In My Desperate Time

The crash startles me. I raise my head and meet Frances Louis’s sharp look.

His eyes take my breath away.

I just realize what I have said!

Who gives me the nerve to say that Frances Louis is stupid? It’s uneasy for him to get off his high horse and cook me brown sugar water. How could I mock him?!

I gulp and look at him nervously, “I'm sorry, I don’t mean it. You are a company’s president. It’s normal that you don’t know about kitchen things.”

“That’s it?” The man's face grows colder and his words smell of danger.

What does he want?

Is my attitude of apologizing insincerely?

I wink, look at him with what I think is the sincerest look in my eyes, and say to him softly, “Mr. Louis, I am really sorry. I shouldn't say you are stupid. You are the smartest person in the world, and I am as stupid as a pig. Your majesty please forgive me.”

“Jane Noyes!”

Frances Louis calls my name almost through clenched teeth. He looks at me sharply for a long time, and finally, he leaves.

Now I really don’t know what to do.

I have never spoken to anyone in my life with such a humble attitude, and Frances Louis is still not satisfied.

get up to pick

have the luck to enjoy the president’s

and go downstairs and

go upstairs. The

door and want to knock, but I don’t have the

sigh

put a warm paste on my belly, but still

last, I fall asleep because

wake up the next morning, I am still a little uncomfortable, but I am much

my face and go

table, eating his breakfast with

say to him,

Louis goes on eating without raising his

Well, he ignores me.

better leave me alone and never touch me. I will leave

me feel a little

Louis finishes his meal quickly and leaves without speaking a word

work.” I say to Betty who

glasses on the TV cabinet. I

Betty says to me.

go to the TV cabinet and

moment I turn around, I heard a

head and see the broken pieces of blue and white porcelain lying on