Chapter 2

Tifa woke up the next morning snuggled up to a warm body and turned her head, expecting to see Cloud but froze in horror to see the young lawyer there in his place while a part of her had the satisfaction of knowing that the gorgeous man got bedhead like everyone else. Then the night before came washing back to her. They had made love...no fucked like a pair of rabid weasels. She had then awaken him two more times for a repeat, the first time she had rode him like he was a bucking bronco until he had cum into his condom. The next time, he had stroked himself within her as her leg lay over his hip and they lay on their sides facing each other as if they were a pair of sweethearts making sweet, sleepy love. He hadn't even finished the last time, he had pleasured her to orgasm a couple of times before removing the condom and drawing her into his powerful arms to give her his body warmth to encourage her to sleep. And she had as they were both spent.

"Morning" he said as his blue eyes fluttered open and he gave the blushing girl a sleepy smile. "How did you sleep?" He asked her as if waking up beside her was the most normal thing in the world.

"Last night shouldn't have happened. What have I done? Cloud" she said and then her eyes filled with tears when she realized he wasn't hers anymore, she had no one.

"Let it out" he said drawing her against him and looping an arm around her.

"Let me go" she said rearing back and stealing all the covers, revealing his naked body with its morning wood jutting proudly from his groin and she stared at it in the light of day, unable to believe she had taken it inside her body, but could still feel it. It was like she could feel the ghost of his fullness inside her, invading her. It was slightly painful but arousing at the same time, she forced her eyes away from it.

"If you want to leave, I understand but know this: no one needs to know what occurred. I will tell no one" he assured her, placing a pillow over his groin.

"But what must you think of me? Do you think I'm a whore?" she asked him in a small voice, burrowing as deep into the covers as she could.

"No I think you were hurting and you needed a release of some sort and I provided that for you. It was your heightened emotions driving you, not a need for sex or a desire for me. But that being said, you were pent up and have been neglected emotionally as well as physically. You were hurting and grieving. What happened was just an expression of that and need never occur again if you don't want it to. You're safe, you shall neither have caught anything from our encounter nor will anything be born from it" he explained to her.

"But I will remember it, I've never been with another man and now..." she said.

"Now you've been with two at the age of twenty eight, that's significantly less than other women your age. No one shall know of this, it can be a secret you take to your grave and myself a distant memory and rather loud neighbour or we can come to some kind of arrangement. I can help you through this, your break up, I can be a sympathetic ear and a shoulder to cry on, I can even be a warm body to snuggle with. Or I can be your lover if you wish, we can try anything you want, explore any kink you might have thought of. I'm very versatile sexually and have few hard limits. Now I would like to get up and shower, I would like to take you to breakfast if you're willing to go with me as it is Saturday. You can go get changed and showered yourself and come with me or slink on home if you wish and I won't bother you again" he said.

"You would be seen with me in public?" She asked him.

"It's not abnormal for neighbours to have breakfast together, no one would think it odd and we are both single. I do go on dates with some of my girls whereas others can't be seen in public with me. I've even been arm candy a couple of times for women after they had bad breakups. I'm whatever I need to be in order to order to make them happy and they know my terms are easy and I make few demands" he explained.

"That's enough for you?" She asked him.

"I don't experience anything but a liking for someone, I don't think myself capable of deeper emotions. I guess it's a failing on my part, so I strive to make a person as happy as I can. It's the least I can offer them when I can't give them commitment or my heart. I can offer you the same" he said. "I know it's odd but I find myself caring for you, you have my interest. And we are certainly sexually compatible, the way your screamed when orgasming was incredible" he said.

Tifa opened and closed her mouth when she realized she had become one of the women who normally kept herself up at nights. When had she become so wanton she wondered? The way she had behaved with him, actually waking him and demanding more...she could feel herself blushing. She had acted so out of character, allowing a man to touch her, getting naked with him and sharing her body with him. He was practically a stranger! "I would like to go home, if you would turn around and let me dress" she requested.

