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.

ask him, “You know Whitney

to look at me and answers with a smile,

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

“She is your sibling?”

person whom I would like to meet in the world. Just now Lawrence told me he is Whitney’s elder brother; he knows Frances as Whitney’s husband and Frances has

head to answer me, “She is not my sibling; I am adopted by her parents. Whitney is someone with great pride, never treating me as her sibling brother. But she has never been my sister in my

confuse me more.

along very well. But it might not be the truth. Is that the reason he did not tell her anything about Frances and me?

would you like

just finishes a song to walk to

smiles and shakes head to her who turns around

strangers. I still feel something

much

astonished by what

get along very well with Whitney, he should not talk with me about it. Whitney will hate him badly for his request to me.

him, “Why did you say