Hello Fanfiction! This is it folks the last full chapter of the Diaz Family Road Trip. I will post an epilogue vary soon (Like in one or two days) it won't be nearly as long and will after contain the whole thank-you's, last thoughts and whatnot. I'm not going to say anything about this chapter other then I think it's pretty long. Anyway I hope you enjoy this one last chapter and I will see you at the bottom!
Star fidgeted on the cherry red church pew. She wasn't bored no far from it; she was nervous, nervous because the boy she had recently developed a most irritating crush on was sat right beside her, Marco Diaz. Every second of every minute she kept pouring over what he could be thinking about and if was about her, was she breathing to loudly, was she moving around too much, did her hair look good?! It made her feel kinda bad because she really should be paying attention to the service. Although the events of last night had put a sudden urgency on her relationship with Marco and right now, in her mind at least, that was more important than paying attention to the wedding. Marco sat quietly beside her ignorant of the intense agony that Star was putting herself through and it wasn't helping either that he looked quite dashing in that suit of his, hair neatly combed and bright red bow tie placed just right.
Star of course was also dressed for the occasion in a luxurious pale blue dress fashioned in classic Mewni styling's and hair tucked into a bun resting atop her head. Star didn't know this but Marco had most certainly noticed how good the dress looked on her. In fact Marco too had begun to develop feelings for his best friend he was just better at hiding it, a lot better. Marco had always been the better of the two at hiding his true emotions, something he didn't take for granted especially now.
He did occasionally let up though and caught a glance of star fidgeting and muttering the, reason for which flew over his head, he thought she was just plain old bored. Eventually he would snap out of his trance he quickly return his attention to the ongoing wedding service. It was a perfect morning for the wedding too, a clear blue day with a few puffy clouds dotting the sky, far from the terrible rain and storms of the night previous. Now morning sunshine flooded in through the stained glass windows casting the room into a golden glow, indeed it was quite romantic.
Up at the front of the church the wedding service was nearly complete, "...I now pronounce you husband and wife! You may kiss the bride!"
The happy newlyweds kissed to the joy of the crowd who erupted into cheers and clapping but just when things were at their brightest an old nemesis decided to make an untimely entrance...
A swirling portal swooshed open at the back of the room and a hideous green little bird man crawled out, it was of course Ludo and his rag tag army of misfits. "Star Butterfly!" He squealed.
The crowd fell dead silent and everyone turned to face the back of the room.
Star's eyes nearly popped out of her head as she and Marco whirled around to see Ludo's ugly snarl. "Ludo!?" Star and Marco yelped.
"You bet it's me and mark my words I'm not leaving without that stupid wand of yours!" He taunted.
Star and Marco gave each other a knowing look. "Come on why won't you just leave us alone for goodness sake!" Marco sighed.
"I will leave... as long as she gives me the wand!" He replied pointing to Star's side where the wand was tucked away in the glittering blue dress.
"Not going to happen beak face! Come on Marco let's get this over with..." Star grabbed his hand (albeit a bit nervously) and jumped out of the pew into the main aisle where they took their classic battle stance, "Come get some Ludo!" Marco said with a smirk.
"ATTACK!" Ludo screeched and the room burst into screaming as the monsters and teens clashed.
Marco ran forward and Star followed close behind. He stopped, twirled around and gave Star a boost into the air where she fired off a magic spell, hitting the giraffe guy straight into Ludo.
Marco flew into the mix with a spin kick and knocked down a line of monsters in a single blow before moving onto the next unfortunate victim of his karate skills.
The crowds eyes became fixed upon the duo as the almost effortlessly pushed back the monster threat from the portal whence it came. Each punch and kick was perfectly placed and each spell right on time, they were like a well oiled machine with no sign of slowing. It was quite a sight behold, the two teens working in tandem.
And almost as soon as Ludo's army had entered the wedding room they were on the floor groaning as usual with Ludo himself angrily shouting at the lot of them.
"UGH YOU'RE PATHETIC! Let's just get out of here..." Ludo moaned dejectedly.
Star and Marco stood back to back in the center of the carnage, proudly gazing at another successful battle.
