Abohaty's P.O.V

When I tell you I was nervous, I mean my hooves shaking, my heart beating...that kind of nervous. I walked out of the bathroom where my four friends stood upon me.

"Abohaty...you look...AMAZING!!!!" Kelsey screamed.

"Very pretty," complimented Bella.

"Rad!!" added in Written Script.

"And lastly, breathtaking," Celia finished. I was blushing like crazy.

"Thank you guys so much, that means a lot to me." They all cheered. "The flying carriage should be coming soon. I asked Dusk Shine to send over one so we didn't have to go on some dirty train."

"I wouldn't care which one we go on," said Written Script, yawning. "I prefer riding a train low-key."

It didn't take long for us to arrive. Because now, the five of us were standing in the long line for this gala. I was sweating like crazy.

"Uh....earth to Abohaty~" Kelsey cooed.

"Hm?!" I said immediately snapping back into my senses.

"You're a princess!! You can, ya know...cut~"

"Oh...oh yea...right...cut."

"Well, luckily I already got us all a spot in the front." I turned around and blinked. There he was in a tight black suit. Dusk Shine.

"Oh! Um, wow, your...y-your already here!!" I stuttered.

"Well it wouldn't be so professional if I came late, now would it?" He held out his hoof for me to grab. "...your highness." I could hear my friends in the background squealing and giggling.

"Sorry to interrupt, but actually we suggest that we'll fall behind back here," stated Celia. "We don't wanna get away in y'all little romance." Bella and Kelsey giggled.

"Wait, are you guys sure?" Abohaty asked.

"I mean, we're all gonna get in there soon," said Written Script.

"True that!!" added Kelsey.

Well shit, now I'm alone with this pony. Perfect.

We walked up to the V.I.P line for the Gala where Princess Luna, Princess Cadence, Prince Shining Armor, and a few other ponies like Sunset Shimmer were standing. Twilight and Celestia are both running the Gala this year, so that's why they're not in line. Me and Dusk Shine talked for a bit to pass time. He kept constantly telling me how beautiful I was and kept telling me he liked my straight hair better than my curly pink and blue bubblegum hair. It was kinda annoying at this point because he always talked to me about how much he liked the outside of me, but never about the inside. And every time I'd try to talk about myself, he never seemed...interested.

Soon, the doors opened, only to let the V.I.P in first. Everypony else had to get their names checked off on the list before entering inside.

"Ah, this place is gorgeous!! Just like you darling~" He stroked my hair.

"Hehe...yeah..."

Celia's P.O.V

"I can't believe it took this long to get in," I told Kelsey. "Maybe we should've-"

"OOOOOU, I SEE GRAMMAR!!" She looked back at me. "Sorry Cece, but best friend duties call!" She bounced over to the other side of the ballroom where Grammar was located pouring him a cup of juice. I frowned.

"So...ya know where Zephyr is?" I heard Written Script ask Bella. She started looking around hopelessly.

"Hey, Bella!!" A small gentlecolt approached the three of us. I've seen pictures and stuff of Zephyr before but this is my first time seeing him in person. He had a light brown colored main and a blue coat just like Bella's. She seemed to be amazed by his outfit which was just a simple tuxedo like every colt was wearing here. I adored the mare's dresses more though. They're so beautiful and creative with many more options to look at.

Bella went off with Zephyr leaving just me and Written Script.

"So uh...you don't have a stallion to go out with...or....want to go out with...?"

"No," I answered. "But it's alright, I'll be fine alone. You can go find Gabe or something. I'll probably run into Kat at some point." Written Script tilted her head.

"Are...you sure?" she asked. Celia then realized her response made no sense considering Kat got mad at them the night prior, but she still insisted on Written Script to go find Gabe anyways.

"Yes, yes! Definitely! Go go go!! Go claim your stallion!!" She laughed. Then she smiled at me before she flew off. My smile faded as I watched her go.

"Cece?" I immediately turned around when I heard Applejack's voice.

"Oh, Applejack! Hey!"

"Why is a beautiful mare like you out here alone on the floors? Where're your friends?" she queried.

