Behind The Glasses (Lauren/You)

Chapter Fifteen

"James if I were you I'd drink the bird saliva." I laughed before looking at James in the eyes, giving him the 'you are screwed' look before reading out what was on the card.

"James, we all know that you have a segment called Carpool Karaoke with various artists. Name the artist on Carpool Karaoke that was your least favourite or had to pretend to be interested in them." James mouth hung low and looked at the producers that was behind the cameras.

"Who wrote this!" James whined and looked at the liquid in front of him. "I mean every Carpool was great."

I awed at his humbleness but I could tell that he was bluffing. "Aw James, someone get this man some tissues or a napkin. He's sweating so much."

"This is crazy." James wiped his forehead for a few second before sliding the neck of the glass between his ring and middle finger. Raising it in the air, he brought the drink to his lips and immediately put the glass back down so he could spit out the bird saliva into a bucket. He gargled his mouth and spat it into the bucket. "That tasted horrible."

"How do they even get collect it in the first place?" I say in disgust and shiver at my running thoughts.

"I have no clue but now it's your turn." James wiped his mouth and moved the Lazy Susan. "I'll give you the grasshoppers."

The little bowl in front of me had dead grasshoppers filled to the rim that looked like they had been fried in a wok. I poked at it and stuck my tongue out in horror. James took his next and evilly grinned. Okay I'm definitely eating this if his face was contorting like that.

"Ryder, Beyoncé and Jay-Z are amazing artists as well as being your parents. The two are the biggest power couple as we know it in the music industry but which parent between the two do you like the most? Your mother or your father?" The reaction of the audience was once again similar to before and I was pursing my lips to refrain at yelling out who made these questions.

"Everyone knows that my parents are amazing and I love them equally but I feel like that answer is a cop out so ..." I take a handful of grasshoppers into my mouth and chewed the bugs. The crowd was going crazy when I decided to eat it and the crunch of the grasshoppers initially frightened me but it was over in seconds.

I opened my mouth to show that I had eaten it all to James and the audience cheered as I drank some water to cleanse my pallet. James clapped his hands at my efforts and I motioned my hands to a bow.

"That wasn't bad at all." I shrugged and moved the grasshoppers away from me. "It's your turn to have ... I'll give you the hot sauce."

I laughed with the audience and grabbed the card with the question. It wasn't as scandalous but knowing James, he would actually take the shot of hot sauce.

"James, out of all the current late night hosts who is your least favourite?" James face went from smiling to straight emotionless in seconds the moment he heard 'current late night hosts'.

"Out of all the current late night hosts, who is your least favourite?" James said out the question for himself as he looked at the ceiling. "Whoever wrote these questions is in serious trouble."

James took the shot glass and slipped a substantial amount of it before grabbing milk from the table side. He was panting from the hotness of the liquid and began hiccupping, making us chuckle.

"Now the hi-hiccups are coming. Damn that is h-hot." I sucked in my lips to refrain from laughter as it was now my turn. James went into a coughing fit and had to take another gulp of milk. "Because of that I'm going to give you t-the hot sauce as well."

"Damn, no need to be feisty there James." I laughed as the other shot glass was in front of me. He looked at the card and tried to contain his laughter.