<div class="floatleft">(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/09/4d/5b/094d5b142474cf8e2ccb68f67d7c4034.jpg)</div><strong>Name:</strong>Mark Watson (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=308599.msg15011290#msg15011290)<br/><strong>Age:</strong>26<br/><strong>Sexuality:</strong>Hetero<br/><strong>Hometown:</strong>Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada<br/><strong>Date/Time:</strong>2 July, 2019, early afternoon<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Front Door<br/><strong>Wearing:</strong><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Suit As Pictured</div><div class="spoiler_body">(https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbeardresource.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F07%2Fbeards-and-suit.jpg&amp;f=1)</div></div><br/><strong>Coupled with:</strong>No one as yet<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Logan, then Grace<br/><br/><br/><br/><hr/><br/>It had not taken too long for things to get real.  He listened while Logan shared with him the information he had, his eyebrows lifting in surprise when Logan mentioned Elsa was no longer part of a couple.  It certainly gave Mark a good deal to consider.  While it was just dumb luck that Mark happened to pick Rhonda for a date and that was precisely who Logan was coupled with he took note of the way Logan crossed his arms on his chest when the subject came up.  Mark wasn't insulted.  He suspected it would be hard to react in any other way.  Being in a couple had double value here on the show.  The first was that you were one step closer to in theory the proposed ultimate goal of the show.  To find love.  The other value that being in a couple presented was that you were more likely to<strong>stay</strong>on the island.  All it really did was reinforce Mark's belief that this was not natural and was going to be difficult...for nearly everyone on the show.<br/><br/>Mark was considering offering to back off with Rhonda until Logan mentioned Delaney and then grew quiet.  From the episodes of the show he had watched while flying to Spain, this was the quintessential Love Island experience.  Make a connection with someone...feel excited about it...then get introduced to someone else and question the first connection.<br/><br/>Queue the train wreck...camera's two, three and four close up on the victim's faces.<br/><br/>Mark wasn't stupid...this was like some 1960's social experiment that had been outlawed but because they had all signed waivers and it was televised...well...then it was okay.<br/><br/>His phone let out a trilling tone and he slipped his hand inside his jacket and pulled it out.  A satisfied smile forming as he saw Grace's response and quickly slipped his phone back into his jacket again.<br/><br/><em>"Delaney..."</em>, his voice drifted off for a moment as he thought about the videos he watched.  There weren't THAT many women and he'd had plenty of time to watch them a couple times each.<em>"She's the one that works for the mining company and has the eyes?"</em>He didn't feel super great about referring to her as "the one with the eyes" as if that was all that she was.  In this case, everything had to be surface-level at the moment because that was all he'd had access to.  He gave Logan an amused smile and laughed...a short, quiet sound.<em>"So you're coupled with Rhonda but feeling a spark with Delaney?  That sounds like a super easy decision, man.  Good luck with that."</em>He smiled again hoping Logan would take it for friendly teasing and not some manner of taunt.<br/><br/><em>"Listen...if I feel something click with Rhonda, I'll be up front about it with her as well as with you.  I'm not here to scam and scheme.  This might get presented like it's some kind of game show at times but there's feelings on the line here. "</em>He jerked a thumb over his shoulder and back towards the door.<em>"I need to roll.  Grace is enroute so I want to be there at the door waiting for her.  I hope we get to talk more and please don't sweat the shit you don't have control over."</em>He nodded his head once in confirmation, offered an assuring smile and made his way back to the front doors inside the villa...after making a few wrong turns and some frantic pointing from some of the crew off camera.<br/><br/>He placed a hand against his abdomen as he waited for Grace to join him although he wasn't really sure what direction Grace would be coming from.  There were more nerves than he had anticipated.  He wondered if it was her causing the nerves or just the prospect of a first date with a stranger in a completely fabricated situation that involved a dozen people with cameras and lights.<br/><br/><em>"I run at the fire while others run from it..." </em>, he spoke to himself in a quiet and hopefully self-motivating tone.<em>"It's not like Grace is a forest fire."</em>