p style="text-align: center;"Today was the day of the trip to Africa!br /I didn't know if I was to put on my uniform or wait so I just packed it and put on some regular clothes,br /I pulled out a pair of black skinny jeans and a little more than casual white baggy tank top along with my biker style belted boots, I gotta say ... doggit I looked good!br /*Alex's Outfit: a href=" cgi/set?id=117342403" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"span style="text-decoration: underline;"span style="color: #0066cc;" /cgi/set?id=117342403*/span/span/abr /br /I was on the way to the spot where Chris and I were supposed to meet to go to the airport, I was super nervous to face Chris again after so long when I used to see him almost everyday!br /I was driving when one of my favorite songs came on the radiobr /... How You Remind Me by Nickelback br /br /a href=" watch?v=yyLsPdOEBww" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"span style="text-decoration: underline;"span style="color: #0066cc;" /watch?v=yyLsPdOEBww/span/span/abr /br /br /I sang along with the lyrics thinking back to when I used to be with the unitbr /... this song really expressed my feelingsbr /... it was freaky how much it sounded like how I /br /I saw the place Chris and I were supposed to meet and turned inbr /my heart was pounding so fast I thought it was going to come out of my /As I stepped out of the car I could see Chris sitting in the fast food joint which happened to be my favorite I might addbr /'huh, he really is alone ... wonder what happened to Jill ... I'm shocked she isn't here' I thought to /I walked in and saw him sitting at the table and my face turned redbr /"C-Chris Redfield?" I said and he looked up from the table at mebr /"Alex? ... Alex Spencer?" he kind of asked and I nodded, he kind of smiled a little and stood upbr /"it's been a long time since I've seen you around Alex" he said giving me a hugbr /"yeah ... it's been a while Chris ... a long while" I said and he nodded once and looked sympathetic "I'm sorry about Raptor" he said and I just smiled weaklybr /br /"Joey wouldn't want me to cry about it ... he would've wanted me to move on" I said and he noddedbr /"yeah ... you and Raptor were inseparables" he said as we sat downbr /"... so're you and Jill ..." I said looking at the floor, "well ... I don't know if you would say inseparables ... but we were partners, nothing like the way you and Raptor were Smokey" he said and I looked at himbr /"why isn't she going with you Chris? ... I mean you guys are partners" I said looking at him and he looked downbr /"she died on our last mission to find Wesker" he said and I was shocked but my skin cringed at that namebr /"Chris I'm so sorry, I didn't know" I said feeling stupid for bringing it upbr /"no, no, it's alright, as soon as we finish the mission things can return to normal" he said looking at mebr /"I guess your right ... So .. we going after the B.O.W smuggling?" I asked and he noddedbr /br /I smiled a little "good ... I can't wait to get my hands on the slime!" I said with a slight growl and Chris sighedbr /"don't go rushing into this like a maniac and end up getting yourself killed" he said looking at mebr /"I won't, I won't, but hey I do have a question" I said and Chris looked at me signaling for me to continue "Kirk said you requested me ... why did you want me to accompany you on the trip?" I asked and I could've sworn I saw Chris' face turn pinkish ... unless it was just the lightingbr /"because ... I know you want revenge" he said ...Nice lie buddy, I just played alongbr /"oh ... okay, well then, let's get going!" I said and stood upbr /Chris smiled and stood up toobr /"yeah and we better hurry ... our flight leaves soon" he said and I noddedbr /br /we walked out the door into the parking lot and got in Chris' car and finished the drive to the airport sine I had arranged for my cousin to pick mine up so I didn't have to drive itbr /... plus it's old as dirt no one would ever wanna steal that piece of junk/p