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October 7th, Glitter Glue

It wasn't the first time Star had found Sundrop with pink and green glitter stuck in the crevices of his hands and spread across his arms. He had once claimed that he couldn't say no to the children, but now she was sure he encouraged them entirely. It wouldn't be the last time either.

She sighed as she sat beside him. He could clean himself up by himself this time. She took pity on him that last couple of times, but Star was pretty sure he didn’t really care one way or another if she did or didn’t assist him.

The only difference now was instead of mashing glue senselessly against plastic teeth, he could open his mouth and guzzle glue properly. 

They had all gotten updates, one by one. The most notable being how expressive they were. Star could open her mouth wider and stick out a new tongue at someone in annoyance if she wanted. Her optics now had expressive eyelids. The same was applied to the others. Eclipse’s glares had only increased in accuracy rather than rely on vibes only. She had accidently found him making goofy faces at a crying child until the child had calmed down, one day. It made her wonder if that was his purpose, or if he even had one. Maybe he simply existed as he pleased? Star found herself a tiny bit jealous of that.

Sunny waggled his eyebrows at her. She sent him an unimpressed look. Sundrop of all of them loved the new upgrades the best.

She was glad.

But… at the same time… Star never wanted this for them. Clearly her feelings were unimportant in the matter, and obviously she wasn’t going to mention it. She didn’t want to ruin Sun’s fun. She didn’t really know how Moondrop felt about it, but he didn’t appear to have any negative feelings about it. 

Granted, he still ran away from her whenever he could. One couldn’t measure the depth of another’s feelings if they hardly interacted.

“I think you really ought to try some.” Sun giggled as he held out to the toxic-for-humans substance. As he expected, she shook her head and looked out over the daycare.

Though it was a Wednesday, and they usually had ten or more kids right about now, the daycare was empty. 

It was odd, to feel that she missed the very creatures she despised only two years prior. Weird to think that it was roughly a year and a half ago that Sundrop declared her his “bestest best friend”. 

Sometimes, as she drifted off into a sort of sleep-like state while she charged, that audio replayed in her head before moving on to process the day.

She side-eyed Sun. He had a sort of stomach installed, like Chica did, so that he could get away with eating random things. The only mechanic left on site would have to empty it. As time progressed, less and less workers showed up at the pizza plex. Star knew for a fact that Joanna would have to be the one, and frankly, Star didn’t trust her a bit.

She took the blue glitter glue, popped off the cap, and dumped it down into her mouth. Unlike Sun, she had no throat nor stomach, as she loathed messes. She wouldn’t be allowed to accompany Sun down to Parts ‘n Service otherwise, however.

Sun balked. “Star!”

She capped the glitter glue and grinned at him. Glue dribbled down her lip. “What? I thought you wanted to share.” 

“I mean I do, but Star, that’s true, but, but-!”

She bumped her shoulder against his and laughed. “This just means we’ll have to go to Parts ‘n Service together, is all. Don’t worry so much.”

He frowned at her. “This is because of that mechanic, isn’t it?”

“What? Nooo.” She looked away. “How’d you know?”

He huffed. “You underestimate my ability to read your tells, silly Star.”

“Oh.”

He leaned his head against hers, rays retracting so she wasn’t stabbed. She couldn’t retract her own, unfortunately, but for the most part they were angled away from where their faceplates aligned. 

“There’s nothing wrong with that, of course. It’s just my super duper special secret ability.”

She chuckled. “Oh, yes, very secret.”

“Indeed!”

She fiddled with the glitter glue bottle, and swiped a bit of glue off its surface with her thumb. Glitter gleamed up at her. “I’m just not very… fond of her, is all.” She admitted. 

“Well, you don’t have to like everyone.” He hummed. “Wouldn’t be realistic to assume you could.”

“Shouldn’t I be able to, though? I mean… I dunno.”

“What?”

“The first time we met, she seemed really nice at first.” Sometimes Star wondered if she was being ridiculous. It wasn’t her face that Joanna wanted to change originally. Why was she so insulted? Was it wrong to be so offended on the behalf of her friends when she couldn’t even bring up the topic for fear that it would hurt their feelings?

“Star…”

“What?”

“It’s really okay to not like someone. It doesn’t mean they’re of less value or that you’re mean. It just means you don’t jive.”

“Jive?” She snorted. “Just where did you learn that?”

“Mikaela taught me!”

She enjoyed this. She let her head fall on his shoulder. “If your hands are clean, can you braid my hair?”

“You’d have to move first, silly Star.”

She hummed. “I don't wanna.”

“Weeell I don’t know that I can braid your hair just yet, then. I got glue up and down my arms and hands!”

She sprung off him and hurriedly swiped at her side and sweater. She did not want to deal with getting glitter glue off her white sweater. Not again. 

Sundrop chuckled as he stood. “Let’s go, let’s go. We really ought to go to Parts n’ Service first, and then I can braid your hair!”

Star went back to her closet that night without gunk clogging the inside of her mouth and mechanisms, and cute twintail braids hanging over her shoulders.