Reno's Life: Chp 55
"Uncle Reno! Uncle Reno!"
Reno looked down and saw a little Marlene tugging at his shirt. He smiled at her and pet her head, ruffling her hair a bit.
"What is it, Marlene?"
"I wanna show you a cool trick I learned!"
"Hm…. Alright, yo. Sounds interesting. What is it?"
Marlene pulled his shirt, wanting him to crouch down in front of her. He went down onto one knee and looked directly at her. She picked up his hands and held them in front of his face.
"Okay! Now, do what I do!"
She held up her own little hands in front of her face and slowly moved her index fingers towards each other, carefully concentrating on the tips with her eyes. Once they touched, she smiled.
"Do just that!"
"Why?"
"Because it's an optical illusion! If you do it, you'll see something cool!"
Reno hesitated a bit, then began to move his index fingers towards each other. Once they were close to touching, Marlene snatched them with her left hand and slapped him on the forehead with her right.
"Ha ha! Gotcha!"
She laughed and dashed into the kitchen of the bar. The red-haired Turk rubbed his forehead and stared at the kitchen in disbelief. Did she just fool him? The prankster of ShinRa tricked by a little girl? He had to redeem himself somehow.
Tifa walked out of the kitchen a few seconds later, holding a tray of glasses and looking a bit puzzled.
"Oh! Hello, Reno! Marlene walked into the kitchen a while ago, laughing. Did you tell her a joke or something?"
There was his chance. Inside, he was grinning mischievously, but outside, he looked completely innocent.
"No, no. She just showed me a trick she learned, yo. Want to see it?"
"Sure!"
Reno wanted to laugh. It was all too easy.
"Alright. Now, pick up your hands like this, yo"
He demonstrated by picking up his hands and holding them close to his face. Tifa watched carefully and did the same.
"Good! Now, move your index fingers slowly together, like so and the t-"
Suddenly, Tifa grabbed his fingers and slapped him in the forehead. Reno gasped and covered his forehead in shock.
"W-What the-?!"
Tifa smiled and picked up the tray.
"Who do you think taught her that trick?"
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A/N: That's right! You're not dreaming! It's a triple chapter update!! I feel really bad for taking forever to update both Reno fics, so I wrote up three new chapters (now I'm behind in school! Kidding!). This one was a lot of fun. I LOVE this trick so much! It's so unexpected since there really is an optical illusion trick that works like this. I'm grateful for all comments given from the readers. Thank you all so much! Please review!!