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We flew all night long. After about an hour on Carpet, I felt myself dozing off.
Don't fall asleep on Genie. Don't fall asleep on Genie. I kept telling myself.
It didn't work.
The next thing I heard was Genie laughing and Aladdin yelling. I cracked open my eyes to see that I was now leaning on Genie's shoulder (not his back) and Lisa was standing up on Carpet, acting as if he was a surf board.
"C'mon Lisa! You'll fall!" Aladdin yelled at her.
"I will not! I know what I'm doing."
I sat up slowly and the motion caught Genie's attention.
He turned his head to look at me and smiled.
"Have a good sleep?"
"Yep. Thanks, by the way, for letting me lean on you." I smiled in appreciation.
Genie laughed lightly and poofed into a pillow.
"Anytime! I'll always be here for you to lay on!" He said.
He poofed back to normal and Lisa finally sat back down.
She leaned close to me and whispered in my ear.
"So…LAY on him, he says…"
I glared at Lisa as my cheeks flared up.
"You know as well as I do that he didn't mean THAT."
"How do we know that? You didn't see him glance back at you about 3,000 times while you were asleep with this goofy grin….not his normal one, a different one, mind you…on his face."
I looked at her curiously and she nodded her head.
"Yep. He did."
Just then the oasis came into view. Genie changed into a stewardess garb and cups of tea appeared in our hands as we flew closer.
"Thank you for choosing Magic Carpet for all your travel needs. Don't stand until the rug has come to a complete stop."
Carpet came to a halt and folded his end like stairs for us to get off. As we got off, Genie waved to us.
"Thank you. Good bye, good bye! Thank you! Good bye!"
After we were all off Carpet, Genie turned back to normal.
"Well, now. How about that, Mr. Doubting Mustafa?"
We all looked at each other and smiled sneakily.
"Oh, you sure showed me. Now about my three wishes…" started Aladdin.
"Dost mine ears deceive me?" said Genie. "Three? You are down by ONE, boy!"
Genie shoved a big, blue finger in Aladdin's face.
"Ah, no…" said Aladdin, pushing Genie's finger out of his face. "I never actually wished to get out of the cave. You did that on your own."
Genie got a look of disbelief on his face.
"Sorry, but that IS how it happened…" I said.
"Yeah, you should know better than to trust a street rat." Lisa said.
His jaw dropped.
"Well I feel sheepish."
He turned into a sheep and got into Aladdin's face.
"Alright you baaaaad boy! But no more freebies."
He turned by to normal and floated to two palm trees and hung himself between them as if he was on a hammock. I walked over where he was and leaned on the palm tree beside him.
Aladdin started pacing with Carpet following him and Lisa just stood still, watching us all.
"Fair deal. So, three wishes. I want them to be good. What would you guys wish for?"
Aladdin asked all of us.
"Let's see…." Lisa thought to herself. "Art supplies." She said after a bit. "Endless art supplies…mountains of art supplies…valleys FULL of them!"
"I take it you're an artist." Genie said, his eyes closed.
"I used to be." Lisa shrugged and left it at that.
"Sarah?" asked Aladdin.
I looked down.
I have no idea!
I noticed that Genie had opened one eye and was watching me closely. I shook it off and concentrated on my answer. I soon started re-running things in my mind.
I lay in my makeshift bed, my stomach aching from its first day without food.
"You are a worthless street rat. You were born a street rat. You'll die a street rat. And only your fleas…and maybe your whores will mourn you."
Aladdin solemnly hands Lisa and I a dagger, saying we may one day need it.
"Now no struggling, girly. Otherwise, I'll have to get rough."
I watch Lisa, although she doesn't realize it, cry silently on the anniversary of Sam's death.
I vomit in a back alley on the anniversary of my parents' deaths.
"Someday Abu, Lisa, Sarah…things are going to change. We'll be rich…live in a palace…and never have any trouble at all."
"I would wish for a better life for my family and me. I would wish for all the pain and heartache that we had to go through to be washed away and that we could finally live in peace of mind."
I came out of my reverie quickly.
"But this isn't our wish, Aladdin. This is yours. So YOU make a decision."
Aladdin nodded solemnly.
"What about you?" Aladdin asked Genie.
"Me?" Genie replied, floating to the ground. "No one's ever asked me that before. Well, in my case,...ah, forget it."
"What? No, tell me." Aladdin said, his interest peaked.
Lisa walked over next to me to watch some more.
"No, I can't, I-"
I put my hand on his shoulder and he looked in my eyes.
"Please?"
He took a deep breath.
"Freedom." Genie stated, showing his gold cuffs.
"You're a prisoner?" Aladdin asked.
Genie nodded.
"It's all part-and-parcel, the whole genie gig."
He grew gigantic and had a booming voice.
"Phenomenal cosmic powers!.."
He shrunk down into his lamp, looking cramped and incredibly uncomfortable.
