IMPORTANT: Last week, something was up with this site and the last chapter wasn't posted the time the update went out, that means you may have missed the previous chapter so I recommend that you go back one chapter and make sure. Also, I finished with my other story and posted it last week as well so if you missed that or saw the notification and didn't see a new chapter, then go back now because it should be there.

imhere4svtfoe: Yeah, Janna is always messing around and running from her problems more than Star does. Well, you will have to read and find out if Jackie is going to cause problems or not. I might wrap things up soon … or I might just drag it on with another twenty or so chapters!

RedLukas: Please make Marco seeing them together, misinterpret it, and end in a lot of drama? Okay!

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

Marcus and Faith are my OC's

Beta read by Sabrina06

(No one's POV)

Faith made her way over to Marcus as a feeling of nervousness overtook both of them. Well here goes nothing. Marcus thought to himself. "So … hey."

"Hey." Faith replied as she leaned against the wall next to him. "I … I was looking for you."

"I thought you were looking for Star."

"Well I gave up and came back to find out you had also gone looking for Star so I went looking for you."

Marcus paused for a moment. "You know, I don't think this conversation is confusing enough, maybe we should start discussing quantum theory."

Faith laughed at Marcus's joke before turning to look at him with a smile. "I don't know, you sure you can handle something like that?"

"Not in the slightest." Marcus replied.

Both of them laughed followed by absolute silence as they tried to avoid eye contact. "Actually … there was something I wanted to ask you."

"There is?" Faith asked.

"Yeah, so … apparently you're into both guys and girls-"

"Where did you hear that?" She exclaimed almost instantly. "Where would you get that notion, I mean I never-"

"I've been friends with you for a long time, you think I would never have picked up on it?"

There was an awkward silence as Faith looked away. "I'm not bad okay?"

"I didn't say-"

"Just because I might find girls interesting as well doesn't make me bad." She said as she quickly turned back to face him.

"But why would you think-"

"It's not exactly that I like them either, it's more like I don't care about things like gender, which isn't bad, it's perfectly normal."

"But I-"

"I'm not sinful!"

There was another awkward pause as Marcus took a moment to contemplate her words. "So … can I get a few words in now?" Faith paused for a moment before nodding. "Good, first off, I never said I thought it was wrong."

"You … what?"

"I said I don't care if you're … based on what you said I'm going to guess … pan?"

"That would be accurate."

"Okay, so why did you think it would matter to me?"

Faith looked at him surprised. "So … you're saying … you don't hate me because I'm pan?"

"I don't care about someone's orientation, and I definitely don't hate you, no matter what."

There was a short moment of silence before Faith burst into laughter, causing Marcus to reel back a little. "O-kay." He said softly as she continued to laugh.

After a while she finally stopped laughing and began trying to catch her breath. "Oh, this is rich; all this time, all this time I thought you would hate me and not want to be my friend anymore … but you've known and haven't care! I've been worrying about absolutely nothing!"

"Well, I have heard a few stories so I kinda understand why you didn't want anyone to know."

Faith slowly began to calm down as she pulled her hands out of her crutches and crossed her arms. "Uh … yeah."

"I was the only one you wanted to keep it from, wasn't I."

Faith nodded reluctantly as Marcus let out a sigh. "Well, I guess I should have expected that."

"It's not like that, you're my best friend and … I didn't want to take the chance."

"I … I think I understand." He replied. "It's … I guess I'm just that kind of guy, aren't I?"

"It's not that, it's … your religious."

Marcus paused for a moment before nodding. "Ah, I see where you got the idea them. Just so you know, not everyone thinks that way."

"I didn't want to take the chance, you're important to me and there was … always a chance that you wouldn't actually find out." She let out a laugh as she began to rub her arm. "I guess it doesn't really matter now though, I mean you knew, and so once again, I messed up royally and look like a complete-"

"I'm in love with you."

The entire air around them seemed to stop as Faith took a moment to make sure that she had just processed what she had just heard. "I'm sorry, I could have sworn I heard you say that-"

"I'm in love with you." Marcus repeated again. His palms were sweaty and his heart was already going a mile a minute, but he knew that Faith was about to go on one of her self doubt trips again, and he didn't want to let that start. "Do you want me to say it again?"

