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.”

I ask her hurriedly,

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

try my best but I

Can it be repaired today?” I

be fixed today, I would definitely

you're in a hurry, I'm not going to do anything else today and

and dumps out the

But it must be difficult to be repaired because it has been broken into

again around six

antique store and go to

what you have done last

says to me

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

have explained but she doesn’t believe it. What can I

have no business in my private things.”

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

work is a private thing. I turn to her and say, “What are you doing behind me when I am drawing? Do