When Mark woke, he was still on his bedroom floor. He could hear Maureen screachong at JoAnne from the living room, he ran through to make sure no-one was dead and to shout at Magenta.
"I CAN'T BELEIVE YOU," shouted Maureen, "OF ALL PEOPLE, I MEAN, HOW DO YOU EVEN KNOW HER?"
JoAnne merely stared at her shoe, she couldn't look at her, Magenta on the other hand was nowhere to be seen, Mark, although fuming, was a little worried, Maureen hadn't killed her, had she?
"Maureen?"
"...And even I wouldn't cheat with my friends girlfriend.."
"Maureen,"
"..utterly proposterious.."
"Maureen," said Mark a little louder than before.
"I can't beleive you JoAnne, I thought you loved me, you complete slut-"
"MAUREEN,"
"WHAT?"
"Where's Magenta?" said Mark calmly despite his little outburst.
"Oh," said Maureen with a disgusted look at the name, "You're little whore of a girlfriend left the moment you passed out, she ran out the door, vicously nasty bitch that she is,"
Mark ran down the stairs and into the lot before he knew where he was going, then he got an idea. Mark ran into the girls toilets at the central park, there was a natural screams,
"Oh shut up," said Mark, and they ran out.
"Magenta, are you in here?" he asked apparently no-one, "Magenta?"
The was a sniveling from under the sink, Mark bent down, Magenta was under there crying her eyes out,
"Magenta-"
She squealed and pulled her arms over her face,
"P-p-please don't hit me Mark, p-please, I d-d-didn't m-m-ean it," she stuttered.
Mark sighed,
"I'm not going to hit you, why would I do that?"
Magenta was now breathing heavily more hyperventalating if anything,
"I-I-I j-j-ust my last b-boyf-friend-d he, he-"
She started breathing
heavily again, Mark thought she was going to faint, she'd even turned
white,
"Okay, calm down Magenta," he said.
She tried but started hiccoughing and shaking. Mark put his arm around her and drew her into a hug to calm her down, even though she didn't deserve it,
"It's okay Magenta, calm down," the shaking stopped and she pulled away from him.
"I-I'm s-sor-rr-ry I-I-I d-d-ddidn't m-m-mean, I- she,"
"Magenta, try and stay calm," said Mark worried she was going to have a panic attack.
She started crying again,
"Oh M-Mark I d-don't d-deserve you, you're k-kind and d-d-d-descent, I'm just a filthy whore," and she fell to the floor in a heap,
"NO," said Mark, "get up, you'r not a whore, but what possesed you to do it?"
"I don't know," she said looking up at Mark, "it was JoAnne, she s-s-said she wanted to get back at M-Maureen, I didn't understand untill she started-hic- trying to undress me, I-I-I tried to pull back but she seemed so- I dunno," she fell back to the floor in another heap of tears.
Mark didn't know what to think, JoAnne didn't seem like that kind of person, but Magenta wouldn't look Mark in the eyes and lie, would she?
Mark sighed and said,
"Magenta, I'm really sorry about this, but I think we should stop seeing each other,"
Magenta did have a panic attack this time, Mark didn't see it coming,
"Oh, okay," said Magenta growing pale, "Ok, well I'll see you around," she stood up and staggered to the door of the bathroom, shakily incredibly, and breathing so hard it was amazing she could walk, she reached the door and completely stopped breathing, she fell to the floor,
"Oh my God," said Mark running over to her, "Magenta, Magenta, are you okay?" he gently slapped her cheek, she was unconscious. "Oh God," he cried, "Magenta, oh please wake up, please," he became very anxious, what to do?
He lifted her body and carried her out of the bathroom, he began looking for a phone, but there was none, the safest bet was to get her back to his house. He ran there as fast as his legs could carry him.
He ran up into his appartment, where Maureen was STILL giving JoAnne a lecture,
"..And I don't care if- MARK, WHy DID YOU BRING HER BACK!"
Mark ignored her, he grabbed the phone,
"Hello? Is that that St. John's hospital? yes, could you send an ambulance? OH thank you, God bless," he hung up,
"Mark? What's wrong," asked JoAnne, finally speaking.
Mark was shaking himself now,
"It's Magenta, she had a panic attack,"
"You didn't hit her did you?"
"No,"
Fifteen minutes later the ambulance came Mark was in a state,
"Where the hell, have you been-"
"Mark, calm down," said JoAnne grabbing him,
"-did you go the long way,"
"Calm down,"
The driver who had been
ignoring Mark turned round and said,
"Are you family?"
"No- but I'm her boyfriend,"
"Are you engaged?"
"N- Yes, yes we are,"
"No your-" Maureen started but JoAnne put a hand over her mouth,.
"Go on, climb in then," said the driver and they rushed into the vehicle.
Once at the hospital, although Mark claimed to be her fiance' he had to wait outside for a while, he paced the waiting room floor, completely ignoring the other guests and the nurse when she came to tell him to sit down because he was stressing the others.
Once he was let inside he rushed into the ward, Magenta was sitting up waiting for him.
"Magenta," he said rushing over,
"Mark," she said quietly, "that was stupid, you shouldn't have phoned for an ambulance, I'd have been fine, and what about the fee?"
"I thought I'd worry about that later,"
The nurse came in,
"Sorry but vistor times are over,"
Mark merely exploded,
"ARE YOU FUCKING JOKING, I JUST GOT IN," the nurse rolled her eyes.
"I'm sorry, but you can come back tomorrow,"
"OH FOR GOD SAKE," Mark shouted and stormed out knocking over everything in his path.
"Sorry about that," said Magenta as the nurse cleared up the mess he'd made, "he can be very emotional at times,"
Meanwhile at the police station Mimi and Roger were being realeased,
Mimi looked at the guard confused,
"I thought we weren't getting out till tomorrow,"
"I lied," said the guard, "and anyway, I hate Benny, he's evicted me from my house five times,"
"Thanks," said Mimi and they both walked out of the station.
"Let's go and find out what kept Mark," said Roger, "there must be something very wrong,"
"Yeah," and they walked home.
Wer'e finding out a bad side of JoAnne now, and beware thing s are gonna get bad!