Can't Be Too Happy
Chapter 23
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Abohaty had been chatting with Princess Luna for the past hour like she was her therapist. She desperately needed someone to talk to at the moment since everypony else was either dead, upset with her, or didn't know her well enough. And although Princess Luna barely knew her, Abohaty was just desperate to get someone to talk to She couldn't hold in her emotions any longer. She had so much to talk about. It went from her parents to the struggles of being a new princess, to losing the majority of her support, and so on. Although Luna could not change any of that, she was still a good listener. During all her days with Abohaty, she saw her like she was her student. And for a good moment, she felt like her sister back when she was teaching Twilight as a student. It felt nice for her that Abohaty saw her as someone she could go to and not have the feeling that she was messing anything up. After Amirah's defeat, Luna was proud that she got to be involved in something she helped end.
Her thoughts were interrupted when she and Abohaty heard a knock on the door. Abohaty wiped her tears with her hooves as Luna rose to get to the door. With her magic, the large doors opened, showing a single guard that had stood behind them.
"Your majesty, we have ponies here to visit Princess Abohaty." Luna raised her brow and looked back at the pink mare who was still wiping her tears away.
"Abohaty, are you expecting any guests?" she asked loudly. Abohaty looked up at the princess and shook her head no.
"Who is it?" she muttered.
"Who is it?" Luna repeated for the guard to hear.
"It's one of the guards from Springfields and he brought a group of ponies with him."
"Well, since she's not expecting guests-"
"Wait!" Abohaty shouted. "They can come in! I never got to see them since the war!" Princess Luna looked back at the pink princes and then at the guard.
"Well, you heard her. Let them in." The guard bowed and headed his way back to the front entrance to let the ponies in. Luna turned around to face Abohaty. "I'm going to assume you'd wanna speak with them privately, so I'll leave you be." Abohaty nodded as the blue alicorn walked out of the room. Already, she could hear several hoofs tapping against the floors of the corridors. Abohaty tried her best to erase the sadness on her face because she didn't want her friends to worry too much. Especially since they were dealing with problems of their own.
Seconds later, the door burst open and several ponies came inside.
"ABOHATY!!" shouted Grammar. he was the first to start running over to the Princess but tripped on the red carpet. Abohaty caught him with her horn and levitated him beside her. He gave her a huge hug. "We missed you so much! Especially my brother, he talked about you nonstop," Grammar lied. Abohaty was not paying attention to his babbling though, she kept her eyes on her friends who each brought something with them, including Glitz.
"Oh my, what is this?"
"Our treat to you!" Kelsey squealed.
"We felt bad about everything that happened so we each got you something that could make you cheer up a bit!" Celia added on. She walked over to Abohaty and the rest followed, holding their gifts. They placed them on the ground beside her and each gave her a huge, forming a group hug.
"You guys didn't really have to do that you know? I'll get over this mess eventually," Abohaty assured as her friends slowly let her go.
"It's not really something you can just get over though, Abohaty," Bella said. "It's scarred with you for life, but we'll be here every step of the way to make sure you're going to be okay."
"Because that's what we sort of failed to do the last time," Bookworm admitted. "And we're pretty sorry about that."
"You guys are totally fine," Abohaty replied. "I'm just happy you all helped me out when I needed you guys the most. Especially you, Glitz." Glitz smiled and put his hoof to his head.
"Anything for you Princess."
"Okay that's enough with all the wholesome talk, can she just open up the gifts already?!" Grammar scoffed, impatiently.
"Well Grammar, since you said that, I'm going to open your gift first." Before she could open anything, Luna came walking into the room again.
"I'm sorry for interrupting, but Princess Celestia and Twilight are ready for you to come back home now if you feel comfortable. Your kingdom has been renewed!" Abohaty's eyes lit up and some ponies in the room even cheered.
"Oh my!" Kat said. "That was very quick."
"We have to go check it out!!" Kelsey suggested from her wheelchair. "The gifts can wait!"
"Aw, I was really excited for her to open mine," Bella commented.
"I'm sad to say this, but all of you can't fit in the carriage," Luna reminded the ponies from afar. "Two ponies max."
"Wait, you're coming with us?" Abohaty asked. Luna shook her head.
"No Abohaty. I'm talking about your carriage." Kat's jaw dropped and looked at Abohaty for her reaction. Abohaty was pretty happy to have something close to
"Wow, now she's really a princess," commented Gabe. Written Script nudged him.
"She was always a princess dude."
"We can just take the train back to Springfields Abohaty while you can test out your new ride!" Celia squealed. "Let's bring our gifts y'all. Bookworm, what time does the next train come?" Bookworm pulled out a spreadsheet of the times when the next train would arrive.
"Fifteen minutes."
"Alright y'all, let's get moving. Chop! Chop!" Celia ordered. Everypony started making their way to the door except for Abohaty. She stayed back to watch her friends go, but Glitz halted and looked back at her.
"You coming?"
"Yeah, I'm just giving them a headstart," I reassured him. "Because the train takes a little bit to get there."
"True, but you don't wanna check out your new carriage? I'm sure it's pretty," Glitz said, making his way back to the Princess.
"Yeah, I'm just still a bit nervous, that's all."
"I completely understand! But seriously, if you're truly not ready to go back, Luna did say you could stay."
"I know, I know, but part of me is very curious about what everything looks like now. The other part of me is scared about ruling the kingdom in general. Like, what do I even say to everypony when I return? The citizens are probably still traumatized and homeless..." Abohaty felt like she could go on with her worries. Glitz sat down beside her and looked straight ahead at the door.
"It's okay to be scared, trust me But I'm sure the ponies will hear you out, if not sympathize with you. And on top of that, you don't have to do everything alone when you have me! And the high commission as well." Abohaty let a small smile creep up her face.
"That is true, although I feel bad because you probably know them much better than I do," Abohaty chuckled.
"Which again is not your fault," Glitz reminded her.
"You're right," Abohaty said, getting up. "I think I can do this."
"Want me to come with you?" Glitz asked.
"Glitz, what kind of question is that? Duh!" Glitz smiled and walked the Princess out of the guest bedroom. It didn't take them long to reach the front of the castle where her carriage was located. When Abohaty first saw it, her eyes glistened. The carriage was coated with the color baby blue, matching her hair slightly and on the bottom of the carriage, it had clouds (not real ones). There were two pegasus guards attached to the leash carriage. Both seemed friendly and waved at the princess.
"Okay, I kind of feel like I'm a movie star right now..." She whispered to Glitz. Glitz chucked and walked over to the carriage.
"Maybe because you are a movie star." Abohaty followed him and hopped inside first. She looked around on the inside, admiring every part of it.
"This is cool, but where do you even park these things?!"