Update 26 JAN 20 - Added more about the day at the Underworld beach.
"Spend more time with me? Not to be rude, but why?" Marco didn't know how to take this. No one has ever offered him such a request.
Kelly turned around and looked him in the eyes, "I just want to, we haven't really seen each other since the beach or much of today… having your life almost end a few hours ago, puts things in perspective."
They both started to laugh, "Yeah sure, that would be nice… it gets lonely sometime in this castle." Marco hated to say that, he looked over to the doorway hoping to see Star.
So she was right… "Don't you have my number? You can call and hang out whenever, I heard you're pretty good at sword fighting" Kelly gave his arm a light jab.
They started the walk to his room, "I do, but that whole Tad thing, anyway I need to break in my new sword so maybe we should have a sparring match later?" Marco could see Kelly checking him out every chance she had.
The young woman stopped him by placing a hand on his shoulders bare skin. "Dude… where's your sword at?" She almost had stars in her eyes right now. Kelly books on books of all types of weapons, swords were her favorite.
This is what she was looking for, Jorby had a girlfriend now so they're daily fights had come to an end. Having a new sparring partner would change that and give her an in to hang out with Marco more.
"It's right here." Marco pulled out his dimensional scissors and flicks his wrist until it turned into a sword. It was covered in flames for a short period, much like the one over it's creators crown.
The blade was four feet long in the same bronze color with the edge darker, the handles locked together and grew to allow both hands to hold it if need be, "Wow! I didn't know Hekapoo could do custom stuff like that…"
She couldn't pull her eyes off it as he offered it to her, "Go ahead, check it out" Marco let out a small giggle over her excitement.
Knights would never offer their livelihood such as a sword to someone else. Kelly didn't want to, but the warm smile he gave her said she couldn't do any wrong to him. She grabbed the base with a firm girl, "It's… perfect… great balance… amazing craftsmanship! This is really something else!"
She takes a few cuts in the air and it was better than perfect, Kelly was more into the larger ones, using it's massive size and weight to crush enemies. But with Marco's, his was a precision-striking tool that could dish out more power and damage than any of her own.
"Hpoo added the sword part when she found out Star made me her squire, still need to make a sheath for it." He's been looking high and low for one, but always came up short.
"She let's you live while calling her that? You guys must be really close..." Kelly giggled while watching him closely. Marco looked down remembering all too well how long it had taken Hpoo to not try to kill him each time he said it. He blushed because the first positive reaction he ever got from that name, was her screaming his at the height of her passion.
"Hey, I got an idea…" Kelly said and watched him open the door to his room, she does a double take and looked back out the hall again.
"Pretty cool huh? Star pulled my whole room from Earth, I think you're the first person to see it beside her?" He snickers a little seeing how confused she was.
"I guessed I was going to walk into a messier room, you keep it nice in here." Kelly looked around it some more as she kicked at the door to close it.
"Why do you think Star's room has been so clean the last few months? Hey, you said you had an idea?" Marco readies his Pj's for a shower.
"Yeah, can I make a portal with this still?" She points at the sword and leaned her head to the side.
He couldn't stop thinking how cute she looked right now. "Should be able to, but it's a little different when it's like that. Just extend it out and cut the portal."
Kelly nods her head and cuts at the air, nothing happens so she gave it another try… and another, "What's… the… deal… with-"
The last one Marco catches her wrist, "You're trying too hard, just breathe and follow my directions."
He stands behind her with his free hand reaching for her stomach and his foot spreading out her stance, "Now lift the sword into the air… see where you want to go and…"
They slice at the air and a purple portal is in front of them. "He… hey… it really worked!"
He walked off, "Told you, should I wait or jumping in the shower is cool?"
Kelly's cheeks were red again enjoying the feeling of him holding her, "Ummmm I wouldn't mind if you stay like that… BE RIGHT BACK!?" She jumped into the portal not believing she said that out loud.
"Well, I guess I can at least change?" Marco headed over looking for a shirt. He thought back to holding her, "I knew she must be fit from all the fighting she does, but damn she is toned…" He remembered the last time they were that close at the soulrise when they shared his hoodie and she wished him Happy Birthday. It was nice…
Flashback
"Is it past midnight?" Marco looked over at Kelly as she checked her watch.
"Yeah…" She looked back up to the show.
"Then it's my birthday!" A goofy smile crossed his face.
"Happy birthday… Marco Diaz!" Her smile was bigger than his.
...
The show was wrapping up and he had a bad feeling come over him, the memory of Tom and Star kissing hits him hard and even what Tad said before "...and you're choosing to live with your unavailable crush! When it comes to making yourself miserable… YOU... are the master bra…"
Kelly watched him from the corner of her eye, "Is everything okay?"
