Chapter 24: Twenty Four

Chapter Twenty Four

Jennifer immediately turned at the sight she had just stumbled on.

"Do you know her?" Jennifer heard the lady who was naked from the waist down, ask.

"Just get dressed."

Jennifer could hear them clothe themselves properly in a hurry.

"Go, now." She heard Mark say to the girl, who Jennifer was sure ,gave her a killer look before strutting out of the restroom like she just did not have a quickie or whatever it was.

"Jennifer..." She could hear the annoyance in his voice.

"Hi?" Jennifer said immediately feeling timid. She watched as he took a deep breath and looked at her the atmosphere bearing this pregnant silence. He was probably wondering what to do to her.

"What are you doing here?"

Jennifer rolled her eyeballs, shrugged before answering.

"I dunno, I came to eat burger."

"I am not joking here!" He yelled, causing Jennifer to yelp.

"I... uh... you... see..." Jennifer stuttered , words refusing to come and she did not like the situation at all.

Mark crossed his arms over his chest and walked in a slow, intimidating way, towards her.

"I made it perfectly clear. My rules were certainly not in alien language. Now, answer me, what are you doing here?"

Jennifer swallowed the saliva stuck in her throat.

"Huh... I was bored and decided to follow you. Remember I told you in the afternoon, how I was not convenient with sitting all day. So..."

"You decided to sneak out." He completed for her.

"Actually, I followed you."

Mark shut his eyes, walked few steps back and rubbed his hands over his temple, obviously trying to keep his temper from rising.

"What if something happened to you? Huh? Answer me." He asked his eyes still  shut.

Jennifer put her hands into her pockets and swayed from left to right with pouted lips.

"Something almost happened."

Mark opened his eyes, its blue pupils staring at her in no time. Jennifer gave him a sheepish grin, getting a head shake from him.

"Was it Marco?"

"I believe that is his name."

Jennifer watched Mark take another deep breath and also noticed how his chest rose and fell in a sort of sexy way. She immediately cautioned herself.

"See..." Mark was interrupted by some one staggering through the door.

"Well, well. What do we have here? Sweet piece and her boyfriend." Marco entered. This time his chest was bare of gold chains, he looked almost normal but that dash of being almost normal was killed by his drunkenness.

"Marco, we mean no harm," Mark said, stylishly walking to Jennifer's front.

"Of course... hiccup ... you mean no harm. But ... hiccup ... I mean you many harms. Specially this babe, "

He pointed to Jennifer, his balance failing already, as he kept  rotating, his eyes in no particular direction, it looked like he was having a seizure at some point.

"Specially you. I wanted you and still want you. Come to papa, sweet piece." Marco said, giving Jennifer another crooked smile.

Jennifer reached for the hem of Mark's shirt, clutching it as tight as she could.

"You can't run forever." Marco moved closer to both of them, his body sending off offensive odour.

Mark and Jennifer slowly maneuvered their way to the door, making sure to keep a distance from him.

As soon as they got to the door, Mark yanked it open and the both of them ran out, Mark making sure to lock Marco in the room.

Jennifer wondered why the key was outside not inside, but that was the least of her issues.

"Hey! Let me out now! I will kill you!" Marco called after them, furiously hitting the door.

Mark led Jennifer through a corridor that ran beside the restroom, both of them panting. As they reached a door, Jennifer halted and dropped his shirt. She had actually forgotten she wa clutching it and she was surprised Mark did not shout at her while they were running .

"Why did you stop?"

"Who is chasing you?"

Mark looked back and saw indeed no one was behind them. He walked to the railing just to the right of the door that was facing a beautiful small garden which surprised Jennifer because she would have never thought something like that would be there.

"I can't believe you sneaked out."

Jennifer sighed.

'Here we go again'. She thought.

She walked to the cream coloured  wall and rested on it.

"Well I told you I was bored, you ignored me. And despite those  stupid rules you set for me. I just had to leave that spot you know, life was becoming pretty boring."

"You should have just told me that you wanted to follow me."

Jennifer blinked, she blinked furiously, for a second she did not know whether to cry or laugh.

"I literally begged you to let me follow you. You went all, I would rather a chicken follow me. See,"

She took her back off the wall.

"The important thing here was that I had fun and finally got to see outside."

"Well, Miss Fun, Marco is on our tails now, and you know what that means,"

He walked towards her and did not stop until he was a inch away from her

"What that means is death is not far from us. Marco never spares anyone, trust me."

He stared into her eyes, her eyes doing the same.

Jennifer felt it again, that urge and definitely not the urine urge. His closeness was doing something crazy to her body. She was suddenly hot despite the breeze blowing towards them and even though she knew she was supposed to take her eyes off his, she just couldn't. She was drowning in his blue eyes, it was wrong but she was loving it.

"You have beautiful eyes."

Jennifer said out of nowhere and immediately placed her palm over her mouth when she realised what she had just said.

Mark took few steps back, nothing written on his face.

"When I say you act like someone with no mother, know that I am not joking at that moment. Didn't your mom teach you manners? Huh? D..."

Jennifer couldn't take it anymore.

"Shut up! Just shut up! I never had a mother. How about that? Talking to me about manners, do you have any? You open your mouth anyhow, not caring how it hurts anyone. You know what, you are such a beautiful fucked up man. You are fucked up! Very fucked up! Oh fuck!" Jennifer breathed out loudly when she finally said everything.

Mark stared at her. Again, he had guilt  written on his face, well at least she got an emotion out of him.

Jennifer faced the wall, not believing she had just shouted over her lungs, that too at Mark.

'I heard her shout, I am sure she is the one.'  They heard the voice of probably one of Marco's men.

And she made their present danger find them.

"See, what you've caused?"