Spongebob Narrator: One vacation later. *Wandering Hippie comes skipping in and starts singing in reference to Useful76's comment*

"Star's mom has got it going on, she's all I want and I've waited for so long. Star, can't you see? You're just not the girl for me. I know it might be wrong, but I'm in love with Star's mom."

SN: Umm, you do not want to do that.

WH: Why? *Toffee leaps in from the side with me giving out a croak in shock*

SN: One brutal beatdown later.

*I am standing there slightly bandaged with Toffee looking at me intimidatingly* I wish to make clear now that the Moon x Marco thing was joke and that they will not be a thing. *Glances over nervously as Toffee walks away giving me the "my eye's on you" motion with his hand* In fact it's actually going to be Star and Marco eventually in the story. Now you are probably wondering why I just spoiled it for you all here and now. Well I'M AT MY WITS END WITH THE WAY THE SHOW IS DANCING AROUND STARCO LIKE THIS AND YOU DESERVE SOME STRAIGHT ANSWERS FOR ONCE! *pants for a few seconds to compose myself* I'm gonna be honest, I think the show's quality is in danger of declining... but enough of my pessimism, let's get moving.

Update on the way I am presenting chapters, I will only be following the first season closely if at all at this point and incase if you are wondering about the Blood Moon ball or Mewberty they will be coming in eventually. I want to write a good story and that takes time as I am working alone right now, have a full time job, and work as a volunteer firefighter. (no joke there, I got a packed schedule.)

And thank you all for caring enough about my story to follow and favorite and for that matter to comment on it. Especially allen Vth of all people, you are not only a good fan, you bother to tell me when I do something wrong making you a reliable source of help. Everyone, give him a little love for me please. :)

Thanks for your attention and now back to the show of one chapter a week or more hopefully.

"Hey it's that Star girl!"

"Hey gurl what's up?"

"How ya doin?"

"Hey there Star."

"Hi Star Butterfly."

Star walked along the hallway with students looking and talking to her all around her with eager excitement in their voices. Star looked around smiling in an appropriate fashion with a slight bead of sweat above her forehead as she waved back to everyone. As she walked through the hallway some people came up and asked or told her things directly.

One boy came up saying "Hey Star, want to be my lab partner?" He then dropped a beaker he was holding by accident making it shatter with a small explosion.

Star chuckled nervously and answered "Sure thing friend." As she moved on a chubby girl stepped out holding a pie.

"Hey Star, I baked you a pie!" Star smiled at her before answering.

"That is awesome." As Star answered another boy leapt out and ate the whole pie in one gulp.

"Hey Star, I ate your pie." He smiled as the girl looked on distraught with Star smiling nervously as she answered.

"I knew you would friend." She continued on high fiving the two as they put their hands up. She was then stopped by a brown eyed and brown haired girl wearing big glasses, braces, a pink shirt with a yellow star at the center of it. She also wore a turquoise skirt, a pair of devil's horns made of ice cream cones, and a paper Mache made tail hanging off of her waist. In addition she had rose colored hearts drawn on her cheeks and grey paint over her parts of skin messily done. She looked at Star and opened her locker revealing pictures of Star all over the interior.

"Hey Star, I covered my locker with pictures of you." She smiled at Star as Star's bead of sweat grew slightly. Thinking fast Star tapped her wand to a random locker with a whispered spell and answered the girl,

"That's weird… because I did it too." Star opened the now unlocked locker to reveal false pictures of the girl made of magic. "Friends Starfan13." Star opened her arms in a gesture that Starfan13 took as a hug and leapt into it.

"Friends Star Butterfly." The two parted with Star turning to see another person run up to her.

"Star girl, please zap me please!" He looked at her eagerly with Star's bead of sweat beginning to run down her face.

"I'm, not sure if I should…"

"PLEASE ZAP MEEEE!" He got in close to her making Star zap him at random turning him into a two headed piñata. "Oh gracias Star, gracias. No wonder everyone is you amigo." He talked to her seemingly overjoyed as Star dodged around a corner trying not to look like she was in a hurry.

