Let's stick to the truth

As tempting as it might be to tell the opposite and see if Regina reacts to it, this would probably blow up in my face with her teasing me about it and pretending to be my creation for god-knows-how-long. I'm not going to give her the opportunity to do that.

"No, she actually came with the ring." I say flatly, trying to make it sound as dry as I could so it wouldn't look like I was making excuses.

"Hey, what you like to do to give your girlfriends pleasure is none of my businesses unless we start dating one day." Susie goes for my jugular and I swear somehow Regina's laugh got louder.

"You know what I fucking meant." I say literally.

"Sorry to be a grammar nazi, but you should have paused after saying 'what' and added an "am" after I. Is Regina cool with you fucking meant?" Please, Susie, no, stop. "Like, I dunno why your open relationship is being revealed to me along with your magic powers."

"Susie, what do you fucking want?" I groan as Regi is somehow still laughing.

"My dreads back the way they were, thank you." She demands, and I fix it immediately.

"Done, now are we going to stop acting like I'm **** enough that I had to make myself a girlfriend?" I should have just let myself go mad with power and take over the world. Having a moral code and friend to care about sucks.

"I mean, sure, once we renegotiate how you're paying me, miss 'I control reality now'" She held out her hand, probably expecting a fat wad of bills to fall on top of it.

"As much as I would like to, I'm still as rich as I've always been at the moment. The ring can only modify stuff related to women, and the laughing stock here..." I point at Regina, who is still fucking laughing somehow "Warned me that I can only make novice stuff for the moment. And even in the case I can just give you clothes with money on them, there's so much stuff that the governments puts in a dollar that I have no idea if I can make a genuine one that won't get you investigated later."

Susie waits a moment. "Alright, then I guess we're returning to the gold standard. Give me some of the jewelry that you gave your girlfriend, at least."

I groan as I cover her fingers with diamond rings. "Why am I letting you do me like this?"

"Because you have no real reason to not help prop up your friend with your new superpowers the same way you're going to probably help yourself later on?"

"And why do you need to call me out like that?"

After that, Susie was satisfied, my embarrassment had gone away, and Regina had regained her composure. Still, as we entered her bedroom, I felt the need to do something.

"By the way, have an extra ring for what I'm about to do to you." Before Susie could even blink, she now had a really big diamond ring in one of her fingers (she had stashed the other rings to resell them later) and was down to her underwear. "I didn't delete your clothes out of this world, but that's what you're wearing during out photo-shoot."

"Alright." She shrugs while adjusting the camera.

"What do you mean alright?" I asked, indignant that she took it so well.

"You might have said that you're really limited and all but as far as I know you might secretly be God now. You pay me like you're paying me and I'll gladly take your photos while wearing a clown costume and a fake mustache if that's what you want. Besides, I look good like this" She reasons, before blowing me a kiss to piss me off further.

"I hate everyone." I drop onto the bed.

"Even me?" Regina asks while she lays next to me.

"Especially you." I give her a quick peek on her cheek. She giggles. I'm still miffed.