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

Or I can’t pay it off even if I die one hundred

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

be repaired today?”

be fixed today, I

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

at me and dumps out

must be difficult to be repaired because it has been

you. I will come again

out of the antique store and

again. Who knows what you have done last

Snow says to

Jefferson came here and confessed love to me yesterday. It was she who said gossips that made it so awkward.

but she doesn’t believe it. What can I

job. You have no business in my private things.” I say

idea last night during my menstrual cramps. I must

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