Party, Party
"Where to today?" Margo is wearing her red hoodie and a denim skirt. She is pacing Star's room holding the scissors
"They're your scissors you pick." Star is laying across her bed bored.
"You know more about this stuff than me."
"I think we have been everywhere I know. We have been going pretty hard recently."
"I like being out, but I'm not out here, but I can be out out there, so lets go out."
"Does out sound weird now? Out."
"Yeah, it was an accident... then I thought it would be funny... and now it isn't a word... Out."
"Out."
"Out."
"Out."
"Are you okay going out dimension hopping?"
"Yeah, and I understand, but I don't know where to go. I am out of destinations. Out."
"Stop that."
"...Ooouuttt..."
"Star!"
"Okay, Okay. But no ideas, none, nada."
"We could go check out..." Star is looking on expectantly. "No..." Margo has nothing, or... "Or is there like a dimension of..." Nope. "Okay I got nothing either."
"We could ask Pony Head."
"Well... like, we could, or we could find jump into the void and try to find Ludo. He was kinda cool the last time we saw him. I mean he crushed Toffee."
"Margo..."
"Your dad loves being eagle king now, so Ludo did two things right... sorta"
"Margo..."
"Hey what about Kelly, Kelly is cool."
"Oh yeah..." Star whips out her compact and calls Kellly She talks as Margo watches half the conversation, "Oh is that right. Ohhhh! Oh? Oh-kayy. Sounds good. We'll be right over." Star hangs up. "She is with Pony Head."
"Of course."
"Evidently there is some big thing going on at St. O's. Aren't those like your fans, like our school full of mine."
"You think our school is full of your fans."
"At least 13."
"Okay, that is fair. Do you think there is a PrincessMarco13?"
"Uhhh... Does that bother you?"
"What? Oh! No. I'm also not a princess. It is pretty much just a marketing campaign at this point."
"Okay... I don't get it... but that is fine."
"Sure lets go there. Sounds like fun."
Star cuts a portal open, and jumps right through. Margo steps through calmly.
"GIRL!"
"GIRL!"
"GIRL!"
"GIRL!"
Pony Head and Star greet each other, as usual, "Hugs!"
"Oh, so you're here too. Well that's cool. How you doin', girl."
"I'm fine. What is going on... with all of... this?" Margo is the worst at being cool. She tries leaning only to slide off the wall barely catching herself.
"Oh this is just a little get together, we do it once a month to celebrate the overthrowing of St. Olga's."
"Really?" Margo looks around, and sure enough there is plenty of Princess Marco stuff around. "And you never invited me!"
"Oh well it didn't seem right, you know. Like you are an image. Didn't think you should be tarnished." Margo glares at Pony Head unconvinced.
"Oh come on, Margo, we are here now for this one."
"Hey, Star, you made it!" Kelly is waving, obviously without Tad.
"HI KELLY!" Star is hopping up and down waving.
"Hi Kelly." Margo waves casually. "Did you and Tad break up again?"
"No." Kelly smiles and laughs at Margo. "Wait," her face freezes, and then panic falls, "what have you heard?" She looks at Margo with puppy dog eyes.
"Nothing, he just isn't here. That normally means you have broken up."
"Oh. What?" Kelly laughs. "No it is just girls at this party."
"Oh!" Margo looks around at first to confirm, and then a little worried. "It is girl's only?"
"Yeah well at first it was just the girls who overthrew Heinous, and then they started inviting other girls to celebrate and then the Princess Marco thing blew up so lots of people wanted to come, and now it is just, like a regular thing... but no boys. I have no idea how that rule actually started."
"Uhmmm... It looks like tons of fun." Margo looks around still unsure if she is gonna get kicked out.
"Yeah..." Kelly sees something's up, but isn't clear on what. "Just us girls..." "Uh who are you looking for?" "Were you thinking a boy would be here?" Kelly turns to whisper to Star behind her hand. "I thought she had a girlfriend?"
"No, no, no," Margo signals X with her arms "NO!" "I was just worried... about... being here..."
"Why? It is no boys not no Earth Turds." Pony Head chortles with her 'joke'. Star looks embarrassed again, but Kelly also looks perplexed. "You would have never gotten past the old defenses, as a boy." Princess Pony Head looks between Margo and Star. "What? Heinous said there were no boys allowed, she did magic to enforce her rules, like no scissors, and there used to be no boys. You guys didn't get that?"
Margo and Star look at each other confused. "Uhmm... Of course not." Margo looks around. "So everyone knew I wasn't a boy."
"Of course, Princess Marco." Pony Head laughs at Margo's confusion. "Not if you could get in St. O's. Right." Pony Head nudges Star, "Right?"
Star is still very confused. "Uhmm. No?" "Should I have?"
Pony Head looks around: "Lets dance." She wonders off to dance in among the women assembled at the party.
Star shoots her head left and right before realizing the solution. "DANCE!" She keaps off in the same direction of Pony Head dancing.
It is now just Margo and Kelly. Margo looks at Kelly sideways. "So I am a girl? "Like Definitively!"
"Uhmm..." Kelly is confused. "Aren't you? That was what Pony Head told me. Sorry the restriction has really only been no guys, if you are like non binary that is cool, I don't know why everyone says girls only..."
"No, no, it is fine. I am a girl, it is just..." Margo is kinda confused, unsure what to say. Kelly is just listening. "I guess it's weird to have it confirmed so definitely. Sometimes... Sometimes I feel like... there is no evidence, like I just have to be sure on my own..."
"Well you do... I mean your identity determines this. You could get in as long as you determined you were a girl..."
"Oh..." "I was hoping..." "I guess I..." "I just wanted..."
"Uhh... Margo. It is cool. You don't need to say anything. We all think you are a girl. I mean even if you weren't you are still Princess Marco."Kelly beams at Margo, then realizes what she said. "Not that your gender doesn't matter, just... just... just..."
"That is the thing, just... what! Just whatever goes! I mean that is nice, but that isn't how I feel. I mean I am a girl, I don't feel that way, I am... that way, but it... It feels like I need proof all the time." Margo shoots a definite look at Star, but Star dancing and Kelly standing there miss it.
"Oh well, no need to prove anything. I mean you are here, and you are a part of the girl's party. No one thinks you are an exception."
"No one?"
"I mean fair enough, someone probably sucks, but it isn't a problem." Kelly gestures showing the fact that the two are standing and talking among the whole party, and no one seems to care. "But there is no trouble, you are accepted here. Even if they are dumb and angry, no one can say much."
"I don't know." Margo still can't help but look around.
"Do you just want to dance?"
"Ugh... I guess that is better than all of this." Margo points at her head.
Kelly pulls her off into the party and they start dancing alongside Star and Pony Head.
Later – Margo, Star, Pony Head, and Kelly are getting ready to leave, exhausted from dancing.
Margo looks super awkward, rubbing her head. "Hey Kelly, this started... super weird. But, you helped make it fun. Thanks."
Kelly is too tired to fully understand. "Yeah, it was nothing. You would... the same.. place..." Margo doesn't even notice as they wave goodbye. Margo and Star leave through their dimensional scissors, and Kelly cuts one for her and Pony Head. Kelly suddenly realizes what Margo said and turns around. "NO! You are awesome. I am only sorry you needed anything..."
Margo stepped through in the midst like she couldn't hear. And then she shoots her head back through, smiling. "Well, I needed it. And thanks." Margo pulls her head back though so the portal can close.
Kelly smiles to herself as she ushers Pony Head through a scissor portal.