Aerith arrived at Genesis's place the next day and grinned, now that she was more comfortable with the hot tempered drama king, she had no problem poking fun at the non-morning person that Genesis was. She now knew that her job was secure as she had received praise from Genesis's higher ups, although she did technically work for Genesis, Shinra paid her salary. All reports had been in her favour, Genesis was getting to his important meetings on time and the efficiency by which she organized his life for him led to less temper tantrums on the part of the fiery man.
She opened the door with her key and placed the two coffees on the counter. Taking out an apron she had previously brought over, she efficiently cut up the fruit and put two slices of the crusty white bread he preferred into the toaster to be lightly toasted and buttered.
Dabbing a light perfume under each nostril to counteract the smell, she swept into his room and yanked open the curtains to bathe the room in unforgiving light. "Come on Commander, you have an hour before you have to meet with President Shinra and it's a beautiful day out," she happily tossed over her shoulder, well used to his bedroom shenanigans.
The two figures in bed stirred and Genesis blinked owlishly at her "fuck President Shinra" he growled and put his head under his pillow and then moaned in protest when Aerith snatched it from him and put it on a chair out of his reach.
"You have five minutes before I dump a pail of ice cold water over your head" Aerith said and he rudely told her to go "make love to" herself, picking up his wastepaper basket and sweeping from the room to throw out Genesis's DNA "leavings" from the night before in a garbage bin beside his backdoor that was wheeled out to the curb once a week. She made a mental note to spray his bedroom with air freshener when it was vacant.
She frowned on her return, his lover from the night before was seated at the table and drinking the second cup of coffee she had brought. Aerith knew the fussy man well enough to know that he hated when women lingered, he liked to eat his pre-breakfast snack in peace and drink his coffee. Aerith normally placed everything for him on the table and left him to his own devices while she checked his schedule for the day and returned pertinent emails on her tablet until he summoned her once he was awake enough to drive and in his full uniform. Sometimes it was hard to believe the floppy haired man walking sleepily around his place was the same one after he had showered, gelled his hair and dressed, until he looked as immaculately put together as ever.
"That's the Commander's food," she softly objected when the woman identified as Melanie went to steal a strawberry.
"So I guess you had better make some more for me, that looks good" she said.
Aerith opened her mouth to protest that she wasn't a maid, but then decided it wasn't that big a deal to cut up some more fruit and make some more toast if it meant getting rid of the other woman before Genesis blew a gasket at how tardy the woman was being with her departure. "Okay but after this, I'm afraid you have to leave. Commander Rhapsodos has a full schedule today and we must leave soon. Shall I call you a cab? He will gladly cover your fare" Aerith offered as she cut up fruit as fast as she could. The toast popped up.
"I'm not accustomed to being ordered from a place by the hired help. I like my toast much darker" she admonished her.
Aerith counted to ten and went to depress knob on the toaster "no you ruined that batch. Start again, why Genesis keeps you around? I don't know. You're worse than useless" Melanie sneered. "I'm not liking this coffee either, go back to Starbucks and get me a mocaccino with chocolate shavings and a cherry on top" she ordered Aerith and dumped her coffee down the drain and threw out the cup.
Genesis witnessed most of what his lover from the night before was saying to his Personal Assistant and was livid. His adopted father, Damian Rhapsodos was a man with a quick temper who was unapologetic about it. He frequently would yell at his staff and Genesis and abuse them all over any slight, no matter how small. Genesis hated when he bossed staff members around who were kind to him and frequently leapt to their defense. Damian had made it clear after the demise of Genesis's adopted mother, who had loved him, that he had only been tolerated by his adopted father. It was she who had found Genesis in the forest when he was just a few days old and defied her husband by adopting the redheaded foundling, giving him his divine first name and her husband's last name. Damian had grudgingly allowed it but made no secret that he didn't like the redheaded boy who bore his last name, but was an intruder in his home and of dubious origins. He liked to mock him for his flame bright hair colour.
