No One's P.O.V

The chosen meet-up destination was in front of a restaurant in Canterlot. Everypony in the friend group informed an invited.

"Do you know who's coming?" Kat asked Bella, pulling out a chair for herself.

"The only pony I couldn't get in contact with was Abohaty, but for the most part everypony said they were gonna show," Bella answered.

"Even Kelsey?"

"Yes, Kelsey has a wheelchair now." Bella looked over Kat's head to see Grammar and Celia helping Kelsey roll around in the wheelchair. "Oh, there she is right there!" Kat turned her head around to see the three friends walking together.

"HI!!" Grammar shouted from a distance. Bella waved back at him as the friends approached closer. "Are we early?"

"Don't worry, you guys are just in time. I'm sure everypony else is on their way," Bella answered. She looked over at Celia and Kelsey and smiled slightly. "Glad you mares could make it!" Celia nodded awkwardly. "Well...um, while we wait for everypony else, I'm going to buy us all some coffee."

"I don't like coffee," Grammar admitted.

"Okay, well, what do you want?"

"I want a chocolate milkshake." You could hear Kat groan in the background.

"Grammar, it's ten in the morning," Bella reminded him.

"Whatever, Julie will buy me one."

"Who's Julie?"

"My marefriend. You wouldn't understand because you don't have a..." Grammar caught himself before finishing his sentence. He realized it was the wrong time to make such jokes like that, especially in front of a mare he barely even knew. "I'm gonna take a walk." Grammar let go of Kelsey's chair and started to walk in the opposite direction. Bella was left flabbergasted. Celia looked both ways trying to figure out what to say but only ended up stuttering.

"I-I am so sorry Bella, I don't know why he said that, I-" Bella closed her eyes and smiled, trying to hide her anger.

"It's okay. I'm fine."

"I told you this was a bad idea," Kat muttered. "Not even half of them are here yet and somepony already started something. Why was he even invited, he did nothing the entire time he was at Springfields!"

"Kat..." Kelsey said. "I mean, he still helped out!"

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, but what did he have to go through? We came here to talk about healing. What does he need to heal from? Stupidity?!"

"Here comes Bookworm!" Bella called. She thanked Bookworm in her head for coming because already, something happened and they needed a distraction.

"Hi," she greeted. She looked around to see who was already there. "Oh, I'm late."

"No not really, we're still waiting on some ponies," Bella assured. Bookworm took a seat next to Kat and opened her book without another word.

"So who are we still waiting for?" Celia asked the blue mare.

"Written Script, Gabe and Glitz," Bella answered. "I don't know why Glitz didn't just come with his brother."

"Well Grammar was with me in Ponyville when you called so..." Kelsey answered.

"What about Abohaty?" Bookworm asked.

"Couldn't get a hold of her, plus she's probably still grieving," Bella responded. She looked both ways to see if anypony else was coming, but the streets were practically empty. "Well, while we wait for those three, what kind of coffee would you guys like?"

Grammar hadn't walked around, he just went straight back to his house where Glitz was seated on the couch, flicking through channels on the television in front of him. Grammar raised a brow.

"Uh...shouldn't you be with everypony else-"

"I changed my mind." That was all he said. Grammar closed the front door slowly and walked over to the couch. "And you...?"

"Oh no, I just...messed up."

"What do you mean?"

"I said something without thinking and...it was sort of about Bella's coltfriend and his death..." Glitz paused the television and slowly looked over at his brother.

"You didn't..."

"I did...well actually I caught myself but I said enough for them to put it together..." Glitz continued to give his brother a blank stare wondering how he thought that was okay to say anytime.

"Did you at least apologize?!" Grammar tilted his head up to think.

"...No?" Glitz turned off the television.

"Come on, we're going up there so you can apologize. You don't just say those things Grammar."

The brothers had arrived once Gabe sat down in his seat. Everypony turned their heads to stare at them.

"Hey, Glitz!" Greeted Celia. Glitz nudged his brother harshly. Grammar took a step forward and looked Bella directly into her green eyes.

"Bella, I am dearly sorry about the immature comment I made to you earlier. It was inconsiderate of me to say something like that and I should think before I speak next time."

"Or just don't think at all," Kat muttered. Bella sighed and shook her head.

"Grammar, it's okay. At least it came from you and not somepony else because I know you wouldn't mean that intentionally, but you have to be careful of the things you say. You don't wanna mess with the wrong pony." Grammar nodded and quickly turned back around to head back home until his brother's hoof got in his path.

