Marco finished fixing up his nachos feeling a light eagerness to his step despite his exhaustion from the last few days as he moved into the living room. He saw Star had curled up under the friendship blanket and seemed to be rubbing it all over herself as if relishing the feel for some reason. He could also see that her tail was twitching and wriggling a lot which it normally didn't do, almost as if her glee was giving it life as well. Marco felt a content if slightly goofy smile cross his face as he moved in under the blanket setting the nachos on the coffee table. Star blinked her eyes open which at the moment seemed to be in a perpetual state of purplish-green of when she was really happy. Marco felt the world drift away as he looked into those eyes; he had always thought they were beautiful in that color but now that they were a couple…

"Are you ok Marco?" Marco was pulled out of his gazing when Star looked at him worried.

"I um uh… just… *sigh* can't stop looking at you. You're really pretty, especially your eyes." Star blinked in confusion looking down bashfully.

"I… I'm not pretty Marco." Marco felt a wave of sadness go through him as he was reminded yet again of how hard Star had it when it came to love.

"Well I think you are and there's nothing you can do about it." He pulled her onto his lap kissing her forehead before snuggling with her.

Star practically melted into his arms as she grabbed onto him, snuggling in close, wrapped her tail around him, and locked her head into the crook between his neck and shoulder. It wasn't unusual for them to cuddle and hug like that as friends but now it felt more… right somehow. They sat like that for what felt like a long time just relishing each other's company until Star spoke up again.

"So what is this movie about?" Marco chuckled and replied as he hit the remote to start it.

"It's actually a love story between an odd girl that is a bit of an outcast and a jerk who was cursed to be a… beast until he could learn to love. But it's actually best for you to just watch it yourself with little knowledge." Star nodded and settled in next to him wrapping her arms around him and wrapping the blanket around them like a cocoon.

Marco smiled looking down at her quite eagerness not really noticing the movie start. He actually really did like that movie despite how it should not have been in his personal taste however he had seen it multiple times so he didn't really need to focus. Which was a good thing as Star's eyes just drew him in even from the angle they were at and left him floating in a sea of serenity. Throughout the movie Marco could clearly see Star was enjoying herself given how she gawked at the screen and even sang along with some of the songs. Throughout the movie he also fed Star nachos so she wouldn't have to let go of him making her smile in the cutest fashion when she realized what he was doing. Occasionally he would look down at her and get lost in her eyes which didn't bother Star fortunately, but it did result in him kissing her forehead or cheek after a few seconds of this which did make Star giggle gleefully. He also noticed strangely enough that occasionally Star would rub her hand around his abdominal region which didn't feel bad just very weird. At the big scene where Belle and the Beast danced Star gazed in particular awe crying slightly at it; which prompted another kiss on the cheek for her but he was not sure if it made her better or worse as she continued to cry happily watching it. As the movie wrapped up Star began crying happily again pulling herself in close to Marco with a massive grin on her face.

"I loved that movie so much, especially the scene where Belle and the Beast danced. It felt like our dance at the Blood Moon Ball except less awkward afterword." Marco nodded feeling Star's hand across his abdominal region again. He had a theory as to why Star was doing this now though and tested it out by flexing his abs so she was running her hand across slightly defined abs. Her girly giggle at feeling them told Marco everything he needed to know with Star realizing she had just given herself away. "Oh Marco… I um… just…" Marco chuckled at that speaking up trying to relax Star.

"It's ok Star, in fact that gives me a bit of confidence about my body you being into… my abs." Star and Marco chuckled awkwardly at that. "Say Star um… can I… possibly… touch your tail?" Star blinked in confusion at this looking up at him in surprised. "I just… well I was always interested in what having a tail would be like as a kid honestly. And the fact that you have one is just so…" He was cut off however when he felt something smooth wriggle its way into his hand.

Looking down in confusion he pulled back the blanket to see that Star had wormed her tail into his hand with it wriggling slightly at the contact with him. He looked back at Star who had an almost coy smile on her face as she rubbed one hand on his still clenched abs and the other in his hair. Marco shrugged off the confusion and turned back to the tail keeping his abs clenched so Star could indulge. He reached over with his other hand and ran them both up and down her tail eliciting a content moan from Star making her lean in close to him. Her tail just felt so smooth and pliable like soft leather and moved under his hands like a living thing, which it technically was. Marco stared at the thing in his hands in fascination as Star leaned over and inhaled the scent of his hair deeply rubbing her cheek up next to his.

