(A/N): Hey belovoed readers! Did ya miss me?!? hehehe. Sorry, I'm a little hyper. And stressed. Spring Musical's in less than 2 weeks...AND WE HAVEN'T EVEN FINSIHED BLOCKING IT YET!!!! (For those less in touch with their theater-self, thats really bad.) So, chapters may come less frequent. But, as stated, I WILL finish this story. It just may take a bit longer than expected.

To Liana: Glad you're still liking it! Yes, there will be randomness. I just gotta get the fluff in as well. Happy reading!

To MCI: ::Takes trophy and medals and starts crying dramaticaly:: I'd like to thank everyone that was invovled in this project...Okay, enough of that. I'll save the drama-queen-ness for the stage. Yeah, now only five chapters left. It makes me sad that I've finished this so soon but also happy, becuase this means I can get started on Aladdin 2 and 3.And there's A LOT of Genie/Sarah fluff coming up in this chapter. Enjoy!

To JenniferJ21: Here's the next chapter! I'm glad you like it. I'll try to finish it as soon as possible. But, as stated above, I'm in the home-stretch for spring musical. I'm not going to have very much free time, but the time that I have I will dedicate to this story. (who needs good grades anyway?) Enjoy!

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Happy reading, all!

Back and forth…Back and forth…

That was Aladdin pacing, by the way.

We all sat out in the garden under Jasmine's balcony. Aladdin was, as I've said, pacing and worrying over his audience with the princess.

Genie and Carpet were playing chess, Lisa looking over Carpet's shoulder.

Abu was trying to eat a banana.

And me? I was standing in the middle, watching Aladdin pace…

Back and forth…Back and forth…

"What am I going to do? Jasmine won't even let me talk to her. I should have known I couldn't pull off this stupid prince wish."

Abu tried for the millionth time to peel a banana and only managed to squirt it in his eye. I walked over and peeled one for him and fed it to him. He made a grateful sound and ate it. I then walked over to Aladdin.

"Well, maybe if you talked to her like she was a normal human being instead of a prized dog you would do better."

He glared at me, not saying anything.

"So move!" Genie said to Carpet.

I turned my head to watch what happened.

Carpet picked up his piece and knocked on of Genie's off the board.

"Hey. That's a good move. (As Rodney Dangerfield) I can't believe it--I'm losing to a rug."

I laughed quietly at the joke. It caught his attention and he looked at me and smiled.

"Genie, I need help." Aladdin said.

Genie poofed next to Aladdin, turning into Jack Nicholson.

"All right, sparky, here's the deal. You wanna court the little lady, you gotta be a straight shooter, do ya got it?"

Lisa came up and stood beside me to watch the interaction.

"What?" Aladdin asked.

Genie turned back to normal and started pointing to words on a black board.

"Tell her the...TRUTH!!!"

"No way! If Jasmine found out I was really some crummy street rat, she'd laugh at me."

Aladdin walked over and swiped the magic-made black board with his turban.

Genie turned into a lampshade on Aladdin's head with a light bulb in it.

"A woman appreciates a man who can make her laugh!"

I giggled slightly and nodded.

That is true.

Aladdin scowled and pulled the chain, turning the lamp off. Genie poofed back to normal and held Aladdin's turban out to him.

"Al, all joking aside, you really oughtta be yourself."

"Hey, that's the last thing I wanna be!"

"Genie's got a point, Aladdin." Lisa started. "I mean, it wasn't 'Prince Ali' that she followed home."

"Yeah," I added. "And it wasn't 'Prince Ali' that she tried to save from the guards."

"Look, if you're not gonna take it from us as your family; take it from us as relationship savvy women." Lisa said

I snorted.

"Speak for yourself." I said to Lisa.

She rolled her eyes.

"Fine, take it from one VERY experienced woman," she pointed towards herself, "and one not-so experienced one." she pointed towards me.

I glared at her.

