The room was pitch black. Nothing could be heard except the faint sound of a woman's voice…
Title: The Secret Room
Author: Ryoko
Email: RyokoVenus@yahoo.com
Rating: R – NOT a part of the 'Alesfics' - modernized time of Disney characters - enjoy
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She walked into the room; low v-cut blouse, midriff revealed, and an extra short skirt. Her hips swayed as she head over to her usual seat. His eyes roamed her body. She came into the cafeteria every morning at the same time – 10 minutes later than she was supposed to be there.
"Esmeralda…" Jasmine's voice said, watching the scantily dressed girl sit down. "How nice of you to join us," she remarked, being sarcastic as ever. His eyes now stared at the commanding voice of Jasmine. She wore a tube top, leaving her golden shoulders bare. Her flat tummy always showed gracefully and her low-cut jeans sat comfortably on her hips. Esmeralda faux smiled and then opened her notebook. The other girls already had a few things written down.
"With all of the men at the war and me in a high position, there is horrific danger; I'm afraid this is the last day," Jasmine began. Several gasps noised from the mouths of the room. Jasmine looked down to her shoes and sighed heavily. "Which is why I'm glad I began to instruct all of you on Palace life a week ago," she said, attempting to smile. Aladdin kept his eye focused on Jasmine. His leg began to fall asleep but he tried to keep it still, knowing that if he made any kind of noise, the girls would hear him. He had been in hiding ever since the call of war came about. Being a royal figure, he saw no reason for him to have to actually be in the army. Sure he wanted to command it, but from a far and safe distance. Everyone thought he left. He had been real good at being sneaky and he enjoyed spying on the girls everyday. He was getting lonely, not being able to be around his Jasmine everyday. Their outfits are what intrigued him the most. "I didn't think this would come so early," Jasmine continued. "The servant girls are packing my things as we speak, and it will be up to you girls to keep this Palace running," A hand went up in the crowd.
"Jasmine, you can smile. You need to have faith in us – we can do this!" the eager Belle stated. Aladdin's eye darted to her cute little figure. Sure, Belle was a quiet girl, and her fashion was outdated, but she was the only one who could pull off overalls and make it look sexy. Jasmine smiled and waved a hand before leaving the cafeteria.
"We drug our asses out here for that?!" Megara heaved. The hidden eye roamed her twice over. Megara was a tall gal with long legs that went on for days. It also helped that she wore high heels and short cut-off jeans. She didn't really have a chest, but her butt made up for it. "This notebook from the past week is not going to help us run a Palace!" she retorted, standing up and throwing her notebook on the table. From where he hid, Aladdin could clearly see her jeans were riding up her butt from sitting. And what a tight butt it was too!
"Megara calm down," another voice said. Pocahontas stood up, her perky breasts bouncing. Aladdin grinned. Pocahontas could get away with wearing just about anything – and she did. Her tops barely covered her large goods most times. "This shouldn't be much different from our normal, everyday lives," she took the notebook in her arms and began to leave. All the other girls followed her except Esmeralda, who fell back asleep, her head resting on the table. Aladdin's eye was drawn to her cute figure since she was the only one left in the room. Seeing that she was asleep, he slowly opened the pantry door and crept out. Esmeralda blinked quickly. She could have sworn she saw Aladdin!
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The girls stood outside, shielding their faces from the flying sand particles. Jasmine pulled her hood up over her head and kissed her hand before waving it in the air to say goodbye. Everyone waved and watched her climb into the helicopter. From Jasmine's room, Aladdin hid behind the sheer curtain that separated her living space from the balcony. As he saw the helicopter door close, he slowly walked out to the edge of the balcony and leaned forward on the railing to watch her leave. Jasmine waved politely from the window where she sat. The girls all waved as the helicopter slowly lifted off the ground. They saw her smile brightly and then they saw her eyes grow wide. The girls were confused. The helicopter rose and Jasmine's hands pressed tightly against the window.
"Maybe she gets air sick," Pocahontas commented, after seeing Jasmine's frightened face pressed against the helicopter window. Aladdin blew Jasmine a kiss as the helicopter flew past her balcony. Jasmine was in complete shock as she saw Aladdin standing there so casually. Was it all in her mind? Was it possible that in all this craziness she had hallucinated seeing him on her balcony?
Aladdin quickly went back inside to Jasmine's room so that the other girls wouldn't catch him standing there. Once inside, he plopped down on Jasmine's large bed. He could easily hide out here until she came back. The other girls head back inside the Palace.
"Well…now what?" asked Belle as they stood inside. Two servant girls closed the large doors behind them.
"Now nothing. Just relax," Megara's cool voice rang. Pocahontas looked over to the entrance throne where the girl was casually lounging.
"She's right," Pocahontas started. "We just act as ourselves and if any major problems come up-"
"We refer to the notebook notes she gave us!" Belle answered, holding up her own blue notebook. The other girls rolled their eyes.
