In My Desperate Time

I pick up the pieces and put them all in a bag, and take it out of the door.

Frances Louis will be back in the evening, so I must solve it during the day.

I call Steven Song and tell him I'd be late. I get the leave permit so easily. It’s nice to have a boss buddy.

Then I call Mindy Sue. She tells me a shop that restores antiques, and I go there excitedly.

The boss is a woman of about thirty, not glamorous, but graceful, who looks very comfortable.

When I get in, she is cleaning an inkstone.

She sees me come in and gives me a soft smile.

“Hello.” I go up to her and take the bag out. “Ms, please have a look at this vase and would you repair it?”

The boss puts down the inkstone and takes over the bag.

She frowns when she sees the pieces.

“Broke into pieces.”

and I ask

It must be repaired. Or I can’t pay it

my best but I can’t

be repaired today?” I ask

vase can't be fixed today, I would definitely

looks at me and says, “Since you're in a hurry, I'm not going to do anything else today and will focus on this. But I'm not

and dumps out

It is not very big. But it must be difficult to be repaired because it has been broken into

I will come again around six in the

out of the antique store

again. Who knows what you have done last

Snow says to

to me yesterday. It was she who said gossips that made it so awkward. Much of Nicole Snow's hostility toward me comes from misunderstanding

but she doesn’t believe it.

have no business in my private things.” I say to her confidently and go back to

during my menstrual cramps. I must draw it as soon

drawings, May Wilson is always wandering behind me. I feel like she wants to see what I'm doing. A designer’s work is a private thing. I turn to her and say, “What are you doing behind me when I am drawing? Do you want to copy it and