Cloud and Scarlet were chatting on the phone as they often did, living out their fantasy lives together.

"It's a beautiful day and we're on a picnic, we are just finishing off the last of a bottle of champagne we drank with our meal. We're full and snuggling contently on the blanket watching clouds drift by...Storm are you there?" Scarlet asked in concern over his pause, he was frowning over her use of the word Cloud.

"Sorry, I drifted away for a second, he said when he realized she didn't choose the word Cloud on purpose. "It's so beautiful today, the sun is shining on us both and I'm holding you in my arms. We're both a little tipsy from the champagne and I turn over and start to kiss you..." he said. "I undo your blouse..." he said.

"Not here" she said blushing like mad as if it was actually happening and clutching at her shirt.

"We're in the middle of a field, there's no one around for miles. I'm undoing your blouse and liberating your lush, firm breasts by lifting your bra out of the way and suckling on your sensitive buds until you're moaning and holding my head in place with your hands on the back of it while I alternate from one to the other" he said.

"My hands slide your sun warmed t-shirt up so I can stroke your broad back as I arch beneath you, seeking your oral caresses. I feel so wanton" she said with a pant in her voice as her hand drifted down her flat stomach towards her womanhood.

"I slide your skirt up" he moaned back. "What underwear do you have on?" he panted back to her.

"White, lacy and virginal with a light pink bow at the front" she sighed back, having discovered he had a slight thing for virgins.

"I take them off of you and tease you with my fingers without penetrating you" he said with a breathy moan as he caressed himself, "I grab the rest of the champagne and pour it over your thigh and then lick it off of you" he moaned.

"That's cold! But I like that your mouth is so close to me..." She moaned back.

'I pour the rest over your womanhood and lick off every drop, I feel drunk on your taste and caress every inch of your sweet sex with my tongue. The taste of you mixed with the champagne makes me long for you as I never have another woman..." He cried, his orgasm so close.

"Take me, love me" she begged him as her own fingers danced inside her.

"I'm undoing my belt and taking my dick out. I want you beneath me so my body dominates your own but shelters it as well. You're so wet and tight, so perfect" he moaned.

"Yes, take me Storm, you feel so perfect too" Scarlet cried out as her orgasm approached as her busy fingers conjured it and it crashed over her like a wave. "Oh Storm" she cried out.

"Oh Delovely, I love you" Cloud cried out.

"I love you too" she enthused and then both paused at what they had admitted to each other. 'You know this is just fantasy?" she nervously said to the highly blushing Cloud.

"I love you, I don't even know you but I love you" he said with shock in his voice.

"You can't possibly. I've never met you in person. I got carried away is all" she stammered.

"You are so kind and care for me. Meet with me in person. Give us a chance" Cloud practically begged her. "I need to meet you at least once."

"I can't, this is crazy. You are just a client" she insisted.

"Am I? I guess that this little fantasy of ours is through then. All you want is my money in the end" Cloud said bitterly.

"I do care for you..." Scarlet tried.

"I have to go home and make up with the girl who is waiting for me. At least she wants me. I think it's time I ask her to marry me" Cloud said with derision in his voice.

"But you don't love her. In the end all you will do make is two miserable people" Scarlet said.

"At least she's real" Cloud said and hung up, he texted Tifa that he would be home soon.

Meanwhile

Elena and Rude could only stare at Reno while he enthused about his plans for Tifa's birthday that night.

"I'm sorry, you're taking a woman you're not sleeping with to the nicest restaurant in town?" Elena repeated as if unable to take it in.

"We've gotten pretty close and I want to make her birthday special, I'm honoured that she wants to spend it with me. I got her this for a present. It's Laura's half locket from Twin Peaks" he said showing them the jewelers box.

"Did you buy that on ebay?" Rude asked him. "I know they included a cheap copy on a limited edition DVD cover that looked like her diary."

Reno wondered how Rude knew that but pressed on "no I had this custom made based on that, it's made of the finest gold. It's actually a real locket and when you open it up, there's our pictures inside" he said showing them.

"You put your own picture in a locket along with hers of a woman you're not actually together with?" Elena said, wondering if anyone else thought that weird.

"She likes the way I look" he said defensively and was so wrapped up with looking at Tifa's present that he didn't notice how they exchanged odd glances.

"Then what?" Rude rudely interrupted before Elena could explain about how putting his picture in the gift locket was wrong.

"I bought tickets to see the most popular musical in town" Reno said.

"You realize that during musicals, there is a very good chance that people will burst into song. You hate musicals" Elena declared.

"But she wants to see it" Reno patiently explained as if to a slow child. "Now I have to go pick up my tux from the dry cleaners for tonight" he said and sailed out with a spring in his step.

