Chapter One:

I was panicking. For the first time in my life, I, Jasmine, crown princess and the only heir left to my people, was freaking out. How could I put him in danger? I must have gone through the scenario a thousand times in my mind. We ran, we had escaped, and all for what? Only to be found again by that man. . That cruel, evil, selfish WORM. It disgusts me the way he thinks he owns me. How could my people allow this! How could they willingly hand me over to Ramses? Yes, the proud Egyptian Pharoah, Ramses. Renowned to be a ruthless monarch and one horribly womanizing, ladies man.

Oh the injustice of it all!

I collapsed onto my bed sobbing. No one really cares about me.
Or at least no one did till him. Aladdin. He's not even here and already I felt safe again just by thinking his name. He was always there for me. He still is there for me, and always sticking his neck out on the line for me.

I don't really like to think about the past. There's too much pain and suffering. I've read about the great civil war, how my parents were assassinated. The citizens possessed by a great evil tore up and ravished my kingdom. Complete and utter chaos. It is lost to our present council how it all ended, but I am told I inherited my powers from my mother, so she must have somehow been involved. It is said that during the night, a great wave of silence passed through, purifying all evil, and taking many lives. It was out of this bloodshed that our new era came to be, and Agrabah was once again a city blossoming with culture.

I hate my gift. It's really a curse, to see the future and knowing what will come to pass. That being said, this is the first time my gift has ever shown me a glimmer of hope. Although I have foreseen the destruction of our world, I saw our kind coming together to stop it. Knowing that there are people out there that care enough to take a stand gave me courage. Courage I had lacked only days ago.

Days before

"Aladdin what are you doing here! You'll be seen!"

"I'm sorry, I needed to see how you were holding up."

"Well not very good. Al, I've managed to hold Ramses off, but I
fear eventually he'll come to claim me. He seems to have forgotten marriage means both parties have to say 'I do'."

"Jas, I can't do this anymore. I can't sit here and watch him...ugh use you like that. You deserve better."

"What can I do though? Every other Prince that has come to pursue me has been after the same thing! Power! What I would give to have your freedom and just run away from it all."

"Jasmine?"

"yeah?"

"We've been friends for a long time, and I don't know if this'll work, and I mean, don't get me wrong, all I want for you is to be happy, but I don't know if you'd be okay with this, and uhh"

"Spit it out!"

"What about marrying me?"

Woah. Wait a second. Am I dreaming again?

"okay, obviously you weren't expecting that, but Jas"

No, I've only dreamed it. Never thought you'd actually ask me though! 3

"wait wait wait wait wait! Not that I'm, um, opposed to the idea but, the law kinda says you have to be a prince Al, and no offense, but unless you either left out some details when we were kids or magically inherited a thrown I doubt this could work."

"Jas, I haven't been completely, well, honest with you these past couple years."

"What do you mean?"

"Okay, gosh this is hard. I mean, I know you got powers and your cool with that, and not necessarily freaked out by it or anything but...okay, here goes. I got em too."

"..."

"I can tell when people lie. I can see what their hiding, what the truth is. Of course I've never had to really use it on you really, cause you've always been honest with me."

"Okay. So how does this help me again?"

"What I'm saying is, maybe I can make my powers work in a different way. I've never tried it before, but I was thinking what if I lied my way into royalty? Made Ramses, Jafar and your council believe I was a Prince? Then you could be free."

"Aladdin, this is so farfetched. I can't let you risk your life any more than you already have for me."

"It's my life to risk."

"But Al, you're my best friend. If anything happened to you I - "

I shuddered. I would die. It would hurt. I'd be empty.

"I just can't let anything happen to you."

He smiled at me. That adorable boyish smile that made my insides twist like pretzels.

"Jasmine, for once you need to let me save you."

"but-"

"No lemme finish. Since we've been kids, you've gotten me out of more scrapes with the palace guards than I can count. I mean, when no one in the world gave a damn about me you did, and I love you for that. But now it's my turn. I won't idly sit by and let him hurt you. I can't, I..."

He seemed wistful, like he wanted to say more, but then continued.

"That's why regardless of what you want, I'm doing this. I feel the same way. Without you, I'd have nobody. We need each other, right?"

I smiled.

"Your hopeless, you know that?"

"I know, I know, your life is SO hard dealing with me."

"Your such a whiner"

"Your not so perfect either dear"

"Hey!"

We chuckled. Putting his arm around me I walked him out to my balcony.

"You'd better get going. It's only a matter of time before someone comes to check on me."

"Alright, alright. Sleep well princess"

Watching him go I felt the loneliness start to creep in. That'd been happening a lot lately. Still, I smiled to myself. There was so much stuff to do!

I laughed once more and shook my head.

Tomorrow's going to be interesting.