Chapter 12-Celebration and Grandmothers Advice
The group spend the night celebrating at a place Eclipsa had found called 'Mewni's Monster Hut'. It was a restaurant filled with games, a mini carnival and an all you can eat buffet that stretched on as far as the eye can see. Marco remarked on how much it looked like a Chuck E Cheese to which Star and Eclipsa looked confused at him, not knowing what that was.
The three visited the arcades after eating and proceeded to try to gather as many tickets as they could for the prize counter. As it turns out Star and Eclipsa are like a couple of sisters and quite a bad influence on one another, almost every game they played they won and quickly gained a ridiculous amount of tickets, although Marco noted this was mostly through cheating.
"Well" Sighed Eclipsa as they finished and slumped back into the chairs at their table "How'd we do on tickets in the end?". Star was next to sit placing a large pile of tickets on the table, nearly covering it from view, she sat in her chair and began counting. Marco also took a seat and privately looked at the tickets he'd gotten, playing fairly he might add, and then sighed. He'd be lucky to get a pencil sharpener.
Star continued to count up the tickets as Marco took a seat, they ordered drinks and as they arrived Star finished her count "70,935" she yelled as she stood up from her seat and threw her hands in the air.
"Awesome!" Eclispa cheered as she did the same, and the two royals proceeded to celebrate their, not so well earned, victory at the arcade. Meanwhile Marco looked down at the tickets he'd counted and muttered to himself "12 huh?". Unfortunately as he looked up it was clear that Star and Eclipsa had heard this, the two exchanged looks, smirked and then burst into fits of laughter. Marco crossed his arms in a slight huff, although he was very much exaggerating how upset he was, he then muttered "Well I didn't slow down time on the Wack-a-Monster game or use levitation magic on the basket ball game to always hit perfect shots".
Star tried to stop herself laughing so much and wiped a tear from her eye and then quickly wrapped her arms around Marco's neck as she pulled him into a hug and rested her head on his shoulder, Marco hadn't expected this so seized up for a second in shock but quickly relaxed and wrapped his own arms around Star's waist. "Oh Marco" Star sighed contentedly "You had fun though right?" she asked looking up at him.
Marco slightly tightened his hold around her waist and whispered "Yeah Star of course I had fun". Star's hearts glowed lightly as she melted into the embrace, until she once again heard Eclipsa's voice cut through her fantasies. "How cute" Eclipsa said smiling and winking at Star.
Star let go of Marco and they sat down, blushes still present on both of their cheeks. Eclipsa laughed and grabbed the two of them by the arm saying in a slightly mocking tone "come on lovebirds the prize counter awaits" as she dragged them off in the direction of a giant sign which read 'Monsterous Prizes'.
Stopping at the counter the three began to scan the rows of prizes behind the glass in front of them, Marco stopped in front of a red hoodie with the crest of the Mewnian royal family embroided onto the left breast, it costs 2000 tickets. Marco looked down disheartened, Star saw his face slump and quickly gave the man behind the counter 2000 tickets and pointed at the hoodie.
"Star what are you doing?" Marco protested but Star put a finger to his lips and shushed him.
"consider it a late birthday present" she said sweetly looking up towards him and smiling, Marco smiled back, wrapped his arms around her waist and pulled her into another hug "Thank you Star" he whispered. Star smiled and returned the hug as her hearts began glowing again.
After the pair seperated the man at the prize counter hands Marco the hoodie, Marco slides it on and smiled contentedly, he then handed Star his tickets and said with a smirk "Buy yourself something nice" which drew a giggle from Star. They turned back to the counter and spied Eclipsa who was in a trance stood in front of a large plushie of a bright red monster with four eyes and white hair atop its head. Her expression was slightly sad as she placed a hand on the glass and looked at the price, 68,500 tickets.
Star walked up to Eclipsa and asked if she found something she liked, Eclipsa didn't acknowledge Star's prescense, still lost in her trance she looked the plush in the eyes and whispered "Hello sweetie, its been too long". That did it for Star, she handed the man the rest of the tickets and pointed to the plushie, as the man handed Eclipsa the plushie she snapped out of her trance and quickly turned to look at Star "Oh dear, I'm sorry I was in a daydream" she said, a little flustered at the situation. Star put an hand on Eclipsa's shoulder and said quietly "I know" she then gestured towards the plushie Eclipsa was now holding tightly to her chest "You must miss him". Eclipsa sighed and wiped a small tear from her eye "every day dear".
"Thank you my dear" Eclipsa said "I'm sorry you spent all of the tickets, we can get more if you'd like" Star put her hand up and said "no its okay, I had fun" She then whispered "Besides theres nothing I want here anyway". Eclipsa smiled and the group walked towards the exit to go home. Marco drew his dimensional scissors and opened a portal back to the castle, the group stepped through into one of Butterfly Castle's many library rooms with a small stone fireplace, fire already burning, and three chairs arranged around it.
The three slumped into the chairs and sighed contentedly. After a small while Marco stood and said tiredly "Well I'm gonna head to sleep, goodnight you two" and he started to walk towards his room, but before he got out of the door he felt a tugging on his sleeve, he turned to see star with her hand pulling his sleeve and her beautiful blue eyes staring into his. "wait" she said quietly and then pulled him into a hug with her arms wrapped around his neck, she blushed deeply her hearts glowing and lighting up the space around them a light pink. "Goodnight Marco" she whispered before giving him a light kiss on the cheek.
Marco stood a little shocked for a moment after they seperated and blushing deeply as he touched his cheek lightly where star had kissed, he then found his voice and spoke "G..Goodnight Star, Sweet dreams" before giving her a small kiss on one of her hearts and walking down the hall to his room.
Star stood for a moment, a big happy smile on her face as she daydreamed, unaware that Eclipsa was still sat behind her, that is until she spoke again. "You know dear if there was a perfect time to tell him your feelings, that was it".
Star twiddled her thumbs and looked slightly down as she spoke "But what if he doesn't feel the same" Eclipsa was a little baffled and stood up and walked towards Star to place a hand on her shoulder.
"Dear, you both blush like mad when you talk or look at each other and he just kissed you on the cheek as you said goodnight, I think it's more than obvious you like each other in the same way" Eclipsa looked into Stars eyes as she spoke, her tone of voice kind and motherly. Star sighed and asked Eclipsa something that had been bothering her.
She gestured to the plushie, still sitting on the chair and asked "Is that what he looked like?" Eclipsa sighed and looked towards the plushie and started to speak "Well, sort of, he also had stripes and these cute little horns on his head, he'd always get embarrassed when I teased him about them, in the cutest way" She sighed and a tear came to her eye "you know I haven't thought about it much until today but, he's been gone for over 300 years now" She wiped the tear and faced Star again, placing a hand on her shoulder and looking her in the eye once again.
"Don't wait too long to tell him dear, the time goes by too fast and the more time you get to spend together the better and happier you'll be" Eclipsa smiled and collected her plushie and started to walk towards the door "Goodnight dear, don't stay up too late okay?".
"Goodnight" Star whispered, Star stood for a moment, thinking on Eclipsa's speech and quietly said to herself "Tomorrow, I'll tell him tomorrow" before going to her room to sleep.
A/N: How'd you like the celebration? I wanted to write a quick thank you to all those that have been favoriting and following this story as well as to the reviews :) Until next time guys :)
