Spice bottle (Daily Story Prompt for Monday)

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The challenge was dumb. Absolutely juvenile. Holding in a mouthful of cinnamon powder for at least a minute. Bonus points if you can actually swallow it all. What an absolutely ridiculous idea!

Mohit's girlfriend Sakshi was against him partaking in this nonsense. However, his buddies decided it would be fun for him to take up the challenge while they recorded it. Mohit could anticipate the unbearable torture his mouth would go through. But he agreed to the challenge, nonetheless.

Mohit picked up the bottle of cinnamon powder and poured some into his mouth. Then, with an expression of horror, shock and determination, he moved his jaw and swallowed the brown stuff.

His acting was impeccable. His friends were convinced that he really had eaten a mouthful of cinnamon. And Mohit sold it like a pro, while silently thanking Sakshi for switching the cinnamon powder with cocoa powder. She had done it very discreetly, with his friends being none the wiser.

She even grabbed the spice bottle as soon as the deed was done and put it in a drawer when no one was looking.

"Thanks, beautiful!" Mohit said to Sakshi as he gave her a kiss.

"Hey! It's my job to protect my man!", she told him with a sweet smile.

"My hero!", Mohit said as he continued to hold her, before asking, "by the way, what did you do with the cinnamon?"

"Oh, I put it in the cocoa powder bottle. I could leave it in the bowl! Speaking of which, I should probably go put it away before someone accidentally eats some."

Sakshi entered the kitchen and saw Raj, one of Mohit's friends with a spoon in his hand.

"RAJ! NO!!"

Unfortunately, it was too late. Raj had already poured the contents of the cocoa powder bottle into the spoon, and had put the spoon in his mouth.