Hot Peppers

It's Christmas day today. We had eighteen people over for dinner. One of those people is my cousin Luke, who Rhys adores. Luke is 35'ish.

I walked into the kitchen and Luke was eating a piece of garlic bread, which he had made. The garlic bread was sitting on top of a bottle of pepperinci. Rhys said "Eat pepper". Luke, "No way, they're hot". "No they're not, eat one". Rhys "I eat one, you eat too". Luke, "Ok, I'll eat one with you".

As I watched Luke pulled out a pepper for himself and one for Rhys. They stood there, holding their peppers and looking at each other. They each, slowly, moved the pepper closer to their mouths, never taking their eyes off of the other's pepper. When they could not get any closer they both stopped and waited. I'm pretty sure a tumbleweed blew between them. Luke stuck his in his mouth and Rhys was right behind him. They both chewed.

Rhys, "Do again!".