Someone To Talk To

Margo is walking to school, wearing her regular hoodie and jeans. She is walking alone. On her way she hears Janna shout out, "Hey!" She comes running up. "'Sup? Star tell you... that she... told me?"

"Hi Janna. Yeah, she said you helped her out with it."

"I'm sorry I found out like that. She shouldn't have told me."

"It's alright, I'm almost surprised you didn't already know."

"What do you mean?"

"I don't know. You have broken into every other part of my life. Why not my... mind?" Margo was joking, but it wasn't funny.

"Soooo... where's Star?"

"If you turn to your 7 o'clock fast enough you can see her."

Janna pivots her head as fast as she can. Star is sneaking, badly, tiptoeing more than being stealthy. She darts to the right, trying to hide behind a trashcan. "Uhmm... Margo. Why is Star doing that?"

Janna slowly turns her head back, just in time to step out of the way of a stop sign. She sees Margo nearly laughing, but it passes quickly and she looks down at her feet, still smiling. "Star and I haven't really made up yet. I asked for some distance, and so she is trying. I bet she meant to leave before me but overslept." Margo laughs a little at Star.

"Uhmm, are you okay with Star?"

"I think I will be. I sort of need my best friend. But... but right now, I can't stop thinking about her leaving me. It isn't even about anything she said. I mean she was just confused or whatever. But... I mean we needed to talk, and she left. I am not mad about it, but I still feel it. I just can't do normal, I don't think."

"I guess that makes sense." Janna looks down, feeling for her friends.

"Well we are here." The two are in front of the school. "Maybe, you should talk with Star."

"Yeah," she glances over, Star is behind a street lamp, "that... is something she needs." Janna quickly hugs Margo, and lets go very quickly, "That is because you are awesome." Margo is looking down awkwardly. "Yeah, never again."

"Thanks."

Janna strolls over to Star, who is still behind the street lamp. Janna turns on her heel so her back is to Star, and begins calling out to nowhere in particular, "I wonder if Star is coming to school."

"Yeah, she is."

Janna turns around and fake gasps, "Where did that come from? Is this a talking street lamp?"

"No..." Star steps out from behind the street light. "I was hiding from Marco." "MARGO! I meant Margo." "Don't tell her."

"I think you are fine. She'd forgive you."

"She hasn't yet..."

"I think she has, she just isn't over it."

"What's the difference."

"Less blame, more sadness."

"Of course. Something else to make me feel worse."

"Well don't feel too bad, Margo is fine."

Cut to Margo walking with Jackie to her locker, holding hands. Jackie waves goodbye and Margo opens her locker and is a wash with a glowing green light. "Huh?"

Cut back to Janna and Star. "You are best friends; she will need you soon enough."

Cut to a hand covered in thick black hairs grabbing Margo and pulling her into the locker. She screams as it happens.

Cut to class, Star and Janna are sitting in the back. "Where is Margo?" Star whispers to Janna.

A random kid overhears, "What happened after you saved him from the hand in his locker?"

"What?"

"Yeah, you didn't save Marco from his locker demon yet."

"Locker Demon!" Star bolts out of her chair. "Ms. Skullnick! I gotta go," and runs out the door without an answer.

Ms. Skullnick exasperated at the board. "She didn't save Marco before class?" "And where do you think you're going."

Janna is walking out the door. "I think I am needed else where."

"Oh, whatever."

"Okay class, today we are going to learn the equation for happiness."

Cut to Star desperately trying to force Margo's locker open with her hands.

"Star, you have a wand, magic. And I know the combination."

"Oh yeah, those are true. RAINBOW PUNCH!" A rainbow fist comes out of the wand and punches in the locker door. "Where are you Margo!?" Star sticks her whole head into the locker, "Margo!"

"Star, you shouldn't be shouting that in school."

"But where is she?!"

"Uhmm. I might know. Janna opens her secret compartment in Margo's locker. A black hand, like the one that grabbed Margo, but smaller, is sitting besides her books.

"What is this? Because it looks like a..."

"A demon arm. Yeah... I didn't think it was real. Not for twenty bucks at least. But it did look pretty good." Janna pulls out her book to show Star a picture. "Just like Vindin's arm." It looks just like the image in the book. "Do you know who Vindin is?"

"Nooo... I know who will though." Star looks annoyed. "Okay, Janna," she pulls out her dimensional scissors, "you get to see a demon dimension." and perfunctorily snips the hole. "Come on."

"So... Cool.." Janna steps through the portal excitedly. "Oh," looking around "it's somebody bedroom. Great."

"Janna, this is Tom." Star is gesturing to Tom, who is shocked wearing a towel around his waste, comb still styling his hair.

"Oh yeah isn't he your ex or something." Janna flops down bored on a chair.

"Star! What are you doing here?"

"I need to find Vindaloo!"

"Uhmmm, there isn't much in the way of Indian places down here."

"Vindin."

"WE NEED TO FIND VINDIN." Star shows even more confidence this try.

"Vindin! Why?"

Janna is still bored, "He kidnapped Marco, because I had this." She holds up arm, flopping it around in the air. "Who is he?"

"Uhm, it is complicated."

"Well Tom where do we need to go?"

"It's not so simple Star."

"I have dimensional scissors!"

"But I am not sure where he is."

Janna holding up her book, "My book says he is in Norj, the infernal frost lands."

"We don't know how old that information is."