Faith let out a small laugh and shook her head. "Did Star put you up to this? She did, didn't she? How did she convince you to say that?"

"She didn't." Marcus replied. "Well … not exactly, full disclosure, we had a deal where she would tell Marco how she felt about him and … I would tell you how I felt."

Faith turned away from Marcus and smiled. "Nice try, but I know you're making it up."

"Making it … what?!"

"You're not in love with me because it's impossible for anyone to be in love with me."

"That's not-"

"Don't even try it." She interrupted. "I'm not the kind of person people develop feelings for, I'm a mess on four legs and I can barely even dress myself."

"That doesn't matter to me."

"Oh be real, I can't even get through even the most basic of days without someone helping me, I'm practically completely dependent on other people, why would anyone, especially you, fall in love with me?"

"Especially me?" He asked. "Hold on, putting aside the fact that you're wrong about nobody being able to like you for a second … why especially me?"

"Like that's not obvious." Faith replied with a scoff. "You are probably one of, if not the most sought after guy in the entire school, you make fireworks which is amazing in and of itself, and they are amazing on top of that. You're really smart, you're always there with helpful advice when it's most needed, and you're unbelievably kind and optimistic. Not to mention that you're incredibly handsome."

"First; fireworks aren't that big a deal and they're not as awesome as you make them out to be, second; I'm not handsome."

"Yes you are."

"Yeah, no, I'm not. You on the other hand, you just keep on pushing yourself every day like you don't even know what the term 'limits' even means. Not to mention that you're courageous, you're not afraid to force someone into not giving up, you don't like backing down from a challenge, you're very intelligent."

"I also look horrendous." She added.

"That doesn't matter."

"And on top of that, I only work so hard so I can be normal, so I can walk normally, so I can hold a simple pen just like everyone else, so I can be just another face in the crowd. Thing is I can't work on my non responsive mussels too much because I might break a bone, and I can't work on my brittle bones too much because my muscles don't respond that well. That means that no matter how hard I work, I'll never be as ordinary as everyone else." She said as tears began to form in her eyes.

Marcus pushed himself off the wall and stood in front of her with one hand on her cheek and a soft smile on his face. "You're right about one thing, you'll never be ordinary because any ordinary person would have given up on trying to function like everyone else a long time ago." He brushed the hair out of her eyes and looked into them as his nerves began to get the better of him, causing him to freeze up.

It only took Faith a moment to realize this and as soon as she did, she let out a laugh and pulled Marcus's hand away from her face. "Marcus, you're sweet and all but you need to stop freezing up at important moments like this."

"Wha?" He mumbled.

Faith smiled and wrapped her good arm around the back of his neck and pulled her lips to meet his. There was a small squeak from Marcus at first, but he quickly closed his eyes and wrapped his arms around the small of her back and pulled her closer. After a moment, they finally separated as Faith placed her hand on the side of his neck. "So, do you want me to be your girlfriend?"

"More than anything else."

"Then I guess that means we're boyfriend and girlfriend now." She pressed her lips against his again just as a crashing sound caught both of their attention as her crutch fell over behind her. "Well that's going to make things a little harder."

"I could just pick them up for you."

"No, no, just lower me down, I can get them."

"Okay, I just want to go on record saying that this sounds like a bad idea."

"Just lower me down."

As Marcus and Faith tried to work together to pick up her crutches, Star was hidden just around the corner watching them with a bright smile on her face. "Well I guess that means Marcus completed his end of the bargain."

Star walked away as her smile faded. "That means that I have to hold up my end of the deal."

Okay, so this story should be half over by this point (obviously I'm lying seeing as two out of three of the couples are resolved at this point) so it's time for me to start talking about my next story … which I'm actually a little nervous about. I am still thinking (or rather I'm starting to rethink my original idea) and I will talk more about it tomorrow, over on my Tumblr page which is Axis2600.

Enjoy your day and please leave your tears in the collection bucket.