Genesis had been twelve when his mother passed and had worked hard to make his father proud of him, but he was never good enough because he wasn't his true born son. He would call him names like: bastard, mongrel and speculate that his true mother was a crack whore and his father, an anonymous client of hers.
Genesis had taken to getting out of the mansion whenever possible, something that became easier when he met a local boy named Angeal.
Angeal was even back then, the sort of person who took troubled people under his wing. He soon was inviting Genesis to visit his much more humble home and Genesis learned that real families loved and supported each other and Genesis's mother had, adopted or not. Gillian was a kind mother to Angeal and fussed over him and was nice to Genesis, Angeal's father was only his step-father but was obviously loved and was proud of Angeal as well. Yet is was Angeal who suggested they go and join the SOLDIER program and become heroes. Genesis agreed at once, if only to get away from Damian, his mother had had money of her own and willed it all to Genesis, as if in anticipation that he would need it to rid himself of her husband. Yet, part of him still longed to prove himself to his adopted father by becoming the biggest hero the world has ever known. "I'm sorry Mindy, why are you making demands of my personal assistant?" he asked the woman at his table.
A pair of blue eyes and a pair of green eyes turned his way "Melanie" they both corrected him at the same time.
"Whatever. Okay Melanie, are you married to me?" he asked her.
"No" she said, looking back at him when his eerily glowing eyes seemed to intensify until they blazed like twin blue flames.
"Then I suggest that you stop acting like the lady of the manor and if you want something, you ask for it politely. This lady is my, I repeat, my personal assistant, you will not address her like a scurry maid, she is employed in the capacity to administrate the business side of my life and do personal tasks that I assign her, within reason, not you" he said and leaned over the table and placed his hands on it and glared at her, looking an avenging angel, should said angel have bed head, be topless and wearing a pair of red pajama pants low on his hips and a pair of red crocs on his feet.
"I was just wanting breakfast" she softly said.
"Great, I'm told there's a MacDonald's in that direction. Go get yourself a Mcwhatever the fuck they serve in the mornings and get dressed and out of my home and never come back, I cannot tolerate rudeness in people" he snapped.
"Fine I'm leaving" Melanie and a minute later, the door to his house slammed shut.
"Aerith, as it appears we have extra food this morning, won't you sit down?" Genesis said, taking a seat at his usual place.
"You didn't have to defend me that way" she said, sitting down with him, surprised he was offering, he never seemed to want company at the table before.
"She was being rude in my house to my employee, you were not the only one being insulted" Genesis said. "Would you like something to drink?" he suddenly asked her.
"I'll get myself some water" she said.
"You can have some of my coffee" he offered.
"I only drink tea" she admitted, causing Genesis to go rummage in a cupboard and triumphantly hold up a tea bag.
"Is green okay?" he asked her.
"Sure, I'll make it" she said getting up and he put his hands on her shoulders to stop her.
"I am perfectly capable of boiling water" he said pulling out a kettle, filling it and putting it on the stovetop.
Aerith didn't know what to make of this more caring Genesis as he placed the cup before her and sat down, she dubiously nibbled on a strawberry while taking small bites of toast and expected him to pick up his newspaper and read it the way he normally did, instead he fiddled with it and then turned questioning eyes on her. "The first day you came here, you said you pity me. What did you mean by that?" he asked her.
"It wasn't meant to be an insult or judgment, it just seems that with all the casual sex you have, that it's a lonely way to live" she observed.
"I'm far from lonely" he said with amusement in his voice of her assessment of his life.
"Yes but you have no one, you have no connection to any of them, emotionally or physically. There is no one for you to talk to at the end of the day or even receive a hug from" she explained.
His eyes narrowed at this "I assure you I get plenty of hugs."
"But none of these people seem to care about you. Who comes to look after you when you're ill?" she asked him.
"I don't get ill because of my mako treatments" he stiffly said, wondering why he felt annoyed at what she said. It was just an observation made by a near stranger and an employee at that. Her opinions shouldn't matter. "And I suppose that your fiance is your entire world?" he asked with a smirk.
