Chapter 5

"Delaying won't make anything better," Marco wisely suggested to her. He had been at it for 30 minutes; his best friend had let him in her room but only not to say a word to him. Star looked away from him, her puffy eyes shutting after crying for so long.

Marco had no idea on what to do, Tom said "With Star, you've got to wait, she won't blurt it out just because you asked," which to him, was very different to her act-now-think-later personality. He sat next to her on her big bed. Jackie said, or rather texted, 'You've got to get it out of her, but not forcefully.' How was he meant to do that?

"So, uh…"

"We don't have to talk about this Marco," Star's usually buttery voice was dry and hoarse from not being in use. She was still facing the wall. "I'll ask Mum about a forgetting spell," she stated and grabbed her wand. "I think it went something like 'Forget the words and actions of the past, because they won't ever last, from your mind they will leave, only I may remember, blah blah blah, I believe!' but I don't know if that's right…"

Marco sat in silence, contemplating. There really was no known route to take this situation on. "Do you want to know what happened at the sleepover? We haven't really talked that much."

"We can wait till Friendship Thursday."

"Well, everyday is a Friendship Day," Marco amended. "So, do you want to know? Janna did some pretty crazy stuff, but not up to your crazy, of course." Star snorted at that, nobody reached her crazy. She silently nodded because she wanted to know Janna's kind of crazy.

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Janna was a really crazy person, also weirdly into macabre things. "That's just Janna for everybody," Marco concluded with a little shrug, to his side, Star was snickering happily. When she calmed down, Marco put on a more serious look, "She also called me 'adorkable and dumb' when she was nicknaming everyone- that caused a lot of laughter."

"Well, you are!" Star exclaimed in laughter.

"How do you mean?"

"You just are, but don't worry, that's what I like about you. I'm pretty sure Jackie likes that in you as well," Star commented as Marco just stared at her. She had just explained so comfortably that she liked him without even realising it. "Oh shoot!" she snapped because of her sudden realisation.

"I'm just the best friend glove," she sighed afterwards, mostly to herself. Marco pitied her but he was happy with Jackie. "I'm happy for you and Jackie, Marco. I really am but…"

"Your wand…" Marco whispered as he looked at the glowing green wand. "I understand, Star. You're still very important to me, even if you're not my girlfriend. And Janna told me that we are basically a duo that has couple closeness, but I think we're closer than that."

Star sniffed at his sincerity. She knew she was pushing too much when she asked, "But why can't you view me as more."

"I just think of you as my best friend," Marco replied. "Besides, Jackie has been in my mind for a very long time, and it's thanks to you that I've finally got her." He smiled wistfully before getting zapped by the wand. "Ow."

"Was I not good enough?" Star asked quietly, "Am I not good enough?"

"Um…"

"Why pick Jackie over me? What don't you like in me that you like in her?" Star questioned as she stood up, facing the boy to answer her questions. "Why don't you love me?"

Marco got up as well to face her, "I do love my best friend, Star. That's you."

"And that's not what I meant," she huffed with an annoyed tone; the boy was being irritating now, even though she was pushing too much. Her emotions were too bottled up now, she started letting them go, so they had to be let out to the end. "Of course you'd love your best friend," she stated, visibly angry.

"Why is it so important for me to love you as a girlfriend when I don't?" Marco asked calmly, even though he was confused on why she was getting so upset. He wanted to be there for his best friend no matter what.

"I don't know!" Star exclaimed, love was so messed up. "I don't know why, Marco! But, why don't you love me as a girlfriend, why can't you answer my questions?" she begged him. She didn't know what she was feeling anymore, but she wanted his support at most.

"I can't answer those questions Star," Marco sighed. "there's going to be things I don't like in everybody, even Jackie, but telling you would just mean you'll try to 'correct' yourself, which means you won't be yourself. I like you for who you are."

"But why Jackie?" she cried to him, trying to grab his sleeve. "Why her? Why not Janna, Hope, Sabrina, or even me? Why not me? Why can't she be the best friend?" she continued with her questions because she just had to know why.

"It's just… just, I just love her as my girlfriend, Star," Marco concluded. "Imagine how you felt with Tom when you guys dated. When you actually liked him." Star nodded, but didn't take his advice.

"Yeah, but why can't you think of us as more than best friends?" Star sighed.

"Star, that's enough questions," Marco said. He was getting tired of these weird questions; he just didn't know how many more he could take before accidentally snapping at her.

"Why can't you? I'm not THAT bad!" Star shouted angrily. She took his silence offensively. "Jackie isn't better than me at all! She's not even to my ability and standard! I don't see why you'd pick her over me!" she said vainly. Just earlier, she loved Jackie, but because jealousy had clouded her already confused brain, she was bad mouthing her.

"Don't talk about her like that!" Marco interrupted. Unfortunately for her, Marco was still her boyfriend and boyfriends wouldn't like to hear bad things about their girls. "Jackie isn't better than you, and you aren't better than Jackie. I love you as my best friend and I love her as my girlfriend. You need to get over it Star!" he yelled, his cheeks going a bit red out of frustration. "Please, I'm worried for you." He added softly.

"How am I not good enough for you…?" Star rambled, "I can't get over you Marco, at least, not for a long time. I love you Marco!"

"As a best friend, I love you back," Marco answered. "Don't put me on a spot Star. Don't try to force me to love you, please don't. I'll eventually hate you if you do it."

"Marco, please, give me a sign that you're at least considering me," Star whined, her crystal tears flew down her cheeks. "Please tell me, you thought of me as a girlfriend before."

"I did, but I recognised that feeling as true best friendship," Marco replied. Star's pink mewberty wings grew out longer and turned a menacing lime colour.

