Star knocked on the Diaz front door, for some reason she had ended up outside the house.
"Come on!" She knocked again. "Hurry up. Oh wait, this is my house." She opened the door and strutted in to Marco and Jana sat on the couch.
"Star?" Marco just about fell out of his chair. Jana gave a nod of acknowledgement. "Wow Star. You're here!" Marco threw her into a bear hug. "Wait, why are you here? And where's Tom?"
"We need to talk." Star grabbed Marco's hoodie sleeve and dragged him into the kitchen.
"What? What is it?"
"Why is Jana here?"
"I invited her, I have a life outside of you."
"Really?"
"No. I invited her here for Tom." Marco lowered his voice. "He kinda has a thing for her. I figured she might find him as cool as I do."
"You find Tom cool?"
"I never said that."
"Yes you di..."
"No I didn't, you've lost ability to hear properly after drowning out your mum for a few days. So where is Tom?"
"He's hiding from Jana in the castle."
"You left him...in the same building as your mother...alone."
"Yep."
"Why is he hiding from Jana? I thought he liked her."
"He does, I mean, he doesn't like-like her but I assume he like-normal-like-likes her."
"You've lost me."
"He doesn't like-like Jana. He like-likes you...tube documentaries on dogs that sound like humans."
"What? You know what, never mind. I don't want to know. But I can't kick Jana out now, she's a guest."
"Marco, the longer Jana is here, the longer I'm here, the longer I'm here, the longer Tom's not here, the longer Tom's not here, the closer he is to being executed by my Mom. So you better walk in that living room and..."
"Wait." Marco interrupted."
"What?" Star snapped.
"We left Jana, in a room with most of our precious items, alone."
There was a realisation moment between the two of them, then they kept falling over each other in an attempt to get to Jana Who, at the time, was calculating if it were possible to fit all of Marco's karate certificates in her hat at once then sneak out unnoticed.
"JANA!" Marco shouted running into the room and falling over only to have Star fall over and land on top of him.
"Yeesh, freak show. Get a room you two." Jana said casually, Star and Marco just looked at her blankly. "What. I didn't steal anything." She said flatly.
I just got out of the shower (TMI I know) but I'm really tired so I probably won't write much tonight. Let's see if we can get Mistletoe to 1k reads by next Sunday. Cat out.
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Mistletoe (kidnapped sequel.)
Hayran KurguMarco has big plans for Star's first Christmas on Earth which include parties, presents and staying as far away from Tom as possible. But Star has other ideas.