3xplicit: Thank you for the favourite and follow, means a lot - I hope this is an adequate chapter!

Gold Testament: Uh yeah I'll consider that.

Note: Sorry for uploading this later than usual, it's a friday so I've been chilling after an absolute heck of a day - a computer science test and a maths test. Urgh. Anyway, we're entering the final stretch - It's the 23rd of December in this story and I'm hoping to either end it on Christmas Day or Boxing Day so we're almost there.

I'm considering making a new fanfiction after this which will focus less on the drama and relationship side (maybe some of it) but more on an over-arcing story that will having multiple arcs and be more of a story than a "Chaptered One-Shot" which this is seeming. Let me know what you feel about that in a review. Enjoy the chap~

Earth – Marco's Room

Comparing it to Star's room, the two were practically identical, Marco had varying sizes of food scattered along his floor, some covered by random socks and clothing articles. The covers on his bed had not been placed on correctly, the end of the duvet poking slightly out of the cover. And the smell - God the smell was unfathomable.

After seeing his little 'scene' go down yesterday, his parents had come to check on him as to whether he was okay or not, they obviously noticed the smell but didn't command him to clean it up, yet.

Uhh… Moaned a Marco as he began to awake from an eating-induced coma, the rancid smell of nachos lingered on his breath. Marco blinked once, only to have them forced shut by the overpowering sunlight gazing in through his window, he tried again: Another fail. After a couple minutes of this dance had gone on, he was finally able to open them just enough so that he could see what was going on around him. Once he moved himself to an upright position it was evident that he had fallen asleep still wearing his old red hoodie that left a few inches from his hands.

Eventually gaining the willpower to activate his legs, he emerged upwards and climbed out of his modest bed, walking out of his bedroom and into the bathroom where he proceeded to brush his teeth and get prepared for the day. Right… Today… I'm going out… I think… Maybe… The total lack of conviction was not-to-say, at least a little disturbing, how someone usually so organised could fall this easily to procrastination. However, despite Marco's personal lack of devotion to his mission, once he had gone into the kitchen, he was met with an Angie that had enough of Marco feeling sorry for himself, she demanded "Marco Ubaldo Diaz, you are going out of this house today so I can clean up all your mess."

"Can't you just do it tomorrow?" He pleaded in return.

"No. Tomorrow, if you weren't aware, is Christmas Eve. And we're throwing a Christmas party for all your father and I's friends." Oh yeah, I suppose they are always looking for a reason to throw a party. To any regular person this might seem like an odd custom, but Marco had not known any different. To him, Christmas was a time of presents, but any day except for that one is fair-game to whatever situation arises.

"Yeah yeah, alright I'll go out." He sighed.

"Here's $50, go get yourself a new hoodie too. That one's obscene." She added.

"Fine."

Mewni – Star's Room

Our little princess was bored out of her mind, after breaking up with Tom and letting it settle for a day – she had decided that he was right, and that it wasn't ever going to truly work. So in order to take her mind of everything, she put some music on and began to tidy her room, the puzzle of tops and trousers had vanished, amazing how just picking up a few pieces of fabric and tossing them down the shoot to the 'Knights of the Wash' had made such a large impact on the cleanness of her room.

But alas, Star will always be Star, she eventually got fed up by the mundane-ness of her task and how long it was taking; so she picked up her wand and ordered all the pieces of food to levitate, and throw themselves out of her window. She'd have to apologise to Eclipsa later, after she had already thrown the food she remembered that Eclipsa's favourite garden was below her room. *Sigh* What do I do now? A bored teenager will always find something to amuse them, despite how reckless or stupid it may be. And whilst what she was about to was not the stupidest or most reckless thing she could do, it was definitely something, odd.

Earth – Mall

After mentally preparing himself to take on the foe known as 'Shopping', Marco had entered his fighting arena, people were bustling, shoving and some were even literally fighting over products. He wandered down the mall and moved on from one shop, to another, to another and so forth – checking every clothing store he could find for a hoodie similar to his. He kept getting answers that were something along to lines of 'Nope' 'Not here' 'Sorry' 'We stopped selling it months ago'. He let out a defeated sigh after that last one, he really thought they may have sold it since they had a picture of a hoodie very similar to his, which he honestly didn't mind the look of on their store front.

However, while Marco was lost in his own thoughts he failed to notice a hooded figure following him, making sure to keep out of his sight. Marco had felt a presence but he assumed that he was just on edge and that anything would have ticked him off and with so many people around it may sense that he may have been alerted once or twice.

