Not So Insane After All

Chapter two (Jack)

After chloe fell asleep the car got quiet. I open my mouth to talk to mark but decide to keep it shut. He is quiet most of the time. There was this time when chloe, lucy, mark, and i were sitting together, all of us besides mark were talking he was quiet. We were all having a debate, I asked him why he was being so quiet today and he said,

"Silence is the best way to tell someone that they are wrong."

We all started to laugh, he looked at us weird,

"What it's true!"

He turned on the music quietly and some songs came on that sounded like something i used to listen to before hell. We sat there i silence besides the slight mumble of singing mark was doing. He sounded pretty good. I guess that's just another thing that he is better than me at. I started to think about my childhood.

Finely after a while he talked to me,
"Would you be willing to do me a favor jack?" he spoke in that deep voice he uses.

"Ya i guess?"

"Hand me that bottle in the back set next to you."

"Ya but what is it? If i may ask." i asked while picking it up and handing to him,
"It's just some stuff to keep me awake. I haven't slept well in a few days so i need it." but as he said that i decided to not give it to him yet.
"Why don't we just rent a motel? We all need some sleep it's been a long day- or days in your case. Plus it would be a lot more comfortable for us" i asked while he slowed down the car.
"Umm ya shuer why not i could use it." he said as he made a turn into a small town of which i didn't catch the name of. We pulled in and saw a somewhat old motle. He drove into the closest parking spot,and got out. I grabbed the the stuff that looked useful and brought it in with mark following not far behind with chloe in his arms. 'She looks so peaceful' i thought to myself but then soon realized i wanted her in my arms. I got all flustered but brushed it off when i got to the counter. There was an older man just standing there with a idiotic grin on his face at the counter.

"Hello young man what can i help you with?" the older man with a slightly squeaky voice and light gray hair that was greased to one side asked me.

"Umm we need a room."
"How many people?" he asked me while he stared at mark and chloe. He was kind of creepy but we need the room. I couldn't remember the last time i had been in a shitty motel. Probably when i was what, eaght?

"Three." i said as i looked at what he was looking at, then i saw mark staring at her with such loving caring eyes. He looked as if he was gonna kiss her. I cleared my thought so that he would come over to pay.

" Mark can you come and pay pleas." he looked up and walked over.

"Uh ya sorry zoned out. How much?" he asked as he reached for his wallet while holding chole with one hand. Me standing there wondering how he was doing that and not almost falling over. He go it out after about 30 seconds of scrambling for it.

"Oh how about 20? The rooms left only have one bed." he said while getting the key. He grabbed the one that said "R 12" but he had about seven other keys on the rack. I just ignored it.

"Um ya that's fine." mark said while pulling out a crisp $20. He had a look on his face that he noticed it too, we just smiled when he turned around.

"Ok well you folks have a nice night!" he said with a wink. Creep. We made are way to the room it was on the first floor. I diced to ask mark about earlier.

"So what was that in the lobby?" i asked in a shy-ish tone

"Umm what do you mean jack?" ugh i hate it when people play dumb.

"Never mind." 'oh well too tired to fight about this. i thought to myself. I grabbed the key out of my pocket and unlocked the door. I went in, the room was kind of nice. But it had a smell that was weird-kind of like the shower room in the asylum-Mark followed in and closed the door behind him, he approached the bed and laid chloe in it.

"So what's the sleeping arrangement?" i asked him. He looked at me strangely like if we were all going to sleep together... oh.

"Well the bed is definitely big enough for all of us it has to be a king."

"Oh. Well i guess that works, i'll sleep on the right side then."

"Ok that's fine." he said as he got into the bed and huddled close to chloe. I rolled my eyes and walked over to turn off the light. Once i did that i climbed into the bed and got close to chloe as well. She moved a little closer to me. I could hear mark growl as she moved away.