Somebody's sick???

Well, now it is confirmed - teenage boys should be on their own planet - far away from normal people whose lives they confuse terribly.

I got to work yesterday and after a while Johan phoned me with the following message
"Michael phoned home, asked Nomie to phone his dad, to ask him to phone his mum (me) to say Somebody is sick"

Huh???
Why would I want to know that somebody's sick - who?
If its Chad that is sick (lift club) then why aren't they phoning his mum and dad - not me???

I gave up - was a completely incomprehensible message.

Arrived at the school at 2.30 - earlier than usual because Sam was sick in bed but had been confirmed when the biys climbed out of the car that morning.

Chad came to the car - he can't find Michael and didn't see him at second break. Odd. Very unusual for Michael not to pounce on the car as soon as he sees it - always desperate to get home.

So we waited at the car, then we walked around the school, maybe he was in :
Sick bay? No
Detention? No
The Library - No
Aftercare - No and Rowan (in his grade but not his class) said that he had not seen him all day.

Off to the school office - explained the situation plus the peculiar message and we all sat in a puzzle. They asked if he had been at school that day - when I said I had dropped him at the gate they said that that didn't always mean they had gone to school! No, Michael is not like that.......

Phoned home to ask Nomie for the message again - just in case. Still the same "somebody's sick" and then he dropped the phone. Dropped the phone? In a rush, pulled away from the phone???

But where was he now - had been looking for over an hour and started to wonder who on earth would ever want to kidnap Michael? Was there some paedophile/boy murderer stalking the school grounds? ??? Ridiculous ideas but I was running out of sensible ones! Phoned his friend Kyrans mum, Ann, whose office is close to the school - maybe he had felt ill and walked there? No, and now there was another person worried!

Phoned Chads mum - what to do with him - explained the whole ridiculous situation again and she said he must just stick with me. Chad kept adding helpful little sayings like "we could have been home by now"; "nobodys seen Michael" etc etc.

Back to the car to see if he had appeared.
No
Then back to the main building - met one of his friends who suggested we check the computer lab!

YES!!!!! THERE HE WAS - IN AN EXAM!!!!

Relief - he was still safe and alive - but he was not going to be when he got out of that room!

I opened the door and gestured to the invigilator who was most reluctant to come to the door and I explained why I needed to find out what time the exam ended - 6 o'clock!!! AND the exam had been organised months ago!! GRRRR.

Phoned to tell people he had been found and then realised with horror that Sam would be at home alone (sick) when Nomie left at 4 - help! Next batch of phone calls started.
Mandy - sorry am at the dentist
Elsie - answering machine
Sherry - only get home at 5.30
Sarah & Charlie - bless them! Picked her up 5 mins after the call and took her home.

Sorted, but now what - 2 hours to go, so Chad and I went to Killarney mall, I had a cappuchino and he had a pot of Rooibos tea (at 13!)

At 5.15 Michael phoned, he had finished and we could come to get him (why so early - did he not know his work or did he know if so well he could do it easily??? Time will tell!)

He jumped in the car and pulled a face when I said we had to pick up Sam - I told him NOT TO SAY A WORD!!

"Somebody's sick" = "pick me up at 6"in teeneage mumble.