Say what now?

It's 10pm and I'm just starting to see the upside of "sick as shit" after being confined to my bed all weekend, with the midgets playing Benson. I am just about to roll over and holla at this sleep thing when the boy child comes into my room to show me a KIK message on his phone. A kid he used to go to school with says he is back in town and hoping he can come stay at our house, just for the night. I am familiar with the kid - a nice boy, from everything I know - but I still have questions. My son is responding to his messages with my questions but the answers aren't very satisfying, which the boy knows, so he says he is nearby and will come explain.

The boy and his mama moved to Virginia a couple of years ago. He has been back and forth visiting his dad since then but apparently somewhere along the line, dad moved a new girlfriend in who is not keen on having the boy there. Therefore, the boy made some other arrangement to stay with somebody else, but - again apparently - that person's kid came home from the military and no longer has room for the kid. Some other family he normally would try is going camping tomorrow (which to me sounds suspect since this is the last week of school and who plans a camping trip then, but whatever). My understanding is that the boy has some interview tomorrow. He is back for some length of time, if not for good, and his grandmother is going to be his guardian but she lives in some kind of women only place in the city. She's supposed to be working on a place for them to stay in together effective July 15 or 20th or some shit.

He's always seemed to be a nice kid but that's only as far as I'm aware. He's been gone a couple of years now and I have my own children to be worried about. That being said, as uneasy as it makes me to have this child stay with me under these shady ass circumstances, I am more uncomfortable turning him to the streets and having him wandering from place to place, trying to find somewhere safe to stay. I told him he can stay here so he'll at least have some peace of mind tonight, but he and I are going to have to have a chat tomorrow. I am going to need to some phone numbers to some other people I need to have a chat with too. I am having a really difficult time understanding how a mother sends her kid to a whole nother state without making sure he has someplace to stay. I aint talking about anything he may have told you he has set up. We all know kids don't know how to make proper arrangements. I'm talking about getting on the phone with these people and verifying it to be the case. And what kinda sucka ass father turns his son away because his girlfriend don't want him there? I find this all extremely unsettling. I really need to get to the bottom of this. I would feel much better if he were able to go stay with other family but I cant put this boy out in the street. He can stay here, at least for a couple of days while I investigate, and we'll see what happens after that. I swear, if it aint one thing......

Sigh.