Hey guys, before I start the next chapter I would like to thank everyone who read my story.

I also would like to answer the questions asked by SugarQueen97: Foolduke can probably see her parents again, in this story the the main country of Mewni is the area's marked on the map that came with the Guide to Mastering Dimensions book. The rest of Mewni outside of that area was scattered over the globe much farther away, so Pie Island is on Earth but in another ocean than the pacific.

As for Echo Creek, The whole city was the only part of Earth merged with the country of Mewni and moved. Star and Marco never went much farther than that on Earth so it was the only Earth part that merged. They still have connections to the whole rest of the world, they just need a plane or boat to travel now.

I will answer most any questions if you guys have them for this story's world and continuity.

Well let's move on shall we!


Riding up to the porch on his bike, Marco entered his house to the sound of happily barking regular puppies. Once they noticed that it was Marco who entered the doorway they quickly ran over to glomp him. The boy laughed as the dogs proceeded to give him little licks and pats with their paws "Aww It's nice to see you guys too!"

Marco and Star were worried that the puppies would be destroyed with the magic; luckily it only took away their lasers. However with all the chaos that came with raising a newborn baby, the puppies moved over to Star's place instead. The fact that the puppies were in his house clued Marco in that his girlfriend was also there.

"Star? You here?" Marco called out into the house. He expected her voice to shout out from somewhere but it was surprisingly quiet in the Diaz household, aside from the puppies that is.

Marco looked around for any sign of the blonde when he spotted a note of the kitchen counter. Picking it up he recognized his mother's handwriting:

Marco, me and your father went out with Mariposa to do some shopping.

All these new Mewnian stores are just so interesting! There is supposed to be this interesting kind of Calzone that tells you something about your future!

Star and the puppies came over as I was finishing this note; she had a bag with her and said you were going to help her with something?

Well we will be back around six and we'll bring dinner, love mom.

"Help her with something? Star never mentioned anything like that?" He said out loud as he plaed the note back down.

Heading upstairs, Marco checked inside his own room for Star. Not finding her in there he checked her former room and Mariposa's current room, still nothing. Marco was about to check the roof when he heard a small groan coming from the bathroom.

Marco knocked on the door "Star? Is that you?"

The sound of stuff falling over accompanied a small yelp of surprise, indirectly answering his question. "Marco! When'd you get here?!" he heard her from behind the door.

"Uh I'm the one who should be asking you that? What's going on" Marco asked.

He could hear stuff getting moved around as she told him "Just…working on a little something!" the nervous tone in her voice did nothing to quell his concerns.

"Star, is everything ok?" he was starting to get worried about her, his gut was telling him to open the door but his brain told him to wait a moment.

A few seconds of silence passed by until he heard her sigh, Star came over and opened the door to the bathroom. Normally Marco would be concerned by the various shades of pink scattered all over the sink and floor, but right now he was more focused on the poorly drawn pink hearts and the sad look on his lovers face.

"Oh." Now her odd behavior made more sense. Star pushed her hair back and cringed "Does it look bad?" she asked referring to her self-made hearts. Marco took a closer look before saying "…yeah, they look pretty bad."

The blunt honesty of his comment made Star lightly push him on the shoulder "Marco that is not what you say to a woman who has spent over an hour trying to get her hearts right!" Star tried to sound angry but she had to agree with him.

"Over an hour?" Marco repeated, the way they were drawn he would have sworn she drew them in a few minutes.

Star huffed as she turned around to grab the makeup remover "Drawing on your face is a lot harder than drawing on paper, Diaz! Starfan13 makes it look so easy." Star recalled her earlier attempts to draw the hearts kept getting messed up by her face breaking out into a smile or her laughing at the brush tickling. Keeping a straight face was a difficult challenge for someone like Star. Luckily, or unluckily, her failed attempts made her feel down enough to finally draw a heart. But now they just felt empty.

Rubbing the pink off of her face she stared back into the mirror at her empty cheeks. Star lifted her hand up to squish her cheek in with a halfhearted boop. Marco wrapped his arms around her shoulders and nuzzled into the top of her head "Hey, I think you look great even without your hearts." He softly spoke to her.