Marco looked down with his hair covering his eyes, "..."
"I… I don't have a crush on Star… I think I'm in love with her…" Wait… what?
"Hey…" She placed a hand on his back and he jumped at the contact, Marco looked up at her with tears in his eyes and pulled the young woman into a hug.
"So… sorry about this… Star got me used to hugs and what not…" He looked away from her, but was comforted when feeling her arms around his body.
"There's nothing to be sorry about… what's the matter?" It's not like they were really close or anything, but Kelly had a real chance of paying back Marco with getting her ex to finally move out.
"Just thinking about something… I don't know how I should feel about it or if it's even true?" It all started with the dumb marshmallows. When Tom and Star completed each other's roasted marshmallows, she shouted out loud, "TWINS!"
"I thought I was her mess up twin?" Marco might be acting petty right now, but he did have a point. He was the first one she used that twin thing as a pet name.
Then she gave her boyfriend a spare hoodie for the beach. "How could she?"
"Marco… talk to me…" He must have forgotten where he was.
"It just… you know that hoodie Tom was wearing today?" That's right, don't keep all your problems bottled up.
"Yeah? The one he did a custom job on?" What did that have to do with anything?
"That's the one… I gave it to Star one night when she was cold. She never gave it back, but I was okay with it." He smiled for a second and then it's gone.
"As if you couldn't tell already… but the red hoodie is kinda my thing, I got about ten of them back in my room..." Kelly couldn't hold back a giggle, but cuts it short.
"Sorry… keep on, I'm listening." Keep him talking.
"I know it's silly, but… it just hurts to know she just gave it away when it wasn't hers in the first place. I mean... it could have been…" This wasn't all about an outer garment, but had a lot of play in it.
"Does Marco have…?" The gears started to turn for her and she could feel him trembling in anger.
"This is all silly I know and I feel like an idiot… I'm sorry…" He pulled away and felt ashamed of his actions.
"D… don't be, Marco… really, I understand what's going on. Nothing will change if you don't change yourself?" Was she convincing him to chase down Star or to keep his eye forward on the girl in front of him?
Earlier she was a wreck from her break up with Tad, but now the tables had turned… maybe Marco finally felt comfortable enough to open up?
"I don't know if I can…" Kelly rubbed her hands up and down his back. Marco could be heard letting out a small purr.
"It's okay, you don't need to do this alone…" The young woman tucked her head deeper into his neck.
Marco was guided to lay his back on the shack as the teens sat down. Kelly was on top of his thighs, she could feel something hard poking at her crotch.
The young man knew she could feel it as he started to blush, "So… sorry about that."
She smiled, "You don't have to be… that just means you're starting to feel better now. I'm glad to help!"
A cold breeze covered them as her body huddled tighter to him for warmth, "We should get going." Marco said with his hands running up her ribs.
"I'm fine like this… you… you can touch me more, if you like?" Kelly started to rock her lower body painfully slow on his hardon.
"Haaaa… that feels… really good." Marco's hands traveled under her shirt and settled on her stomach.
"Hssssss Maroooo…" This was a totally new experiences for her. Tad would mostly play with her hair and scalpel, not to say that wasn't enjoyable. Marco was better equipped to give her whole body a thrilling ride. The male moved his lips over to her ear, this was doing wonders on forgetting about Star.
She could almost feel his hands ready to make contact with her budding breasts as he breathed deeply over her neck. He was so close, "Hey! You guys up there."
Everything came to a grinding halt as Kelly jumped off him, their faces burned with the same intensity, "YUP! WE'ER UP HERE!" She blurted out loud.
Marco composed himself before going to the balcony, "He-hey Star… everything alright?" He could see Tom with an upset look on his face.
"Yeah, just wondering where you guys ran off too? You ready to get out of here?" Marco was hoping she would wish him a happy birthday, but it seemed as she had forgotten.
"Sure… I'll be down in a second." The male looked over to Kelly with a sad look. She could almost read his mind knowing how even more hurt he was.
Flashback End
"I knew I still had this!" Kelly walked up to him with a tan leather belt that was two inches thick and his sword in the sheath. She pointed at his arms to pick them up as she wraped the belt around his hip and buckles it.
"Now, you never want these to be too tight on your body, leave it a little loose so it leans more with the sword." She took a step back seeing the belt snug around his waist and a shirt that fit rather tight on him.
"Now this is perfect!" He placed his hand on the handle and it felt comfortable, then he drew the weapon ready for a battle.
"Look at you tough guy, not bad if I do say so myself…" There was a little drool hanging from the corner of her lip.