"mmmmmm, you smell so nice Marco and you're so warm. I could just hug you all day without pulling my face away from you." Marco blushed at that feeling a light playful bubbliness emerge inside of him. "And the way you rub my tail… mmmm it just feels so relaxing." Marco smiled and turned his face enough so he could kiss Star's cheek before speaking.

"Well we can do this whenever you want to now; you're my girlfriend after all." He smiled playfully as Star seemed to shudder happily at his words.

"Say that last part again."

"You're my girlfriend." Star giggled at that rubbing her nose with Marco's in an adorable fashion.

After their boop they stared into each other's eyes getting lost in them for a little while before pulling in for their second kiss. It felt just like the first one, soothing and relaxing making them feel content as they pulled away after a short while. As they parted Marco finally felt the exhaustion of the last few days get to him and he swayed nearly falling on top of Star who giggled at him.

"I take it you're a bit exhausted huh Marco?" Marco nodded dumbly with Star heaving him up bridal style. "Well let's get you to bed then." She carried Marco up the stairs with Marco snuggling up in her arms blushing slightly.

When they got upstairs Star immediately took him to her room and laid him under the covers with her getting in and slipping into his arms. Instead of grabbing onto him like she often did however she turned around so they were spooning with her being the small spook to his big spoon. As they settled Star heard a slight whisper of 'goodnight Star' from Marco which made her shiver slightly before replying in a whisper.

"Goodnight Marco."

The next morning Star blinked her eyes open slowly reaching her hand up to rub the sleep out of it. As she did so she felt a grip around her body tighten with a content moan coming from behind her as Marco rubbed his body up next to her. Star smiled to herself as she let the memories of yesterday wash over her along with the sensation of his warm body next to hers. 'This is just so ni… wait what's tha…' Star blushed profusely as she realized something very hard around Marco's nether regions was actually rubbing up against her. 'Well… guess he does find me physically attractive.' At this Star also noticed one of his hands was cupping one of her breasts making the blush deepen even more. 'Still this… feels rather nice.' It felt embarrassing but it did make her feel safe and secure; it was probably going to make Marco rather shocked when he woke up. Star giggled and looked at the alarm clock on her nightstand showing she had a few minutes before it went off so she reached over to turn it off and relish in the feeling of Marco next to her. 'Say I wonder if…' Star rubbed her tail along Marco's leg prompting him to rub up against her making Star giggle at how easily he could be pushed. As she did it again however Marco groaned and moved about waking up with a big yawn.

"Huh?" Marco blinked groggily trying to get a clear idea of what was going on with Star rolling around to face him.

"Good morning Marco. Did you sleep just as well as I did?" She kissed him softly on the nose helping him wake up quickly.

"Oh um yeah I did. Good Morning Star." As Marco finished getting his bearings Star sat up somewhat reluctantly and yawned stretching out.

"Well the alarm was about to go off so let's get moving." Marco nodded in agreement and went to get up but hesitated for a second before getting a mortified expression on his face as he tried covering himself up, prompting Star to speak out. "Don't worry about 'lil Marco' he's cool." Marco froze glancing over at Star as she giggled at him again. "I know you can't control him so no need to feel ashamed. Anyways you should get back to your room before I begin changing as I think I'm making him a bit too excited hmmm." Star raised an eyebrow with Marco looking away blushing at that.

"Ok, but please don't bring this up with anyone, especially our parents." Star nodded in promise as Marco moved out with Star changing.

She did her normal routine but stopped when she went to put on her typical informal black dress as it didn't 'feel right' for some reason at this point. She thought long and hard about it before moving to her closet and pushing aside her selection of black dresses to see her other cloths. She hadn't worn anything but black dresses for a long time so she didn't know if those clothes would even fit at this point. She spent a couple minutes picking and choosing before she finally pulled out some cloths and put them on zapping them with her wand to properly size them. She then gazed at her image and after a few more seconds of consideration she took a different head band as well to keep her hair back. The final image was of her wearing a pink t-shirt covered in white hearts, a turquoise skirt with narwhals along the top and bottom bands, pink and purple striped leggings, purple boots with a spike on the tip, and a green headband with two white spotted pink toadstools on them instead of devil horns. She giggled at her image with it feeling right and stepped out to see Marco was in his normal getup and waiting for her.

"Say Star what took… whoa." Marco gazed at her new clothes with Star twirling around giggling at him.

"So, what do you think?" Marco looked her over and smiled broadly before giving her two thumbs up.

