"Star, I'm back!", William called out as he entered the palace. He had to yell by cause of the palace being so huge.

He waited for Star go either come running down thanking him for the deed or to yell down instructions on what to do with them. He became a little worried when she hadn't come down.

"Hey Star, you alright up there?", he called. No answer.

William climbed up the stairs to the top floor where Star's room was. When he made it to Star's room he knocked on the door, "Star?", he called, "Are you okay?"

He got no answer.

He was starting to get worried now. He was expecting Star to yell at him for waking her up, or saying that she was in the shower, or even a "Hello". The fact that it was dead silent in there made him even more tense. He abridged his sword and kicked the door open with one powerful kick. He entered in and looked around and saw nothing. The room was completely bare with no Star in sight.

All the furniture was gone as well. No bed, no dresser, not even her closer was there. William started to panic, "No, no, no, no, no, no! Where could she be!?"

He looked out the window to see if he could see her, but she wasn't anywhere to be seen. A thought came into his head, "Tom, he must've kidnapped her!", he said getting ready to storm out the door, but he stopped himself. "But then why would he take the furniture?", he pondered.

William was generally confused now, for every explanation he came up with, there was always something that contradicted it. He honestly couldn't think of any logical explanation, until he put the puzzle pieces together, she must've ran away.

It now made perfect sense, she made up the fruit salad thing to get him out of the house seeing as it would his duty to be in her presence and follow her orders at all times. William kicked mentally himself because he saw it coming, but he didn't do anything to stop it. He wanted to believe that she wouldn't do anything like that and ignore those thoughts, but his fears have become reality. There was no doubt in his mind.

William layed down on his back and stared at the ceiling thinking of how to tell the king and queen that their little girl had had enough of her life as a princess. He noticed a piece of paper hanging from the ceiling. He stood up and reached for the paper then jumped when he saw that it was out of his reach.

When he got the paper he read the writing that was on it.

Dear family,

You've probably figured out what's happened at this point, but I know how aloof dad is so I'll just say it, I've run away. Knowing you parents, you probably think this is just some huge cry for attention or something, or maybe you know what this is and you're just making up some excuse to make you feel better because the all mighty King and Queen Butterfly can do no wrong.

The reason I've ran away is obvious, you. You two have basically dehumanized me for long enough. Ever since I was a child, you've always seen me as a failure.

An omission.

I see the looks you give me, and I know you have private consultations about sending me to st olgs reformation school, but I try to ignore it, but I can only do that for so long.

It's finally setting in, the reality of I'll never be your perfect princess, the fact that you will always be disappointed in me, it's eating me alive.

Nothing I ever do will ever impress you. I can't even be myself without thinking of what you'll say to me. And this is all before I found out about my arranged marriage with Tom.

I can't tell you how much this infuriates me, and my anger just continues to grow as time goes on. I already told you how I feel about this, and my feelings haven't changed. You've betrayed my trust, and I'm not sure if I'm ever going to get over this.

So to put an end to all of this, I'm running away, to a place I know I'll be accepted for who I am, and I'll no longer be restricted by my princess status, or pledged to something I want no part in.

I'm going to a place were I will be free, and you will never find me.

Truly no longer yours, Star Butterfly.

P.S. You'll be happy to know, I've hindranced any more wars from happening. You're welcome.

William was almost drawn to tears from this note. He was both scared for Star's safety and happy for her at the same time. He was happy that Star was free, but he was more terrified by the fact that no one knew were the hell she was and how she was gonna survive out there on her own. He was also curious about what she ment about stopping a war. Knowing Star, she probably did somethings extremely irrational.

And to top it all off, he didn't know how to explain to Star's parents that their little girl had ran away.

When Star first entered Echo Creek, there were two things on her mind. One, God the sun felt incredible, and two, this place is amazing!

She had reappeared in a different place then last time, it wasn't a bunch of house and beautiful gardens on one street anymore, she was now surrounded by huge Mary go rounds, a Ferris wheel, about a dozen roller coasters, candy stands, and even a huge house with funny looking mirror inside. She was simply amazed by the phenomenon.

