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.”

heart suddenly stops and I ask

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

but I can’t promise.” The

it be repaired today?”

this vase can't be fixed today, I

boss, perhaps touched by 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 will focus on this. But I'm not the boss. I'm

at me and dumps

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

I will come again around six

get out of the antique store and go to

again. Who knows what you have done

says to me

who said gossips that made

doesn’t believe it. What

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

had a great idea last night during my menstrual cramps. I must draw it as soon as possible in case I

Wilson is always wandering behind me. I feel 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