The days had started to pass in a blur. My birthday dinner was much more pleasant than I thought I would have been given the number of people I hadn't expected to attend. I actually made easy conversations with the trainers' wives, Alyssa, and Margret. Turns out that they weren't just trainers. They were generals on my father's army. Even Blake was a highly decorated Captian, which given that he wasn't much older than me and Alex was a shock. Even Alex seemed to get along with the three men, and Blake was a very entertaining person. He may have been a high ranked military official, but he was still a goofball. Something that made the dinner much more enjoyable. I spent the next day back at Princess Practice for the ceremony that was now less than a week away, and the fast approaching day

