Thirty
An upbeat music started playing while the audience clapped along with it, the stage was surrounded with white, bean bags in diferent color were on the floor, with throw pillows in different shapes and sizes. A rectangular coffee table was on the middle. On the right side corner was a red colored slide that comes from the bakcstage towards near the bean bags, below it were a pool of small multi colored balls.
Tifa appeared on top of the said slide, she wore a tight fitting black jeans, brown combats boots, on her top was a white shirt with a dark green jacket, a black scarf was loosely hanging on her neck, she wore her glasses and her hair was tied in a high ponytail with some bangs framing her face. She started waving at the audience who were wildly cheering for her before she took a seat to slide down the pool of multicolored balls. She stood up before she started walking towards the center of the stage while her hands were in the air, urging the audience to cheer more loudly, which they did. She placed her hands on her hips while she nodded her head while looking around at the audience.
"Alright." She started speaking, the audience started to become quiet. "Thank you all for coming and welcome to the Lockhart show!" She said with a wave of her hands in the air, the audience started to cheer again before she nodded her head in approval. "We're here to tackle different kinds on womanly issues, speciafically those with unusual problems, we are here to help these women overcome their fears, insecurities and disorders with all the help with can give but before that." She paused with a smile. "I have celebrity guests here with me," The audience started yelling and screaming which made her pause her speech. "Please welcome, Rude from the Turks and Ms. Shalua Rui!" She gestured her hand towards the slide where a huge bald man with ear piercings was standing up, he started sliding down but was having trouble because of his build, another person who was on top, a beautiful woman with brown hair, started laughing at the sight of him, Rude started pushing himself down with a loud squeaking noise by holding on the sides of the slide like he was rowing a boat, they could hear Tifa's loud laughter all over the studio. He stood up when he finally reached the end before waving his hands in the air, the beautiful woman started sliding next, she was demure and was smiling the whole time before she too reached the end.
Tifa gave them both a hug before she gestured for them to sit down, she too took a seat at the end of the bean bags, with Rude and Shalua on her left.
"Welcome, thank you for coming to the show." Tifa said.
"Thank you for having us." Rude said in his deep voice. Women all over the studio started cheering when his face got focused on the camera.
"I think we need to get that slide adjusted." Tifa said which made everyone laugh.
"Yes, I think so, too." Rude said with a laugh.
"Before we call in out guest for today." Tifa started, then looked at Rude who was beside her. "Rude, I heard the rumors that your eyes are your secret weapon." She said with a smile. "In sweeping women off their feet, is that true?" She said, Rude suddenly looked down with a laugh.
"I heard that too, they said thet he will remove his glasses, tell you how beautiful you are then shed some tears from his eyes." Shalua said, Tifa's mouth formed into a perfect 'o'.
"Well, can you demonstrate just how are you doing that? Do you mind taking that off?" Tifa asked while pointing at his glasses. Rude started laughing again before he nodded his head.
"Of course, of course." The camera focused on his face and his eyes were revealed. TIfa's mouth formed into a perfect 'o' again while Shalua stared at his eyes with her mouth open.
"What is this? What is this?" Tifa asked while she gestured to his eyes. "Those are gorgeous, gorgeous eyes! Do you agree ladies?" The audience started cheering again. "Do you mind doing that crying trick?" Rude suddenly looked into Tifa's eyes that took her by surprise with a yelp, the audience started laughing while he stared at her for a while before he spoke.
"Beautiful..." He said gently in an almost whisper before a tear actually escape his eye. Tifa's mouth went wide while the audience started cheering again. Shalua covered her face with her hand while laughing silently.
"That is. Wow. Maybe we can give the ladies of the audience a taste of that?" Tifa said before the ladies went wild again. "Shalua."
"Yes."
"You have this amazing new song which just came out, do you mind singing it while Rude breaks everyone's heart here? I think it's only fitting." Tifa said. Shalua nodded with a smile.
"I would be honored." Shalua said before she started singing her newest love song with the audience swaying from side to side. The camera focused to Rude's face again, he stared at it seductively for a while before he gently closed his eyes with a tear coming out of his left eye. Shalua stopped singing to start laughing while Tifa was nodding her head while mouthing the word 'yeah'.
