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.o0 SuNdAy, ThE HoTeL RoOm 0o.
"So it'll most likely be something gross?" Luke asked from the bathroom.
"Yep, although yesterdays was gross also"
"Just the pig's blood part"
"In my hair!" Lorelai shrieked. "Which took forever to get out" and now she whined. Luke just smiled at her. "Don't say it" Lorelai waved a finger at him.
"It's all your fault" Luke said with a smirk.
"I told you not to say it" she pouted.
"You're the one who singed us up for it"
"I know I know. Now let's go before they leave us and we loose by default"
"Can they do that?" Luke frowned.
"Don't know" she shrugged. "But I don't want to find out" she walked to the door.
.o0 SuNdAy AfTeRnOoN, LoCaTiOn 0o.
The three couple did the whole walk in thingy, they felt more at ease now since they had already done this once. Soon they found themselves inside a big abandoned warehouse, and in the middle of it was a pool table with a table cloth covering the middle part of it, Joe Rogan stood by its side.
"Welcome, I hope your all rested and hungry" Joe said with a smirk and Lorelai groaned.
"Of course I'm hungry, that's why we came for!" Carmen said all eagerly, Lorelai rolled her eyes.
"Ok then, let's see what the stunt is" Joe pulled the cloth to reveal what it was covering. "You'll be playing pool…. The FearFactor way" he added and Lorelai shuddered a little when she was four plates, Rebecca did a little shriek when she saw the plates. "One of you will be playing pool while the other waits patiently by the side. The person playing pool has five tries to get those four balls in; each ball is marked with either: live ants, fermented squid guts, putrid duck eggs, and a habanero pepper. After the five tries, whichever ball is left on the table is what your partner will have to eat. Tony and Carmen, you're our lucky number ones"
"I'll be the one playing pool" Carmen said. "There is no way I'll be eating any of those things" she made 'yuck' face.
"Are you ok with this?" Joe asked Tony.
"It's alright…" he shrugged. "How bad can it be?"
"Well, you might get your answer soon" Joe said with a smirk and left them to do the stunt.
Carmen was able to get ride of the squid and the ants, which let Tony with the pepper and the egg. First he shoved in the egg thinking he'd get that done and over with since the pepper was a normal food it might wash down the egg taste; he never thought that eating the hottest pepper known to mankind would numb his mouth and prevent the egg from tasting like anything.
"Come on! Don't be a wimp!" Carmen yelled at him when she heard a gagging sound. "It's just an egg! Are you gonna let an egg beat you!" she kept 'encouraging' him. He was sweating by the time he swallowed the pepper, and his hands were shaking. Luke had his arm draped over Lorelai's shoulder and she was snug close to him. "Cry baby" Carmen mumbled.
"After all that motivation…" Joe teased. "…you two are in the finals"
"Yeah!" Carmen exclaimed.
"Adam and Rebecca, you're up next" Joe said and they went over to him. "Who is doing what here?"
"I'm playing" Adam said.
"I'm not good with balls" Rebecca admitted.
"Well, I'm very sorry for you" Joe said to Adam with a serious face.
"Huh?" Adam didn't understand, a few feet away Lorelai was giggling.
"She understood" Joe pointed at Lorelai; she hid her face on the side of Luke. "I assume you have no trouble with them?" Joe asked Lorelai and she hid further into Luke who was blushing. "Ok, I'll take that as a 'yes'. Let's get this going, shall we?"
While Adam played Lorelai and Luke were silently talking.
"Did you play?" Lorelai asked pointing to the table.
"When I was younger I played with my Dad"
"Were you any good?"
"My Dad kicked my ass all the time, but that was because he was ridiculously good"
"Do you remember how to play?"
"Yeah, it's not so hard. Why, you wanted to play?"
"No, I suck at sports remember? I was just making sure I wouldn't have to eat too many stuff" Lorelai said taking a deep breath and turning to look at Adam's game. "Poor Rebecca" Adam only had one more try and he still hadn't gotten rid of any of the balls.
"Don't worry about what you'll eat" Luke whispered while they prepared all four plates for Rebecca. "You eat crappier stuff everyday" Lorelai smacked him.
"Not funny" Lorelai said before they turned to see Rebecca eat.