"Oh...well they just kinda found their dates, that's all."

"Ah, I see. Haven't found your special somepony yet?" I shook my head quickly. "Well if it makes ya feel better, this gala isn't about dancing with ya love, it's about having fun. Ya know?" She pushed my head to the left. "You see those two?" Kelsey and Grammar. Of course, I had to watch them. "They're having the time of their lives!!" Applejack was saying other things but I stopped listening because I was too focused on Kelsey and Grammar chasing each other around the gala. "Ya got it?" Applejack finished. I nodded my head slowly and walked off.

Kelsey's P.O.V

"IN YO FACE!!" I shouted dumping a bowl of juice on my mom's head. Me and Grammar gave each other a hoof bump. My mom and dad started laughing together.

"Who should we do next?" Grammar asked. I looked around. As I looked around I saw Cece. I was gonna say her name but I noticed she looked sad.

"Hold on a second..." I told him. I walked over to Cece. "What happened? Where'd everypony go?" Celia laughed awkwardly.

"Well um...they all had a partner so..."

"Even Written Script?!" Kelsey said, unconvinced.

"Oh, she told me she was gonna ask Gabe out. I kinda don't believe her though."

"Awwww, I feel bad!! Wanna join me and Grammar with pranking people? We just did my mom."

"Nah, I'm okay..." she replied.

"But...you're just standing there...watching us..." I told her. She became sweaty. "You...okay? Need a drink...?

"I gotta go to the bathroom!! Bye Kelsey!!" She sped off. I took a quick glance at Grammar who also seemed to be just as confused as I was.

Was it something I said?

Abohaty's P.O.V

I told Dusk Shine I was going to the restroom, but I didn't really have to go, so I'm just gonna wash my hooves. He was starting to scare me. He wouldn't let me hang out with any of my friends and acted as if they were some type of pests when he was just offering them V.I.P spots in the line not too long ago. He wanted me to stay with him and started becoming a bit aggressive when I said I wanted to hang out with one of my friends.

Before reaching the restroom, a pony stopped me. I turned around.

"Hi, pretty Princess!!" I was literally about to scream. I threw both of my hooves around his neck and tackled him to the ground as ponies around us watched. I didn't care. Hell, I'm wearing a dress and I still don't care that I'm on the ground. "C-can't b-breathe-" he wheezed.

"Oops! Sorry, sorry, sorry!!" I helped him get up. "You look amazing Glitz," I told him once we made eye contact. "Like seriously. I'm surprised you got dressed up for this event!! And you decided to come!!"

"Well, I only came once, so I was like...why not again?" He examined me for a bit. "But you don't look too bad yourself. I like you in straight hair." I brushed my hair out the way.

"Heh, thanks..." My blush faded instantly when I noticed Dusk Shine heading this way. Glitz noticed my sudden facial expression change.

"What's wrong?" Dusk Shine pushed Glitz out the way.

"Who the hell is this?!" he raged. Glitz seemed completely lost and I didn't blame him.

"Huh?" I pushed Dusk Shine back.

"Give us a moment Glitz, I'm sorry." We walked a few feet away from him. I opened my right wing to cover our faces as we spoke. "Dude, what the hell?! That's my royal guard!!"

"Royal guard?!" he repeated. "You expect me to believe that when his cutie mark is a creeper?"

"Yeah, he's my royal guard who protects me and my belongings! So let's not make a whole scene? Thanks!!" I closed my wing and walked back over to Glitz. "Again, I am so sorry about that. He's a little protective over me." Glitz seemed even more confused. And then I finally realized why. "Oh! Stupid me...I didn't introduce you two!!" I pulled Dusk Shine over. "Glitz, this is Dusk Shine, my coltfrie- I mean fiancée!" I began sweating as I looked at Glitz's face. I couldn't tell if he was even more confused, angry, or disappointed. I continued anyways. "And Dusk Shine, meet my royal guard Glitz!!" Dusk Shine raised an eyebrow. He didn't look too convinced. "He's on vacation. That's why you haven't seen him around yet...heh."

