Hudson raised the phone to his ear and said, “I was just about to call you.”

He turned and started walking in the opposite direction.

“Sorry, I was just making sure that we talked,” his father told him.

Hudson rolled his eyes as he continued to make his way across campus to his dorm room. He didn’t want to have this conversation with his father out in the open where others could hear him.

“Just give me a sec, I’m almost to my dorm,” he told him. ...