In My Desperate Time

I consider submitting evidence of Whitney mistreating her child but the fact of the matter is I don’t have any evidence. Not only
that, the mark on the child is now gone. Thus, I can't accuse Whitney of child abuse.
Does it mean that I will have to accept that Earl is taken away by Whitney just like that? I can’t accept that. This feeling is like a
chunk of flesh being cut from my body. I don’t know why I feel so sad but inside me, I really can’t bear to leave Earl.
“Frances.” I look at him in despair and hope that he can think of something.
He can only shake his head helplessly in return. “I’m sorry, Jane, I already tried my best.”
The court ruled that Frances must return the child to Whitney within three days. Now I only want to go home quickly to spend the
precious time with Earl.
Frances is still talking to the lawyer as I leave to go home first. I am stopped by Whitney as I reach the entrance of the Courts.
She looks at me and says sarcastically, “How? I said that I would get custody of the child and I will definitely get it. At most, I’ll
just admit that the child isn’t Frances’. It isn’t a loss to me.” Whitney says complacently to me. Truthfully, I don’t understand why
she tells me these.
After all, she says these were to spite Frances. But yet, all these words pierce straight to my heart. Outwardly I don’t want to
admit to losing to her.
“Why do you tell me all these? I don’t care a bit.”
“Ah? You don’t care?” Whitney laughs and scoffs, “Don’t think that I don’t know that you are the one who wanted Frances to fight
for the custody of the child. It appears that you really like this child! But how can I let you be with this child? Jane, let me tell you
that I will inflict onto you all the pain that you had caused me!”
Am I the cause for her pain?
I don’t understand this. Frances’s divorce from her has nothing to do with me. Furthermore, she is the one who harms me all this
time and not the other way around.
“Whitney, I’m fine with the child being given to you but harm her if you dare!” Frances says coldly from behind me.
Actually, I wish that Frances isn’t that aggressive because I am hoping that if he treats Whitney with more tenderness, perhaps
she will give him custody of the child. Even I am upset with Frances’ attitude towards Whitney.

Clearly, Whitney’s expression reveals a hint of hurt. She loves Frances and how can she not be hurt by what he says. But very
quickly she suppresses that feeling.
She leans towards my ear and says, “Jane, don’t you feel that there is something strange about your parent’s accident?
Furthermore, why did you so easily forgive Frances for what happened to your child?”
I know that Whitney does that to drive a wedge into Frances and my relationship. But there is no need for her to do that as my
relationship with Frances is already in the dumps.
After Whitney leaves, Frances frowns and asks me, “What did she say to you just now?”
“Nothing, she was just threatening me, that’s all,” I say simply.
In fact, I dare not forget nor will I forget the two issues that Whitney mentions.