It hurt. It hurt really bad. The pain just wouldn't leave Star's body. The assualt was over, but she continued to sob. She had bruises all around her body from the furious punches that rained down on her shatterable skin. She was even more confused than scared, she was confused. Why did that boy do that to her? Why on earth would he hurt her like this?

Everyone she's meant in this world was super nice to her, so why would that boy just attack her after she tried to be friends with him? She pondered this question for a while until she realized the obvious answer, even a world as beautiful as this has evil in it. There were many definitions of evil to Star, one of them was praying on an innocent person just to cause that person pain. It was obvious to Star that's what happened, why else would some random person attack her?

She would've called for help, but there was still no one in sight. She would've walked to safety and find help, but her legs ached so much she couldn't walk. Not to mention a fucking snake bit her leg when the boy dumped her into the bush she was currently in. She started to sob again, the agonizing pain coming back to her.

Star continued to sob for a few minutes until *ding*. She heard something light hit the ground. She stuck her head out the bush and saw a key chain with three silver keys on it. She looked ahead of her and saw a red hooded person walking ahead of her. She grabbed the keys and stuck her whole body (besides her bitten leg) outside the bush.

"Excuse me, you dropped your keys!"

The person stopped in his/her tracks and felt around in his/her pocket as if checking for the keys. The person turned around. Star noticed that he was covering the left side of his face with his hood. He walked up to her, grabbed the keys, and mumbled a quiet and quick, "Um, thank you very much.", and walked away.

After that, Star went back into the bushes and started to sob again. All of the pain was coming back to her. She continued to bawl until she heard a hushed a voice say, "Um, hello."

She looked up and saw the same boy who dropped his keys. She was hesitant to say something to him, he looked suspicous because of the red hood he wore that was covering his face, but she didn't want to judge a book by it's cover, she smiled a little bit and said, "Hello."

She noticed that this boy was...different. There was something a bit off about this boy, not necessarily bad, just different.

"A-Are you okay? Why are you crying?", he asked.

Before she even knew what she was saying, Star said, "Oh silly I wasn't, I was laughing." She nearly slapped herself for coming up with that pathetic excuse.

"You were laughing?", he asked in a 'are you kidding?' way.

Star had already dug her grave, she might as well dig even deeper, "Of course, I was laughing sat...uh...funny joke! Yeah a funny joke that's it!"

The boy gave her a skyptical look, it was obvious that he wasn't falling for it. "And what was the joke?", he asked.

"I forgot it", Star deadpanned, "It's a shame to, the punchline still makes me laugh." Star knew that she had fooled him.

"I thought you said you forgot it?", the boy said.

Shit

"Okay I was crying, what of it?", Star said tearing up.

Star thought the boy was just gonna go away, but instead he actually stepped into the bush with her. He put a hand on her shoulder as if he was trying to comfort her. Star stared at him for a couple of seconds before smiling at him. He didn't react, he was too busy looking at her blood covered leg.

"What happened to your leg?", he asked.

"A snake bit me", Star said.

He looked back at her with a look of concern, "What color was it and how big was it?"

Star saw how concerned he was and became a bit nervous, "It was a green snake, very small but it still hurt", she said.

He inspected her leg and then said, "You're gonna bleed out if you don't cover that up, I have a bunch of medical equipment in my house that can fix that right up."

Star was starting to get a bit nervous now. After what just happen to her she realized that she couldn't just trust any random person anymore. Not to mention that she couldn't shake the feeling that something was up with this boy. There was something about him that made her feel uncomftorble.

So she came up with an excuse, "My mom says I'm not allowed to go anywhere with strangers."

The boy rolled his eyes and sighed, "Well do you want me to take you to your home?"

At the mention of her home, Star started to tear up a little. The horrible memories of being at home started coming back to her. The boy looked a bit concerned again, he probably thought he said something to offended her. He looked away from her and checked the other bruises on her leg. As he gently touched the bruises, Star noticed that the boy's hands felt really soft.

"Actually no, I'd rather go to your house. You seem like a nice harmless boy.", Star said smiling a little.

He once again didn't respond. The boy picked Star up in the bridal position. Star blushed when she felt the boy's surprisingly muscular arms around her. When Star noticed that she was missing something she said, "Could you get my wand?"

He raised an eyebrow at her and looked back into the bush to see her wand. He gave it to her and she put it in her pocket.

As the boy started to walk Star said, "Thank you so much doing this. My name is Star by the way.", her mood had completely changed.

The boy looked a bit hesitant at first, but he eventually said, "I'm Marco, and trust me it's no problem at all."

He tightened his grip on her to make sure he didn't drop her. Star felt very comfterble in Marco's arms, he no longer seemed intimidating. Star was happy once again. She started to hum a random tone that she made up, and before long, Marco started humming along.

"Is your leg hurting at all?", I asked Star.

