Chapter 5 Perfume Work

Rachel was seen in her small perfume developing room, decorated with all kind of tools and materials used to create perfume, she was struggling with the completion of the perfume, she had failed multiple times now she was beginning to lose hope that it would actually work, when ever she came close to finishing it, it blows up in her face, yet again.

Rachel paces around the room in distress, "I have used all kinds of settling ingredients but nothing seems to be working", she keeps asking her self, as she walks and then sits on the ground putting her head between her legs, she doses off after a few minutes, due to exhaustion.

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In Zech's home he could be seen in the kitchen, preparing his dinner, despite all the maids in the house, he decided to cook today.

Mrs Vivian, the cook, rushes out from her room, as she was told their master was in the kitchen preparing his food, on getting there, she froze in fear, "m -master p -please forgive me", she stammered in fear.

Zech turns to face her, "Mrs Vivian is there something wrong"? smiling at her.

"I have failed in my duties, master please punish me as you see fit".

Zech is now more confused than ever, "Mrs V slow down, did you do something wrong"? he asked, raising a brow.

"Master, you shouldn't be in the kitchen, this is my duty, I should be the one doing the cooking.

"ohhh.." Now he understood why she was fidgeting, he smiled at her, "don't worry, I just want to put my cooking skills to test, it been a long time so i guess my skills are quite rusty", he said smiling, "but master, miss Vivian attempts to persuade him more, he taps her shoulders to assuring her, "don't worry, go and rest okay", he turns and faces his food to finish up.

Mrs Vivian smiles in relief and admiration, as she drags her feet hesitantly to head into her room,but stopped on her tracks at what she just heard.

"Would you like to have some"? Zech asked.

she had thought she must have heard wrong as she stood waiting for him to repeat his question, staring at him with shock, never in her weirdest dream could she have thought, she would be eating masters food.

"Don't just stand there, come and have a seat, I'll dish you some so you have to honestly tell me how I did".

She walked towards the dinning, and sat down with a smile on her face, seeing this side of her master was completely new to her.

Zech Served her a plate, and moves to get his, they both sit down, looking at her plate she didn't touch the food waiting for the master to eat first.

"Mrs Vivian, please go on and tell me how it taste", she lifts her spoon and takes a bite from the food, her face lights up in excitement, "wow master it tastes exquisite", she said smiling and savoring the taste, "you cook better than me I admit.

he smiles satisfied with her honest reply, as they ate in silence, the door opened after a while, Vincent walks in.

He walks towards them, with a file In his hands and then he sits, "so Zech decides to cook today huh"? he said with a mocking smile.

"seems you don't wanna have a taste", he said with a grin. Mrs Vivian stands up with her plate, "Excuse me master", and then she heads to her room giving the young men space to talk.

Zech sips some water, as he stands up with his plate dropping it in the sink, let's head to my study, "hey what about me"? Vin said following Zech, "Well there nothing left now", he said with a wolfish smile, they walk down a big hall, passing through several big doors before getting to an average one, they walk in and Zech sits on his chair, Vin sits opposite him.

"Miss Rachel", he pauses after calling her name and signs, "do you really think she can do this"? He asked Zech, "I don't know about her ability but with such determination one can do great things, so i believe her", Zech says with a plain face.

Vin looked at him confused, "how can you believe in her when we don't Even know if she's an amateur, we need an alternative, if eventually her plan fails, we can't just blindly trust her".

"See that the thing with you Vin don't always believe in people you always carry a plan B along, with that you cant view the world the way i do, let give her the benefit of the doubt, at worst we won't lose much".

Vin was beyond shocked right now, he was going to explode in anger, "Zech are you Even listening to yourself?, so you know she might fail but you want to risk it"?.

"Yes, so trust me this one time okay, I just know it within me she won't fail us".

"Fine just this once, but if she eventually mess up ill make sure she wont have to quit cause ill fire her",Vin said annoyed.

"Fine, well were about to find out if she will fail or not", but there something about her that is different I can't seem to pinpoint it".

"better don't, you saw how it went with Becky, she was a hard nut, but since you want to believe her, I hope you won't be too disappointed by what you get. Vin told him sharply, Zech smiles at him.

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Rachel jerks up from a nightmare, sweating, turns out she's been sleeping for hours now, she rushes towards her work, looking really frustrated and dispirited.

"Rachel you got this, just settle down take a deep breath, we got this", she said to herself in an attempt to boost her confidence.

she begins the process all over again slowly and gently, after a few minutes she was close to the finishing part, she stop to calm herself, Okey let me use vanilla roots instead of apple tonic, seems apple tonic doesn't suit it.

she moves to the drawer and gets the vanilla root, that is filled with sharp thorns, as she grabs it forgetting it has thorns, it pricked her hands, "Ouch", she screamed, quickly putting her hand in her mouth to suck off the blood, but her blood had already stained the root.

She puts the root on her grinder, she blends it smooths, then she scoops a small amount from it, and puts it in her formula, she stands praying earnestly that it doesn't blow up, after a few minutes the solution settles.

Rachel jumps in excitement, as she dances and shouts like a little kid who had gotten what he had been asking for, in a long time.

she shakes the tub containing the substance and the scent fills the air, it was a wonderful nerve soothing scent, she smiled satisfied with her achievement.

she pours the perfume into a small light blue bottle, he holds it high in the air, looking at it with admiration, she had yet to give it a name, "This is my signature perfume", she said in excitement, little did Rachel know that it was not just an ordinary perfume, it has special qualities.

She rushes to her handbag and puts the bottle containing the perfume into a smaller part to protect it, she heads back into her small room and sees a pinkish color floating in the air, she thought she must be seeing things, she tried closing her eyes but this time it was still there then she remembered seeing an lemon color in the air back at the R&D department.