A/N: I will feast on your tears, infidels.

Disclaimer: I don't own Star vs. The Forces of Evil or the cover for this story. I do own the plot.


jolleIQ's Collection of Sad And Tragic SVTFOE Stories

Story I:

One Goodbye, No Regrets

Marco stared at Star blankly, unsure whether he'd heard correctly or if she was toying with him. Yet her expression was stone cold, serious, showing no signs of such a deception.

"Can... Can you repeat that?" he stammered, "Because it sounded to me like you just said that you're not coming back Earth with me."

He swallowed audibly. The silence, her reluctance to answer as she looked off to the side wistfully, was killing him; and her next words buried him.

"You heard right. I'm not coming back to Earth with you, Marco. I can't."

"W-what?" Marco stuttered, his tone betraying his utter confusion and a sense of sudden dread caused by her words. "Of course you can! Toffee's defeated, so there's no more danger for anyone on Earth! You can-"

"I can't." Star cut him off and turned her back toward him. A silence settled between the two, which the princess soon broke with a low murmur, her voice filled with shame, "I'm a selfish girl, Marco."

"What?"

"I..." Star fell silent and looked off to the side once more. A bitter chuckle escaped her lips. "I'm a selfish and horrible girl, who can't even be happy for her best friend." She turned to face him, her expression cold and sorrowful, and she was clearly fighting back tears. "This, what we have, it isn't enough. Not anymore. And it will never be enough."

Marco stared at the floor awkwardly, fully understanding the meaning of those heavy words, and scratched the back of his head with the palm of his right hand, then said, "I'm... Sure we can work something out. We-"

"No. We can't." She cut him off, her voice cold, distant and blunt. Marco didn't know how to respond or what to say. The princess looked at the floor, her blonde bangs covering her beautiful blue eyes. "Marco," She muttered, "When I said I had a crush on you... I lied."

"What?" He demanded, raising an eyebrow. What in blazes name was that supposed to mean? "Then what's the problem of just coming back to Earth and-"

This time it wasn't her words that cut his sentence short, but it was her teary eyes as she looked at him with a face filled with so much pain that it froze his very soul to the core, nearly shattering it. Her next words did what the latter could not accomplish. "Because... I... I've fallen in love with you, and it hurts..." she sobbed and tugged the spot on her chest where her heart was with one hand whilst letting the tears flow freely down her cheeks.

"No matter how hard I try, I can't stop it, and I hate what it's doing to me!" She was becoming hysterical, but he failed to cut her off in time, "I want to be happy for you; just let you enjoy your relationship, but I can't!" She hugged herself and she tried sobbing away the pain, without success. "Whenever I see you together with her, I keep getting these horrible thoughts of hurting her; Of hurting you! But I don't want to hurt either of you! And it's killing me!"

She was lost, confused, scared. She needed guidance, and honestly, he couldn't stand seeing her in such a pathetic state.

What to say? What to do? He was just as lost as her.

"You have to leave," she said, suddenly, her voice still so cold and so distant, like a mourning parent watching their child's coffin being sunk into the grave. "Leave, Marco. Just go back to Earth and forget about me. Please."

"Star-" Marco tried reaching out to her, but she wouldn't allow him to. Instead, she violently shook off the comforting hand he'd placed on her shoulder and jumped back.

"No!" She shrieked. "This is not up for debate, Marco!" He saw how angry her eyes were, an anger directed at both him and herself. "I'm not allowing you to stay close to a monster like me! A monster who can't even be happy for her best friend; a monster who would hurt him!"

"I'm not going anywhere!" his response was instant and decisive. He would make her see reason. "Star, I'm your best friend. Whether you like it or not, I'm not going anywhere until we resolve this issue."

The look she gave him upon hearing that was a mixture of confusion and frustration. Try as she may, he would not back down.

Seemingly aware of his decision, Star took up her wand and aimed it at a startled Marco.

"Pink Bubbly Prison!" she shouted. The wand fired a beam at him which encased him in a giant pink bubble that soon floated off the ground. He looked at her in utter confusion, only to see her glaring at him, eyes still filled with tears.

Her next words set off an alarm inside his mind. "Fine! If you're not going back yourself, then I'm sending you back!"

Before he could protest, she reached into her pocket and took out-

"My scissors!" Marco exclaimed in panic as he frantically reached into every pocket he had, only to find them all empty, apart from a scrap of paper that he promptly there out. When in the world has she managed to nick those off him!?

She cut open a portal with said scissors, then threw her wand to the ground. What was she-

On no...

"Star! Stop this!" He pleaded, desperately, realising that this was his last and only chance to get through to her. He tried escaping his magical prison, punching and kicking it with full force, but it was just too durable.

He stopped his folly actions and watched in horror as the princess gripped both ends of his scissors tightly, then broke them in half and threw the two pieces onto the ground. She was trying to ensure he had no means of returning, ever.

She looked at him once more, her gaze cold, distant, hurt.

"Goodbye, Marco," she said swiftly, her words just barely loud enough for him to hear. She then kicked the bubble towards the portal; no hesitation.

"Sta-" his cry was cut short as he fell into the portal, which promptly closed, dismissing him from Mewni and from her. For good.

As the portal closed shut, Star fell onto her knees and gazed at the ground. She stared at it, blankly, unmoving for several minutes, feeling neither the gentle breeze of the wind nor the rustling of the threes, whose leaves said wind sent gently drifting across the skyline.

She didn't cry.

What was there to cry about, after all?

No regrets, she mulled as she opened her eyes and stood up.

Star looked up at the clear sky and smiled softly whilst closing her eyes and feeling the warmth of the sun's rays, soaking them in, allowing her soul some respite.

The princess picked up her wand and made her way back to the castle, never so much as glancing backwards a single time. As long as she still breathed with a smile on her bleak face, she would continue to fight the forces of evil.

Alone.

FIN


End notes: *drinks tears* K, bye.