Yes - he was gone all day but  I like to hear that he's hanging with some new kids who have a better reputation.  He even said he played soccer outside and watched the LSU and OSU game at my friend's house.  He didn't go to school, however, today.  The game last night ended late and the night before he was up for a good part of it due to a wisdom tooth coming in.   I will admit that I am very anxious right now because another pretrial date is two weeks from today.  Sometimes I wish we would have hired a lawyer so that we wouldn't be in the dark as to what to do.  I have no idea what the judge is going to order --being that at the last pretrial hearing he gave our son a choice of either going to rehab or detention.  My son, on the spot, said rehab - even though all along he said he'd rather go to detention.  Unfortunately, he lasted 4 days there so he never fufilled his part of the "deal".   My dream is to send him away for 90 days at a facility my husband and I visited back in October.  The place our son ran from only takes kids up to 45 days.  In addition, I was not pleased that they didn't advise us to stay clear of their place for a few weeks.  He was cooperative there until we showed up and then he went nuts.  I know other places, from what I checked into, do not allow parents to see their kids for quite some time so a thing like we experienced wouldn't happen.   Since our son refuses to call his court appointed lawyer, I asked my husband to put a call into him.  Unfortunately, the lawyer is extremely busy and always seems put off when we call.  We've only called him twice awhile ago.  And because he's busy......we never seem to get all of our questions answered.  Very frustrating and stressful......