Jasmine looked in extreme agitation at the boarding school.
"Daddy I don't wanna go to boarding school! Boarding school has so many rules and restrictions, as if I don't get enough when I'm home! I wanna be like all the other girls!" She whined, stroking her huge fluffy tabbycat Rajah through the barson
the door of his cat carrier. He purred, but looked up at her longingly, sensing her anxiety, and meowed once, veryquietly, almost silently, Jasmine smiled weakly, she always loved when he meowed like that, his 'silent meow' as she calledit,which
he only did when he was worried about her, or he was begging for his favorite salmon treats, mostly the latter, because usually she was a fiery carefree young girl, singing and dancing in her tower bedroom with a view of the wholekingdom of Agrabah.
But not today.
"I've told you this before Jasmine! It'll be fun! It seems like only yesterday I was graduating from Auradon school ofadvanced learning!You'll make new friends!" Her father said
"That I'll never see again outside of school." She countered,
"Your classes could be fun..." Her father hedged,
"'Ruling a kingdom: the basics'... Really daddy? How am I supposed to rule a kingdom if I'm not even allowed outside the palace walls? A good ruler interacts with her subjects! Fulfills their needs personally! They don't throw it to some sketchy royalvizier
to do it for them! They need to hear what the people want for the source!"
The sultan shook his head,
"You always were headstrong... Just like your mother... She had crazy ideas like that too."
"I learned from the best." Jasmine muttered under her breath,
"And don't talk about Jafar like that, he's a brilliant man, I trust him with my life..." Her father snapped.
"Well then why don't you marry him?!" Jasmine snapped right back.
They glowered at each other for a moment, then they started laughing, the absurdity of what she had said.
"Besides..." Jasminecontinued, "we both know the real reason that you want me here... To mingle with all the eligible princes in the world of Auradon."
"Jasmine I met your mother here... And we turned out just fine..." Her father said hesitantly. They rarely talked about her mother, it brought back too many painful memories for them both.
"That doesn't mean me and whoever you set me up with from this school would! If I am goingto marry... I want to do it for love." Jasmine said, stroking Rajah's fluffy head.
She started to walk into the school, and her father said,
"Just promise me you'll think about it..."
Jasmine stopped. She looked over her shoulder at her father, hesitated, and said,
"I'll try..."