In My Desperate Time

I am surprised. How could he have grasped my hand without opening his eyes?

But I am even more surprised that he is going to sleep with me on one bed.

I don't behave well when I am asleep. I'll be too nervous to sleep with him here.

“Is it okay?”

I raise my head from his chest and ask.

“Shut up.” The man says lightly and holds me tighter.

He is so tough; I dare not argue with him. I can only lie in his arms quietly, listening to his breathing gradually even.

But I can’t sleep.

I don’t feel comfortable with him holding me like that. I don’t feel sleepy at all.

After a long while, I feel a stir in my stomach, and the pain makes me frown.

And it becomes more and more painful.

I usually have pains during my period, but never as bad as this time.

Beads of sweat come out of my head. I feel so cold that I couldn’t help shivering. I struggle to get up from the bed. I slip downstairs and drink a cup of hot water.

Then I go back upstairs.

I lie on the bed carefully, being afraid to wake Frances Louis up.

thought drinking hot water is a guarantee to cure all diseases, but the pain in my stomach is getting worse. I couldn't help shrinking into a ball with my arms

I still feel

Louis’s voice comes from

how he woke up. Is he awaken by my

slowly and say with difficulty, “It's all right.

gets up and looks at me frowningly, “Why

“I am really fine.”

if I say I suffer from menstrual cramps. And it's better not to tell him

darkens down, “tell

I could only say, “menstrual cramps, it never hurts so

“Go to the hospital.”

and begins to

for this. That’s would be

are normal for women and there's no need to make a big deal out of going

of pain?” The

I'll get up and boil some brown sugar water and drink

to smile at him and struggle out of bed, only to be

“Lie on the bed.”

He gets dressed and walks out of the

my bed because he was so tired and sleepy. Now he wakes up. he must think

a man like him would behave like

quilt and drift off to

“Get up.”

daze, I seem to hear the voice

like a