Again and Again

"Ugh" Star moaned as she banged her head against the desk.

It was a regular Monday morning. Star was your normal 19-year-old teen that went to college to get her degree get a job, a family, and live a normal life. Right now, Star was working on one of her end of the semester projects for calculus. Her teacher Ms. Skullnick gave them a week to finish a project that would determine if most people passed or failed the class.

Star was trying to stay awake, but it was hard at two in the morning with no coffee, therefore no brain power for her to work on her project.

"Might as well go get some coffee." Star stated as she lazily got up and headed out of her dorm room.

Star walked through the halls of the dorm rooms, with most rooms with lights on and some dark. She sighed thinking about the people who were sleeping right now, and how much she wanted to as well. As she continued walking she could hear a whisper to her right and someone calling her name.

"Huh. Who is it?" Star asked peeking around to the right.

"It's Janna. What are you doing out this early in the morning?" Janna asked.

"Oh, hey Janna. I'm going to get some coffee. I got to stay awake so I can finish the calculus project. Do you want me to get you some?" Star said to Janna

"Oh yeah, that would be great. Just get me the usual." Janna said as Star nodded understanding walking back to get to her car.

Time Skip

Star made is to the local café, opening the door hearing the little ring of the bell. She took a big waft of the air smiling in delight as she continued to get to the front desk to order. Star looked around the small café while waiting in line, and saw how family friendly the place was.

Star came to this café quite a lot with her friends from college. It was the place they would all hang out, and some of her best memories were in this café.

"And what would you like miss?" A young boy about Star's age asked.

Star got out of her trance as she heard the boy began to speak. She shook her head looking at the teen, realizing she was still in line.

"Oh, I'll have one caramel frappe, and one strawberry mocha." Star said to the young boy who was smiling.

"Coming right up." The boy said as he went to the back making both of the coffee's for Star.

Star stood there with a finger on her chin. She swore she had seen the boy before, but couldn't figure out what from. After a couple minutes the boy came walking back with both cups of coffee in his hand.

"Here you go." The teen said punching some numbers into the cash register. "That will be $4.25."

Star nodded rummaging through her purse before she found the money she was looking for and handing it to the teen.

"Hey umm." Star was about to say something until she realized she didn't know his name.

"It's Marco. My name is Marco." Marco said to the then teen. "And you are…?"

"Oh, my name is Star." Star said as she put her hand out to shake.

Marco smiled shaking her hand.

"So Star. That's a very unique name." Marco said laughing along with Star.

"Hahaha. Yeah my mom said that she wanted a girl with a bubbly personality and Star was a good name that fit with it."

"Oh, that's cool." Marco stated.

"Hey, um I feel like I know you from somewhere, but I can't put my finger on it." Star said making Marco think too.

After a couple seconds of thinking Marco remembered something.

"Wait, do you go to Echo Creek College?" Marco asked as Star got wide eyes finally realizing where she had seen him before.

"Oh my gosh. That's where I know you from." Star said sighing as Marco laughed.

"Yeah, now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure you're in my Chemistry class." Marco said as Star thought about it too.

"That's right you always sit in the back of the class though. Why is that?" Star asked as Marco shyly laughed.

"Well, I don't know many people at the school since I just moved here for college." Marco stated rubbing the back of his head.

"Oh, well we can change that right up. You can sit with my me and my friends in class." Star said as Marco blushed and shyly nodded. "Alright well, see you then!" Star exclaimed.

"Yeah, see you later." Marco said as he began to walk back to clean up the counter.

"Oh wait!" Star came running back to the front desk. "Here's my number if you ever want to hang out." Star said while giving Marco a small piece of paper and as quickly as she came in, she left.

"Wow." Marco said as he got a washcloth and began cleaning the café.

About ten minutes after Star had left, Marco grabbed his red hoodie, pulled it over his head, and headed out to his car. Marco looked at his watch realizing it was three in the morning.

