When they got out of the car at the hotel, Henry's parents headed to the front desk to pick up their key cards. Henry, meanwhile, was glued to his phone, Face Timing his uncle. The two of them never seemed to run out of things to say- they just kept chatting away for a solid half hour.

Finally, after thirty minutes, his uncle joked, "Hey, little buddy, do you miss Kristen yet?"

On the other end, Cooper sounded annoyed. "Why are you at my place again? Hand over my keys."

"Not a chance."

Cooper set his phone down and went straight to Jennie, trying to wrestle the keys out of her arms.

Henry frowned, confused about where Cooper had disappeared to.

Back in the hotel room, Mia called out, "Henry, come on, time to shower with Dad!"

His call with Uncle Cooper was put on pause for now.

With the Lantern Festival over, it was almost time for Mia to start school again.

At home, Henry tried to rope Grandpa into helping him study, but all he managed to do was stress out Hansen Cedillo and leave his already-thinning hair even messier.

Hansen scratched his head and muttered, "Honestly, intelligence should run in this family..."

pretended to study,

busy at work, and Mia was getting her school

her mischievous streak-flew to Havenbrook without telling anyone, only calling her boyfriend after

was in the middle of debugging some code when he picked up.

tongue, trying to sound extra sweet. "Chad, why are you

stood up, catching the faint sound of airport announcements in the background. "You flew in,

few seconds later, Leo added, "Send

I.ne

each one quickly, then called over his colleague. "Chunky, keep an eye on things here. I'm heading out to pick up

here?" someone asked,

to come,

and left for the

new hire whispered, "Chunky, is

Ms. Anya. That's the boss's girlfriend! 'Ms. Anya' is Leo's

the airport, Anya waited, looking innocent as ever

up all

puffed out her cheeks,

the trunk, opened the car

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