Ordo Noctis

Epilogue

I met Mars in front of his English classroom and we walked out to the parking lot together. Today was our last day of school, and we had three weeks off for Christmas break.

Antonio, the Romanos' personal chauffeur, was waiting for us in his black car. (I recently found out that personal chauffeurs are not something most people have. Weird.)

Mars turned to me in the backseat next to him and said, "I want to talk to you when we get home."

It took me a second to translate; I had been speaking Italian all day. "Okay," I replied. I had a feeling I knew what we were going to talk about, and I was very reluctant to start the conversation. I knew how it would go.

We sat together on a couch in the parlor after setting our backpacks down. Mrs. Romano was up in her study writing, and Mr. Romano was out on a business trip.

"So... we said we'd reconsider at Christmas break," Mars began. "And I know we've only been on Christmas break for about twenty minutes, but I don't think I can wait any longer."

I nodded, nervous. "Okay."

"You know I've dated... a lot of girls."

I winced. He had been dating a lot of girls. And I totally understood why - I mean, he wasn't exactly bad-looking. Quite the opposite, honestly. It seemed like every week he'd have a different girlfriend. It was hard for me at first. I wish I could say it got easier, watching him lead girl after girl into his room, trying not to wonder what they were doing. It definitely didn't.

And, of course, I'd been asked out a few times too. I would say yes, but we'd break up after a little while. It never felt right. It was good to get the experience though.

Mars took a deep breath. "And as much as I wanted to feel happy and satisfied, I never did. It never felt the same. Even when we, you know..."

"Yep! Got it! Thanks!" I resisted the urge to plug my ears and run away screaming.

"Yeah. I never got the same feeling as I do when I'm with you."

I looked up, surprised. This conversation was going a lot different than I thought it would.

"Star, I feel whole when I'm around you. You make me want to laugh, and cry, all at the same time. You make me feel like I'm flying. The moment we touch, I feel like nothing could ever be wrong in the world. And that day before school had started, when I said I liked you too... well, that like has grown into something stronger and stronger."

I had to fight to keep my breathing even.

"I love you, Star."

My eyes widened and I stared at him. He looked back at me, unwavering, hopeful.

"And I'm sorry if I waited too long. If I missed my chance. You can tell me that, it's okay. I can -"

I cut him off, kissing him softly. He didn't hesitate to kiss me back. When we broke apart, I felt so happy, I pressed my lips back to his. He pulled away. "Don't you think we should take it slow...?"

I'd waited long enough. "Fuck that," I mumbled, grabbing his shirt and tugging him back to me. This time he didn't pull back.

We fell backwards onto the couch, kissing back and forth. He climbed on top of me and pressed his lips to my neck. My heart was beating wildly as I frantically unbuttoned his shirt.

"Upstairs," he gasped. We scrambled up the stairs and stumbled into his room, falling onto the bed. He slammed the door behind us.

If I told you any more, you might not be able to publish the book, so I'll leave it at that.

Oh, speaking of which - Mars's comment about writing a book stuck with me. I still didn't want to spend all that time writing, though, and he said it was the storytelling I was good at anyways. The tone and the pauses and stuff. So I decided I'd just record our story and have somebody else translate it onto paper. I hope it gets published. By the time it does, of course, we'll be long gone. We have lots to do; saving the world and stuff. But rest assured that wherever we are, we're safe - and together.

Yes, i know, I robbed you. I'm sorry. I'm definitely not opposed to writing smut (if you've read my other works that's apparent lol) but for some reason Star and Mars just felt to close to my heart to end the story with it. If I get enough people begging me to I might write it (or maybe I already have and I just need a reason to publish it...) but right now I'm going to end the story here. :)

I want to say how much I really really appreciate you reading this story, it's one of my favorites I've written and I'm so happy to be able to share it with you. And I'll add that I've got quite a few other stories out as well (in a variety of different styles/genres/kinks lol) so you should definitely check those out! Even if this story wasn't your favorite there are plenty of others that are suuper different so you should go read them :)

Please remember to vote and comment, I'm so so so grateful for any feedback I get and I value each and every one of you. 

AAAAND I'm writing a sequel!!!!!! Can you tell I'm excited?? As with most of my stories I won't publish it until I'm done with it, since there is a lot of editing to do to make it all flow together, but so far it's already great (and there is a lot of cute Star-Mars fluff yaaaay). Just know that this is not the last you'll see of them!

Wow that was a really long Author's Note haha. Thanks so much for reading and I'll see you in my next story!! Love you all <3