"Aww thanks friends." Star turned the corner with people calling after her and broke into a desperate run until she got to her actual locker and stopped in front of it breathing heavily. 'Don't let them in don't let them see, be the good girl you always have to be.' Star thought to herself over and over trying to calm herself down as best as possible and somewhat succeeding. As she brought calm to her mind she heard a gaggle of kids moving in her direction and turned to see Brittany Wong with a girl on either side of her like lieutenants and a mob of kids following her closely. Brittany was out of her cheerleader outfit and in a white blouse with a lilac sweater vest and a darker purple skirt and her hair was thigh length despite the fact that she had been made bald just a few weeks ago or so. To her left a girl with a brown haired ponytail and green eyes stood in a cheerleader outfit looking extremely nervous with a twitch all over her face. To Brittany's right was another brown hired girl identical to the left one except for her hair being ear length bowl cut and had a calm confident look about her.

Brittany spoke in a high pitched annoying valley girl accent, "Oh shove off all of you, I will invite you if I want to invite you." She turned to see Star standing in front of her locker and gave a half smile that looked like a smirk. "Oh nice to see you Star, I just wanted to give this to you." She held out in her hand a piece of paper which made everyone gasp in awe.

"Star got invited."

"She got invited!"

"I knew she would."

"She is just that awesome."

As people cheered Star took the paper and looked at it in confusion before looking back up to see Brittany and her two lieutenants looking like they were expecting a bigger reaction from Star.

"Um… I don't mean to be ignorant but what am I being invited to?" Everyone gasped with Brittany looking like she had just been offended. Before Brittany could speak the girl to her left stepped forward and spoke a little too quickly.

"Only the most important social event of the WHOLE school year; Brittany's birthday party." The girl pointed up with Star seeing a blimp with a large screen on the side of it advertising for Brittany's birthday party. Star only had one thing to say,

"How did I miss that?" Brittany scoffed and pushed the nervous girl aside speaking to her condescendingly.

"Thank you Sabrina." Brittany then turned back to Star and gave her that half smile that looked like a smirk. "So you are coming aren't you." As Star stood there taking this in everyone looked at her expectantly as Star realized what Brittany said wasn't a question but a carefully worded order. The bead of sweat returned as Star thought rapidly with everyone leaning in subconsciously with Star finally blurting out the first words she could.

"Yes I'm coming." Everyone gave out a cheer with Brittany looking satisfied in a way that made Star extremely uncomfortable for some reason.

"Excellent. The time my party bus comes to pick you up is on the invitation. Be sure to bring a present and wear good clothes." Brittany walked away with the crowd following her so Brittany shouted at them again. "I will invite you if I want to so lay off peasants." Star stood there a second as the girl who had been standing at Brittany's right stepped up and began speaking to her in a voice that sounded like a purr.

"We have actually been watching you with interest for quite some time Star, observing how everyone views you. This party is going to be a bigger event for you then you might think." She patted Star on the head like one would a young child. "The name is Chantal, and consider yourself invited to the Heathers." She winked and walked off with Star staring after her.

Star stood there a second fully grasping what she had just agreed to go along with and began panicing grabbing onto her tail rubbing it with her eyes going cat pupiled and yellow as she looked around. 'What the BLOODY HELL did I just agree to?!' Star thought to herself as she opened her locker and stepped into it closing the door behind her while hyperventilating rapidly. She used her wand to create a paper bag and began using it to control her breathing as best as possible with some success. As Star did this she thought to herself of her happy place, 'The peaceful deep forest at night. You are staring out across a pond as a light mist floats through the trees. Your mom and dad at a camp fire not far behind you laughing with your friends and Marco is preparing Nachos for everyone.' Star smiled as the technique worked and she calmed down until she was startled by a knock on her locker door.

