She responded, "I don't want to be wasteful, but I do like that option the most. It is easier than standing here and debating on what flavors to try. Oh and maybe I should just get some Coconut juice to drink. I have to sprinkle in something healthy with the unhealthy."
Chester looked for the name of the pastry and did not see one. As the last customer walked away, it revealed a sign he was blocking. It said Elephant Ears. That would make sense, since the dough was big and resembled and Elephant's ear. Chester asked for all the flavors of the elephant ears and two Coconut juice. There was ten in all. Each Elephant Ear was wrapped in Parchment paper and put into an aluminum bag to keep warm.
The coconut juice came in a boxed 16oz container. They headed back to their pod. Once inside, Ino could not hold back anymore. She came after Chester and the bags of pastries. Chester gave her some bags and went to sit in the captain's chairs looking out at the stars. He pulled out an Elephant Ear and tried a piece. He was not a man that liked sweets, but this was pretty good.
He did not know what flavor he was eating. He suspected that it had to be one of the glazes. That meant there were 3 options, the Strawberry, Blueberry, or Pomegranate. The color looked more blue, than red. He figured that disqualified the strawberry. It was down to Blueberry and Pomegranate. He rarely ate either fruits. Ino went over and sat in his lap and grabbed a piece of the elephant ear.
"Ino which flavor are you eating?" Chester said curiously to see if it would eliminate one of the two options he based his guess on.
"MmMm! Blueberry!" Ino exclaimed.
Chester laughed. That mystery is solved. Chester enjoyed watching Ino eat. He found it cute and amusing.
"Slow down Ino, you don't want to get heart burn or a stomachache," Chester said.
Ino replies with a mouth full, "I haven't gotten either yet. I can't control the gluttony I have. It is all just so delicious."
After taking a piece of each Elephant Ear, and finishing four big pieces. Ino felt like she was in a food coma.
"If I were to die right now, I would die happy. I don't regret eating all those elephant ears," she said.
Chester demanded, "Ino, it is not good to talk like that, even if it is just an expression. It's not good to talk negative or about death."
"Sorry, I did not mean any harm by saying that." Ino responded.
"It's okay. I know you didn't. I just wanted to express that I don't like it and for you to stop. It would kill me if anything were to happen to you and I don't want you jinxing it," Chester explained.
Ino was picking up the trash from their elephant ear snacks. She went looking around the room for a broom and dustpan.
"If I were a broom, where would I be?" She asked herself.
She scanned around the room and found both laid up on the side, laying against the cabinet. She began sweeping near Chester and the captain's chairs. The crumbs were everywhere. Then Chester and Ino started hearing knocking towards the back of the pod.
Knock, Knock!
Knock, Knock!
Knock, Knock!
Chester and Ino, both looked at each other. Ino eyed Chester. Chester eyed Ino. They stared towards the door.
"Should we get that?" Ino asked continuing to stare towards the door.
Chester furrowed his eyebrows, "Who would be knocking right now?"
"I don't know? It is kind of late." Ino said, also raising her eyebrows.
"Can you go grab the dustpan for me, please. It's on the side of the cabinet." Ino whispered.
"You know what, let's just let them keep knocking. Do not go open the door. Whatever they have to say to us or let us know can wait."
"Are you sure?"
"Unless you really want to know who it is, I say let's just ignore it. The Dustpan is next to the cabinet, right?"
Ino nodded.
"Okay, I got you." Chester said, in soft voice walking towards the back of the pod.
Knock, Knock!
Knock, Knock!
Knock, Knock!
Ino tried walking closer to Chester. She was closing in the gap between them to make it easier for Chester to hear, while she spoke in a low voice.
She asked, worriedly, "What if someone needs help or what if it's an emergency?"
"If they needed help, I doubt we could be of more assistance than the floor attendant. If it was warning of an emergency, both our phones would have went off. Think of it this way, if we were back home, we would not open the door for anyone this late. Especially a stranger. Let's just wait till morning to figure it all out." Chester expressed.
Ino protested, "Our phones don't have service. It would not have went off because we did not connect to WiFi. That reminds me, we haven't connected to WiFi since we got here. I saw a sign that said our passwords, were are first name and then the number of our seats."
"But we share and have a bigger pod. It was probably meant for people with individual pods. We can try it though. No harm in that. So, the Wifi passwords for us should be Ino9, and Chester10?" Chester says, recalling their seats from memory.
Ino quickly took out her phone. She entered the WiFi password. Her phone connected.
She checked her missed calls log. It seemed as if no one had called or tried to contact her. She forgot that she had to connect to WiFi prior to boarding.
Regular cellphone tower signals could not be picked up, from space. There were signal orbs that floated around the Earth's atmosphere that one could use for signal in space, but the range was 50 million miles out.
Earth is 128.81 million miles away from Mars and approximately 64 million miles from Zoltan. It was virtually useless for the people on board to pay for it. Unless they wanted to ensure they had service for the first 50 million miles, there wasn't a need because of the free WiFi on board.
Chester had the same problem. He didn't have service and wasn't able to check to see who had attempted calling or not.
"It seems like they left. Let's get ready for bed. If it's important to you we can figure out who it was tomorrow. We can do whatever, whenever." Chester suggested.
Ino nodded in agreement, "Sounds good."
Chester went the the bathroom to freshen up, change, and get ready for bed. Ino changed into her pajamas and laid on the bed. She was scrolling through her social media news feed. She wanted to call her parents not knowing what time it was back on Earth. She decided to VisualGenerate call her Mom.
Beeep... Beeep... Beeep
"Hello?" Ino's mom answered.
"Hello!" Ino exclaimed.
"How are you, Ino?"
"Great Mom! We forgot to connect to WiFi. I was going to call you as soon as I could, but it totally slipped my mind.