As Marco approached the table with all the girls at it, he grumbled a bunch of swear words in his head. No only was he supposed to sit at a table full of pretty girls, he would actually have to socialize with his peers. For pretty much his entire life he has tried his best to avoid social interaction, but now he finally has to.

He debated going back to his regular table and sit alone like always, but apperantly faith had different plans.

"Hey Marco over here!", Jackie Lynn Thomas called out.

He had no choice now, he walked over to the table and sat down beside Jackie.

"Hi", he said quietly.

Jackie turned to her friends, "Girls, I would like you to meet, Marco Diaz."

The 3 girls looked at Marco as if they were inspecting him. It really creeped him out. "Aren't you the boy who always stays isolated from everyone else?", one of them asked.

Marco nodded wanting to get this conversation over with. One of the girls looked at Marco's tray and noticed that he had a small amount of food on his tray.

"Why are you only eating one taco, and a bowl of salad? It's taco Tuesday you have the chance to pig out as much as you want!", she asked.

The other girls looked at him expecting an answer. In order to keep the attention off him, he quickly answered the question, "I'm not really that hungry", he said.

"Well, do you mind if I have it?", another girl asked, but before Marco could answer, she had already took a bite of his taco. "Go ahead you can have it", he mumbled.

"Janna, please quit taking people's food.", Jackie said a little embarrassed.

"What?", Janna said with a mouth full of taco meat, "Leah let's me eat her food all the time and she doesn't get bothered by it", she said defending herself.

"I do get mad Janna!", Leah said, "but every time I say something you pretend you don't here me!"

"See, she's completely fine with it", Janna said completely ignoring Leah like she had expected. The other girl looked at Marco until she noticed his stiches.

"On my god, what happened to you?", she asked. Knowing that Marco probably wouldn't say anything, or at least talk very quietly, Jackie spoke for him. "He got into a fight with Jeremy."

All the girls turned to Marco with either shocked or concerned expressions. The girl that asked about his scar got up and got a closer look at it. As the girl touched his face, Marco started to feel a bit uncomfortable.

"Does it hurt at all?", she asked. Marco shook his head.

Noticing that Marco was getting uncomfortable, Jackie stepped in. "Hope, give the man some space. I'm sure he doesn't want sympathety."

Hope took one last look at Marco's stiches and sat back down in her seat.

"What were you and Jeremy fighting about?", Leah asked.

"I accidentally bumped into him while I was coming in the building. He decided that apparently that was a fucking sin so he assaulted me. It wasn't a fight like Jackie said, it was a little bitch taking advantage of a guy 2 times smaller than him", Marco said looking at his plate.

All the girls were silent and Leah was kinda scared. The tone in Marco's voice was silent, but then it got deeper as if he was gettingWha angrier as he kept talking.

Jackie decided to brake the silence, "I only said that it was a fight to make you look tough. I still don't understand why you just stood there and took it instead off at least trying to fight back."

Jackies word breathed truth. He didn't even try to fight back or at least throw a single punch or kick. He just kept getting up and received more punishment. Punch after punch. Kick after kick.

"Look I'm sorry I brought it up.", Jackie said, "Maybe we should…" "I didn't want to hurt him."

It was quiet again.

"Huh?", all the girls at the table asked.

Marco took a deep breath and continued, "I know that if I ever got my hands on Jeremy I would beat him until he was dead. I would've snapped and flat out beat him with an inch of his life. I would store all my anger in my first and try to crack his skull open. I'm violent and very quick to anger and I'm stronger than I look. If Jeremy ever pushes me to far, I'll lose my mind."

The girls at the table were completely silent, with nothing but the commotion of the other students socializing and eating their tacos.

"Oh…you're joking! You actually had me going there for a minute!", Janna said laughing.

Marco decided to play along, "Yeah, I'm a really good actor I guess.", he said. Hope clapped for his "performance." "That was very impressive Marco, you have true talent."

I wish, Marco thought.

"For a second there, I actually thought you actually were a psycho hiding under that big red hoodie of yours.", Jackie said with an amused smirk.

Marco tried to smile, but he just couldn't. Jackie's words, though ment the best of intentions, hurt him a little. Not because she thought he was harmless, but because he wasn't to be harmless, but he knew he never would be.

Star didn't know what to do. She was stuck in a arranged marriage that she wanted no part of, it was like God had decided her faith for her before she was even born, and she was forced to go threw with it whether she liked it or not.

How could her parents do this to her? Her whole relationship with Tom was fake. He was only with her because he was "supposed" to be. It was his "destiny."

Fuck destiny.

*knock* "Star, are you awake?", a voice asked.

Star would recognize that voice anywhere. It was William.

"Did my parents send you to check on me?", she asked with venom in her voice. William flinched on the other side of the door.

"N-No, your parents are asleep. I just wanted to check on you before I left for home.", William said, his voice shaky, afraid of what the enraged princess might do.

He heard her sigh, "Come on in. I need to rant rant anyway", she said.

