New Rule: If we're on Earth and we have Italics, it'll be Marco's thoughts. If on Mewni and italics, it'll be Star's thoughts.

I thought that I'd really go for it this time, I hit about 2k words. Most I've done so far, but I wanted to break the 5K word count on the story for this chapter.

Day After – Earth – Morning

Marco Diaz was awoken by the smell of pancakes sizzling downstairs, he had always found them delightful to eat in the morning and what a way to kick off his 2 week return than by having perfect pancakes. Marco quickly dressed himself up in some casual clothing and strolled down the stairs, "Good morning my little man." Rafael stated. "Uhh – I'm not that little anymore, I'm nearly as tall as Mom." Marco groaned in protest, "Nonsense dear, you'll always be little to us." Angie shot back.

The pancakes themselves were not spectacular since Rafael made them – usually it was Angie, but nonetheless they made Marco feel at home and that in itself was enough. "So, do you have any plans for today?" Mrs Diaz mother inquired, "Oh yeah, I'm actually off to see 'Love Sentence' with Jackie and Janna tonight." Marco responded. "I heard that sold out, how'd you get the tickets?" Marco's mother questioned. "It turns out that StarFan13 was meant to be going, but she had to cancel because of some family issue."

"Well that was nice of them to invite you." Rafael observed from a distance whilst serving out his own pancakes. "Oh crap look at the time I need to get ready for some shopping." "Language!" Replied Mrs Diaz. Even though Marco had only been gone for a month and a bit, due to the fact that he was in the spur of puberty he was growing like a bamboo shoot and so he was in need of some clothing.

A Couple Hours Later – Mewni

The time was around half 11 when Star woke up, "urgh, why didn't Mar-… Oh yeah..." The realisation again that her best friend wasn't on Mewni made Star feel once more like she had done something to upset him. What was it? I mean I still hung around with him, right? I have a boyfriend now is all, it's not like I can just give him all the attention he wants… Even if maybe sometimes I want to. Anywhoo, I need some food to think.

After 10 more minute of laying there, attempting to rile herself up enough to navigate the mountain of clothing that guarded her one and only exit, she had finally got out of her bedroom and moved on towards the royal food hall. She had ordered a simple meal: Eggs, beans, toast, and some meat. (I'm going to assume that they can heat 2 plates of iron or something and put bread between it to toast it, then spread some sort of paste or anything to give it taste). While to any ordinary person whom you'd tell this to, perhaps they wouldn't believe you because of the simplicity that a princess would eat something so casual. However, you'd have to tell them to keep in mind that A) She had been living on Earth for months and B) The food that the chefs would prepare would have spices and flavours of all kinds to provide a splendid dish from something so normal.

Star's parents had an urgent royal trip they had to attend to, it meant leaving star alone in the castle for a couple days – but that was fine, she had really grown up in the time she spent away on Earth. At day 1 she was throwing fits and being completely unreasonable, yet after she had met Marco and spent time on Earth she had obviously matured. Maybe it was from realising that the world doesn't care if you're ready or not, it'll take from you – it'll break you and make you feel powerless, but that's exactly why you need to fight. "*Sigh*" I can't look depressed in front of Tom, it'll worry him… Right, I can just play along – I mean it's not as if I haven't done anything like this before.

Same Time – Earth

The mall was fairly packed for a Thursday, most likely because everyone was on their Christmas breaks at this point meaning that they'd all be looking for a place to hang out, mix that with the fact that 'Love Sentence' is performing tonight and all the girls want to look their best for it: Hell even a lot of guys would most likely want to look good in case they get shown on camera by some press.

Janna was busy doing some 'Cult architectural exploration' or whatever that meant so she wasn't available for the shopping spree – leaving on Marco and Jackie to wander around. I haven't spoken to Jackie much since she broke up with me, I wonder if it'll be awkward? Oh there she is now. She was wearing her usual clothing, a white and green top with blue shorts – whereas, Marco on the other hand had outgrown his hoodie and so needed a new one, meaning he was left in a white t-shirt with some black pants. "Hey Jackie!" Marco called out, she had noticed him by this call and casually strolled over, "Sup Marco." Jackie smoothly replied.

For the next hour or so the two walked around as many shops as they could find trying on new clothes and buying some cheap but funky glasses. Jackie had tried on a suit for comedy purposes, she had worn a red polo and white shorts, and then Marco's personal favourite, a blue dress that contrasted to her eyes in a beautiful dance. On the other hand, Marco had only been looking for a new hoodie to replace his near and dear red one, but it seemed as if none of the stores had anything similar to it considering it was an older style of clothing by 'Superwet'. He did not give up hope and kept on searching.

"Jackie," started Marco, "Yes M?" "Can I ask for some advice on something?" he concluded. "Sure what is it?" Jackie questioned. "You know when you told me that I loved Star. Not you?" This took Jackie by surprise as she had no expected Marco to be so forward in his wording, after a brief moment to collect her thoughts she answered "Yeah, what about it?" "Let's say, purely hypothetically, if Star already had a boyfriend that she seemed to really have an interest in, and the guy himself was a decent person, albeit a few flaws. What would you say I should do?" Jackie could sense in his voice that this was really tearing him apart – "Well… Hypothetically, if she was with that guy, and truly happy – then you should leave it…" "Wel—" "But, if there was even a slither of chance that she was happy with him, then the Marco Diaz I know would fight for her and win her back. That's the Marco I knew." At these words, something inside Marco had clicked – it was as if his entire world, which had been upside down and forced him to question every choice he made, was suddenly upright; he knew exactly what needed to be done. And he would tell her all his feelings once his two weeks had ended. "Thanks Jackie, for always giving good advice and being there." "No problem dude."