"Well I don't know about you, but I'm not hanging around this joint," Pocahontas said heading towards the treasury. Megara seemed interested at where she was walking.
"Where are you going, Poc?" she asked, clumsily climbing out of the chair to follow her. Pocahontas grinned evilly and continued to walk until she got to the treasury doors. A servant girl held her hand up at her.
"I'm sorry – you cannot enter this, ma'am," the servant girl said. Pocahontas arched her brow.
"I have orders from Queen Jasmine," Pocahontas said, holding up her notebook with Jasmine's signature on the bottom. The servant girl apologized and stepped aside, opening the door for the two girls to walk in.
"How did you do that?!" Megara asked in awe. Pocahontas headed over to the piles of gold.
"Simple: I told Jasmine before she left that the servants would never allow us to command the orders without her authority," she said as she scooped piles of gold into her bag. "So I have a whole notebook of her blank signatures ready to fill out," she laughed. Megara began piling gold into her purse. The two girls laughed wildly then burst out of the treasury room and headed out of the Palace.
"Where are you going?" shouted Belle, walking after them.
"We have to run some errands for the Queen; be right back!" Megara shouted. Belle stood there silently and then turned around.
"Esmeralda?" she asked. Where had that girl gone so quickly?
Esmeralda was upstairs silently walking around. She heard the commotion downstairs. Before she knew it, quiet Belle was right behind her.
"Holy Allah!" Esmeralda shouted. Belle lightly giggled.
"Sorry! Didn't mean to scare you," she started. Esmeralda had her hand on her heaving chest.
"Too late for that!" she said. Belle felt awkward.
"Um, Pocahontas and Megara left and I wasn't sure where you were and what we're supposed to do so I thought-"
"I'm not doing anything," Esmeralda interrupted. Belle looked stunned. "Um, I mean, I didn't pay enough attention to her lessons so I don't feel skilled," she finished with a smile. Belle smiled back.
"Oh," she started. "Well good, because I was going to ask if I could, kind of, you know…" she stuttered. Esmeralda arched her brow. "Take over, hm?" Belle finished. Esmeralda nodded in agreement.
"Please do!" she said patting Belle on the shoulder. "The place…er, Palace, is all yours!" she remarked, and with that Belle turned around and skipped down the steps to the throne room. Esmeralda sighed in delight. She continued to tiptoe around the hallway and stopped when she got to Jasmine's bedroom. After taking a huge breath, she slowly pushed the door open.
The slight noise made Aladdin stir. He quickly opened his eyes and saw the door gradually creeping open. Making a weird face, he hopped off the bed and ran into the closet, shutting the doors behind him. Esmeralda now had the door open enough to walk in. Her jaw dropped when she saw how gorgeous Jasmine's bedroom was. She shut the door behind her. Aladdin was sure that she locked it when he heard a familiar clicking sound. He closed his eyes tightly and began to think to himself that she apparently planned on being in here a while. He opened them again and tried to peer through the small slits of the doors. Esmeralda was gracefully walking around the room, running her hand smoothly across everything she passed. She sat on the bed and bounced up and down a bit, then head over to the cabinets and began to open each drawer and leaf through the files with her fingers. She wasn't looking for anything in particular, just browsing and being nosey. She turned around and head over towards the bureau. She opened each closet and searched through them as well. She even held some of the things up to her body. Aladdin swallowed hard. He knew that she would go through the closet and then what was he supposed to do? There wasn't anywhere else he could hide! As if she knew what he was thinking, she turned around quickly and her eyes widened as she saw the closet. Aladdin backed away from the doors and hid behind the rows of clothing. It grew bright as she flung the doors wide open and gasped loudly at the scene before her. Never had she seen such exquisite gowns, tops, pants, dresses, skirts, etc. Not to mention the shoes.
"Well that's funny," she said as she looked at the shoes. There seemed to be a path where they were all knocked over. "It's almost as if someone walked through here," she said pushing the first row of clothes apart. Aladdin tried to keep his breathing quiet but his heart was racing fast as he silently cursed himself for not thinking of that. She stared down at the shoes in the second row. They too were all crooked and moved around. She pushed open yet another row of clothes, and another. Aladdin slid over to the very corner, hoping she wouldn't see him hiding back there. Then she gasped loudly once more. He was sure she saw a part of his leg sticking out, or something. "This is sooo beautiful!" she announced. His eyes slowly opened. He heard the clanking of the hanger coming off the rack and she walked out of the closet. He let out a deep sigh and wiped the sweat off his forehead. Slowly, he peered his head out from behind a long gown. Esmeralda was facing the other direction, holding a gorgeous lavender gown up to herself in front of the long mirror. She turned to face the bed and seemed to be thinking of something. In a flash, she had thrown the dress, and herself, onto the bed and began to tear off her shoes. Aladdin blinked hard and immediately came to the conclusion that Esmeralda was set on trying on this gown. 'Not bad,' he thought, 'I get a peep show!' She began to undo the buttons on her blouse and slowly took the shirt off over her arms. Aladdin's eyes widened as her large, beautiful breasts were more revealed – being sustained only by her lacy black bra. She threw the blouse on the bed and began to slide down her short skirt. Just then, Aladdin felt something tickle his nose. He closed his eyes and put a tight grip on his nose. 'Allah, no!' he thought. But his hands grip did nothing but worsen the situation; for not only did he sneeze, but it was a loud, strange sounding one at that. Esmeralda's body stiffened and she quickly pulled her skirt back up and held her blouse up over her chest.
