cafeteria | lunch time | tuesday | 29 september

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After his success with toast last week, Jonas had spent his free time trying his toaster out with a few other things. He'd found that bread worked well but crackers did not. That had been a gigantic mess and Jonas had felt sheepish enough to not touch the toaster for a few days.

But, he'd gotten over that and tried bread again, this time adding peanut butter once the bread had been toaster and packing it for a lunch. So, that's where he was now, prodding experimentally at the sandwich and wondering if he should eat the apple first. The apple was green, something he hadn't seen before but he'd been assured it was ripe.

Food examination and consumption was a lengthy process for Jonas but he enjoyed it. Food was a small but integral part of his memory that he was building.

[cafeteria's open, yep]

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[glacial_queen]

Karla appreciated the cafeteria; it fed her when no one else was cooking and she didn't have time to run to town to eat. The food wasn't great, but it was still better than anything she could have cooked on her own.

...Except the cookies, of course.

Loading up her tray with more food than one would expect a skinny little thing like her to eat, she glanced around for a place to sit. And spotted Jonas.

"Kiss kiss," she greeted as she approached his table. "Mind if I join you?"

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"Not at all," he said, gesturing toward the other chair with his arm. "Hello, Karla. How are you?"

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"It's not going to bite you." Diana informed the random guy she didn't know as she came into the cafeteria and headed over to study the food for level's of eatability.

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"Better now that I'm not a male," Karla said with a wry grin, this morning's class still on her mind. "Yourself?"

She couldn't help giving his lunch a dubious look as she took the proffered chair. "I'm willing to share," she added. Surely no one could survive on a peanut butter sandwich and an apple for lunch. "If you're still hungry after your sandwich I mean."

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"I made it myself," he said, still proud of that fact even if it was a shoddy looking sandwich. "With a toaster. I haven't tried it yet though because I don't know whether it'll be any good."

Amazingly, it probably wouldn't be terrible but he was still a little nervous about eating something he'd made without any supervision.

"I'm all right," he said, answering her first question. "And thank you for the offer. I've eaten less than this and been fine before. It's not enough?"

Well, no, he'd eaten less and almost died but there were other factors there.

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Jonas looked up and laughed a little, still feeling sheepish. "I didn't think it would. I made it myself. I'm just hesitant to eat it."

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"Is the food that bad, you'd brought your own?" Beka wondered. She'd spotted him with his food and wondered if mayhap she should eat outside of school today. "Hello, Jonas."

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Diana nodded sagely and ignored the falling herbs near her. "That's always a good reason to be hesitant. Wha'd you do to it?"

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"Toasted the bread," he provided, picking it up and, once again, testing the how toasted bread felt different than untoasted. "And there's peanut butter on it. That's all I did. But, it's the first time I've done something like that."

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"Hello, Beka," he said, grinning up at her. "I made it myself. It's the first time I've done that."

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She smiled back before her gaze drifted to the sandwich. "So what did you make?"

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"It's called a peanut butter sandwich," he supplied, picking it up and showing her the peanut butter from the sides, "but I toasted the bread because I was practicing. That melted the peanut butter some. I haven't tried it yet."

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"I've not heard of peanut butter before," she said, eyeing the sandwich curiously. "Is it good?" Twas a good thing Jonothon had explained toast to her.

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"I don't know yet," he laughed, rubbing the back of his neck and blushing. "I'm nervous so I haven't tried it yet. It's the first thing I've made myself and it's making me nervous. Would you like half?"

[not a problem!]

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She chuckled. "Are you offering so you can make sure it won't kill you?" she teased him.

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"No," he said and laughed again, shaking his head. "No, of course not. It's so you can taste peanut butter. I've only had it once and I don't describe things very well until I've experienced them a few times."

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She snickered, it may even have sounded like a giggle, but she refused to acknowledge that. "I know. I'm just teasing you," she assured him and she pulled the chair back to sit down. "I'd love to, if you've got enough. I don't want you to be hungry later."

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"I've got an apple," he said, nodding at it and then handed her half the sandwich carefully. "And I can eat later, too. I've other food. This is just all I was hungry for today. I'm used to living off small meals."

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"Thank you," she said as she accepted the sandwich. The charm she wore against her skin didn't heat up, so at least the sandwich wasn't magicked. Not that she'd been worried.

She tore a corner off the sandwich and couldn't resist sniffing it. "You've been trying the food here?" she asked.

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"That's not that dangerous." Diana decided and came over with a tray of fruit and what she was pretty sure was a salad. "Unless the peanut butter split or turned or something."

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"A little," he admitted, nodding. "I haven't been very adventurous because I don't know what a lot of things are. I just bought something called a toaster the other day. It heats food so I tried heating bread. I tend to eat a lot of fruits and vegetables until I know what things are."

He waved the half of his sandwich, still proud of that accomplishment.

"I tried crackers too." That mess had been...really bad. "That didn't turn out very well."

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"It's just the first time I've ever cooked something myself," he said even if all he'd done was toasted the bread and applied peanut butter. "I know it's not dangerous. I'm just hesitant in case I've done it wrong."

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"I've not heard of crackers either," she mused. "Jonothon did tell me about toast. What'd bad about crackers?"

She finally popped the piece of sandwich in her mouth and her eyes widened as it didn't like she'd expected it to. Not that she knew what she'd been expecting. "Strange."

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"It's sticky," he said, taking some delight at her reaction considering his had been similar. Afterward, he'd spent time washing down the peanut butter since it was so sticky and still making those faces.

"Crackers are small," he explained, trying to show her with his hands. "And crumbly. When I heated them, they all crumbled in the toaster."

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"Tis," she agreed, blinking and she took another small bite hoping the bread would help get it to unstick. "It isn't bad." She was still trying to decide.

"It didn't break the toaster?"