She wasn't sure how she got there seeing as she still didn't quite grasp how the interdimensional siccors worked, but she didn't care, this place was awesome!

She was completely astonished by the fact that all of these things were together in one place, back on Mewni you would have to get in one line to get on these things. Never were they all in the same place, so this was absolutely marvelous to Star. She spotted a place were little kids could get free ice cream and ride the mini roller coasters. Star actually felt ill will against the children. She could never get to do thinks like this as a child. Nevertheless, she put her feelings aside and went of to enjoy this magical place.

She skipped over to a stage were everyone was watching a man in black clothing and a black hat perform with cards in his hands.

"Now ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to need a volunteer from the audience…how about you sir?", the man said pointing to an elderly man in the crowd. His grand kids urged him to go up. He walked on stage using his wooden cane which made it a big difficult for him to walk.

"Now sir, all I need you to do is hold this box. When you get it, don't open it, don't stick your hand inside it and feel around, just hold the box",man in black instructed.

The old man nodded held the box with one hand while supporting himself up with one hand on his wooden cane.

"Now sir, I want you to shake up the box, see if you can hear anything inside it", the man in black said.

Star watched as the old man shook the box, nothing could be heard from it. Star was very piqued to see what was going to happen. She had never seen something so engrossing, she was ruffled to see what was gonna happen next.

"Now sir, do you see these cards in my hand?", the man in black asked. The old man nodded.

"Well, watch as I set them on fire." The man set the cards on fire with a lighter and than spread the ashes all over the box.

"Now open the box my good sir", the man instructed.

The old man opened the box to reveal a brand new pack of cards. The audience cheered at the "amazing" trick.

"Wow! That's incredible!", the old man said clearly snowed by the trick. The man took a bow and stood in his glory.

But amongst all this commotion, Star was not impressed. The trick wasn't as impressive as she thought it was going to be. He obviously had the deck of cards in their the whole time, it just didn't make a sound because it was far to small to make any kind of audible noise.

Star decided to challenge this man. She walked onto the stage gripping the wand in her hand.

She tapped the man on his shoulder causing him to turn around, "Oh I see I have a young fan! I know it must be overwhelming for you to be face to face with the great and powerful Lucus!", the man said in a self absorbed way.

Star rolled her eyes, "Actually, I have a question about your so called, "Magic."

The man raised an eyebrow, "Oh we have a neigh sayer I see, well then, what about my act do you question?", he asked a bit too full of himself.

"Well", Star began, "You obviously had that deck of cards in the box the whole time, the reason the old man couldn't here anything was either because of his old age, or tge fact that the cards were so small you probably couldn't hear them anyway."

The great and powerful Lucus got wide eyed as Star basically explained his whole trick. The crowd began to talk amongst themselves and realized that Star had a point.

"I must admit, you even had me for a second there, but in reality, your "tricks" are just that, tricks.", Star said defiantly.

Lucus started to panic now, he had been found out, but he sucked up the little amount of confidence he had left and said, "You fool, you know nothing about the magic world, who exactly are you to say that I don't do real magic? You're just a little girl."

Star didn't like the fact that she was once again being talked down too, so she raised her hand with the wand in it and said, "I, unlike you, hold real magic."

With a flick of her wiste, turn the Lucus' hat into a rabbit. The rabbit got up and started bouncing on the heads of the people in the crowd. The crowd laughed and cheered for Star.

Lucus was taken aback by what the heck just happened. He knew what happened, it was magic, actual magic, something he thought never existed.

"H-How o-on e-e-earth?", he asked.

Star continued to entertain the crowd, "Who wants me to poof up something!", she asked the crowd.

"Can make me a pet dinosaur?", a young boy asked.

"Of course", Star said. She pooped up a miniature dinosaur that ran up to young boy and licked his face like a dog.

The boy hugged the dinosaur, "Thank you so much ma'am!", the boy said happy as can be.

It warmed Star's heart to make someone so happy. "The names Butterfly, Star Butterfly!"

