It was snowing. Judal and Aladdin had spent the morning watching movies. Three comedies and one adventure flick later, they were looking out the window as the snow. It was beautiful. Aladdin liked the way it looked when it fell on the lake. She sat on the leather couch curled up against Judal and watched the snowfall. After about an hour of light snowfall it really picked up. There was so much snow Aladdin could barely see the trees a few feet from the window. After several moments of staring at nothing but white Aladdin got scared. She felt trapped, like she was in a cage. It reminded her of the hole in her chest that Judal had chased away.

"What do you want to do Chibi? We can't go out like we were planning and I'm not really in the mood for any more movies."

"We could work on the song again."

"Do you want to strain your voice? Because that's what will happen if you sing all day yesterday and all day today."

"Fine, then I want you to tell me a story."

"What kind of story?"

"You knew Sinbad that day when he saw us together. How did you two meet?"

"You really want to talk about that bastard?"

"Well, at least it's interesting."

"I don't want to talk about it Chibi. It isn't a happy story."

"Well, you know unhappy stuff about me. It isn't fair that you won't tell me anything about yourself. I want to know more about you. You never tell me anything about yourself."

"I said I don't want to talk about it. Choose something else."

"No! Tell me! You know that my mom has been really sick, that Sinbad sexually harassed and overworked me, how we met, and all sorts of other stuff. You have to tell me how you two knew each other. What was it like? I want to know how you two became so hateful of each other."

"No Chibi."

"TELL ME!"

"I said NO! Just pick something else. I don't want to talk about it."

"What is so bad? Why won't you tell me anything? This is ridiculous." She stormed out and ran up the stairs to the home gym. She yanked her shirt off and threw it in a corner. She threw her hair up in a bun and turned the treadmill on as high as it could go. She ran and ran, ignoring the pain in her side and the pain in her chest that felt like it was crushing her. He didn't trust her! He wouldn't tell her anything about himself. It was so annoying. She barely knew anything about him that other mega-fans wouldn't know. They were supposed to like each other, love each other, they were supposed to be dating. He wouldn't talk to her though, and it was so annoying. She kept running. She was gasping desperately for air. She had no idea how long she had been running. Her vision was blurring at the edges. She was in pain, from so many different things. Life sucked! Just when things were getting better this had to happen.

She kept running until she fell. The blood was pounding through her ears so loudly that she didn't hear Judal call her name. She didn't even register that she was falling until her head hit the side of the machine. She was dizzy. Judal's face was in front of her eyes but she couldn't hear him. It took several minutes before her breathing evened out and she was able to focus on what he was saying.

"Are you an idiot? You were running at full speed for over an hour."

"Yeah, I do that when I get upset. Now you know another thing about me. Yay for you. Would you just leave me alone for a while please. I don't really want to be around anyone."

"Too bad. I'm staying here. What normal teenage boy wouldn't want to be around his girlfriend when she is wearing short-shorts and a sports bra?"

"You are being an ass."

"Oh, you are upset."

"Really? I hadn't noticed. I'm really not in the mood."

"That's unfortunate for you because I'm in the mood to tell you my life story now." He picked her up and carried her to the library. He sat down on the large leather sofa cross-legged and kept her in his lap, resting his cheek on her head. He didn't want to look her in the eyes while he talked about this, it was hard enough to admit to himself let alone anyone else. He kept her close to him, completely pressed against his body.

"We met in Switzerland at a hotel one night. I was locked out of my room and it was freezing outside. Sinbad was on this major sleeping-around streak. And he found me across the hall from his room whole I was waiting for my manager to bring me my hotel key. We, uh, well we went into his hotel room and…"

"you were together, weren't you?"

"Yeah. I completely fell for him. He was so perfect. And I was so tired of all the shit from my uncle and Al Thamen and he kept making these promises. I believed every word he said, but none of it was true. He betrayed me after I gave him everything he asked for. It sucked. It really sucked." He explained everything in detail. He told her things he had never even admitted to himself. When he came across a part that he couldn't say out loud, she was able to figure it out. She filled in and figured out everything he couldn't say, and it felt good to finally say those things to someone. When he finished his story Aladdin was silent for a long time. She waited for him to day something and he waited for her.

"Say something Chibi. I can't stand this silence. Do you have a problem with me having been with a man before?"

"No, that doesn't bother me. I just don't know what to say to that. How old were you?"

"Younger than you. It was a while ago. Really fucked up my life. I only got my shit back together recently."

She turned and wrapped her arms around his waist. "I'm sorry." She mumbled into his shoulder. She couldn't think of anything to say. She didn't like Sinbad at all. In fact, she hated him. He was everything that Judal had ever said he was, every bad name he had ever called. She had always thought there was just some celebrity dispute from before she had entered the business. She didn't even realize she was crying until Judal complained about her getting his shirt wet.

~~~Kouha and Alibaba~~~

"I can't believe nothing I've done has worked! What the hell am I supposed to do now?"

"What are you talking about Kouha? You aren't making any sense."

"Alibaba you were supposed to be paying attention! Sinbad hasn't been affected by most of my plans to sabotage him! Like, only two worked, and I've put into place almost thirty different methods of ruin and destruction. And it isn't like I'm an amateur at this."

"Well then you are just going to have to step up your game. This isn't working."

"No shit Sherlock. That's why I'm here. I need to take a step back and calculate my next move. This has been a disaster. At least he still thinks all of the stuff I have done is Solomon's doing. I'm going to have to try a different method though, he isn't falling for any of the traditional schemes."

"He and Kouen hate each other right? Or more like he hates Kouen and Kouen likes to make him pissed, right?"

"Yeah, what's your point?"

"Have them meet at some shoot or something. Sinbad is probably still upset that Kouen was more popular as a model this year than he was."

"Oh, that's a good idea. I approve. Just do me another favor and keep Kougyoku off my back. I don't really care if you two are dating; just keep her occupied so I don't have to hear her talk about you all the freaking time. It's getting old."

"I'll see what I can do. See you later Kouha, your sister is waiting for me."

"You lovebirds have fun. I have planning to do."

I just finished writing a few chapters. None of them are edited but at least I have some stuff done now. I spent most of the afternoon working on this story and thinking about the side story about the Ren family movie. Still not sure what I am going to do about that.

I have several ideas for things coming up but if you want to see anything specific now would be a really good time to request stuff because I haven't really finished my outlining...it's still pretty flexible. Let me know

Until Next Time!

-Kizuna