↳ ffvii (final fantasy seven) one shots || vol. 1

trials of love || scenario - tifa

anonymous asked: Can you do a tifa x reader scenario the reader has a crush on Tifa and wants to tell her but the feels like Tifa likes cloud but actually Tifa secretly has a huge crush on the reader but she is afraid to tell him cause she feels like she will ruin the friendship that they have but also feels like the reader likes someone else?

☼

Tifa watches you quietly from the bar as you joke and laugh with Jessie, analyses how you react when she places a hand on your bicep, critiques the way Jessie so blatantly flirts with you. She hates how effortlessly you get along with Jessie, how your eyes always seem to be on her, never once straying over to her except to ask for another drink. She's envious, but she should know by now you would never look twice in her direction - Jessie is Jessie and Tifa, she's just that small town girl who runs the bar to distract Shinra from the Avalanche headquarters beneath it. She wants you to look at her the way you look at Jessie, but knows you never will.

But she doesn't notice the gazes you send her way when she's distracted by Cloud, misses Jessie, Biggs and Wedge's teasing whenever they catch you in the act. She misses the longing glances you send her way as she leaves, and the concerned peaks during a mission. She misses the smile that's reserved only for her, the soft one, that exposes your love for her so blatantly. It's clear to you that she's in love with Cloud, though. The amount of time she spends with him is testament to that, how she's always looking towards him out of concern.

It's clear to the others, however, Jessie and Cloud included, that you're both as oblivious to each other's affections as the other. How absolutely smitten you are with one another, how the two of you are meant for each other. It's cute, but frustrating, watching the shy compliments and greeting, the secret smiles one another thinks is out of pity. It's been going on for too long now, almost since the day the two of you met, and it's clear that if nothing is done any time soon, then it'll become maddening for them as onlookers.

So they devise a plan, a mission meant just for the two of you, Jessie and, reluctantly, Cloud tagging along. They watch from afar as the two of you gradually progress through it, analysing the clues they've left behind carefully, before carrying on to your next destination, Jessie and Cloud deploying several distractions to give the guys back at Seventh Heaven enough time. And when the mission comes full circle back to Seventh Heaven, the both of you are inherently confused, proceeding into the bar with caution.

A meal has been set up, a small candle lit dinner meant for two, slow, romantic music playing in the background from a jukebox. The doors slam closed behind you, Jessie's triumphant laugh ringing through them, as well as several cheers from the others.

"And now they have to choice but to admit their crushes on each other!"

It's silent in the bar, both of you registering her words, staring each other down quietly. After a pregnant pause, Tifa looks down sheepishly, a blush reaching her cheeks, and one last time she looks up at you, a million things to say but struck dumb at the sight of those eyes she adores so much.

And all she can say is, "hi".