<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, noon-ish<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Poolside in the Villa/Kitchen<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<br/><br/><strong>Coupled with:</strong>No one as yet<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>J.J. , Grace<br/><br/><br/><hr/><br/>His eyebrows lifted in surprise as J.J. quietly announced Grace's approach.  He felt a stab of anxiety at the mention of Grace.  He just...didn't want another scene.  It wasn't so much a matter of who said what or who did what.  He just didn't want something else to feel brutal about.<br/><br/>He could feel the tension wind through his shoulders like a steel cable only to look to where Grace and Delaney had been chatting in the kitchen only to see Grace approaching...and with...cupcakes?<br/><br/>He was just about to take a drink from his beer when he took note of Grace's approach and he just froze...the beer bottle pressed to his lips only to lower it as Grace began to speak.<br/><br/>J.J. handled it all...like a pro.  The guy was a natural at this sort of thing and Mark took queues off of him.  The truth of it was that Grace didn't need to do this.  He suspected he wasn't going to be in the house much longer than a few more days when it came time for the women to pick the couples.  She could have just waited it out to be rid of him and instead...well...she lived up to her namesake.<br/><br/>He nodded his head to J.J. and placed his beer on the patio tiles nearby before reaching out to scoop up a cupcake that Grace had brought.  Standing up and giving Grace a small smile and lifted his cupcake in turn in a toast.  He met Grace's gaze and a contrite smile was seen as he spoke.<br/><br/><em>"I'm sorry too Grace.  When you tried to make amends on the date, I was anything but gracious and it was indeed a shit thing to do to you.  I think it's safe to say you should just ignore everything I have to say...you know...except this.  Don't ignore this.  Thanks for making the effort here. It can't have been easy."</em>