His expression seemed to say "you've got to be kidding me?" but he said nothing and stood up fully naked and turned from her while she scrambled into her clothes. "I'm sorry, but I have to think about your offer. All of this is very new to me" she said with her eyes averted and he pulled a red housecoat around his own nudity and belted it.

"Take your time, you know where to find me" he said. "I would like to request one final kiss before you leave" he said.

"Okay" she said and made an eeping sounds when he sat on the bed and dragged her into his lap. She looked at him wide eyed, as if he would attempt to take her again but instead all he did was kiss her softly in a teasing way like a lover would. His kiss was hypnotic to the affection deprived woman and her plush lips opened under his and his tongue softly massaged hers as large hands stroked along her back and sides before tracing her sensitive nipples that strained her soft silk bra and blouse until she was softly moaning.

"I'll see you soon" he said leaning back and helping her to her feet. He smiled at how she scuttled from his place, sensing his teasing kisses had got her slightly hot and bothered.

Angeal wore one of his weekend plaid shirts as he liked to do when not at the office, he made breakfast while his wife took her temperature. "I'm still officially ovulating" she announced. "We should go back to bed" she suggested.

"Breakfast first, I need energy woman. I'm running on fumes with how often you're jumping me. I remember when we used to have sex for fun" he said sitting down and pulling her into his lap. She was tiny and cute and Wutaianese and all his. He knew that seeing them together gave people pause upon meeting them. He was so broad and muscular and she was so tiny. When people thought of a lawyer's wife, they thought of a hot blonde in a power suit, not a tiny but leggy tomboy type woman like Yuffie with her causal clothes and short hair. Her voice could get really loud when she was excited about something to his calmness. But he couldn't imagine life without her, he had been hers from the time she had attended his school as a new transfer student and stole his slinky; though she still claimed not to have. She had been his first crush, his first kiss, his first love making all with her. Every milestone had been met with her at his side to the point that marrying her had just been assumed by everyone before the ring had been purchased and the question asked.

"I'm sorry baby, I'm just worried. We've been trying so hard and Aerith seems to get pregnant when Sephiroth just looks at her" Yuffie said with a sigh.

"Should I ask Sephiroth if I can sleep with Aerith so we can use her as a surrogate?" He teased her, earning him a big dark eyed frosty glare.

"I so want to give you children" she said in a mournful voice.

"We've both been tested, there's no reason why we shouldn't be able to conceive a child. It will happen" he said to he, hugging her and stroking her hair back.

"What if it never happens?" She asked him. "Will you regret marrying me if we never have children?"

"Then we'll adopt a child, I would rather you then a hundred children" he said kissing her and putting her in the next chair. "Now eat up Mrs. Hewley and we'll go make us a baby" he ordered her and she quirked a smile back at him. Yes it had been so worth getting to know the large and surprisingly gentle boy she had spotted when joining their school, drawn to his large stature and kind blue eyes. All she had had to do was steal his slinky to meet him.

Genesis indeed did enjoy working with his good friends except when it came to budget meetings, Sephiroth had the instincts of an accountant when it came to finding areas to slash their budget and could go on about it for hours, literally. The pedantic man could literally put Genesis in a bored trance as his silken voice wove visions of discount staples and how to use less copy paper. Of course Genesis was very distracted these days because his latest lover. He had meant to try again to talk Tifa into accepting this role in his life, but that hadn't been his intention when he signed for a package for her that the mailman was attempting to deliver.

He had wondered if she had thought about their night together as she seemed to be trying to avoid seeing him and he thoughtfully had stayed out of her way by slightly altering his routine.

