<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 morning<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Competition - standing in line<br/><strong>Wearing:</strong><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Swim Shorts</div><div class="spoiler_body">(https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-6ehfk/images/stencil/original/products/8115/24103/Addicted-Mesh-Rainbow-Swim-Short-ADS178-01-White-F__38252.1560732424.jpg?c=2?c=2&amp;imbypass=on&amp;imbypass=on)</div></div>, red compression socks and running shoes, red ball cap turned backwards Logo on Front (https://smokejumper.ca/assets/uploads/2016/10/parattack-logo.png)<div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Written on back</div><div class="spoiler_body">Crew 7 - Bricks</div></div><br/><strong>Coupled with:</strong>No one as yet<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Open<br/><br/><br/><hr/><br/>He had connected of sorts with three women since arriving at the island and it was their reactions to his secret that mattered he supposed.  Rhonda...with no real surprise to him didn't really seem to be impacted by his secret.  That could be a number of reasons.  Maybe she's got a great game face?  Maybe the date with her earlier wasn't as solid as he thought it had been?    Maybe this competition was crushing her soul as much as it was crushing his?  In the end, no reaction was better than a bad reaction he supposed.<br/><br/>Case in point; Elsa.  He'd had such a great night with her.  That was like...twelve hours ago.  Now?  She wouldn't even look at him.  Admittedly after all the things she shared with him, she would most definitely have some trust issues as well as other things to work through but...her reaction hurt more than he had expected.  It hurt a good deal more than he would ever admit to.  He bit the inside of his cheek...focusing on something other than Elsa when Delaney's reaction to his secret caught his eye.  She made an amused face and mouthed "Really?"   A good deal of Elsa's sting disappeared and he shrugged slightly.  Not a shrug that suggested a lack of caring but a shrug coupled with a small, embarrassed smile and slightly nodded his head to confirm.  It was like...it was like you had a dog and your dog chewed up your pair of most expensive shoes.  Then your dog puked up your pair of most expensive shoes onto your 2nd most expensive pair of shoes.  It seemed like a good idea at the time...   Delaney was a momentary and welcome respite.<br/><br/>Like this show.  It seemed like a good idea at the time.  He thought the whole revealing secrets to the producers thing had been a way to show commitment to the process.  Or maybe he was just lying to himself and hoping that it would not have been as bad a reaction as he had received from Elsa. This could be a problem in the real world.  He worked with some devout guys in the forestry industry.  They were good guys despite whatever Mark thought about organized religion and this would disappoint them.  His dad would high five him...which was a character indictment against him.  His mom...well...he didn't need to worry about his mom.  He knew the situation with the sisters and the mother so she would understand...in fact she wouldn't even need to talk about it.<br/><br/>Not wanting to talk about things was certainly the agenda for the morning when he looked at Elsa.  When she stood in front of the group of guys, not making any eye contact with him at all it was as though she didn't even know him.  Or that she had already decided that she knew him and that was that.<br/><br/>When she approached Logan; he pulled off his ball cap, rotated it and put it on properly, pulling the bill down to conceal his eyes only to go back to standing still with his hands clasped in front of him.<br/><br/>He had been wrong about the women.  They were playing competitively despite Logan's saying it was just for fun.  This...didn't feel fun.  This was a festival of pain.   Conversely...maybe he was wrong another way?  Maybe the women weren't being strategic; clearly Grace wasn't and she was just lucky with the secret but aside from Grace maybe the women were just kissing who they wanted to kiss?  Or maybe it was a combination of everything but in the end...he was wrong.  Spectacularly wrong about all of it.<br/><br/>Watching Delaney move across to the group of men really confirmed all of it for him.  Not that he was expecting a kiss from her, they had talked twice and while it had been nice, great even, he was learning that the women in the villa certainly had their own way of doing things.  There was no denying she was absolute mayhem in a swimsuit however and when she leaned up to give a lingering kiss to some guy he had not met yet, he averted his gaze to the patio to give them the moment.<br/><br/>He wasn't going to quit because...well...Gina would lose her mind and quitting would disappoint his mom.  He could create some chaos at the ceremony where they choose couples though...  Upsetting the apple cart would ensure some if not most of the animosity in the house and guarantee that when it came to the women choosing, he'd be the last man standing.<br/><br/>He lifted his head and looked across the patio to the women as Delaney kissed her selection...his eyes narrowing slightly as he thought.<br/>Seems like he had a plan.  Exhaling slowly as he growled quietly to himself.<br/><br/><em>"I miss my dog..."</em>