Rebecca started with the ants, which took forever to swallow. Then she continued with the squid, which kept oozing out of her mouth every time she gagged. When she took a bite of the egg, that's when it was over; everything came out, projectile style.
"I'm sorry but you're disqualified" Joe said with a gross expression, after all Rebecca hadn't used the puke bucket. "Luke? Lorelai? You two are up next" they walked over to Joe. "You two kicked ass on the last stunt, you think you'll do it again?"
"I hope so; I don't want to eat any of that" Lorelai made a weird face.
"Oh, so you'll be playing?" Joe asked Luke. "Well good luck, hopefully he'll come through again" Joe said and Luke walked over to the pool table. "I thought you didn't have any trouble with balls?" he asked Lorelai and she only looked down at her feet.
When Luke made the first hit, he was lucky enough to get one ball in, the ant ball.
"Yes! No live food" Lorelai exclaimed. "Keep it up, Luke!" Luke lifted his gaze at her and smirked. He aimed for the squid and got rid of it. Next he had to make a choice because he knew what a habanero was and he was sure Lorelai couldn't handle it, but the egg was just so gross. Still Luke picked the habanero and got rid of it. "Luke! That was the only normal thing there!"
"I know what I'm doing" he called back, lucky for them the fact that they got rid of the ants in the first shot meant that now Luke had two tries at getting rid of the egg.
"Luke!" she whined when the egg ball hit the edge of the pocket and rolled in another direction. It took all Luke had to focus on the ball and ignore Lorelai's whining and Carmen's bitching. He got rid of the egg ball also. "Yay!" Lorelai ran up to Luke and hugged him. "Thank you, thank you, thank you"
"Wow that was impressive" Joe said when Luke and Lorelai were closer to him; Luke looked down a little embarrassed. "How come you did them in that order?"
"The ants were just pure luck, and I got rid of the squid because it's slimy and Lorelai doesn't do slimy foods. The habanero, well… not even her stomach could take an habanero"
"It's just a pepper, Luke" Lorelai said.
"It's the hottest pepper known to mankind, Lorelai" Luke told her and Lorelai's eyes got wide.
"Oh" Lorelai said and Joe had a weird face.
"We'll give one thousand dollars if either of you eats a pepper" Joe offered.
"Think we'll pass" Luke said.
"Five thousand" Joe offered and Lorelai jumped a little.
"I'll do it" Lorelai said.
"What? No" Luke said.
"Luke, come on, that's a big shopping spree" Lorelai said. "And it's just one little pepper" Lorelai indicated with her thumb and index finger.
"You've never had one before, have you?" Luke frowned at her and Lorelai shook her head; Luke took a deep breath and let it out slowly. "Hand me the pepper" Luke extended his hand at Joe, all the while looking at Lorelai who had a big a smile.
"Now that's committing" Joe said handing him the pepper. Luke eyed the pepper resting in his hand.
"Luke?" Lorelai asked tentatively.
"Just…" Luke started but stopped. He popped the pepper in his mouth and turned his face to the sky. Lorelai saw how the veins in his neck started to pop out, and his eyes suddenly opened wide.
"Luke?" she asked, now happy that he didn't let her do it. He was making some weird strangled sounds.
"Done" Luke said and showed Joe he had nothing left.
"Wow" Joe said.
"Honey, are you ok?" Lorelai asked and Luke only nodded.
"Let's go, I'll see you tomorrow for the final stunt" Joe said and both couples left, once they were outside the warehouse Luke leaned against a wall.
"Luke, are sure you're ok?" she asked rubbing his cheek; Luke lifted one finger signaling for her to wait. Lorelai frowned and pulled back a little, which was good because the next thing she knew Luke was throwing up. "You feel better?" Lorelai asked rubbing his back once he was done, he kept coughing. "You didn't have to do that"
"I was not about to let you do it" Luke said still hunched over. "I never thought I'd do that again"
"Again?"
"High school was a weird time" was Luke's answer and Lorelai laughed.
"Are you ready to go?" Lorelai asked after a little silence.
"Sure, let's go" he stood up straight.
"You do know that now you have to tell me about your High school experience, right?"
"Yeah, yeah"
That's it for now, what did you think? Isn't Luke swell? (It's a funny word; you've at least got to admit that)
Tell me what you thought of the gross stunt...