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Prompt: Sweeten
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Duke blinked wearily at the counter space next to the coffee maker while he waited for the fresh pot to finish brewing. Something didn't seem right...but what?
Reaching out with one hand, he tapped a finger on the jar of honey, then moved his hand to tap the box that held the sugar packets. He did it again, from jar to box, reassuring himself that both containers of items with which to sweeten coffee were there.
Moving his hand, he tapped the roll of paper towels then the stack of styrofoam cups. Another reassuring repeat and he was certain that both were there. The creamer container and the small stack of cup lids were there as well.
Pulling his hand back, Duke re-evaluated the counter space. What was missing?
It only hit him after he had just about finished making his first cup of coffee for the hour. Specifically when his hand hit empty space when it should have located the box of coffee stirrer sticks.
The team leader stared at the empty space, even waving his fingers through the spot as if to somehow make the box pop up out of no where.
After a minute, with no suddenly appearing box in sight, Duke just sighed and made the decision to drink his coffee as it was. Stirred or not, caffeine was caffeine at this point and he needed all he could get to deal with the monstrous demon known as paperwork in his office.