In My Desperate Time

I pick up the pieces and put them all in a bag, and take it out of the door.

Frances Louis will be back in the evening, so I must solve it during the day.

I call Steven Song and tell him I'd be late. I get the leave permit so easily. It’s nice to have a boss buddy.

Then I call Mindy Sue. She tells me a shop that restores antiques, and I go there excitedly.

The boss is a woman of about thirty, not glamorous, but graceful, who looks very comfortable.

When I get in, she is cleaning an inkstone.

She sees me come in and gives me a soft smile.

“Hello.” I go up to her and take the bag out. “Ms, please have a look at this vase and would you repair it?”

The boss puts down the inkstone and takes over the bag.

She frowns when she sees the pieces.

“Broke into pieces.”

ask

can’t pay it

try my best but I can’t promise.” The

it be repaired today?”

can't be fixed today, I would

my expectant and eager eyes, looks at me and says, “Since you're in a hurry, I'm not going to do anything else today and will focus on this. But I'm not the boss.

me and dumps out

But it must be difficult to be repaired because it has been broken into forty or fifty

again around six

antique

what you have done

says

was she who said gossips that made it so awkward.

but she doesn’t believe it.

no business

had a great idea last night during my menstrual cramps. I must draw it as soon as possible in case I

designing the drawings, May Wilson is always wandering behind me. I feel like she wants to see what I'm doing. A designer’s work is a private thing. I turn