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"Ok, Star, this is not a big deal. It's just Marco. Just normal, everyday Marco. It's just a normal day on Earth!" Star said to herself. "It's not like you couldn't sleep because you kissed him!"
"Riigght." She said to herself as she slowly opened the door to the shared bath.
"Good morning, Marco," Star greeted cheerfully as she entered the bathroom.
"Good morning, Star!" Marco replied.
Star froze as she saw Marco standing by the sink, a towel wrapped around his waist as he vigorously toweled his hair dry. Her eyes soaked in the freshly showered form of her best friend, moisture beaded on his skin, and the developing muscles on his chest and flat stomach, that he had been recently proud of, flexed whenever he moved. Her mind almost went blank as she smelled his mint infused shampoo.
"I'll be done in a bit," Marco said as he finished up. He blinked as Star hurriedly exited the bathroom.
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"Are you Ok?" Marco asked as they disembarked from the school bus. Star had been distant all through out breakfast and the bus ride. His Mom had even asked if they had a fight.
"I'm fine, Marco!" Star said a bit forcefully. She can't look at Marco without feeling a blush light up her face and it annoyed her.
Marco pursed his lips and bit back a retort. From what he knew about Mewtide, it wasn't supposed to be as awful as Earth menses but then again he was male and what did he know? He was not about to pick a fight with his best friend who was apparently very stressed, Mewtide or not.
"Hi Star! Hi Marco!" Jackie greeted as she rolled towards the duo on her skateboard. Jackie jumped off her skateboard and kicked it so that she can catch it out of midair.
Star watched as Jackie awkwardly took a tentative step towards Marco.
"Oh good! It's not happening any more," Jackie said with relief.
"What's not happening any more?"
"Our boy, Marco, had a virginity protection shield yesterday," Janna said as she popped out of nowhere and draped her arm around Star's shoulder.
"Can you please not call it that," Marco groaned.
"He had this invisible barrier that repelled any girls that stood close to him," Janna elaborated.
"Oh. That may have been my fault," Star said.
"Cool! Did you mark your territory or something?"
"Mark my territory?"
"You know, like stake your claim on Marcoland," Janna elaborated. Marco and Jackie looked aghast.
"I have no idea what you mean," Star said flatly.
"Well, that ruined the joke," Janna ruefully replied. "Any way, let's go ahead to class. I need to copy Marco's homework."
"Hey!" Marco complained as he noticed that Janna had his math notebook.
"Laters, Diaz! Jackie!" Janna winked at Jackie as she hooked Star's elbow and dragged the princess to class. "Come on, Star, these two have a lot of catching up to do."
"So, what happened yesterday? Marco said you had some personal Mewni stuff to deal with, " Janna asked conspiratorially as she led Star to the classroom.
"I just had the Mewni equivalent of your Earth period," Star explained as she looked back at where Marco and Jackie were having an animated conversation about something. She felt confused - upset and somehow happy for Marco.
"Ouch," Janna replied in sympathy. "Wait, is that connected with why Marco was girl-repellent yesterday? "
"Kinda?" Star admitted with some embarrassment.
"So you did mark Marco," Janna said with a smirk.
"He's just a friend," Star replied evasively.
"Yeah, right. We both know that you were the one who lied during your sleepover," Janna said off-handedly as she sat down and took out her notebook.
Star froze as she felt a chill run down her spine. "No I didn't."
"Pony Head and I talked before she went home. She had doubts about the cube being defective. We came to the same conclusion that, well, probably you were the one that was lying."
Star's pointedly refused to make eye contact as Janna grabbed her by the cheeks.
"So you never thought of kissing him or hugging him?" Janna quizzed excitedly. "No, wait, you do hug him -"
"I kissed him."
"What?!" Janna's jaw dropped.
"Just on the cheek!" Star said, blushing furiously.
"Pshaw, a kiss on the cheek's nothing," Janna said grumpily. Her eyes suddenly brightened. "Unless! Did your heart skip when you kissed him?!"
"A bit," Star confessed. "I couldn't sleep afterwards."
Janna made a strangled gurgle and waved her hands frantically.
"Janna, are you OK?" Star asked worriedly.
