** I wanted to do something for the Olympics! João is my oc and he was created for this, but maybe I'll make some more up for him! // PSA: I can't draw // and João = Brazil **

"Hey dude!" Alfred F. Jones called as he approached the young man, lugging a huge suitcase next to him. Naturally, he had his usual shit-eating grin plastered right across his face. João looked up from his paperwork -- were people arriving already...? He wasn't finished with all the preparations though...

"Olá Alfred," he said instead. Standing up and leaning casually over his desk, he shook his hand. "Safe trip down?"

"You bet!" Alfred kept grinning. "I couldn't wait to get here! And now the Games really can begin! Hell yeah!"

João gave a small smile of his own. "And I wish you the best of luck. Your room key," he handed him a hotel key -- an actual key, not a hotel pass or something. Alfred took it excitedly. "Oh, and... Not everything is completely done.." He admitted, voice small. It was embarrassing, especially saying it to someone like Alfred F. Jones, who could literally roll in his own wealth. "Our budget... Not what it used to be... But we can still have everything here, of course." Just maybe not what you're used to, he added silently.

Alfred, to his credit, clapped João warmly on the shoulder. "Hey, don't worry about it! If a little sun and a lumpy mattress is all I have to worry about, then trust me, I'm good." He looked into his eyes, brown to bright blue. "Seriously, João. You've done good, son."

Then, with a laugh and another clap on the back, Alfred disappeared back inside the hotel.

João watched him go. But... That wasn't all there was to worry about, at least not for he himself. There was the Zika virus ravaging the women of his country, stealing away and deforming little ones before they were even born... João feared for his people, for the people of his brothers and sisters' neighboring countries...

Budget too low indeed. If he had the money he would spend it on more than merely the Rio 2016
Olympics, that's for sure.