Star placed her hands on top of his and smiled "Yeah, I still look great!" her face drooped again "But that's not what this is about."

Letting go of one of his hands, Star reached out to touch the mirror before her "I've had those hearts since I was born. They were a part of me. I know how silly it sounds but…losing my hearts feels like…like I'm growing up." Marco lifted his head to gaze into the mirror with her "How would you feel if you woke up one day and your mole was gone?" Star asked.

Marco opened his mouth to respond, but found his voice would not make a peep. His eyebrows furrowed in understanding, if it happened to him then he's feel like he's lost a part of himself. Even something as tiny as a mole was part of what made Marco…well…Marco!

The hand touching the mirror pulled back to Star as her and Marco stepped away from the bathroom. Making their way towards the couch, they sat down next to a pile of tired puppies. Star pulled the one named Barko Diaz to her chest as she began petting his head, a small smile returning to her face once more.

Marco held his head in his hands as he watched his girlfriend for a moment; he finally found the voice to ask "Have you tried anything other than face painting?" Star nodded a 'yes' to him "My first idea was to get tattoos on my cheeks. Janna took me to a tattoo parlor, but Tom came in and dragged us out. Apparently it really hurts getting a tattoo, and getting it on my face would be miserable!"

"You asked Janna for help before me!?" Marco cried in disbelief.

"Well she had tattoos before." Star reasoned.

"You were the one who poofed up those tattoos! And they didn't even last a week!" Marco reminded her "Tom has an actual tattoo! Why didn't you ask him about it?"

Star shrugged "Janna was closer on my contact list. Plus she was bummed she lost the betting pool on us."

Marco rolled his eyes at the mention of the betting pool. When he and Star announced their relationship, amongst the cheers was people handing over money to Ferguson with a big sack that read Starco pool. It turns out that Ferguson and Janna started a bet on when and how the two of them would get together and it quickly spread outside the school. Their friends, families, the late Magic Commission, Rasticore, Janna's friend Needles, someone Marco didn't even know named Doop-Doop, and several others were in on it.

"I will never understand why Eclipsa let Meteora put money into the pool." Marco sighed. Star's eyes lit up for a moment and she asked "Hey, who won that bet anyway?"


King Pony Head is surrounded by an enormous pile of cash, with his daughters watching in annoyance "HAHA I WIN! I WAS RIGHT AND YOU WERENT!" he gloated to his kids. Pony Head huffed "Ok we get it! It's been 3 days, you can stop doing the 'King was right' dance now!" sure enough the King was moving his disembodied head in a way that resembled dancing, or as close as you could get as a giant floating head.


"He was surprisingly accurate." Marco commented.

"Getting back on track, Star I think I have an idea how to give you some hearts." Marco told her. Star blinked in confusion and awe "How?"

An hour later and the young couple was at a store called 'Sticker Depot', Marco led Star down an isle filled with various stickers of all sorts of sizes and shapes "Face Stickers!" Star exclaimed in wonder "They make stickers that are supposed to go on your face!" Marco chuckled at her reaction, remembering the times when she stuck regular stickers to her face "Yeah, these ones actually stick on instead of falling off after 5 minutes."

They reached a shelf filled with heart stickers; both of them scanned the display for ones that resembled her former cheek emblems. It didn't take long for Star to gasp and grab one from a shelf above her, a roll of face stickers that were a perfect size and color match for her missing hearts!

"It's perfect!" Star gasped as she held the roll, Marco looked and saw that it was an industrial sized roll with over 200 of them "Why would they make a pack this big?" he asked, then he saw the price tag that read $650.00 on it "Of course."

The pair returned to Marco's house shortly after, Marco carried a bucket of water and a big towel into the bathroom to clean up the mess Star made. The door swung open in front of him, making Marco yelp and fall over.

"Look, look! I got my hearts!" Star pointed to the stickers on her face. Whatever annoyance Marco had at being soaked with a bucket of water immediately disappeared when he saw the joy on her face. Star leaned down and gave him a quick peck on the cheek before happily skipping away down the hall.

Marco grinned lovingly "Best 650 spent yet."