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Quote #10
I sit on the edge of my mattress and stare at the phone. If my parents come home early I don't want them eavesdropping on this call. I'm nervous enough already. So I run to their room, grab the cordless phone from the nightstand, and then head downstairs.
I walk across my lawn toward the street. Every time Sydney comes into Peer Issues, she turns off her cell phone and slips it into her pocket. It always looks so casual and cool. I try shoving the cordless phone into my back pocket, but it's too chunky to fit. (28.12-13)
Oh, the trials and tribulations of trying to get in touch with a crush before individual cell phones. Josh is worried that when Sydney calls the home phone his parents will interrupt—while she happens to have one of those newfangled cell phones that fits into a pocket, Josh isn't so lucky. So he takes the family's cordless phone and sneaks out of the house with it, though it's so large that it won't fit into his pocket.