Day 1- Awkward Dating Moments: Flowers, Dinner and Stuffed Corn, the Perfect Date
Hello Stardom! And welcome to my prompt list for Starcoweek5, yay! I'm thDorkMagnet, shipper of Starco and lover of cheesy puns, but the last ones not important. I wanted to do this list as my personal send off to Star vs the forces of evil, one of my favorite shows of all time. This show has changed me and helped me grow, as well as give me a great opportunity to meet a bunch of beautiful and amazing people. So I wanted to show my appreciation by honoring my favorite aspect of the series and its massive fanbase, Starco! I'm already a bit behind, as I this was a last minute decision and my power has been out at my house, but I will do my best to get these done in a timely fashion. This is a bit of a one day challenge as well, giving myself only 24 hours to finish the short little prompts.
For any of you newcomers, who haven't read my previous work, some of the prompts will be a part of my main and most long running series, "Light of the Sun and Stars." Which includes today's prompt. I did my best to make it so that those who haven't read it will still be able to follow along, but here are the basics you need. Marco is a Mewman and orphan, with red sun cheek marks which all Mewmans have in this story. He and Star are dating. Their personalities are a bit different in this AU, but you will pick up on that. This is a continuation of my latest chapter, but again that shouldn't affect the read any if at all. Let's see anything else... nope I think that's it.
Well enjoy all! And I will hopefully see you tomorrow with the next prompt! *crosses fingers*
Disclaimer: Star vs and all it's characters belong to Daron Nefcy and Disney. All rights go to them.
It was late in the evening, the sun long since setting, and in a peaceful corner of Butterfly Village, just outside a quaint little restaurant, a young couple sat enjoying a candlelight dinner together. Well, okay they were more enjoying each others company since they still hadn't received their ordered meal yet. Neither of them minded though, too caught up in their conversation to care about the wait. A couple of shopping bags lay at their feet, as well as a giant stuffed corncob with a cute smiling face sewed onto it, which the two had placed in the seat between them. Their hands remained intertwined from across the table, as the sound of pleasant laughter filled the air.
Star laughed at something her boyfriend had said, nearly choking on her drink. "Yeah, I know," she giggled. "But you really wanted it."
Marco rubbed at the back of his neck sheepishly with his free hand, looking over at the stuffed toy. "I mean I thought it was cute but I didn't expect you to waist three hours trying to win if for me from that vender."
Star shrugged, taking a sip of her water. "I didn't mind," she reassured him, cheerily.
"Yeah but that guy sure did when you threatened to turn him into a toad," Marco pointed out, laughing at the memory.
"I wasn't really going to do it!" Star quickly said, jumping to her own defense. "And he was totally rigging the game so I couldn't win! So I just gave him a little... incentive." Star took another giant gulp of her water, hiding her embarrassed face from view.
Marco shook his head, before giving the girl's hand a squeeze. "Well thanks for getting it for me, I love it," he said, shooting her a grateful smile, his sun cheek marks spinning once, a clear sign that he was excited.
"Not a problem, Marco," Star said, returning the grin. She leaned closer to him, her blue orbs piercing Marco's very heart, as she added softly, "Besides when my boyfriend wants something he gets it."
Marco's cheeks flushed bright red, nearly masking his glowing suns from view, as he looked shyly down at the table. Though he now had a wide smile and shimmering eyes from the praise. Star hung on his every movement, studying his face closely and memorizing every inch of it, his adorkable charm infectious. How on Mewni did she ever get so lucky as to end up with someone as perfect as Marco?
"So how did you find this place, Marco?" she asked, looking around at the pleasant little, outside sitting area of the restaurant. "I've never been here before. Heck, I didn't know it even existed."
Marco shrugged. "I come here sometimes," he said casually.
Sometimes, Star thought in disbelief, the way everyone had acted when they had first got there, you'd think Marco was some kind of VIP or something. All the waitresses had greeted him by name, and instantly oogled over Star, who Marco apparently talked to them about quite a bit. One of them then cheerily lead them to what she referred to as the best seat in the house, only asked Marco if he wanted his "usual" which Marco simply nodded and told them to give Star the same, only stopping to check to make sure that was okay with her.