He had only the noblest of intentions when he knocked on her door to deliver her package, she had froze to see him there and he had simply held it out to her but somehow the petite young woman was suddenly kissing him and tearing at his clothing. He had just managed to close the door behind them before his dark red designer power suit was discarded on the floor along with everything else on his body and her layers of dour work clothes seemed to vaporize from her own intriguing body. Rushed cunnlingus ensued and it was only a matter of minutes before he was hammering himself into her hungry depths as he took her on her living room floor, both too far gone to seek the comfort of her bed. Their coitus was no less satisfying than before as they exchanged positions, rolling the expanse of her living room floor and her orgasms seemed to come seamless on the heels of another until a final huge lunge from him and he filled his condom almost full to bursting, happy that he carried them with him at all times. He had pulled out from her and tied it off and discarded it in a garbage can that hovered next to where they had ended up. He was winded as if he had been running and sweat bedewed his body as she gasped beside him. "I certainly wasn't expecting that" was his comment as he turned on his side to face her.

She gave him a look of embarrassment. "I don't know what came over me" she said and made an effort to cover herself.

He rolled over so he hovered over her. "You like having sex, more to the point, you like having sex with me. There's nothing wrong with that" he said capturing a kiss from the blushing girl.

"But it's wrong, I don't love you" she argued.

"You don't have to be in love with someone to desire them, sexual attraction is the start of most relationships. It's not like I'm not willing. I find myself curious about you, you're obviously a beautiful woman but you down play your looks. You obviously love sex but act frigid. I would like to get to know you in every sense of the word. We can go on dates, I can provide you with all the perks of being in a relationship if you're willing to try. We're obviously sexually compatible. I have few rules: mainly that I insist birth control be used at all times and don't seek more from me than I'm able or willing to give" he explained.

"I can't do this" she said and bit her lip as he started to play with the sensitive points of her nipples. He leaned over and lightly suckled and then blew on the one closest to him, causing her to shiver.

"Do you not want me?" He asked her.

"I do but I can't be with someone who's sleeping with other women" she admitted.

"What if I agree not to sleep with anyone else until we're through?" He offered before he could stop himself.

"You would do this for me?" She asked him.

He stared at her baffled, he had never offered this anyone in his life. Yet he longed to take her again and had just had her. He felt mad to possess her, unable to believe the body she concealed beneath her boring clothes, the length of her hair. How she was almost virginally tight as he penetrated her, how she clenched on him as he moved in her and the force of her orgasms. How could he offer to be faithful to only her? It went against everything he was as a man? Yet he felt there was much more to experience with her, he was just seeing the tip of the iceberg and she was so sexually inexperienced. What sort of lover would she prove to be with him as her teacher? He could see a lot of untapped potential that her ex-lover had probably ignored. "Yes, until we part, I shall be only with you" he swore to her and she kissed him in a demanding way, clearly ready for round two as he was and he managed to reach his pants for another condom.

"I'm sorry am I boring you" Sephiroth deadpanned to the day dreaming redhead.

"No I was just thinking about someone" he said.

"Let me guess, a hot Latino belly dancer?" Sephiroth said dismissively.

"No actually..." Genesis said.

"I was trying to think of a way to tell you this but, Yuffie and I are pregnant" Angeal suddenly announced with a wide, happy smile on his face.

"That's amazing" Sephiroth said jumping up and hugging his friend, so excited that he thumped him on his back as well.

"Yes congratulations" Genesis said, genuinely happy for his friends knowing they'd been trying for a while now.

"We have to get everyone together" Sephiroth said and Genesis rolled his eyes. He knew that meant, that meant Sephiroth and Aerith with their family, His brother, Reno and Elena with Alexander and Amelia, Angeal with Yuffie and Genesis bored out of his mind and there alone while everyone cooed over cute children, shared stories about them and being pregnant until Genesis would sooner chew on steel nails then be there a second longer.

He sometimes as forced to wonder why he was surrounded by happy couples. It hadn't been so bad when it just had been Angeal and he had been best man at his oldest friend's wedding. Yuffie had looked a vision in her white wedding gown and Angeal had glowed with happiness. He had been just as cynical about the whole wedded state but had been genuinely happy for his friends and gave a nice speech. His own date had looked longingly on at the whole thing and he had parted ways with her soon afterwards.

Sephiroth, they had met in law school and he had become Genesis's wingman as the two beautiful men cut a swath through the willing local beauties, two eligible bachelors on the prowl.