"The poor guy has it bad" Rude commented.

"He's fallen hook, line and sinker" Elena commented. "Most girls are lucky to get a cup of coffee from him even if they have slept with him. He's normally as good and cheap as Scottish people normally are" Elena said.

Tifa was beaming from ear to ear when Reno finally escorted her to her door, she hadn't expected any of what he had arranged for her birthday had vastly enjoyed being wined and dined like a fine lady. She was tipsy on champagne when she invited Reno in and took off her high heels as she held onto him, glad she had worn her burgundy dress that matched her eyes. "I would have been fine with going for pizza" she insisted.

"I wanted to show you a good time. I'm so honoured you chose me to spend your birthday with" he said, glowing with happiness that she had enjoyed it so much.

"I don't know how to thank you" she said touching his cheek and then blushing at how intimate it seemed.

"You can kiss me" he said before his lips settled on hers and they shared their first lingering kiss, just then her text notification went off and she apologized and broke it off.

"It's Cloud, he's coming home" she declared.

She was surprised when Reno swore, "tell him to stay away. You're still addicted to him. You've made such progress" he snapped at her.

"I'm sorry but he's my responsibility and since when is our relationship any of your business?" She said feeling unsettled about how assertive he was being.

"Since I'm in love with you" Reno snapped at her without thinking and covered his mouth and blushed furiously.

"I love you too" she said and realized it was true. She loved Cloud in her way but she had fallen for Reno somewhere along the way. They didn't remember going to her bedroom until they were on Cloud's bed. "Say it again" she cried when he entered her.

"I love you" he all but shouted as he pounded into her, both were too excited by their newly discovered love to take it slow, so it was fast and hard and yet tender all at the same time.

Cloud wondered at the cursing, gasps and moans as he mounted the stairs and stopped in shock at the sight of male buttocks jouncing on his bed and other male parts flouncing into view with each thrust into the female writhing beneath him. "Say it again" Tifa voice demanded and Cloud realized it must be her with the dark storm of super long hair that was spread beneath her.

"I fucking loooooooooove you" Reno cried out as he came hard into her, Cloud had no problem identifying who her lover was just based on his distinctive hair colour.

"Tifa" Cloud said in a choked voice to the now still couple.

"Cloud" she said looking at him and Reno turned his head too and they both hastily got under the covers.

"You cheating bitch. I was coming here to ask you to marry me and this is what I get?" He demanded of her.

"This is nothing, of course I'll marry you" Tifa pleaded.

"Nothing?" Reno said raising from the bed and hurriedly dressing, unable to keep the hurt out of his voice.

"I'm leaving and never coming back. You said you would wait for me" Cloud railed at her and left.

"She's been waiting a long time. But clearly I'll only ever be her second choice" Reno bitterly called after him, feeling like he had been violated.

"I love you but I promised Cloud..." She said raising from the bed and going to Reno.

"Save it, the next time you see me drunk and trying to pick up women, keep your opinion to yourself. You don't have a say in my life. To think I was going to ask you to be my girl. I'm such an idiot" Reno said left too, wondering why he felt like crying when he hadn't since he was a teenager and why his heart ached in a way it never had before.

Scarlet was hurting too in a way she never had before and missing Storm when she got a phone call from the police station asking her to come get Storm from the drunk tank. He took his phone "she was unfaithful, she was fucking some Turk right in front of me" he slurred at her.

Scarlet almost asked "which one?" But instead got out her disguise and told the officer that she would be there soon,she affixed her dark wig and sunglasses in place. She got into her third-hand car and drove to meet the young man she had wondered so much about. She looked on in shock as a very drunk Cloud was helped to walk so he stood in front of her.

"I knew you would be beautiful" he slurred at her in awe. She totally in shock, she had been talking all that time to one of her greatest enemies, ergo, Tiffany was his long term...whatever, Tifa whom she once tried to get executed in a very public way!

"Is there somewhere I can drop you off?" She asked him.

"I've got nowhere to go" he said with a shrug that nearly made him topple over.

Scarlet noted the pain in his voice made a decision and took a hold of him, she couldn't deny him shelter and comfort even if he was once her enemy, she cared about him too much for that. "Come on Cloud, let's get you back to my place so you can sleep it off" she said putting an arm around his waist for support and he draped an arm around her and trustingly allowed her to strap him into her car and promptly threw up all over himself a mile later.

Scarlet hated having to deal with bodily fluids or sick people but pulled over and gently cleaned him as best as she could before taking him to her place. Removing his clothes to wash them, she gave him a quick shower and tucked him into bed as tenderly as a mother would a sick infant before sleeping on her own sofa, giving him her bed.