Chapter Three: My Hero!
Tifa was at home at the moment, waiting for the pizza delivery-2 boxes of pepperoni pizza, oh joy! No evil manager and stylist to scream about it. Tifa squealed in glee, in her size two shirt, pajamas and the DVD of Vampire Diaries, and the two boxes of pizza that was on its way, she was in relaxation heaven. But there was nobody to share the fun with. Genesis was not with her.
She'd turned off and hid away her cell phone the moment she got home. She looked at her diamond encrusted watch, I wonder what's taking the pizza so long? She squared her shoulders and sighed.
"Hey, Zack you taking this order or should I?" Cloud asked.
Zack massaged his shoulders and said, "You go. My shoulders and my arms are telling me to rest today. Ugh!"
Of course your muscles would hurt, you moron, you wouldn't let me do anything since the Genesis incident, now that you've learned that he's out of the country, you suddenly fall back to the old you…you are so…childish! Cloud thought with a smile, "Okay," Cloud gathered his helmet and the pizza and started the motorcycle.
Tifa was playing with her hair, twisting it with a pencil, but it annoyed her that her hair kept slipping away from the pencil. Her hair was too smooth to hold on the pencil. Tifa frowned and started braiding her hair instead.
I wonder if I'll ever get engaged with Genesis, he's been telling to me that it was soon. It's been over a year since we both thought about it, but so far, he seems to be happy where we are right now… but somehow, I am not. I want to get married to him. I want to have kids already. I want to get out of this sick world that they call show business.
Does he really love me?
Tifa smiled, Of course he loves me. Why else would he be by my side all this time if he didn't?
The doorbell rang and Tifa pushed the thoughts in the back of her mind and walked over to the door. "Finally!" she said with a playful smile but it suddenly lopsided. It was not the pizza boy.
"You've been waiting for me too, Tifa, my love?" her unexpected visitor said to her, giving her a toothy grin, "Aww, well, isn't that sweet! Give me a hug, babe!" He wrapped an arm around her waist, "UGH! LET GO OF ME!" Tifa cried, pushing him away, "GO AWAY CID! HOW DARE YOU COME HERE IN MY HOME!"
Cid Highwind is the country's biggest action star that has a long list of records-DUI, causing fights in bars, doing drugs, etc. Name it, he's done it. And he seems to think that Tifa is totally in love with him, but she wouldn't tell because she was too shy. The hell with that, Tifa thought when she'd heard the news.
"AW SWEETIE! Don't tell me that, you're breaking my heart!" Cid said with a mock sad face, "Come on, I know that you also want it."
Tifa gave him a lustful look and said, "Oh yeah, I do. I want you."
"See?" Cid said with proudness in his voice, he walked closer to her and Tifa opened her mouth, "I want you to get the hell out of my place and never come back!" and kicked his little boy without restraint.
Cloud's motorbike's engine died and he got off, and before him was Cid Highwind, rolling on the floor in pain, and Tifa Lockhart standing haughtily before him. Okay, what did I miss here? Cloud thought as he unzipped the bag and got the boxes of pizza, "Ah!" Tifa cried.
Cid was on his feet once again and he had pinned her on the wall, "You little bitch, you think that a little kick's going to keep me down for long?" he growled…
"HEY! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?"
Cid looked at the thin blond delivery boy and smirked, "What's it you? Leave the boxes and go away. Mind your own business, boy!"
Tifa gave Cloud a grave and scared look and Cloud dropped the boxes at once, "You stupid muscle brain, men don't do things like this to women!" and he shoved Cid away from Tifa…
"Why you!" Cid roared and he charged towards Cloud, Tifa ran back inside her house and called the security, something she should have done ten minutes ago… "Hello, security? This is Tifa, I need you in my place ASAP. I've got a trespasser!"
Cloud's lip was bleeding and he was on the ground the moment the security guards arrived, "Who is the trespasser, miss?" "Him! Get him out of here!" Tifa said, pointing her finger at Cid. The guards put a hand cuff on Cid and they were off, "How dare you, Lockhart, I'll sue you!"
"Ha! I'd love to see you try! I've stronger grounds to sue you with! And I have a witness!" Tifa yelled back at him, she knelt before Cloud and said, "Oh my god, are you okay? Oh my, your lip's bleeding!"
Cloud sat up and wiped the blood away with the back of his hand, "Don't worry about me miss, I won't die, this is nothing serious… oh… your pizza…" he turned his head to see that the boxes were already squashed. "OH FU-!"
Tifa giggled and said, "Don't worry, I'm still paying. You did save me, after all. Hey, let me…fix that. It's the least I could do." She helped him get up and she led him to her living room.
"I'll just get my first aid kit, okay? Make yourself at home," Tifa smiled as she walked to the bathroom.
Cloud let out an impressed whistle, her place was great. Not flashy. It was cool. Her TV was not very big, unlike the TVs that other celebs have, her living room was homey. She had vases of pink flowers in the corner, magazines were neatly arranged in the corner, her couch was comfy and she had a lot of DVDs piled out on the floor.
Oh, she was planning to have a DVD marathon, huh?
"I'm back, now, let's have a look on that lip," she said with a smile.
"H-hey, you know what you're doing, right?" Cloud asked as she touched his lip with a cotton ball soaked in alcohol. "Mmm….yeah, Genesis got into a fight before and I treated his lips." "Okay…"
Silence.
"Ow."
"Hold still!"
"But it hurts."
"It won't if you stop talking."
Silence.
"There…uh, I hope you are okay if I use pink bandage. It's the only one that I have…"
"Um, sure."
Tifa smiled and said, "Hey, since you did damage my pizzas, why don't you just stay over and watch movies with me?"
"What? I can't do that, miss! I need to get back to work or I'll get fired."
"Aw, okay then." Tifa scrambled to get her wallet and pulled out a few bills without counting them, she handed the bills to Cloud. "Keep the change."
Cloud nodded and muttered a 'thank you… sorry about your pizza.'
Tifa smiled and watched him go.
Cloud got on his motorbike and counted the bills. "5-500 gil? This is too much!" he got off and marched right back to Tifa's place, "Miss, I can't accept this. This is too much."
"Don't fuss over it. It's fine, you really deserve the money. Oh, by the way, you're Cloud right? You're the guy that delivered for us last time…"
"Yeah."
"Well, nice seeing you again, Cloud."
Cloud smiled.
Tifa closed her door again.
"DUDE, WHY ARE YOU ALWAYS THE LUCKY ONE?" Zack groaned when Cloud told him all about it when he got back, "SERIOUSLY, WHAT DO YOU DO? WHY DO YOU KEEP GETTING THE CELEBS AND I GET THE KIDS' PARTIES? HUH!"
Cloud only laughed.
There you go, loves! :D The third chapter… hehe, if you like Cid Highwind, you are free to throw tomatoes at me. But really, the role somehow fits him. LOL. Cid's cool. Cloud's just cooler!
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