Aladdin felt better. It had been three days since she and Judal had admitted their feelings. She had taken a ton of medicine in the last few days but now she was out of bed. She made a speedy recovery with the help of the antibiotics she was prescribed. She still had to take them for a few more days but she felt much better.

She sat in the music room, fingering the keys of the piano. Judal came in and moved his hands over hers; repositioning them and playing a soft melody she had heard him play once before.

"I need to call my parents. I haven't talked to them in a while."

"You can use my laptop to video call them if you want. Your phone is dead and I don't have a charger for it yet. We can buy one later."

"Okay! Where is your computer?"

"It's on the kitchen table. It doesn't have a password on it."

"Thanks!" She ran to the kitchen and opened the computer. She had to download the Skype application and log in before she could call. Her father always had the application open so she didn't have to worry about him not being online.

She called him. It took a while before he answered.

"Aladdin?"

"Hi! Are you at work?"

"No, I just got home. I'm in the office. What are you up to?"

"Judal and I were just playing music. I thought it would be a good time to call you. We haven't talked since the day I arrived here so I thought I should check up. Is mom asleep?"

"No, she was just getting some tea. Do you need to talk to her?"

"Yeah, I wanted to talk to her about….girl stuff."

"Girl stuff?"

"Yeah, girl stuff."

"Does girl stuff include Judal by any chance?"

"Daaaaddd!"

"Okay, okay. SHEBA! ALADDIN IS ASKING FOR YOU."

"Did you really need to yell for her? I could have just waited. She doesn't like the yelling."

"Solomon! I told you not to yell through the house like that. It is unnecessary."

"I feel like there is an echo here."

"Mom! How are you feeling?"

"Aladdin? It's so good to hear from you! I feel much better! I'm a little tired. Paimon and I went out to lunch earlier and caught up. It was great. How are you feeling baby?"

"I'm fine. I feel a little tired. I got sick the first day here but I feel much better now. Judal bought me a bunch of stuff while I was sleeping one day. It's weird because he got stuff exactly like what I would buy."

"That's very thoughtful, he must have been paying close attention to what you like. Is Judal that boy Solomon had been telling me about?"

"I'll just leave you two to your girl talk. If you need me just shout out the door."

"I'm not going to-you know what, never mind. It isn't important. So tell me about the boy."

"He is really nice! He has this really nice long black hair and a really amazing voice. He can play a bunch of instruments too. And when he speaks French…"

"So he is multi-talented. That's good. Solomon said he is sharp-tongued. Are you sure he is being nice to you?"

"Yes I'm sure. He is a very kind and caring person he just doesn't like to show it."

"If you think so then it must be true. You are an even better judge of character then Solomon is."

"Soooo there was something I wanted to talk to you about… and ask you about."

"What is it honey?"

"I uhm I-I kissed Judal. And he said he loved me. And I said it back."

"Aladdin! This is very serious stuff. Why didn't you say that earlier! So you are officially dating now?"

"I couldn't say anything while dad was here and you kept asking me questions! I guess we are dating, I hadn't really thought about it. I-I-I wanted t-to ask you about kissing."

"Kissing?"

"Yes. How do I get better at it?"

"Aladdin!"

"Well, I would ask Kouha but he is a boy and I think I need to get advice from a girl for once! I want to know what I am supposed to do on dates with him! I've never done this before."

"Well, is he a person who likes words or a person who likes physical contact?"

"Physical contact." The answer came immediately from her mouth without her even realizing or thinking about it.

"Then it would be good to keep touching him. I know that sounds a little weird but if physical contact is important to him then holding his hand or hugging him would be a good idea. Sometimes less is more."

The conversation continued. After Aladdin's continued probing Sheba gave her a few kissing tips and flirting techniques. They stayed talking for almost three hours. When Aladdin finally hung up she was almost giddy with happiness. She hadn't really had a real conversation with her mom for over a year. It had been to hard with her mom being sick and her being constantly working. It had only been small greetings for so long. This had felt really nice. She had really missed talking to her mom and telling her everything. Morgiana was a good friend but talking to her about girl stuff wouldn't really be that helpful and Kouha wasn't a girl so it wasn't really the same. She ran back to the music room and started singing as soon as she recognized the song Judal was playing, moving to sit next to him and hold his hand.

~~~With Sheba and Solomon~~~

"SOLOMON GET IN HERE!"

"I thought you said no yelling in the house." He laughed as he came in to the office. "What did you two talk about for so long?"

"Tell me more about what that purple haired freak did to my baby and how we are making him pay."

"Where did I leave off?"

"He punched the boy we like."

He explained the rest of the story and his plans. "Sheba, what is with that face?"

"I don't know what you are talking about."

"You are definitely thinking about something. The last time you had that look on your face you were helping Paimon try to flirt with Ugo…Oh no. You are not thinking what I think you are thinking."

"I still don't know what you are talking about."

"You gave Aladdin advice on how to seduce Judal didn't you."

"I wouldn't say that… I wouldn't call it seduction so much as…you know what Solomon, she is my daughter and I can give her subtly aggressive flirting advice if I want to. I have barely talked to her in a year."

"Subtly aggressive flirting? Really?"

"Yes. Now stop. She is a young woman and she needs to know things. Now back to the sabotage. We really need to be more devious with this. We can't just bring down his company. We need to make people forget it ever existed. I hate him."

"I think I liked it better when you were thinking about girl stuff." She sat on his lap.

"Solomon, let's be a family again. I don't want to stay so distant anymore."

He kissed her cheek. "Anything for you."

Hello!

How's it going?

I added a little SolomonXSheba for ya there. okay it wasn't really that much but I felt bad for never having anything with them together.

SOOOOOOO I don't really know what I'm doing next with this story. I need to plan out some more stuff...Any requests? Now is your chance. I literally have nothing planned (except that eventually Aladdin and Judal go back to Portland and Solomon does his thing with Alma Torran.) SO if you want to see something happen now is the time to ask. I'm going to do some outlining and stuff this afternoon so send in any requests you have please!

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Until Next Time!

-Kizuna