Cloud's Hot, Steamy, Creamy, Vanilla Man-Coffee

By BlissfulIgnorence and Squallisawesome

Alright, here's the summery like I promised: Cloud works at Starbucks, and has a crush on Sephiroth. But here's the catch, Cloud only ever sees Seph when he buys his coffee every morning. Then, there's Squall, who dumped Cloud just a little while ago for no apparent reason. But does it have anything to do with Squall's new girlfriend Rinoa?

Chapter 1-

Cloud sighed, as he topped off the frappuccino with whipped cream. It was only six thirty, and he's already been at work for two hours. He was secretly waiting for the short encounter that would make his morning.

Cloud had to admit that he was anxious, Sephiroth hadn't shown up yesterday. What if he was sick? Or what if he had moved? What if Cloud was never going to see him again?

Oops, the blonde looked down to see that during his daydream he had forgotten to stop the whipped cream flow and had spilled whipped cream all over his green apron.

It was then that Squall walked through the door. Cloud noticed and turned red and started clumsily grabbing paper towels and cleaning it after his previous customer left. Squall walked up to him. "You've still got it..." he said to Cloud.

"Oh, shut up," Cloud responded hastily. Squall chuckled. "The usual?" Cloud asked. Squall nodded and sat down to wait

Cloud placed the frappuccino on the counter and began pouring squall Squall's drink, plain black coffee, the way he always had it.

It was easy to see why he dated him. Squall was gorgeous, stylish, generally a nice guy even if he could be a pain in the ass sometimes. He was always very caring and could always tell when something was wrong with someone he cared about.

To say that Squall was gorgeous was an understatement. He had that kind of rough sexy look that Cloud couldn't get enough of. For a while, Cloud was as addicted to Squall as his customers were to caffeine.

And everything seemed to be going fine, too. They had been dating for a little over 4 years and had known each other since their freshman year of high school years ago. But for some reason, Squall just broke up with him one night. Cloud had to admit he was hurt. It had hit him like a kick in the gut. But the worst part was that Cloud didn't even get a reason why. Squall just told him it was over and left.

Just then, a pretty girl with long, glossy, dark brown hair walked through the door.

Unlike Cloud, Squall was bi. The girl that looked a little less than a year younger than Squall walked over toward him and he gave her a greeting kiss. What was this? Was this why Squall dumped him? Had Squall been crushing on this girl before he broke up with Cloud and just dumped him so he could be with her? That must be it. Cloud was irritated by this. Unfortunately, Squall's coffee was ready, so he walked over to the table they were sitting at and put it down in front of his Ex.

"Who's this?" Cloud asked as politely and sincerely interested as he possibly could in his annoyed state.

"Oh, this is Rinoa," Squall said. She waved at Cloud with a smile. Cloud decided he didn't like her. "We've been dating for a few weeks, now." So she was the reason. Cloud decided he really didn't like her.

"Umm... hi," Cloud said. "Pleased to meet you," He was seething. That bitch!

But then he walked through the door. Thank god. Cloud needed something to calm him down, and this guy always seemed to do it.

"Oh, hello sir, the usual?" The blonde said.

Sephiroth sighed. "Please, I just got off a redeye, don't ask me any questions."

"Yes sir!" Cloud quickly took his place behind the counter and began preparing the object of his affection's morning coffee. He added an extra shot of caffeine, and decided to accidentally on purpose forget to charge him for it.

During this Cloud thought a little. He was crushing on this guy before Squall broke up with him. He couldn't be too angry at Squall when he was a bit guilty himself, right?

But that didn't make it ok! Cloud didn't go running off with Sephiroth now that he wasn't with Squall anymore. Cloud had to admit, he also didn't have to nerve to ask the beautiful man to go on a date, but that was another issue entirely.

He handed the sex god his coffee, then gave him his change, getting goosebumps as their hands brushed each other.

"You okay?" the man said, giving Cloud a strange look.

"Yeah, it's just a little chilly and stuff..." Cloud said nervously.

"You're sweating..." the man said, raising an eyebrow.

"Well, you know..." Cloud then hurried away pretending to do some work and the silver-haired devil left puzzled.

A/N

Now, you may be asking yourself, If they don't like slash, why are they writing this? That's a good question… I may have to ask squallisawesome about that one. This story was born over a very lengthy AIM conversation. I think I started it by mentioning that something he said was not canonical. Well, guess what else isn't canonical? Slash! I basically mentioned the entire basis of this fic as an example of a typical AU yaoi fic. And the idea was born.

Well, I think I can speak for both of us when I say that we would certainly like to know what the typical Slash audience thinks of our little experiment. So, we would much appreciate it if you would review. (I have cookies)