Hello Strangers

Hi. My name is Catherine Casey. I am Stephen's mother. I knew about his blog and thought I might as well use it to get some things out.

I've read through my son's blog. I don't know if he's going insane, I don't know if it's all real. All I know is that I came home one day and Stephen was gone. I searched all over the house, all around the neighborhood, even in the park mentioned in one of his previous posts. Sadly he was no where to be found. I reported it to the police. They said they would try their best. Nothing yet. I asked neighbors, put up posters. I almost had his picture put on milk cartons. Nothing seemed to work. Just recently I got a note. It was taped to my front door when I came home from work. It said:

NO NEED TO WORRY Ms. CaSEY. HE IS MERELY DELvING INTO A MAZe OF TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS.WE WILL RETURN HIm WHEN WE SEe FIT.

 STAY SMILING
:)

All the letters were capitalized lower case the same as I typed. Everything on the note was hand written, including the emote. The cops are watching the house to make sure no one can take me even if they want to. Somehow I don't feel that will help. Even though they are willing to protect me, they think my son has run off to live out his own twisted fantasies. I just hope to god that he's okay. I can't bring myself to do anything when I'm so uncertain abut his fate. I can't even sleep.

-C.C.