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"Man, Star. I'm sorry. I feel like I just crash landed into your life," the boy finally apologized, as they both made their way down the long spiral stairway which led to the sub-basement of Butterfly Castle.

It was a sorry excuse for an apology, to say the least. If he had simply called her beforehand, perhaps this whole debacle could have been avoided. He had ruined her date with Tom. It had taken about a week to schedule a time for it, given how busy Star was these days with her royal duties. She supposed Tom was busy as well, although she couldn't for the life of her recall an instance of him being the one to cancel plans on her. It made the princess feel allthe more guilty that she was ditching her boyfriend to just basically tour Marco around.

In fact, Marco hadn't called Star at all since he got back to Earth. Not even a thank you message for sending his hoodie back. She remembered how hard that had been; like removing the soiled bandages over a stab wound, sanitary, yes, but also really painful. Yet, in time, the wound had healed, and she had learned to accept that her best friend and herself lived different lives, in different worlds. So why on Earth or Mewni was Marco here now?

"Well, we figured it out," she replied, as nonchalantly as she could manage. She felt so irritated at her friend right now. Was she being unfair? After all, she did it to him