Forty one

"Grumpie!" Tifa called from the kitchen.

"Yeah?!" Cloud yelled from the bedroom.

"Remember its your fitting today! Zack and Vincent are coming with you!"

"I know!" Cloud retorted.

It was the day of the dress and tuxedo shopping for both of them and they only have a week left berore the wedding, Tifa had been having severe panic and mood swings for the past days and it making the blond question his own sanity. Cloud was pulling down a shirt over his head when Tifa's face suddenly appeared in front of him making him yelp.

"Please don't be grumpy over this." Tifa said before she kissed him hard on the lips, throwing his head back.

"I know-"

"But you wouldn't be my Grumpie if you weren't, see ya later!" Tifa exclaimed as she ran out of the room, then Cloud heard the slamming of the front door. Cloud sighed before he started fixing his hair. His phone indicated that he has a message so he read it.

Hey groom! We're downstairs! And we're ready to have a dress up party! It was Zack. Cloud rolled his eyes before he grabbed a jacket then walked out the door. When he reached the main entrance of his building, Zack started honking causing ruckus on the road, people turned their heads on the minivan, including fans of the blond model who started to run towards him, the guard of the building stopped them so Cloud can slid on the passenger seat.

"Yo! Why the long face?!" Zack asked before he started driving away towards their destination.

"Its because I've seen you once again." Cloud retorted which made Zack laugh out loud. Vincent was in the back, quiet as usual.


"Okay ladies, Are you excited to see your bride to be in dress number one?" The consultant on the wedding dress botique told Yuffie and Aerith.

"Hell yeah!"

"Not really."

Both of then said at the same time, Yuffie glanced at Aerith before she scowled.

"Alright!" The consultant said before she set the curtain aside in where Tifa was changing before. Yuffie gasped while Aerith merely raised both eyebrows.

"Oh Dorkoid!" Yuffie said as she stared at Tifa who was wearing a strapless, mermaid gown. "...NO."

"No?" Tifa inquired.

"Like she said." Aerith commented as she inspected her nails.

"I thought you said ball gown?!" Yuffie exclaimed.

"Yeah but I just thought this was cute." Tifa said as she looked down on herself.

"It's not, it's too simple!" Yuffie commented.

"Okay." Tifa said as the curtain closed once again.


"How about this?" Zack said as he handed Cloud a tiger patterned tux.

"Are you out of your mind?!"

"Well, I think it'll be perfect because for your jungle theme."

"It's fairy forest! FAIRY FOREST!"

"Hate to break it to you but you sound really gay right now." Zack commented before Cloud threw a hanger towards him who hit Vincent on the side while scanning for tuxedos on the rack.


"TADA!" The consultant said while she revealed Tifa once again, who was now wearing ball gown with long sleeves.

"Doesn't scream fairy princess." Yuffie commented.

"Not enough bling." Aerith finally said. Tifa pouted before the curtain was closed again.


"Why the hell are you giving me this glittered tux?!"

"Why do they have something like that anyway." Vincent finally spoke.

"Well, you said fairy forest so there! You be the fairy king in this, I just have to find some elven ears here somewhere." Zack said.

"Oh that's it!" Cloud angrily threw the tux in a nearby couch before he faced Zack with a scowl. "You want a piece of me, eh, punk?"

"Definitely not." Zack said with a huge grin.

"Oh yeah?!" Cloud forcefully opened his dress shirt causing buttons for be thrown away, one of them hitting Zack on the left eye. He screamed like a girl in pain.

"You do realize that you're gonna have to pay for that." Vincent said as he watched Zack clutch his eye.


"How about this?" Tifa asked as she looked down at her ball gown, skirt was made of feathers.

"Now that's perfect!" Aerith exclaimed uncharacteristically while she clapped her hands.

"I didn't realize that your theme was poultry farm." Yuffie said lazily. Tifa lower lip started quivering. "Oh no, don't give me no-"

"I thought you were my friend!" Tifa suddenly yelled before she started sobbing with that ever famous weird face, Yuffie's jaw dropped and the consultant was suddenly panicking.

