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 her hurriedly,

no. It must be repaired. Or I can’t pay it off even

but I

be repaired today?” I ask

this vase can't be fixed today,

hurry, I'm not going to do anything else

at me and dumps out the

vase. It is not very big. But it must be difficult to

you. I will come again

the antique store and go to

what you have

Snow says to

Jefferson came here and confessed love to me yesterday. It was she who said gossips that made it so awkward. Much of Nicole Snow's hostility toward me comes from

have explained but she doesn’t believe

company, I just do my job. You have no business in my private things.” I say to her

a great idea last night during my menstrual cramps. I must draw it

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