"Well you've never taken me here before," Star pointed out, before asking jokingly, "How often is sometimes?"
Marco looked thoughtfully off in the distance, as he took a sip of his drink through the small red straw that had come with his water without even asking, the waitress putting it in there without so much as a word from the hooded teen. "About once a week I guess," he replied, after a moment of deliberation.
Kelly suddenly came up out of nowhere, holding two trays of pancakes, dripping in maple syrup. "Marco, buddy. Haven't see you since what, three days ago? How've you been?"
Marco looked guiltily at Star, who leaned her head against her arm. "Uh huh," she said knowingly.
"Or maybe all the time," Marco admitted softly, fiddling with his straw nervously.
"So this is the famous Star, I've been hearing so much about," Kelly said, looking over at the blond.
"Yep, that's me," Star replied with a grin. "You must be Kelly, right?"
"That's me all right, I would shake your hand but my hands are a little full right now," the hairy girl joked and Star laughed.
Finally the green-haired girl set down the two trays of food in front of the couple, reciting the order back to her customers as she did, "Okay two orders of pancakes, with extra maple syrup, hold the butter, and sprinkles on top. Just the way you like them."
"Thanks Kelly," Marco said, giving his friend a wide smile.
"No problem, Marco. You two enjoy your date," the girl said with a wink, starting to walk away when Marco noticed something wrong.
"Um Kelly," he called grabbing her attention as she turned back to the pair. "There are no sprinkles on this." The boy pointed down to the pancakes and sure enough they soft golden treats were completely sprinkle-less.
"You put sprinkles on your pancakes?" Star asked, holding back the rising giggle.
"Yeah, it's really good," Marco responded, while Kelly studied his food carefully.
"Oh right, of course," Kelly said, before calling out. "Hey Tad, sprinkles please."
Tad suddenly awoken from his girlfriend's head, pulling out a bottle of sprinkles and pouring them onto Marco's plate, nearly coating the treat in them. "There you go, dude."
"Thanks Tad," Marco replied cheerily.
Kelly and Tad offered to give Star some as well, the blond declining with a raise of her hand, and the second pair of lovebirds exited the scene, leaving Star and Marco alone again. The two stared at each other for another moment, as their pancakes no doubt grew cold, but they would need both hands to eat and neither wanted to let go. "This is really nice, Marco," Star said with a loving sigh. "An absolute perfect date."
"Oh that reminds me," Marco said, finally letting go of Star's hand as he bent over and began digging into one of his bags. Star leaned more over the table, trying to see what her boyfriend was up to. A moment later, Marco rose back up, now holding a bouquet of flowers, all Crimson Lillies. Star covered her mouth in surprise, her eyes blown wide as she stared at the beautiful flowers. "Oh, Marco," the blond breathed, neither of them having to voice what they were thinking. They both knew it was Marco's late parents favorite flower. "Where did you find those?" Star asked in surprise.
"I bought them while you were busy trying to win me, Corny," Marco explained, pointing over to the stuffed toy.
"They're beautiful," Star said, getting slightly chocked up.
"Well, my mom really liked them, so I hoped you would two," Marco said thoughtfully, with just a slight hint of sadness in his tone, as he looked down at the flowers.
"I love them," Star said, smiling brightly at him.
Marco grinned before thrusting them over in Star's direction, going to give her the gift. But he didn't remember the still-lit candelabra until it was too late, the flowers instantly catching ablaze. Marco screamed and quickly through them away from himself to try and prevent himself from being burned. But he failed to notice that he had now thrown the basically lit torch of flowers right on top of his stuffed toy. "No Corny!" Marco shouted, shooting up from his chair with a look of fear.
Kelly notice the scene and began racing over.
"Quick get the fire extinguisher!" Star shouted, pushing her seat back in a hurry as well.
Marco taking quick action grabbed his cup of water and threw it onto the still burning toy. But instead of hitting the toy, he instead splashed Tom, who had appeared from the flames just a second before, directly in the face.
