Going Home

My eyes fluttered open a bit. I was leaned against something soft. It made me want to go back to sleep. I slowly raised my eyes only to have my heart stop in shock. Star's face was right next to mine. I noticed I had my arms wrapped around her, and her arms were wrapped around me. I could feel blush rising on my face. How the heck did this happen! I swear we weren't even close to each other.

Surely this can't get any worse. Suddenly Star's eyes started moving. Of course...things can't get any worse. I moved away from her a bit. I kept my eyes on Star as her eyes slowly opened. They instantly grew wide. Mine did the same. We sort of just stared at each other until Star screamed.

"Ahhhhhh!"

I screamed, startled.

"Ahhhhhh!"

Both of us started screaming at the same time.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!"

Both of us instantly pulled away from each other, but we managed to bump heads as we sat up.

"Ow!"

"Ouch!"

I sat there, rubbing my head. I looked up at Star to see her doing the same thing.

"What the heck Marco!" she shouted.

I felt blush on my face.

"I swear I didn't-"

"Okay. I get princesses are soft and smell good, but that was a little too close for comfort." Star cut me off.

"Hey I-" I was cut off again.

"If you wanna snuggle with me next time just ask okay?" Star said getting to my feet.

I opened my mouth to say something, but I just let out a sigh.

"Alright." I said in deafeat as I stood to my feet.

I brushed the dirt off my clothes. Suddenly another voice got my attention.

"Did you all sleep well?"

I looked over to see Tammy standing not far from the wagon.

"Uh...yeah. I guess we slept well." I replied rubbing the back of my neck.

I hope she didn't see that.

Tammy let out a laugh.

"Well. Jim has the wagon situated if you're ready to leave."

"Yes! Let's go!" I said excitedly as I hopped on the back.

Star did the same. Tammy just wore a smile. She climbed in the front with her husband, and before long the wagon started moving. I looked over at Star.

"Woooo! Yeah!" she shouted holding her fist out in the air.

She looked over at me with a smile on her face.

"So Marco, you excited to go home?" she asked.

I gave her a wide eyed look.

"Excited? I'm ecstatic! We're finally gonna go home. If I had to stay out here for another day then I don't know what I'd do."

Star shrugged her shoulders.

"I guess it wasn't all that bad. We got to go on an adventure, so that was fun."

My eyes went wide in realization, and I looked down in thought.

"What's wrong?" I heard Star ask.

I looked up at her.

"Oh. I-It's nothing." I answered.

I quickly looked back down, hoping she wouldn't ask about it. I could see Star out the coner of my eye. I could barely see her raising her eyebrow at me.

"Hey, you can tell me. We're friends, remember?"

I was a bit unsure how to tell her, but I decided to just tell her.

"Well...I'm happy that we're going home and all, but it's just..." I trailed off.

Star kept her eyebrow up.

"It's just what?" she asked.

I let out a sigh.

"It's just...this is probably the only adventure I'm ever gonna go on."

"What do you mean?" Star asked.

"Well...before you came along...I never really left home. Just the same old thing everyday." I answered.

It grew quiet as our eyes sort of drifted off. I looked back up at Star. A smile slowly grew on my face as I thought.

"Well...thing's might change with you around." I said sort of nudging her arm.

Star gave a big smile.

"Awww thanks Marco!"

In an instant she wrapped her arms around me in a hug. I grew stiff, and I could feel my face getting warm. It was true what she said. She felt soft, and she did smell nice. My eyes sort of went wide after I realized what I was just thinking about. Star pulled away, same smile on her face.

"Don't worry, I'll make sure we go on tons of adventures together." Star said.

I just gave her a smile. It grew sort of quiet as we watched the ground move, our legs dangling off the side of the wagon. We'd pass by the familiar surroundings, like the occasional cactus or two. I looked over at Star. She stared around at everything, just amazed. She seemed to look at the world differently. I wasn't sure what she saw in this place. All I could see was dirt, cacti, and more dirt, but she stared as if taking the beauty in it all. Suddenly Star looked over at me.

"Something wrong Marco?"

My eyes went wide and I gave her a nervous smile.

"Heh heh, uh sorry. I was just...checking on you." I answered.

Star gave a small smile. Suddenly another voice chimmed in.

"We're here." Tammy said turning to look at us.

Me and Star went to the front of the wagon to see a big town. There were people walking on the streets. We looked over to see decent sized shops, and not too far ahead we could see the train station. We climbed out of the wagon as soon as it stopped. I turned to Mr. and Mrs. Macintosh.

