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Chapter 10 - Chapter Nine

" Hey Kel slow down the food isn't running", Zaynella said looking at Kelvin who was glumping down his food. They were seated at the table having breakfast. Zaynella had whipped something up when she woke up earlier.

" Am hungry Zy let me be", Kelvin said in between mouth full.

" You aren't hungry you are pretending just say it".

" Isn't it obvious that he is running from giving you answers to the question you asked?". Lionel chipped in.

" It's really obvious he is, fine you won't answer me in fact you don't have to bother with the question okay slow down you are going to choke or better still get indigestion".

"Promise", Kelvin asked looking warily at Zaynella.

" When have ever said something and never mean it", Zaynella asked hissing.

" Fine, I will slow Down".

Lionel drove the car towards Kelvin's school and waited for Kelvin to alight before driving off. He was driving Zaynella's car and she sat at the passenger's seat.

" That's a pretty cool school".

" Yeah it is, the school he attended before was uncultured so I had to do something about it and that something landed him here, the tuition levy is pretty much but its okay, he deserves the best".

"Yeah he sure does".

Silence prevailed as they continued the ride.

On getting to the restaurant, Zaynella introduced Lionel to other workers, hiding the fact of him being an ex-convict. He was welcomed and commenced work almost immediately. After taking care of few things, Zaynella took a cab to work reminding Lionel not to forget pick Kelvin up from school.

Zaynella sighed for the umpteenth time. She was finally glad that she was able to complete her work, she looked at the new game design and nodded. She had gotten the idea of the new game during a discussion she had with her secretary. It was a cooking game and this would actually be the first time the company would try such, but had faith in the game. She was planning on designing it in a way that even people who are not interested in cooking will be enticed by the game. The designs were so simple but yet hard and would entice a soul, it was unlike her other designs. She had at last finished designing the game she started working at two months ago, she would present it in the board meeting before eventually contacting head office for the final approval because a lot of funds would be needed in the game and there was another game in the process of development, she just wanted to give this game a try.

She picked up her phone and called her secretary, it was better to hold the meeting now and start the game developing process. On the first ring, Cheryl picked up the call.

"Yes boss",She answered immediately she picked up the call.

"Contact all the executives and arrange an emergency meeting as soon as you can and let me know when you are done".

"Yes boss".

Zaynella disconnected the call and started going through the designs to make some changes .

An hour later the emergency meeting commenced. Zaynella sat at the head table with her usual poker face. She quietly waited for everyone to settle down before she stood up to do her presentation.

"You must be confused about this sudden meet up", she started. " Well its not something to be stressed up about. I called you guys just to inform you of my plan to submit a new game design to the head office. We have always focused on games that have a little bit of action and romance and I wanted us to try something else so I designed this". She turned towards the projector and pressed a button on the remote in her hand and the projector came to life displaying different graphics of the game she have been working on for about two months now, once most of the graphics where displayed she turned back to the audience. "The name of this game is Cooking Knack, the name might be a bit weird but we will have to agree with me that the name of all these online games not only give it life it makes the players want to try it out and having a weird name is a great catch. This company have never produced any game related to cooking and I know this would be the first but am very optimistic this would sell, I brought it to show you all so you would make your contribution the production of this game depends on your contribution and that of the head office. Hearing your opinion about this would really matter but I must make it clear that I do not plan on not producing this game and I will take whatsoever measures to convince the head office you are free to gamble with me but if you are bothered and worried that what if it doesn't work, you shouldn't be I was actually planning to take a blame that comes as the leader of this branch office it is after all my responsibility to shoulder everything so feel free to say your mind", she concluded and sat down waiting patiently for their opinion.

They looked amongst each other, most of them doubt where clearly written of their face. It is true that what ever game that have been designed by Zaynella have always hit the market and have stayed on top for days, but this was clearly different, other games that have been designed before had both gender interest in mind but this game was clearly one sided only interested in a gender this was clearly what most of them thought.

Mr Grey was the first person to talk he was afterall a game designer.

" I can't say no to such a tempting offer of being among the designers of a new game, but this game we are talking about, is clearly interested in one gender", many of the executives heaved a sign of relief, someone has finally said their mind. "what are you trying to reach out by the development of such a game".

"I was expecting the question, thank you Mr Grey".

" My pleasure Miss Walker".

"It is really amusing how cooking have been looked at as a single sex deal but you can't argue with me that most of the chefs in most restaurant are male even in most prominent houses cooking are left for males. If you look at it through my perspective you will notice that the act of cooking is really switching. This game is for both genders. Some of the female folks are nonchalant about cooking just like most of the male folk are interested in the art. If a game that not only is designed as a normal game but instilled and hidden inside this game is the hidden and forgotten knowledge of the dying art what would you think would happen, if you are either a teen, a youth, a parent and a growing child, would you choose to play games with martial arts or with hidden knowledge", she concluded and sat down leaving them to their thought, uncapping her mineral water she took a sip. Her speech really did wonders, the answers were clearly floating around. This game not only the young once but even the old ones would love to play it, the games that have been produced before did sell well but it was limited, no grown up would play such a game but this time there was no limit anybody would play it, it might but looked down on at first but if someone was to try it, the chance of everyone else trying it is nighty percent, it would not only help the company and audience but it would also help their branch company, the graphics of the game even though it haven't been touched much they knew that it would be great, with that said the game would been on top for months if hyped well years even. With that in mind everybody voted in favor of the game and the meeting came to an end.

At the end of the meeting, everybody left with a smiling face. They knew Zaynella would really convince the head office, so the only thing in their mind is a prayer for the game development to speed up so that some light would be thrown to their side branch.