Rosella wandered through the empty house, dusting and sweeping the floor. The house had belonged to her mother and aunt.. as children. The house was as old as time, the wood creaked and the entire place smelled of old perfume.. much like her aunt. The sun was beginning to peak over the mountains and over the dark gate about a mile away from the property. Aunt Elsa scolded them once that they stepped too close to the gate, it was a private property.. Rosella didn't know what was so private, one day she walked home from school and wandered near the black gate.. looking at nothing but a broken tree with a large trunk. She noticed a lock on the gate with a strange looking symbol, clearly not for a key.."

Suddenly she heard a knock on the door and opened it, a young figure and a large crate covering his face "Hi Rosella."

"Derek, I thought you'd never arrive!" the boy held up a large crate covering his face, the only recognizable part was his delivery uniform and sneakers. He struggled with the crate "Aw common Ro, you know I wouldn't miss your house for deliveries." He walked into the kitchen and plopped the crate on the ground "What your Aunt does with all this food I'll never know.." finally his face was shown, a young man with black unruly hair, and a piece that always landed between his two blue eyes. He sighed and dusted himself off "It's a wonder that I'm able to carry this all in the truck, and this is a shipment for one month and it lasts a week."

"How much do you have?" Rosella leaned on the counter as Derek huffed "Two more crates.. and a bag of cat food.." she rolled her eyes as Derek nudged her "She can't be all that bad."

"Yeah, because I love getting up at Five o' clock in the morning to polish silver.. who does that anyway.."

Both of them walked to the truck and huffed to lift the crate "So how is Bastian?"

Rosella answered as the crate was placed on the dolly "Still obsessed with those Disney movies you gave him, we went to the library this weekend and got some of the disney fairy tale books.. he had me read them to him."

"That's great!" Derek said as he rolled the crate "I used to watch them all the time until the VCR broke.. so now they just sit and collect dust." He smiled at her "Don't tell me.. he's watching them now?"

"Last week he watched Aladdin over thirty times, The Great Mouse Detective ten times yesterday then he watched the Black Cauldron once last night and I couldn't get him to sleep.."

Derek smiled "The horned king?"

"Who else?" they both laughed "One sight of him and he couldn't sleep.. I started telling him stories of how our parents met.. he never gets tired of that story he's memorized it by now.."

Derek made it to the back of the house and laid the box down "I remember when we first met, you always told me those stories.. an hour for lunch on that playground was well worth it."

"Made you stick around Derek." She playfully nudged him as Aunt Elsa's shrewd voice filled the air "Rosella! There are dishes in the sink! Get to it!" she pointed to Derek "And you! I better not get any crushed eggs in my delivery! One slip up and I call your boss!" Derek quickly put the boxes down and headed to the truck, Rosella waving from the window. She was suddenly pulled back on the collar by her Aunt, "I have work to be done and you're busy canoodling with some bag boy."

"He's my best friend!" she shouted. Elsa scoffed and walked away from the girl "If I were you, gladly I'm not.. I would have better taste in friends." She stuck her tougne out at her aunt and listened to some banging upstairs. She sighed and headed to the second floor of the house.

Rosella walked up to the attic and heard the noises of the VCR, she smiled as she walked up the stairs hearing the end of Aladdin on the small twelve inch screen.

She saw the young man held up the sword "Come out and fight you cowardly snake!"

Jafar walked through the flames "A snake am I? Perhaps you'd like to see how-"

Rosella snuck up behind him and completed the line "Snake like I can be!" she smiled as the boy turned around fast. She laughed as she picked him up and tickled him across the stomach, the sound of the T.V still playing. "S-Stop Rose! It's almost the end!"

She stopped and sat by her brother, watching Aladdin attempt to break Jasmine free from her hourglass prison. Jafar grabbed Aladdin in a tight grip, and Rosella looked at the little boy's amazed look. His blue eyes glued to the screen, syncing his mouth with the words "Are you afraid of Jafar?"

"Pffft nah, he doesn't scare me, If I was with Aladdin I would have been next to him fighting that snake!" he sat up and kept his eyes on the screen "He's just a big wuss without his staff!" Rosella laughed "I would bet that you would have defeated Jafar all on your own."

"Really? I mean I don't like snakes, but I would have grabbed his staff secretly and smash it before he had the chance to use it!" he looked at her for a second, just as Jafar was turning into a Genie, Bastian grabbed an old shoe, as if it was the lamp "Phenomenal cosmic power!.." he watched Jafar being sucked into the lamp "Itty bitty living space!" she tussled his hair and left "Don't let Aunt Elsa catch you up here.. she'll take away the T.V faster than you can say Agrabah!" she smiled at her joke and headed down the stairs.

Bastian stopped her "Rosella? Do you really think I would be able to take down someone like Jafar?"

Rosella smiled at her brother "When the opportunity arrives I have no doubt in the world!" she headed down and left the boy to his wild imagination.. she should have figured those stories would have done that, but she didn't mind.

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