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Princess Samantha stared at her closet. Nothing! Okay there was actually about ten ball gowns ten tea party dresses, ten evening dresses, and twenty everyday dresses that looked like ball gowns to the comon folk.

She sighed, and picked out the most plain everyday dress. A dark blue dress with a full skirt and lace around the sleeves neck and hem. It was close fitting with a dark purple sash covered with small gems.

Then she looked in the shoe closet. All she could find were high heels.

She went downstairs to her father and prepared to eat breakfast.

"Good morning Father." "Good morning daughter." Samantha sat down. Her father, King Wren, looked at her, "Samantha, next time wear something a little more dressy." Samantha took a while to answer and then said, "Yes Daddy. Could you please call me Sam instead of Samantha?" "No. Samantha is a proper name for a princess and Sam is not." Samantha's shoulders slumped. "Don't slump." Sam straightened her shoulders and then began to eat some food. Pancakes and bacon and eggs. Oh it smelled so good and she was so hungry. She reached for the bacon. "Samantha, don't take more than two pieces of bacon." Samantha was upset. "But Daddy, I haven't had bacon for two weeks and the pieces are so small!" "Samantha, bacon will make you fat." "But you eat so much bacon and you aren't fat!" "Samantha!"

Samantha knew that she had lost the argument.

After the meal she ran out to her horse. Wild One was one argument that she had won. Her father had said that horses were not for princesses. Although people had said that she looked so beautiful like her mother, she looked more like her father when she was angry.

When she had seen a beautiful horse that was getting beaten when she snuck out of the palace she knew she had to have it. She remembered the whole thing.

"Okay Daddy you can kill me later, but I snuck out of the palace and saw this man. He was beating the most beautiful horse ever!" Wren's eyes hardened. Samantha narrowed her eyes and began glaring at her father. "Samantha Anne Forster, we are not going to take in a mangy animal." Mangy! Mangy! Daddy you didn't see her! She looked so satiny, and beautiful!" Wren turned his head. As far as he was concerned there were never going to be any horses anywhere near his daughter. Behind him he could almost see Samantha's jaw tighten and eyes narrow again.

How could he let her have a horse? He thought of the reasons they couldn't and then ticked them off to Samantha on his fingers. "Here are the reasons Samantha. One, we have no groom. Two we have no where to put it. Three it would get lonely. Four, who would take care of it?" "We could get a groom. We could build a stable. We could get more horses. And I would take care of it." She quit glaring and proceeded to give him sweet little eyes. He could never resist those from her mother. He knew having a horse wouldn't hurt her too much. He sighed and nodded at ten year old princess Samantha.

Samantha smiled just thinking about it. Then she thought of the groom and his hansom son. They had met them that day too. They had gone back to the horse and seen two strong black haired people yelling at the man beating the horse and defending the horse.

Samantha gasped as the evil man hit the horse again. The younger of the men turned and she saw that he wasn't a man at all but a boy about twelve or thirteen. He bared his teeth and ran at the man. The man hit the ground and couldn't move from the boys iron grip. The man relaxed. For a while Samantha thought that he had given up but the boy didn't think so as he pushed down harder. The older man that was calming the horse down looked at his son and said, "Atta boy Jake." The boy grinned. Obviously the praise meant a lot to the boy. Soon the horse was calm.

Samantha left the safety of her fathers arms and went over to the horse. "She's pretty." The man on the ground stirred and the boy punched him. The punch knocked the man out and Samantha leaned into the horse to get away from the boy. He scared her. The look on his face said he knew he'd scared her and wasn't sorry. That made her mad. She stomped on his foot. The lazy tom cat grin as she later came to call it left his face and was replaced with a shocked look. Then she heard her fathers voice, "Samantha, princesses do not stomp on people." Samantha started to protest but he fathers look said that is she did there would be no horse for her.

He turned to the big strong man and said, "I am King Wren and this is Princess Samantha." Both men bowed respectfully. "My daughter snuck out of the palace and she will be punished for that, and she saw this man here beating the horse. She ran back to me and asked if we could have it. If it doesn't belong to you do you suppose we could have it?" This time the boy piped up, "It doesn't belong to us so I guess you could have it." "I might have jobs for you too." This time it was the man that spoke. "Jobs?"

"Yes Jobs. I was thinking you could be a stable man since you seem to know horses, and your son could be able to be a knight some day." Samantha saw Jake's eyes narrow. "I saw the way he knocked that man out. I was wondering if he would like to be my daughters body guard."

It took coaxing but now she had a friend, a horse and a groom. Luke had family. Five other boys besides Jake, and a wife. Her daddy had had a house built for Luke Ely and his family.

Samantha felt at home with the Ely's. She enjoyed the boys teasing her and she enjoyed teasing them back. She also knew that if she came over on Fridays Maxine Ely would have cookies for her.

She ran to the stable and up to Luke. "Good evening Luke." "Why hello, Princess Samantha," Luke greeted her with a smile. "Call me Sam, and could I please ride Wild One?" "Alright Sam and yes you may. But first will you please go get Jakob? You know that your father doesn't like you riding alone." "Yes sir." Sam trotted off to find Jake. Sometimes they called him Jake and sometimes Jakob. Normally Jakob. He had continued training to be a knight and it was completed a while ago and at the ceremony Samantha's father had knighted him Sir Jakob.

"Jake! Jakob! Where are you?" She gasped as a strong arm pulled her off her feet and then heard, "You were wanting me?" Once placed back on the ground she spun around to her attacker. "Yes Jake I called for you. I wanted to ride Wild One and your dad said to find you first." Jake jerked his head in a nod and then walked her to the stable. Samantha thought that he should have been the groom. He was so good with horses. It was like he spoke their language. Sam loved watching him with horses.

Before too long they were riding the horses. Samantha on Wild One and Sir Jakob on his horse, Lilian.

"Oh look at those beautiful flowers!" Exclaimed Samantha. "Aren't they beautiful?" Sir Jakob nodded and then dismounted. "What are you doing?" Jakob just grinned and then went over and picked some of the dark blue flowers. He heard Princess Samantha scream. He turned and saw what was happening. No! "Samantha!"

I know I know. I'm a clifie. I'll update as soon as I can.