"Jeez, thanks for making it sound like I've never had a love life."

"Well, you haven't!" she retaliated.

"Have so! There was that guy at the orphanage, Matt."

It was her turn to snort.

"I'd hardly call that a serious relationship. You were with him for two weeks and you never made it past the waist."

My eyes widened and my face grew hot.

"Anyways," I said, bringing it back to Aladdin to try and hide my embarrassment. "What I think Lisa is trying to get to is this: women are more impressed with a man that has the courage to be himself than a guy who pretends to be someone else."

Aladdin sighed.

"But this is different, guys. I've never felt anything like this before. If I can't win her…I don't know what I'll do."

Lisa got mad.

"Aladdin, how many times do we have to tell you this!?! Don't wrap her up in your pretty little idea of how royalty acts! If you're not going to listen to our advice, why are we even here!?!"

She started to storm off, but stopped at the last second and turned back to our brother.

"You may look like a prince to everyone else right now, Aladdin, but you look like the world's biggest fool to me."

And with that she walked away.

I sighed and looked at Aladdin.

"Aladdin, you need to do what you think is right. No matter what that is. Otherwise, nothing will turn out right."

I was trying to undo the damage that Lisa had unwittingly done. If Aladdin didn't take Jasmine for the Carpet ride, she wouldn't fall in love with him, when the guards came and 'drowned' him and Jafar told her that Ali had left, she wouldn't care and…Well, it would just screw up everything.

He brightened up.

"Okay, I'm gonna go see her. I gotta be smooth, cool, confident. How do I look?"

Aladdin turned to us and displayed his outfit.

Like a jack-ass.

"Fine." I stated simply.

Genie heaved a sigh.

"Like a prince."

Aladdin hopped on Carpet and flew up to Jasmine's balcony.

It was now I realized that Genie and I were completely alone.

Lisa was off fuming, probably throwing her knives at an innocent tree pretending it was Aladdin; Aladdin was trying to woo Jasmine; and Abu had wondered off somewhere, hopefully nowhere near Lisa and her knives.

Shit.

"So…" I started, trying to break the awkward silence.

"Who was Matt?" Genie asked rather quickly.

I looked at him with a quirked brow.

"He was a guy I use to be with about 3 years ago, when I was seventeen and stupid. Why do you ask?"

Genie jumped a little bit and laughed nervously.

"Oh! Me?...hehehe…just curious."

I smirked.

"You know, curiosity killed the cat."

He laughed and poofed into a cat. While still in cat form, he made a couple of jerky movments and gurgling sounds before pretending to drop dead.

I laughed at his antics and decided to play along.

"No! Don't die on me kitty! PLEASE!"

I threw myself on the ground and took the 'cat' into my arms and pretended to sob over its 'corpse'.

I did so well in my 'performance' it caused Genie to poof back to normal, laughing hard.

Well, laughing is a chain reaction and pretty soon, I was laughing too.

We laughed together for about a minute and then I realized just what position we were in.

I froze.

My arms were wrapped around his neck and I was leaning on his chest. His arms were around my waist and his head was buried in my neck.

I felt him freeze as well.

We slowly pulled away from each other.

I looked up into his black eyes and he looked into mine. I felt my stomach drop and out of instinct; I started to inch closer to him.

After a second, Genie jumped up quick and moved about three feet away from me.

I stayed kneeling in my place on the grass and just watched him.

"Well," he said, "I guess I better go check on lover boy up there!"

He laughed nervously. I simply nodded. He paused for a moment and looked into my eyes again.

"I'll talk to you later?" he asked.

"Yeah," I answered, finally finding my voice. "Take care of him."

I nodded upward to show that I was talking about Aladdin.

He smiled gently at me.

"See ya."

"Bye."

And with that, he was poofed away.

I stayed where I was a good few minutes. When I could feel my legs again, I stood up and was off to find Lisa; so I could save the tree and tell her that I DID have a love life.

It's just not very active…yet.

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