"You think so?" He placed the weapon back in it's new home without looking.
"Yup… you're going to have a hard time beating off all the female squires now hehehe..." That was bait…
"Who, Higgs? Nah, more like her poking fun that I'm some token squire again or something…" The female squire was his least liked person.
Kelly was hoping to hear something to the degree that there wasn't anybody else she didn't have to worry about. But was there someone giving him a hard time? Like everything he's done already wasn't hard enough?
"Hey… want to talk about it? I'm really not in the mood to go home, if you don't mind and we could continue on with what we were doing on your birthday…?" Without thinking about it, she jumps on his bed and pats on the spot next to her for him to sit down.
"..." He watched as she made herself comfortable while her face flushed. Marco smiled and laid next to her. "Sure, but it's boring stuff."
"I don't mind, hit me with your best shot." They giggle together and Marco started to talk about Higgs, then back to his life back at home.
"Hey, what about that witchy girl? Janna, you two seem to have an… interesting kind of relationship. Did she ever bewitch you into an unholy tryst?" Kelly teased, wiggling her fingers at him.
Marco burst out laughing, "No, no, nothing quite like that. She's just an old friend, been around most of my life. She's always stealing my keys or my wallet…" Marco quickly checked his pocket and chuckled with relief at what he found. "Heh... Phew, still there. Other than that, she likes to tease and flirt with me to make me uncomfortable."
Kelly cut her eyes at him and tucked some hair behind her ear before nonchalantly asking, "You sure she doesn't flirt because she likes you?"
Marco waved his hands in her face as if waving away the possibility. "Nah! There's no way she'd actually like me. I'm too normal for her awesome weirdness.
…
Janna stepped back to stare at the newest addition to her shrine. "Yes… that's nice. A new lock of Marco's hair and a new picture of me and Marco. Just perfect." She secured the picture of her photobombing him at Star's Quinceñera/Almost Stump Massacre and adjusted the life-size portrait of Marco in the center of the shrine.
"Life's good…" She said out loud getting undressed.
…
Kelly noticed a pillow was knocked off his bed when he checked his pockets and got down to get it for him. She paused near the ground staring at his bed frame, "Uh… you know how you said only me and Star have seen this place?" She gave Marco a confused look and pointed at a questionable team.
Marco leaned close to the bed frame to see, he and Kelly blushed as they touched in such close quarters, Marco's mouth dropped open reading what was on his bed, "'JANNA WAS HERE?!' What?! How?! When?!"
Kelly laughed at Marco's freak out and eventually he started laughing too, albeit a little hysterically. After calming down some, they got back to chatting and started talking about where Star stood in his life as of now.
When it was all said and done, it had been two hours.
"Damn… it's almost morning already, I need to get some rest and start my duties soon." He stands up with Kelly following him.
"Oh, that's right… yeah, I guess we did lose track of time… ummm can we do this again sometime or do you mind if I stay over?" That last part slipped out and Marco didn't let it go by.
"Stay over, as in my room all night, but with us getting some sleep?" With each word he said, her face became even hotter.
"Well, I mean… only if you don't mind… we could talk all night again…" She was running out of things to say.
"I think I would like that… I didn't know how much I was holding back, things weren't always like this..." There was a picture of him and Star together in a frame on his desk, he looked over at it to make sure the photo was laying face down so he didn't have to see it every day.
Kelly was able to get a look at it when he went to the bathroom during the night, "Hey, why don't you get out of here tonight? Come over to my place and we could hang out and watch a movie… maybe have a little match?" She walked up to him with one hand on his chest and other on the handle of his blade.
They've been close most of the night sharing small touching here and there and he really liked how this felt, "I'll give you a call later? Good with you?"
She nods her head as he opened a portal for her, "You better, hope to see you tonight."
Kelly walked into the portal as Marco looked back at the night they had, and the part about them continuing what happened on his birthday. Just as he was about to walk away. The green hair girl pops out of the portal and plants a kiss on his cheek, "I mean it… call me later!"
Then she's gone again.
"Didn't see that one coming…" He rubbed his face with a smile.
Reaper- Things are starting to pick up, huh…
I think these two will make a great couple… or will they?
HOLY CRAP?! One year of showing you guy how crazy I really am?! Thank you so much for sticking with me and a huge thanks to Nicki for reminding what this day is!
I really hope I can do this some more and get better at it!
Nicki Plague- HAPPY WRITING ANNIVERSARY REAPER! You have already been writing a year, can you even believe it? I have read everything I could of yours and you have improved so much! I am proud to say I have worked with you even for the little bit I have!