I realized that Star had fallen asleep in my arms. I sighed, I was just happy that we were finally at my house. I got the key from my pocket and opened the door, careful not to drop Star. When we entered the house I immediately dropped her on the couch.

"Fuck", I said rubbing my arms, "She's heavier than I thought."

I walked upstairs to get the first aid kit from my parents room. I knew it was in their bathroom somewhere. I entered my parents room and saw that they weren't there. I hope they didn't go out looking for me.

I looked in the bathroom cupboard, got the first aid kit, and quickly went back downstairs to treat Star's wounds. When I got back downstairs I saw that Star had dissapeared.

"Star? Where are you?", I called out.

"I'm in your food room!", she called back.

I stood there in confusion at the word 'food room', but I soon realized she met the kitchen. I walked in the kitchen and saw her standing on one leg while having her other leg elevated in the air.

"You have such a weird food case!", Star said amazed, "What do you call this thing?"

I looked at her like she was insane, "You mean the refrigerator?'

"Re-fr-ger-rator? What an interesting name, how did you come up with it?", she asked.

'This girl is insane', I thought.

I picked Star up bridal style again and carried her back to the couch. I sat her down and started to work on her leg. I soon figured out that this girl had a lot of energy. Cleaning and bandaging her leg should've took a minute or two, but seeing as Star kept getting distracted and moving her leg, it took about six minutes.

When I made sure the bandage around Star's leg I sat up and said, "You should be able to walk home now.", I really wanted her to leave so I could be alone.

She sat up on the couch, but instead of leaving, she jumped on me. I fell to the ground with a thud and bruises my already aching head.

I opened y eyes to see Star smiling widely at me, "I can't leave yet, we're friends now so we have to do friend things!", she said excitedly.

I looked at her like she was nuts, "Star, we're not friends.", I said.

Her wide smile disappeared from her face, "We aren't?"

I pushed Star off of me and stood up, "No, I just helped you because you were a person in need.", I explained.

Star stayed down on the floor, "O-Oh, okay then", she said, her voice was once again shaky.

I raised an eyebrow, "Star, are you alright?"

"U-Yeah I'm fine", she said, but it was obvious that she wasn't fine. She started to tear up.

I started to panic, "No no no no no no no no! Please don't cry!", I begged, "Look Star, it has nothing to do with you, it's just that I'm an introvert, I prefer not to have friends."

Star continued to cry, "Is their anyway I could be your friend. Could I do anything to get your friendship?", she asked.

I sighed, "How about this, if you could some how fix my ugly face with your 'magic' wand, then me and you can be friends.", I said.

Star removed my hoodie from my face and saw my horrible injuries. Surprisingly, she didn't cringe or anything she just said, "Ok!", in a cheery voice.

She pulled out her wand and said, "Facemess Fixridicous!", and suddenly a flash of blue appeared in the room.

"Done", she said proudly. She put a mirror in front of my face and sure enough, it was good as new. I simply stared at the mirror in amazement for what felt like forever, and Star just stood there and watched me. I slowly looked up from the mirror and at Star.

"So are we friends now?", she asked anxsiously.

I didn't answer, I just slowly backed away from her and put the mirror in front of me like it was a shield or something. "H-How did you do that? It's impossible for you to do that.", I stuttered.

Star looked at me like I was the crazy one, "You mean, you can't do magic in this world?", she asked. The words "in this world' really freaked me out. What other world could I be talking about?

"Where the hell are you from!? Who are you!?", I yelled. Star backed away from me a bit startled.

"I-Im a princess from another d-dimension.", she said.

And with that very line, my whole world froze. She couldn't actually be a princess could she?

"Y-Yeah right. Magic doesn't exist.', I said.

Star looked at me with the same 'Are you serious' look I gave her earlier, "If magic didn't exist, could I do this?'

With a flick of her risk, Star summoned up 7 puppies. The puppies all went up close to Marco with their mouths wide open.

"Get the heck away from me!", he yelled at the dogs. The dogs ran away in fear and hid behind Star.

"Okay, so you're a princess from another dimension, so why the hell are you here on earth?", I asked.

Star picked up on of the puppies and started to rub it's back, "There there little one, the big bad man won't hurt you anymore", she said comforting it. I was getting impatient, "Answer the damn question!"

Star looked at me with revulsion, "Will you stop cursing and keep the yelling to a minimum! You're scaring the puppies.", she said turning her attention back to the dogs.

"I've had enough of this shit, just get your stupid little dogs and get the hell out of here!", I yelled.

She snarled at me, "Fine!" She walked over to the door, "I can't believe I thought you were a nice guy!"

"News flash blondie, I'm not a nice guy and you're stupid for thinking that!"

"Well you're stupid for...being stupid!"

Star had her hand on the doorknob and she looked ready to leave, but something stopped her. I stood there waiting for her to leave, but she didn't. I watched in curiosity turned into an angry look into a look of dread.

She slowly turned her head to me, "I can't go back out there.", she said.

Her tone had me deeply worried, "Why?", I asked.