"Star, if you need Jackie's conch it's in the upper section of the locker." Star sighed as Marco spoke to her through the locker door and opened it to see him and his quartet of friend's right behind him. Their looks of worry got her to smile slightly at them and hold her tail close to her like a stuffed animal as she spoke to them.

"Sorry for worrying you guys; I was just sprung with something big." The group did not lean close to her although it seemed that way to her as she continued. "Brittany just invited me to her birthday party." Everyone leaned back and blinked in shock at Star's revelation making her nervous again. "Is this a big deal?" Star asked this knowing the answer as Ferguson answered her.

"Of course it is Star! Only the coolest kids are invited to Brittany's birthday party." Ferguson smiled broadly with Oskar and Marco joining him but Alfonzo and Janna were looking at Star with creeping suspicion.

Alfonzo spoke up, "Why would Brittany invite you to her birthday party though. Yes you are one of the coolest kids in school and popular by all means but Brittany still has a chip on her shoulder from when you messed up the school's football game." As everyone nodded thinking about it Marco tried to be upbeat about it.

"Hey, even Brittany knows when to let things slid for her own benefit." But he too was begening to get suspicious and asked Star, "Was Brittany accompanied by two cheerleaders and did any of them say anything weird to you?" Star perked up and began talking.

"Yeah to both. A nervous looking girl named Sabrina and a cool confident one named Chantal; they looked like lieutenants next to her." Everyone nodded looking eager but wary. "The only really weird thing they said came from Chantal saying something about me being invited to the Heathers." Everyone gasped at that with Alfonzo and Ferguson grabbing each other. As Star stood there getting nervous again Janna finally spoke up to everyone.

"Ok, this is either really good or really bad." Upon hearing that Star grabbed the conch Jackie had lent her from her locker and held ready to put it up to her ear at a moment's notice. "The Heathers, as they call themselves, are a group of girls that control the school through a delicate and complicated system of hierarchies with them at the top. The fact that you have been invited to join them is a big thing indeed." Star nodded now both eager and worried but then looked at Janna with a question that Janna seemed to know before Star said it. "The reason why you haven't heard of them is because of two reasons. We are a group that is technically on the bottom of the hierarchy and while everyone will be kind to us to promote wellbeing they won't interact with us for fear of falling in status." Star nodded understanding what Janna meant having lived in a feudalistic society since birth. "And the Heathers also don't like being talked about as a group as it might draw to much attention from the faculty who have been trying to stop any form of hazing or cliques." Oskar spoke up adding in to Janna's words.

"Also, we just don't like talking about them as do most people. They're like the oppressive presence of our government man; we know it's there but we don't acknowledge it unless we have to." He strummed his keytar as Star marveled at how clever and relevant Oskar's words actually were.

Star spoke up, "So… what should I do now that I've accepted Brittany's invitation?" Janna, Marco, and Ferguson got big grins on their faces as Alfonzo looked nervous and Oskar blew a bit of hair from his eyes in tired exasperation. 'I've got a bad feeling about this.' Star thought as Marco's face changed slightly and shook his head before speaking.

"No, we shouldn't throw Star into something like this. She's too sensitive for what might happen." At this Star got offended and stood up straight staring Marco in the face making him lean back shocked.

"For your information I have lived with this stuff all my life and while I don't like to participate in it I can do so with expertise." Star was greatly exaggerating her abilities but she didn't want him to think that she was made of glass. "So tell me, what exactly are you planning?" Janna and Ferguson looked at each other eagerly before turning back to Star with Janna speaking.

"Brittany obviously wants to control or exploit your growing popularity by getting you under her thumb; so let's plan out something extreme for her birthday party that drives her insane…"

Brittany scoffed at the group following her as she went into an empty classroom shutting them out. She sighed in annoyance scratching at the annoying wig that she had to wear thanks to Star's actions at the football game.

