Chapter 5
"Almost there." Danny told June as he climbed over the edge of the roof and helped her up as well, suddenly she tripped and fell into Danny's arms. He helped her up and they looked into each other's eyes for a second.
"Here we go..." Jake rolled his eyes, obviously jealous.
"I uh...want to thank you for stopping that man." June told him.
"Forget it." Danny smiled as he pole volted over to another building. "So um, is this your first time in the marketplace?"
"Isn't that obvious?" June rose an eyebrow.
"Well, you do kind of stand out." Danny told her, staring dreamily, June just blushed...until she looked like a tomato. Danny realized what he was doing and goes back to normal.
"I mean, uh, you don't seem to realize how dangerous Agrabah can be." He told June, laying a plank across the buildings for her to cross, but she pole volted over instead.
"I'm a fast learner." She said, throwing the pole to Danny. He caught it before it hit Jake, Danny chuckled and handed it to him.
"I wonder what this thing does...I'm gonna name it Bob!" Jake exclaimed stupidly.
"Come on, this way." Danny said, grabbing June's hand and guiding her to his home.
"Come on, Bob. You're my new best friend." Jake said, glaring at Danny. He started dragging the pole along the floor before it snapped in two. "BOB! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
"Woah, watch your head there...be careful." Danny instructed June as they dodged planks and wood pieces on their way up to the deserted room.
"Is this where you live?" She asked.
"Yep, just me and Abu. Come and go as we please." Danny said, proudly.
"That sounds fabulous." June said, amazed.
"It's not much, but it's got a great view." Danny said, drawing back the curtain and revealing a stunning view of the palace.
"The palace looks pretty amazing, huh?" Danny said, looking at it. June's smile dropped.
"Oh, it's wonderful." June said, sitting on the steps.
"I wonder what it'd be like to live there, with servants and valets?" Danny daydreamed.
"Sure, people who tell you where to go and how to dress." June rolled her eyes.
"Well it's better than here." Danny explained, grabbing an apple from Jake, who resisted the urge to bite him. "Always scraping for food and ducking the guards."
"You're not free to make your own choices." June told him.
"Sometimes you feel so..." Danny said.
"You're just..." June said.
"Trapped." They said at the same time, they then smiled at each other. They both realised that somebody in the world understood them.
"So uh, where are you from?" Danny asked June.
"It doesn't matter. I ran away and i'm not going back." June told him.
"Really, how come?" Danny took a bite out of his apple and handed it to Jake, who threw it at him, but it hit the ground instead.
"My father's forcing me to get married." June said, sadly.
"Really? That's...awful." Danny said, Jake then sneaked up from behind June and tried to take the apple.
"Jake!" Danny exclaimed, seeing Jake, Jake then started speaking so fast that nobody could understand him.
"What did he say?" June asked Danny.
"Jake said uh...that's not fair." Danny told June.
"Huh?" Jake asked out of confusement.
"Oh really?" June asked him, smiling.
"Yeah, of course." Danny told her as he came closer to her.
"So does...Jake have anything else to say?" June asked him.
"He wishes there was something he could do to help." Danny said.
"I miss Bob..." Jake whined, not paying any attention to them.
"Tell him that's really...sweet." June said, coming closer to Danny. They were about to kiss when suddenly, they heard a crash.
"Here you are!" Skulker shouted.
"They're after me." They both said at once. "They're after you?"
"Oh, my father must've sent them." June said, worriedly.
"Do you trust me?" Danny asked her, holding out his hand.
"What?" June asked him.
"Do you trust me?" Danny repeated.
"Yes..." June said, taking his hand.
"Then JUMP!" Danny exclaimed, throwing June and himself out the hole in the wall, they fell onto a pile of sand.
"Come on!" Danny shouted, trying to get him and June away, but their paths were blocked by the guards. "Go, get out of here!"
"We just keep running into each other, don't we, street rat?" Skulker insulted Danny.
Skulker's hat is then again pulled down by Jake, but he pulls him off his head and throws him into a vase.
"Let go of him!" June demanded.
"Oh look here, cluster, a street mouse." Skulker said, laughing as he threw June off.
"Unhand him, by order of the princess." June demanded, pulling off her cloak.
"The princess." Skulker said, bowing, the guards that grabbed Danny forced him to bow as well.
"The princess?" Danny asked in confusion.
"The princess?" Jake said from inside the vase, before it fell to the floor and broke. "Ow...my noggin."
"What are you doing outside the palace...and with this street rat?" Skulker asked her.
"That is none of your concern." June said. "Do as I command, release him!"
"I would princess, but my orders come from Freakshow, you have to take it out with him." Skulker told her.
"Believe me, I will." June said, angrily.
"Great, now I have to go after him." Jake said, running after Danny as he was taken away.