Until one day Sephiroth went to send a woman a "dumping" bouquet as he called it and met the new florist shop's owner. Instead, he requested she put together a huge bouquet of her favourite flowers and wrote "will you go out with me?" on the card and gave it to her after he paid for it. Aerith had proved to be homebody who didn't drink, so their dates were more of the wholesome variety than Sephiroth was used to but he soon lost his heart to gentle green eyes and a shy demeanour and was hooked before they even slept together. Another wedding was planned soon after that and just after they opened their firm. Now it was the tall silver haired ex-playboy's turn to watch a glowing bride walk down the aisle towards him. Genesis knew Sephiroth to be stoic to the point of being nearly expressionless at all times, yet he looked as nervous as anything at that moment. Furthering Genesis's resolve never to enter that state short of pains of death.

Then it was his older brother's turn when he fell for his body guard, Elena the TURK and fired her so he could press his suit of her. Reno was only a year and a half older than Genesis and was a true flame redhead to Genesis's own mahogany colour as their deceased mother had been a red head. However they looked as different as night and day, Genesis was the true beauty of the family with his elegant features and more closely resembled to their deceased mother, whereas Reno was slightly taller than him and more lanky.

Reno looked almost like a street punk in how he dressed, wore his hair and tattooed his face. However he was a kindly man, with a sassy wit and good father and husband. Genesis had had no problem with their own father handing over the reigns to Reno on his retirement, Genesis had no interest in the family business and was sharply relieved when the twins were born and his their father turned his critical eyes and nagging way from his sworn bachelor son, thinking him to be getting too long in the tooth to be out tomcatting. Genesis didn't agree with this logic at all.

"Send me an email when you decide where and when" Genesis said with as much enthusiasm as possible.

"Shall we include a plus one for you?" Angeal said. "Or should it be a plus three?" He added facetiously.

"Actually I'm dating only one woman exclusively" Genesis said with satisfaction on his face at how this caused the two men's jaws to drop.

"Are you feeling okay?" Angeal asked him, pressing a large hand to his oldest friend's forehead.

"I'm sorry since when has only one woman ever held your interest?" Sephiroth asked him honestly perplexed.

"She's a neighbour of mine and we made a deal and her terms were my being exclusive to her and I agreed, she's...interesting" he explained.

"You seriously put the others on hold?" Angeal asked him.

"There aren't that many" Genesis said dismissively. It was true, there was the wife of a circuit court judge that saw him only when her husband was out of town who hadn't had a problem stepping down and then there was Scarlet. Scarlet was the CEO of a large corporation and ate men for breakfast she wasn't a nice person and didn't try and pretend she was. Genesis only bothered with her because she was good in bed but had been thinking about ending their relationship for a long time. Tifa was just as enthusiastic in bed, if not more so and he genuinely liked her. He was serious that he didn't like to be marked during sex and Scarlet loved to bite and scratch him no matter how many times he asked her not to. He honestly didn't much care for her on top of that. She was too possessive of him and temperamental.

"You're okay with this?" Sephiroth asked him.

"I'm fine with it, now if you'll excuse me, I'm taking a long lunch as I have to drop by the library for something" he said and left humming a happy tune wondering if his lunch date would include actual food or a visit to the little used microfiche room. His shy, repressed Tifa was really nicely coming out of her shell.

"Well that's...weird" Sephiroth ventured.

"Very" Angeal agreed as they watched him leave.

"I'll give him until the end of the week before he's balls deep in someone else. I'll put one hundred gils on that" Sephiroth waged.

"I'll take that bet" Angeal agreed. "Perhaps we shouldn't bet like this? I mean this is the closest he's ever come to committing to someone. We don't want to jinx it" Angeal said.

"I'll give him a week before someone else's in his bed" Sephiroth said dismissively.

