At first I thought someone had taken him until we saw his school bag gone. I got up at 7:15 and my elder boy said he heard him go at 6. (I kept my temper under control when I asked why he hadn't woken us). He took clothes and two hot cans of coke and pinched 5 bucks of which he bought a can of Fanta at he shops. The cops picked him up and he told them he was going to school. Unfortunately there are people who let their kids walk to school at 7 am in shorts, tshirt and no shoes in winter so the cops took him to school. The really annoying thing is, the cops asked the school to phone us and they didn't. The school knows full well we drive the kids to school at 8:15 but didn't even question why Kody had shown up with a police escort at that time of the morning wearing what he was. MOTH gave them a few choice words and Kody is staying home with us today. I won't let him out of my sight for a while now. He didn't have a reason, well he hasn't told us yet but he knows he can talk to us about anything so he'll come clean when all this blows over.
It was damn scary. It wasn't so much that he had run away, it was the fact that he's only a little guy and christ knows what kind of freaks could have gotten hold of him.