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 help me with

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

night to

am a little

seem as cold as he shows. He must stay up

funny?” May Wilson adds, seeing that I keep

would turn out like this.

to spare this crisis. I can’t tell them truth, “I have a high requirement for

“Do it quickly.”

a cold face, and goes back

face that she reluctant to admit that I did all job

go out to call Frances Louis.

Frances Louis's voice is lazy, with a light smile.

expect you would finish all work for me. Thank you, Frances Louis, for staying up all

that I said I would kick him out of

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

My mouth twitches.

Frances Louis is a

to think that Frances Louis would stay