Janna flips to the front of her spooky occult book, "Publishing date is last year."

"Still..."

"Okay how to Norg. Nevermind, I have scissors." Star begins to cut a portal.

"No Star! You don't realize who you are dealing with."

"Whatever, Marco is in danger." Star opens the portal and jumps right through.

"Welp, see you Tom-o," Janna hops on through as well.

The two are on barren plains, the wind is howling around them and everything is covered in a thin layer of frost. Janna rubs her arm to warm up. "Margo better be nearby; it is freezing."

"I think she is in the castle there." Star points to Janna's right, where an enormous castle is standing.

"Uhmm who is Margo? I thought Marco was in trouble." Tom was standing behind the two girls.

"Uhh..." The two girls are speechless.

"No time to waste. Save Marco, Storm the castle." Star starts marching to the gate very quickly.

"Come on Tom no time to waste." Janna heads off too.

"Wait!" Tom runs to catch up, still only wearing a towel. "Is Marco Margo?"

Cut to the three of them walking through the halls of the castle. Tom looks a little confused "So what, Margo is just trans, okay. And..."

Star looks very annoyed, "We get it Tom this isn't a big deal to you."

Janna is confused too, "I thought this was weird in..." She waves her arms all around her, "magic lands, places."

Star and Tom in unison: "Dimensions."

"Whatever, why do you get this Tom. Star didn't understand any of this at first."

Tom laughs derisively, "Well Mewni is a different dimension. In the Underworld we..."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah. In the Underworld everybody is allowed to do whatever, be whoever. We should be quiet, before we are discovered." Star looks serious with her wand at the ready.

Tom turns over to Janna, speaking more quietly directly to her. "Mewni is a little... ordered." (Star: "SHH.") "They have a lot of expectations, and not a lot of wiggle room." (Star: "I said, SHHHhhhh.") "It must be rough growing up there."

"CAN IT TOM!" Star shouts without thinking.

A door swings open right in front of Star, inches from her nose. No one has been paying attention to their progress. "Who are you and why are you in my home?" "Mr. Lucitor?!" Mr. Vindin is standing in the doorway, standing 10 feet tall. He is covered in thick black hairs like the arm which grabbed Margo. Vindin has 7 arms, he is missing one on his left side, and a head significantly smaller proportionally to the rest of him. He has mandibles instead of a mouth and two glowing green eyes. He speaks very properly and warmly.

"Hello, Mr. Vindin." Tom says, embarrassed.

"What are you doing here?"

"Waricorn Stampede! Where is Marco?" Star is standing over Mr. Vindin looking very tough.

"Who?"

"Star! Stop that! She means me, Sir." Margo is seated across the room, in a chair drinking tea.

"Oh, so I suppose that is your old name. And I suppose the friend you were telling me about is Star here, Mr. Lucitor's ex I presume."

Star is still standing on top of Mr. Vindin, pointing her wand at his head, but she turns to look at Tom. "Tom, who is this?"

"Well... he sort of works at my school."

"I am his school counselor Ms. Butterfly. It seems like my missing arm brought Ms. Diaz here, as it periodically does. Most humans are quite disconcerted when they arrive in my castle, but Ms. Diaz seemed use to it. She was very well adjusted to the idea of many dimensions. Before sending her home I offered her tea and an open ear. She took me up on both. We were having a lovely conversation when you children broke in."

Janna is smirking at Tom. "Well... Tom. What do you have to say for yourself?"

Tom kicks at the nonexistent dirt.

"It is okay, Mr. Lucitor had no way of knowing what was going on. As he might remember I lost my arm two when he was a freshman, not long after he started seeing me to discuss his anger issues. I can't find it, but it occasionally brings me things. I believe to let me know it is okay. Maybe it is even trying to tell me where it is. What a coincident we are all brought together like this.

"Especially because I brought this." Janna pulls the arm out of her backpack.

"Oh goodness I never thought I would get this back." One of Mr. Vindin's large hands gingerely pinch the small arm out of Janna's hands. As he brings it to the spot for his missing arm it grows, till it fits in the spot. "Thank you children." There are tears in Mr. Vindin's eyes. "I've missed this arm ever since Mr. Lucitor stole it as a prank."

"You... you knew."

"Yes of course, it was easy enough to piece together. But, I was pretty sure you would return it, when started sending me humans I realized you must have lost it as soon as you had it. Well thank you very much..."

"Ms. Ordonia"

"Ms. Ordonia. May I ask where it came from?"

"Some old guy at a swap meet sold it to me for twenty dollars. I didn't think it was real, but it looked so much like the illustration." Janna shows Mr. Vindin her book.

"Wow, my arm is famous." Mr. Vindin gives a strong laugh. "How fortuitous, it wound up in your hands, a close acquittance of the best friend of the ex of the thief. What are the odds?"

Margo stands up puts her saucer and tea cup on the desk. "Thank you for listening Mr. Vindin, it has helped so much. But, I think it is time for us to go home."

"It has been lovely meeting you Ms. Diaz. I assume your dedicated friends brought a way home?"

Star beams, and holds the scissors above her head, in a video game pose. "Scissors!"

"Well if any of you need to talk, I am always happy to help. And I have a strict confidentiality policy, which I would like Mr. Lucitor to remember." Tom blushes at his own transparency.

"Thank you so much, Mr. Vindin." Margo waves goodbye to as she steps through the portal Star opened.