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I had a few troubles with these chapters, so I decided to post-pone until they were completely ready so now you have EABOMB RIGHT BEFORE STARBOMB.

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You know nothing, Jon Snow.

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Chapter 10: After Confession

It felt like he was the last man on Earth. No scratch that, he felt the only man in the universe. Really, Marco felt that way in every part of his own being, like the whole universe disappeared and there was just him… and her.

Always her.

He didn't have a first though, but that was because the information itself was so heavy, deep and important that there was no space in his mind to get any thoughts about it, only to keep thinking at the words and his best friend in front of him.

"I love you, Marco."

Those words were so simple, but also too much complicated for his mind get to any conclusion from it on the first moment; he just stood there, looking at Star with a blank face and trying to make his brain go back to work so he could dissolve it all.

And Star? She was freaking out.

She broke him, didn't she? Normally in a situation like this he would laugh and say something like "I love you too, bestie", but now? He was there like he was one of his games and it was loading the saved data. And for heavens it was taking so long and it was so slow! Her heart was racing like a train with no breaks and his silence definitely didn't help at all. She confessed without thinking!

This was not how she thought it would happen after Ponyhead and Angie convinced her to tell the truth.

"Star you must tell him!" Ponyhead exclaimed from the mirror.

The princess went back there frowning. "No, I don't have to." She took off her dress to put the other one since she already took a bath.

"Then what?" Her friend snapped. "You'll live the rest of your life wondering how he is, if he felt the same, what would have been his answer?"

"Things changed, Ponyhead." Star said, pulling the dress up on her shoulders. "I won't get Marco along this war menace we have on Mewni."

"He should be the one to decide either to get into it or not."

"I'm the princess, it's up to me."

"He loves you, Star!"

"He has a girlfriend. Marco doesn't love me in that way."

"If I know my son, I say he may do."

Star looked behind her and blushed when she saw Mrs. Diaz closing the door and walking in her direction. "Mama Diaz!"

"I know, Star." The woman said with a reassuring smile, turning her around to help her to close the dress "I have always known. I also know you and Marco had that fight because one of you did something regarding this matter."

Star pouted and looked away "How everyone knows my secrets?"

The woman smiled, adjusting the princess dress. "You two are too transparent and oblivious, dear."

"You should get prepared in these situations when you get the Crown." Ponyhead observed. "Hello, Mrs. Diaz, by the way."

"Oh, my apologies!" Mrs. Diaz said bowing slightly to the princess in the reflection "It's my pleasure to see you, Flying Princess Ponyhead."

The other rolled her eyes "No need for formalities."

Mrs. Diaz turned to Star again, looking up and down her dress to see if there were any imperfections; after that, she took a chair and gestured to the princess sit down, grabbed a brush to make up her hair.

Star tried to object "You don't have to…"

"I want to." Mama Diaz replied brushing the blond strands. "This may be the last time I'll ever do the hair of a girl." Star nodded, agreeing to the wish of the woman. "I agree with your friend, you should tell Marco."

She sighed. "And say what? That I love him like I never did before, that I'll leave to never come back and he won't even know or the part that there may be a war in Mewni soon?"

"Everything" The woman replied. "Marco deserves to know it all just as the rest of us."

"See?!" Ponyhead exclaimed from the mirror. "Star this may be the one and last time you have with him… Wouldn't be better to have everything clear?"

"I want to tell him I'm leaving… But I can't say anything else." Star sighed while her eyes went to the floor without moving her head.

"Star…" Mama Diaz stopped brushing her hair to hold her shoulders while looking at her eyes in the mirror's reflection "I raised no fool. Marco loves you, but only he can say if he'll let himself go or choose to be safe."

"But…"

"B-fly" Ponyhead called her. "You never know what may come of it. Marco may be the answer to the treat, and you may be happy either he agrees or not, if he loves you or not. You'll have answers instead of wonders."

Star looked to both women, then at the ground as Mrs. Diaz went back into brushing her hair. She didn't want to admit, but they were right. She could at least try… Even if she was about to mess up, Marco would forget her anyway; he would forget the confession and go on with his life just as she would do. It couldn't hurt and it couldn't be so bad.

Both women smiled when Star gave a sigh and said her final decision "Ok. I'll do it."

