In My Desperate Time

“Who’s that?” I can guess but not sure about my answer.

Lawrence says, “It’s too much to say it here. We should go somewhere causal and talk about details.”

In his view, some bars should be casual enough for us to have a longer talk.

Finally, he takes me one quieter bar different from those I have been to before.

There is a woman singing on the middle of the stage; the audience keeps listening quietly.

Lawrence watched the singer. I followed his eyes to look at her to find she is really similar to Whitney Jordan. The two women almost look the same.

I have to tell him, “She looks like Whitney.”

Lawrence laughs, “I know.” And then he looks at the singer tenderly one more time.

Immediately from his eyes, I realize he gets a lot of problems or concerns in his mind.

him, “You know Whitney very well?”

at me and answers with a smile, “Of course. Actually, she is my younger sister.”

There are not so many wealthy families in the city; most of persons with

ask further, “She is

has an affair with me.

is someone with great pride, never treating me as her sibling brother. But she has never been my sister in my heart.”

words confuse me

very well. But it might not be the truth. Is that the reason

Lawrence, “What would you like to talk with me?”

woman singer just finishes a song to walk to us.

smiles and shakes head to her

don’t think they are strangers. I still feel something unusual by instinct, but cannot get to the

as much as you can. Try

astonished by what

he does not get along very well with Whitney, he should not talk with me about it. Whitney will hate him

did you say