Star continued to poof up wishes for the people in the crowd, making them happier.

Lucus however was not happy. He went up to two large muscular security guards, "Get that stupid little girl off my stage!", he commanded them.

The two guards mumbled something inaudible before going to do their job. They walked up on stage and held Star's hands behind her.

"Hey! Let me go!", she said trying to free herself from the strength of the two men, but they proved too powerful for her.

Sure she could of used her martial arts training to beat the shit out of them, but she didn't want people to think she was a mean person on her first day of earth, so she decided to stop moving and just let the men carry her away.

The crowd booed this of course, they wanted Star to return.

"Bring back Star! Bring back Star! Bring back Star!", the crowd chanted, but their cries fell on deaf ears.

The two men carried Star to the exit and threw her out causing her to land on her butt.

"Don't bother coming back unless you want to be arrested.", one of them said in a eerie way so she knew that he was serious.

Star mumbled something under her breath, but she decided to not cause anymore trouble and walk away. Despite the fact that she was kicked out of the marvelous place, she was still happy that she made people happy, at least for a little while.

She decided to stop sulking and started to skip to her next destination, wherever that may be.

Janna couldn't stop thinking about it. It was eating her up inside. She needed to know what the hell happened to Marco's face. When she saw it she nearly threw up at the sight of it, it was very hard to look at.

Janna could remember it clearly, the left side of his face that was pretty much covered in blood. There's no way it was an accident, someone assaulted Marco, and Janna knew who it was.

It had to be Jeremy, who the hell else would it be? They did have the fight earlier anyway, and Jackie herself said that she had to break it up because Marco was too weak fight back. Jeremy must've caught Marco while he was alone and assaulted him, resulting in that horrible, ugly, cringe worthy bruise.

Janna patted herself on the back for being so smart.

Janna looked over to Jackie who was staring worriedly at the empty seat that was all the way in the back of the classroom. She could figure out why she doing it, until she put the pieces together. It must've been Marco's seat.

Janna never really noticed him the classroom herself, but it made sense when you think about it. It was obvious that Marco wanted to be left alone and keep from being noticed, so it would be logical to assume that he would take the back seat of the classroom. Jackie was staring at it because even though she probably wouldn't admit it, she had a crush in Marco.

It was obvious to all of Jackie's friends that she was smitten with the boy. They would always catch her staring at him as if he was a fascinating rare animal. This had been going on for about a year now, but nobody had the heart to tell Jackie that they didn't think Marco would talk to her, let alone date her. He was just really anti social.

It made perfect sense why Jackie would like Marco, she had a thing for nerds. It made Janna laugh, it was just so ridiculous. The hottest guy in the world could ask Jackie out, but she'd rather go watch some dork fill in a crossword puzzle or something.

Suddenly the bell rang signaling that it was time to go to our final class. Jackie was still starting at the empty desk, so I had to tap her on the shoulder to get her attention, "C'mon Jackie we have to go to seventh period."

She nodded and followed me out the room.

"Are you okay? You seem distracted?", I asked even though I knew the answer.

Jackie looked surprised at my question, "What do you mean? I was paying attention in class."

I looked at her with a 'are you serious' look, "Seriously, you were staring at Marco's seat like he was suddenly going to appear in it. You're worried about him aren't you?"

Jackie rolled her eyes, "I was not staring at his desk, but I am wondering were he was today, he's never missed a day of class."

"Figures you would know that", I thought.

"I know what happened to him", I said as we stopped by my locker.

"What?", Jackie asked immediately drawn.

"Jeremy-", I was cut off by someone blocking my mouth. I looked over and saw that it Jeremy blocking my mouth with his large hands.

Jackie glared at him coolly.

"Jeremy did what?", he asked with a growl, "I hope you weren't planning on telling my girlfriend Jackie any lies."

Jackie looked horrified by the thought of being this brute's girlfriend. "I'm not your girlfriend Jeremy.", Jackie said quickly getting frustrated.

Jeremy narrowed his eyes and tossed me aside like I was nothing.

"Janna!", Jackie said.

