Aladdin put her books from biology into her locker and pulled out her camera. She checked the time on her phone before heading towards the school assembly. She needed to take pictures of the assembly for the yearbook. She found a place where she would be able to find everyone she liked to take pictures of and waited for things to start.

She listened to the principal's speech and the ASB representatives as she watched the crowd through her camera lens. She snapped pictures of everyone she could get a clear shot of. She spent most of her time focused on the boy with red eyes. His eyes fascinated her. They were beautiful in a way different from anything else she had ever seen.

His name was Judal. He was a junior. They had art class together, which was one of the few classes he didn't skip regularly. Since there was only one art teacher for the entire school the classes were combined a lot. Aladdin did mostly photography and Judal seemed to doodle a lot. She heard rumors that he used to sing, but she had no way of knowing whether or not that was true.

She zoomed in and took pictures of his eyes. She took pictures of him in as many different angles as she could from her position. She moved her camera away as he looked over at her. She took a few more pictures of Kouha and Jafar on stage before turning off her camera and getting ready to leave.

At home she found a note from Ugo saying he would be home late because of an emergency at the hospital that he was called in to help with. It would be another night of looking through her pictures to figure out which would be candidates for the yearbook and which would join her portfolio of Judal pictures. Aladdin pulled up the new pictures of Judal on her computer after dividing all the pictures into the correct folders. She was looking through all on them taking note of how the slightest change in angle or light made his eyes take on a different kind of sparkle. She couldn't help smiling to herself until she saw the strange shadowing on his collarbone. His shirt was slipping into an abnormal position on his body. She looked through the photos again. No matter her change in position or the conditions of the photo, the shadowing didn't change. It looked like a bruise. Having a bruise there was definitely weird. She didn't like seeing it, and she was sure it wasn't the first time he had had strange bruising now that she thought about it.

The next several hours were spent searching through every photo she had of Judal. That was a lot considering she had first started taking his picture in seventh grade and she was now a freshman. She found bruises in almost every picture. That set off warning signs. She had a friend who was abused before. She doubted anyone else had ever noticed the bruises, she could only tell because she had some unusual angles to get photos without him noticing.

Monday morning she started asking his classmates about his past. It sounded like several years ago he started acting differently. He quit gymnastics and stopped smiling and hanging out with friends. He started fighting too. He only stopped when a senior from last year told him to stop.

He needed help, and she was going to help him.

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-Kizuna