life.
Marco took a lot of time to comfort her. But after some nachos and awesome action movies night, she returned to the cheery and reckless Star he knows. Marco planned to punch the daylight out of Oskar if he ever seen him again. Unfortunately for Marco, Oskar stopped go to school before he can do it, and no one know where Oskar lives.
As for Jackie, Marco confessed to her a few weeks after that, but she told him that she wasn't interested, and it's was Marco turn to lock himself in the door and crying to himself. So it was Star turn to comfort her. Only that it's just a bit different.
Well, a bit different mean dimensional travel to Candy Kingdom to eat candy and Gem Battlefield to fight a green shape-shifting monster. It's was great for both Marco and Star. Star made him forget about the crush with Jackie completely.
And made him has a crush for Star instead.
Ever since then, he would blush when Star hugged him, hard to look at Star without having his cheek heating up. And he would try anything to win Star affection.
Unfortunately for him, somehow Ferguson and Alfonzo, the two friends of his noticed this. And now, well… here he is, sitting with his crush-friend and looking at the beautiful sky.
"Hey Marco, isn't the fireworks beautiful?" Star suddenly asked, as she still looking at the show in the sky.
"Yeah." Marco said, still thinking dreamingly about Star. "But not as beautiful as you though."
This made Star turn her head to look at Marco at an insane speed.
"W-What?" Star said, her cheeks flushed in embarrassment at Marco comment.
Snapped out of his thought, Marco immediately clapped his hand over his mouth with both hand. The boy turns pink once he realized what he just said.
"I-I mean-!"
Star burst out laughing but before Marco could voice his concern Star smiled happily in his direction.
"Marco, you are such an idiot." Star words made Marco blushed even harder. "You could have just told me about it and I would have accepted it." Star's smile still stay there, only this time, she was blushing a bit (lot).
"W-What ar-are you talking about? I don't k-know anythi-! W-Wait, did you just said you would have accepted it?" Marco asked in disbelief. Surely he just heard that wrong, right?
And it's was Star turn to blush furiously.
"Ye-Yeah." Star stuttered. "Why didn't you just tell me about it Marco?"
"I-I because I-! Wait, how did you know I asked you on a date?" Marco cheeks turn red at the word "date", but still tried to look as serious as possible. Which to Star eyes, was adorable.
And she let out a laugh, much to Marco confusion.
"Ma-Marco. You had been muttering about your "master plan" the whole time. You really think I won't notice it?" Star said through her laughter.
Marco brain drop dead from her words.
"Uh, hey Marco? Are you there?" Star said as she waved her hand at his face, trying to bring him back to reality. After a while with no response from her, she snapped her finger in front of him.
Marco finally snap back to reality.
Only to let out a loud manly (girlish) scream.
"I…I HAD BEEN TALKING ABOUT IT THE WHOLE TIME?" Marco screamed loud enough to make a dragon go deaf.
The poor boy just can't believe it! He had been muttering it out loud for Star to hear it the whole time! The boy clap his hand over his face in despair and sorrow. This is it. He just wants to die and get away from this embarrassment right now.
"OH GOD WHY? GOD JUST LET ME DI-!" He thought but disappear as he realized what Star said to him before. "Wa-Wait, did she just said she would go on the date with me if I just asked? Do-does she lik-like me?" Marco blushed madly at the thought.
"YES, I LIKE YOU MARCO!" Star shouted loudly.
The shock on Marco's face was nothing compared to Star's, her eyes fearful while she covered her hand with both hands, wand across her lip as if sealing from any more outburst.
What was she thinking? Why did she just confessed to Marco like that? She can feel all of her blood rushed to her cheeks thank to her stupidity. C'mon! Think of an excuse fast!
"I-I like you too Star…" Marco stuttered.
"I-I mean I like you like-!" Star halt to a stop at her excuse as her brain progress what Marco just said. "Y-You like me too Marco?" Marco could only nod in embarrassment while avoiding looking at her.
"Bu-but when?" Star look at Marco as she waited for an answer.
"Sinc-since when you comfort me the day that Jackie rejected me." Marco look away to hide his blush. "Then I realized how much you mean to me Star. Everything you did for me, you changed my whole life. You've always been there to cheer me up, bringing me to the fun, even saving my life. And I keep thinking about Jackie and forget about who is truly matter to me."
Star cheeks heated up at his comment. She truly mean to him like that?
"Thanks Marco."
"Huh? Thank about what? I should be the one thanking." Marco asked in confusion.
"About everything Marco. You have always been there for me too. You always help me got out of the trouble I got us in. You always ready to fight monster and teach me thing that I don't understand. And when I learnt about Oskar, you were the one that comfort me. Even when I hit you like that, you still care about me more than yourself. I-I don't know what I would do without you Marco."
"Oskar. That terrible jerk…" Marco muttered darkly.
The mentioning about Oskar angered Marco greatly. He tighten his fist and mentally swear that he would make sure Oskar won't be walking again the next time he see him.
He immediately relaxed himself the moment he found Star looking at him with a mixture of worry and fear.
"Oskar, that jerk… I don't understand what I like about him in the first place. All because of his stupid music…" Star said with a bit of anger. "He didn't even give me a bit of interest in the first place."
"Yeah… We could all agree that if we ever seen Oskar again, we will punch him in the face."
Both Star and Marco laughed at that statement. But it's soon to cease as soon as the two made eyes contact.
And stare at each other.
Marco could feel his heart racing like a horse as he stared at Star in front of him. Her dress seem to reflect the light upon the sky, giving her a beautiful radiant glow. Her hair was done in an upwards bun with two curly strains on either side of her face, framing it perfectly. But the most beautiful, was her eyes. Her eyes seem to glow, reflecting all of the stars in the sky, making it as if her eyes were the universe itself. And those big, magnificent eyes that could make sapphires envious, making blue diamonds pale in comparison, staring at Marco, as if looking deep into his soul. He was deeply hypnotize by her eyes, he was lost in those eyes and he was driven by instinct.
And slowly leaning closer to her.
She was staring at Marco as well. With his light brown hair gelled backwards, the dim light from the fireworks giving Marco's face an excellent lightting that really brought out her two favorite feautures of her best friend: His cute little mole and his caramel color that made up his eyes. He wore a blue Chinese tradittional clothes with moon-like spots covered it and a white sleeve that come from the white shirt inside, giving him the look of a Chinese martial artist.
It's also made him looked incredibly handsome, the urge to kiss him just grew for Star.
She got exactly what she wanted as she found Marco cupped her cheeks softly, leading her closer as they shared a kiss. It was gentle, soft and captivating, a mixture of lust and love.
Star wrapped her arm around Marco's neck, deepening the kiss as the two got lost within it, making them feeling like the rest of the world around them disappear, and they were transported to heaven.
And both of them knew,
their life was change forever.
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