She tried to help her up, but Jeremy pushed her forcefully against the lockers. She tried to move but Jeremy's strength was too much for her. He added pressure to her and started to hurt her even more

The blonde chuckled darkly, he spoke quietly so only she could hear him, "You listen here Jackie, you are my girlfriend, you don't have a choice. Do you know who your talking to? My family basically owns this town, so I can get anything I want. I see what I want and I take it, and I want you."

"Fuck you!", Jackie yelled. This only made Jeremy even more mad.

Before anything else could happen, Janna jumped on Jeremy's back started to rain down punches on his head. This didn't last long as Jeremy once again threw her aside only this time physical throwing her to the ground with all his might. Janna's body made a sickening thud and she groaned as she felt her back crack.

Jackie once again tried to help Janna, but once again she was thrown against the lockers by Jeremy. "No one talks to me like that Jackie, you should already know that.", he said in her ear.

She chivered as his breath touched her skin. With nothing left to try, she kicked him right in his…private parts. Jeremy fell to the ground in pain and Jackie kicked him in the face for good measure.

She ran over to Janna and helped her to her feet, she could stand on her own power, but she was hunched over and every time she walked she cringed from the pain in her back.

"Come on", Jackie said lifting Janna up on her back, "We gotta get you some help." Jackie carried her to the nurses office. When Jeremy realized that he was most likely going to be busted he bolted out the school doors.

"Thanks again for helping me clean my restaurant Star!", the restaurant owner said.

"It was no trouble sir. Thanks again for the free burger!", Star said as she skipped away.

After she was kicked out of the carnival, Star skipped around town to various places, and she found that a lot of people needed help.

At the movie theater she helped a woman put movie promotional posters on the wall, at the playground she helped get a little girls kite down from a tree (using her magic of course), and she just helped a man clean up his restaurant after lunch hour ended, which earned her a free "hamburger" as he called it.

They didn't have these things on Mewni, they only had a special kind of food called "fleeches." They were tiny little pieces of bread with cheese, jam, and, if you could find one, an ear from a rat carcass inside them, it was very delicious after you get used to the taste of rotting rat flesh.

She took a bite of the hamburger and immediately fell in love, she loved the great taste of the squishy thing in the center (the meat she doesn't know what it's called yet), the green flowers that were covered in melted salt (lettuce and mayonnaise), the apples, (the tomato), and of course the bread sealed the delicious meal all together.

She was actually sad when the she had ate the whole thing, now she didn't have anymore. She decided to just walk instead of skip and enjoy the warm sunlight. She noticed that she was the only person on the street she was on. It was nice and peaceful with only the sound of the birds singing.

The house on this street looked a bit odd though, Star noticed that there was something off about them. They looked vacant, it seemed like no one was inside, and the little machines the drove the people to where they wanted to go (the cars) were gone. It was truly odd. She also realized that she hadn't seen a single person her age since she came here, it was a bit strange, but she didn't let it bother her to much and she continued on with her walk.

She noticed as she was walking that a boy was walking on the same street as her. He looked like he was in a bad mood. His face was red and he was clutching his groin as if he had hurt himself.

Star was so excited to see another person her age that she immediately ran up to the person with her usual peppy attitude. "Hi! Im Star!", she said trying to make a good impression.

The person stopped walking and simply looked at Star with a emotionless face. Star was kinda weirded out by this, but she just assumed that this is just what people did here so she played along hoping that this would earn her her first friend in this amazing place. The book looked around the vacant street as if he was looking for someone. He turned back to Star with a warm smile and Star smiled back.

She stuck out her hand as if to say 'what's your name?', but her surprise and horror, she was instead met with a punch in the face. She looked up in fear at the tall and strong individual. He smirked evily has he looked upon her. What followed was a brutal beating that happened in plain sight,but unfortunately, no one could see it happening and save Star.

Although the sad truth is, no one would help her anyway. You don't snitch on a member of the Burnbaum family. God only knows what they would do to you.

Author's note: Don't worry, Jeremy will get what's coming to him soon I promise. Thanks for reading and have a good one!