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.

know Whitney

me and answers with a smile, “Of course. Actually,

that he has the same family name with Whitney. There are not so many wealthy families in the city; most of persons with the same

is your sibling?”

Whitney’s husband and Frances has an affair with me. However, Whitney has never got to know something

I am adopted by her parents. Whitney is someone with great pride,

confuse me more.

softly, from which I suppose they get along very well. But it might not be the truth. Is that the

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

singer just finishes a song

her who turns around at once.

think they are strangers. I still feel something

starts to say, “Be good to Frances as much as

by what

with me about it. Whitney will hate him badly for his request to me.

did