"Marco, this is eating me up. I was talking to Glossaryck, and he said this is the only way. And… he's right. It's just… Ihaveacrushonyou!"
"What?!"
She slowed down, taking it word by word. "I know we're great friends, and I don't want to mess that up. But… I want to be something more than that, Marco. I know you have a girlfriend, and that's why it gets so hard. The thing is that, no matter how much I try to deny it, I love you more than anything in the world."
She reached out for a hug, but Marco pushed her away. "I love you, too, Star. But not in that way."
Star just stood there with a shocked look on her face, staring at Marco in disbelief. "You… you hate me."
"No, Star, I don't." She just stared. "Star, I… I need to go. Somewhere else." He rushed over to the stairs. When he was halfway up, he hesitated, looking back at Star. But Star didn't see him; she was staring at the empty space where Marco once was. Seeing the empty space in the room and feeling the empty space in her heart. Finally deciding, Marco rushed up the rest of the stairs and into his bedroom, slamming the door. Isolated, he started to think about what just happened. Was he too harsh with her? He had been quite abrupt. He tried to put himself in her place. As he pondered, a thought surfaced in his mind: Do I like Star? Maybe. Maybe he did a bit. Not enough to break up with Jackie, but if the relationship didn't turn out (and there was a good chance it wouldn't), then he would always have Star there, and maybe something could happen.
Meanwhile, Star finally broke out of her trance. So this is what rejection feels like, was the first thing she thought. But she had to think about what was best Marco, not herself, if she truly cared about him. And Glossaryck was right. The bad magic was only going to get worse if she stayed here. She didn't want to hurt anyone, especially Marco. And maybe her parents could help her with the bad magic. She had to leave Earth. Maybe not forever, but at least until the bad magic went away. But she should leave a note.
She wrote one and left it on the counter. She said that she would be back soon, but she didn't know if that was true or not.
She walked up the stairs to her room. She gathered the book of spells and her dimensional scissors. There was one last thing that she needed. She reached out to grab her wand. As soon as she touched it, the dull sadness turned to extreme anguish.
Marco walked out of his room, resolving to make up with Star. He approached her room and knocked on the door.
Inside, Star lost control of the wand. A powerful blast of green magic exploded from it.
When the Diaz parents arrived home, they found nothing but scorched ground and two charred skeletons.