Complete the frantic student's question to their classmate.

_____ my professor that my dog actually ate my flash drive, or is that too cliché?

The correct answer is Should I tell.

When asking for advice, we invert the subject and the modal verb. The structure is: Should + subject + base verb. We do not use auxiliary verbs like "do" to make questions with "should," and we never include "to" before the main verb.