Later Evening

Marco, Jenna and Jackie were walking towards the stadium where the concert would take place, it was amazing how even though the show had yet to begin – they could all feel the vibrations of the crowd through the ground, this only led to each of them getting more and more excited, except for Jenna – who oddly found it a bit too satisfying hearing thumps from the ground and screams.

"Wow, that's one heck of an excited crowd." Marco noted, the other two just nodded in agreement at this statement. It became harder and harder for the three to communicate the closer they got to the stadium as the crowd's noise began to drown anything and everything else out. "Okay, I'll think it'll be best if we hold hands to walk through the crowd, who knows when one of us might get separated." The other nodded and began to link up – Marco at the front, holding Jackie; who then held onto both Marco and Jenna (0-0-0 diagram).

All 3 eventually made it to an optimum position giving their late timing, they could just about see the entire stage from where they stood, this was quite uncommon occurrence at a concert as people would usually rush to get as close to one another as possible, and the only thing you'd be able to see would be waving hands and the occasional vomit on the floor from the alcohol. After about 5 minutes of waiting the starting theme played for the band as they emerged onto stage. "Hello people of Echo Creek!" If you had thought the screams were intense before – after this statement the only thing audible was an incomprehensible sound of shrieks and shouts. "We'd like to jump right into it and start with one of our most beloved songs, 'Awesome Feeling'!" Again, more shouts. "Hey, guys!" Marco started, "Tom and I danced to this song when we were starting to get along." "Oh really?" Jackie replied, "I didn't take him for a fan of 'Love Sentence'." Then Jenna replied "Wait, so you're saying that you didn't think a teenage boy from the underworld, would listen to the 'Love Sentence'." "Okay point taken." Jackie admitted.

Same Time – Mewni

Star and Tom had just met for their film night, "Hey Star I brought you you're favourite films so you can cheer up a bit!" Tom had stated very enthusiastically, you could tell he was working on his personality, there was a hint of less 'demon' if that makes sense, in his voice. "Oh thanks Tom! That's very thoughtful of you." Star replied with a small kiss on the cheek to Tom. While it was a nice gesture from Tom, it had secretly only reminded Star more about Marco as they always used to watch these films together.

Half an hour into the first film Star had began to get sleepy, "Hey Star we can do this some other time if you'd like, your well-being is more important that a film." "No I'm fine. Let's just enjoy the film." God why is he so much bother, I just want to enjoy my film with my boyfriend. Tom could obviously tell that Star was in no shape to be forcing her to stay up late, so with a small amount of magic he began to manipulate Star into getting more and more sleepy until she eventually fell asleep 10 minutes after he little defence. "*Sigh*. Star you can't force yourself to stay awake and be sleep deprived, just like you can't force yourself to love me. But seriously, that damn idiot Marco pisses me off so much!—Whoops, shush Tom."

Tom began to carry Star up to her room and tucked her in, leaving her with a goodnight peck on the forehead and a farewell to King and Queen Butterfly.

1 Hour Later – Earth

"Just before we leave Echo Creek," Justin started, "We'd like to mention that at the end of our last concert we found our billboard shattered and burnt, hopefully it won't happen again, but with that. We bid you goodbye Echo Creek!" One final orchestra of screams and shrieks – they were a bit more rough at this point, it seemed like everyone's voices had been broken into shards from tonight.

Marco and Co left a few minutes before the end so that they could get ahead of the massive crowd about to leave. "Oh my god that was amazing." Said an obviously fan-girling Jackie, "Eh, it was alright I guess. Would've been better with more death in it." Added an indifferent Jenna. "Do you ever listen to yourself Jenna?" Marco asked with a short laugh at the end.

About 10 minutes past before Jenna had to wave goodbye as she lived in a different direction from the other two, "Thanks for the advice earlier Jackie, after thought, I'm going to tell Star how I really feel when I see her next." "That's great Marco, congratulations!" This earned a nervous laugh from Marco as he found it hard to comprehend how Jackie could be so accepting of his decision when he was positive that she had some feelings towards him.

A few minutes later Marco had to say goodbye and walked over to his strobed-house, waving goodbye to Jackie as she continued. When Jackie arrived home it was the usual "Hi sweetie, how was it?" "It was fine mom." Replied Jackie. She proceeded to go upstairs, get showered, brush her tooth, put on pyjamas, get in bed. Once in bed she laid there for a moment.

"Marco you idiot." She whispered as a single tear escaped her teary eyes.

Oooo, again with that slippy slimey little snake of an ending that sets up a twist for the next chapter. Well, tbh you probably noticed it coming a mile away but let me have this!

Anywhoo, you can see the drama starting to unfold, Tom knows he can't have star forever, Jackie knows Marco doesn't have any feelings for her and more to come :P

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