"Who's there?" she asked. Aladdin smacked his forehead and contemplated whether he should reveal himself or let her find him. Esmeralda's eyes narrowed and she walked over to the closet. Throwing her blouse down on the floor, she pushed the first row of clothes apart even farther and continued with the second and the third. As she stared at the last row of clothes she took a deep breath, hoping that she wouldn't find anything dangerous hiding back there. Aladdin breathed heavily and tried to think of something intelligent to say. Suddenly, the clothes flew open and brightness engulfed Aladdin's crouched figure in the corner. "Oh my God!" Esmeralda shouted, bending down to hold her blouse up over her chest again and backing away very quickly. Aladdin stood up and began to shake his hands.
"It's not what you think!" he said coming towards her. She turned around and put her blouse back on, and reached for her shoes. "Honestly," he said placing a hand on her knee. She looked up to him with wide eyes.
"What do you think I think?" she said and then narrowed her eyebrows from what she just said. "I mean, you're supposed to be gone, Jasmine's gone, I'm sneaking through her room and of course the person to catch me in here is her fiancé who should be at WAR!" she said, shaking her hands around violently and grabbing the gown she was still dying to try on.
"Listen, I know I'm supposed to be there but nobody knows the difference! I've been hiding out at the Palace for weeks!" he said, following her over to the closet. She hung the dress up and turned around quickly.
"Well I think everybody's gonna know now!" she shouted in his face. "You think I'm not going to go down there and jus-"
"You're not going to say anything," he said, holding his hand tightly over her mouth. She gave him a mean glare. "Or I'll make sure everyone knows that you're sneaking through the Queen's room," he finished, hoping that sounded like enough of a threat. He released his hand and sat on Jasmine's bed. Esmeralda stared at the ground for a while before realizing she never buttoned her blouse. As she slowly connected the bottom buttons, Aladdin continued to talk.
"I was planning on hiding out here. I knew no one would come in here…well, I thought no one else would come in here," he said, slightly laughing. Esmeralda finished the buttons and walked over to where he sat.
"Well I've decided that I won't tell anyone," she started but then threw her hands in the air. "But what am I supposed to do about this?" she asked. "I mean, even if no one else knows you're here, I do!"
"You could come visit me," Aladdin said with a smile. She smirked at him. "I'm getting lonely with all this sneaking around! It would be nice to have someone to talk to," he started. Esmeralda sat down on the edge of the bed next to him.
"Okay," she replied, thinking up a plan in her head. "But you have to promise me that I can use this space as my living quarters," she demanded looking him square in the eye.
"Wait, what?" he asked, feeling skeptical. "I was going to use this as my living quarters!" She placed her hand lightly on his arm.
"I need to get away from those girls and in here I can hide!" she said, her eyes widening in delight. "It's got everything! A great view, a bed, clothes, a bath,"
"Food… I know!" Aladdin finished. "And that's why I need this space! I can't go anywhere else or I'll be caught!"
"Well how did you do it when you were hiding about these past 3 weeks?!" she asked. Aladdin opened his mouth and then quickly closed it again. He looked to the floor as she proudly placed her hands on her hips.
"Touché," he stated. She smiled in satisfaction.
"So I get the room?" she asked in delight. He turned to face her and stared directly into her eyes. Never before had she noticed how beautiful his eyes were. The dark brown orbs pierced her own.
"On one condition:" he started. She swallowed as his finger came between the small distance between their faces. "You share it with me," Her face turned to disgust and she stood up.
"Share it? With you?!" she shouted. He lowered his hands to make her quiet down. "I'm not doing that!" she yelled.
"Fine. Then you don't get the room!" he replied back to her. She put her hands angrily on her waist. "I was here first Esmeralda. The room is plenty big enough for two people," he explained, knowing first hand. She crossed her hands over her chest and looked away. He should know, he was engaged to the Queen after all and everyone knew there were days when the two of them would never even leave Jasmine's chambers. Aladdin stood up and walked over to her, holding out his hand. "Deal?" She stared at his hand a bit before extending her own for them to shake.
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(end of chapter 1)