"Don't worry Ms. Lockhart! This things happen all the time! Wait! I'll get some napkins!" The consultant ran off.

"It's because they kept calling me ugly!" Tifa yelled.

"I thought you're used to that by now." Aerith said, deadpan.

"I never said you were ugly!" Yuffie yelled back as she stood up, Tifa started crying harder. Yuffie grimaced for two reasons, one, because of the weird face, two, because she was embarassed for her bestfriend. "Shut the hell up!" She hissed.

"Help me... Get me out of this dress..." Tifa said weakly before she sniffed some mucus back up while Aerith kept taking photos with a huge grin on her face.

"That's hilarious. Chicken pie for real."

"Alright, here let me zip you down." Yuffie said before she went on Tifa's back. "Shiva Dorkoid! Have you been gaining some weight?"

"And now your calling me fat?!" Tifa yelled before she started her ugly crying again.


"How about that?" Zack said with a smug look on his face. He bobbed his head up and down while Vincent was wearing the 'not bad' look on his face.

"Well, I think its great." Cloud said as he inspected himself. "Who else can pull off something like this."

"Alright! That's the attitude!"

"Cloud, this is 850 gil." Vincent said as he handed Cloud the buttonless dress shirt which he destroyed moments ago.

"WHAT?!"


Yuffie gasped as she stared at Tifa, who had finally found the perfect dress.

"OH! OH!" Yuffie stood up while her hands were raised to the heavens. "DORKOID!"

"I LOVE THIS!" Tifa exclaimed while she stared at herself on the mirror.

"Not bad chicken pie." Aerith commented. Yuffie's lips started quivering before she started crying loudly, Tifa grimaced when she saw her own weird face on Yuffie.

"Hey! Stop crying like that!" Tifa was extremely embarrassed, Yuffie suddenly stopped crying before she pointed her forefinger on Tifa with a grin.

"I was just messing with you! Oh see! Now you know how I feel!" Tifa gasped with her mouth wide open.

"I don't cry like that!"

"You do, even much uglier though." Aerith said before Tifa turned her head towards the green eyed model.

"How. -" She finished the last word with a clutch of her mouth. Everyone grew quiet.

"Dorkoid?" Yuffie called as she stared at Tifa but she was answered when the brunette's eyes widened when she started gagging again.

"Oh! The bathroom! Come here Ms. Lockhart!" The consultant dragged Tifa away leaving a dumbstruck Yuffie and a deadpan Aerith.


"Honey! I'm home!" Cloud yelled with a rambling laugh while he entered their home. "That was hilarious." He started walking towards the living room before he knitted his eyebrows when no one responded. "Trollie?" No answer. He went towards the bedroom to find her sleeping on the bed, his face softened before he removed his jacket, then his eyes landed on something on the vanity, his eyes widened at an alaming rate as he stared at the thing, two pink lines and there was a note.

Congrats daddy.

He started a loud, wide mouth scream. Tifa bolted up while screaming on top of her lungs as she looked around with her wide but bloodshot eyes.

"The evil clown is after me! He's going to shred me like meat!" Tifa yelled as she started throwing pillows at Cloud's blurry figure. Cloud started catching them, his screams never leaving him.

"Its me! What kind of dreams are you having?!"

"Go away you rainbow faced psycho!"

"Baby! It's Cloud!" That instantly stopped Tifa from her rampage and it also made her realize that she wasn't dreaming anymore.

"Cloud?" She inquired before Cloud started yelling again, Tifa screamed back. "Is it after us?!" She yelled before she felt herself being clobbered, then she felt kisses all over her face.

"I can't believe it! We're having a baby!" Cloud exclaimed before Tifa's panicked face softened, then she smiled at Cloud's blurred face.

"Yes we are..." She said gently before Cloud leaned down to give her a sweet kiss.

"I love you..." He said before he lowered himself towards Tifa's stomach, he lifted Tifa's shirt before he started talking. "And I love you too." He said before he started blowing raspberries on Tifa's stomach, making the brunette laugh hysterically.

A/N: Sorry for the late updates, I just had to take care of some things, but I'm back!