"Now get out of here! We've got a wedding to finish!" Star proclaimed.
A couple hours later after the dinner had been eaten, toasts had been made and Star and Marco thanked for their valiant efforts the two of them looked out over the dance floor as the after party was about to begin...
The dance floor was empty except for the newlyweds who were dancing to a soft waltz. The waltz came to a close with cheers and whistles and at that moment the room was plunged into the latest pop music and some smooth rock and everyone giddily rushed onto the dance floor and got the party started.
Star was most certainly exited, not only because of the music but because soon enough a slow dance would play and she was looking forward to dancing with a certain someone...
Unfortunately for her and her dancing plans it seemed everyone else at the wedding, e.g: random friends of friends and so on, had noticed Star and Marco's fighting skill and now they had become the stars of the wedding second only to Donato and his new wife.
"MARCO, THIS IS AWESOME!" Star yelled over the blaring music from across the room.
"WHAT STAR?!" Marco shouted back.
"I SAID THIS IS PRETTY AWESOME!"
"What is she talking about?... JUST A SECOND I'M COMING OVER TO YOU!"
"WHAT?" Star yelled.
Marco shook his head and chuckled as he began to wade through the sea of people, everyone all sweaty and gross, jumping around under the glaring multi coloured lights and clouds of fake smoke.
He pushed through the thick shifting mob, and swore he could just make out Star's dress flickering gently through the crowd. But before he could make it to her he was tugged aside into a slow dance as the music shifted pace.
"Woah!"
"Hey there so you're the Marco everyone's been talking about?" The almond eyed girl said to him in a heavy Latin accent.
"I-I mean... Yes? What just happened... and what do you mean everyone's talking about me?" He replied dumbfounded as they swayed back and forth.
The girl rolled her eyes playfully "Were dancing silly! And of course everybody's talking about you, we saw you take out those monsters earlier."
Marco took a breath to give a reply but saw Star in the corner of his eye talking to a pack of random dudes. The music came to a close, one slow dance down and two to go, or in other words two more chances to dance with Star.
"I'm sorry I have to go talk to my friend..." He said to the girl.
She sighed "I was hoping you wouldn't say that, I kinda guessed you two had a thing..."
For the first time he wasn't even annoyed at the suggestion, in fact he actually had taken a liking that sound of them together.
"You can go." She said letting his hand fall free.
Marco nodded, "Thanks." He replied with a shy smile and rushed off to catch Star before she too was snapped up by some random admirer of which she looked to have many.
Star in fact was facing the same conundrum. She had been ambushed by a pack of strange earth boys and desperately wanted to find Marco. While she balanced looking around and keeping up conversation, Marco was speed walking straight ahead in her direction in hopes of reaching her before another slow dance slid its way into the air and she was forced to dance with another guy.
Unfortunately though for the second time today an old nemesis reappeared, Ricardo. The other guys trying to win Star backed off as he approached a clear sign of his reputation and domineering attitude.
Marco groaned at his arrival, he hadn't seen him around recently and wasn't pleased to see that he still had his beady eyes set on Star. As Ricardo approached he could see Star looking around, presumably for him. It hurt! Oh it hurt; he was so so close but just a few seconds too slow.
Marco came to a stop and sighed as he watched Star cautiously take the dance with Ricardo. Grunting he made his way to the punch bar where he grabbed himself a glass of sugary relief. Marco took a swig of the sparkling red drink and watched Star and Ricardo grumpily from the side of the dance floor as the second slow song began to play.
Star did not look too impressed with the situation either, a slightly irritated expression rested on her face until Ricardo looked at her. When that happened she gave him an obviously forced smile, well, obvious to Marco at least. He had come to know her well enough to tell with ease whether she was faking emotions or being genuine.
"Eh kid you ok?" An older boy asked.
He was a fare bit taller than Marco and was relatively lanky; he had to be at least 18 years old. On top his head lay a brown mop of hair that framed his face well alongside a scruffy "almost a man but still not quite yet" beard.
Marco looked over to the boy and decided to trust him just for the heck of it, after all what did he have to lose?