"His name is Zack Fair and he's just as devoted to the Goddess as myself and a good man. I look forward to spending my life with him" she said.
"Zack Fair, as in the war correspondent? I'm impressed, but don't you worry about him?" Genesis asked her, knowing him to be a risk taker to the point it was speculated that he was addicted to danger.
"The Goddess protects Zack; she always has" Aerith said with a tender smile.
"Okay so this Zack is the greatest guy on Gaia?" he asked her.
"He's a person with flaws like anyone else" she said with a giggle.
"How is your sex life?" Genesis asked her out of the blue.
"What? We're waiting for marriage" she explained.
"Really? How long have you been engaged?" he asked her.
"Three years, we're planning to set a date once he gets back from his latest assignment" she explained.
"The poor guy must have a severe case of blue balls" Genesis observed.
"What are those?" Aerith asked him with a frown.
Genesis's could feel his eyebrows creeping up in shock "what exactly have you done together, cunnilingus, fellatio?" he asked her.
"What are those?" she asked him.
"Aerith have you ever engaged in any type of sexual activity of any description with a man?" he finally asked her.
"I've kissed Zack a lot, I mean a lot and once, I touched his, you know...through his pants" she admitted with a deep blush.
"Penis" Genesis automatically corrected her, causing her to blush even deeper.
Aerith's eyes grew wide at this, with her obvious innocence, few people ever openly discussed sex in front of her and she found this frustrating. She had taken health class and knew how things worked and had read blushingly some romance novels but even her best friend, Tifa seemed reluctant to discuss sex with her. Sometimes her innocent appearance worked against her in this regard. Therefore, Genesis being so candid with her was embarrassing but refreshing at the same time.
"Hasn't Zack tried anything with you?" he interrupted.
"No he respects me too much for that" she explained, while another part supplied he was never around enough to.
"And he's a virgin as well?" Genesis questioned her.
"No Zack has known some other women" she said.
"Typical" Genesis said with a derisive snort.
"What do you mean?" Aerith asked him.
"The good old double standard when it comes to men and women, men when they hit puberty are encouraged to sow their wild oats and women are taught to cross their legs to protect a useless membrane that serves no purpose. Does that seem fair to you?" he asked her.
Aerith was struck dumb by this. "But the hymen must be respected, it is in the teaching of the Goddess" she objected.
"It's useless, it can easily be broken by a bicycle seat, riding a horse or just a woman having an active lifestyle. If is so important, shouldn't the Goddess make it more durable? If I were a woman, I would have gotten that thing broken as soon as possible, if I had to take break it with a broom handle" Genesis said.
"My virginity is pledged to the man I marry" she defensively said.
"Well you don't have to worry about me trying to seduce you" he said.
"You don't find me attractive?" she asked, feeling a little hurt.
"On the contrary, you appear to have a nice body underneath those ghastly prim clothes. Even though you're petite, your body is well toned. Your hips are well rounded and womanly, your waist small, your belly flat and your limbs are long and supple. Your breasts are the perfect size for your body and are neither too big or too small and I suspect your nipples are supersensitive to the touch. That being said, I don't go in for virgins, they are way too emotional. I like my women experienced." he explained.
"Yes and they all look so happy when they storm out of here" Aerith pointed out to him as she watched him as he ate a grape.
"Women know of my reputation and yet they are disappointed when I treat them as that same reputation dictated I would. I don't hate women, I love all types of women, from the caramel skinned mother-Gaia type women, to narrow hipped, short haired boy-girls. I'm a true voluptuary. Women come to my bed knowing what I can offer them and leave satisfied. I normally don't see any of them a second time because I don't want to encourage them to become too attached. I'm not looking to settle down and doubt I ever will. I think monogamy to be an outdated idea" he explained.
"But what about falling in love? Perhaps you will want children someday?" Aerith asked him, feeling sad for his chosen lifestyle.
"I'm never going to procreate" he with vehemence in his voice that gave her pause. "I don't believe in love. Love does not exist."
"It does exist, I feel it every time I look at Zack or even talk to him. When we make love the first time, I know that it will be perfect" she said with a sigh that made Genesis roll his eyes.
