Jorick found the base of a cordless phone. The handset was missing, so he pressed the "locate" button and they split up and walked through the house, listening for the corresponding beeps.
The sound was loudest in a bedroom lined with posters of 90s bands; Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Marilyn Manson, and Korn among others. In fact, the whole affair was something straight off a 1995 television set with heaps of dirty clothes, a pipe frame bed. and a desk stacked in notebooks and broken CD cases. The garbage bags sloppily taped over the window ruined the illusion.
Katelina sifted through the mess until she found the handset. With it came the reality of actually explaining things to her mother. The weight of it crushed her to the bed, and she perched on the edge to chew her lip.
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