Marco's p.o.v.
The next few weeks went by uneventful. For the most part. Star and I fought Ludo. Again. And we won. Again. Really boring week now that I've gotten used to this.

An odd thing I have noticed though, is that seeing Jackie doesn't instantly send me butterflies. I get them when she talks to me but no longer just by seeing her face. I guess I'm getting braver too. Sweet!

Only downside of our fun adventures, is that our teacher is a troll. Since then she's been a bit harsher. I no longer get the smiley faces with my A's. So I once in a while get angry with star.

"Marco! It's not my fault!" She whines behind me as we got back to my house.

"Really? Then who turned our teacher into a troll?" I stopped and turned to look at her. The anger almost went away at her sad face. Almost.

"Me. But I didn't give you the bad grade! Ms. Skulnig (I can't spell) did!" I sigh and go up to my room.

"And why is she mad?" I hear her mumble as I slam my door.

I know it's not her fault, but I just need time to cool down. I'll apologize once I finish my homework.

~time skip cuz homework is booooooring~

As I finish my last question I hear a soft knock on the door.

"Come in." I put my stuff away and look up to see star. "Oh hey, I wan-"

"I'm sorry. I know I messed up. I mess up a lot. So, here." She hands me my quiz from that morning, but now it has sparkles and stickers and a big smiley face. "I know it's not as go-" I hug her.

"It's perfect. I'm sorry for yelling. I've just been stressed. You did nothing wrong." She smiles and hugged me back.

"So, ya wanna go make more prank calls?" She looks at me with her goofy smile. Then she pulled me along with her to her room. I laugh as I sit on her bed. "Oh wait. I got a missed call from mom. Can you wait a second?" I nod patiently. And flop down.  "Call, mom."

"Calling Tom."

"Nononononono. I seriously have to-"

"Hello? Oh, hey star." I sit up and see Tom. He seems to see me too and waves a little. "Uh, Marco right?"

"I said mom" I nod as star tries to call her mom again.

"Hey I want to-" he got cut off as the mirror steered to call queen moon.

"Hey. Star he was saying something." She just groans.

"Well how was I supposed to know? And now it's actually calling mom so we're fine." She turns back to the mirror as her mom shows up in the mirror.

"Hello star."

"Hi mom. I saw ya called so I'm calling back. I'm not in trouble right?"

"No dear, your father called cuz he was worrying. Should you be in trouble?" I hear the laser puppies running up the stairs to I casually go to her door and close it before they run in.

"No of course not! I'm being a very responsible magical princess!"

"Somehow, I find that very hard to believe, but as long as you're not making it difficult for the people you are staying with. Are you star?"

"Whaaaat? No! See, this is Marco. Marco, I'm no trouble right?" She smiles at her mom with care free ease, but turned her back and looked at me with pleading puppy eyes.

"Oh yea, life is definitely more exciting with star around. Lovely and friendly. Definitely friendly." I chuckle as she sighs. "Um, so I know she was sent to Earth for training and stuff, but still, thanks for sending her here. She's now my best friend and I couldn't ask for anyone better!" I smile and Star tackle hugs me to the ground. "Ow."

"Oh! Marco! I'm sooooo sorry!" She helps me back up and I see Queen moon smile.

"As long as you aren't causing any trouble for them, it's fine. Take care Star." And she hung up. We both let out breath we didn't realize we were holding them start to laugh.

"That was a lot more stressful than I thought it would have been."

"You obviously never met my mother. It's always like that. Constantly looking down on me waiting for my next mess up." He flopped onto her bed.

"Aaaaaanywaaaaaaay. You should probably call Tom back to see what he was saying." She groans and rolls over.

"Fiiiiiiine. Mirror! Call Tom!"

"Calling: Tom"

"Star? I thought you were calling your mom."

"I was and did. Marco convinced me to call you back. So. What did you wanna say to me?" She folds her arms and stares at her mirror.

"Actually, I was apologizing." Star drops her arms in surprise and I sit up smiling.

"See star? Good thing you called back." She pointed her wand at the mirror even though she wouldn't be able to do anything.

"You never apologize to me. What's your game tom?" He raises his hands.

"It was to Marco." She lowers the wand and looks back at me, my turn to raise my hands in surrender worried she'd point it at me. "I had taken you to the ball, and he was just worried, but I blew up at him. Both of you. So I was just apologizing." He looked down looking uncomfortable like this wasn't something he did often. "Forgive me?" Star sighs and rolls her eyes.

"Okay fine. The dance was enjoyable except for the small fact of I didn't get to dance."she pouted and glared at me.

"Hey, I apologized that already!" I stand up and look her as she laughs at me.

"I'm. Marco. Right?" I look at tom and nod. "Do you, forgive me?" He looked almost pathetic. I felt something in my chest start to ache.

"Yea. Of course. You didn't do anything wrong. I'm the one who went to the ball uninvited." I scratch the back of my neck. "So, do you forgive me too?" He smiles a little and nods. I smile back.

"Weeeell. Now that that's settled. Byetom!" She said the last bit really fast and hung up then turned on me. "What was that?"

"What was what?"

"All the blushes and shy glances." I look at her confused. "You didn't realize? Wow. I really need to fix you up"