"I could easily seduce you but it's not in my nature" Genesis said.
Aerith turned wild eyes on him. "You are questioning my convictions?"
"No I am not, but you would be a pushover. Not due to your religion, but how your untouched body would react when hormones took over. It would be easy, I would bring you somewhere where you feel safe, but we are alone. I would give you a few drinks to loosen you up but not make you unable to say no. I would begin by taking you on my lap and kissing you and whispering sweet nothings in your ear until you are so into it that you barely notice I'm feeling you up outside your clothes, then I would slip my hands into your clothes and be playing with your nipples before you knew it and that would spike your arousal. If I were a real cad, I would claim to be in love with you and need to have you, I would talk you into allowing me to go down on you. Once your virgin cunny is bared to me and you completely stripped to the skin, I would praise you until you felt less nervous and you would be sunk from the second I orally pleasured you until you cried my name as you came. I would probably become even more of a cad and tell you that if you love me, you would allow our bodies to join. I might even suggest that the Goddess intended for this to happen at how beautiful it felt. It would only hurt for a little bit when I thrust inside you and take your virginity. Soon you would experience only pure pleasure until your first penis induced orgasm makes the world shatter around you" he said, finishing his coffee.
Aerith gulped, not sure what to make of the strange feeling of arousal, she had experienced it when kissing Zack, but was too innocent to know why there was a throbbing in her groin. "Do you think really this a proper conversation for the breakfast table?" she complained but he grinned at the flush of arousal on her face.
"I was just trying to explain what I would do if I were a cherry picker, but I'm not. You're perfectly safe with me. So you'll marry your fiancé a virgin and until then, I guess it's masturbation city for Zackie-poo and yourself" Genesis said.
"I doubt that Zack does that" she objected.
"He's a male you kiss a lot, of course he does" Genesis said. "Heck I get laid almost every night, except Sundays; Sunday is my day of rest like the Goddess and even I rub one out once in a while. It's good to clean out the pipes. How often do you?" he asked her out of curiosity.
"I've never" she all but whispered.
"Never, as in seriously never?" Genesis said with incredulity in his voice.
"It's gross...down there and smells funny" she said with a blush.
"Vagina, it's call a vagina. There is nothing wrong with it. A woman's vagina is actually quite beautiful for the most part and I bet yours is really pretty. They don't smell funny if they are kept clean and I personally like how they taste. You should learn to pleasure yourself, it is good and healthy and there is nothing against it in the teachings of the goddess" he said.
"I don't know how" she admitted.
"Call the President and tell him we're going to be late. Let's go to my computer" Genesis said and Aerith was embarrassed as a male, and not even one she was intimately involved with explained female masturbation to her . "See? A lot of women like to start by stimulating their nipples and some just prefer to just go straight for the vagina. You just have to play around and find a combination that you like, a lot of women tell me they like to teased the surrounding area, lightly pinching their inner thighs and all that before they start tracing their lips and then slowly easing between them..."
"Genesis, I'm not really comfortable with this" Aerith interrupted and clenched her legs against the tingle there, yet the image of a spread open vagina remained on his screen.
"This is for your own good, no wonder you're so uptight. Now onto sex toys. There are two different types, ones that vibrate and ones that don't. Here are your typical variety. Most are shaped like a man's penis, but I can't imagine you using one of those because of the Goddess's need for hymen protection. However, the vibrating variety can be used on the clit; it's very pleasant I'm told. We can stop at a sex shop on our way in and I'll buy one for you if you wish. It would be my treat" he said, glancing up at the blushing girl.
"Thanks, I don't need that" she stiffly said, wishing the man would stop talking about sex as casually as if he were talking about the weather. Her breathing had deepened as she imagined Zack doing to her what apparently as called cunnilingus. "It's getting hot in here" she complained.
Genesis got up and revealed his own state of arousal to her and she stared at the tent in his pants like it was about to attacked her. "You're aroused because of our discussion, that will dissipate soon. My own erection shall once I take care of it in the shower" he said and shot her a teasing smile as he walked away.