"Thank you so much! You have no idea what this means to us!" I said.

Suddenly Tammy's eyes went wide.

"Oh wait! You two are gonna need this to get back home." she said holding out some money.

I slowly took it from her hands.

"This should get you train tickets." she said.

I gave a nod.

"Thank you."

"It's no problem. We couldn't just leave you out there. We better get going though. Hope you get home safe." Tammy said waving.

Me and Star waved back as their wagon slowly drove away.

"So. Let's get train tickets!" Star said excitedly.

The two of us ran to the other end of town, slowing as we got to the ticket booth.

"Two tickets to Puebla please." I said to the man behind the booth.

The man gave us a bland look.

"Sorry kids. The last train just left."

"What!" I said with my eyes wide.

"It should be back by 9:35pm. You can buy tickets later tonight." The man said.

Just then he put a sign up that said "Be back later". He then left the stand. I could on stand there, watching him walk away.

"Be back later?" I said disappointed.

I fell to my knees.

"How! We just got here!" I shouted.

Star knelt down by me, putting a hand on my shoulder.

"Hey, it'll be alright. The train's gonna come back soon." she said.

Suddenly it grew quiet as her eyes drifted off again. I wasn't sure as to what she was looking at until I looked up. I noticed the town was covered in decorations.

"What's going on here?" I asked standing up to my feet.

Suddenly another voice chimed in.

"I see you notice the decorations."

Both of us looked over to see two boys and two girls. They looked about our age.

"Ummm. Which one of you said that?" I asked.

"I did." the first boy said to me.

He was about as tall as me, swooped blonde hair, fairly white skin, and he wore a blue button up shirt with a black vest over it, jeans, boots, and a black cowboy hat.

"I'm Christopher, you can call me Chris though." he said holding out his hand.

I was about to shake his hand until Star beat me to it.

"It's so nice to meet you!" she shouted excitedly as she rapidly shook his hand.

"Welcome to Jalisco." he said just tipping his hat.

"So uh Chris. Who're your friends?" I asked.

"Oh right." he said.

He pointed to the second boy first.

"This is Hank."

He seemed a little bit shorter than me, ruffled brown hair, fairly white skin, wore a green flannel shirt, jeans, boots, and a brown cowboy hat.

"Howdy." he said tipping his hat to me.

I tipped my hat back. Chris then pointed to the first girl.

"This is Maria." He said.

The girl seemed as tall as me, her long, dark brown hair was pulled back into a ponytail, her skin was tan like mine, she wore a long dress, the top part was a pale green, and the bottom half was white, on her feet were boots.

She gave me a nervous smile, and I returned one. Chris then pointed to the last girl.

"And finally, Rosa."

She was as tall as me, her bright red hair was in a bun, her skin was pale with freckles, she wore a long red and black dress that sort of looked like Maria's, the top part was red, and the bottom half was black, and on her feet were boots.

She gave a nod.

"So that's everyone." Chris said.

I looked back over at him about to say something until Star cut me off.

"It's so nice to meet you all!" she said excitedly.

I sort of looked at her before staring back at Chris.

"So what's with all the decorations?" I asked.

"It's the mayors birthday, and every year on his birthday he throws a big celebration." Chris answered.

"It's actually quite exciting." Maria spoke.

Chris sort of stared before raising his eyebrow.

"You can't go to a party in these dirty clothes! C'mon. Hank and I will fix ya right up." chris said grabbing a hold of my wrist.

My eyes went wide.

"Oh no you don't understand. We're just trying to get back home." I said in a nervous tone.

"Don't be ridiculous. No one ever turns down a party!" Hank said.

The two started to drag me away in a different direction. I quickly looked back at Star.

"Help me!" I yelled in a whisper.

I was surprised to see Star walking away with the other two girls. I didn't know where these guys were taking me, but I guess it wouldn't be so bad to have some new clothes.

Notes: Hey guys! I'm REALLY REALLY REALLY sorry I haven't been writing lately, but when you have two math classes you got a lot on your hands. So yes. Happy birthday to the mayor of Jalisco! Later on we'll celebrate! I also decided to put MCPlayer26's little headcanon in the story, mainly because I thought it would be cute. You can leave a headcanon in the reviews and if I like it then it could become canon in the story. Don't forget to leave a review, and I'll SERIOUSLY try to get chapter eight posted soon. :)