Tom p.o.v.

Alright. So I know Marco likes being good. I just need to find out what else.

I put on some love sentence and let marshmallow out of his cage. I lay down on my bed, petting him on my chest.

"How can I find out exactly what he likes with out being weird about it? In the past I probably would have stalked him from a candy bowl." I look down at marshmallow who looks at me with his beady little shiny eyes. I smile and look around making sure no one's there. I lean up an kiss the top of his fluffy head only to jump as my door instantly swings in.

"Tom!" Star is standing in the doorway with her leg in the air then runs in.

"Star?! Hasn't anyone told you to stop kicking doors?"

"Yeeaaaa. My mom tells me that a lot, but this is important!" Marco then enters the room behind her. I stand up and put marshmallow back in his cage.

"What's up?" I look back and forth between Marco and Star.

"Well-" Marco starts but gets cut off by Star.

"You left school upset. Didn't even say hi to us. And you say 'what's. Up?'" She used air quotes and Marco face palmed. "It hurts man! It hurts! Now apologize to Marco!" She points at Marco and he raises his hands in surrender.

"Wait what? All he did was go home."

"No. No. Star is right. I should have at last said good bye to you guys huh?" I sit on my bed ten look up them. "Sorry Star for making you upset and sorry Marco for not saying bye."

"Oh. It's cool." Marco just shrugs. "I just want to know what's bothering you. You seemed really upset when you left." I shrug and lay down on my back.

"Just a lot on my mind." I feel the bed dip as someone sits next to me. "I'm just not used to being around so many people, let alone so many people purposefully pushing my buttons." I look over and see Marco leaning back, looking down at me, and Star leaning against the wall looking at me too.

"Well, you can always talk to me. And Star of course. Right Star?" He looked over at her and she just shrugged, with a small smile on her face. "And if it was Janna, just ignore her. She's.... well....."

"Janna banana!" Star outbursts while Marco is still thinking of the right word or words, causing the two of us to burst out laughing.

"Yea. Janna is Janna. Don't pay her any mind." I sit up after the laughing died down, and he put his hand on my shoulder. "But, what exactly did she do to push your buttons?" And he instantly pulled his hand back as I felt myself beating up remembering.

"Oh I don't know! Made fun of the fact I don't have any friends, that you're my only friend but that I've only been friends with you for a few days, while she and Jackie knew you since like, small! And I know I can't compare but I think after all this time of being alone I'm allowed to have at least one friend don't I?!" I take a deep breath and notice Star and Marco standing in the far corner away from me with marshmallow. Star looks upset, and Marco just has wife sad and scared eyes. I look behind me and notice my bed caught on fire while I was raging. I put it out then sit back down. "S-"

"Don't." I look up and see Marco walking closer. "You got upset. That's fine. Just, breathe with me okay? It's okay." He kneels down in front of me as I breathe slowly in time with him and look into his brown eyes. He looks so calm. Grounded. Perfect. The opposite of me. "Don't let the anger consume you. It's okay to be mad and angry, you just gotta learn not to let it control you." He smiles and I feel like all the anger is gone. So what if he's had friends longer than I've been his friend? He's choosing to be my friend, and not because I'm royalty.

"You're my friend because you want to be, right? I'm not forcing you am I?" He then starts to laugh and Star laughs too.

"Do you really think Marco and I would come out here just to make sure you're okay, if we didn't think you're our friend?" I look up at Star as she continues to laugh.

"We? I thought you hated me?" She sighs and she and Marco sit on either side of me. "You May be an annoying loud rage infested jerk, but you're not a bad person, and you're trying to be better."

Marco wraps and arm around my shoulder and places his head on my shoulder to avoid my horns. It feels really nice.

"That's all that matters. You're trying and we're here to help and support you. Any good friend would do that. So let's just go and have some fun alright? Take your mind off of them."

"Yea! Why don't we go to the bounce lounge of something?! That'd be fun!"

"Heheh. Yea totally fun. I love being shoved so close to the edge that I almost fall to my death."

It's a couple seconds of awkward silence then all three of us start laughing. This is nice. I can get used to this.

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(So you can skip this if you want, it's just a small author's note and I know most of you will skip it anyways. I hope you guys will proceed to respect my decision on how I continue to write this story. I understand that at young ages many people start swearing, and many people enjoy reading smut. The fact that they don't swear in the show means I'm not going to have them swear in my story. Also the fact that where I live the age of consent is 17, and they're 14-15 makes me very uncomfortable to read and write smut about them. I am not going to do that either. I understand that makes some people upset because this is fanfic and no one cares about canon rules, but this my decision to make because this is my story.

If I receive too many more comments of people complaining I'm not swearing or writing smut, I will just stop writing this story and delete it. I don't want to deal with immature comments disrespecting my decision.

Thank you for your time and I hope I will be able to continue my story.)