Aerith was back to her old self when he finally joined her dressed and ready for the day. "Here, take this" he said handing her a hand mirror.
"What do I need it for?" she asked him.
"So you can look at yourself, your vagina. It's not dirty and not gross. Really see what you look like. That's the first step. You should try it tonight" he urged her.
"You're entirely too focused on my sexuality" she said taking the mirror from him as they departed for the drive into Shinra HQ; he noticed she didn't give it back.
Aerith had butterflies in her stomach after her mother had gone to bed. She waited for her sleeping pills to kick in and then went into the washroom and ran a nice warm bath, she was just bathing she told herself as she got out of her clothes and looked at herself in the full length mirror, seeing herself as a sexual being for the first time. Genesis had been correct about her body in his description, years of martial arts had given her a supple, yet toned body with lightly muscled legs, softly sculpted abs, strong, full hips and firm upstanding breasts topped with large rubbery pink nipples. As if in a trance, she experimentally stroked one of them and hissed at the experience, soon as she was rubbing them and lightly squeezing them as the tingle in her groin intensified with each squeeze. Finally she lowered herself into the tub and spread her legs and a trembling hand held the mirror hand angled between her well spread legs. She frowned, she didn't see how it resembled a flower but spread open, her womanhood was delicately pink and the whorls of her inner lips were not unattractive, she could make out everything, even the small kernel of her pleasure as it peeked shyly out beneath its concealing hood. Could such a tiny thing really bring her pleasure if touched, she wondered doubtfully? The moist looking entrance of her vagina was tiny and she wondered if she could truly take a man into her body. Her hand trembled as it covered the whole of her vagina and she ground it experimentally against herself. She moaned at the sensation and soon one hand muffled her cries as her legs were thrown over sides of the tub as her fingers ground against her clit and her body felt as tight as a wound up spring, she imagined Zack watching her do this and then imagined her hand to be his and she came hard with a muffled scream for the first time in her life and panted through pink full lips, she had never felt so alive!
Genesis hadn't even taken anyone to his bed that evening, he had been too enthralled at the idea of his prim and proper PA pleasuring herself, he could tell his advice had worked and smirked at her. He was already up and awake when she walked in with a spring in her step.
"Look whose up?" she said to him, "here's your coffee. Cherries were on special today, so I picked some up" she said giving him a look that was almost teasing.
"I don't much care for them because the pits" he complained.
"I'll remove the pits for you and I have a little trick I can do with the stems" she said.
"Oh?" he said and his eyes went wide when she easily knotted one with her tongue.
"So how did it go?" he asked her.
"I'll never tell, that is between the Goddess and myself" she said primly. Taking a toothpick she expertly twisted the pit out of one of the deep red cherries and impulsively offered it to him. He took it between his lips, giving her fingers a playful nip and her mischievous smile as he chewed on it. She found herself staring at his full lips and wondered what it would be like to kiss him and taste the cherry juice on his tongue, she shook her head to clear it of the image, it was so unlike her to feel attracted to other men. Of course she knew that Genesis was attractive, but it was like she had never really seen him before. She was attracted and in love with Zack, when she got to see him that is, he always seemed to be on assignment somewhere in the world.
"A penny for your thoughts?" Genesis interrupted her.
"I was thinking about what curtains to get for our living room, we need to replace our old faded ones" she said with a blush.
"I'm sure the Goddess will assist you with that decision" he said stretching in a way that caused his bare torso to flex and she found herself studying him with interest and then looking away.
"The Goddess's wisdom guides me in all decisions" she said, feeling disturbed by the effect he was having on her.
"You might not want to tell her about this one. Whether you choose to use it is up to you" he said handing her a box and she blushed when she beheld the smoothly pointed purple vibrator. "It's six inches long, has a silicone coating, has multi speeds and is silent and waterproof. You don't need to insert it and break your seal, just try it against your clit" he advised her and Aerith could only wonder why she had such an odd relationship with her boss.