"Damn, I need to go to bed." Marco told himself as he was opened his car door, but before he could someone grabbed him by the collar of his shirt throwing him to the ground.

Betcha wish there wasn't a time skip here

Star was in her dorm room trying to focus on finishing her project, but all she could think about was the boy Marco at the café. The way his black hair was somewhat a perfect texture and style. His dark, chocolate brown eyes that made her shiver and especially the cute little mole under his right eye.

Star then sadly sighed.

"Star focus. You just got to know him an hour ago. Stop fantasizing about him." Star told herself as she shook her head working back on her project.

After hours of fixing all the equations up, she quietly cheered. She finished drinking her coffee and threw it in the trash can, and plopped down on her bed immediately falling asleep. There was only one thing on her mind as she went to bed though. It was Marco.

Time Skip

I was the same day that Star had talked to Marco, and she couldn't be happier to be seeing him at school. Now that she thought about it, she would be able to be with Marco every day! Star smiled and cheered silently to herself as she began packing her bags in her dorm about to head to school.

"What are you so happy?" Star's roommate Sabrina asked.

Star turned around looking at Sabrina.

"Well, I made a new friend yesterday and I invited him to hang out with us today. I'm just excited to get to know him better." Star said while blushing as Sabrina laughed.

"Is it a boy. Oh you are blushing so I bet it is. I bet you have a crush on him." Sabrina said in a kid's voice making Star blush.

"I do not have a crush on him!" Star exclaimed while looking down to her backpack and continuing to put books in it.

"Well, if he's hot the maybe I'll ask him out." Sabrina stated making Star fume making Sabrina laugh and leave the room. "See you at class."

Star looked back down from where Sabrina was and finished packing her bag, while throwing it over her shoulder and heading to class.

At school

Star was walking through the halls heading to her lockers to drop off any books she didn't need and then went to her first period class to Biology. Which was the class Marco would be in as well. Star passed all the classes until she found the one she was looking for. Star walked in and immediately looked around for her new friend to see him in the back where he normally sat.

She walked over sitting on top of the desk in front of him swinging her legs playfully.

"Hey Marco." Star stated getting Marco's attention.

Marco was wearing a normal red jacket with the hood on for some reason. He had black jeans on and some brown sneakers making his style match perfectly.

When Marco heard Star though he just nodded in her direction and looked back down on his desk careful to make sure Star didn't see his face.

Marco had beads of sweat on his face knowing that Star was so close to finding what was under his hood and it scared the crap out of him

"Marco, is that you?" Star said while taking off his hood. What she saw shocked her.

"Holy crap Marco! Are you alright?" Star exclaimed while looking at a nice big cut on his cheek as well as a swelling up black eye.

Marco just put his hood back on careful not to make too much commotion.

"Yeah, I'm fine just don't worry about it." Marco stated as he buried his face into his arms on the table.

"Well, do you want to sit up in the front with us?" Star asked as Marco nodded his head no.

Star frowned while moving back up to her front seat. After everyone had gone to their seats class had started and Star was even more disappointed she couldn't sit with Marco. Too bad, she had been looking forward to it all day.

After class had ended the rest of the day had been sort of a blur. After biology class with Marco, she couldn't spot him for the rest of the day. So she just proceeded with her normal day and went out to lunch with her friends then back to school. Except she was a bit sadder than usual.

All of Star's friends could see this too.

"Hey Star what's up." Janna asked concerned for her best friend.

Star looked up to her best friend and smiled knowing that she cared for her.

"It's nothing Janna. I am just concerned for another friend I have is all." Star said gloomily.

Janna frowned again seeing the sight of her best friend and proceeded to rub her back soothingly. Janna was worried now for her friend.

"Well if you need to talk about it just let me know." Janna said as Star nodded and she went back to where she came from.

It was after school now and Star was walking to her house by herself still a bit disappointed about the whole Marco thing. I mean what kind of person would do such a thing and when did it happen? He was fine before she left, had he gotten into an accident? Was he mugged? Those thoughts ran through her head until a voice knocked her out of her thoughts.

