<div class="floatleft">(https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fs-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com%2Foriginals%2F55%2Fff%2F94%2F55ff947afff9e9df4b4d00815f299988.jpg&amp;f=1)</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>3 July, 2019, late evening<br/><strong>Location:</strong>@ Lounge and Bar<br/><strong>Wearing:</strong><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">T-shirt</div><div class="spoiler_body">(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/8174-xrHQxL._UX679_.jpg)</div></div>, well-worn jeans,<div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Socks</div><div class="spoiler_body">(https://ik.imagekit.io/overdose/3wisemen/catalog/product/cache/4/small_image/265x320/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/s/x/sx-101913_white.jpg)</div></div>,<div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Shoes</div><div class="spoiler_body">(https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0046/5548/0950/products/STEVEMADDEN-CASUAL_ZENO_BLUE-FABRIC_grande.jpg?v=1549480015)</div></div><br/><strong>Coupled with:</strong>No one as yet<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Open, Delaney<br/><br/><br/><hr/><br/>So the outing for the winning team was altogether anti-climactic.  Not that the quiet was unwelcome as he arrived at the lounge by himself.  The other guys might be arriving in their own Jeeps?  The show had some weird rules around that sort of thing.  While the rest of the guys might have arrived and were somewhere else in the lounge, considering how the day had gone which had a startling similarity to a rollercoaster; flying solo for the evening was a small mercy.  He had gone from a great conversation with Delaney to a solid date with Rhonda to...absolutely flaming out during the competition.<br/><br/>Things couldn't have went worse really.  The villa was making him feel a bit like a caged animal and when his secret being revealed resulted in Elsa treating him like a pariah.  Rather than handle it with a certain level of dignity, he let it send him into a spiral.  Taking a hard shot at Logan by way of Rhonda wasn't exactly a class act either.  His mom would have some choice words for him when he got home.  She had insisted that this and the whole modelling thing was a bad idea but while he took pride in what he did with the Wildfire Service and he was good at it; there was no money in it.  Certainly not when it was compared to modelling.  The appearance on the Ellen Degeneres Show netted him nearly two years worth of his normal salary.  Modelling shoots while sporadic at the moment paid a good deal better although it was decidedly more random and stressful than a forest fire.  So here he was...Love Island...living the dream; or the nightmare as it were.<br/><br/>J.J. had arrived like a smirky, smart beacon of hope shortly after the competition. The conversation they'd had together lead Mark to thinking that maybe things were indeed salvageable.  It would take some time and he would need to chase some people down to possibly remedy things.  In the end; he just wanted to apologize.<br/><br/>Things were in motion and he wasn't carrying around the shame he had been earlier so this outing wasn't going to be altogether unpleasant.  Odd?  Sure.  Unpleasant?  Doubtful.  The lack of other guys from the villa made it more likely that things would go without incident.  It seemed a number of the guys preferred the outing earlier in the day and the truth of it was that Mark wasn't upset by it.  He wasn't looking for more fights.  Things had already turned tribal between the original islanders and those arriving afterwards so giving all of the original guys time to decompress wouldn't be a bad thing.<br/><br/>He settled at the bar and motioning with a finger.<em>"Cerveza"</em>, he nodded slightly with a smile as the bartender smoothly shifted away to accommodate his request.<br/><br/>So here he was now.  Way...way too inside the fire break line and the inferno was just feet away.  It was time to get to work.<br/><br/>He liked to think he could now take Grace off the list of people he needed to square things with.  He doubted they would be "best mates" anytime soon but neither he nor she would be sharpening weapons if he runs into her in the hall.<br/><br/>There there was Rhonda.  He was just going to leave Rhonda alone for the moment until he got a chance to run into her face to face and apologize properly.<br/><br/>Logan was a whole other matter entirely.  While he wasn't a huge fan of the guy and while he had deliberately selected Rhonda to kiss because Mark suspected Logan would be the type to have a meltdown.  He still felt like a shit heel for doing it. There was no rush to hammer things out with Logan.  He'd give the guy some time and approach him at a later date.<br/><br/>With Elsa...things had gotten a bit weird at the end of the date when she pushed pretty hard for him to commit to a plan for the next couple choosing ceremony.  While he could understand it, the moment had taken what he had considered to be a great date and made it a bit more on the forced side.  Elsa also absolutely did not respond well to his secret being revealed.  He could spend a lot of time unpacking that but in the end, considering some of the problems she had hinted at with her ex; now that he had some distance from the competition and her reaction he supposed some of her reaction had to do with the trouble she had in the past.  Elsa could wait for the time being he supposed.<br/><br/>He took a long drink from the beer that was provided and he spoke quietly...<br/><br/><em>"So she thinks I'm like her ex...or she's super fuckin' judgy."</em><br/><br/>And then there was Delaney.  He reached out with one finger and flicked the corner of his phone, making it spin atop the bar.  Pressing his lips together in irritation as he thought about the brunette that he had chatted up at sunrise.  Technically he didn't really do anything to Delaney but somehow he felt as though he needed to explain things to her.  He wanted that.  No matter how this stupid game goes, at the very least; he really wanted her to not think he was garbage.  Date whomever she needs to.  He could get kicked off tomorrow however unlikely that might be.  Whatever.  He just wanted her to...not dislike him.<br/><br/>He tapped his finger against the top of the bar three times as he looked at his phone.  Chewing his lower lip a moment before reaching out to grab his phone.  He found the pre-loaded contacts in the phone and took a moment to fire off a text...frowning and then sending a second...and then following up quickly with a third.<br/><br/>Before exhaling sharply through his nose...and putting his phone face down on the bar.<br/><br/><em>"I'm bad at this..."</em>