Genesis wasn't happy to find Scarlet waiting outside him condo door wearing a slutty red dress. It was funny, she was a beautiful blonde but he no longer found her attractive. She had the reputation of sleeping her way to the top to get her position, not a trait Genesis found appealing. He sometimes questioned why he had even decided to take up with her in the first place. "Scarlet what are you doing here?" He asked her.

"I came to see what the actual fuck is that you're trying to break up with me by voicemail" she snarled at him.

"We're not together" he reminded her.

"I've been your lover for a year and all I get in a voicemail" she questioned.

"Someone recently came into my life that makes it necessary for us to part ways. No hard feelings" he said.

"No hard feelings?" She snarled.

"Pretending to be the woman scorned ill becomes you. It's not like you've been faithful anymore than I have and we never had that kind of relationship. Please leave and don't cause a scene. We're both adults here" he said and gasped when she used all her strength and slapped him across the face and he fell against the door and Tifa witnessed this and inserted herself between the two, neatly catching the other woman's wrist in mid swing.

"Just what the hell do you think you're doing?" She demanded.

"Who the hell are you?" Scarlet demanded.

"I live next door. Are you alright?" She asked Genesis over her shoulder and he felt flattered that she had cared enough to come to his rescue but at the same time offended at how he towered over both women.

"I'm fine" he said though it felt like his cheek was on fire. Scarlet really packed a wallop apparently

"It's you. You're leaving me for this dull little mouse?" She demanded eyeing Tifa up and down from the top of her bun to the points of her practical shoes, clearly not impressed by her.

"There's nothing dull about her" he snapped peevishly at her.

Scarlet narrowed her eyes at him that he was defending the other woman's honour. "Fine you can have the whore, everyone's had a ride on him anyway. He's good in bed but has nothing else to recommend him but a big cock. Bye Genesis" she said with contempt in her voice and walked away. Tifa watched her and noticed how Genesis flinched more from the crimson woman's words than from her punishing hands. Then she realized what their bargain had cost him.

"So you and she used to?" She asked him.

"Yes" he said, feeling more hurt by what Scarlet had said probably should be. Was that how everyone truly viewed.? He felt soft fingers probing his damaged cheek and winched, not wanting to look at Tifa. His emotions always show in his eyes and he didn't want her to see him looking vulnerable.

"That's going to bruise, let's go put some ice on that cheek" she said and he turned wary eyes towards her as she ushered him into her place and got out a cold compress and wrapped it in a soft hand towel and gently pressed it against his cheek.

"Is that how people really see me?" He asked her.

"No, that was sour grapes. I've seen her at the library, she's a bitch. I think that she developed feelings for you and that caused her to lash out" she assured him as she took his hand and gave it a small squeeze before placing it on compress and removing her own.

"But we had an agreement" he objected.

"The human heart is a fickle thing, what you don't want at one point can change. I'll probably fall for you too because I can't sleep with someone without wanting more from them. I care about you and like you because you give me the companionship and intimacy I need, but will want more if I know myself. However, that being said. I made a promise to you so when that time arrives, I shall tell you and I want you to break up with me" she requested of him. "I don't want you to feel like I'm trying to trap you."

"You seem so sure of this" he said.

"I'm not jaded like most women my age. I don't have the experience or sexual maturity to be able to make love with someone without attachments. In the end I shall always hope something more permanent. Yet I won't ask this of you because I like you the way you are. You're not a whore, you're a kind and I care about you" she assured him. "Why not get changed and then come for dinner? I'm making lasagna and then we can cuddle up and watch a movie. You look like you could use a good cuddle" she suggested and he realized she was sensing his mood and offering him emotional support when she had been hurt so cruelly herself.

"You do care about me?" He asked her.

"You're rather addictive" she said dropping a kiss on his forehead. "Dinner's in ten minutes..." And laughed when she was pulled into his lap and the pins removed from her hair until it spilled down her back.

"I care about you too" he said.

"I can hardly get dinner ready like this" she protested with a giggle. "I offered you cuddles, nothing else. Now me go" she demanded.

"I'm not sure I can" he said feeling troubled, it had been less than a month but he felt rather addicted to her too.