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“This week we’re trying something different,” Stark said once everyone had arrived. “To show you something you may have noticed already. About the food here. Something good.”

"And if you haven't noticed it yet?" Summer noted. "Be ready to have your minds freakin' blown!

"....figuratively!" she added hastily, because she remembered what class this was and how that could legitimately be interpreted. "Not literally! No actual exploding minds today, please."

“Nothing is going to be blown,” Stark confirmed.

And now Summer needed to take a moment, because phrasing, and instead very dedicatedly focused back on the task at hand, which involved gesturing toward the desk at the front of the classroom, which was veritably littered with pizza boxes and other various to-go containers, many with the logos of several of the local restaurants around the island.

"Today," she said, "we're talking about a particular excellent Fandom phenomenon that occurs when you order take-out from most of the restaurants around here. Pizza, Chinese, tacos, sushi, sometimes even the burger place, will almost always give you way more food than you ordered. Just look at this spread. I literally only ordered two of everything for class today, and just look at what all showed up."

“I’ve never quite understood why it happens,” Stark said. Or how the restaurants managed to turn a profit. “But it’s very helpful in the dorms. Everyone always seems to be hungry.”

"So not only are you well fed," Summer concluded, "but it may also be a good lesson on how, while it may not make a lot of sense, it's one of those things that are well worth just enjoying and not thinking about too much. So let's dig in."

“Before it gets cold,” Stark added.

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Oh, yeah, that buffalo sauce really made it traditional.

"It's basically just a Vietnamese sandwich," Summer explained, "but you sound much cooler when you say it."

Maybe it did in Buffalo?

"It does sound fancier than sandwich. Those over there?" he asked, pointing. "I thought I might have some noodles." Which also went great with waffles, hush.

"What else have you tried?"

Look, he could just sort of make eye contact but not really while focusing on all the food. That was fine!

"Nothing too gross?"

Only partial eye contact, but blatantly dropping the g-word in there, huh, Stark? Summer quirked an eyebrow before declaring, "No. What am I, some kind of gross person?"

And then moving swiftly on.

"It's been mostly pizza and pad thai and a side of regret," she said. "I feel like I would have gotten wasted last night, all of this would hit so good as hangover food. Like. Possibly next level."

Stark was sometimes a little unpredictable!

"You're not a gross person," he said a little too seriously and a little too quickly.

Sometimes you just made gross choices, Summer!

"Maybe you try ordering ahead next time you have a sangria night." Or a raslak night with a neighbor you have a totally normal friendship with. "Or for after your party?"

Oh, no, Stark. Little Simmer had it right, she was very gross, quite often, but Grown Ass Adult Summer didn't see the point in quibbling over the details on that at this particular moment.

"There's definitely always pizza on sangria night," Summer confirmed with a nod, "and post-rager gets all the carbs: bagels, muffins, rolls. And a shit ton of coffee."

But was Summer inherently gross or was she just prone to doing gross things?

"Bagels are always a good thing in the morning. And muffins." Even if really muffins were just inferior cupcakes.

"And pizza is good anytime. I don't remember if we had pizza when we had sangria." They still needed to have sangria cupcakes someday.

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Debatable. Some might say it was a genetic disposition.

"We had to have had pizza," Summer insisted, though she gave a doubtful blink. "I always have pizza. But I honestly don't remember. That's fine, too. Not remembering it just means it was successful."

"I think the raslak night was better." It was stronger at least. And he'd been starting from a better place.

"But they both helped. If we do it again we can make sure there's pizza?"

They could also just have pizza. Or alcohol. Or something else. But suggesting that seemed maybe dangerous.

At this particular moment, all of those sounded like terrible ideas.

"I should try making sangria out of raslak some day."

Speaking of terrible ideas...

Unwise ideas, at least.

"Do you think that would work? Could I try it if you do?"

The bad ideas just kept coming, didn't they?

"You would have to be the one to try it if I did," Summer pointed out. "You're really the only one who knows the stuff well enough to give me a good critique on it."

"I think you had plenty that night," Stark said with a faint smile. "Or I could have Chiana come. But I'd be happy to try it."

His smile got a little wider but he ducked his head before adding "to make sure it isn't gross."

Summer was just going to stare at Stark after that.

Good god, Little Summer, what monster had you released unto the world?

But, even though she suddenly found herself struck with a new wave of a certain impending dread and doom, she still couldn't help responding anyway except defensive.

"It's not gonna be gross," she said. "It's booze and fruit, what could possibly go wrong?"

....she should really know better,about famous last words...

Stark would circle back around to being embarrassed soon enough. That was how this went.

"Summer, I've had a lot of your recipes," he reminded her. "Who knows what you might do?"

Although it might just be dangerous to consume.

There was another, very different pause.

"....yeah, that's fair," Summer agreed, reluctantly.

She might have added that she also never made him consume any of those recipes unless it was for a class, but thought better about it, now that there was a potential gross fixation to deconstruct.

She never actually forced him into consuming any of it!

"I'm sure it will be fine." Not at all gross but very probably dangerous.

"I would like to try it, if you make it."

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