Janna finally squealed and grabbed Star by the shoulders and started shaking her excitedly. "Do you know what that means!"
"What does what mean?" Marco asked as he entered the classroom with Jackie by his side.
Janna and Star visibly deflated.
"Oh… I forgot about that," Janna remarked as she fell back on her chair. "Nothing, Marco. It means absolutely nothing."
"Yeah, I know, right?" Star added as the school bell rang.
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Star found that she was distracted during class – more so than normal. Math was not very interesting to her and she was only able to barely pass because Marco tutored her. Said person now being the main cause of her distraction as she imagined herself just sitting back home and running her hands through his silky, soft brown hair - softer than a bundle of Mewni corn silk.
"Yeah, just like a laser puppy," Star murmured.
"Star, what are you doing?" Ms Skullnick asked as everyone looked at Star who was now standing behind Marco and was gently ruffling his hair.
"Stroking Marco's hair," Star answered, eyes wide in shock at what she was doing. "It's softer than a laser puppy," she further elaborated.
"Um, Star's going through some – er, stuff, right now," Marco quickly defended his friend.
"Yeah, she's sick. Really sick, it's a Mewman thing," Janna said as she stood up and grabbed Star by the shoulders. "I'll bring her to the clinic."
"I'll go with you," Marco offered, genuinely worried about Star's strange behavior.
"No! It's OK," Janna glared at the boy until he sat back down.
Ms Skullnick rubbed her temple. "OK. Janna, bring Star to the clinic."
As Janna hustled Star off to the clinic, she could hear the class breaking into laughter and Skullnick muttering about hormonal teenagers.
"Well, I'm not sure what I can do for Star," the school nurse said with some confusion as the pair entered the clinic. "Xenobiology wasn't really a thing when I was getting my education."
"Do you have some chocolates?" Star asked, still dazed about what she just did. "Or sugar packets? I'd take anything sweet right now."
The nurse opened her desk drawer and gave Star a bar of chocolate. "Will you need, er, pain killers? Do they even work on you?"
"Yeah they, do. But no thanks - unless they can also dull my horrifying guilt at embarrassing my best friend in the whole wide world in front of the class."
"No, they can't."
"Too bad." Star tore open the chocolate wrapper and absently took a bite as the nurse and Janna looked on in worry.
"Can we have a bed? She's in shock." Janna said.
"Sure, I'll leave you girls alone. It sounds like you seriously need to talk," the nurse said as she ushered the two to the farthest bed and drew the curtains around it.
"Pegasus feathers!" Star exclaimed as she fell on the bed and hid her head under the pillow.
"It's not that bad," Janna said as she sat down on the bed and patted Star's back. "At least you didn't pants him in the playground. Marco's a tough kid, he'll live through it."
"I didn't even know what I'm doing anymore!" Star wailed. "I thought about running my fingers through his hair and then I was doing it!"
"You can be rather impulsive," Janna conceded.
"It was a good thing that I went out of the bathroom this morning before I licked him dry!"
Janna blinked. "Ugh, TMI, Star. Though I can relate."
"TMI?"
"Too much information."
"You can relate?"
Janna squirmed. "Well, I've known Marco since we were kids. Me, Ferg, and Al used to hang around Marco's house."
"What changed?" Star asked.
"I did," Janna said. "One day, I just became aware that Marco was a boy and that I liked him. And it kind of got weird. I wanted to be with him and talk with him all the time. I wanted his attention all for myself. I knew that he liked Jackie but since he was too timid to do anything about it, I was so sure that we'd get together. Then they got a girl exchange student. Then they spent so much time together and I felt left out. I got so jealous that I just stopped going over. It took some time before I could talk to him again without my chest hurting."
"Wait, so you lied during the sleepover!"
"Nope," Janna said as she lay down beside Star. "At the time the cube asked, I liked Eighteenth Century poet John Keats more than Marco. I guess he helped me get over Marco."
"Did you ever tell Marco?"
"Heck, no! It would have torn me apart if he outright rejected me," Janna pulled her cap down over her eyes.
"Do you still like Marco?" Star asked in apprehension.
