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 hurriedly, “Can

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

try my best but I

Can it be repaired today?”

be fixed

eyes, 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.

smiles at me and

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

again around six

the antique store and go to the

knows what

Snow says to

who said gossips that made it so awkward. Much of Nicole Snow's

have explained but she doesn’t believe it. What

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

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

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 give