In My Desperate Time

I run to the bathroom and lock the door.

I lean against the door, and my heart feels like being pressed by a heavy stone, which makes me breathless.

I see things simply. I didn’t expect that things have just started and I have begun to think that it is not easy to stay at Frances Louis’s side.

I have prepared to throw my dignity away, but in the end, he tramples me to pieces.

Below me, there is a muddy liquid flowing out, with a silk of red.

Of course, I know. It's not my period. It's my transformation from girl to woman.

How ironic!

What's the point of this blood coming out now?

Can I bring Frances Louis in and show him?

“Jane Noyes, maybe your life is just a joke.”

I walk to the shower with a wry smile, open the shower head, carefully wash my soring body, and wash off the blood on the floor.

Let all these unimportant things go with the water. I just want to solve my brother problem through Frances Louis, and I don't want to think about anything else.

I don't know how long I've been in there. The foggy water fills in the bathroom, and I feel a little dizzy.

But I don't want to go out, I don't want to face Frances Louis' scrutiny.

At least, not tonight.

There is a rhythmic knock on the door, followed by the voice of Frances Louis.

“How long will you be in there? You wash yourself so long, Are you not clean, or I am not clean?”

I am shocked and don’t know what to do.

I am glad I have closed the door, or Frances Louis might have come in.

“Right…right away.”

I reply quietly, ready to get a towel to wipe the body, but suddenly I slip down, and

hits the floor so hard that I black out.

Noyes, what are you doing? Get out?!”

I want him to come in and save me, but I don’t want him to see

Actually, I am conscious. I can hear everything around me. But my tongue is like knotted, I can say nothing and my body is limp, I have no

anything worse happen to me?

Frances Louis calls me again outside door and knocks fiercely.

the world becomes quiet.

gone, but the door is kicked open.

Then, Frances Louis

boiling hot. But I couldn't open my eyes. I have no idea what

better not to see him, so as not to die of embarrassment under his

Louis holds me up. I feel soft under

to feel less dizzy and regain some strength.

Most importantly, I was conscious the whole time!

don’t know whether Frances

I open my eyes a little, and meet Frances

He looks at me with no expression on his face, but it is

I am still naked. The air conditioning opens, he could at least give me

Is that how Frances Louis has

of this, my face suddenly blushes. I pull over

my head away to skip the awkward subject.

time, you lock the doors and windows. If I had come in later, you

Frances Louis glances at me and says lightly.

Hearing what he said, I guess I was poisoned by carbon dioxide.

have not solved the problem, I can’t

Louis's cell phone rings, and he picks it up gently.

“Well, I know. Wait. I'll be right there.”

woman on the other end of the line. He would be so gentle to a woman.

Is that woman I

it isn’t my business. Frances Louis and I just take what we need, and neither of us has any say in the other’s

come to him for Frank Noyes.

to talk to Frances Louis about my brother, but he gets up and says, “you sleep first. I have to go out for a while.”

to talk to you.”