A black haired woman approached Cloud. "Hi. Haven't I seen you here before?" she asked.
"Probably. I live upstairs with her and two kids." Cloud pointed to where Tifa was working at the bar.
"Oh." The woman moved on.
Cloud went over to the table where Reno and the brunette were sitting. "Well that didn't work." he said.
"What happened?" Reno asked.
Cloud recited the conversation, and Reno shook his head.
"No wonder." Reno caressed the thigh of his companion. "Would you help us out and pretend to introduce yourself to him?" he asked her.
"Okay. Hi, I'm Lydia. What's your name?" she asked Cloud.
"I'm Cloud."
"That's an interesting outfit, what do you do for a living?"
"I don't like it, it makes me feel too naked. And I'm a delivery boy."
Reno slammed his beer mug down on the table. "Are you trying to be hopeless?! Take what she said about your outfit as a compliment, and you should tell her it's custom made. And you're not a delivery boy, you're a goods expediter. Lydia, would you please go get us two shots of whiskey?" Reno patted her ass as she got up and headed towards the bar.
Cloud leaned over to Reno as soon as Lydia left. "What's sex like?" he asked.
Reno spit out his beer and stared at Cloud for a few moments. "Are you saying you've never…what about Tifa? Those breasts are real, dammit!"
"I don't think she's interested in sex." Cloud said.
Reno looked over Cloud's head as he saw Rude leave Tifa's office with a smug expression on his face, and Reno had a brief glimpse of a smiling Tifa sitting on her desk, putting her bra back on, before Rude closed the door and left.
"Women can surprise you, that's something else you should learn. And if they want something, they'll get it wherever they can."
Lydia came back with the whiskey, and Reno had Cloud down them before they moved to a secluded booth in a far corner of the bar. Reno whispered something to Lydia, who looked surprised, and then nodded with understanding as he whispered something else to her. Reno got up and Lydia moved over to Cloud's side of the booth, and she started kissing Cloud and taking his pants off.
"What…what are you doing?" Cloud asked.
"You're never gonna learn how to get women if you don't learn what you're getting them for. And you're so tense you could double as a brick wall. You need to loosen up." Reno said as he stood in front of their side of the booth to hide them from casual observers.
The whiskey convinced Cloud to cooperate with Lydia. By the time she was done with him, he had a glimmer of why so many people were preoccupied with sex. He was disappointed when Lydia left him and went back to Reno's side.
"That's enough for tonight. Your homework is to find a better outfit, and we'll try again tomorrow night." Reno put his arm around Lydia and they left the bar to go back to Reno's place, where he kept his promise on what he would do to her if she had sex with Cloud.