"Not really, you see I'm trying to dance with that blonde girl over there but everything keeps getting in the way!" Marco replied lazily.
The boy nodded "Hey aren't you and her the ones that fought those crazy monsters?"
"Yeah" Marco said taking another sip of his drink.
"Don't worry my man I got you, names Nathan by the way." He said before going off to talk to the Dj.
"Alright..." Marco sighed again; he didn't see how this Nathan guy could help him get a dance. Marco watched him whisper something into the Dj's ear and point to him and then Star; the Dj chuckled and gave Nathan a wink.
Then after the slow dance had come to an end the Dj made an announcement, "Alright folks we got a request from a resident Nathan for a Swing'N'Swap dance, should be fun!"
The crowd cheered for a bit before a bouncy swinging rock song blasted out of the speakers and everyone started to dance. Marco had no idea what was going on, the heck was a Swing'N'Swap dance?
Suddenly from be hide, Marco was pushed into the crowd of dancers (hint: it was Nathan) where he was swept up into a dance by some random girl.
"Ahhh! What is going on!?" Marco asked frantically.
"I think you'll catch on soon enough." She said with a wink and passed him onto another person.
"Woah. Oh hey Sofia." He said as they danced.
"Hey Marco! I'm guessing you want to get to Star?" She said with a smirk.
Marco grinned "Actually I'll have you know I do!"
"My little cousin Marco finally noticed his feelings? Adorable!" She teased.
"Shut up you." Marco replied playfully, "Just get me to Star ok!"
"Alright alright, here you go!" Sofia passed him onto another girl now he just had to make his way over to Star...
The first girl was right Marco was getting the hang of it, swinging from girl to girl to guy, it was actually a lot of fun! By the time Star was is sight Marco had a massive smile on his face and from where he was Star looked like she was having a blast too, and this was real emotions none of the fake stuff from before!
Suddenly Marco was spun around expecting another random dance partner on his way to find Star but as luck had it instead he came face to face with the one he was looking for. Marco was stunned, he was sure the multicoloured lights shining upon Star's dress were play tricks on his eyes. Star was stopped in her tracks as well; Marco look absolutely dapper, to her handsome was quite an understatement. After a while of awkwardly staring at each other Marco snapped back into reality,
"Star! I've been searching like forever for you!" He exclaimed, the words tumbling out of his mouth a bit too fast.
Star giggled, "I was searching for you!"
Marco laughed "We're pretty bad at finding each other then..."
The Dj caught a glance of them and immediately changed the music to a smooth slow dance, "Alright were bringing down now, so grab yourself a partner!"
Everyone seemed a bit confused as to why he cut the music off right in the middle but Marco knew exactly what was going on, he reminded himself to give a huge thanks to Nathan later...
Marco blushed slightly as he popped the question "Sooo... uh do you want to, you know?"
"YES! ...I-I mean yea sure..." Star replied hastily.
Marco grasped Star's hand and the assumed the waltz position. They slowly began to turn to the groove of the music. At first they were stiff as boards, not wanting to come an inch closer to each other as they were both terribly nervous.
But as the song progressed they loosened up a bit, and soon enough Marco's slick dance moves from the bloodmoon ball and night previous came out. The two were twirling and swirling, both moving in harmony with one another. The song began to pick up and their dance followed suit. It became filled with fancy frills and spin moves, Star even got air a couple times.
Time felt like it was slowing down, as they spun the lights seemed to blend together and nearly come to a stop. Star's dress shimmered iridescently in the light, and when she looked up at Marco his soft brown eyes sparkled with a kaleidoscope colour. For a second the world froze and Star and Marco stared into each other's eyes, giddy smiles plastered on their faces.
They were having the time of their lives, both completely entranced with each other. The eternity could not last forever though as the song finally faded away to a close and they parted.
And to the two teen's surprise the crowd had formed a circle around them and had watched the whole spectacle unfold. Now almost everybody was cheering and clapping, although a few of Star's admires were sulking by the sideline and Ricardo looked like he was about to explode at any moment.
Star and Marco's faces lit up into deep red colour. Star grabbed Marco's hand and held it high into the air, "Follow my lead." She whispered to him.
