"So they have settled on everything but their flatware, apparently her mother bought it for them as a wedding gift. However, he told me she could have the shrimp forks; so she would have something to eat shrimp with in hell. Can you believe it? People get so petty when it comes to divorce. Why are people stupid enough to get married in the first place?" Genesis the divorce lawyer asked his friends and partners of the law firm: Crescent, Rhapsodos & Hewley LLP.
Both the silver haired and the brunette happily married men glanced at each other over this statement. "Are you calling us stupid?' Sephiroth asked him in a calm voice that spoke volumes.
"No I didn't mean you guys and meant no offense, but you really did change when you met Aerith and you met Yuffie, I mean Sephiroth, you used to be such a playah" Genesis pointed out.
"You mean as in; I met someone who helped me become a better man, accepted and loved me despite my various flaws and foibles and made me happy by agreeing to share her life with me? Yes I did. I had my fun back in the day and now am in a much happier place in my life" he ground out in as if in challenge to the perpetual bachelor.
"Yes but now you live in the suburbs" Genesis said as if it was some kind of death sentence.
"I figured that my two bedroom apartment wasn't going to be big enough for the two of us and the family we decided to have and gave it up. Our home is only twenty minutes commute from here, has excellent resale value and has a lot of great schools around for when our children come of age to attend. I don't regret giving up my bachelorhood because I found the person I wanted to settle down with." Sephiroth explained.
"And that's great for you, but will never suit me. And how about you Angeal? You've only had one girlfriend all your life, you met Yuffie in the third grade. Don't you have any regrets?" Genesis asked his oldest friend.
"No, I think I'm luckier than most men. I met my mate early on in life so didn't have to go through the whole messing around and getting my heart broken before I met the right girl. Are you saying you don't like her?" he demanded.
"Don't be silly; she's my friend too" Genesis assured him.
"Don't you think your attitude towards women a tad juvenile?" Sephiroth asked him. "Most woman in their late twenties or early thirties are looking for their life partner and all you offer them is casual sex. Isn't it time for you to find someone to settle down with?"
"I don't believe in love and don't need a life mate. Day in and day out, I see what happens when love fades. I don't wish to settle and marry. I'm a confirmed bachelor" Genesis explained.
"How is it possible that you feel like this when your older brother's happily married and has twins?" Sephiroth asked him. "I've seen you play with your niece and nephew, so you obviously don't hate children."
"I can play with them and spoil them and then can send them home with their parents. I don't have to change their diapers or raise them. I will be their fun Uncle" he explained.
"So you never plan to have children?" Angeal asked him.
"Never, the future of the Rhapsodos family has already been born and the heir and heiress to the family fortune begot by Reno and Elena. Our father's satisfied and off my back to settle down permanently" Genesis said with a wide and happy smile at this.
"Your job shouldn't make you so cynical, you can find happiness with the right person" Angeal said with pity in his voice. "It makes me sad you feel this way."
"While you're feeling sorry for me, I have a date with an unbelievably beautiful dancer for tonight. What are your plans?" Genesis challenged them.
"It's family game night for us" Sephiroth explained.
"Yuffie's ovulating" Angeal said.
"You're trying again? That's awesome. You should try that technique I explained to you about. I swear Aerith caught on the first try both times" Sephiroth bragged.
"I'll leave you two to plan out future nurseries" Genesis said, rolled his eyes and left for the day.
Aerith and Sephiroth both helped get their three-and-a-half year old, Emma and one-year-old, Jamie bed down for the night and then retired soon afterwards, knowing how young children like to wake up with the rising sun.
"Something on your mind?" Aerith asked her husband.
"Genesis" he said.
"I get a new baby doll nightie and you're thinking about Genesis? Perhaps you should have married Gen?" she teased him as he slipped into bed beside her as naked the day he was born.
"He made it seem like our life's really boring compared to how I was before we married" he complained.
