"Right now?" Aiden paused, he had just promised to stay with Aerith.
"Yes." Tifa's tone also sounded a little helpless, but it concerned their plan for the coming days, she had no choice.
"But…" Aiden glanced back again, only to see Aerith standing at the room door, looking at him with a complex expression.
"But what?" Tifa asked, "Do you have something going on?"
"Yeah… Aerith's feeling a little down. I want to keep her company," Aiden said.
"But haven't you been with her every day lately?" Tifa's voice became sour and aggrieved, "We haven't seen each other in days."
"This..." Aiden instantly felt a headache coming on.
At that moment, Aerith walked over, looked at the number displayed on the phone, and asked, "Tifa?"
Aiden nodded, "She asked me to go to the bar, said she had something to talk to me about."
"Oh." Aerith nodded, "If you want to go, then go."
"Huh?" Aiden was a bit confused.
"Huh what, don't you want to go?" Aerith asked back.
"But didn't you ask me to stay with you?" Aiden was a little unsure about Aerith's thoughts.
"I don't care about just this one night." Aerith shook her head, her beautiful eyes staring into Aiden's, "The days ahead are still long, aren't they?"
Hearing Aerith's words, Aiden felt somewhat touched inside, and couldn't help but pull her into his arms.
"That's right, we still have a long future ahead." Aiden tightly hugged Aerith and lowered his head to kiss her lips.
Aerith passionately responded, occasionally letting out satisfied hums. However, they had forgotten that the phone call was still ongoing.
———
Hearing the sounds from the other end of the phone, how could Tifa not know what they were doing? In that moment, a mix of sourness and pain surged in her heart. In the end, she really couldn't listen anymore and hung up the phone heavily, then walked out of the bar without saying a word.
"Tifa, what's wrong? Aiden's not coming?" Behind her, Jessie asked loudly.
Tifa didn't answer the question, just said without turning her head, "Don't answer any calls for a while."
"Marlene, go follow her." Seeing that Tifa's mood didn't seem quite right, Barret said to Marlene.
Marlene nodded, jumped down from her seat, and quickly ran over to hold Tifa's hand...
———
After a passionate kiss that lasted over ten minutes, Aiden and Aerith finally came back to their senses, but the phone had already been hung up by Tifa. When they called back, no one answered.
"Looks like she's angry." After dialing over ten times and still getting no answer, Aiden gave up and said to Aerith with a helpless face.
"Then hurry and go." Aerith pushed Aiden's chest, "Go comfort her properly."
"Mm." Aiden nodded, kissed Aerith again, and then left the room.
Watching Aiden's back as he left, Aerith stood there blankly. After a while, she looked at the flower basket on the coffee table and murmured,
"From now on, I'll start growing hyacinths instead."
Over half an hour later, Aiden smoothly arrived at the Seventh Heaven bar.
At the bar entrance, Tifa and Marlene were sitting on the steps. When they saw Aiden appear, only Marlene stood up, while Tifa turned her head to the side with red eyes.
"Uncle!"
Compared to the now cold Tifa, Marlene was still as enthusiastic as before. She jumped down from the steps and lifted her little skirt as she ran toward Aiden.
"Marlene, did you miss me these past few days?" Aiden picked up Marlene and let her sit in his arm, but his eyes were on Tifa.
"Of course I missed you." Marlene gave Aiden a kiss on the cheek, then whispered in his ear, "Uncle, did you fight with Sister Tifa?"
"We didn't fight." Aiden shook his head.
"Then why is her mood suddenly so bad, and she's ignoring you too?" Marlene asked curiously.
"Because Uncle accidentally made her angry." Aiden said, then put Marlene down and told her, "You go inside first, I need to apologize to your Sister Tifa."
"Mm!" Marlene obediently nodded, turned around and ran to the bar door with the 'Temporarily Closed' sign, pushed open the door and went in.
As the bar door closed, Aiden sat down next to Tifa, but before he could settle in, Tifa snorted coldly and moved her body to the side.
Seeing this, Aiden could only move closer again. But Tifa was really angry, so she moved away once more and warned, "Don't get close to me."
But how could Aiden possibly listen? If he really listened to her now and didn't get close, Tifa would probably get even angrier. So he shamelessly moved closer again, sticking tightly to her side.
Just like that, the two of them kept shifting, one scooting away, the other scooting closer, until Tifa reached the edge of the steps against the railing and had nowhere else to move. She then pouted and leaned against the railing with a stern face.
"Don't be angry anymore." Aiden reached out and hugged Tifa's waist, smiling apologetically. This was his first time doing this.
"How could I not be angry?" Tifa didn't struggle, but said with a choked voice, "I already chose to forget the past, but how did you treat me?"
'Forget the past?'
These words made Aiden pause for a moment, but he didn't think too much about it, because he cared more about what she said after that.
"That was just an accident." Aiden explained.
"Accident? Kissing that intensely was also an accident?" Tifa didn't believe it at all, her eyes brimming with tears, and only by sheer willpower did she keep them from falling.
"What do I lack compared to her?" Tifa asked again.
"I've never compared you with Aerith, not in anything." Aiden sighed and said, "You're not worse than her."
"Then fine, whatever she has, I must also have." Tifa wiped her eyes and said seriously, "She can't have more than me."
"So..." Aiden understood her meaning. He looked around and asked, "Right here?"
"Yes, right here." Tifa had made up her mind and said.
Aiden nodded, then ignored the curious gazes around them and kissed Tifa on the lips.
"Mm! Wait a minute." After all, Tifa was a girl, and a bit tsundere. Being watched by so many people made her a little shy.
But under Aiden's advances, her mental defenses didn't hold out for long and quickly collapsed.
No one knows how long passed, maybe ten minutes, maybe half an hour, before Tifa finally snapped out of it.
"Tonight, can you stay?" Tifa's eyes were already dazed, her face red as she asked.
Aiden didn't hesitate at all, nodding, "Tonight, you belong only to me."
Upon hearing this, Tifa buried her head in Aiden's chest...
———
After whispering sweet nothings at the bar entrance for a while, Aiden finally followed Tifa into the bar.
Inside the bar, the members of Avalanche were all there, and besides them, Aiden also saw a "familiar face."
That person had flamboyant yellow hair and carried an exaggeratedly huge sword on his back. The sword had no sheath or strap, and seemed to stick to his back magnetically.
And this "familiar face" was the protagonist of FF7, Cloud.
'This really is... surprising.' Aiden stared at Cloud. Though surprised, he wasn't shocked, because by the timeline, Cloud was supposed to appear now.
However, that yellow hair of his really annoyed Aiden.
Although when he played the game before, he thought this blond protagonist was pretty cool, things were different now, Tifa and Aerith were already his women. So Cloud's yellow hair was seriously an eyesore.
'I'll have to find a way to make him change his hair color, black or white is fine, anything but yellow.' Looking at Cloud's blond hair, Aiden thought maliciously.
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