AAOOOSC! #10

Chapter 4: "There Is Dessert, Right?"

Later that night, there is a dinner being held at Antti's house in San Jose. All of the GHP members, Sidney, Jonathan, Nathan, Antti, Patrick, Toews, John, Pekka, and Jonas are gathered around the large dining table, eating a Finnish dinner Antti's wife, Jonna, cooked up; Autumn, John's girlfriend, is also there.

"Mmmm...! Raspberry jam and mashed potatoes taste so good!" Sidney exclaims, scooping up a mixed mountain of mashed potatoes and raspberry jam onto his spoon. He shoves the spoon into his mouth with a huge smile.

"It's why us Finns eat it all the time!" Jonna tells him excitedly, serving jam onto her plate.

"This tastes like my mother's cooking..." Pekka says with wide eyes, filled with nostalgia. "Oh, those good ol' days."

"This reminds me nothing of my mother's cooking!" Jonathan points out, scrutinizing a meatball while cutting it.

Antti eyes Jonas, who is munching on chips warily.

"Jonas—!"

Jonas halts in his chewing and stares at Antti.

Antti has a flat look. "Why are you eating chips? I thought you were on the Flames and the Ducks powers left—including the chip eating!"

Jonas shrugs. "I don't know what went wrong, but I still feel like a Duck, even though I like Canada better!" He continues eating his chips.

"You don't even want the mashed potatoes?" Nathan pushes the bowl of mashed potatoes over to Jonas's empty plate. "They're like what Sid's friend, Geno, says: 'Yum, yum'!"

Jonas dips a chip into the mashed potatoes; he eats it. "Mmm!" He begins dipping the rest of his chips into the mashed potatoes and eating them like that.

"Dude, Tevo man's been hiding this gnarly food from us if he's eats it!" Patrick stuffs meatballs in his mouth. "Finf fez Finnf fan fall," he continues saying with his mouth full.

"I see him eat this stuff all the time." Toews raising up some mashed potatoes with his spoon. "I thought it was the nastiest combination of food, which is why I didn't ask him for any. But now I know—it's amazing!" He eats the mashed potatoes.

Autumn eats a decent spoonful of mashed potatoes and jam. "Hmmm..." She chews while looking up in deep thought. "Saccharine...yet briny... Remarkably pappy consistency." Her eyes light up. "A delight! Right, John?" She turns to her boyfriend with a smile.

John is mindlessly chewing while staring blankly at the clock that is on the wall across from him.
Autumn makes a concerned look, keeping her eyes on him. "Um, John? John, dear?" She waves her hand in front of him.

John immediately lurches upward, blinking his eyes back into reality. He quickly turns to her. "Yes?"

"Um..." Autumn slowly lifts up a new spoonful of mashed potatoes and raspberry jam. "What do you surmise of this enthralling, yet palatable amalgamation of nutriment?"

"Oh! It's superb." John shrugs and turns back to his plate.

Autumn shoots him a suspicious look. "Superb? Just superb?"

John blocks Autumn's talking as he lifts his eyes back to the clock he was staring at. The hour hand is nearing the seven; the minute hand is nearing the twelve. After doing quick time zone converting, John abruptly straightens up.

"Oh, look at the hour!" he blurts out; everyone halts in their eating and stares at him. "I must be on my way!"

"But we hadn't even had dessert yet!" Sidney exclaims. He then turns to Jonna and whispers: "There is dessert, right?"