"Well? Did it work on you ladies?" The crowd cheered louder than ever.
The guest they had for the day as a teenage girl with a severe eating disorder, she was with her mother who ended up crying in the middle of the talk. They got her a psychologist and dietician to help her with her problem with a six month program, the show ended giving the audience copies of Shalua and the Turks' albums, gifts certificates and some t-shirts and other items with the title of the show.
Tifa went to the backstage with Rude and Shalua, they said their goodbyes before she went straight to her dressing room where a blond haired, blue eyed model was waiting with a bouquet of flowers. Tifa gasped before she launched herself to her fiance, almost crushing the flowers.
"Grumpie!" She exclaimed while he started laughing.
"Hi baby." Cloud kissed her cheek before they pulled away.
"What are you doing here? You said you have work!"
"I do, not until this afternoon, though." He said.
"You always do this! Surprising me!" She looked down at the flowers. "Are those for me?"
"No, these are for Rude. That eye trick totally got me." Cloud said. Tifa smacked his arm playfully before he handed her the flowers. "Congratulations on your first episode, you were amazing and funny."
"Thanks Grumpie..." She leaned forward to give him a kiss.
"That poor girl, huh?" Cloud said when they pulled away, Tifa realized he was talking about the guest.
"Yeah. Did you see how thin she was? Literally skin and bones. I'm glad to help her."
"Yeah."
"The difficult part was, I tried my best not to cry along with them, that was the number one rule for me. It was hard but I think I'll get the hang of it."
"Yeah. You were great."
"Did you eat lunch already?" Tifa asked.
"I was going to ask you." Cloud said with a smile.
"Let's go?" Tifa said before they started walking out together.
"I got an offer." Cloud suddenly said. "For a movie." Tifa gasped with wide eyes. "With Cid Highwind and Scarlet as leads, though my role is not really major, a sidekick to Cid."
"And?!"
"Still not sure..." He said. Tifa's face fell.
"Why?"
"I... Just... I'm not really into acting." He said. Tifa's face softened before she smiled.
"Of course, if you don't like it, why do it, right?"
"But , what do you think about that?" He asked. Tifa tapped her chin.
"I think it's great! But..."
"If I become an actor, I would be paired with other women, there will be some kissing scenes." He said with a smirk. Tifa stopped on her tracks. "There are going to be some sexy scenes in the future as well, like hot sexy scenes." Tifa's eye twitched.
"Are you going to expose your meat?" Tifa asked with her face serious, Cloud tried his best not to snort.
"What meat?" He asked innocently.
"Your man-meat." Tifa said, Cloud's mouth twitched, trying his best not to laugh.
"Probably."
"On second thought, don't take it." She said with a pout, Cloud started laughing.
"Okay. I will not take it anyway, i told you." He said before he wrapped an arm around her.
"If I appear on a movie and I'm required to expose my squishy mountains, would you agree?" Tifa asked, Cloud started laughing while mouthing the words 'squishy mountains'.
"No." He said.
"Cloud, I'm just kidding, I'm not the one who will decide on your future, if you want to take the project, take it. You don't need to be a full time actor if you don't want to, there are some models like that, though Zack is a different case."
"Aerith appeared once in a movie."
"Yeah." Tifa said. "I was surprised she didn't show her cooter."
"I'll think about it." Cloud said, trying not to laugh.
"What's the movie about, anyway?"
"Space travel. Something about being stranded to space."
"I see."
"Oh by the way, stop saying 'your future'." Cloud suddenly said, Tifa gave him a confused look.
"What?"
"It's 'our future' now." Cloud said with a smile. Tifa smiled back.
"Oh yeah, I still need to get used to that." She said, paused, then spoke again. "Just no exposing of the cucumber. That's for my eyes only." She said. Cloud couldn't help but bite her neck suddenly which made her shriek.
A/N: I'm really thankful of everyone who supported this fic. Thank you thank you, I hope this piece of story made you laugh, and made you cry in some parts. P.S. New reviews still not showing. *Groans*.