Albert Wesker had never felt like this before. He had been close to this feeling once, but it wasn't nearly as strong as he felt now. He had met a young woman, very young. She had just been transferred to Umbrella's secret lab in Raccoon City, she had worked somewhere in Europe before that. She was a good scientist, and a beautiful young woman. She couldn't be more than 19. But Albert was young too, he had just turned 21, and he had been working for Umbrella since he was 17.
Albert had been ordered to help the new scientist feel welcome, and he had been stunned by her amazingly green eyes. The young woman was wearing a pair of glasses, and that made her look really smart. Albert supposed that she actually WAS smart too, since she'd been hired by Umbrella when she was as young as he had been. And the day he had spent on showing the young woman all of the rooms she were going to work in had been the best he'd had in a long time.

"So... Where do you work?" The young woman asked.

Albert looked at her.

"Uh, right over here." He walked to his own desk, and the young woman followed him. His desk wasn't too far away from the young woman's, though they sat in different rooms. The young woman seemed really happy about that.

"Great! Not too far away from my desk!"

Albert smiled. "I have to go back to my own work now, but if there's anyting you want, you know where to find me."

The young woman nodded, and Albert sat down in his chair. After a few seconds, someone sat down beside him. Albert thought it was the young woman, but it turned out to be his co-worker and friend, William Birkin.

"Who was the girl you talked with?" William asked.

"She's new here. I had to show her around." Albert said.

"Okay, so what do you think about her? Think she's good enough to be able to stay here?" William doubted it. A lot of Umbrella's new employees from this year hadn't been able to deal with all the stress, and they had only lasted a month each before looking for another job.

"Well..." Albert said, took a deep breath and then slowly let it out. "I think I've fallen for her, William, and I don't know anything about her. Not even her name."

William looked at him.

"Albert, are you serious?"

"About what?"

"You didn't ask her what her name was?" William sounded surprised.

"Yes, I'm serious." Albert wasn't in the mood for talking about why he sometimes stopped thinking; he needed to work on that.

"Oh, well." William smiled. "I guess that we could go double-dating soon then" they both laughed.

"Yeah, right." Albert said, and smiled. "You've been dating Annette for, what, a few weeks? I can actually hear the wedding-bells chiming." Albert laughed, but he stopped as soon as he noticed that William wasn't. He looked very serious.

"What?" Albert asked.

William picked up a small box from his pocket. Albert's eyes widened.

"Is that what I think it is?" Albert asked, and William nodded.

"You may think that it's kind of sudden and too soon, but this relationship with Annette just feels right, you know." William said, and showed Albert the ring. It was a beautiful gold ring with a big diamond.

"I've been saving for it a long time."

"But William, you've only dated her for a few weeks!" That's not really a long time, you know. It must have costed you a fortune." Albert said, and William put the ring back in his pocket.

"Yeah, I know, but I've been knowing Annette as a friend even longer, and you know that."

"Wait, you mean that you decided to propose to her before you asked her out on your first date?" Albert looked confused. "That doesn't really make any sense, you know."

"Maybe not. But that doesn't change how I feel about her." William said, and walked back to his own desk.