"Hey!" Tom shouted in anger, his flames cheek marks blazing out of control on instinct, as he glared at the boy.
"Tom, what are you doing here?!" Star shouted in anger, just as Kelly reached the table with the fire extinguisher quickly dousing the flames in an attempt to save Marco's stuffed prize.
"Well, when I felt the fire from the Underworld and realized it was you, I thought maybe you were trying to make up," the purple-skinned boy explained, with a hopeful grin.
"Get out of here, your ruining my date!" Star yelled, crossing her arms and the boy deflated instantly.
"Oh okay, worth a try," the boy grumbled in defeat, before disappearing into flames once again, unintentionally reigniting the stuffed corn.
"Oh come on!" Kelly groaned angrily, thrusting the now empty fire extinguisher away from herself in a huff.
"Star, your wand!" Marco shouted and Star nearly smacked herself for her stupidity.
"Oh right," she said, pulling the magical device out of her purse as she shouted out, "Winter Storm Hyper Blow!" The flames were instantly extinguished as the toy and charred remain of flowers were incased in ice.
The three teens all panted, bodies full of adrenaline from the scare, waiting a moment for their racing hearts to slow. Kelly went over to the now frozen corn and taped the side of it with her knuckles, checking it for any cracks. Within the ice there were luckily only a few scourched area on Corny's fluff, looking no more worse for the ware over than that."Well it looks like your toy made it out alive," Kelly observed and Marco sighed in relief.
"Oh thank goodness," Marco mumbled, before hugging the block of ice, ignoring his hands and cheek which went instantly numb from the action. "I'm so glad you're okay, Corny," he said to his stuffed toy, which continued to just smile blissfully with its sewed on face.
"The flowers, however," Kelly continued, holding up the small, ash remains of the once beautiful bouquet. Star and Marco both cringed but for totally different reasons each. Star was worried how her boyfriend would react to the loss, considering he was still dealing with the recent discovery of his parent's tragic past, while Marco was cringing because his perfect gift to Star was completely ruined, though the small tug of sadness at his heartstrings from seeing the burnt flowers didn't help much either.
"I-It's okay, Marco," Star quickly comforted, putting an arm on his shoulder as he just stared sadly at the unrecognizable flowers. "We'll buy some new ones."
"That's alright," Marco said, fighting around the small lump in his throat, which he for some reason was having trouble swallowing down. "They're just flowers. They don't mean anything." He shrugged, before giving his girlfriend a guilty look. "I'm just sorry your gift got ruined."
"Oh Marco," Star sighed, wrapping her arms around his neck as she whispered into his ear. "The flowers were nice, but just having you here is enough for me."
Marco smiled, one of his real, genuine smiles that just made Star melt. "Thanks Star," he said, repositioning himself so that he could hug her back.
"Were these Crimson Lilies by any chance?" Kelly asked, as she studied the charred remains and Star and Marco both turned to her with surprise. They had been so wrapped up in each other, they had forgotten that she was even still there.
"Yeah," Marco replied.
"Your in luck," Kelly said with a bright smile. "We actually keep some in the back." She pointed toward the restaurant. "We use them as table decorations."
Marco's mind instantly raced back to all the times he had been at the restaurant before. He knew he had seen the flowers before, now he finally knew where. "Would you be willing to give us some?" Marco asked, his eyes wide and pleadingly.
Kelly nodded. "Sure thing, anything for my favorite customer." She gave the boy a smile, before walking off to go retrieve them, as well as throw the useless batch away.
"See Marco it all worked out," Star said, kissing his cheek, painting both of their cheeks red.
"Yeah, your right," Marco agreed.
"Now come on, let's eat, before our pancakes get any colder," Star said, going over to her seat and sitting down, Marco doing the same.
The boy looked over at the encased and burnt corncob and asked jokingly, "Do you think we'll ever have a date, without something catching on fire?"
Star laughed, as she cut up her pancakes. "Let's just remember for all future dates. No candles."
"Agreed," Marco chuckled.
The two held up their forks, which held their first bite of food on it, as they casually clinked them together, saying brightly, "Cheers!"
On to the next one! Love you all, bye!