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Food Field Trips, Friday 9/20 2nd Period

Another Friday and another trip to Portalocity for the Food Field Trips class.

“Candy today,” Stark said. “Jelly beans, specifically. I know they get eaten more around Easter but they’re good any time.”

There was probably a student enthusiastically agreeing with him right this moment.

“We’ll be going to the Jelly Belly factory in Fairfield, CA. There’s a factory tour and ‘museum experience’ and a train to ride and of course plenty of candy to eat. If everyone’s here, and ready, let’s go, shall we?”

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There were no foods, not even cupcakes, that Stark preferred to talking to Summer.

"Do I get more than one guess?" he asked. "And what happens if I don't guess correctly? Or do I just have to guess and not get it right at all?"

Summer shook her head. "Only one guess," she informed him staunchly. "Nothing happens if you don't guess, except you don't get the prize or the jelly bean. The jelly bean is not the prize. I may accept one question for a hint, but only if I feel it's a good question and the answer doesn't give too much away."

"I'd hate to lose out on a prize from you," Stark said.

Oh look, now he was going to overthink this. "I'd guess strawberry, but I think that is too obvious." Or maybe it was meant to be obvious. He didn't know!

"It probably isn't something gross after all of the grossness earlier but I suppose it could be ham since there was ham in more than one thing for your class but I hope they don't make ham flavor ones." But now he was worried. "I'm sure it isn't fly ice cream flavored but it could be strawberry ice cream but oh...maybe it's meant to taste like a pie. Or maybe like a drink?"

He frowned. He could go on like this for ages.

"Is it flavored like something you or I make?"

And Summer looked absolutely delighted as she watched with shining eyes and her hand still held out with the single jelly bean nestled on its open palm as Stark went and made this way more complicated and difficult for himself than it ever needed to be.

Maybe she was feeling generous. Maybe she felt he was earning it with all those logical knots he was tying for himself. Maybe she just liked him. But she decided she was going to answer that question.

"No."

Okay, maybe she just felt that the answer to the question was only going to make it even harder.

Mwa ha ha.

Maybe it was strawberry then! But maybe it wasn't. Maybe it was flavored like something that wasn't pink at all. Or something horrible that was pink. Like that medicine for digestive troubles, for example.

But maybe it was something nice that was pink that they didn't make. Pink lemonade, maybe.

"I want to say strawberry," Stark said after far too long. "But I'm not sure. Because it could be something else entirely it could be...bubblegum?"

He wasn't sure where the thought had come from but now it was out there.

And then Summer grinned, a proud sort of grin, and she moved the jelly bean in her hand to her fingers so that, when she put it to Stark's lips so that he could eat it and taste not only her kiss but the validation that he'd guessed exactly right with bubble gum, yes.

Stark managed a very soft press of his lips to her fingertips as he accepted the candy but once her lips were there instead he put much more into that kiss.

"That was a very good prize."

That deserved another, softer kiss.

"I'm very glad I got it right."

"I knew you'd like it," Summer said, grinning triumphantly, and then she had to laugh. "I'm honestly pretty impressed you managed to get it, too! I was going to really throw you through a loop and do one of the strawberry milk tea boba ones, but I decided to be nice, especially after my class."

Also, it was hard to find an isolated picture of that one by itself for reference!

"That would have been cheating!"

It would have been no such thing. He knew it.

"But I never would have guessed that. Not even if I'd thought all day. I don't even know why I thought of bubblegum it just... seemed like it might be right? Because it was a little odd and not really food but pink..."

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