Parker couldn't stop the uncontrollable laughter as she looked at her petite roommates red cheeks as she recounted her embarrassment at her best friend's father, Neptune's current acting Sheriff Keith Mars having to make a late night visit to her boyfriend's hotel suite because he had decided to use handcuffs during their sex session but hadn't checked it he had the keys to get them off her again.
"I'm sorry… I shouldn't laugh…" Wallace sniggered as well.
"Thanks for the solidarity" Mac scolded as she swatted his arm.
"What? I'm sorry… its just… isn't that like the first rule?" he commented.
"Absolutely.. you always check for the keys to be in a safe place" Parker nodded in agreement.
"Rules? Is this some section in the student handbook I didn't get? I was soooooo embarrassed!" Mac said, burying her head in her arms.
Not to mention I'm nearly 98.7% sure I'm pregnant…
"This was Veronica's dad though… you know him…" Parker comforted.
"Exactly… the mostly Dadly of all Dad's ever!" Mac exclaimed. "He's like the Super Dad… I'm not even his kids and he's got me seeking his parental approval…" she groaned. Something about he elder Mars made you want to not disappoint him.
"So where is Mr Casanova?" Parker said, changing the subject.
"Business studies class" Mac sighed as she tugged her arms into the large hoody she had stolen from his wardrobe that morning, inhaling the citrusy masculine scent. "We should have just gotten on the boat" she mused.
"No way… I saw you this morning, you would have been green all weekend" Parker disagreed as she pushed her finished lunch plate away from herself.
"That's right… even Logan had trouble with his sea legs on the journey over" Piz added as he joined them at the table.
"Yeah… trouble with his sea legs…" Wallace grinned knowingly and Parker chuckled.
"Yeah, it must have been pretty bad, because even Veronica had a little bit of motion sickness the next day…" Piz continued obliviously.
"Sounds like you all had a good time though" Mac observed.
"A profitable time… I put down a $40 bet and hit a lucky streak, ended up $500 up" Wallace nodded, peeling apart the small orange in his hand.
"Well it was very cool. I got to meet Latoya Alonso… she's putting me in touch with her producer about maybe organizing like a workshop for the AV department here on campus that could lead to extra funding or some internships for the summer" Piz added as he opened his Snapple.
"Do you think you will take up that internship Emerson offered you?" Wallace asked Parker.
"And have to spend three months in the same vicinity of Miller Corban? No thank you… I have organized some tour campaigning with the Lilith House I should be able to do for a few weeks if I'm going back to Denver" Parker answered.
"Wise move" he agreed as he nodded in approval. The thought of the jackass still made the skin on his knuckles twitch.
"Would you be free to come ride with me later?" Mac asked her.
I need to go to the Neptune Free Clinic… see if they can hurry up that blood test…
"Sure… we can stop by the pharmacy while we are out..." Parker suggested, she was running low on her favourite shampoo and the scuba-diving yesterday had left her in desperate need of conditioner.
"Where's Amira?" Piz asked Wallace thoughtfully.
"She didn't have any classes today, so I think she's at her families restaurant" he explained.
"I like this one.." Parker complimented. "You should have seen them yesterday…" she gushed to Mac.
"Alright… alright… she's alright" Wallace smiled embarrassed.
"Just alright? Dude… you've been singing in the shower like a crazy person" Piz informed him as he picked up a fry and dipped it into his ketchup.
"Okay.. fine… I'm fixated… She. Makes. Me. Happy." he deadpanned.
"And what about you and Zoe?" Parker gossiped, turning her attention to Piz.
"Yeah… we didn't see much of you two… how was your little Day Date?" Wallace roasted, turning the tables on his roommate who visibly blushed like a teenage girl and smiled sheepishly.
"I don't think it's going anywhere…" he shrugged. "She's cool… I mean.. she's really nice but…"
"But unless your name is Nick O'Connell and you are carrying a badge and know how to apprehend criminals and terrorists in confined spaces in the stratosphere…. I think you are wasting your time" Veronica interrupted as she joined them at the table as Dick and Logan wandered over to the table next to them to get additional seats.
"Synchronicity… I have to get to practise" Wallace sighed as he glanced over at his best friend.
"Then I'll tell you quick… my dad just arrested Professor Landry" Veronica told him solemnly.
"Your criminology teacher?" Mac asked.
"Yep" she confirmed as Logan slotted into the seat beside her.
"Why?" Parker asked, her blue eyes wide in shock.
"The blood on the clothing found in the incinerator belonged to Dean Odell and a laundry receipt tag found in the pocket of the jeans… belonged to the Professor" she explained as she began to unwrap her burrito, while Dick took the chair that Wallace offered beside Mac.
"I wonder if it has anything to do with Professor Landry banging the Dean's wife?" Dick mused as he took a bite of his burger, suddenly all eyes at the table looked towards the blond surfer.
"What?" Veronica choked. She'd been prying into the Dean's life for the last few weeks. How the hell didn't she know about the affair?
"Dude… how do you know this?" Logan asked him incredulously.
"Bro… How do you think Booth got that an extension on that mid-term? He caught them at it right there going at it on Landry's desk" Dick told him through a mouthful of burger.
Logan cast a quick glance at Veronica and raised his eyebrows.
"I need to call my dad" she nodded.