"Hey pretty princess." An unknown voice said.

Star startled, looked up to see it was Oskar Greason. Ugh, she hated that bastard. Always trying to flirt with her and treat her as if she was a toy.

"Not in the mood Oskar." Star said as she continued to walk back to her house.

"Oh come on princess. Don't you want to have a little fun?" He stated as he jumped off his car and started moving closer to Star.

"Oskar I swear to god you better back off." Star yelled but this only made Oskar move closer until she was pinned against the wall.

"Oskar get off me! What do you think you're doing?" Star yelled as she tried to get free, but was only stopped as Oskar pinned both her hands up against the wall.

"Oh relax princess. I'm just trying to shake things up for once." Oskar said as he pushed himself against Star as she groaned trying to release herself. "How about you and I go back to my dorm and-." Oskar was cut off short as he was wacked with a stick making him fall to the ground and let go of Star.

Star just stood there in shock shivering from what she had just experienced. She just sat down on the ground in a ball cradling herself trying to forget what had just happened.

"Are you okay. I hope he didn't scare you too much." An all too familiar voice said.

Star's eyes widened in shock as she realized who it was.

"M-Marco?" Star questioned as the teen took off his hoodie revealing to Star it was truly who she thought it was.

"Yeah it's me. We should really get you out of here it is a dangerous place." Marco stated grabbing Star's hand as she nervously took it.

After she was brought back up she looked at Marco.

"Thank you, I was really shocked there for a moment. How did you find me anyways?" Star asked

"Well I heard some screaming so I came around to check it out and when I saw what was happening, I grabbed the closest thing to me that could knock someone out and I found that stick." Marco stated pointing to the stick on the ground. "Then I hit him and well you know the rest."

"Really I can't thank you enough." Star began to explain but Marco shushed her.

"You can thank me when we get out of this area." Marco stated as he grabbed Star's hands again and led them out of the dark area.

Star never realized how far deep she had actually been in the dark place until just now.

"Marco, how much longer until we get out of this place?" Star asked as Marco looked around careful to make sure no one was around.

"I don't know actually, maybe a co-." Marco was cut off as a gunshot was heard making Star's close her eyes.

Star couldn't hear anything as she began to regain her balance to see what had happened and as she finally regained her posture she stood shocked in place.

Marco was on the ground with a bullet in his head.

Star's heart skipped a beat as she cried out for Marco's name but nothing happened. She looked around to see a mysteries man with a gun in his hand and a stopwatch on the other. The man walked over moving the stopwatch side to side hypnotizing anyone who saw it.

Star looked into the watch not able to look away as the man said only two words.

"Tick Tock."

"Agh!" Star awoke from her bed with beads of sweat trailing down her head and neck with a dry throat.

"Woah Star what the hell happened." Her roommate Sabrina stated as Star just looked around the room.

What the hell did just had happened.

"I don't know Sabrina. Maybe just a bad dream." Star said knowing that wasn't the case.

"Ok well try not to scream so loud like that again." Sabrina said looking at Star who was still sweating from the nightmare. "Anyways make sure you finished your calculus project. That thing is due today!"

Star stopped thinking and looked up to Sabrina.

"Wait what day is it?" Star asked as Sabrina looked at her silly.

"Well it's Monday obviously. "Now don't make too much noise I'm going back to sleep" Sabrina stated as she fell back into her bed.

"It's Monday again?" Star questioned herself trying to relax herself.

"What is going on?"

God Damn. This is truly something I could work on, so if you guys want me to continue the story leave reviews. I came up with this idea right before I started writing, and I have a big story behind it. Sorry for not much fluff this was more of a dark story AU. Don't worry though I'm working on a suggestion from one of the reviewers. I won't give much out, but it may be long and it's based on the episode Math Magic with some major fluff. Anyways hope you enjoyed!