He laid in bed thinking. For once, it wasn't about history or the family business. It was about a girl, well two girls actually. He kept playing the fight over in his mind. Helen said that Aladdin liked him. He wasn't sure she did. She didn't get all giggly and nervous like the other girls did. What the hell was he supposed to do?

Aladdin hadn't been to school today either. He would go see her after school ended tomorrow. He just wasn't sure what to say to her. He was actually questioning himself. He didn't know what he should do about Aladdin.

He couldn't stop thinking about her though. Thoughts of her laughing at something he said or discussing a new concept with him came to mind whenever he wasn't focused on something. His thoughts kept returning to their last study session alone together. They fell asleep on the couch together. He hadn't thought about it before but he liked it when she touched him. It hadn't been annoying when she fell asleep leaning against him. It had actually been more annoying when she moved away from him. Now that he thought about it, he had been feeling like that ever since that night. He didn't like the distance between them that kept growing the more Helen was around.

Did he like her? Yeah, he did. He was just to focused on other things to notice earlier.

"It seems as though you found an answer."

How did he not notice Koumei standing there? "I have."

"Good. Don't let anything else get in your way. You should make that woman back down too. I know you have to stick by her because of the language thing but you need to draw a line so the little girl doesn't get any more crushed then she already is."

"You knew?"

"Of course I knew, as did everyone else. You are just painfully oblivious to such things. You should hurry and catch her before someone else swoops in."

"Meimei! You weren't supposed to tell him! He is supposed to figure everything out on his own."

"He did. I just gave him some advice."

"En, you should give her something too. You need to apologize for putting her in this position."

"This is my fault?"

"Yes. Now fix it before Aladdin gets hurt."

Kouen was in class early. He ditched Helen after the student council meeting and hurried to sit down. He waited for the class to start. He could here laughter from the purple haired idiot. A second later Sinbad was in the room, followed by Aladdin. She was listening to him talk about a video game he wanted to team up with her in. Supposedly she had a high-level character. Sinbad left and Aladdin made her way over to their table. She sat down and was about to say something when Helen entered the room and started calling out to him in Chinese. He watched Aladdin's face fall and her eyes darken. She didn't like Helen apparently. He couldn't say he disagreed with her.

The class was painfully awkward. Kouen refused to talk to Helen. Aladdin wasn't saying anything at all, just doing the lab. Helen kept trying to get Kouen to reply to her. Kouen tried to get Aladdin talking but she just stayed quite. After they finished the lab Aladdin sat back down and looked over her notes. She was writing something on a piece of paper. As soon as the bell rang she placed the paper in front of Kouen and left the room. Sinbad was waiting for her outside, much to Kouen's distaste. The paper was a detailed explanation of everything about today's lab, written in perfect French. 'Is she trying to compete with Helen?' He turned the page over and read the note. –Speaking in foreign languages doesn't make you any better then anyone else. Please translate this entire page for Helen.-

Well, this hadn't gone the way he had wanted.