Reno going to Tifa's bar wasn't a new thing; he was a regular in fact.
It was within a walking distance of his house and work, so he would frequently go there for lunch or dinner, that might turn into him drinking a bit too much and finding someone to take home with him. Tifa was glad of his patronage and they got along fairly well until after they…..she could feel herself blush whenever he came around.
True to his promise, he hadn't told anyone about their time together and Aerith had apologized about it since. She shouldn't have tricked them like that and the woman Aerith was so contrite that Tifa forgave her on the spot with a hug.
But there was still a matter of Reno, she sighed as he sat at the bar where he could best talk to her. "Hello Reno, may I take your order?" she stiffly said.
"Now is that any way to greet an old customer that you know so well?" he asked her in an innocent sounding tone of voice and took the goggles off of his head and placed them on the bar.
She could feel her cheeks heat up "it's good to see you again. Can I get you something to drink?" she asked him as her hands clenched and unclenched beneath the bar as if itching to strangle the ass.
"I could really use some coffee" he said with a wink and she blushed again as she remembered their awkward breakfast together where both people seemed to eat everything in sight at how much energy was drained from them during coitus by Aerith. This they gulped down with what seemed like gallons of coffee until the management was dubious about offering their pancake buffet option anymore.
"Coming right up" she said.
"Hey have you been to the IHOP lately? They're offering a new strawberry-rhubarb-blackberry topping that's to die for but I guess you just go when you need an overload of carbs to fuel your body. I tell you, after a lot of physical activity, there is no place like going to the IHOP….."
"Come here" she said seizing his wrist and towing him huffily into her office and then shut the door and pinned him in place with her angry carmine glare.
"Do you want me to get naked again?" he asked her, his hands going to the buttons on his shirt.
"No! You have to stop harassing me about….you know" she said while almost wishing he would and take her right on her desktop….
"You mean when we fucked? Where I made your bell ring or hard that you almost passed out from your orgasm; is that what you're talk about? I don't understand why you're so uptight about it. We had sex and it was spectacular. It is that you haven't for a long while that bothers you or that it was with me?" he asked her, wondering why he cared either way. She could be banging ten guys for all he really knew, but he suspected she wasn't with anyone. Not even with Cloud, who slept in the bed beside her. No relationship could be sexually healthy when the couple felt the need to sleep in separate beds that were so near, yet so far.
Tifa blanched at how crude he was being "it was never meant to happen. Let's forget it ever did. Aerith apologized for going too far; so let's move on" she said.
"I doubt you'll ever be able to forget how I made you feel. Your body will crave more and sooner or later, you will come back for me. Until then, I'll see you soon Wife" he said and then reached forward and before she knew what had happened, he'd dipped her and was hungrily kissing her and she angrily beat on his back, unable to get leverage from her almost prone position and then her arms circled him to draw him closer when she surrendered to it. His tongue parted her mouth to dance with her own as the very air around them seemed to charge with electricity as they all but devoured each other. Reno was the first person to lean back with a gasp. That he was befuddled by a simple kiss confused him. His hairtie had come loose from the motion of her hands on his back and lay heavily there as it flowed like crimson silk to his hips. He panted and he could see that she had also been effected to by the intensity their kiss. He could only wonder about the animal magnetism that lay between them. He kissed women all the time and it never made his heart race like this before and then there was the incredible sex he couldn't stop thinking about or about her. He gently helped her up. "I should go" he said.
"Yes you should" she said in a shaky voice, crossing her arms over her chest so he couldn't guess from her braless state how aroused she was at how her nipple peaks jutted forward in her white tank top. Her clit throbbed uncomfortably and her panties felt like a wet spot was forming on them.
"I'll see you around" he said and left.
Tifa splashed some water on her face and got herself under control. She noticed his goggles still on the bar and had the urge to break them, instead she put them in the lost and found box she kept there and texted him that she had them.
Reno got the text but ignored it, he had called work citing that he wasn't feeling well and would be taking the rest of the day off. He had his black book out before he was done with the phone call and the second person he tried told him to come right over. He went home to get his SUV and change into jeans and a t-shirt before driving over to the woman's apartment. He needed to get Tifa out of his head and the best way to get over someone, is to get on top of someone else.
He returned to his house hours later, the woman had been gorgeous and the sex great…but not spectacular, merely adequate. He had had fun but somehow it hadn't felt as fulfilling as before. He got undressed and prepared for a shower before he went to bed. He looked at his back and regarded the furrows on it in his mirror. She had obviously enjoyed herself but with each passing minute, he was forgetting the details on their coitus, positions and numbers of time she had cum. Yet he could remember each minute detail of his encounter with Tifa weeks before. The woman was driving him mad!
He threw on a bathrobe and padded to the kitchen to fix a drink, which made him go past the living room that she had insulted. Okay the potted plants with watering can patterned wallpapers with its cheerful sunflower border were a tad garish. Certainly the green shag carpeting to complete the gardening theme didn't help. The whole place a little dated was all, the washrooms had blue toilets, sinks and bathtubs but they all worked just fine.
