Chapter 4- Glove

Star had missed so much by not going to the school sleepover thing, or overnight school whatever. She had missed Marco finally breaking the rules just to get to Jackie, that was some commitment he had to their relationship.

Finally, he was home. "So did you do anything freaky while I was away?" he asked in his usual responsible yet excited manner. They were watching a TV show in her room on her mirror.

"Actually no… it was all too weird," Star replied vaguely. Marco regarded her with surprise, she didn't do anything weird, at all, something was wrong. "I'm probably going to be weird today and tomorrow though, up until I die! But anyway, it's Wednesday right?" One more day till Friendship Thursday, at last.

"It's Tuesday," Marco chuckled, trust Star to forget the actual day because 'who cares, days aren't even that different!' "Are you going to be alright while I'm out with Tom?"

"Yeah, yeah," she waved her arm lazily and rolled her eyes, "Quit acting like a doting parent, you're 14 not someone's 41 year old husband!"

Marco laughed at her, "Soon will be though, and you'll be Queen of Mewni." He said truthfully. A small frown formed on her lips, soon. "Anyway," Marco continued, realising how Star was against talking about her royal inheritance, "a surprise will be on the way as I'm gone."

Star's eyes brightened at the word 'surprise.' Marco's surprises were great in general, except that one time he bought her a crown when she first moved in. That wasn't a great surprise, obviously and it led her to voice her opinions on royalty.

A few hours later, around 1pm, awkward Tom came from the Underworld to collect Marco. The ex partners muttered a formal greeting to each other before hurrying as quick as possible. Well, Star was hurrying them out as quickly as possible because, eww, awkward ex-boyfriend.

Five minutes later, with a carton of juice in her hand, Star got up to get the door. 'Maybe Marco forgot some-'

"Hey, Star!" greeted one enthusiastic Jackie Lynn Thomas. Star beamed in reply, girlfriend or not, they were still great friends. But why would Jackie randomly show up to her house, she and Marco didn't have plans that day.

"Marco's not in," she said automatically.

"I know," Jackie replied, still grinning happily. "I came to take you on a just-us day out. I think I should get to know you personally since we'll be seeing a lot of each other now."

"Yeah, how did you know I wasn't going out," Star asked sceptically. Jackie was a really good friend and girlfriend; she just wanted nothing to be awkward so Star couldn't bring herself to ruin that.

"Asked Janna," she said, "I could get her to come with us, if you want," Jackie added. She didn't want to be weird with her boyfriend's best friend.

"Oh, we don't need her to have as much fun" Star blinked. The last thing she wanted was for Jackie to think they weren't friends, or even worse, know she liked Marco."Well, what should we do first, then?" Star asked, bringing up her cheery personality.

"How about we take turns deciding," Jackie explained, "First we'll go to the Wheels Park then to a place of your choice and finally one where we can both hang out." Star nodded, that was a perfect plan.

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Star fretted in her room, how could that have gone so wrong? She messed up hugely. Massively. An-entire-kingdom-largely. Everything seemed so messed up at the moment, and she didn't even take her wand as an extra precaution.

With Jackie, she learnt, slowly, how to use roller skates and they shared a little ride on her skateboard, which was cool. Then they travelled to an underwater dimension, where Star showed her unknown and rare breeds of sea life on Earth, which were abundant there. She thought the skater girl enjoyed herself greatly. But the last place was what messed everything up.

They were on a bench, licking some good ice cream, just being normal friends. "I'm glad we had to chance to do this, Star," Jackie smiled in relief. Star gave her a questioning look. "I mean, it's nice to know we can be close with and without Marco."

"I'm glad you're his girlfriend," Star blurted honestly. "You just fit him, like a glove."

"Thanks, and so do you."

"But you're the girlfriend glove, a glove put up before a lot of other gloves," she explained, "He loves you so dearly and for so long. He deserves you and you deserve him."

Jackie giggled heartily, "Thanks for your blessing. I'll be as great to him as a girlfriend should. I love him too, you know." Star was a little saddened at the confirmed true love.

"Yeah," she mustered.

"I always thought you liked him," Jackie added absent-minded. Star stared at her blankly, was she that transparent? "You guys seemed like a power couple, but you are just a dynamic duo." She turned to look at her companion, "Did you ever like him?"

Star continued staring at her, and she stared back. Wind whistled behind them as they sat in silence for a bit. Her thoughts were all over the place, 'What was she trying to prove?' 'So what?' 'Can I trust her? Probably not.' Until her mind came up with the conclusion, "Yes," was the mono-syllabic, simple word uttered after the silence.

Jackie wasn't even surprised, "I would have expected. He's an awesome friend and a brilliant boyfriend. Did you ever tell him?" she pressed on. Star looked deeply into her turquoise eyes, No because I still do like him but he's your boyfriend and that'll be just awkward, wouldn't it? But obviously, that wasn't what to say aloud.

"No, because I didn't want to ruin our friendship," Star told her, sighing. Jackie gave her a sympathetic look, as if she knew what it was like to be in a position as such.

When Jackie dropped her off, Marco still wasn't home. Angie and Rafael were both cooking in the kitchen when she walked in. they greeted her happily and told her they were making enchiladas. She smiled at them, they sounded good before stalking off to her room.

Her phone buzzed, she picked up, still smiling genuinely, to see her message.

Marco: Jackie told me u like me? We need to talk when I get back.

What the heck? Why the heck? "Please, no, no, no, no!" Star whined to no one in particular. Jackie found out… so easily too. Why were her emotions on her sleeve? Couldn't they hide in her heart for once? Now things would be definitely awkward.

Her wand rattled for the first time since she got back, the green aura surrounding it was very clear. She couldn't think properly. She never wanted the couple to find out like this, not to find out at all actually. But here she was, in a huge dilemma where she couldn't confide in anyone particularly.

Even though she was known for her vibrancy and her confidence, she knelt by her bed and shed tears to her blanket at her broken friendships. Things won't be the same anymore.

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I kind of got tired of the story as you see. I'll try to complete it in 10 days at most, but then I'll probably ignore it forever.

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