"I love it! Now let's get down to breakfast, I'm fairly certain mom and dad are gonna want a full description of what has just happened between us."

"Ok, can you hold this for me then?" Marco looked down in confusion.

"That's your hand." Star nodded eagerly with Marco taking it smiling sweetly at her as they both went downstairs. They went down the steps side by side and rounded the corner to the living room to be greeted by Marco's parents and…

"Dad!" Star spoke in shock as her dad turned towards them showing he was wearing a white shirt with a purple vest over it and brown pants, what looked to be informal garb for him, as he spoke up.

"Oh dear you're finally up, wonderful to see you again. Moon volunteered to prepare breakfast and is in the kitchen right now." He gestured over to the kitchen where Moon was indeed working with her hair tied back and in her informal wear as well. "She's making your favorite, bacon pancakes." Star licked her lips in a reactionary fashion as Marco heard singing coming from the kitchen.

"Bacon pancakes, makin bacon pancakes. Take some bacon and you put it in a pancake. Bacon pancakes, that's what it's gonna make; bacon pancaaaaaaakes!" Moon finished one as she was singing and flipped it onto one of two stacks piled high with Star speaking up.

"Um, nice to see this but why are you guys here?" The adults all chuckled at Star's question with Angie speaking up.

"They decided to come by to celebrate you two becoming a couple." The four adults all pulled out little confetti poppers and popped them with a small cheer. "Oh you two look so cute with each other, I need to take a picture of this!" Angie pulled out a camera and photographed Star and Marco holding hands in the living room entrance with Marco speaking.

"W-wait up here, how did you know about that?" Raphael chuckled before taking his turn to speak.

"Oh when you contacted Moon and Toffee about drama with Star they contacted us saying you were likely going to become a couple." Star and Marco stared at them in confusion for a second. "Oh come on you two were practically acting like a couple even when Marco was with Jackie, we figured with this drama having come up you two getting together was guarantee. Also we confirmed it with the security camera in the living room." He pointed out a nearly unnoticeable camera that had caught the two watching Beauty and the Beast last night. Star blushed looking down bashfully and Marco face palmed at that speaking up.

"I thought you guys had disconnected that a long time ago." He groaned a little and straightened up facing the four boldly. "Well you are right, Star and I are a couple and we would much appreciate it if you would give us space to let things unfold naturally." The parents all nodded with Moon speaking up.

"Well now that that's out of the way you two should eat up and get to school." The two nodded as Moon levitated two stacks of syrup slathered bacon pancakes to their places at the table which they started eating with gusto.

"Say these are pretty good, do you mind showing me how to make them?" Marco asked up to Moon who gazed at him fondly before replying.

"Of course, you need to make them for your girlfriend after all." She giggled and winked at Marco as he began eating again

About half-way through his stack he began to feel full and noticed Star had finished hers already and was waiting for more with puppy-dog eyes. Marco smiled at her puppy-dog eyes and lifted his fork to her with some pancake on it getting Star's attention. Star blinked in confusion for a second before she smiled cheerfully and ate it off of his fork giggling in glee. As he continued to feed her Star eventually just climbed onto his lap to shorten the distance so he could feed her faster. As he fed her they wound up staring into each other's eyes feeling a sense of content bliss spread through them. Marco stopped feeding Star however when he noticed there was no sound going on around them; the adults had stopped talking and bacon pancake production had stopped. Marco froze mid feed with Star looking at the fork longingly and sent out her 5-inch long tongue to swipe it away but froze looking at something to the side. Marco turned to look and double took when he saw both their parents were recording this in some way. Raphael was painting a portrait of them, Angie was taking photos, Moon was recording with a mirror, and Toffee had a recording camera he was using. The four adults all had exceedingly happy grins on their faces, including Toffee whose smile looked a little disturbing on his normally monotone lizard face. Star and Marco looked at each other a might bit shocked and pulled apart with Marco pushing Star his pancakes for her to finish. This made the adults groan in protest as they put their items away with Moon speaking up.

"Our girl brings home a boy and doesn't let us record all the cute moments when she shows them off to us? Insanity I say." She turned back to making more bacon pancakes for the rest of the family. After Star finished Marco's stack she and Marco got up and got going for school.

"Bye mom and dad, see you soon." Star waved at her parents as she and Marco ran for school with Star skipping in her stride.

"See you later sweetie." Toffee waved her on and glanced at Moon who had a tear in her eye as she watched them go. "Moonpie, are you getting sad at watching our little girl grow up." Moon shook her head turning to him with a smile on her face as she responded.

