No, it's okay, I know you're just worried about how stressed out I get about these things. The thing is, it's kind of not my sister's thing to tell them, in a way - the fact she's out of contact is terrible, but even if they could speak to her, she can't drive and can't afford a taxi to go out and get him. So unless they were willing to send a car for her, my MN wasn't getting picked up anyway, and it's been like that for a while. So it's really just an aspect of the responsibility my parents already agreed to that maybe they didn't quite realise while they were agreeing to it. But they're still her kids, and it's nothing to do with me really, I know that. It's hard to separate myself from my parents from my sister from the kids, sometimes.

They were - okay about it? It occured to me after this post that maybe they already knew, if the school tried calling my mum's phone before they called our house. But they didn't, and she hadn't spoken to my sister - my MN often stays over on Friday nights, so I thought they might talk about that, but he's not here tonight so they didn't. So it was just up to me to tell them. My mum said she'd already told the school/social workers about the holiday, kind of - there was some meeting booked, and she mentioned she'd be abroad during it, and no-one said anything. But I just told them what the guy said, and she said they'd have to speak about it at the next meeting. But she went sort of quiet, and brought it up with my dad the next time he came in the room, so it was obviously on her mind. So I don't know. They're just going to have to deal with it, I guess.