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"Um, Genie?" I said. "Sorry to break up the post-vacation happy time, but we've got a problem." I brought out the Lamp. "I found this in the desert. Iago was arguing with Jafar, and now they've broken a partnership. It looks like the only way to get rid of Jafar is to destroy this lamp. I was going to ask you how."

Just a few sentences were what averted the disaster of the film. And if the Lamp wasn't there for the thief to find, then his minions would be killing him off, Iago wouldn't betray us, and there was only one problem left before Al and Jasmine got married – me.

Well, that's what I thought. But I didn't count on what I figured was a Disney Channel TV series. Weird stuff happened. Actually, the weirdest thing was when Abu got kidnapped, and this guy called Hercules turned up and said Al had kidnapped his best friend. I recognized Hercules from another Disney movie, actually – what was supposed to be his story but was pretty much just Superman again.

But before that, Al and I had to talk alone.

"I know what this is about." I said. "You love Jasmine. You see me as a sister. That's it. Done."

"But Lee, I still care about you." Al said. "Just because Jasmine's my girlfriend, it doesn't mean you don't matter to me."

"I know." I said. "But still..."

"What I don't understand is how you could have kept it a secret all these years. If I'd known, you would have been able to get over it and move on."

I sighed. "That's why I didn't tell you. I knew you didn't feel the same way."

"Cleo..." I knew Al was serious when he used my real name. "You're not going to just walk out again, are you? You can't do that to me. Blood or not, you're still my sister. You're going to be Jasmine's sister-in-law. Please, stay."

This made me sigh again. I knew how this was going to work out. I was going to stay with the group, I was going to enjoy it, and maybe, in time, I'd get over Al.

I think it was around that time I found out I wasn't the only girl to go through this. There was more than one girl all over Al. The first time happened when we were at the seaside, and Jasmine asked Al if he'd dated any other girls before her, and without thinking, he'd admitted "Tons."

Jasmine glared at him, and I'd chimed in "But it was only one date, so I don't think they count."

That was the day some siren mermaid girl tried to trade places with Jasmine. She was pretty powerful, but she would've gotten rid of me and Genie if she could, so we had to get her back into the water where she belonged, to get Jasmine out.

But I'm not thinking about her. We were just out walking one day – well, Jasmine wanted to get some material to make into new clothes for Al and me. We found mine pretty quickly, because the merchants would do anything for pretty girls (me and Jasmine were both wearing brown outfits like the one she wore when Al and I first met her). But the merchants were less happy to accommodate Al, because most of the time, he still wore his street-boy clothes. I think that was because Jasmine liked his six-pack and his vest left it in view, although neither of them said so. Sometimes I wondered if they were sneaking into each others' rooms at night.

Anyway, the merchant was grudgingly showing us the silks, while the animals were mocking Al.

"Oh, Aladdin, you'll be the prettiest boy in Agrabah!" Iago teased.

Abu strutted around as if he was a gay guy, swinging his tail. But at that moment, a dark-haired dark-skinned girl of about my age ran past, with a bunch of guards after her. She was as good at confusing them as Al was, back in the day.

She obviously caught Al's eye. "Hey, she's pretty good."

In the end, all of us followed her, just before I remembered Jasmine, who was still looking through the silks.

The girl was caught just as she started climbing a rope up from a dead end.

"Hey, what do you think you're doing?" Al called.

"She is a thief!" Razoul exclaimed, showing us the melon she'd stolen.

I knew this was the time to act like when we rescued Jasmine. Al sighed. "Poor Razoul. You really don't recognize her, do you?"

"Should I?" Razoul stuttered.

"You certainly should!" the girl piped up. "I'm...I'm.."

"The Royal Fruit Inspector!" I said quickly. I know it was a stupid thing to say, but hey, I'm not proud. It was the only excuse that came to mind.

Abu did have to sneak the girl a badge from one of the guards' pockets to for the girl to "prove" my claim, but it worked, and the guards left.

"You saved me." murmured the girl. "No one ever did something like that for me before."

"Force of habit." Al explained.

"We've had trouble with Razoul before, and he still hates us." I added.

