บท 239: Chapter 239: Late Night Retrieval

It wasn't until I went looking for my phone and wallet a few hours later I realized I'd done the unthinkable. My money and credit cards were safe, thankfully, still in the dash of my car. But my phone? My most precious of lifelines to the outside world? Missing.

For a moment I felt a flash of panic not unlike that I'd experienced when I'd seen Petunia go over the edge of the dock. Please, please let me have left the phone somewhere and not at the bottom of the harbor where it must have died a tragic early death. I'd just upgraded, too, damn it.

I checked my clothes again, damp in the hamper, coming up empty, mind turning over and over as I tried to remember where I'd left it. After a long, desperate think through, I exhaled in relief. Hadn't I set it in the box of food on my way from the car? Yes, yes I had. Right, so that meant Mom probably still had it. Awesome. My day was looking up again.