"When I met you, your place looked like a dorm room and you were a playboy. You changed because you wanted to be in a serious relationship with me. Do you regret our life?" she asked him.
"No I get to sleep beside you ever night" Sephiroth said.
"Genesis doesn't know how it feels to sleep next to someone he loves but I don't think he's a hopeless case. However, he's very resistant to change. I've tried setting him up with lots of women to no avail but he will meet someone eventually and understand that wedded bliss isn't so bad" she assured him.
"I suppose you're right" Sephiroth said. "I would sure love to meet the girl who could change his way" he commented.
Tifa Highwind got into her bed, anticipating a good night's sleep.
She sighed when she heard her neighbour's door opening and closing. She put in the earplugs when they started up with the woman's banshee wails that sounded less like he was having sex with her and more like he was slowly torturing her. This same pattern had prompted Tifa to call the police after first moving in, they had stopped by and then came over to tell her that the woman certainly wasn't being murdered and it was also very consensual. This had caused her to blush whenever Genesis spotted her and gave her a knowing smirk. But things had improved since then, he was actually a considerate neighbour other than his almost nightly sexual aerobics.
Apparently the redheaded playboy divorce lawyer was the Goddess's gift to women.
Tifa listened to the caterwauling going on next door that even her earplugs failed to drown out, it had been going on for over an hour. She took a deep breath and wondered if he was even human. How much sex could he possibly need? And why were his women so vocal? She didn't recall ever sounding like that when she made love with Cloud. The woman was practically screaming! Surely she had to be faking it.
Tifa got out her ipod, put in her ear buds and soon drifted off to sleep.
She blearily got ready the next day, put the coffee on and went out on her balcony to water her container garden. "Good morning" she heard and saw her neighour seated at his balcony bistro table looking bright and alert and ready to face his day as if he hadn't been up fucking half the night. His hair was immaculate, he wore his usual signature look of black and red, in this case, he wore a pair of well pressed black dress pants and a red dress shirt and black tie. He sat at the table drinking his coffee suspiciously alone and gave her friendly smile.
She glowered back at him when he didn't have hair out of place and had the nerve to look attractive that time of the morning. Her own hair was a horrific unbrushed mess, she was positive she still have crease marks in her face from her pillow and was wearing her yummy sushi print pajamas. It was so not her best look.
"Good morning, Genesis" she said through gritted teeth as she picked up her watering can.
"Your tomatoes are looking really good" he complimented her, thinking she looked really cute and almost girlish in her amusing pajamas. He liked how she didn't seem concerned about her appearance, most other women practically hid in his bathroom until they made up their face for the day before emerging into society in their power lipstick. Yet she didn't even seem to wear makeup and that was refreshing.
"You know there are people you can pay to soundproof condos" she snapped.
He laughed and threw his head back and laughed like it was the funniest thing he had ever heard. "Come on, it can't be that bad" he said.
"It's much worse" she shot back.
"A man isn't made of metal" he said with an apologetic shrug. "I can barely hear you when you and your guy have sex" he said.
"You mean to tell you listen to us when we..." she demanded, turning as red as her admired tomatoes
"Thin walls" he said. "I sometimes have to strain to hear. I'm joking" he assured her.
"When we make love is none of your business" she told him.
"I wasn't trying to listen. I was reading in bed and I heard you whimper, Oh Cloud" he said in a high falsetto voice.
"You are a total...creep" she said.
"Sorry the next time you get off, I'll plug my ears" he offered.
"You never will hear that again" she said and turned around and slammed the door closed. Genesis just stared after her wondering why she was so uptight. Sex was harmless fun and it's not like the prudish woman didn't have it. He had to wonder about her, she seemed to have a man in her life who was rarely around and lived alone. She was an actual librarian on top of everything and dressed very primly when going to work, complete with her hair in a bun and black framed glasses she obviously didn't need.
