I sent my private rider later to tell Princess Moraine that now, I would be attending the tournament with her and one of my other dear friends. By this time the Queen was so angry with Princess Moraine and Princess Arwen that she almost did not let me go. How cruel! After a long thought the Queen decided to let Prime go to the tournament, for it would be more like punishing me than Princess Moraine if she did not let me go.
But, to tell the truth, I almost did not want to go, for I was tired of my friends canceling and rescheduling! But I decided to go anyways because I had long awaited the arrival of this tournament.
As I sat and watched the tournament, I almost felt like she was being ignored. Princess Moraine and Princess Arwen were loudly talking and laughing while Princess Moraine's sister, Princess Rose watched. This made me feel inexcusably out of place and now I wished that I had listened to Mother, the Queen, and not come to the tournament. I did end up talking a bit to the other Princesses, but was happy when it was time to leave. I don't know if it was a good or a bad thing to feel this way...
The King came and picked me up in his finest carriage. "How was the tournament," he asked after me had climbed into the carriage. "The tournament was wonderful but my friends weren't," I responded in a quiet voice. There was quiet throughout the carriage until they reached the castle. I hurriedly climbed the twelve flights of stairs to the tallest tower where the queen and king slept. I went strait to her mother and told her all about that night.
"So you felt out of place, like you shouldn't have been there with the other Princesses," she said in a comforting tone. "Exactly," I sadly responded as she hugged her mother. "I feel like I don't even have a best friend."
"Oh, honey, I'm sorry," she said. "I don't feel like I have a best friend either. I have some friends, but not a best friend that I can just run to." This surprised me for she was the Queen!
"I'll be your friend, Mother," I said quietly. "And I'll be your friend, too, Belle."
"I will never go to another tournament with them again!" I said in a surprisingly loud voice. "They do reschedule too much," the Queen said. "You don't have to go to another tournament with them if you don't want to."
I suddenly got a rush to tell Princess Moraine and Princess Arwen how I really felt. But I knew that that would be the impolite thing to do. How could I tell them how bad I felt without hurting their feelings?