Teenagers in Love

CC: "I want my daughter checked"
HPI: A high school student goes out of town to spend the holiday with her aunt. The aunt put her on a bus to return home 2 days before, but dear daughter doesn't arrive as expected. Mom frantically searches the bus station, waits for the next bus, calls the aunt who confirms the departure, calls all the friends and relatives......... but nobody knows what happened to Heidi.

Mom calls the police to file a missing persons report. They do nothing because 16 year olds are treated as runaways until proven otherwise. Mom drives around town looking for her little angel. She doesn't sleep that night. Actually, neither of them do. The next evening, Heidi returns home.

Her new boyfriend had graciously picked her up from the bus station, and his older brother was kind enough to rent them a hotel room. They spent the night doing all the things that young teenagers in love do. She didn't want to spoil the mood by calling Mom. I don't blame her. Mom was a bit unhappy with the situation.

Fortunately, Heidi was unharmed, and she pledged never to do such a thing ever again. She was happy to receive a prescription for emergency contraception and seemed receptive to the topic of maintenance birth control until she was ready to care for a child of her own.

It's tough being a parent.