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On one random morning, Rinoa asks Squall, out of the blue, "Squall, what fantasies do you have?"
The question made the silent man even more silent, "Uhm, what do you mean?"
"I want to know your sexual fantasies."
Squall choked on his coffee, "Is it really necessary to talk about this so early in the morning? I just wanna eat my breakfast without choking."
"Come on, play along with me for once."
"I never thought about it... like doing it in the shower?" he answers with uncertainty.
"Is that really a fantasy, everybody has shower sex, and we've already done that, don't you want something new, something more exciting like doing it in public spaces or maybe doing some S&M stuff," Rinoa said while wiggling her eyebrows.
"No thanks, I'm not comfortable doing those things."
"Then tell me what do you like, what do you want."
Squall thought for a long moment, "...maybe cosplay."
"Ok, that sounds fun. How do you want me to dress up?"
"I don't know."
"Do you have a favorite character from comic books or maybe a celebrity crush?"
Squall blushed, meaning she hit the bulls-eye, "Who is it?" she asked curiously.
"Well... it's not a fictional character, it’s a real person but not exactly a celebrity."
"Tell me what she looks like, so I can dress up like her."
"She has big green eyes, long wavy brown hair, she wears a light pink dress, slender body, she smells like flowers and has an aura–”
"I asked what she looks like, not how she smells," Rinoa interrupts him, kinda worried after that description. "Do I know her?"
"...Yes."
"Tell me who it is," demands Rinoa.
"...Aerith."
She knew it, she sensed he had a thing for Aerith, "You know she's with Cloud right?"
"I know, I don't care, I have you, it's always gonna be you," hearing that makes Rinoa feel a little better.
"Why Aerith, though?"
He thinks carefully for a bit, "I think because she's similar to you, always positive, friendly, and flirty, and the same body type," the fact that he sees her in Aerith made Rinoa a little less uneasy.
"You know what, I'm gonna make your fantasy more real than you ever dreamed of."
"What does that mean?"
"You'll see."
"C-can I touch you?" Squall asks Aerith shyly.
"Of course, you can, silly, how else are we gonna do this."
Squall starts to unbutton Aerith's shirt at a sloth speed. Aerith goes to undo his shirt.
Later Squall is on top of Aerith touching and grinding each other then at some point she touches Squall's face and asks him while panting, "Squall, do you want to kiss... Cloud?" his mind is swirling thinking Aerith asked him to kiss her, he leans over, to do so... meanwhile he realized she said Cloud, he stopped to ask, "Kiss who?" to be sure.
"Cloud," she repeats. He stops moving.
"No, I don't want to kiss Cloud," this interruption reduced his enjoyment to zero.
"Oh, is it because you're shy?" Before Squall could protest, she looked up in Cloud's direction and asked, "Cloud, could you kiss Squall?"
Cloud almost lost his balance, "What? Why would I do that?" he asks, dumbfounded.
"It could be interesting and sexy…”
"No, it won't, just thought alone, kills the mood."
Rinoa was wondering why is Aerith so persistent for them to kiss, she wanted Cloud to move already, and then she remembered she told Aerith that Squall might have a crush on Cloud, to make her agree to this sort of foursome.
"Please, Cloud, do it for me and Rinoa, it will feel more like a foursome, come on give us a show," Aerith tries to convince him.
Cloud sighed, then grabbed Squall by the back of his neck and smacked their mouths together without warning, they stayed a bit like that to please Aerith so she wouldn't complain about it being too quick.
Squall was so shocked he looked like a statue, while Rinoa put her hand over her mouth to stop her giggles, this was all her fault but she didn't expect it to turn into this funny situation.
After the guys separate, Aerith asks "How was it?"
"Not good, I felt his stubble. I don't understand how women deal with this all the time,” said Cloud while rubbing his chin, “Learn how to shave, brat!" Cloud spat at Squall.
"It wasn't good for me either, but at least his face looks like a woman’s," Squall makes his jab at Cloud.
"What did you say about me, you brat?" says Cloud angrily.
Squall raises his voice as if he is speaking to an old person, "I said, it helps that your face looks like a woman’s, grampa."
Cloud sighs, "You don't have to repeat it, you slowpoke," says Cloud mockingly.
"I'm not slow, I'm faster than you," Squall took Cloud's joke seriously.
"You're right, you are faster, at cuming like a teenager. I saw you earlier struggling to hold back," Cloud continues to mock Squall.
"At least I don't overcompensate with a giant sword for my shortcomings," Squall fires back smugly.
"Guys, please, save the trash talk for the middle school playground," interrupts Rinoa, annoyed.
"Focus on your job," says an irritated Rinoa to Cloud and Squall.
"Fine.”
After their experiment ended, Aerith goes to Rinoa, to ask her about the result, "What do you think?"
"It was good."
"Not that. Do you still think Squall has a crush on Cloud? It didn't look like he had?"
"Oh, about that, I knew he doesn't have a crush on Cloud."
"Then what was the point of all this?" Aerith was confused.
"I wanted to test something."
"What?"
"His feelings for you."
"Squall has feelings for me?" Aerith asks surprised but then she thinks to herself that Squall seemed kinda awestruck while they were doing it, but she thought he was just shy.
"Not feelings per se, more like a celebrity crush," Aerith blushes at the thought that she's someone's celebrity crush.
"So what was your test?"
"After doing all this with you, I want to see if it gets out of his system."
"That sounds risky. I hope it worked."
"Don't worry about it, Aerith, I know he loves me."
Rinoa grabs Squall's hand and they start going home then she whispers to him, "Am I the best, or what? I just made your fantasy come true."
"Well, my fantasy didn't include Cloud in it... but yeah you're the best."
"Though luck, buddy, it was the only way to convince Aerith to accept."
"I'm curious how you convinced her?"
"I told her, you have a crush on Cloud."
"You did what?!" He stopped walking to stare at her with wide eyes and open mouth while she giggled and nodded.
Squall sighed, at least now some things made sense, "So that's why Aerith asked me if I want to kiss Cloud, I bet you had fun watching me in that situation."
"I had, I barely could hold my laughter."
"You're bad."
"But you love me."
Yes, I do."
"So... do you want to do this again sometime?" Rinoa tries to sound casual.
"Nah, I'm good."
"Why not?" Rinoa asks curiously, wondering if her plan worked.
“ 'Cause Aerith kept treating me like a lost kid."
"I kinda noticed that Cloud was calling you a brat a lot too."
"What's wrong with them?" wonders Squall.
“We are a few years younger than them, maybe when they saw you so awkward and helpless they couldn't help themselves.”
“Awkward and helpless? What is up with this day, is it the make fun of Squall day?” he pouts.
“I’m joking, you are my very badass sexy boyfriend,” Rinoa tries to make him feel better.
“It sounds like you're still mocking me, but I’ll allow it.”