Tifa drank her coffee and got ready for her day. She grabbed a coat and her car keys to drive her Nissan Leaf to the library early to get set up for the day. She sighed when the young lawyer joined her because his parking spot was right beside hers. Her Nissan Leaf was a discreet beige and a 100% electric car. His was a screaming red metallic gas guzzling sports car with a personalize license plate that read "Genesis".
"You heading out?" he asked her.
"Yes I have to go in early" she said.
"Have fun putting books in order" he said and got into his car and put the top down on the convertible and slipped on his aviator sunglasses.
"Have fun breaking up marriages and turning loving spouses against each other" she called after him while he roared away in a blaze of red. "What an ass" she said as she got into her own car and drove the speed limit to the library.
Tifa felt brazen as she stripped out of her normal dour work outfit and put on her new black halter dress that was slit up one side.
She admired herself in it, she rarely had an excuse to dress up or wear something sexy since Cloud started his now successful courier company and was away so much. She had been exercising more than usual out frustration, but felt it was worth it at how her garter belt stretched over her flat belly in an enticing way and how her black sheer seamed stocking hugged her long legs, making them seem to stretch on forever. How her bust was held in place by nature itself. She got into the medium heels, Cloud was not a tall man and she didn't wear high ones as result. Her hair she wore down and she put a little black eyeliner to highlight her large eyes and added some MAC Russian Red to her lips to make her already plush lips look decadent. She put on the dangling ruby earrings and matching necklace her mother had given her and waited for him to arrive and then got a phone call that Cloud was running late and she agreed to meet him at the restaurant. She felt disappointed but understood as he had to work hard to establish his business when going up against FedEx and UPS.
She drove over there and waited and waited, nibbling on breadsticks and having refills of water until she got a text that he wasn't able to make it due to an emergency. A package containing sensitive documents intended for the President had gone out to the wrong address and Cloud had to personally take care of it right away. Tifa felt hurt that he couldn't make it after promising to see her for months. She had supported him in his decision to move four hours away from her to be closer to the hub of activity but for once questioned why. He always had excuses for not being able to see her. She drove home in a despondent mood and got out of the car, accidentally leaving her purse containing her PHS in her car when she locked it. Starting towards the garage door, her keys dangled loosely from her fingers and slipped from her grasp to promptly fall through the garage drainage grate. She blinked that her keys were gone and let herself into the building and went to retrieve her spare keys from her condo. Only to be faced with a locked door that could not be opened until she called the superintendent whose information she had on her PHS in her locked car. She wondered what to do and burst into tears and slid down the wall beside her condo to weep against the wall.
Genesis was working late and had just gotten home when he encountered girl wearing a sexy dress crying in his hallway. "Miss are you okay?" he asked her. She looked up at him. "Tifa are you okay?" he corrected himself, taken aback by her appearance and attire.
"Men suck" she sobbed.
"Yes we do, but why aren't you inside your condo?" he asked her.
"I locked my purse in my car, which contains my PHS and my keys fell down the grate in the garage, oh Goddess could this night get any worse?" she moaned and wiped away her tears. Seriously not caring what the man thought of her bizarre behaviour.
"Well you can't stay in the hall all night. Come in" Genesis said unlocking his own door.
"You're not going to try anything?" she asked him.
"You want me to?" he asked her.
"No" she said in a watery voice.
"Then I suggest you come inside, we'll call the superintendent and you can wait here for him. I can make you a drink if you wish" he suggested, still she hesitated. "I won't bite you and it's pointless to wait in the hallway. Come in" he said more firmly and she reluctantly did, expecting his place to look like a brothel but it was furnished with dark wood furniture that was obviously expensive.
"Have a seat while I change. Would you care for a t-shirt or something?" He asked her, when he realized that her dress left little to the imagination.
"Why you don't like what I'm wearing?" She challenged back, feeling too numb and depressed to even worry about offending him. Her mind was too preoccupied by the idea that Cloud had stood her up.
"Quite the contrary, I find your dress extremely alluring but doubt you're wearing it for me. So am forced to wonder what events took place to lead you to break down in the hallway" he said.
