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Thank you all for the follows, favorites, and reviews! You guys are totally radical. (If you want, you can call me Rea, pronounced as ray.) This next chapter.. I know, I know what you're thinking. "Rea, Christmas was a month ago!" Yes, this is a Christmas one shot, shoot me, I'm guilty as charged. But I'm posting it anyways. I'll try to watch my timing next time. Also, I have a few things in the works I'd like to mention so you all don't think I haven't been doing anything.

I'm working on a slightly altered Avatar The Last Airbender AU, a Fantasy-ish/Medieval AU, my take on the Starco kids, and lots more. My inbox is open for any requests with these two dorks. Stay tuned!


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The seventeen year old groaned, stomping into his room as his girlfriend did the same, only into her room across his. Marco huffed tiredly, taking a weary sip of his sweet hot cocoa, raising his eyebrows when he heard the signature slam of Star's bedroom door.

"Yeah, she's pissed," Marco shook his head, distracting himself by staring at the snow whirling outside his window in soft flutters.

He hated it more than anything when they fought, but this time, Star was just being plain unreasonable. She had insisted on decorating the Diaz home with lights earlier in the week, and Marco promised they would today. Then it rained and froze over and snowed. The roof was way too slippery to even stand on, much less walk on!

Marco tried to explain this to Star, he tried to convince her that it wasn't safe, but she shrugged it off. He didn't stop trying, and Star had to get mad at his pestering, and yelled that they could handle it, but if he preferred to be a 'safety grinch' this year, then she wasn't stopping him. Marco rubbed at his eyes.

He knew there was more to Star's frustration, he just didn't know what. When he glanced out his window again, a string of multicolored holiday lights hit the glass as they were lowered. Marco's eyes widened, knowing exactly who was up on the roof, creating small tremors wherever she tentatively stepped.

"Ohhh no," Marco hissed through his teeth while he rushed to get on his black winter coat—if Star got hurt, he would never forgive himself for it. He frantically fumbled with his red scarf. Paling, he heard her squeal of surprise as she slipped off the side, her body wrapped in blinking Christmas lights as she flew past his window.

"STAR!" He screamed while she fell down, struggling to pry open the jammed window. Marco eventually slid it open and popped his head out, seeing Star hanging a few feet from the ground, rolled up like a burrito in glimmering lights, struggling to escape her holiday decorated prison.

"Star, are you okay?!" Marco cried. Star stopped squirming and laughed, embarrassed.

"Yeah man! Super! Just...hanging around," Star called up. "Do you think you could help me out though, buddy?" Marco sighed in relief.

"I'll be right down," Marco said, shutting the window and heading out the front door.

Marco carefully walked out in the fluffy snow to meet his swaying, upside-down girlfriend. She locked her sheepish gaze with his and her eyes narrowed, cheeks puffing out in response to his lame attempt at stifling a snort at her appearance. They were face to face once Marco reached her, him being upright and her hanging upside-down.

"You don't even have to say it," Star grumbled at his grin, and Marco gently tugged at her blinking restraints. "I know that you were right and I was wrong." Marco's toothy smile turned light-hearted.

"Nah, I'm just happy you're alright and safe," Marco hummed, pecking the tip of her nose, making her hearts glow crimson. "After all, I'm the safety grinch, right?" A guilty looking Star grimaced, shaking her head.

"No, no," The princess squirmed after a moment of awkward silence while Marco tried to figure out how to get her down. "I'm sorry..about calling you a grinch, and me overreacting, and just..us fighting." She averted her eyes. "I hate it when we fight—especially about something as silly as putting up a few lights." Star laughed impassively, but her expression still bore a heap of self-reproach.

Marco's heart twisted at her expression and he stopped untangling her for a moment, affectionately placing a hand on her face. Star's glance hesitantly flickered to his. "I'm sorry too..but I have a feeling this isn't only about the lights huh?"

Star pressed her lips into a thin line. Marco knew his assumption was correct.

"It's..it's just that.." Her voice was shaking and he listened intently while finding the last wire to untangle to get her down. "This m-might be my last Christmas with you, before I go back...and I don't want to go and you've been so busy with school and karate—I want to make the most of the time we h-have together—" Star stammered, rambling.

She was cut short when she felt Marco's pleasant lips upon hers. With a dreamy sigh, she kissed him as fervently as possible.

His eyes were still fluttered shut, but Marco managed to yank a certain strand of lights with his free hand. Star yelped as they broke apart, tumbling into his ready and waiting arms.

Marco's breath was uneven—despite having kissed his girlfriend a handful of times, the euphoric feeling of her lips against his always left him flustered.

"I'm sorry I've been so busy," Marco mumbled, setting her down on her feet.

Right as her pink snow boots hit the ground, Star tackled him in a tight hug. She had buried her face into his chest, greedily inhaling his cinnamon-linen scent that always seemed to calm her as she did so.

Marco leaned into her, closing his eyes, absorbing her warmth. "But," He left a whisper in the bare skin of Star's neck that sent unholy shivers down her spine. "..just because I thought it wasn't safe enough to deck the house in Christmas lights doesn't mean I don't want to spend time with you."

Marco gave her a reassuring squeeze and a lump formed in his throat at the small muffled sob of relief from Star. "I love you, and I always want to spend time with you."

"Okay," Star laughed weakly, her arms in a death grip around Marco's torso. She raised her face, smiling at him sweetly. In a rather swift and selfish move, not that Star minded, he closed the space between them.

Star sighed against his persisting mouth as his fingers slid through her sunlit hair lovingly. The brunette tilted his head to get more of her and pulled her lower lip with his own. She giggled breathlessly at his eagerness, and gave him one more long and passionate kiss. The princess pulled away, brushing her mouth across the underside of Marco's jaw. This time Marco was left laughing faintly.

"Let's go make the most of our time together inside, okay? I'm freezing." Star's smile was so dazzling it left Marco dumbly nodding after her as she dragged him back into the warm house.

It turned out to be Star's last Christmas there after all, but it was a Christmas well spent with the one she loved, and there would be many more Christmases with him to come.