"Did you see what Star was wearing? She hasn't willingly worn anything but black dresses since she was ten." Moon grabbing onto Toffee crying happily. "That boy has made our daughter a bright star once again!" Toffee held Moon close smiling as she cried into his chest responding quietly.

"I don't normally jump to conclusions that quickly, but indeed he has sweetie, indeed he has." Their reverie was broken by Raphael calling out to them.

"Come here, I recorded them kissing during their night on the lips!" The two immediately came running to see the event with everyone giving a sigh of happiness when the two pushed their lips together. Toffee's keen eye however caught something when they kissed, a light flash on their cheeks.

"Moon dear, did you see that?" Moon blinked for a second as if grasping what he had been asking and nodded. "Should we be worried?" Moon shook her head no and turned back to Toffee relying quietly.

"That sometimes happens when a boy has used the Butterfly wand and comes in close loving contact with a member of the Butterfly family… wait. When did Marco use Star's wand?" Angie shrugged in confusion at this with Raphael rubbing his chin questioningly speaking up.

"Marco, you got some splainin to do."

For most people it was a pretty normal Friday with kids rushing around and talking with each other about mostly small stuff. Today however there were two major topics of conversation that took up the majority of pre-class time. First off was the approaching summer vacation and the end of year school dance that would kick it off. Summer vacation was delayed for their school because of the many repairs the school had to go through due to Star's influence, not that anyone was complaining that hard. And the end of year dance was something many students have been hoping to push for years and finally, thanks to Star's influence on Mr. Lancer, it was becoming a reality. The second one was a bit more tense about a rumor of Star confessing to Marco and him not having a reply to her yet. Everyone was worried what would happen if Marco rejected Star but a bigger concern was that their ship might be coming into fruition. Ever since the night Marco carried Star home from Brittany's party a group of Starco shippers had slowly but steadily been growing even when Marco was with Jackie. As Marco and Star arrived many of the kids stopped what they were doing and stared as they saw the pair going through the hallways. Star was dressed in different cloths then the usual and was skipping along with a slight bounce as she held Marco's hand while Marco was staring at Star's happy expression with a dopey grin as he walked alongside her.

"Hey, you two should kiss." The duo turned in confusion to see Starfan13 standing not far away calling out to them.

Everyone waited in tense silence for a second until Marco and Star shrugged and turned to each other locking lips while hugging each other close. A brief flash of light came from their cheeks from Star's marks and some sort of moon shape from Marco's cheeks. As they parted everyone around them started cheering and throwing confetti that they had for some reason startling Marco enough to jump into Star's arms. The two looked around in shock as everyone finished cheering and ran off chanting 'Starco, Starco, Starco!' They both blushed slightly with Star letting Marco down as Chloe, Janna, Jackie, and Starfan 13 approached them with big smiles on their faces with Jackie speaking up.

"Nice to see you two together at long last man." Janna spoke up in accompaniment.

"It's about time you two." Marco looked to the side rubbing the back of his bashfully as Star spoke up.

"Wow, a lot of people were hoping we would get together. Are we really that big of a thing?" Chloe spoke up at this eagerly.

"Of course you are; when people look at you they think 'dream couple'." Jackie spoke up again smiling at Marco with relief in her voice.

"So dude, nice to see you come forward about your feelings at long last; it's a relief man." Marco nodded and spoke up.

"Well I got some advice that helped me out immensely, else I would still be stuck in limbo right now. I stopped asking whether or not I had a crush on Star but what she meant to me. When I put it that way it seemed so simply I'm surprised I hadn't noticed it before honestly." As everyone nodded at that Janna got an intrigued look on her face as if she was actually listening to Marco for once. "Say we should probably get to class, see you guys later." The group parted with Star speaking up to Marco.

"Can you hold this for me?" Marco looked down and smiled before speaking.

"That's your hand." He then grabbed it making Star giggle in glee as they walked to class with the other girls giving a sigh at how cute they looked. Janna however had a new determined look on her face as she got to class.

To be honest I was considering cutting this part of the episode because it's mostly just fluff of Star and Marco being a couple. then again it was fluff of Star and Marco being a couple so I wound up wanting to put it in.

Also I read the comments on this and damn... there is a bit of hate on for the show here! Understandable but still. Anyways, let's get the next part finished so I can get back to the story's plot. (Also Marco doesn't have any magical powers, I just lit up the cheeks to show thier connection with each other.)