"Just go change" she requested of him and he soon returned wearing a pair of worn jeans and a gray t-shirt.
"I called the emergency number, the super's away but they're sending someone over. Would you like a glass of wine while we wait?" he asked her. "I assure you that the bottle's unopened and contains no roofies. I can sample from your glass prior to you drinking it if you have concerns about this" he offered, trying to get a laugh out of the despondent looking woman.
"Sure" she said.
"You seem really upset. I'm excellent at listening if you want to talk about it" he offered.
"Why should I wish to discuss my private life with someone who claims to be a lawyer but is so oversexed you're probably actually a Giglio who charges three hundred gils an hour for women to sleep with him?" She asked him.
"Touché, you're as blunt as the day is long. I actually charge fifty gils an orgasm and clean up as result. I'm very good at my job" he countered that, flashing a charming boyish smile at her.
"You can't be serious!" she said, her widening eyes in shock.
"I'm not, I actually am a divorce lawyer by trade. I don't actually need to work because of who my family, yes I'm one of those Rhapsodos', as in the huge hotel chains. My father stepped down and handed the reigns to my older brother. I preferred something more intellectual and became a lawyer. I prefer living here then the mansion as it's closer to my work. As for my women friends, they're people I have discreet relationships with and nothing more than that. Now you know the story of my life. It really isn't a sordid as it seems, right?" He explained. "Now would you care to explain what's happening with you?" he asked her.
"I was to have a date with Cloud, my long time boyfriend. He was taking me to the nicest restaurant in town but he couldn't make it..." She said in a trembling voice as her chin wobbled uncontrollably. A hand took her wine glass from her and a pair of arms went around her and drew her against a powerful chest and she broke into sobs while she was tucked under his chin.
Genesis didn't know how the woman would take him touching her, but crying women were his Achilles heel. Afterwards he loosely held her while she told him all about Cloud and what had happened. It made little sense to Genesis why someone who ran a courier company would be too busy to spend more time with his girlfriend. He suspected that there was someone else in the man's life that Tifa didn't know about, but kept this observation to himself.
"You must think I'm stupid to forgive him so much" Tifa said as she leaned back against his chest. She knew she was acting really out of character by snuggling up to a man she barely knew but he seemed harmless and hadn't tried anything true to his words.
"If women didn't have a forgiving nature, the human race would have died out a long time ago because men never really mature, we just get larger and older. So this guy's the only person you've ever been with?" He asked her.
"Since I was sixteen. I thought we would be married by now but there's always an excuse" she said back just a bluntly.
"Marriage is overrated in my opinion, trust me. Day in and day out, I see what happens when they reach the end of the aisle runner and the wedding clothes are stored away. People change, they cheat and lie and then love fades to hate" he explained.
"How can you be so cynical?" She asked him.
"I'm just speaking the truth. I'm not saying it's like that for everyone, I do know happily married couples that will probably stay that way forever, but more then seventy five percent of marriages turn ugly. Those who they promise to see through sickness and health; get sick, they get older, they gain weight and there's always someone younger born every minute" he said.
"So your way of life is so much easier?" She asked him.
"I don't hate women as people think. I believe I am incapable of loving someone as I never feel that way towards anyone. I enjoy and appreciate being with an intelligent woman, I treat all of my encounters with joy and enthusiasm. I don't judge her reasons for wanting to be with me in such an arrangement. I'm good in bed and a generous lover. I'm only human and want to be touched and held like anyone else and offer that to my companions and lovers. Sex is just a perk of being with them. Most are already married or in relationships and are bored and just want to have some excitement and I'm pretty exciting if people aren't demanding more" he explained.
"It sounds lonely" she said.
"I'm not lonely, I have fun and so do they. I don't come home to someone in a stale relationship. When a person gets bored of me or I do them, we move on. I always use condoms so we're both protected. It's good clean fun and neither person gets hurt" he explained.
