Fifteen

Tifa had managed to maintain a poker face while she stared at the knitted eyebrows and thin lined lips of Cloud Strife. But in her mind was chaos, war, with a lot of explosions and screaming with a loud thunderstorm in the midst of it all.

"Oh! Hi there! Aren' you a handsome lil' lad!" Tifa spoke in a hard accent and a higher pitch tone. The female staff actually looked at her with a perplexed look while Cloud merely raised an eyebrow. Then he smiled, a genuine, very handsome smile that even the female staff started blushing. Then he held out his hand for her to shake.

"It's nice to meet you, I'm Cloud Strife." He said, Tifa looked at his hand then his face before she grimaced in disgust.

"Oh no no no no!" She said in her fake accent again. "You see lad, Imma 'germaphobe', I don' do handshakes my sweet child!" Tifa tut-tutted while she waved her forefinger in the air in a disapproving manner. Cloud's smile slowly faded and the explosions and thunderstorm started coming back again.

"Can you give me just one second lad? I think I forgot something from my dressing room." Tifa started walking away fast to go back to her room. When she finally reached it, she hastily opened the door before she slammed it shut, then she started stomping angrily while she waved her fisted hands in front of her, letting out a silent scream in the process, then she hurriedly went towards her bag to grab her notes that she always carried with her and she started scanning Cloud's schedule, her mouth dropped open at an alarming rate, it was so big that it looked like she could fit three whole eggs in it.

How could I not look! Well, I didn't bother because I was not working for today! She angrily closed her notes before she started whacking it on her forehead. STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPID STUPI-

"Ms. Kali, you alright in there?" The female staff was knocking on her door. Tifa snapped back to reality with a small gasp.

"Oh yes yes, I'm fine lass!" She said on her high pitch tone and fake accent. "I'll be righ' out!" She started shoving her notes on her bag before she straightened herself. Then she went out the door with fake confidence. She yelped when she saw that Cloud was also outside the door.

Why is he here?!

"Well, le's get to work shall we lad!" Tifa said before she started laughing in fake but high pitch manner. She decided to look at Cloud's eyes and it was the worst decision she ever made, she could have sworn she saw fire on his orbs. She turned around to hide her gulp.

Oh SHIT! WHY?! JUST WHY?!

"Alright, Alright! Cloud, I want you to sit down on the right end of this bench then lift a leg here at the arm rest, and Kali, lay down on your back with your head resting on his other leg then let your arm fall down and play with the petals on the ground, got it?! Now let's mosey!" Reeve, a famous fashion photographer with a black cat with a crown on its head and who was always thought of as being gay but he was straight as an arrow instructed the two models, Tifa inwardly grimaced before Cloud did what he was told, Tifa gulped before she too obliged, she slowly sat down before she laid down to rest her head on his lap. She avoided eye contact with him as much as she can but she could see in her peripheral view that he was always staring into her soul.

"Alright ready!" Reeve said as he held his professional camera. Then he started clicking rapidly. "Yes, oh yes! I want more of that serious face Cloud, so handsome, very very handsome! Kali! Look down at the petals and give me a small smile! Oh perfect! Beautiful angelic face!" He exclaimed as he clicked away. "Alright, alright, Cloud lift her hair up!" Cloud rested his right cheek over his bent fingers while his elbow rested on his lifted leg, then he grabbed Tifa's hair with his fingers then lifted in up like he was holding a glass of wine. "Yes, that's it. Excellente! Perfecto! So very nice! So very good!" Tifa continued playing with petals on the ground by running her hand through them while she looked down on them with a small smile. "Oh! Keep going! Yes!" Reeve hissed the last word as he rapidly clicked on his camera. "So perfect! You perfect for each other! Like soulmates! Like you can get married and have thousands of children! The most beautiful boys and girls! " Tifa let out a tiny scream on her mind while Cloud's mouth twitched. Reeve started doing gestures in his hand like he was a tiger, Then after a while, he stopped. "Okay, move on to the next one! Don't keep me waiting!" He clapped his hands loudly before he started laughing. "I'm just kidding, but seriously, don't keep me waiting." Then he started walking away. "We'll shot some solos so the readers could see your clothes, chop chop!" Reeve pointed at the other side of the studio where there a was a grey background. The spread would apparently be a concept shot on the first page then solo shots of them both on the next page, for the entire collection.

The photoshoot went on, clothes were changed and the concept shots were getting Tifa and Cloud more closer together, much to the brunette's dismay. Tifa was nervous in shooting her solo ones but she got confident after a while, Reeve was pretty noisy but it helped her a lot with her improvised poses. And she watched Cloud with a slight drool on the corner of her mouth, he was really a perfect being to look at, all the women on the studio were blushing and squealing but Tifa couldn't help but snort for she knows his antics behind camera. The hardest part of the shoot was when Tifa was instructed to get close to him while he wrapped an arm on her waist, Tifa placed her hand on his chest while they looked at each other's eyes, the one things she was avoiding the whole shoot, she could only repeat two words in her head during that time.

KILL ME.

"Yuffie! I have an emergency!" Tifa hissed on her phone when they were asked to do some break.

"What? Did you forgot your diarrhea meds or something?"

"No! It's so much worse! Cloud is here in the photoshoot with me!" She hissed while nervously looked around, Yuffie didn't speak for a while and Tifa had to grimace when she did.

"YOU'RE IN A FUCKING PHOTOSHOOT AND YOU DIDN'T EVEN TELL YOUR ONE AND ONLY BESTFRIEND?! HOW COULD YOU?! WHAT ABOUT TH-"

"Yuffie! This is not the time for that!" Tifa hissed again. "What if he recognizes me! I'm gonna be dead!" Tifa let out a hissing scream after.

"You deserve that because you're such a lying little bitc-"

"YUFFIE!"

"Okay, calm down, I'm sure he doesn't because he's stupid an-"

"He's not stupid!" Tifa hissed. She could feel Yuffie's raised eyebrow from the other line.

"I see, so this fake engagement thing is finally going to your head, I'd say you're already falling inlove with hi-" Tifa ended the call with a click.

"Kali." Cloud's muffled voiced sounded from outside of her door, she let out another set of her silent screams before she straightened herself, then she went over to her door to answer it with a smile.

"Oh! Cloud! It's so nice of you visiting me!" Her fake voice and accent back. "What can I do for the handsome you, hmmm?"

"Nothing, just wanted to visit a friend." He said as he made his way inside with Tifa backing away. Then he gently closed the door behind him, Tifa started screaming on her mind.

"Oh!" Tifa exclaimed then she started laughing in the same fake manner. "You are very sweet Cloudy, no wonder many women go crazy over you, eh?"

"Are you one of those women, Ms. Kali?" He asked in a husky tone and Tifa noticed how his eyes had suddenly darkened as he looked at her, and the way he walked was predatory. She let out a tiny gasped specially when she found herself being pinned on her dresser with Cloud's hands on other side of her hips, then he started playing with her hair with his fingers. "Tell me, do you like me too, Ms. Kali?" He asked again.

"W-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-w-what-"

"I have something for you..." He said huskily before he started grabbing something from his pocket. Tifa gasped when she saw what it was. She greedily took it before she started opening it. "Oh, thank you Cloud! You always knew what I li-" She dropped the white chocolate with strawberry yogurt filling in realization. Cloud had given her her favorite kind of chocolate, that's not all, when she thanked him, it was with her regular voice.

It was a trap.

"Got. You." He said, his tone venomous and his stare murderous.