"I thought you were going to the restroom," he said, clearing his throat.

"Oh!! Well, I saw him so I decided to stop and say hi real quick-"

"You seemed very into that conversation." He interrupted.

"Well I forgot to mention but he's not just my royal guard. He's my best friend. So we're close."

"Yeah, yeah, yeah. A little too close." Glitz spoke up when he noticed the slight tone change in Dusk Shine's voice.

"There is absolutely nothing going on between us. As she stated several times, we were just talking." Dusk Shine gave Glitz a long cold glare before turning in the opposite direction and walking away.

I felt so embarrassed. And a little ashamed of myself for not telling Glitz beforehand. Yeah, I was not obligated to tell him about Dusk Shine right away, but I felt so bad because I normally tell him everything.

Glitz turned his head around to face me.

"Ughhh, I'm sorry. I should've told you sooner," I said covering my face.

"Princess, it's not like you're committed to telling me everything. I was just mad and confused, that's all. But, I'm...happy for you." He told me with an awkward smile on his face. "Uh...I gotta get going anyways. I forgot Gabe asked me to grab him a drink."

"Oh! That's okay. You can do that. Heh." he waved at me before walking off. I hurried back over to Dusk Shine who was talking to some stallion I didn't know.

"Oh, who's this young sweet looking mare?" He pushed up his glasses and examined me some more. Before Dusk Shine could answer, he figured it out himself. "Well if it isn't the Princess Abohaty! My god, you've gotten so big. Without the curly hair, I barely recognized you until I saw the wings and horn!!"

"This is Fancy Pants," Dusk Shine told me. "An old friend of mine." I waved a hoof at him awkwardly.

"Are you two together? How'd you manage to get in hooves with the Princess of Happiness?" I gulped. I didn't really know how to answer that, so I waited for Dusk Shine to answer for me.

"We used to be friends."

"Oh! That makes sense now. Well, I better leave the couple alone now. I'm trying to find Rarity, but I don't think she's here yet." The stallion wandered off without a goodbye.

I knew a little about who Rarity was. She was the element of generosity and one of Twilight's closest friends. I also knew that Kat looked up to Rarity a lot, because she was a really popular fashion designer and model.

Dusk Shine's nudge snapped me out of my thoughts.

"Why don't we go meet the other Princesses?" I nodded slowly. I didn't exactly want to meet them because I don't even remember the last time I ever saw them. I just saw Twilight recently, and she's clearly not happy with me. What would they all think of me now?

Written Script's P.O.V

Is it bad that I actually didn't plan to talk to Gabe? I just said that so Celia thought I wasn't that shy. I watched from a far distance of the cutie mark crusaders walking onto stage. They were a lot more older since the last time I saw them. Sweetie Belle wore a beautiful pink fabric gown that matched her tiny white shoes. Scootaloo wore something more rock and roll like. Her shirt was black and had a skeleton seen in the front. Her hair was even spiked up, and she had on dark eye shadow. The shoes she wore on her hooves were back had spikes and chains. And Apple Bloom to the left wore a simple sparkly red dress.

"Wow..." I murmured slightly.

"They're outfits are fabulous, am I right?" I fell to the ground startled by the new voice. When I looked up, it was Gabe who was standing right beside me. I was actually gonna faint. I hadn't seen him the whole gala and at this time, he suddenly appears.

His blonde mane was silken back perfectly and his tan coat looked so smooth. He had on a brown colored tuxedo that almost fully covered his A+ cutie mark and his emerald eyes glistened in the light. He lend out a hoof. "Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you like that." I grabbed a hold of his hoof and picked myself up. I stared blushing a ton, and I really hope he didn't notice.

"Oh no, it's fine, I just was a bit surprised that's al-" The lights dimmed and Sweetie Belle spoke. The clicked the microphone and began speaking.