"It's not normal" she observed.
"Normal's seeing a person every day and pretending to care about them when you can barely stand the sight of them anymore. To go to bed and have the same routine sex with them. I don't go in for that" he said. "You've been sleeping with the same man since you were sixteen. Does it still excite you?" He asked her.
"As a matter of fact, it does" she said wrenching herself away from him.
"I wasn't offering, though I would be more than willing if only to take your pain away at least temporarily. I would sooth your anger" he explained.
"All you would do is give me a hallow, shallow experience without emotional commitment. That's not something I want or could do" she said.
"I was just saying for instance, if you wanted to try having sex with me; I'm willing" he said.
"How can you sit here and even discuss this with me so causally?" She asked him.
"If I feel I can trust someone, I offer. If they turn me down, I don't press" he explained.
"Why do you feel you can trust me?" She asked him.
"You're already in love with someone" he said with a logic that gave her pause.
"I'm flattered but shall pass. I'm too old fashioned to be in a relationship that hedonistic" she replied.
"I understand" he said and there was a knock at the door and the super let Tifa into her place and arrangements were made to retrieve her keys and duplicates were to be made and her neighbour was to be given a copy of her condo key.
Tifa felt numb when she nearly ran her racing car off the road again, thinking back on her conversation with Cloud. After months of not having time for her, he suddenly asked her for coffee the same day he called her.
"It's not that I don't care about you, I always will, but I'm not in love with you anymore. I didn't mean for this to happen, since I met her, I couldn't seem to stay away from her. We eloped last weekend and got married in Costa Del Sol, that's why I couldn't meet you for dinner. I told her I was meeting you for dinner and she started crying and saying she didn't want you between us anymore. I couldn't lose her. I'm in love, truly in love for the first time in my life and know she and I are meant to be together. Tifa you don't love me either, you're clinging to me because you don't want to be alone. We're not engaged and have been drifting apart for a long time. We're not in high school anymore. Please, let's be friends. You're a wonderful person and will find someone for sure. I have to go, I promised her I would be home in time for dinner" he said and picked up his motorcycle helmet, paid for their coffees and left.
She did a truly lousy parking job and stumbled from her car, bumping into someone "pardon me" she said stepping around them.
"Tifa are you okay?" Genesis asked concerned about how flustered she looked. "Did something happen?" He inquired and then suddenly had his arms full of the weeping girl.
"It appears I've been promoted to some kind of father/brother comforting type figure in your life. Not bad for someone who has dubious morals" he commented. "Let me get my briefcase and let's get you a drink" he suggested.
"He actually dumped you like that?"Genesis said after he had managed to get the story out of her. He felt outraged on her behalf, just because he didn't believe in traditional romantic relationships didn't mean he wanted people he knew to get burned just for loving someone. She nodded from her position on his chest resting on his very expensive and now ruined red silk shirt.
Suddenly she sat up and starting kissing him in a way that it was like she was trying to devour him, almost biting into his lips and he went with it, kissing her back just as desperately and her hands fisted into his shirt and ripped it open with the violence of her movements on him. He flinched when buttons flew in all directions. Her hands delved inside his shirt literally clawing at his impressively muscled chest that his normal clothes tended to conceal. Her lips found his neck and she bit him there shallowly but it was enough for him to take her hands and hold them away from his person and lean back.
"If you need this in your pain and anger, you shall have me but I do not appreciate pain or being marked. This shall happen but it appears I should be the one doing the seducing" he said and then kissed her again and she sagged into his kiss.
She didn't remember going there but was soon in his bedroom. "We can stop whenever you want" he assured her.
"Would you turn around while I get undressed, I know it sounds silly but..." She requested.
