Thanks SO MUCH for the reviews/follows! It really brightened my day up when I checked back on my stories. Sorry for the long wait too, I didn't think anyone was going to see this. Here's a hopefully longer and better chapter.
P.S: OH, also, just pretend Mr. and Mrs. Diaz went on vacation. I don't feel like mentioning it in the story right now.
"So.." Marco decided to kick this conversation off.
"We're stuck here with no food, water, indoor-plumbing, or anything for HOW MANY HOURS?" He sounded slightly disgruntled. No surprise there.
"Oh, come on, it can't be all that bad! I'm sure I left a burger here somewhere. Maybe we could split it!" She tried to keep Marco from going insane, but even her upbeat and cheery attitude couldn't prolong what was ahead for long. They hiked up onto a mountain of her junk and decided to set camp there. Star's colorful butterfly flag marked the spot, just in case they got lost in the forest of filth. While taking a seat, they thought about their situation for a second. It was probably the longest second in their lives.
They tried to brainstorm ideas for the escape, but the tension around the air prohibited them from doing so. Star decided to let Marco do the thinking, and she headed off in the search for food (and possibly a drink). However, considering their circumstances, his mind was foggy as ever. He tended to panic whenever something like.. this, would happen. 'It'll come to me eventually. I should go help Star search for whatever junk food she has back here.' He attempted to stand up, but he felt something grabbing his leg. It was a light feeling, but it was definitely there. He tried again. No luck.
'Alright, no more fooling around Diaz. FULL POWER!' He launched his leg upward and fell back again. 'Definitely glad nobody's around..' He hoisted himself up and began to dig through the things that were concealing his leg. There was a warnicorn doll, a Butterfly family mug (which, surprisingly, hadn't broken yet), and.. a moldy apple? Weird. Eventually, he pushed aside enough junk to see what was grabbing on to his leg.
His eyesight wasn't the best, so he couldn't thoroughly examine the thing gripping his leg. He bent over and was just about to grab it when it slid back into the darkness below. "WAUGHH!" In his most elegant and graceful fall, he dropped face forward down the mountain and landed on his behind. Star didn't notice right away that Marco had been wasted, so she continued on her search, humming and all. After stumbling across a couple of candy bars and slightly outdated hotdogs, she returned to base with a gleeful look on her face.
"Marco? Marco! MARCO!" 'Did he leave to find some food? Typical Marco..' She heard something coming from below their camp. It sounded like a quiet plea for help. Sliding down the
mountain, she examined Marco's sprawled body on the floor. He did NOT look very thrilled to have her staring at him.
"Uh, Marco? What happened?" She was concerned, but also trying to hold back a laugh. It reminded her of when he landed on the cactuses the first time they met. Yeah, it had been heartbreaking the first time, but now she could look back at it and laugh.
"There was this thing on my leg. When I tried to get up, I fell over! And then, when I finally tried to get a look at it, the thing MOV-" Star cut him off short, she wasn't in the mood to listen to one of his rants.
"Calm down, calm down! Look, I got some food for us! Wanna split? We can talk about that stuff later!" Her statement was much needed, as the atmosphere began to change around them. They both started finding it funny and bizarre what kind of situation they were in. One where they didn't know how long it'd take to get out, or where they'd get their food. But at least they had each other. That was the most important part.
"Ok, but can you help me get up.. I think I broke my butt." She walked over and supported him as they walked back to their temporary house. It was a treacherous journey when every step was a hazard for sparking an avalanche. Luckily for them, nothing terrible happened. They made it back safe and sound.
Just kidding! Of course something bad has to happen.
Since they'd been so ignorant in the past, the path up to their camp was extremely dangerous. Their previous trips had already loosened it up quite a bit. As they were walking up the steep incline, Star happened to step on a talking warnicorn doll. She managed to step right onto the button that turned it on, and a terrible screech boomed around the gigantic room. Apparently, she had been using it for practicing magic a while back. The result was a freakishly loud ear-piercing war cry. Obviously startled, she leaped back a bit. Her foot slipped off of a Love Sentence magazine and she dragged them both down.
The fall was painful indeed. They suffered minor bruises, but it still definitely hurt! No avalanches were started though. Weird. They were both clearly dazed, not either of them wanted to get up. They glanced at each other with this 'Crap' look and sighed. 'Time to abandon base.' Marco limped over to help her up, and they had a very emotional hug. They were going to be stuck in here for a while and they've already messed up badly. Star was having the worst of it emotionally though. 'Is everything really this hard without magic?'
"I think we should just set up camp on the floor. I mean, look where having one in the sky got us!" By his tone of voice, it was hard to tell if he was angry or not. She decided against it however, since they had been through a lot worse than this.
"But what about the food? I spent a long time looking for it!" She was definitely getting a little irritated. 'Alright, fine, I only looked for like 5 minutes, but that's still a lot of food we're leaving up there!'
"Who cares about the stupid food? We're injured! We need to get settled somewhere SAFE first! Risking our lives for a CANDY BAR!" Definitely triggered. She hated when he acted like this. But, something in her heart hurt. The kind of hurt where you can't express yourself the way you really want to. His words hit her heart in that particular way, and she was crushed. He saw it in her eyes too, and immediately regretted his protest.
"Well.. fine! I'll just go by myself!" Trudging towards the mountain, tears welled up in her eyes. Fighting with Marco just did something to her, but she didn't know what. It clearly distressed the young princess. She began to climb until her senses kicked in. Hearing a slight movement, she turned around and saw Marco reaching his hand out towards her. He whispered something in her direction. "Star.. I'm sorry."
CHEESY! Definitely! Anyways, please review and thanks for reading!
Sorry about the weird split between "sliding down the mountain," I tried to fix it multiple times but it didn't work.
