Teach Me How To Live -~Zen Wistaria x Reader~-

20

It's the morning of my birthday. I woke up to a cupcake smashed into my forehead.. Juniper and leon thought they were real slick with that one till I beat them up and kicked them out of my room so I could wash up.

I took a nice bath and changed into one of my old dresses. The lavender one I love so much. It finally fits right now. Before I left alfin, it was baggy and even in clarines but now that I'm healthy, it finally fits.

After my bath, I made breakfast for everyone. Just eggs, toast and pancakes. We ate for a while, laughing and talking. Juniper played with my hair for a while. She made it pretty and used my hair stick to finish it. She did this pretty fishtail braid. It almost reminded me of my old hairstyle. She grabbed a bunch of flowers from outside and put a ton of them in the braid as well then she did her own hair too. Leon even sat still long enough to get a flower in his hair as well. Near here was clarines' castle town. It's a risk to go there but we decided to take it anyway, just to see how things were. I haven't been there for nearly 2 years anyway so I doubt they'd notice me. I wore the cloak shirayuki gave me anyway and even left my swords behind. I kept my hood down though ponly because Juniper wished people could see her beautiful work.

"Will you ride a little faster? Come on leon!" Juniper giggled as we road ahead.

"You two are messing up your hair, I'd ride slower if I were you!" Leon shouted to us.

"Dont you know messy hair is in right now?" I shouted back while giggling. This is the most fun I've had for quite some time now.

We road into town like normal kids would. I guess we are adults now though, im 20 after all and they're even older.. But we had fun and paid no attention to ourselves. We spent a while just walking around and having fun.

"Whoa! No way! Is there a festival tonight?" I asked the woman at a clothing stand and was totally excited.

"You haven't heard? It's princess Y/n Moons birthday is today! The town is holding a party in hopes of having her return home someday to celebrate with us. Shes been apart of clairnes for some time now, we've missed her since she announced her title. She hasn't been back since the attack on tanburan either.." the woman explained to me as my face slowly fell. A party in my honor.. how do they even know when my birthday is?..

"Really?.. but she almost had prince zen killed, didn't she?.. he ran away to get her, right?.." I asked and was trying to just be curious.

"Prince zen loved her and so did all of we, no one was angry. She left him after the attack though, no one knows why.." She sighed as I lowered my head.

"It mustve been to protect him, she loved him too, don't forget" Juniper stepped in with a smile.

"I wouldn't doubt that. Even so, we all wish she would came back" the woman smiled as I took a step back and turned away.

"Thank you for letting us know about the celebration, we'll be leaving now" Leon smiled to the woman as I sighed.

"N/n, they're celebrating in your honor. Maybe we were supposed to come here afterall" Juniper put a hand on my shoulder and smiled.

"They want their princess back too it seems" Leon stood on my other side with a smile.

"Its too bad she won't be here tonight for it.." I answered quietly while we walked.

"Why couldn't she celebrate her own birthday with people who love her? No one would know she's even here" Juniper hummed happily to cheer me up.

"No.. Why don't you two go for me? I'd like some of the food they sell tonight. I'd rather sit down in a tree somewhere and watch anyway" I smiled to the both of them.