William slowly entered the room, he saw the princess angrily facing him. "Close the door.", she said with even more venom in her voice. William closed the door, nearly shaking out of fear.

Star walked up to him with a smile, a creepy smile that looked like a mental patient about to kill her latest victim.

"William, you have a daughter don't you?", she asked, her creepy smile turning into a curious one.

The servant was a little taken aback by this, but he still answered. "Uh, yes I do, a four year old and a eight year old."

Star nodded, "How are they doing? Are they in good health? Are they doing good in school?", she asked.

"Um, they're in good health and yes they are doing well in school. Why do you want to know?", William asked.

Star ignored his question, "Are they trouble making girls? Kinda irresponsible, a bit reckless, maybe even hell raising at times", she asked, her voice getting deeper.

"W-Well I-I wouldn't say that they are h-hell raisers, but they are a bit troublesome.", William said as he tried to back up, but all he got was the wall.

Star nodded again, "I see. Well, even though they're a bit troublesome, would you still ever make them marry a guy they think is going to take care of them, and let them think that the guy you choose really loves them, but it turned out the love was fake for so long!", she said finally yelling at the top of her lungs.

If the palace walls weren't sound proof, her everyone in the palace would've been woken up.

"Well!?", Star yelled waiting for William's answer.

"N-No your highness I wouldn't do that to my daughters.", William said, his voice shaking from his fear. Star was a small girl, but she could still break a grown man's neck with her bare hands.

"Then why the fuck would my parents do that to me!?", Star yelled again, the hearts on her cheeks turning into fire.

"I'm not sure why your highness", William said hoping that his words would keep the angry princess at bay, but his attempts proved futile as Star slowly walked up to him with a look that said, "I'm gonna kill you before you even have a chance to beg for mercy!"

But the girl suddenly stopped. Her murderous look turned into a look of sorrow, and the fire on her cheeks turned into blue broken hearts. Before William coukd even take in what was going on, the princess got on her knees and started to sob.

"I'm sorry William. I'm sorry it's just that…my parents…and Tom and *sigh* sometimes I hate being a princess.", she said as tears rolled down her eyes.

William lifted Star up in the bridal position and layed her on her bed. "Go to sleep Star, you need it after the day you've had.", he said.

Star grumbled but she did what she was told and tried to fall asleep. William turned the lights off and closed the door behind him. Star was relaxed, she always felt comfortable sleeping in her huge bed. She loved waking up in it every morning feeling like a completely new person.

She about to fall asleep until a horrible thought poped up in her mind: After she gets married, she'll have to wake up next to Tom every morning.

It was that thought that made Star get up and throw her pillows at the wall one by one. Each throw harder than the last. Once all her pillows were of the bed, she started to sob again.

All her anger was once again replaced with sorrow. She didn't love Tom anymore, but for some reason her parents still saw it fit for her to marry that monster. Her parents were a whole other problem. Her parents hardly ever showed affection for her, whenever she did something that people felt was worthy of praise, she was always met with disapproving looks from her parents or saying that she coukd do better. Nothing was ever good enough for them.

And now Star could see it clearly. She could never be herself because of her parents. They were always gonna be a little bit disappointed that their daughter didn't turn out the perfect princess they wanted. Star would never please them, no matter what she did.

What was the point of being a princess if you can't live life the way you want it? Star wanted to fight monsters, she wanted to go out with friends, she wanted to make everyone, even those in poverty, happy. But what's the point of doing all that if your "princess" title met your parents would always be disappointed in you for doing those things.

All Star's princess title ment to her, was that her parents would always be disappointed in her for not being perfect, and that destroyed her inside.

She stopped crying and looked at herself in the mirror, she was a mess. Her hair was messy, her eyes were red, and her mascara was running. She wiped the mascara from her eyes and started to talk to herself.

"Why can't I just be a normal person instead of a lame ass princess.", she said to her reflection as if it coukd talk back to her. She looked in her draw and got a more comfortable pair of pajama pants to wear. When got the pajamas though, she saw an odd looking pair of scissors.

She picked them up and inspected them. They were orange with a diamond in the middle of them. The blades were later than normal siccors would be.

"What the heck are these doing here?", she asked herself. She touched the diamond on the siccors and it started to glow. "Wow", Star said amazed by the beautiful color the siccors gave off.

Because she was very curious, she grabbed a piece of paper and made a cut in it, but instead of cutting the paper, the siccors cut a hole in the air. She jumped back in fear, but quickly composed herself. She knew that she should probably stay away from it, but instead she poked her head threw.

Threw the hole their was a whole different world from her own, instead of the usually burned down and out of shape houses, their was a beautiful garden with lovely houses all over the place. Star gazed at the beautiful sight with absolute amazement. What was the amazing place?

She made the cut air big enough for her to step in. She stepped in and breathed in the air. It felt so nice to breath in air that wasn't polluted by the smell of machines. It was day time in this world, the hot sun shined on Star's skin making her feel fantastic.

