A Whole New World

by Liz Braswell

He wasn’t sure what he was saying, really. He would say anything, keep talking forever, if it kept her looking at him like that.

Before I ran away, my closest friend was a tiger.” Aladdin laughed softly. “Before I met you, my closest friend was a monkey.” He kissed her on the forehead. “We’re quite a pair.”

You are the best—the only—good thing that has happened in my life.”