"Don't scratch at it, it will only make it grow in uneven." Brittany growled turning on Sabrina making her jump back slightly.

"I don't care if it's uneven, only that it grows back in already. That damn Star girl set me back a full year on my hair; that scaly freak." Brittany threw her pile of remaining invitations on the table making a few scatter. Chantal chuckled slightly before speaking.

"Remember our Alpha bitch, we don't get mad we get even." She winked at Brittany who calmed down slightly before sitting on a stray desk as Chantal continued. "Do you even see the way she nervously glances around; we'll have her under our thumb by the end of the party. Or ruin her social life forever failing that." Chantal smiled calmly as Brittany cheered up and began speaking.

"I mean who does that princess even think she is coming into our school and being popular just like that?" She snapped her fingers to illustrate the point. "And what's more, she made one of our bottom groups a prime group rising in fame. She's just a nervous train wreck who looks like a hentai artist's depiction of a loli lizard magical girl." The other two girls chuckled at the description Brittany made with Sabrina's being slightly forced as she sat down, most of her nervousness gone, and began speaking.

"So, we invited her. How do we convince her that she should not refuse?" Brittany smiled carnivorously as she pulled out a pen and took one of the invitations turning it upside down.

"Well, we do a basic rumor and reliance check on Star. We reach her house last out of everyone all the while bringing back up rumors we spread about her ever since the football incident." The two others nodded in acknowledgement. "When we pick her up everyone will be abuze about her and we cause a few accidents that put her in the center of attention; hopefully involving her tail to draw attention to her lizard features." Brittany drew a few images of Star being tripped by people stepping on her tail with the other two girls nodding along. "Then, thanks to her natural nervousness, she will become a train wreck that we can salvage with very little effort and put her alongside us the rest of the party. During that time we sweeten her up with promises and give her advice on how the school works and how she can exploit it giving her our seal of approval." Brittany held up a red hair scruchie from her purse while Chantal and Sabrina each held up a green one. "Depending on how she reacts to us we will indoctrinate her that evening or we can cause a major embarrassment for her on the sly and show her how well we can clean those things up as she is wallowing. Any questions?" Sabrina raised her hand with Brittany nodding to her.

"What if her friends get involved or she doesn't show up?" Brittany nodded acknowledging that they were legitimate questions before speaking.

"Well she won't refuse it, she is far to self-conscious for something like that. As for her friends, if they do interfere, I will get them thrown off in a heart beat by my boys; be assured of that." Brittany smiled with Chantal chuckling and Sabrina not looking especially happy.

Mavis was sitting on her throne in her hideout meditating as best she could, keeping a clear head was important for a ruler, she heard a warrior come into her thrown room huffing and puffing. Sighing she turned around to see Selene there kneeling before her.

"Well, what news do you bring?" Selene took another second to gather her breath before speaking.

"Star is attending a party of sorts on a mobile building of sorts, without her protector." Mavis smiled musing at this as Selene continued. "There will also be non-combatants we can use to leverage Star's good-will into doing something stupid and potentially fatal." Mavis was grinning openly now as she turned back to Selene.

"Gather the warriors, we strike once Star has let her guard down and is distracted by the festivities." Selene smiled and ran out of the room to where the warriors usually gathered. "Star my girl, never let you guard down as we are always there right behind you." Mavis stood up smiling as someone shifted weight right next to her to see Dumnorix standing there. "Wait, what are…"

"Don't tell me you forgot I was here again right." He spoke in a wry manner as Mavis blushed slightly then growled in annoyance as he stared down at her with his one good eye.

"Just join the others and wait for my command." He nodded and followed the route which Selene had taken. "Are private quarters to much to ask for in the case of their war chief?" Mavis snorted in annoyance as she picked up her sword strapping it to her waist and walked out of the room to where the others were waiting.

By the way I called the three girls the "Heathers" in reference to a musical I know about know as "Heathers the Musical". If you know about this show... you should be worried about what's going to happen to Star.