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.

to get up to pick

the luck to

downstairs and get a broom to clean it

upstairs. The light in Frances Louis's

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

sigh and

I put a warm

fall asleep

next morning, I am still a little uncomfortable, but I am

face and

the table, eating his breakfast

I say to him, trying to break the

goes on eating without raising

Well, he ignores me.

touch me. I will leave when

of that makes me feel a

Louis finishes his meal quickly and leaves without

say to Betty who

Jane, would you please hand me my glasses on the TV cabinet. I can’t

Betty says to me.

TV

turn around, I

head and see the broken pieces