"Why don't we just stay since we're here now?" Grammar turned back around and followed his brother to the open seats left.

"Okay," Bella said, looking around. "I think that's everypony who said they'd come! How are we feeling?!" Grammar raised his hoof.

"It's extremely weird that you're the most excited one out of all of- OW!!" Grammar took his left hoof off the glass table. His brother had hit it. "What was that for?!"

"Just please stop talking."

"Well Grammar, to answer your question, I'm not excited. It's called, hiding your emotions. And I am trying to be strong for everypony here." Kelsey raised her hoof slowly.

"I feel...better." Bella smiled. "Like not just physically, but mentally too. It just feels nice to talk things out instead of keeping it all in my head and avoiding everything. It just causes me to overthink things more. But when you talk it out, everything just clears up and you have no more worries." Bella nodded.

"I like that Kelsey. Anypony else?" She looked around again for any more raised hoofs, but everypony seemed to be quite dead. "Okay, then I'll go." Bella looked over at Written Script. "Well, I still feel upset for sure, I felt pretty connected with my coltfriend, but I haven't been completely honest with you all. We...had problems. We were separated for a while and then he came back and I wanted to try to spend more time with him because that's what our relationship lacked. We hardly spent time with one another like we used to. So when I heard that he wanted to help search for Abohaty, I flipped out completely because, during my years living in Springfields, Queen Amirah was all I ever heard about. Anypony who lives there could tell you an accurate description of who she was at the time. So of course, I was scared for him because I didn't think he was ready for that type of battle, but he insisted he'd be okay and I believed him. So when I found out he died, I didn't know what to do and I started shouting a bunch of things I regret saying. I know deep down inside your ponies would've helped if you could've. Regardless if we weren't that close, to begin with."

Written Script looked over at Gabe wondering if she should respond or not. She definitely didn't want to say anything because it could lead to her accidentally telling Bella what Zephyr had told her when they were flying with one another in the sky, moments before he died. No one knew, not even Gabe because she knew Gabe would recommend that she knows. If she wanted to talk about it, it was too late now because Bookworm spoke up.

"I just wanted to say that I am also sorry," the blue mare commented, closing her book. "As smart as I am, I should've known none of this was her fault. She's not here right now, but I still wanted to speak on it. I feel like as her friend I probably came off as pretty judgmental. And after helping her run her kingdom, I realized that the ponies running it was the real problem. And this whole time, I thought that's what Abohaty had been doing, but no she has several ponies taking control, but not one of them knows what they're doing. But maybe I would've understood if I had just given her a chance. I don't think that I gave myself a chance to know her and what she's been through, and why she's never here." Bella nodded and looked around the table once again, and then at her friend.

"Kat, is there something you'd like to say?" The white mare scoffed and put down her coffee.

"Well, I have to agree with Bookworm. I don't feel like I know most of you well, so I end up secretly judging you all."

"Ouch," commented Gabe.

"Well, not you Gabe because you're smart and know everything, so no one hardly looks at you to judge, typically they look for answers," Kat replied with a little bit of sass.

"Thank you?" Gabe responded. Glitz cleared his throat causing the ponies to shift their eyes on him.

"Well, I actually don't know how I feel. I feel a mixture of several different emotions. I've lost some friends, and I've seen some shit. And of course, I feel terrible for my friend right now, I can't imagine the stuff she's been through. It made me realize that I should spend lots of time with my loved ones and keep them close. Because I did panic. So hard when I thought I lost both my best friend and my little brother. Both of them mean the world to me, but unfortunately, as guards, we're trained to hide those feelings and pretend that everything is running smoothly when in reality it's not. When I was hit with the large responsibility of running the kingdom on my own, I was pretty scared. As a guard I know I shouldn't be, but when everything is being slammed onto me at the last minute, it just feels like so much weight is being put on my back. And I know Abohaty didn't mean to do that intentionally, nor did she have a lot of options, I still feel the way I feel, regardless of who's fault it was.

"And you have every right to feel that way," Bella replied. "Honestly this feels great. Taking all of that weight off our shoulders."

"Yeah, I agree. It's nice to hear the different perspectives," commented Celia. "Although I wish Abohaty was here with us..."

"We should probably do something nice for her!" Grammar suggested. "She probably feels like a potato right now." Glitz face-palmed himself.

"That's not a bad idea, but what would we do?" Bella asked. "I feel like I barely know who she is so I don't know what exactly she likes."

"And that's what we're here for," said Kelsey.

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