The morning skies through the open window of the classroom were streaked with red and pink lines. The clouds a wondrous magenta as the classroom slowly filled with people. It seemed that everyone else was so tired and exhausted, dragging their feet or sipping at their coffees like they had just pulled one hell of an overnighter. The poor lot of them. They probably didn't have anything going on at all. Their day was going to be as dismal as the one before and as dismal as the one that would happen tomorrow.

But not her day. Her day and the lucky someone's was going to be filled with excitement. Today would be a day to mark on the calendar. It would be a day fondly looked back on and glorified with laced words and pretty memories of the dress she was wearing.

Yeah, Aladdin was very pleased with herself. This was going to be an amazing day. She couldn't wait for the moment to come…

Of course, he would have to be there. If he didn't come to class today, then she would be without her opportunity and she would have to make up another excuse to her sweet mother to have the woman help her look extra nice. Then of course, she would have to come up with another excuse to her friends as to why she was looking so gorgeous today. She had been up very, very early just to look the way she did. Her mother and her had fumbled through her wardrobe, pulling out dress after dress before Aladdin had gone on the prowl and had gone into her mother's closet.

The white dress she had chosen had been one her mother had gone gushing on about the entire time her hair had been being done. She had listened to her mother go on about what a horrible day it had been until her father had literally stomped on her foot after giving her the longest, most heated debate of her life in the office. The stomping had been a mistake on his part, but her mother acted like it was destiny's designs.

"If he hadn't done it, I wouldn't be with him today and I wouldn't have my most precious little blueberry to dote on." Sheba had cooed, finishing up the rather complicated braid she was putting her hair in.

"Hot dayam…"

Aladdin looked up in surprise as she heard that voice, hearing a low growl accompanying it to warn that someone was not pleased with that remark. Her gaze met that of the quarterback's and Sinbad seemed to have caught a pass. He was heading over with his morning coffee and sliding into the seat beside her.

"Hot damn, hot damn… What have you been doing this morning because wherever you are going, give me twenty minutes to change this afternoon and I will definitely pay."

Ja'far smacked him with the newspaper and looked over at Aladdin. "Sorry about him. You do look quite cute, Aladdin. Is there some kind of celebration that your family is doing again?"

"Ah… not really. I just wanted to look nice today." Aladdin blushed a little, moving around her books a little as Sinbad swatted the newspaper on his head away.

"You look far better than nice. If you were looking to look nice, you should have dressed down. You look ready to be whisked off to heaven."

"Sin! Honestly!" Ja'far pulled Sinbad's chair away, taking it towards where his actual desk was.

"I'm bein' honest! She could be on the cover of the damn school newspaper dressin' like that!"

"I am not going with your sexiest women of the school idea!"

"IT WOULD BOOST SCHOOL NEWSPAPER SALES!"

"And get me kicked from the newspaper! Drink your damn frappichino before I show you where I can shove it."

Aladdin had to shake her head at the two, her gaze returning to the window to avoid looking at anyone else in the class. Being in one of the higher level classes was wonderful. It gave her the chance to at least be near him, but there were also many other older friends that would make this difficult. She would have to wait…

On the upside, since Sinbad had taken the desk chair next to her, that meant that no one could necessarily take the seat. With Sinbad and Ja'far arguing at their teacher assistant seats, it left a great opportunity for her to ignore things until class began.

And with class having to begin, it would give the chosen one his moment to come in late, as always, with his morning energy drink or while he was fixing his eye shadow.

"Hey, Aladdin."

Aladdin smiled brightly at the desk in front of her as Alibaba sat down. "Alibaba! Good morning!"

"What holiday is it today?"

"It isn't…"

"Oh… You look nice though."

"Do I need a holiday in order to look nice? I just wanted to dress up today!" Aladdin bit her tongue a little to keep from being too defensive, but there was a feel to what she said that made the other raise his hands.

"Sorry! Whatever. I'm going to work with Kassim today for lab. Are you going to work with Morgiana?"

"No, Mor-san said she wasn't feeling well today."

"Oh… Maybe Sinbad will work with you."

She gave a shrug and her attention returned to the clouds outside as Kassim came in and began to gripe at Alibaba for leaving the toilet seat up at home. The adopted brothers seemed to argue every chance they got.

Soon it would be time for class, the teacher would come in and the teacher assistants would be corralled so that they could actually get things accomplished. Then he would come in.

"En-nii!"

Aladdin looked over as Kouha stood in the doorway, complaining to his brother as the elder boy all but dragged him to a seat in the back and sat him down. "Public school or my dogs need watched."

"Be reasonable!"

Kouen raised a brow at him before looking around and pausing as his gaze drifted to her. The red head was a senior, a scary one at that, but he was Judal's adopted brother. Which meant-

"Poor En-nii," that familiar voice sneered as finally the man of the hour arrived. His backpack was strapped over one shoulder as he had a hand in his pocket and leaned against the door. He attire wasn't bad, she supposed. He had a nice blue shirt and some jeans on.

"Don't piss me off this morning, Judal."

"I wasn't planning on it. You keep that one away." Judal flicked Kouha with one finger as his wrist jingled from his gold bangles. "I think I can keep from pissing you off for a while."

Aladdin slipped the spare seat from behind her next to her and tried to look away. She could hear someone snicker at her actions, but she tried to ignore them. She could see Kougyoku come in and move to sit nearby leaving a space next to her for…

No… There was no way…

Well, she had dressed up to be noticed.

Judal began to move to sit down next to Kougyoku and Aladdin felt herself panic a little as he was paused by a feigning hurt Kouha. She leaned forward and tapped Alibaba's shoulder quickly. "Hey, Alibaba? Did Kougyoku ever return those notes from last week's lab?"

"Ah- what?"

"The lab notes from last week."

"Oh! Oh shit! No she didn't." Alibaba stood up and hurried over to the open seat by Kougyoku, sitting down to talk to her as Kassim snickered away at his idiocy.

Judal sat down next to Aladdin and dumped his bag onto the desk, pulling out his morning drink and sipping at it a little before giving a rather large yawn.

"Good morning…"

"Huh? Oh 'sup, Chibi. You trying to look womanly or somethin' for once today?"