This was definitely not part of the plan! This was not how she thought it would go! She was sure if anyone got into her mind, her little Star mind-insiders would be running everywhere, all the alarms buzzing, papers flying, screams, fire on the walls and someone screaming at the speakers "May day! May day! She just confessed! I repeat! She just confessed! This is not a drill! Repeat: This is not a drill! Everyone get desperate and be ready to bury yourselves in shame and embarrassment!"

Even if in the outside, all Star did was smile like a nervous fool that didn't know any other face to make to pretend she wasn't internally screaming.

She just told Marco she was in love with him! There was no way she could make out of that! Star had told him she loved him before, but all those times it was like a brother or best friend. Love in the way she said meant a whole new thing that she surely wasn't ready to face the consequences of this! If she was ready, her mind wouldn't have all these thoughts per minute and she would know what to do by the fact he gone silent…

The silent like " stopped working, please reinstall the software."

"Ha ha…" She tried to laugh it off, but she got no response from him. "I mean… I… We… You…" How you make the words out to make a phrase and speak again? "I… Really do."

Oh well, what it's done it's done. So just jump on it, right?

"I don't know when or why, all I know is that I have these feelings for you and I like them. I like to feel secure and safe, but also into adventures and fun things. And I know I shouldn't have because we're besties and that's all, I know but I can't help it! You're my best friend, but also so much more…"

She was rambling. Like a lot, but she couldn't stop anymore, her pacing from one side to another begun and, could a crazy guy summon a meteor to fall on her and save from this embarrassing moment?!

Wait, that was Marco's game story, nevermind.

Star didn't even know what was getting out of her mouth; she just kept it on and on, getting everything out her system. All the times she felt like getting him to herself, to kiss him, to be the one in his heart.

"I didn't plan this!" She said at some point. "This is not supposed to be how I told you this or the other thing, but it slipped ok? I just needed to tell you, but it doesn't mean you have to be with me or anything, even because…"

"Star?"

She looked up at him; he finally found his voice, his mind working again. He didn't listen anything she said after her confession, but he could tell she was freaking out. Her hair looked like it never have been up minutes ago on how much she was moving it and pulling on her fingers, even so she looked beautiful.

He wished things were simple as that. Her statement was something serious and a lot more complicated on both of them.

"Yes?" She hesitantly replied.

"I am with Jackie." His voice wavered and died out while to reassuring her that fact.

His stomach hurt like a troll had punched it when he saw her shoulders flopping down and her eyes averted from his, her hands holding the Wand tightly close to her chest.

"I know that…" She nodded. "I know, but…"

"But what?" Marco asked annoyed.

"I needed to tell you this because I wouldn't have another chance and I wouldn't be able to move on without knowing your answer."

"My answer?" He inquired raising his eyebrows annoyed, "What kind of answer you were expecting?!"

"I don't know, ok? I just needed one!"

"What do you expect me to answer?!" Marco replied raising his voice "Do you expect me to break up her or something like that? This isn't a movie, Star!"

She raised her voice just the same amount as him. "No! I didn't expect anything from you! I didn't even plan on saying all this!"

"Is this why you were acting weird these weeks?"

Star put a strand of hair behind her ear. "Kinda. It's way more than this…"

Marco let an annoyed laugh escape his lips "So you have been lying this whole time; Kingdom issues, princess duties and pheromones? Why all that?"

"There were no lies!" Star snapped "Mewni has a situation there and I am the only one able to solve it; I have duties to accomplish and then I found out these feelings for you and it didn't helped anything!"

Marco pointed to himself as he raised his voice again "So now it's my fault? I tried to talk about it with you! You were the one always running away from this, you never told me anything and now you expect me to be fine with it?"

"I was the one always running away?!" Star said in disbelief "Ok, so let's talk about when you avoided talking about the times you wanted to kiss me."

He frowned at her "We talked about this already."

"You talked!" She replied "I tried to listen and understand, but I can't!"

Why was all of this happening? This isn't how she figured out to be, she never fought it would happen like this. At the best scenario, she thought he would talk to Jackie and maybe (just maybe) he would be with her. Jackie even said she would be ok as long they talked it out with her, that the final choice was Marco.

And it was true. It was on Marco's hands if he would keep it up with Jackie or try it out with her… It always has been.

On the worst scenario, they would be awkward and Marco would still be with Jackie, a bit more distant, but still friends. After a time it would be fine again, she would be able to move on and so would he; they would still being best friend for life…

But now everything was a mess. Things were falling into an abyss, a black hole that led to a void that there was no taking back. They were hurting each other with everything they were saying; she knew that, she felt it hurting on her skin and heart.

