Kiss My Professor

Professor William White was sitting in his study, going over the lecture notes for the next day. As cutting-edge theories and technologies were constantly evolving, the teaching points and examples needed to be updated accordingly. It was his habit to review his lecture notes the day before the class. His phone lay quietly beside him, and its screen lit up with a new message alert:

Frost: Do you always leave your tie at someone else's place?

William White chuckled and replied:

Cycle: Never.

Frost quickly followed up:

Well, do you want to give it a try at my place?

William White pondered for a moment:

Cycle: It depends.

Frost: What do you mean by "it depends"?

Cycle: It means we'll discuss it later.

Voice requests came one after another. William White pressed the recording button:

"What to say."

Frost's voice came with a smile: "Say... what are you doing."

"Clean the glasses."

"What then after cleaning the glasses?"

"Check the emails."

"Replying to emails so late?"

"Habit."

Frost suddenly complained, "I'm taking a crazy professor's course this semester! He doesn't reply to emails all day long and just because I was absent from the first class, he made me retake it next year..."

William White opened his email and Thomas's pleading email overlapped with the voice message on his phone: "That stupid professor has so many issues and a high failure rate. Who would want to take his class?"

He stared at the prompt box on the screen that said "Delete Contact", eventually withdrew the operation, put on his freshly cleaned glasses and replied, "You were off sick yesterday. Are you feeling better now?"

Frost confessed, "I drank too much and overslept." Then he asked anxiously, "If that perverted professor doesn't reply to my email, will it be useful for me to go to the classroom and beg for mercy tomorrow morning?"

William White's lips curled up slightly as he pressed the voice button: "You give it a try."