A Royal Visit 2-A New Beginning
Chapter 1
It was the 15th of the very next month and true to her word Queen Renee was back and standing there proudly as Maid of Honor as Max and Deborah exchanged their wedding vows.
K.C. was sitting up on here horse in formation with the Saddle Club. Now ever time she looked at Lisa she found herself breathing a sigh of relief. She and her mother had been shocked at first when she got the call that the wedding had been called off, but when they found out why. That Lisa had fallen and was in a Coma they came anyway.
K.C. was so happy and relieved when Lisa woke up. After gently hugging Lisa she had rushed out of the room to go tell her mother the good news. When she came back she found the three girls in a conspiratorial huddle.
"What's going on?" she asked when they finished
"K.C.," Said Stevie with a smile, "We, The Saddle Club, have taken a vote and would now like to officially make you the fourth member of the Saddle club. K.C. smiled and hugged her friends again excitedly,
"I would love to be a member of the saddle club!" she exclaimed
Now she was in formation at the wedding. It was a wedding thrown together in a matter of days, but K.C. had to admit it that it was actually a lot classier than some of fancy weddings she had been to back home.
Finally, Max and Deborah kissed and were announced as Mr. and Mrs. Regnery. They walked out with through the formation as the girls held their bannered poles crossed over their heads.
All too soon it was time to say goodbye to Renee and K.C. Again but before they left K.C. smiled somewhat mysteriously.
"Don't be too sad," she said, "The Saddle Club may have it's fourth member back sooner than it thinks."
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One month later…
The gang of Pine Hollow were all standing around the T.V. in the lounge in a state Semi-Shock the headlines of a special news report were stating that with cooperation of Queen Renee of Aragon the Monarchy of Aragon had been officially dissolved! Aragon, instead of having a Queen and A Princess, would Now have an elected president.
Time Passed and with the new democratic government fully solidified Renee and K.C. quietly slipped away into the night as it were and were soon forgotten by the ever-fickle public attention span.
A few weeks after Renee and K.C. had melted into a peaceful existence of relative obscurity they could be found living in a comfortable and cozy house next to Pine Hollow. Renee got her riding instructors accreditation and took a job teaching the beginners class at Pine Hollow resulting in few news stories about the former queen of Aragon now working as a riding instructor at woodsy little riding school. The public interest didn't last. It was soon old news, and nobody cared anymore.
K.C. and the Rest of the Saddle club were out riding on their morning hack when Lisa spoke.
"I can't believe what you and your mother gave up," she said. K.C. smiled
"It wasn't as big a sacrifice as you think," she said, "Being a princess isn't at all as romantic as most people make it out to be. You have almost no privacy and your half scared all the time that something as innocent as taking your nightly bath is going to get turned into a public scandal by some unscrupulous paparazzi or tabloid reporter. And a princess doesn't really get to choose what she wants to do with her life. It's decided for her by her birth."
"I neve thought of it that way before," said Lisa,
"Most people don't." said K.C., "I think my father new that my mother loved him but hated living in a fishbowl all the time. So, she told me that he said, before he died, that if anything should happen to him she had his blessing to put into motion a plan to do just watch she did and Dissolve the Monarchy. I think he already suspected he had cancer and this was his final gift to the love of his life."
"If you left everything behind," said Stevie, "How did you afford to buy that house?'
"As part of the agreement with parliament to dissolve the Monarchy, we were granted a trust fund held in the bank in Switzerland and Parliament also agreed that we were freed of any obligation to Aragon after the new government was solidified and they would never attempt to find us."
"Still it's quite a change," said Carol as they arrived back in Pine Hollow
"But one I don't regret in the slightest," she said, "I've seen how the other half lives, that world is full of either suck ups or people would sell out their own mothers for a price. But here I have my Echo," she paused and patted her horse lovingly, "I have the best friends I ever hand, and there is contentment in my mother's eyes that haven't really ever seen before.
The girls were just dismounting when they looked up and saw Max, Deborah, Mrs. Reg, and Renee all sitting on two facing benches outside the lounge. Suddenly Deborah jumped up and ran into the lounge with one hand on her stomach!
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