"Itty bitty living space."
I hissed slightly at his pain.
"Ouch…"
Lisa grimaced with me.
"Genie, that's terrible." Aladdin stated.
"But, oh--to be free..." Genie said as he floated out of the Lamp.
"Not have to go "Poof! What do you need? Poof! What do you need? Poof! What do you need?!""
By the time he finished this he had a death grip on Aladdin's vest.
"To be my own master, such a thing would be greater than all the magic and all the treasures in all the world!"
He was now a little higher than the rest of us. I smiled at the sincerity in his voice.
"But what am I talking about, here? Let's get real here. It's not gonna happen. Genie, wake up and smell the hummus."
"Eh?" Lisa asked.
"Why not?" Aladdin added.
"The only way I get outta this is if my master wishes me out. So you can guess how often that's happened."
"Well that sucks." I stated.
Genie snorted and gave me a 'ya think?' look.
"I'll do it. I'll set you free." said Aladdin.
Genie looked at him skeptically.
"Uh huh, yeah, right."
His head changed to Pinocchio's with a long nose and he made a "whoop" sound.
Aladdin rolled his eyes and pushed Genie's nose back to normal saying:
"I'm serious! After make my first two wishes, I'll use my third wish to set you free."
Aladdin held out his hand. Genie looked at it for a minute, then sighed.
"Well, here's hopin'."
He shook Aladdin's hand.
"Alright, let's make some magic!"
He briefly turned into a magician with cards flying everywhere before poofing next to Aladdin, leaning on his shoulder.
"So how 'bout it? What is it you want most?"
Aladdin started rubbing the back of his head.
"Well...there's this girl…"
Lisa and I both rolled our eyes.
Genie made a sound like a buzzer and showed a heart with a circle and a line through it on his chest.
"Wrong! I can't make anybody fall in love, remember?"
As he said this he tapped Aladdin on his head. I walked over and stood next to him.
"Yeah Aladdin, didn't we go over this…last night?"
Aladdin sighed.
"Sarah, you know! And Genie, you don't understand! She's smart and fun and..."
"Pretty?" offered Genie.
"Beautiful!"
Genie and I looked at each other in an 'of course she is!' look and I heard Lisa start to 'gag' behind us as Aladdin continued his rampage.
"She's got these eyes that just...and this hair, wow...and her smile."
Aladdin sighed and the scene changed.
Genie, Lisa, Abu, Carpet, and I were all standing in a Parisian café now.
Lisa was sitting at a stool with an easel in front of her, dressed in all black with a beret on.
Carpet and Abu were sitting at the table drinking wine.
Genie was standing next to me in a black and white striped shirt, a black beret and black pants smoking a cigarette.
I stood wearing a sexy red dress, with strappy red heels.
Genie put his arm around me and blew a smoke heart from his cigarette.
"Ami. C'est l'amour."
"But she's the princess." Aladdin continued. "To even have a chance, I'd have to be a…"
I swear, you could see the light bulb go off!
"Hey, can you make me a prince?"
We all changed back to normal, except for Genie who now wore glasses and a pink apron. He held a large 'Royal Cookbook'. I peaked over his shoulder at it and Lisa took a place beside Aladdin.
"Let's see here. Uh, chicken a'la king? (He pulled out a chicken with a crown on its head) Nope. (he tossed it aside) Alaskan king crab? (he yanked out his finger and we saw a crab that looked surprisingly like Sebastian) Ow, I hate it when I do that. Caesar's salad? (A dagger came out and tried to stab him.) Et tu, Brute? No!"
I had taken a good two steps away from the book by this time.
"Ah," Genie said at last. "To make a prince."
He looked slyly at Aladdin.
"Now is that an official wish? Say the magic words!"
"Genie, I wish for you to make me a prince!" Aladdin said in a very heroic voice.
I giggled and Lisa rolled her eyes.
"All right! (he turned into Arsenio Hall) Woof woof woof woof!"
Then, Genie turned into a tailor.
"First, that fez and vest combo is much too third century. These patches--what are we trying to say--beggar? No! Let's work with me here."
It was Lisa's turn to laugh as I buried my head in my hand and shook it.
Then, Genie took Aladdin's measurements and snapped his fingers.
Genie faked gasped at his creation.
"I like it! Moi mocho!"
Aladdin now stood in his Prince outfit, admiring himself in the mirror.
Lisa and I looked at each other and clapped at Aladdin. He looked at us and smiled, and then at Genie.
"What about them?"
"They are your family, no?" asked Genie, still in character.
"Yeees..." said Aladdin.
"Then, we'll have to make them look like princesses!"
He poofed next to Lisa first and circled her once.
"I'm thinking something liiike this!"
He snapped his fingers and Lisa was now wearing a new, pretty outfit.
