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.”

ask her

be repaired. Or I can’t pay it off even

try my best but I can’t promise.” The boss

be repaired today?” I

be fixed today, I would

my expectant and eager eyes, looks at me and says, “Since you're in a hurry, I'm not going to do anything else today and

me and dumps out

big. But it must be difficult to be repaired because it has been broken

will come again around six in

get out of the antique store and

what

Snow says to me

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 misunderstanding Steven Song

explained but she doesn’t believe it. What can

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

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

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 give to