For some reason, the streets on this land were bare for some reason. Why weren't the citizens of this beautiful place not enjoying it. In the corner of her eye Star saw a woman sitting on her porch with her child in her lap.

Nervous but curious, Star went up to the woman, "Um hello."

The woman looked up and smiled, "Oh hello, may I help you?", she asked.

"Um yes, I just got here, could you tell me what this place is?", Star asked.

"This city is named Echo Creek. Are your family thinking of moving here?"

"Um, yes we are. I think we might like it here.", Star said looking around the city.

"You better be off now little girl, if someone sees that your not in school than your parents might get in trouble.

"Oh my I had no idea! I better be on my way" Star used the siccors to open another portal and stepped inside it as she waved goodbye to the lady.

The woman was stunned by what she just saw and looked at her baby as if asking, "what the heck just happened?"

Star entered the postal back home and landed back on her bed with a smirk on her face. The princess had come up with a way to escape her life as a princess.

The rest of lunch went on fine. The girls mostly talked to each other, Marco only speaking when Jackie talked to him. As soon as the bell rang Marco left the table without even saying goodbye to the girls.

He was halfway down the hallway before he heard a voice come from behind him. "You really need to learn some manners y'know that?"

He knew who that was. He turned and saw Jackie Lynn Thomas with her arms crossed.

"And who's gonna teach me?", Marco asked rhetorically. "Me if you don't get your act together", Jackie said with a smirk.

"That was really rude back there. You just got up and left without even saying goodbye to anyone. That's a dick move.", she said.

Marco sighed. If it was anyone else, he would've left right then and there, but he had a soft spot for Jackie and he couldn't deny it.

"Sorry, it's just that I'm not used to talking in a big group of people, let alone 4 cute girls. Look just leave me alone alright", he said and then turned around.

He started walking again before Jackie once again stopped him, this time by grabbing his arm and turning him around herself. Her cheeks were red after Marco called her cute. "Look", she began, "I can see that you don't like being forced to socialize with people and I understand that. I just wanted you to sit with me and my friends because…I feel sorry for you."

Marco raised an eyebrow at this. Why would she feel sorry for him.

"It's just that, ever since pre school I've seen you be alone, not really socializing with anyone else. When we got to middle school I saw that you were getting even worse, you started wearing your hood over your head all the time and your voice, if you ever talked at all, was really deeper and you sounded really sad. People say that you're just weird, but I've always thought there was something bigger going on with you, so I decided to invite you to meet my friends so I could get to know you.", Jackie confessed. Her face was now red from embarrassment.

Fir the first time in his entire life, Marco was blushing a little. The fact that someone noticed him at all took him by surprise. The fact that that person was Jackie Lynn Thomas was even more of a shock.

"Jackie, I can assure you that I'm not sad or depressed or anything like that. I just simply prefer to be alone, and I talk in a quiet voice because I don't wanna talk to people and I'm not very social. That's all there is to it. There's nothing wrong with me.", Marco said.

Jackie was both a bit relieved, and a little bit embarrassed at she just admitted.

"Well that's good to know, but, can we at least be friends?", she said with a sincere smile.

Again, if it was anyone else he would've said no and left, but it was Jackie Lynn Thomas. "Of course we can", Marco said, his tone of voice and expression on his face still not changing.

Jackie smiled and waved goodbye to Marco and headed to her class. Marco watched as she walked away, he couldn't help but stare at her butt. Marco couldn't deny it, he was head over heels in love with her. She was just so perfect. Her beautiful hair. She had the voice of an angel. Everything about her just made him crazy.

"Looks like I choose the right period to skip", a sinister voice said. Marco rolled his eyes and turned to Jeremy. "Shouldn't you be in class dork?", he asked with a sinister smirk.

Marco walked up to him until they were face to face, "What the hell do you want?"

Jeremy snarled, "I saw you and Jackie getting friendly. It was really pathetic to watch. Her pretending that she actually cared about you, what a joke."

Marco once again still didn't back down.

Jeremy continued, "Listen to me you little dweeb and listen good, you better stay away from Jackie or else I'm gonna finish what I started earlier.", he said grabbing Marco by his hoodie and pushing him against the wall.

Even thought Jeremy had at least two feet on him, Marco wasn't scared.

"It's not like you even have a chance with Jackie anyway.", Jeremy finished throwing Marco on the floor. Marco landed face first onto the ground and made a sickening 'thud' as his head collided with the ground. But Jeremy wasn't finished with him. He grabbed Marco by the head and smashed his face into the ground.

"Stay down you fucking idiot!", Jeremy yelled kicking him the face even harder than before. But just like last time, Marco didn't stay down. He kept getting up over and over again, refusing to back down. But every time he got back up, Jeremy would beat him down harder than before.

Tired of Marco getting up again and again, Jeremy kicked him straight in the temple, knocking him out cold. Jeremy chuckled, he stood over Marco and spir on his face. The scar Marco had had been reopened

Jeremy walked away from a bloody and unconscious Marco Diaz with an evil smirk.

Authors note: Sorry that the ending seems a bit rushed. Please review!