Forty
Cloud wore a smug smile on his face as he stared at Tifa's magazine cover that was just sent to them minutes ago, she wore a very sexy green bikini with her hair in loose curls, left part she held up with her left hand with a sexy facial expression. He bobbed his head up and down like a perverted fool.
"What the heck are you smiling about? Your face looks creepy as hell."
Creepy but hot though. She thought.
"I just received this magazine and you look incredibly hot baby. This is some good fapping material." He said casually while sliding a hand inside his pants. Tifa's eyes widened before she threw a pillow at his face. He started laughing out loud.
"Are you seriously going to jerk off here?! What kind of a sick man are you?!"
"I was kidding." Cloud said while wiggling his eyebrows. "Or... Maybe not."
"Shut up! I need to talk to you, I have a big favor so if I were you, put that down before I kick your ass out of here even if this is your house."
"What do you mean I'll go with you to the cake bakery?!" Cloud asked, taken aback by Tifa's sudden request.
"What am I suppose to do?!"
"What is you maid of honor for then?!"
No, I can't today! I have exams!
"Yuffie can't come."
"And Aerith?!"
No, can't, I have work, lots of it, you, of all people, should know that.
"I can't ask her something like that!" Tifa paused. "No actually I did, said she's busy. Anyway, why are you so against this?! This is also your wedding!"
"Because I checked your schedule today and it's not just the cake bakery!"
Cloud was right, after going to the bakery, there was the trip to the florist then the wine and food tasting.
"You're the only one available! You know that it's been a while since we did something together out and I thought this would be the opportunity since we both have no work today but i guess this wedding doesn't mean anything to you!"
"You know that's not true. I just hate shopping and all that stuff."
"First of all, this isn't shopping," Tifa groaned loudly in frustration. "You know what, never mind, I'll do it on my own!"
"Aw come on Trollie." Cloud grabbed her wrist when she stood up but she yanked it away with a huff. "Alright then," He said then he lifted the magazine up then shook it in front of him. "You go and I'll be in the back enjoying myself."
Palm against flesh was heard throughout the living room.
Cloud rubbed his cheek while the both of them walked in thee sidewalk with paparazzis following them. They immediately went inside the bakery with the guard stopping the paaparazzis from entering the premises. They were instantly greeted by the owner.
"Well hello there, Tifa and Cloud." The middle aged woman with brown hair said. Cloud smiled and Tifa gave her a hug.
"Hi, thank you for your time, like I told you on the phone, I'm really panicking, the wedding's in three weeks and we barely done anything."
Claudia Strauss had called Tifa to inform her that the garden she got for the venue had a cancellation but it was in three weeks, she panicked of course.
"Don't worry Tifa, we got you covered, now, why don't we sit down so we can talk about what kind of cake you want?"
"Sure!" Tifa grabbed Cloud's hand then guided him towards the table where small plates of cake slices were sitting. The three of them sat around it.
"Tell me about your theme." The owner said as she flattened her sketch pad.
"Well, our theme is fairy forest and there will lots of blue green and violet and some golds too, lots of wild flowers so I was thinking maybe we can do it on that light?"
The owner started sketching and Cloud was already annoyed.
Please, just get me out of this hell hole.
"The flowers would look good if its cascading down from top to bottom, maybe put some fairy dusts in there too." Cloud commented later on when he saw the sketch, Tifa couldn't help but press her lips together and was trying hard to keep her laughter from bursting out. "This version of red velvet is magical. Like our wedding cake." Cloud said as he ate before he started laughing. Tifa closed her eyes while she shook from her restrained laughter. "Just let it out Tifa."
The florist was next, she needed as many flowers for her wedding and it was her favorite part of the day. Except for the fact that Cloud was back to his grumpy self, Tifa bribed him with a box of red velvet cupcakes but it did not work.
"Can we hurry up?" Cloud asked as he looked at his phone. Tifa ignored him and continued walking inside.
"Hi!" Tifa greeted the florist who was inside the flower shop.
"Hi Tifa, oh, you are Cloud Strife, hi." The red head said, Cloud shook her hand with a greeting of 'how are you?' before they started going over the shop.
"So like you said on the phone, you need wild flowers and I was thinking maybe a lot of blues and violets hanging on the ceiling, so when the guests looks up, it will be gorgeous."
"Oh, yeah, that's lovely." Tifa commented as she imagined it. She could hear Cloud sneezing from behind, he was smelling some flowers just seconds back.
Tifa and the florist continued going over their discussion while Cloud was busy sulking. When they were done, the couple proceeded to go out to go to their wine tasting, but before they could fully go outside, a shop assistant handed Tifa a boquet of flowers that took her by surprise.
"For you Ms. Lockhart." He said with a smile.
"Oh! Thank you so much! Who is this from?"
"From an admirer..." He said with a blush.
"Oh!" Tifa glanced at Cloud, who looked very annoyed. "T-thank you! How sweet."
"Let's go." Cloud said irritably before he pulled Tifa away from the guy, Tifa mouthed the word 'sorry' before she turned to look at Cloud. "What is wrong with you?!" She hissed.