"Hello everypony, this is Sweetie Belle speaking, and I would like to thank each and every one of you mares and gentlecolts for attending this gala tonight. As to this is the one twentieth anniversary tonight!!" Ponies around us began stomping their hooves. "Alright, alright....settle down. And because of this special day, I sadly will not be the one singing this time." The crowd gasped. My eyes widened a bit. Because Sweetie Belle typically sings a song every year. "Just kidding. But I actually won't be singing much, because I have someone else to do that for me.

"Mares and gentlecolts, I present to you...." Sweetie Belle moved out the way and the crowd went wild when they saw who appeared behind her. "Christina Grimmie!!"

"Who?" I asked Gabe.

"Christina, she's a rising star singer."

"Ohhhh. Wow."

Christina walked to the apron of the stage and gave the crowd of ponies a smile. The thing I adored about her the most was her black raven hair put into a small bun. She took a hold of the microphone in front of her and began speaking into it.

"Hello my little ponies. It's a pleasure to see all of you here today. And it's a pleasure for you to have me here to sing for you one of my amazing song covers. I Won't Give Up by Jason Mraz. Get ready to grab your sweethearts for a little slow dance!!"

The music began playing.

No One's P.O.V

Written Script didn't dare to move. She was afraid that she was gonna be asked to dance by Gabe any second now and wasn't prepared for that at all. She wanted to tell him she had to use the restroom, but then she thought about all the times she's avoided doing something with him. And once she thinks about it, she's been avoiding him her whole life and is not making any progress. Maybe today could be a start for her. Asking him to dance is the last thing she wanted to say but she couldn't hold back any longer.

"Wanna dance?" She asked without a stutter. Gabe was a little shocked at first which scared the pegasus. "I-It's okay if you don-" Gabe grabbed her hoof in silence and walked her over to the dance floor.

Celia watched as Gabe glided Written Script on the dance floor and smiled, happy that her friend is finally making progress with her true love.

"When I look into your eyes....it's like watching the night sky, Christina sung. "Or a beautiful sun rise...."

"Hey Celia!" Kelsey greeted.

"There's so much they hold.."

Celia was startled, but kept a normal face.

"Oh! Kelsey. I didn't see ya there..."

"Well, I guess I'm just a surprise!!" she cheered. Celia giggled. "But I came here because I wanted to know if you wanted to ditch this place and have a party at my house with Grammar and Glitz." Celia was gonna say no because she really just wanted to spend time with Kelsey but she also remembered that she was doing absolutely nothing since the moment she walked into the gala.

"That doesn't sound too bad. After all, I rarely hang out with those two." Kelsey cheered once again.

"And just like them old stars...

I see that you've come so far..".

"YES!! Gabe would be invited too but it looks like him and Written Script finally have something going on over there!" I looked over at the friends dancing and smiled.

"Yup..."

"To be right where you are....

How old is your soul?"

Meanwhile Bella had her hooves wrapped around her coltfriend, dancing and flying in the air with him. Bella wasn't able to fly, but Zephyr was strong enough to lift the both of them. Bella wore a feathered dress which was in different shades of blue. Her orange mane was in a big bun and two strings of her mane were in her face.

"I-I missed this..." she whispered, squeezing his neck a little tighter.

"I won't give up on us...

...even if the skies get rough."

"I miss this too. I've missed you Bella." Bella's eyes shed tears after his words. She hasn't seen her coltfriend in months. Six months to be clear. She lied to her friends about him moving in because she didn't want anyone to worry about their relationship. All that happened was that Zephyr lost his job and eventually found a new one. But now he barely has time to see her. "We'll be able to see each other a lot more. Soon...."

"I'm giving you all my love

and I'm still looking up..."

"You keep saying soon, but how long is soon?" Zephyr didn't know how to answer the question, so he just continued to dance with his love.

"It's too early to make a promise..." he murmured.

As Zephyr and Bella danced to the soothing music and Christina's singing, Abohaty was under the table hiding. She didn't want to greet princesses, nor did she want to slow dance with her coltfriend. That was all just too hard for her. She didn't like being some perfect sweet princess. The music was even too slow for her. The worst part is that most of her friends left. Kelsey, Celia, Glitz and Grammar were all gone. This was terrible! The only pony she could really spot from where she was hiding was Kat in a big poofy dress talking with a group of stallions.

