“I’LL call her and see. Just hold on,” Curtis said.

No one responded to that.

Curtis pulled out his phone from his pocket and asked Niles, “Should I call her or send her a video-call request?”

Niles looked at the others as he felt even more confused. ‘How am I supposed to know?’ “Send a video-call request?” he stammered.

“I better call her. Maybe she’s asleep,” said Curtis as he scrolled down his contact list.

Niles suddenly noticed that Carlos’ eyes were fixated on Curtis’ phone this whole time, and he immediately understood where Curtis was going with this.

“Why not call her first? If she’s awake, you can send her a video-call request,” he said.

Curtis nodded in agreement.

put his phone on

“Hi, Uncle

from the other end of

11 p.m., and she

Curtis stole a glance

still at work. Why? What’s up?”

haven’t seen you in

jaw dropped to the floor faster than he could

as an excuse, ‘ he thought to

Curtis is really strange!’

embarrassed to turn him

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