Social Butterfly is Starting to Stretch His Wings

Arion has never been a very outgoing and social person. He had friends at school, but never really went to their house or had anyone come over. Mainly, he would come home and just stay in the house. Lately things have been changing. He started with spending the night a couple of times at a friends house from work. It went well and I tried be to encouraging. After school ended he went camping with about 15 friends from school for about 3 days. I thought this was great. Yesterday he called me at work and said that some of his friends were going to the city to hang out and he wanted to go. We talked for a couple of minutes about the do's and don'ts. Of course after I said "no drinking" he had to be a wise ass and ask me if heroin was OK. Such a pain in my ass. One of the questions I asked was if he would be coming home or staying out for the night. He said he would be home late and would take his key. OK, here is where the problem is. When I got up this morning, he was not in his bed. I tried his cell phone and there was no answer. I called his Dad, who hadn't heard from him either (not that I expected it, but one likes to check the bases). I figured that if he was in real trouble I would have had a call from the police, so I just started thinking I would just kill him when I found him. At about 9:30 am, a very sleepy Arion called my cell phone to tell me he was OK. After chewing his butt, his excuse was he didn't want to wake me at 1:00 am, so he didn't call. I told him "I don't care what time it is, you call". I guess I should be glad that I got though 19 years without doing this earlier.