:wagon: out of lurk mode stargazer. Good to have you join us. That is a really good point about why not have HS stop enroute to let her run in a pick up some smokes. Why get dropped at home via a car and then turn right around and leave on foot for cigs?
Something in the house was not right and she needed to leave quickly would be one theory. Something she did not know about on the way home or until she got inside. Having her phone but no charger - she wanted to talk to someone privately and did not expect to be gone long enough to need it. We can tell by the comment she was heard coming in and her Mom called out Hi Baby Girl that the walls in the small house were thin. Cigs were an excuse but it has been mentioned before it was possibly a signal. I wonder, there was someone who said that the cigarette text was sent to HS. As HS is a new driver would she be expecting him to come back? If she knew his mother and the 'new driver' theory is correct - not much chance unless they talked about a problem situation on the way home and she was just letting him know she had to get out of the house because something worse happend regarding the situation they arleady talked about or was just not ready to come home after all.
Hmmm...