But even so they couldn't stop it.

"You were the one that begun this mess when you asked me to kiss you!" Marco exclaimed.

"I ever said anything like that!"

"You did!" Marco exclaimed pointing at her. "On the first time it happened, you said it was pheromones and now you say it's my fault!"

"Because I thought 'this is a pheromone thing, it's fine', but then you said you wanted to kiss me. The pheromones wouldn't allow you to think about it, only to react! It changed everything because if you thought that it's because you feel it too, even if just a little!"

She was nearly screaming at him. Something inside her was twisting, pushing into this situation, but also telling her to stop. They were wrecking each other right now; she could feel they would break into something and destroy it completely. It could be their friendship, their love.

It could be her.

"Why do I have to feel anything?!" Marco screamed back at her "Because of a prophecy? A Moon thing? I'm not obligated! You're from another dimension why do you think this would even be possible?!"

Her chest felt heavy suddenly, stinging coldly through her whole body. There was no shield for her and no way to get prepared to what is was coming. It was scary and she knew it would hurt.

And again, there was nothing she could do about it.

"You're a freaking magical princess while I'm just a Earth boy!" Marco kept screaming. "There's no way this is going to work, this can't even happen! You should go back to your castle and magical kingdom while I stay here as it should be. I have to stay where I belong and you should go back to where you always had belonged!" He shouted back.

Marco was looking at the ground between them, so he didn't see her taking steps back to get a safe distance from him; like she could escape the pain his words were causing her. Star couldn't feel or see it too; the hearts on her cheeks losing their colors, fading until they were a light shade of gray. Like a ghost of what it once was.

"Maybe it's better to everyone, maybe you shouldn't have come to Earth at all!"

There is was. The something the train would hit and destroy to pieces; with no way to return to what it once was. And she was right…

She was the one breaking.

A hand cupped her lips, trying to keep the sobs to herself together with a scream of the suddenly unbearable pain she felt smashing her being. She was hurt enough, this humiliation wasn't needed, those words weren't needed. It hurt all at once, the pain, the agony, the humiliation, the fight, the words, the rejection…

And suddenly, as fast, hurtful and painful as it had been, it was gone.

Star couldn't feel anything more. No agony, no pain, no hurts, no sounds, no cold, no air, nothing. Everything had been taken away as if the pain was so great that she stopped feeling it in order to survive that. She couldn't hear anything, but an empty hum through her ears and the slow beats of her own heart. Everything was a blur of black and white for a moment, silence and void was all she could feel for that moment.

She blinked a few times and everything was normal again; well, almost. The princess could hear her surroundings again, the colors had come back and so did her perfect vision; but she still couldn't feel anything. Star looked at the Wand on her hands, white knuckles from the force she held the Wand like it would be the one thing to save her.

Then she realized it was her escape boat, she could use to go away from there.

Falling for him was sweet and wonderful, but now she had hit the ground and it broke her. It hurt so much… It was enough. Star wanted to wake up, she wanted to take it back, she wanted to get away from him…

Star wanted to go home.

"Marco…" She called without looking at him.

Whatever it happened while she had that little breakdown, it calmed Marco. Star noticed she could hear again; he was rambling something, but the princess couldn't comprehend. Once she had said his name, he got silent to hear what she was about to say.

"I'm leaving."

He sighed, clearly exhausted from the heated fight they just had. Marco scratched his neck and looked at the sky. "Ok. Maybe it's better for us to chill out and talk later"

"No."

She gave her back to him, extending the Wand ahead of her, the wind waved through the blond strands and dress-skirt gracefully; the portal ahead of her glowed and obligated him to close his eyes briefly because of the light.

Star took a last glance at him, head up, a tear escaping without her noticing. His eyes widened and the look he gave her it was like he was in pain by her miserable state, eyes pitiful for her. She didn't needed that look either. She was tired from all the drama, angst, tears and pain from those weeks.

Suddenly her cheeks went numb, but she couldn't care less.

"Goodbye, Marco."

Thus, without any further ado, she got into the portal and went home.

Calm Down, the next chapter will be arriving in one hour or so lol

Trust me, I'm sorry I have to hurt these kids too, but they need to grow by their mistakes... see you soon!