Well look who has egg on their face now, not only did I not post this earlier, I completely overlooked a little error that I had made when I first wrote this, let me explain; when this story was first written, it was before I knew that Star's … makeup thing … functioned as a phone so I had her using Marco's for a majority of the time. Naturally, I had to work around a … obvious problem that Marco would face with that but I did, then not a week after that, it was revealed that Star had her own working phone and I was filled with a sense of ease and annoyance. I just had to fix a few things but it turns out, I didn't get to everything and had to make a lot of changed to a few chapters that I overlooked which brings me to a very important point, if anyone sees an instance of Star using Marco's phone, can you point it out to me so that I can fix it? I hope I can catch all of them but if I miss one I would like to know, I put a lot of effort into this story and I want it looking its best. Now to the reviews.

Guest Sorta: Well, you can't tie me up, I'm immune to being tied.

TheOneAndOnly1993: Uh … both.

EVAunit42: Thank you E, I try my best. I really like Ash and Em but I can never find a place for them, thing is, they have history with most of the other orphans so it would be a shame to put them into one place.

HiQ: Oh, Star has yet to truly realize that she f #$ed up just yet. And I think it's more of a triangle unless Star also had an alter ego. Also, for future reviews, could you please refrain from dropping curse words? I would like to keep the review section as clean as possible. I'm not upset just, want to give you a heads up.

Disclaimer: Star vs. the Forces of Evil characters belong to Daron Nefcy.

Beta read by Sabrina06


(Marco's POV)

I was sitting on the couch in my living room, wearing my bathrobe, watching some random movie. I didn't want to talk to Star when she got home, but I couldn't go to sleep without making sure she was okay. "See? You do care about her." I said to myself.

"Can we not do this now?" I asked. "Great, now I'm starting to sound like River." I shook my head and went back to watching the movie. "But what am I going to do about the mask? I can't hide it with my invitations; that would open up a whole new can of worms if Star found it … might be best to throw it away."

"And break Star's heart when she never sees her masked friend again?" I asked.

"Like he can wear the mask the next time he sees her."

"You shouldn't refer to yourself in the third person Marco, it makes you look strange."

"And talking to myself doesn't?"

I rolled my eyes. "The mask completes the disguise, you need it if you want to be with Star."

I sunk further into the couch. "I would be living a lie."

I nodded. "Star was going to leave me behind anyway … But I shouldn't." I shook my head. "I'll let her down the next time I see her as him; then I will destroy that mask." I took a moment as I tried to ignore the empty feeling growing inside me. "It will at least let her move on."

As I continued to sit there and watch the movie, I heard a tearing sound like someone cutting a portal with dimensional scissors from just outside the door. "Looks like she's back." I said to myself just before the door started to open.

Star walked in looking just as magnificent as she did when she left and with a big smile on her face. "I'm back." She greeted.

"Whoop de do." I said as I turned off the TV. "Mom and Dad are asleep and now that you're back I'm going to do the same." I got up and began making my way over to the stairs.

"Wait!" She called. "Don't … Don't you want to know how it went?"

"Can't say I care." I replied as I continued up the stairs. I had never really cared about how Star's parties went, I never really did; besides that was more of something my parents cared about.

"Marco!" She called again.

I stopped and turned around to see what she wanted to say, she ultimately didn't say anything however. She just stared at me for a while. "Do you want something?"

She took a breath and continued. "Marco … You would tell me … If you received an invitation to the ball, right?"

I thought to myself for a moment before answering, clearly she found out about my invitation from the princesses whose party it was but I doubted she knew that I actually attended. "Why would I?" I replied. "I mean I'm never invited so how could I get an invitation?"

The look on her face made it clear that she was picking up on what I was saying. "Oh … I see …" she looked to the side as I continued toward my room. "I met someone!" She exclaimed trying to keep a conversation with me. "He's really nice and a really great dancer."

"Is that so?" I asked feigning interest. "What else do you know about him?"

"Not much, but that's why I am meeting him tomorrow; so that I could talk to him and get to know him better."

I stared at her for a moment; had this been any other occasion, I would have expressed my objection. It's just that I was still upset about her lying about me not being invited. "Knock yourself out." I continued upstairs, walked into my room and threw myself my bed. "He's probably going to end up breaking your heart but if that's what you want then go right ahead." I closed my eyes and slowly drifted off to sleep.


(Star's POV)

I watched as Marco went upstairs and it felt like I had done something very wrong. "He got the invite." I said to myself. "That's why he was so angry all day yesterday and today, more so than usual." I sat on the couch and buried my face in my hands. "And he's going to be upset even longer than usual." I set my hands down and looked at the ground. "He couldn't just give me a straight answer though … I need to make sure he has it first … That's not going to be easy."

I got up and began making my way upstairs before stopping for a moment. "But if he had come … would I have danced with him instead of that masked man?" I shook my head and continued. "Who am I kidding, of course it would have been Marco."

I placed a hand over my heart as I looked at Marco's room. "That's why I'm keeping him away."


And now to practice my evil laugh for when I royally break all your hearts into little tiny pieces. Also to plan out my next fic which I still need to choose.

Have a nice day!