THERE WAS A HUGE crowd of people when we arrived at the mall. Like the usual thing I do, I don’t bother much with the surroundings. But Vee was different. She made sure that she was the center of attention as she talked loudly about the swarm of people inside the mall during that particular hour. “Maybe there’s a mall tour for a celebrity,” Ceasar would tell her from time to time. When we started to enter the mall until we were stepping onto the escalators, Vee would dismiss Ceasar’s comment and would generate her assumption about the current happenings. Vee and Ceasar walked first to the escalator and I followed next. Taking the next two steps after theirs. “Maybe they couldn’t take much heat outside so they had to go to the mall to enjoy the air conditioning. You know, not everybody

