The Lady In Red | COD-MW2

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The sunrise gloomed Las Alams, leaving a bright orange ray on the roads and buildings. Evelynn decided to wake up early to watch the sunrise. The smell of cigarettes smelled around her as she watched the sunrise from the darkness of the night.

Her mind going to back to her memories with Cheng. She remembers she and Cheng decided to wake up early to watch the sunrise over at Cheng's home village, on top of a hill far away from the village. They both brought small snacks to eat while they were waiting for the sunrise and they also brought blankets to sit on and to warm themselves due to the cold mornings.

Now, Evelynn just watches the sunset all by herself, with a single cigarette in her hands...

She dropped the cigarette stick on the floor and stepped on it before she walked back to her hotel room, to hopefully, catch some more sleep.

—

"Bloody fuck, my goddamn head." The Scottish man has awoken from his deep slumber, not recalling a single thing that happened last night. They went to the bar and he had a few drinks and everything from there was a blur.

He got up from his barrack room and made his way to the cafeteria where he saw the group of Vaqueros and Shadows sitting at the long tables, eating breakfast or talking to their teammates. He saw Ghost, Alejandro, Rudy, and Graves seated at a different table and made his way to them.

"The sleeping beauty finally woke up.", Graves said to him as Soap sat down at the table and laid his head down. "Cut your bull crap Graves, it's 9 A.M, too early for this...", Soap responded to him. Graves just shrugged his shoulders, "enjoy your hangover."

"What are we even doing today?", Soap asked Alejandro who was drinking coffee. "Training starts at 10:30 a.m. and ends at noon and then you are free to do whatever you would like to do until 8:30 for tonight's mission," Alejandro said to him. "Nice," Soap told to him.

The silence filled the table as they continued eating breakfast except for Soap, who still had his head down. Rudy, however, was still spaced out, spaced out on what happened last night. His interaction with Evelynn has surfaced up the feeling of love. Him being in love? The last time he was in love was when he was a teenager since then he hasn't had that feeling. Sure he would have women around him trying to get into his pants but he rejected them, with no hard feelings.

But straight to the point, Rudy still wanted to talk to her, maybe grab her name and her number. Since it was a Wednesday and on a holiday week, the plaza of Las Alams was active with tons of people and she may have appeared too. The chances are high yet so low, that the only way to know is to give it a shot.

"After training, would any of you guys love to go to the plaza of Las Alams? It would be nice for you guys to know more about our town, especially during the holiday season." Rudy said, breaking the silence at the table, hoping some of them would agree. "Oh si, Las Alams gets more beautiful during holidays, we can even show you places where me, Rudy, and our old classmates would hang out after school.", Alejandro agreed and added on, Soap lifted his head and looked at Simon and then Graves, "I'll go with you guys." Soap said giving a small smile. The trio looked at Simon and Graves. Simon just gave them a nod indicating that he would go whilst Graves had something else in mind. "I ain't coming, my Shadows have been lacking and they gotta be ready for tonight's mission, you guys have fun though."

"We meet at the parking lot at 2:30?", Rudy said to Alejandro, Simon, and Soap, they all nodded to him. "Then it's settled."

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Evelynn woke up, 12:30 P.M., the digital clock that rested on the nightstand said. She groaned as a headache rolled in. I didn't even drink that much.... Joi got out of bed and headed to the bathroom to take a shower and start her day freshen up and get rid of her headache. After 45 minutes of her shower, she comes out of the bathroom with Joi's holographic figure sitting, waiting for her. In Evelynn's view, Joi looked like she was sitting on air but in Joi's view, she was sitting with the chair she had in her room.

"Finally, you're out," Joi said to her.

"Good afternoon to you too, Joi."

"What are you doing today?", Joi questioned her as she was picking on her nails. "Well, I have nothing to do until tonight to meet up with Sin Nombre," Eve said as she was combing her wet hair to comb out any knots from her hair. "Nice, you get the afternoon off, maybe you can see that cutie you talked to last night," Joi jokingly said. Evelynn looked at her and then scoffed, "I'm not going to chase after him. I am just going to go out to take a walk, grab some brunch in the plaza, and walk around more" Joi just shrugged, "Have fun with your day off, I'll pop up if something is up with Hassan.", she said before disappearing.

She picked out an outfit and looked at herself in the mirror. She had a tight black-sleeved shirt paired with bootcut jeans and round medium cowboy-heel boots, something to fit in the Las Alams locals. Topped with a small oval red gem pendant. She decided to have her hair down and put on only mascara and lip gloss, she quickly overthought because of her scar, debating if she should cover her scar or not but in the end she decided not to as she left her hotel room and started walking to the plaza.