A few stores away from him walked Jackie Lynn, a bit depressed still about being rejected and then having to be comforted by said rejector. She wore a navy blue top and black jeans with a pair of black trainers. As she approached Marco's general vicinity she spotted him out of the corner of her eye, stunned about seeing him for the first time since – 'that'. She had stood still and observed into nothingness, after a moment she had recollected her thoughts and just before she was about to turn the other way – she spotted someone else out of the corner of her eye, a hooded figure that seemed to be keeping out of Marco's line of sight.

Worried about Marco, she walked up to the figure, making certain to keep as quiet as possible and be as casual as she could. Once she got up to about 4 meters away she had noticed that the figure's hair was slightly poking it, "Blonde?" She thought to herself, upon getting closer she also noticed that the figure was around the same height as her, once she got to less than a meter away she could hear the silhouette mumbling to itself in a voice that was not easily forgettable.

"Star?" Jackie questioned.

Once the figure heard those words it immediately stopped what it was doing and froze, keeping still for a solid 10 seconds before turning around to face Jackie with the most awkward and confusing smile ever to grace the human world. One thing was certain for sure, that was indeed Star Butterfly – future queen-to-be of Mewni. Those rosy heart shaped marks on her cheeks, the flow of the golden-like hair, the sparkling blue that held deep within her eyes.

"Oh *giggle* hi Jackie… Fancy seeing you here." Her attempt at acting casual had failed miserably… And had therefore opened herself up to be grilled by Jackie as to what she was doing here.

"What are you doing?" Jackie inquisitively asked.

"Nothing much, you?"

"I saw you were peeking at Marco."

"No I wasn't."

"Er… Yes you were." Each line delivered was short, abrupt and completely in denial. At this point Star's cheeks had flushed a red so bright that it was hard to decipher what was her butterfly marks and what was just plain skin. The two began talking for a few moments until Star finally confessed that she was here to see Marco, at this, Jackie had formed a plan – she wanted Marco to be happy, that meant Star needed to see him, so she suggested that if Star gives her the cloak, she can sneak past Marco – get into a fight or steal something from him, then Star comes out and saves the day. Fool-proof.

Star being the kind of person she is, agrees with this plan and hands over the cloak, the two were standing around a cylindrical podium which was about a meter in diameter – Jackie had begun to move, she headed around the right of the podium to intercept Marco, however when she turned around Marco had already moved on. Seeing that the plan had hit a slight bump, Jackie decided that it'd be best to find Marco and still follow-through, so she began to walk away slowly, until she heard a faint-

"Star?" Instinctively she turned away to face the noise – only to realise that while she was headed around the podium and Star had been watching her, Marco had slipped around the left hand side and spotted Star.

I mean it doesn't matter how the eggs got in the basket I suppose, they're there. Satisfied that she had completed her duty, to a degree. She left in order to pickup that hair brush that her mother had asked her to buy, leaving the two to speak.

"Star-"

"Marco—" they had both started, "Oh no you go first." Star was slightly quicker to say this than Marco had been.

"Oh… Alright – urm… Let me think… I'm sorry." She had run through this before in her mind, but come to the moment now. She couldn't think of what to say, so she decided to let him just run on. "I'm sorry that I left so suddenly and didn't give you an explanation. I know that I was being extremely selfish and I hate myself and I don't want you to hate me and I – I think that you're amazing an' all and I don't blame you for not showing up to my sendoff." The unrefined-ness of his apology had made it seem much more sincere, it was clear to anyone, even Star who can be a slight air-head at times: That he was currently wearing his heart on his sleeve.

At this point Marco had his eyes shut and hands grasped together tightly, simply awaiting any sort of response from Star – but when he eventually came to open his eyes he could see that she wasn't mad, more conflicted than anything – "now it's my turn," she started.

"I realise that I was a terrible friend to you, I ignored you even when you gave up your entire life to come spend time with me in Mewni. Me and Tom have both broken up now, it was mutual – don't feel guilty, please – but we realised that it wasn't going to work and so we're done. I completely ignored you and made you feel unwelcome and so, I'm sorry." Now it was Marco's turn to see things from her perspective, she had completely ignored him but it was accidental, the entire thing – how could he have been so blind as to think that the Star Butterfly was purposefully making him sad. He so desperately had an urge to say that he was sorry for making her sorry, but she had already accepted that – and before his mouth had even opened, "don't say you're sorry. We're both wrong but we'll be alright. Because we're Star and Marco - Starco! Aren't we?"

There wasn't much Marco could say to this, and so he simply smiled with a ginormous grin and said "Yeah, we are."

Even they're calling themselves 'Starco' now, must be canon (in the story) I suppose. :P Who knows though.

Anyway: Gold Testament: I had actually included the conversation between Jackie and Star in this chap, but I didn't want to spoil it at the start :P

Other than that, leave a review - let me know what you think, takes 20 seconds and gives me a lot of motivation to make more. Have a good day, Peace ~