10:51 am
"What the hell happened?" Jason asked Carmen when he and Cheryl pulled up behind the red SUV just in time to see a furious Mark stalk up the pier.
"Scott and Lorna is what happened. You know, we all misjudged her," Carmen told Cheryl. "She looked like this quiet little English mouse and BAM! She steals our car keys and now this…"
"Now what?"
"You wanna know what happened? She jumped out of their car, paid for their ferry ride while he parked the car and then… damn it, that girl needs to have her head checked," Mark muttered, running his fingers through his short hair.
"What did she do?" Cheryl asked.
"She jumped is what she did. It was stupid and she could have fallen in."
"What do you mean she jumped?"
"The boat must have been three or four feet away from the pier and she just fucking jumped… like a damn ballet dancer or some shit like that. I'm telling you, if Scott hadn't been there to catch her, we'd be fishing her ass out right now."
"Damn… kind of desperate isn't it?"
"Yeah, I guess so but three million dollars will make people do crazy shit, you know?"
Carmen looked at Mark and stalked off toward the end of the SUV. Cheryl frowned before following her, knowing both Jason and Mark would barely notice they were gone.
"What's wrong?" she asked the writer, sitting in front of her on her blue SUV's bumper.
"I hate that man… hate him, hate him, hate him!"
"I take it things aren't going very well?"
"I don't know why the hell they let him enter this game. I swear to God, he shouldn't be here!"
"Why not?"
"She wasn't running that fast down that pier," Carmen said. "Lorna I mean. I might have been able to catch her. No doubt in my mind that Jeff or Jason would have been able to catch her. Shane too…"
"But Mark?"
"He's too fuckin' old! He thinks he's hot shit but he's not!"
"Carmen, calm down, getting mad won't solve anything!"
"Like before, at the sex shop thing…"
"Yeah?"
"He just stopped the car and gave me a little nod, you know? He didn't even ask me anything, just gave me a little nod, like go in and get it woman. Didn't even ask me or anything…"
"Did you mind going in and getting it?"
"No… but he just assumed I would… just because I got boobs…"
"Did you tell him how you felt?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"Don't get me wrong. I don't have a problem telling people off but that man… and I don't have the time to get into fights here you know?"
"Carmen," Mark shouted, "let's get a move on… the next ferry's about to dock."
With a little wave, Cheryl watched Carmen get into the red SUV while Jason joined her in the blue one.
"Everything all right?" he asked.
"Better than all right," Cheryl smiled. "Looks like Carmen might kill Mark before the day is over."
Jason smiled and high fived his partner before getting into the SUV.