"Stop lying," Star muttered lowly. "Stop lying to me. You say you love me but you're hurting me. You're hurting your so-called best friend, Marco. Please, stop. You're breaking my heart… I need you Marco, I need your support, I need your company, your promised protection and I need your love."

"You have all of that already!" he yelled back, "Can't you be satisfied? You don't need me as your boyfriend; you don't need anyone as your boyfriend right now! You don't have to have a boyfriend or girlfriend in your life! Jackie needs me as her boyfriend right now!"

"Of course!" Star exclaimed furiously, "it's all about Jackie, isn't it! 'Jackie is my girlfriend,' 'Jackie needs me' Jackie! Jackie! Jackie Lynn Thomas!" she spat, "you've left me behind, and carried on with precious Jackie because she's the only one that needs you! Why forget about me?"

"I didn't."

"But you did! We only have Friendship Thursday now! We used to have a Friendship Weekend, but now we don't… because of Jackie! I'm sure you don't even pay attention half the time because you're too busy thinking of sucking face with the oh-so-great Jackie!"

"It's you who doesn't pay attention! You're probably thinking of how to break us up the entire time! I try my best to not even bring up Jackie during our conversations now that I've settled into our relationship!" Marco argued as he watched Star shut her eyelids. He was right; it had come into her mind during every conversation since their hook up, even when Jackie wasn't mentioned. But it certainly didn't stay there the entire time.

"Now wait a second Marco…!" Star tried to say but his glare said he didn't want to hear it. Still sticking up for your girlfriend. "I bet you'd even save her over me if it was like that!" she cried out loudly. Marco's glare disappeared and he was in another tight spot again.

"Stop thinking of things like that," he scolded, "I would save you if you really needed help but you're a magical princess from another dimension who fights monsters. Jackie's only human."

"Is that another reason why you picked her-"

"Star!"

"-because" she continued like there was the karate kid hadn't uttered a word, "I'm an alien to you! I look human, so that's good enough, right?" she joked with fake laughter, "but then, you're… you're… speciesist! You're a disgusting speciesist! That's why you hated Tom! You didn't like Ponyhead, and you think Janna is weird!"

"I'm not 'speciesist.' I only disliked Tom out of brotherly protectiveness; he seemed shady at the time. Ponyhead was just being protective of me and I'm pretty sure we still have a neutral feeling to each other. Everyone thinks Janna is weird but just different to how you're weird," he explained diligently. "Please don't label me with untrue things."

"Marco," Star warned, "Why won't you love me as your girlfriend?" she asked finally. Her eyes were slowly dripping into a green hue and her hair flew upwards. "Don't hurt me."

"Just get over it, Star! I'm with Jackie; you said you were happy for us! If it can't get through to you without hurting you, so be it!" Marco grumbled, she was being overly impossible. She was scared.

"No!" she screamed and her wand flew to her hand. The peach skin on her fingertips slowly turned green as she turned the wand to herself. Her eyes bored holes into the boy opposite her. The frown on his face was an awful sight to see.

"Star, don't do anything rash," Marco tried to dissuade her from what he thought she was doing. "You have to realise this is what I want, it's not about anyone. Not me, not you, not Jackie! No one. It's just life, Star… please."

She began to speak in her native Mewman language, which sounded like a mix of weird sounds from unspecified beings and French. The tips of the wings on each side of the wand glistened with green and black hearts. They flew down like a sick yet beautiful waterfall.

"STAR NO!" a foreign voice interrupted her chant. The two heads turned to see who owned the bold voice. Her mother's frightened, narrowed eyes blinked at the scene. Star's green eyes reverted back to their true colour, her hair calmed down but her wings and fingers were still green. "I told you not to use that language, it's faded away and causes a great deal of damage."

"Queen Moon," Marco saluted while his eyes still were fixed on the princess.

"How would you know, Mum?" She asked sharply, wondering why she couldn't go on with the chant.

"When you use those words, they are chants, not spells. The official Mewman language is English because it doesn't flow like the old language," Moon explained. "I used a chant when I fought Toffee. I… could have killed him… and the Butterfly code is against killing."

"It would have been an accident," Star stated.

"Wait, were you trying to kill yourself or Jackie?" Marco wondered.

"This chant was different," Moon answered for her, "she wanted eternal love. To be promised all the love. Why?"

"It's because of me," he said.

"Not only," Star added, "My future subjects, those who don't accept me, everyone. I want to fit in, too, and be myself at the same time."

"Hmm," Moon nodded at her daughter, she was wondering on what to do with her. She was still figuring out the world.

Rafael walked into the room, causing the three heads to turn to him. "I heard a lot of yelling up here, and wanted to check on you two. It sounded really bad," he noticed their distance and angered stances. "Queen Moon," he said in greeting as he bowed his head slightly. She greeted him back quietly.

"It's nothing," Star swiftly waved at him and Marco to leave. "Me and Marco were just sorting out something." She summarised very vaguely to the man. He nodded slowly, not believing her completely, he was being left out.

"Look, I know my wife and I are usually not involved with what you are doing but you can always talk to us in case of problems," he advised the young girl. He really did feel bad that there were things going on in his home that he never knew about. He brought Marco out with him against his will and shut the door. "Let's set up dinner, we made enchiladas," was heard from the outside before footsteps slowly descended.

Star turned to her mother as she hadn't hung up on her yet. She opened her mouth to speak but Moon beat her to it. "Star, we need to talk." She boldly said.

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Ooooooh. I'm so tired of this story… and I'm going to leave some stuff unanswered because brain block. The whole argument could've been better, I know but I'll leave you readers to imagine something way better.

It got so OOC, I'm sorry

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