"No! He's a such an uncool nerdy safety-freak," Janna vehemently cried out. Her beanie cap fell and Star saw the tears streaming down Janna's cheeks. "…except then he'll do something really awesome and kind and I'll fall in love with him all over again."
"Do you think I should tell him? Are you all right with me telling him? I'd really want to tell him but then I'm scared it will make things awkward. I don't even care if he doesn't like me that way," Star bit her lower lips. "No, that's a lie. I'm terrified that he doesn't like me that way. But I still want to tell him."
"You're very brave, Star. All's fair in love and war," Janna muttered. "You'll have to go against his massive crush on Jackie, but I think you do stand a chance. More than me at least."
"Janna, you're awesome too. Don't sell yourself short." Star drew Janna into a crushing hug.
"Thanks, Star Butterfly," Janna said as she felt Star shuddering as she silently cried.
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Star grumbled as she felt someone shake her awake.
"Wake up, time to go."
"Marco!" Star's eyes shot open. "Don't go into a lady's room unannounced!" She cried out in outrage.
"You're not in your room," Marco said drily as he looked at Star sprawled quite unladylike on top of Janna who was still gently snoring. He quickly looked away as he noticed that Star's skirt had ridden up and exposed her stockings clad thighs. "Any way, school's over for the day. The nurse left an excuse letter for you and Janna." He took a look at the note. "Mewman fever."
Star jumped off Janna. "I need to get my-," Star paused as Marco handed her her spiky pink backpack. "Thanks, Marco."
Marco shook Janna. "Wake up, Janna."
Janna moaned, "yeah, do me harder, Marco."
Marco was not amused. "I know you're awake."
"Spoil sport," Janna said with a smile before opening her eyes.
"Here's your bag," Marco said as he handed Janna her backpack. "What do you have in there? Rocks?"
"Nope, my most precious," Janna said with a grin.
"You carry your 'John Keats – Complete Poems' every day," Marco was impressed.
"Every day," Janna confirmed.
"Any way, get off the bed so I can fix it up."
Marco handed his bag to Star and started on changing the bedsheets and pillow cases with spares that he had taken from the nurse.
Janna took out her thick poetry book and showed the inside cover page to Star.
"To Janna, Happy Birthday and lotsa love. Your friend forever, Marco," Star read the messy handwriting of a younger Marco.
A weathered photo of grade school-age Janna and Marco standing shoulder to shoulder and grinning widely was glued right below the dedication.
Star and Janna shared a sad smile.
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"Marco, I'm really sorry about petting you in class," Star said as she and Marco walked home since they missed the school bus.
"Nah, don't worry about it. After you left, the girls were all petting my hair and were saying it was silky soft," Marco said wryly. "I'm not really sure how I feel about that, but Jackie's fingers in my hair did feel nice."
Marco grunted as Star suddenly jumped on his back and he staggered a bit before regaining his footing.
"Star!"
"Give me a piggy back ride!"
"Onwards!" Marco yelled as he started running with Star whooping on his back. After a few blocks, he was regretting his youthful exuberance as he struggled to put one foot in front of the other.
"Thanks, Marco," Star said as she jumped off and caught Marco as he slumped forward. "Eww, sweaty."
"I don't know how your father can carry both of us and run," Marco gasped as he grasped at Star so that he won't fall to the ground.
"Aww, don't worry about it," Star said as she tightened her embrace. She was glad that with Marco's head on her shoulder, he couldn't see the extremely wide grin that had unconsciously lit up her face.
"Gimme a minute," Marco said as he huffed, trying to regain his breath.
"No hurries," Star said, still grinning as she patted his back, no longer minding his sweat. "No hurries at all."
They stood there embracing, resting in blissful silence under the afternoon sky.
Then the bicycle guy had to ruin it by riding by and laughing at them.
"Ugh, I need a shower," Marco said as they parted and he tugged on his hoodie and shirt as they stuck to his skin.
"Yeah, me too," Star said happily. She then grabbed Marco's hand and they continued walking back home.
"Hey, Marco."
"Yes, Star?"
"I love you."
"I love you too."
Star gave Marco's hand a squeeze. She felt happy as she imagined that he meant it as she meant it.
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