In My Desperate Time

After hanging up the phone, I still feel ill at ease.

What does Noah Jefferson mean?

“Who was that on the phone?” Frances Louis looks at me and asks in deep voice.

“No one.” I turn my head away with a guilty conscience.

“Why do you blush?” Frances Louis gives me a sneer of disbelief.

All I could do is run upstairs on the excuse that I am tired and want to sleep.

“Stop.” Frances Louis says coldly behind me, successfully stopping my footsteps on the stairs.

I know I'm so wimpy! But I can't help it. I'm just afraid of Frances Louis. He treats me not bad, but he has an innate sense of oppression.

My heart is beating, and I wonder whether to tell Frances Louis the truth or not.

But if I tell him, will he forbid me to go?

Slowly, I turn around and look at Frances Louis, don’t dare to say a word.

The man wipes his mouth gracefully and comes towards me.

The gradually closed distance makes my heart beat up violently.

Or I can just tell him. It's just a normal classmate’s reunion. I have nothing to fear.

“Wash the dishes, clean up the kitchen.”

me and goes into the room.

a dying heart. Hearing what he said,

some conscience and doesn’t come to see me tonight. But I don’t sleep well because of my lumbago.

morning, I have a big

Usually I don’t have pimples. But why at the time of classmate’s reunion and I get a big pimple.

My face is bitter. I have two face masks, which makes that pimple look even bigger.

Desperate!

So

lot of concealer and foundation,

can only wait for the lights turning dim a little bit and people would not see the pimple on my face.

Frances Louis leaves in the morning, so I don’t have to report my schedule to him.

The party is at 6 pm at Golden Hotel. I arrive at the hotel at 5:30 and meet Noah

After a few years, the fresh and handsome young boy, his edges become more

many years ago, back to the age of first love. He passed by mt

college, he appeared in many of my tossing

“Jane Noyes, you are here.” Noah Jefferson strides

a beat. Thinking of the pimple on my face, I quickly lower my head and follow him inside.

students are here. Many of them bring their families with them. Two even bring their

Noyes, where's your husband? Why you don’t bring him

roommate, and we have always been in good relationship. After graduation, we still get connected.

She knows Andrew Malan, so I don’t want to hide. I answer directly, “I

Fountain is stunned, apparently, she doesn’t expect me to say this. She smiles awkwardly and

“That’s all right. Divorce is good for me.”

sits next to me, which makes me shy

liked him for

to, not before, not now.

the college as a lecturer. A man like him,