I could see the girl's face, and I recognized her expression. As Al backed away from her, she was coming closer, and her expression was all goofy and dreamy. I'd seen it on my own face so many times before. But Al, as usual, didn't get it, and just said quickly "Bye" before running away, with the rest of us.

"My name is Sadira!" the girl called.

"Uh..I'm Aladdin!" Al called back. "See ya!"

I hung back to call "And I'm Cleo! Most people call me Lee!" although I knew she was only interested in Al.

Genie started advising Al about how to deal with Jasmine when they finally found her.

"Great!" Iago exclaimed. "You're gonna take advice from a guy who hasn't had a date in ten thousand years!"

"Shut up!" I snapped. "Let him have some fun." But as Genie talked, I could see Sadira out of the corner of my eye. She was trying to get Al's attention. Finally, she came up straight and walked alongside. "Hi, Aladdin! Whatcha doing?"

"Oh." Al said. "Hi...um..."

"Sadira." she supplied.

"We're looking for someone." I supplied.

"Oh, really?" said Sadira. "I know a lot of people, can I help?"

"Sure." Al said. "We're looking for my girlfriend."

"Oh." I saw Sadira's eyes darken. She glanced up, pretending not to be depressed. "So, she's not your girlfriend?" She gestured to me.

Al laughed. "No, she's my sister."

Jasmine seemed happy enough to just show off the material she'd found when we finally found her, and when we introduced her to Sadira, she happily greeted her. Sadira herself was trying not to look heartbroken.

Jasmine also accidentally busted the lie we'd made up for Sadira, making her have to make a break for it.

"Stop, thief!" Razoul yelled. He turned to us and said, "And this time, you two stay out of it."

I scowled, and did exactly what Sadira had done to get away – kicked him in the crotch, then use my own agility to get past the guards and to Sadira. I saw her run into an alleyway, and into a tunnel, and I followed, thinking I could help. After all, I'd stood in Sadira's shoes. I knew what it was like to fall in love with someone like Al and know I would never have him.

"Terrific." Sadira muttered. "It's not enough that he has a girlfriend. She's gotta be a rich, beautiful princess."

"Sadira?" I ventured softly.

She jumped, and then turned around. She glared at me. "What are you doing here?"

I held my hands up. "Hey, no need to bite my head off. I wasn't the one chasing you around the marketplace. But I do happen to know exactly what you're going through."

"How would you know?" muttered Sadira. "You've never fallen for a guy who has a girlfriend. And not just any girlfriend...a princess."

I laughed humourlessly. "I'm not Al's real sister." I admitted. "We just met on the streets last year. But ever since I turned seventeen, I've been in love with Al. "

Sadira sighed. "Well, at least he pays attention to you." A section of sand that she was standing on broke under her weight, and she suddenly fell through, screaming. I jumped. But it was a long way to fall, and I didn't land on my feet. We were lucky not to break anything. And then the brick broke too and we landed on a bunch of sand.

A light came up and a disembodied voice came. "Mortals, tremble in fear! You have entered the inner sanctum of the all powerful witches of the sand!" There was more, but when Sadira said the witches disappeared, it turned out that a worm had been talking, and it was none too pleased to know his mistresses were gone.

Sadira seemed to have forgotten about me. She decided to read the scrolls and do spells. "From now on, things are going to go my way. Starting with Aladdin."

"Don't do it, Sadira!" I pleaded. "You don't know what this magic will do. And you can't make someone fall in love with you. Trust me. I've been there, done that, got the T-shirt."

But she wouldn't listen to me. She smiled slyly at me and said "Don't you want to have Aladdin too? Why don't you help me? I can always share. It's just Jasmine that I need out of the way."

I sighed. Maybe I could persuade her while letting her think we were working together, so I agreed.

But it wasn't me that told her to make a sand monster that would obey her as long as she had the witches' amulet. The monster wanted to smash stuff, and wasn't pleased when Sadira started talking about 'this really cute guy'. She made a sand image of Jasmine so the sand monster would know who to take, and the monster was happy to do the work.

Cleo's in deep trouble when she's working with an obsessive girl! Please review!