"It's normal for me to be jealous over something like that!" He hissed back and that but the paparazzi started gathering around them so they had to stop arguing. When they reached the car, they slid in then both of them closed the door angrily.
"The guy was being sweet, you don't need to be a jerk in front of him."
"Throw that away." Cloud commanded. Tifa stared at him like he just announced that he liked men more than women.
"What?!"
"Throw it out!"
"Why would I do that?! Look! There's even a card-" She stopped talking to stare at the writing in the card. She gasped before she started hitting Cloud on his shoulder while he started laughing "You sneaky bastard!" She pouted but her eyes were smiling. "Thank you..." She said with a giggle. She stared at the card again.
Trollie,
Love you forever.
Grumpie
"Awww... I love you, too."
"I know you do."
"Confident, aren't we?"
"Of course I am." Cloud said, Tifa raised an eyebrow.
"Okay then."
"Now where are we going next?"
"Wine and food tasting..." Tifa said with another giggle then she smelled the flowers.
"Thank you Mr. Strife and Ms. Lockhart for coming today for your food tasting." The catering owner said, who was a pretty young looking woman but she was already on her forties. "You look so good together." She commented.
"Thank you!" Tifa said with a bright smile. The owner laid out a few bottles of wine along with two glasses. Then a waiter with a cart started laying food on the table as well. The owner started pouring the first wine, Cloud and Tifa took a sip before they nodded their heads.
"Oh my, that is good." Tifa commented.
"Right." Cloud said.
The next wine was poured when they were done with the first.
"And then she told me, there's no way that you'll appear on TV because your fuckin' ugly." Tifa said while she smiled lazily. "Cissnei had a big crush on you for a long time and she's probably eating her curtain in the corner of her room right now since the person she was insulting all these years is all over her TV and is engaged to her biggest..." She paused to think. "Man of her deepest and dirtiest fantasies." She said then started laughing with her eyes tight shut while clutching the wine glass sloppily. Cloud started doing the same.
"What about you, have you had a huge crush on me before?" He asked huskily while leaning a little more closer with a sexy look on his face. Tifa sucked in a breath with her eyes heavy lidded.
"I'm not going to tell you that..." She whispered as she too leaned forward. Cloud closed his eyes then leaned further before Tifa casually backed away to start picking on her food, when Cloud didn't feel Tifas lips on his, he cracked open an eye to find the love of his life shoving some salad on her mouth then she started chewing while staring at him with a blank look, Then she smiled, full teeth, making Cloud furrow his eyebrows, then he tilted his head to the side.
"You... You've got..." He started pointing on his own teeth. It was Tifa's time to furrow her eyebrows. She used her tongue to feel her teeth then she laughed loud with her eyes tightly closed when she felt a strip of lettuce sandwiched between her teeth but didn't bother to remove it, her wide mouth laughter fully showed that, Cloud started laughing with his mouth and eyes wide open which made Tifa laugh harder, she leaned back on her chair only to fall over with her eyes wider than the plate in front of her, Cloud stared at his fiancee in shock before he started laughing again while slamming his hand on the table. Tifa tried to stand up while laughing still but ended up falling again.
"It's like the floor is sucking you back down! Like a black hole!" Cloud said slowly then he started laughing again.
"I know!" Tifa exclaimed then she guffawed. "The gravity force is great on this one!" She yelled. Then she pouted her lips with her eyebrows furrowed. "Huston, we have a problem." She said in with terrible imitation of a male voice. "I need back up! I need back up!" Cloud lifted his hand to his mouth like he was holding an invisible walkey talkey.
"Roger that, over." Then he made a fake static sound. He took a sip of his wine before he stood up to help Tifa up but he tripped with his own feet, he stumbled but quickly regained his balance, he reached out to his fiancee who was still hysterically laughing on the floor, Tifa grabbed his hand but she pulled him down instead, he yelled and ended up being on top of her, not even bothered that they were in a room where the tasting was being held where anyone could easily walk in. He smiled lazily before he kissed her lips with a moan.
"I freaking love you Tifa Lockhart-Strife."
"Mmmm... That sounds really nice." Tifa said. "But you should get up before we start making babies here..." Tifa said with a lazy smile before she started laughing.
"You know what, that sounds really nice right about now..." Cloud said huskily before he started kissing her again, then, the doorknob opened. Despite having too many wine, they mannaged to scramble up and straighten themselves. The owner of the catering emerged from the door.
"Hi!" She greeted. "How's everything?"
"Oh, it's great!" Cloud said with far more enthusiasm than necessary, Tifa couldn't help but smile lazily because she knows that his hand that was on her ass was the reason of his unecessary happiness.
Cloud and Tifa posed for the red carpet premiere of Zack's new action movie, they were the hottest couple of the night and were inseparable the whole time. They were called over for a small interview for a popular entertainment program.
"So how's the wedding planning going?" The interviewer asked.
"Oh, it's great, we're having a lot of fun." Cloud said with a smile and Tifa couldn't help but laugh at her fiance.