"Sure" he agreed and did, hearing the crinkle of her clothing and then the rustle of his bed clothes and turned around to find her with the blankets pulled up to her neck and her face bright red. He forced himself not to laugh as he removed his own clothes from himself, having no inhibitions whatsoever about undressing in front of people, soon he was naked in all of his porcelain complexed glory. He was proud of his body and worked out obsessively and as result had a body made for worship and thought he looked great for the age of thirty two. He looked at Tifa, expecting her to be admiring him but instead she was looking apprehensively back at him, then he realized she was focused on a particular area of his person and looked down at his hugely swollen appendage that was pointing at her and bobbing impressively in the coolish air. "I take it your...he was more of an average man? I was blessed and well blessed endowment wise. Ten inches to be exact. Don't worry I can fit in you, it's a small matter of lubrication and properly preparing you. I know how to be gentle until you're ready" he assured her.
"I don't know if I can take it" she said with shock in her voice. The only time she had seen anything so big was the time Cloud insisted they try watching porn together and that had done nothing for Tifa.
"You can" he said going to pull the blankets back while she tugged them back into place. "At least let me in beside you" he said giving her a reassuring smile and she allowed it but blushed as his naked body joined hers in the bed.
He didn't attempt to peek at her body as he leaned over her. "Do you want to stop?" He asked her.
"No take me" she requested.
"Not dry, it would hurt you too much. I need to prepare you, can I give you cunninglingus or do you prefer I finger you?" He asked her.
"Please use your fingers" she said and soon was writhing in the bed while he watched her flushed face, three of his long, slender fingers flexed in her soaked core, hooked so they could worry her sweet spot while his thumb strummed the slick button of her clit, her moans were almost feral in her arousal and her wondrous naked breasts were now uncovered for his viewing pleasure. She was almost ready to receive him as she undulated beneath his busy fingers, her head lulling back and forth, deep in a sexual thrall. He bent and suckled on the hard points of her teats, heightening her arousal.
He withdrew his fingers and she panted as she watched him put a condom on himself. "Tifa you're slick and ready. I've prepared you as much as I can. It's going to hurt a little when I first put myself inside you. You tell me if you want me to stop" he said looking in her eyes as he got between her legs.
"Do it" she said in a bitter sounding voice and spread her legs, she could feel his heavy tool pressing against her thigh and needed to feel...something, she felt numb as if she were the walking dead.
"Kiss me" he said pressing his lips to hers and began nudging himself within her, he took her with infinite patience, giving her a little at a time, he had a lot of patience when it came to sex and could last for hours. He hissed when he was fully seated in her, she was almost virginally tight. Tifa gasped out in pain and tensed to be stretched so wide and his large, blunt head was knocking at the gate to her cervix itself. He could feel her tense and remained still. "Just stay still, let yourself relax" he said taking her in his arms until their bodies lay flush together.
Tifa gasped in his arms, unable to believe she was taking a near stranger's penis inside her body, she had only known one man and he wasn't as large, didn't stretch her like this. It felt...strange.
Genesis started to gently move within her, drawing himself out with rolls of his hips until only his head remained and then slowly thrusting himself back into her, giving her his length, making her used to it. He knew she would soon catch his rhythm and her own natural lubrication would ease his large invasion and her body would stretch to accommodate him. She lay still as his heavy tool moved in her until it wasn't so uncomfortable a feeling, her eyes went wide as pleasure replaced whatever pain lingered and she cried out, he was so large he was finding pleasure centers within her she hadn't known had existed, he was touching everything and his thrusts dragged against her g-spot and drove her out of her mind. He sped up, giving her delicious friction and with an actual growl, her hips bucked against his own and her body reached heights of euphoria she hadn't know existed. Her long legs lashed around his slim waist and she no longer cared that she barely knew the man, let alone didn't love him as her body entered a primal state of just wanting to be mated by a large male body. He drove himself within her soaked cored that clenched and pulsed on him until it went into overdrive and her first orgasm in a series of many that night gripped her and she literally screamed out her release as she shook in his arms. They were soon a mass of writhing limbs, unable to tell where one started and the other ended as they mindlessly coupled as their bodies were driven to dizzying orgasmic heights.