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Chapter 2

The Party

Sorry it's been a while. I've been real busy

At 7:01PM, Leon and Ada arrived at a house that could only be described as possibly the biggest house Leon had ever seen. Sure, he had seen photos of much larger houses, but this was the biggest one he had ever seen in person. Leon was getting suspicious about these friends Ada had. He was wondering if she was hanging out with international thieves that rob banks across the globe. Maybe this was a trap planned by Ada and Umbrella. Maybe Ada is planning to rob this party and blame Leon. He was unable to comprehend how Ada could possibly have such rich friends.

"So Ada, how did you meet the people that are attending this party?"

"I don't know them all handsome," she stated, "My dad was a Senator and became friends with the governor and he had a daughter named Julia Stocks who was my age. We've been friends ever since. She inherited this house as well."

As the two of them approached the front door, Leon felt relieved and rang the doorbell. He looked down at his blue dress shirt and black tie as he and Ada waited for someone to arrive at the door. He looked at Ada's face and just saw her looking blankly at the door. He was still trying to envision her crying, but was still unable to do so. He just couldn't see her crying ever. He decided to shake off that thought when he heard the door open. A woman roughly Ada's age wearing a backless blue dress greeted them with a glass of wine in her left hand.

"If it isn't the woman in the red dress. Who's this?" She asked.

"This is Leon Kennedy. He works for the government," Ada said with pride.

The two of them were let in the house. Leon saw the photo of Julia Stocks' father of the wall. He recognized him as a former Democratic Senator of California. Leon had a feeling this would be a boring night. He thought he saw the Governor of California somewhere, but wasn't completely sure. He went over to Ada who was speaking with Julia when he was grabbed by his arm and dragged to a small group of people.

"Hey guys, it's the guy that saved Ashley Graham," the man that grabbed him said.

"Oh yeah," said another man, "Have any good naps lately?"

Leon then walked away from them muttering certain words and then decided to walk back to Ada to see what she was up to.

He saw her having a drink and talking to Julia. Julia approached him as he walked behind Ada.

"So, you're Leon, right?" She asked.

"If by Leon you mean Leon Kennedy, then yes," he replied with.

She took him by the arm and the two of them walked across the gigantic house.

"So, Ada tells me you two met back in '98 in Vegas."

Leon was puzzled for a moment. He had a feeling that Ada wanted to keep Raccoon a secret, so he decided to go along with it. He did not like lying that much, but did it anyway.

"Oh, yes," Leon said, "I had a grand I wanted to use. I went to the craps table and I met her there when my luck was on fire. I had to downright pry her off me with a crowbar when she came on to me."

Julia snickered. "I cannot tell you how much she needed this, by the way."

"What do you mean?" Leon asked.

"Oh, the common cold lasts longer than her relationships. It never really bothered her, but she met that Joey guy, and I honestly thought they were going to get married. It's nice someone like you can help her forget her troubles. She always did need somebody to help her get over other people."

"Wait, you mean I was invited to help her get her mind off some dude, not because she liked me?"

"Yeah, that's just about right, I'd say. I know she did it all the time in high school."

Leon decided to walk away. He went to the bar. He could hear people whispering his name as he went over to the bar.

"Got anything with no alcohol sir?" Leon asked.

"Got somethin' that might interest ya," said the bartender.

Leon stared at the bartender. ..Nah, he thought.

He received his drink and went to find Ada. He never liked being alone in public places, especially parties where there were complete strangers. He found her by the stairway talking to some man. The man had a flat top haircut and was extremely thin.

"Hi, Leoooooooooooo," Ada said with an intoxicated tone.

"Hi, Ada," Leon said. He looked at the man she was talking to, "Hi, I'm Leon Kennedy, I'm Ada's da…friend,"

"Hi, I'm Joey Pavarotti. Ada's boyfriend," he said.

"Fooooormerrrrrrr boyfrieeeeeeeeeend," Ada said while putting her head on Joey's shoulder.

"Well, we'll see about that," Joey had said with a snicker. Ada began to laugh as well. She was too drunk to understand what he was saying.

Leon was in amazement. Just less than a week ago, she was crying over this guy breaking up with her and now, she was just laughing like nothing happened. He was getting frustrated with Joey. He couldn't stand to see people hurt Ada, and Joey was talking and laughing with Ada like nothing had happened. He couldn't believe how it seemed like he wanted to get back together with her. Leon hadn't felt this angry since Saddler hanged Ada.

"Ada," Leon sighed, "Could I see you outside for a moment?"

Ada followed Leon outside with a bizarre walk and then fell on the front porch.

"This is why I never get drunk," Leon said to her.

"Ah, Kenney, it was only a wittle dwink. Nothing that big," Ada said to him.

"Little drink? You're friggin' hammered! You know, you were an asshole in Spain and Raccoon, but at least you were a human back then! And now you're just on the porch, probably unable to remember your own name! You know, I felt sorry for you when you called me on Sunday! I agreed to come with you to this party because you were so sad over that idiot breaking up with you! Now you're talking like it never happened! Not only that, he wants to get back together with you after he dumped you! Do you even know anything about controlling yourself?"

Ada then looked at him with a frown on her face. She then slowly stood up and said, "Kiss me, Leon,"

"No," Leon stammered.

"Please?" Ada asked again.

"No, you're drunk. That would be like taking advantage of you."

"Can you take me home then?"

Leon muttered a few words, and then agreed to take her home. They left without telling anyone. Leon didn't want to see Joey again, nor did he want more people laughing at him for sleeping on TV.

Fifteen minutes later, they had arrived at Ada's house without even saying a word to each other. Leon decided to walk her to her door, worried that she may not actually be able to find the front door due to her intoxication. She asked him to unlock her front door as she was unable to remember how to use a key to unlock a door. Leon let her in, and Ada took a few steps in, and then turned around and looked at Leon with a frown. She looked more serious now, like she had just regained her intelligence.

"I'm sorry Leon," She said.

"For what?" He asked?

"For being an ass. I'm sorry I ruined your evening. It was wrong of me to have that many drinks."

"Don't worry, I wasn't having a great time anyway…Hey wait, how could you go from drunk to sober in less than an hour?"

"Yeah, I was only pretending to be drunk. When Joey tried to approach me, I put on a huge Broadway production so he wouldn't try to ask me out again. I also knew it would get your attention, so haha."

Leon was in shock, sort of. First pretending to have a loaded gun, then pretending to be intoxicated. Leon had a feeling Ada was trickier than he had anticipated.

"Leon?"

"Yeah?"

"Do you wanna, you know, come in?"

"For what reason?"

Ada seductively grinned at him, "You'll see."