Notes: I live in the UK, so if I make any questionable spellings for others who don't natively speak the United Kingdom version of English, apologies. Don't hate me.

2. CuteLizard: Thanks for the review and kindness, appreciated - and yeah, I did actually check online but I read it wrong, thanks for the notice I'll change that in chapter one when I get time to rework it - probably later down the line.

Ok, so I should be near the school right about now, meaning I have a 20 minute walk to my home, great. Marco was not too overexcited in this fact as the biting winds of winter were unkind to this town. A thin layer of snow paved the streets, only a few centimetres at best, nonetheless it made his feet cold enough to feel at home.

20 Minutes Later

"Oh look at that, I made it without freezing to death. Hurray." Remarked a plain-faced Marco. His home was fairly well decorated – his parents always did things over the top, that was kind of their own special charm in a way. There was alternating lights of green and red strobed across the roof of the house, a 2 ish meter sized tree in the font yard (front garden if you're like me) that had it's own special snow coating which made it shine in the setting sun and a few signs that read 'Santa stop here!'.

*Knock Knock* came a call from the front door of the Diaz family household. "Oh sweetie pie," called Marco's father Rafael "are we expecting anyone?" He finished. "Oh no one in particular honey." Replied Angie, Marco's mother. Rafael was a fairly tall and buff man – but a bit of an airhead at times, he then proceeded to open the door and was greeted by a shivering Marco who couldn't say much apart from "H-hello d-dad". In a sudden movement Marco was pulled away from the doorstep and into a warm embrace by his father who said "My sweet boy Marco! Welcome home."

Same Time – Mewni

No one had seen star for a few hours, ever since Marco had announced that he'd be returning to Earth for a couple weeks she had been locked in her room. Even Tom had tried contacting her on the mirror phone, only to receive an obviously fake "Oh no! I'm completely fine don't worry about me." It was clear to see by the way he spoke that he cared for her well being and seeing her hurt pained him. The one problem with star being one of the only magic users in the Butterfly kingdom was that she could put a lock on the door that no one except for someone skilled in magic could open, meaning that no servants could deliver food or drink.

With Glossaryck lost to 'globgor' or whatever that means, the news that Meteora A.K.A. Eclipsa's daughter is part of her family, her plan to unite monsters and mewmans falling through and Marco leaving – it appeared that it was simply too much for our young Star to handle and so she had shut off. Surrounding herself with covers to try and warm the layer of ice that had forms around her body.

Back To Earth

After being warmed up by some hot chocolate, Marco told his parents all the stories he had accumulated whilst being on Mewni, a surprising amount given that he had been there for less than 2 months. A story about how he had built a rebellion against reform and then torn it down. The one about how he became a squire to the knights of the wash and had to fight a monster of clothing and soap – needless to say they were both very concerned for Marco's safety given the fact that he had nearly died multiple times in the short time he was there. But it had all worked out in the end.

Night time had come about after a long conversation between parents and son: "I'm glad you're doing well Marco." Chanted Rafael whilst Angie just nodded in agreement, "But you've had a long journey today and so we think it best that you get some sleep now." "Yeah I suppose it has been quite a journey today," Marco started with a sigh at the end, "I'll go get a wash and some shut-eye."

After getting a quick shower to remove all the stink he had accumulated from walking through the day he prepared his pyjamas and put them on, crawling his way into bed in one of the most pathetic ways possible he laid down and grabbed his phone from the side of his bed. He decided to text Jackie and see how she was doing, 'Hey Jackie,' it read, 'it's Marco, I'm back from Mewni for the next 2 weeks to enjoy Christmas. Feel like hanging out anytime?' It concluded. After reflecting back on how the day for around 5 minutes he got a buzz from his phone, upon turning it on he saw that it was a reply from Jackie. 'Yo Marco, how's it been? You've been gone forever, or at least it feels like it – me and Janna were planning on going to a concert tomorrow. Wanna come with?' At first glance Marco thought that it'd be wrong to go see 'Love Sentence' without Star, however, he quickly came to the conclusion that Star would be on her own date with pretty-boy-Tom tomorrow. 'Yeah sure! I'd be glad to go.'

After he finished making plans with Jackie and Janna for tomorrow he then went to Facecrook 'Hey everyone, I'm back from Mewni! How you all been doing?' Within seconds he had already received a reply and like from StarFan13 "Oh my gawhd, how was Star?! Was she cool? Did she kick ass!? Did she do some cool magic!? Come on fill me in!" Wow this girl is obsessed with Star. Marco decided that there'd be no harm in replying, "She's fine, yes, yes, yes." In hindsight, quite the satirical comment, but Marco had a long day and explaining his entire time in Mewni for the second time just wasn't in him today.

After this Q/A like session going on for an hour he had decided to get some sleep, when he wakes up – no more fighting supervillains or saving a kingdom from tyranny. Just simple things like what clothes he'd wear, or what toothpaste he'd use, the whitening one or the enamel protection one? Who knows.

Mewni – Night

Star had just finished a good night call with Tom, him asking if they were still on for tomorrow with all that's happened going on. She said that it'd be good for her to have her mind taken off of it, this lie much more believable and Tom accepted it without question. However, after they had got off the phone, star couldn't hold it in anymore, she couldn't keep lying to herself about what has happened. Even though she took him for granted when he was on Mewni, she could only say these words now, ones that wouldn't likely reach him until his 2 week break had ended.

"I miss you Marco."

Ooo, we're starting to build up, slowly but surely. Yes you've probably noticed how I seem to like ending with a final statement from a character, that might change. And yes, it's not quite the drama I've said it would be in the summary right now, but you can see that things are falling into place with the concert and Star starting to see that she took Marco for granted etc etc. I promise I'll try to add more next chapter.

This was a shorter one, I'll try to make the next one longer than these two - but I'm swamped with college right now so I'm trying to keep to 1 upload a day, even if that means they can only be 1-2K words.

tl;dr - more hurt/comfort coming soon along with some slight drama. Maybe longer chaps too.

Leave a review if you enjoyed or have some constructive criticism, always nice to see someone acknowledge me. Peace~