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.

refined better than I

can’t get all drawings down while sleepwalking. All I can think is...Did Frances Louis help

he tells me don’t worry. It turns out that he

he stay up last night to help me finish the

am a little moved by

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

Noyes, you think it’s funny?” May Wilson adds,

expect things would turn out like this. I was almost

tell them truth, “I have a high requirement for

“Do it quickly.”

says with a cold face,

face that she reluctant to admit that I did all job perfectly. May Wilson also goes back to her seat and rolls

then go

Louis's voice is lazy, with a light

Thank you, Frances Louis, for staying up all night for me.”

said I would

up all night? You don't expect me to do all this work myself, do you? Jane Noyes, I have plenty of staff.”

My mouth twitches.

Louis is a company’s president.

naive to think that Frances Louis would