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That plan didn't go so well. The sand monster eventually got bored after it had kidnapped Jasmine. It wanted to smash her, but Sadira didn't want Jasmine hurt, she just wanted her out of the way. Jasmine told her the same thing I'd said – that you couldn't make someone love you.

Pretty much everyone came to save Jasmine, but things were complicated when the monster took the amulet off Sadira, and we all had to use an elaborate plan to stop him.

At the end, Sadira did apologize, and confessed that she'd just fallen for Al. He and Jasmine forgave her instantly. Jasmine even invited her back to the palace, but Sadira declined.

I hung back as everyone else left. "What did I tell you?" I sighed. "You can't make someone fall for you, Sadira. I was with Al the first time he saw Jasmine, and I know the signs. You had them, and so did I. When Al first saw Jasmine, he couldn't stop staring at her, and then he saved her from a fruit stall owner because she unintentionally stole an apple...she was so inexperienced outside the palace that she didn't realize she had to pay, but that's not the point. What is the point is that as long as Jasmine's there, Al's not going to even look at another girl."

Sadira shrugged. "Whatever. Please, I'd like to be on my own for now. Thanks, anyway."

I said goodbye and left.

Sadira didn't give up, though. I can recall another couple of times when she tried to get Al over to her, although I really did become...sort of friends with her. Well, in absolute truth, I don't remember one of those times, but when I asked, Iago told me everything.

What he told me was that Sadira used a spell to make herself switch lives with Jasmine. The animals were the only ones who knew. So Iago, Abu and Rajah were suspicious from the start, but they said that Al, the Sultan, Genie and I all seemed to think Sadira really was the princess. Sadira remembered everything too, since it was her spell. So here's what they told me:

We were all hanging around outside, waiting for the princess, and out came Sadira. Iago and Abu had already sensed something was different, and they knew that their senses were right when she was all dressed up in Jasmine's clothes and Al treated her like Jasmine. Iago even said that I jumped up and said, "Hey, Dee. How's things?" I guessed that "Dee" came from the Di in SaDIra, like the way I called Jasmine Jazz.

Sadira had laughed and said "Well, now that my match is here, perfect, Lee." Dee and Lee. That was interesting.

Iago, as usual, had yelled out his opinions. "Oh, I get it! It's Make The Bird Doubt His Sanity Day!"

Genie had tried, in his usual amusing way, to tell them pointedly that the reason Al was now courting Sadira was because they were engaged.

Not only that, but they said that I'd scowled at them and said "You two aren't stupid. Why the hell are you freaking out over Al having kissed his girlfriend? I thought I was the one that was supposed to be getting over not having him!"

Since Genie had proclaimed Iago "Just a few feathers short of a duster", Iago explained, he and Abu had decided to keep things quiet until they worked out why Sadira was Jasmine.

Rajah had growled at Sadira, too. He'd noticed that the princess wasn't his Jasmine. He always obeyed her, but Al had to throw himself in front of Sadira to stop Rajah from attacking her.

According to all sources, I had gone up to Rajah myself and asked "What the hell are you doing, trying to kill her?"

Iago and Abu had seen Sadira's blue-green eyes flicker around and heard her whisper "Oh no...the animals."

She'd pushed the rest of us out into the sun, muttering "That stupid spell didn't work on the animals!"

Then she'd gotten some sand out of an hourglass, using it to make a cage for the tiger. "I'm really sorry to have to do this, Rajah," she said, almost sympathetically, "But if you tip everyone off that I've switched places with Jasmine, it'll ruin everything!" She apologized again once she'd finished the cage and promised it wouldn't be for too long. "Now I have to find the bird and the monkey!"

Iago and Abu had hidden behind a pillar as she'd called to them. Iago had decided all he'd have to do is find street-girl Jasmine while the first thing Abu had done was try to saw the bars restraining Rajah.

"That little orphan is after me!" Iago had shrieked, even while Abu tried to explain. "You wanna free the tiger! I don't care if he's got muscles, he's got teeth!"

In the end, Iago had reluctantly helped free Rajah and they'd all run off together, much to Sadira's displeasure, as once they'd been caught, the guards were saying how "Princess Sadira will deal with them...personally."

Halfway through, Iago had snapped at Rajah, who had caused a stir, "You are not easy to hide with, you know that? I don't hear anyone screaming 'Parrot! Parrot!'" Rajah had caught Iago in his mouth until Abu told him to let the bird go.

But they hadn't gotten as far as back to the palace, since barrels were dropped on the guards heads and kicked out of sight by a certain girl. She'd then freed them, and had told them to go. She'd been confused, and quite annoyed when Iago insisted she knew them, Abu clung on to her, and Rajah licked her face affectionately.

Jasmine had interrupted Iago's explanation. "Right, I'm a princess. That would explain these rags, wouldn't it?"

Luckily, during the royal wedding parade, Iago had been able to convince Jasmine that she knew Al, at least, although she wasn't too sure that she was the princess, or that Al was her fiancée. She'd looked up at him, and she felt like she knew him.

Then they'd helped Jasmine sneak into the palace, but when Sadira had found her, she'd claimed Jasmine had bewitched the animals. Al did unintentionally look into Jasmine's eyes, and they'd recognized each other. Iago told me later that I'd been looking at Jasmine as if she was familiar, as well, and that I could well believe. The Sultan even said that if he had another daughter, he'd want her to be just like Jasmine.

It was just lucky that Al and Jasmine's REAL love was stronger than the spell that made everyone think Sadira was Jasmine. They managed to get in a kiss, from what I was told, and time went back to the same place when Sadira had first appeared instead of Jasmine. When Iago talked about the spell, no one remembered. Not me, not Al, not Jasmine, not Genie. But I got Iago to tell me everything word for word. Well, I got bored halfway through Jasmine getting into the castle and getting caught. "Yeah, yeah, so what broke the spell?"

After that, I went back down to the sanctum of the witches of the sand, hoping Sadira would be there. She wasn't, but after an hour of waiting, she came in. I could see instantly that she'd been crying.

"Oh." she said tonelessly. "Hi, Lee."

"Hi, Sadie." I said. I didn't want to call her Dee, like the me in her alternate reality, but we really were friends, and 'Sadira' took way too long. "So...been casting any switching spells lately?"

Sadira stared at me. "How did you know? I thought the spell worked on everyone except the animals."

"Yep." I nodded. "Iago told me what happened." I tried not to feel cross with her. After all, I'd stood in her shoes. To tell the truth, I still loved Al, but it didn't hurt so much now. It was more like a bruise from weeks before. When all of us were hanging out together and the couple weren't being obviously together, then I could be happy.

And as the weeks flew by, Sadira started to understand that herself, and I stopped watching her for tricks.

Sorry I took soooo long, I just didn't know where this was going. Can't promise the next chapter will be closer, but it will exist! Please review!

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