Her pants and shoes were now dark blue. Her shirt was tight to her form and covered her midriff, but had no straps and was a lighter shade of blue. She had a silver snake arm band circling her left bicep and wore a silver choker. Her hair was still in dread locks, but they were pilled decoratively on the top of her head. She also had a silver circlet on her head that had a sapphire in the middle of it. It looked nice…but something was missing. It wasn't 'Lisa.'
I 'hmmed' and Genie looked at me.
"Problem, sweetheart?"
A thought popped into my head.
"Why don't you…" I whispered the rest in his ear.
"Oh hoho! That's perfect!" He said, and snapped his fingers again.
The outfit was almost the same as before, except now her shirt was more of a corset and the ribbing was actually ninja spitting needles. The shirt also had sheer blue fabric connecting the top of the shirt to her choker, which now had a small clear gem hanging from it, but I knew that the gem actually held a poison in which to dip the needles and darts. She now had a belt that matched the color of her shoes, but this belt was made for a ninja. There were at least a dozen silver kunai hanging from her belt, glinting in the sunlight as they swished gently. In between the kunai were small pouches, which I told Genie to put shuriken into. Her wrists had wraps on them to help with the stability of her wrists and arms when she used her weapons.
Lisa ran over to the mirror and looked in. Her eyes lit up at her Arabian/Ninja princess getup.
She turned back and looked at Genie.
"Thank you SO much!"
Aladdin put his hand on Lisa's shoulder.
"You look good, sis!"
"Thanks. Okay Sarah, you're next."
"Right." said Genie.
Genie repeated the process as he circled me once…then twice….then three times.
When he started his third time around, Lisa cleared her throat.
I shot her a dirty look and she grinned and shot me 'the heart'.
Genie smirked slightly, and I wasn't sure I liked the look. As he snapped his fingers all I could think was:
Please let me be in more than my underwear.
When the smoke cleared and I looked at myself in the mirror, I was very happy with what I saw.
My pants were dark emerald green. My shirt, which was light green, revealed my stomach (and my belly-button ring) and stopped just before my ribs. The sleeves were long and see through, but did not cuff at my wrist. Rather, they belled out around my elbow. My hair was pulled out of my face by way of the circlet, which had an emerald in it. My hair in the style it was before and my sapphire earrings were glistening in the sunlight.
"I love it, Genie. But mine and Lisa's outfits don't look very...well, Arabian." I stated.
He smiled.
"True, but you are FOREIGN royalty, aren't you?"
I nodded and smiled at his reasoning.
"By the way," he continued. "Those sapphire earrings kinda clash with the outfit. You want me to change 'em?"
I looked down quickly. I could feel my eyes darkening over.
"No."
I stole a quick glance at Genie, to see him looking very confused.
"These were my grandmother's earrings. My parents gave them to me for my thirteenth birthday. It's…all I have left of them…"
Genie winced.
"Sorry."
I smiled at his apology.
"It's okay. You didn't know. But I really do love the outfit."
Genie laughed nervously.
"Hehehe…yeah. Well,.." He turned back into the tailor. "These ensembles need more! They say something to me…they say…Mode of Transportation! Excuse me, monkey boy! Aqui, over here!"
We all looked to see Abu trying to hide behind Carpet. I cocked an eyebrow at his antics. Carpet flipped him over and flew him to us as the scene changed into a game show, with Genie as the host.
"Here he comes, and what better way to make your grand entrance on the streets of Agrabah, than riding your very own brand new camel! Watch out, they spit!"
Abu was magically transformed into a camel. Both my eyebrows shot up and Lisa let out a little laugh.
"Mmm, not enough." Genie said, as he snapped his fingers.
Abu was then transformed into a horse similar to the fop's at the beginning, only white.
"Still not enough!" Genie was not satisfied.
He started snapping his fingers, turning Abu into multiple forms of transportation, from a duck, to an ostrich, to a turtle, and a finally a car, saying "What do we need?" over and over again.
Finally, he decided.
"Yes!! Esalalumbo, shimin dumbo! Boo!"
Abu was now an elephant.
Lisa and I both broke out laughing.
I walked over and patted Genie on the shoulder.
"He's PERFECT!"
He smiled cheesily at me.
"Talk about your trunk space, check this action out!"
I giggled at the joke.
Abu saw his reflection in the water of the oasis and let out a terrified sound. He jumped up into a tree, which could no longer hold his weight, and was now hanging upside-down in front of Aladdin.
"Whoa, Abu…you look good."
"I don't know…" Lisa started. "I think he might be compensating for something."
I looked at Lisa with a look of shock on my face.
'DISNEY!' I mouthed to her.
She shrugged and mouthed 'Not my problem.'
Genie chose now to intervene.
"He's got the outfit, he's got the elephant, he's got the princesses for sisters, but we're not through yet. Hang on to your turban, kid. We're gonna make you a star!"
Lisa and I looked at each other with the same expressions on our faces.
'Ego much?'
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