Chapter 14: Who Still Uses a Landline?

The front door shuts behind me, but I barely hear it. I'm on the hunt for the elusive phone. I head into the kitchen but quickly turn. The ringing is louder in the living room. I walk by the rolltop desk and stop. There wasn't a phone on the main surface when I left, but I roll it up to double check.

Nothing.

There's another ring and my eyes fall until I open the lower right side drawer. In the middle of the deep bottom drawer, the one normally reserved for hanging files, sits an off white-yellow colored phone. The old style with the receiver and dial buttons on the front.

"Hello?" I pick up the receiver hoping I haven't missed the caller. A long phone cord twirls, following me. Obviously Aunt Gertie's answer to being able to walk around the house while on the phone.

The line is quiet for a moment and then, "Tabitha, is it you?"

"Amy?" How in the hell did Amy get the number to the phone hidden in the rolltop desk like Gertie was a super spy?

"You don't have voicemail on thi