In My Desperate Time

May Wilson takes my computer away and gives it to Nicole Snow.

No!

Nicole Snow wouldn’t let me go if she saw the unfinished drawings.

“The computer is my personal property. It’s my privacy. You have no right to see it.”

I try to get my computer back, but May Wilson stops me and I can only watch Nicole Snow open my computer.

I really regret why I didn't set a password for my computer and why I put folders on the desktop. Nicole Snow opens the folder and checks.

My heart lifts, like being sent to the execution ground.

But Nicole Snow frowns.

Somehow, I feel strange.

May Wilson might have noticed. She walks up and looks at the screen with Nicole Snow, then she yells at me, “What's wrong with you, Jane Noyes? Is it fun to lie when you’ve already finished the work but pretending not do it yet?”

I go over and push them away. She is right. I really see the refined drawings on my computer.

All drawings are done.

better than

sleepwalking. All I can think is...Did Frances Louis

wonder he tells me don’t worry. It turns out that he has done everything

he stay up last night to help me finish the

am a little

not seem as cold as he shows. He must stay up all night

funny?” May Wilson adds, seeing that

like

this crisis. I can’t tell them truth, “I have a high requirement for my work, so I want

“Do it quickly.”

a cold face, and

that she reluctant to admit that I did all job perfectly. May Wilson also goes

then go out to

to thank me?” Frances Louis's voice is lazy, with a light smile.

Thank you, Frances

that I said I would kick him out of

to do all this work myself, do you? Jane Noyes, I

My mouth twitches.

that Frances Louis

think that Frances Louis would stay up all