She just wanted to go home. Nothing at this place was fun, not even the food because that was fancy too!! Dusk Shine was probably looking all around for her because she teleported away without any notice. She then teleported herself outside in garden, hoping no one was there. And thank Celestia no pony was. Well that's what she thought.

"What are you doing out here?"

The pink coated alicorn turned around and spotted Princes Cadence.

"Princess...C-Cadence?"

"It's just me," she chuckled. Cadence gave her a wing hug. "How are you Abohaty?"

"I'm okay..." she answered. "But this place is boring and I don't want to be here. Say, shouldn't you be dancing inside with Shining Armor?"

"He went to the restroom, he isn't feeling very well." Abohaty raised an eyebrow in confusion. She hadn't seen Shining Armor since she got here when she thinks more about it.

"Oh...really? I'm sorry...."

"It's weird because he was doing just fine. I guess he must've ate something bad I suppose..." Cadence looked around. "Hmmm, but why aren't you with your coltfriend?" Abohaty's eyes widened.

"Please don't tell him I'm out here!!" she shrieked. Cadence just smiled and nodded.

"I guess I won't, but why don't you want to be around him? Isn't he your love?" she asked. Abohaty sat down on the grass and sighed. She thought about if she should tell the princess about what's really going on. After all, Princess Cadence was the only one she felt she could trust out of all the other princesses. Princess Cadence has been nothing but nice to her. Could Abohaty trust her?

"It's not exactly love if you want me to be honest. Like no offense to him, but he kinda sucks and I don't like him at all. But I have to act like it because our relationship is forced."

"I see..." She sat down beside the young princess. "Well, do you have somepony in mind that you actually like?" Abohaty took a deep breath for that question. She didn't know how she was gonna answer when she didn't know. At least that's what she thought. But at the same time she thinks she does like somepony else.

"Don't tell anyone this but...I think I do like somepony...but it's hard to tell if it's true love. Like...sometimes I get this little feeling when I'm around him, but then I remember I can't have feelings for him because that would be weird. He's my royal guard! And he's made it clear that we're just friends. And like I said, I don't know if this is really a crush or just some random feeling I get when I'm around him. When I saw him all dressed up today for the first time, I was about to faint Princess Cadence...." She chuckled.

"I'm gonna assume this is about Glitz."

"It is...and I'm ashamed."

"Why be ashamed? You can't help feelings. It's okay to love Abohaty. Even if he doesn't like you back, or even if others don't approve of it, it's okay. True love always wins in the end." Abohaty scooted away from Cadence a bit.

"What do you mean? I told you that I don't know if I like him really or not....not people don't like us together..."

"Maybe I should just come clean with you now I guess. Because I'm not that good at relationship advice anyways. At least I know now your little weakness. And learned a little bit more about which ponies you trust." Abohaty's pupils grew small when she realized that the pony she thought she was speaking too wasn't Cadence. The alicorn slowly turned into a different pony who had a dark pink coat with an even darker messy mane. She had one eye missing, and the other eye was almost covered with metal. She wore a black cloth and her right front hoof was covered in metal. Abohaty was ready the scream and run but she was frozen by the alicorn's power. "For your information, you're the only one who can see and hear me. And Cadence and Shining Armor are perfectly fine, dancing in the ballroom." She stood up tall and walked around the frozen princess with a sly grin on her face. "I'm sure you remember me don't you? The queen who defeated your parents within seconds. I can do the same with you right now, but that would be too easy and less entertaining for me. So I'm just here to let you know, that I'm coming for that spell book of yours and I will be back sooner than you know it, not only to destroy you and the high commission, but the whole Equestria. Because that's how much power I have. Just wait until I get a hold of your power. You're on the top of my list because you're the weakest princess of them all." She unfroze Abohaty, but the princess stood still just in case. "You can tell everypony you want, that I'm coming. It's not like it would make a difference anyways." Those were the last words said before the queen teleported away.

Abohaty stayed seated on the ground, processing what had just happened.

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