The two teens bowed to the crowd and the Dj put on another song, "Alright everybody let's get right back into the dancing!"
A wave of people filled the floor, Star gripped tight onto to Marcos hand in fear of losing him in the torrent of party-goers. Marco tugged on Star to get her attention, "Hey let's get outa here."
"Yea I think I've had enough dancing for one night!" Star exclaimed.
They steadily navigated their way past the punch table and towards the exit, but not before Ricardo could confront Marco...
"Marco!" He snarled.
Marco gulped "Yes Ricardo?"
Ricardo stomped his way over to them with deadly glare on his face. He stopped before them and took a deep breath, "I have never lost to anyone in my life you hear me!... but I guess that's going to change."
Marco stared blankly at his rival in pure shock.
"Look I know when I've been beat and I'm not going to deny it... mark my words though this is the only time you win!"
Marco pumped his fist into the air, "Yes! I won! I beat Ricardo at his own game!"
"Yeah yeah don't get to excited though; there are plenty of other things I can beat you at!" Ricardo said not to be outdone by Marco's cheering.
"What are you guys talking about?" Star asked innocently.
The two boys froze turned a many shades of pink. Ricardo in response slowly backed away into the crowd.
"I'll uh... tell you all about it later." Marco said with a nervous chuckle, "Now come on let's go! This loud music is starting to get on my nerves..."
They headed out, leaving the stuffy confines of the building and stepped into the cool night air. It was a beautiful clear night; the grass swayed in the chilly breeze and up above was a vast expanse of glittering stars. The sound of crickets and shifting leaves could be heard clearer as they walked away from the church and out into nature.
They eventually found themselves alone not too far from the building up on grassy hilltop. They sat down and looked out across the landscape's starry backdrop.
Star sighed, "It's nice and quiet out here..."
Marco nodded, "Yeah it's good to get away from all the people and noise."
Star chuckled, "Thanks for the awesome dance by the way."
Marco looked away nervously, "Don't mention it."
A still silence fell over them leaving only the night's soundtrack. After some time Star inched a bit closer to Marco.
"Hey Marco..." She began.
"Yea." He responded without shifting his gaze from the starry sky.
"I-I have to uh, tell you something..." She said nervously.
Marco began to clue in and turned slightly pink, "What w-would that be?"
Star moved a bit closer, "These l-last few d-d-days I have started t-t-to feel a bit different." She stuttered, glancing away from Marco.
Marco moved in even closer and now the two were almost touching. Star brushed her hair nervously and began to chew on her wand. Marco with reddened cheeks began to grin...
"Marco I-I think I'm in love with y- mfff!" That was all the confirmation Marco needed as he put an end to Star's rambling with a kiss on the lips.
Star melted into it and wrapped her arms around his neck. The kiss wasn't perfect; in all honesty it wasn't even a very good kiss as they had little experience with the subject but it sure felt perfect.
Their lips parted and Star opened her eyes to see Marco's goofy smile. Star giggled and shoved him onto his back, "You've got nerve you know that!"
Marco laughed, "I know I know."
Star flopped down beside him. "So does this mean..."
Marco grasped her hand, "I think you already know the answer to your question."
They laid there on the grassy hill for a while after, they talked with each other like old times, enjoying the company. It was as if nothing had changed but yet everything was different. It was an odd feeling to say the least.
Marco helped Star up and they began to walk hand in hand back to the church with plans of breaking the not so surprising news. As the traveled Star spoke up, "Uhh Marco I've got a question."
"Hmmm?"
"What was the thing you were talking about with Ricardo?" She said with a grin. Star in fact had already clued in to what they had been talking about earlier but took pleasure in teasing Marco. Especially now since they were a couple.
Marco swallowed hard "I uhhh, well you see..."
Boom! That was it everyone that was the last full chapter! I hope you all enjoyed and liked the extra starco-y goodness! The epilogue should be up soon see you guys there!
Also Re- Anonymous: None taken, I just don't listen to the radio vary often and if I do it's on a classic rock station so I guess you could say I'm kinda out of the loop that way. :/