She walked up to me still holding those dumb dogs in her arms, "He's gonna hurt me again I just know it, that evil bastard who attacked me and threw into that bush you found me in, he's gonna hurt me again if I go out there alone.', she said. she was crying again, only this time I felt her pain. I know what it's liked to get jumped in the street.

"Okay Star stop crying, it's gonna be fine, I can walk you ho-" "NO! You don't understand, I ran away from home and I don't have anywhere to stay, i'll have to sleep in the streets where he'll find me!"

I was deeply confused, but I didn't wanna ask too many questions, it was obvious that this girl was distraught and she really had nowhere to go.

I sighed, "Alright you can sleep here tonight, but you have to tell me why you ran away from home okay?"

Star nodded, "Thank you so much Marco, I'm sorry I yelled at you. Is it okay if I tell you why I ran away tomorrow, I just wanna spend the rest of my first day on earth care free."

"Fine. We just have to make my pare-oh shit", I said as my eyes went wide.

"What? Is something wrong?", Star asked.

I sighed angrily, "Nothings wrong, I just realized that I'm gonna have to get a mouthful from my parents.", I said with a groan.

(Third person pov)

"Look honey, I don't want you to be to hard on him", Marco"s father said.

Marco's mom just continued to stare angrily out the window, she didn't even respond to her husband's words.

Marco's dad sighed, "Alba please, we both know that Marco has been acting this way and getting bullied for a long time. I know you want Marco to defend himself, but he just won't do it, he's too scared to do anything about it, I don't think you fussing at him is going to change anything."

Alba still didn't respond to him. The married couple were driving home late at night in the pitch darkness.

Finally Alba faced her husband and said, "You call me telling him to defend himself is mere fussing? It's a concerned mother telling her son to be a man and fight the little punks that keep doing these horrible things to him. I'm tired of seeing my baby come home and be in so much pain. How could you call what I do fussing Danillo?"

Danillo kept his eyes on the road, "You continue to tell him to fight knowing damn well he's too afraid. The guilt he feels for what he did continues to eat him alive to this day and you're asking him to fight? That's insensitive Alba. You have to take in account how he's feeling."

"I am not insensitive!", Alba yelled, "I don't want the nurse calling me and telling me that my son has been injured by a some punk! And it's not just that, Marco has been getting even worse lately."

This was enough for Danillo to turn his eyes away from the road for a few seconds and turned back to the road, "What do you mean he's getting worse? The boy has been the exact same way for years."

"You always leave early so you don't see how he is when he leaves the house, he takes one peace of toast and then leaves without even saying 'hello' or 'good morning'.", Alba said.

Danillo rolled his eyes, "You know he's anti-social honey-", but Alba cut him off.

"I know that, but now it's gone too far, he doesn't even look at me anymore and he puts his hood over his head when he's walking to school, and when he talks he sounds so sad, I know that Marco is hurting inside, but he refuses to do anything about it and it makes me so angry! I wish I could help him, but he refuses to tell me anything, instead he just locks himself in his room and closes himself off from the world.", she said starting to tear up.

Danillo was quiet for a while until he said, "Alba, I know you want to help him, I wanna help him to, but trust me, the way you're doing it isn't helping. The best thing to do with a boy like him is make sure that he gets his space. When he's ready to talk to us he'll come, but for now we just have to give him his space, if we don't he'll just end up resenting us."

This got Alba to keep quiet for a short while. She knew that her husband had a point, maybe the best way to help Marco was to give him his space.

"Fine. We'll do it your way, but if Marco ends up even worse than before, it's gonna be on your head.", she said. They spent the rest of car ride in silence, they were both thinking about their troubled son.

A few minutes later the couple finally made it home, it was about nine o'clock. When they approached the door Danillo stopped his wife and said, "Remember, give him his space."

Alba looked hesitant at first, but she nodded anyway. The two entered the house to see that the lights were still on.

"Marco knows he shouldn't be up this late, he should at least be in bed by eight o'clock. What on earth are all these lights doing on?", Alba asked getting frustrated.

She turned to her husband who was smiling, "What are you smiling at?", she asked.

Danillo, pointed to the couch where they saw Marco and a girl they didn't know asleep on the couch. She was in Alba's old pajamas she wore as a child, she usually kept them for their sentimental value. The girl was resting on Marco's shoulder and had a smile on her face. Marco had the remote control signaling that thy fell asleep watching television, and for some reason, there were seven puppies around them also sleeping.

"You think those are her dogs?", Danillo asked.

"Who cares? My baby finally has a girlfriend!", Alba said trying to contain her composure.

Danillo chuckled and grabbed his wife's hand, "Come on honey, let's let these two sleep in peace."

Author's note: Another chapter done! Although it's not the best I still think it turned out okay. So, you wanna know what happened to Marco to make him the way he is today? Stay tuned to the story to find out!

P.S. Don't worry dear readers, Jeremy will get hurt next chapter...hopefully.