Then there was a matter of the orange stove and matching fridge in the kitchen were dated too. To make matters worse, someone had pasted a full wall picture mural of a waterfall in his finished basement.
Okay the place could stand some major renovations as Rude was always nagging him to do. Reno didn't even know why he had bought this house to begin with; he had only ever lived in apartments but was one day walking in the neighbourhood and felt drawn to it. It was a four bedroom house that had a solarium type breakfast nook, real wood burning fireplace and fully finished basement and it was set fairly far back from the road on an acre of land with several large trees in the yard.
He hadn't been impressed with the interior but bought it anyway, even though it was way too much space for a single person and moved in soon after the closing date without bothering to upgrade anything or even get new furniture to fill out the empty rooms. He wondered how the place would look if it had a new look and better appliances. Then he picked up the phone and called the person who opened his eyes to how his place really looked.
"Hello Tifa" he said with she picked up the phone. "Remembering how you were saying that improvements needed to be made to my place? I was wondering you could come over and make some suggestions" he said. "As a friend, nothing more" he hastily added.
"You swear to this?" Tifa said, thinking being alone with him not to be a good idea.
"I swear. Just look at my place and make suggestions is all I ask" he promised.
"Okay, I'll come over at two tomorrow" she reluctantly agreed, feeling almost compelled to help him.
"I slept with another woman last night" he said before he could stop him.
"Good for you" she said hanging up the phone and wondered why his admission disturbed her.
The next day she come armed with a measuring tape, stud finder, colour wheel and clipboard and pen. She silently moved through his place tapping her pen on her teeth and making notes in a very professional way as he trailed after her, basking in her body scent. She smelled so good he wanted to roll in it.
She finally looked at him, trying not to notice how attractive she suddenly found him. "We can make minor changes or go more heavily into the project. I think you need to gut and renovate your kitchen and get your plumbing updated. This shag carpeting has to go along with all the other little planters on your wall. You should stream it off and repaint your whole living room" she said.
"Are you sure the wallpaper is so bad? It's kind of cheerf…" he objected.
"Yes, it looks like the 1970's threw up in here" she said glaring at it in a hateful way. "I can give you the number of a contractor I know who does work at the bar for me. He's reasonably priced and does good work" she volunteered.
"I wouldn't even know what to suggest" Reno admitted.
"I can give him my list of suggestions and you two can work it out" she suggested.
"What if you I give you carte blanche for the renovations, would you oversee everything? I mean do whatever you want to it, furnish it however you want. I can issue you a credit card" he said.
"Anything?" she squeaked. "What about the landscaping? Can I put in some gardens?" she asked him.
"Whatever you want. I'm going on mission for about a month in a couple days and you can do whatever you want to my place" he said wanting her to do this personally for some reason.
"Okay" Tifa agreed. Tifa's mind was spinning with possibilities. She was so excited! She loved watching those home renovations shows done by experts but felt she could do a better job with her creative eye. She knew the basics about construction from working with a contractor for a few months one summer before her world went to shit. She had a naturally artistic eye and her first client, even if she was doing it as a favour to him.
Reno knew lots of powerful people and if she made his home a showpiece, she could get more clients. She imagined handing them her business card while she wore a tasteful suit.
Truth be told, she was sick of a bar business and wanted to get into a new line of work but Cloud said it allowed them a comfortable living with his delivery service income added to it. But Tifa was…..restless.
She looked around the place; it had good bones and was structurally sound. She just had to bring out its real glory. She imagined living there as she prepared dinner in a much more modern kitchen and set the table in the solarium breakfast nook, leaving the ornate doors open a little to catch the scent coming from their flower garden. Her husband unlocked the door and she hurried to greet him and flung her arms around his waist.
"Welcome home" she said leaning back to look up at him.
"It's always great to come home to you" Reno said before lovingly kissing her, she could feel herself responding to him and…She came out her trance with blushes painting her face. "I was saying, do you think you can use any of my furniture? I'm not sentimentally attached to it" Reno repeated his question to the distant looking girl.
"Huh?" Tifa said and looked at it; most of it had probably started its life in a box she suspect. "I'll call Got-Junk when you leave" she said.
"Okay, I'll drop by the bar tomorrow with a copy of my key and a credit card for you" he promised her.
"I can do whatever I want to the outside too?" she asked him again.
"Anything" he agreed and they shook hands and both were minorly disturbed as how their simple touch set off sparks in each other.
"I'll see myself out" Tifa said ducking away to hide her erect nipples.
"See ya" Reno said embarrassed at how he was now steely hard and pulsing in his pants and had visions of taking Tifa right on his ugly shag carpet, could hear it, could almost feel it. He was mortified by his reaction to her! Was he regressing back to his prepubescent days? That was the only thing he could think of.