Chapter 25

After they cleaned up, she went to the dining area and snatched up the phone off the dining table. She glanced at it and said, "it's Betty." 

She swiped across the screen and put the phone against her ear. To her delight, her sister told her she won't be able to come home until the weekend. They had shifted the time for her presentation forward to the coming Friday, so she needed to stay on campus to prepare.

"Oh." Becky smiled at Colin, who was standing beside her. "That's alright, I wish you the best."

"Yeah, thanks sis," Betty said from the other end. "We'll talk later, right?"

"Sure," Becky said before ending the call.

Though Betty commuted from home daily, she still maintained a room on campus for when she had to stay over. 

"Everything okay?" Colin asked.

"Yeah, everything is fine," she dropped the phone back on the dining table and walked to the front door to lock it. 

"Professor, we are home alone!" She declared,