Mako's Message: Chapter 5 will be comming soon. This is, well...it is what it is. Let me know if you think it works.
-Meanwhile-
Marcus stood in the elevator, staring at the doors without pushing a button, after being kicked out, of his hotel room for the night by his daughter while her very guilty looking bo- male friend, who she had been crushing on, HARD, for years waited in the hall.
"Yeah. That just happened."
Finally he pushed the button and headed down to Caz's room. A minute or two later he was knocking on his door. Caz opened the door looking more cheerful than the situation called for, but then Marcus realized Caz didn't know about the situation and was probably still buzzed from the drinks they'd had earlier, "Hey, what's going on?" he asked.
Marcus responded by raising up the bag Mindy had thrown at him, "I'll be spending the night here."
"What? Why?"
"Remember what we were talking about at lunch?" Marcus asked, without any trace of humor.
"Yeah, what abou-oh. Oh! Oh... Well, come on in and you can tell me what happened."
Marcus walked in and tossed his bag onto the bed that had Dave's stuff on it, "She came into the room, all dressed up, and threw me out."
"Threw you out?"
"Walked in, said, 'Get out. I need the room.' and shoved me out the door, then threw my bag after me and said to room with you for the night."
"Ah.." Caz said nodding his head, "Yeah, that sounds like something she'd do."
Marcus grunted.
"So, Dave was with her?"
"He was waiting by the elevators."
"Well, we did figure something like this would happen eventually."
"Doesn't mean I'm happy about it."
"Why aren't you happy about?"
Marcus looked up at him sharply, "Why would I be? Are you happy about it?"
"Well, I suppose it'd be better if Mindy were older, and a couple years ago I'd definitely have had a problem with it, but right now I'm okay with it. They're good for each other. Besides, would you really want to see Mindy with some other guy? They've proven that they're loyal to each other if nothing else."
"I don't want to see Mindy with any guy. It's bad enough she's running around and putting her life in danger every night, now she's up there... I don't even want to think about what she's doing."
"So what are you going to do?"
Marcus shook his head and rubbed his hand down his face, "I have no idea. Mindy's been after him for years, she's not going to listen to me if I tell her not to...date him. And I'm not even creative enough to come up with something that Mindy couldn't top to threaten Dave with."
Caz nodded as he considered what his friend said, "So, Alcohol or Comedy Central?"
"...both."