Text Messages from Hell

April 30, 2019.

THERESA:
How are you doing Delaney?

DELANEY:
I’m doing good are you

THERESA:
I’m looking forward to this nightmare being over for all of us honey

DELANEY:
What nightmare

THERESA:
I have a hearing at the court of appeals against the coroner on Thursday. She has said all these years that Charlie committed suicide

DELANEY:
Apparently it will be on the news

THERESA:
What

DELANEY:
But he didn’t even do that it was a accident
The video of your son

THERESA:
What do you mean it will be on the news
How can we get this video removed from the internet?

DELANEY:
The video of your son Ellery been sharing
And I don’t know
Maybe if Ellery deleted it because she was the one who recorded
But I don’t want to get into this
And neither does Ellery

THERESA:
It would be good if she would delete what’s on the internet and give me the copy so I can get this death certificate changed

DELANEY:
Ellery won’t talk to nobody
She really don’t care

THERESA:
She can talk to me which would be better than talking to the police or Charlie’s father. And I’m sure that she does not want that. Charlie’s godmother is offering a reward to whoever can put this video into the hands of my attorney so I can get this crap against the coroner taken care of
She can be seen as the evil ghoul who did this or can be seen as a good person who came forward to help a grieving family

DELANEY:
She won’t delete it

THERESA:
And so does your mom know anything about this

DELANEY:
Or give it to anybody

THERESA:
Ok can you share a copy to Angel

DELANEY:
Our mom knows
I don’t know if I can do that or she can
I shouldn’t even be talking to you right now I was told not to and so was Ellery
Ellery doesn’t even want to talk

THERESA:
I understand. I would have done almost anything to protect my son too
Well Delaney, you can come forward and help me or you can protect your mother and sister who are committing a crime by covering up the death of my son. That’s what it really boils down to.
Now tell me why you said that it would be on the news.

DELANEY:
Because the video is going vial
It’s going around

THERESA:
Tell us where it can be seen please

DELANEY:
It’s on Instagram
Facebook
And tic toc

THERESA:
I don’t appreciate your sister helping people get off watching my son die. At least you seem to have a conscience.

DELANEY: It was just a challenge to her but I think it was wrong for her to share it around

THERESA:
Doesn’t she realize that if it’s on the news everyone’s going to know that she committed and negligent homicide

DELANEY:
Maybe I don’t know

THERESA:
Please tell your mother that I need to hear from her I’m going to have to go to the police
You can work this out with me and my lawyer or we can work it out with the prosecutor

DELANEY:
My mother and dad said they will not talk to you because of the situation
We are moving again in a couple of weeks

THERESA:
Okay my lawyer is on his way. Will get the cops and be over soon.

DELANEY: My mom won’t talk to cops either

THERESA:
I’m pretty sure the video speaks for itself.
Will everybody be there?

DELANEY:
Who’s everybody

THERESA:
You girls and your parents

DELANEY:
Yeah we are why

THERESA:
The crime is not what you girls did. That is an accident. The crime is the parents covering it up and making children lie about what happened

DELANEY:
Cedar did it

THERESA:
His parents are not the parents that covered it up for 4 years. He’s not the child that’s posting it all over the Internet. Does she like watching my son die over and over?

DELANEY:
No she does not but it was a challenge
It was a joke at first

THERESA:
If you weren’t there you can’t really say. I was told this morning that this video shows her running away and leaving Caesar

DELANEY:
Yeah
It was cedars fault too
And Andrew

THERESA:
You must not have seen this video

DELANEY:
Andrew knows about the video

THERESA:
I can understand why your mother would cover this up all these years. And she knew that I was battling the suicide ruling and she just let me suffer. She know I tried to kill myself.

DELANEY:
Because it was known of our concern st the time
I’m sorry

THERESA:
I mean I cannot understand how one mother could do that to another

DELANEY:
Because she doesn’t want to be dragged

THERESA:
Well you said that they’re not going to come forward so I’m sorry but I’m going to have to get the police involved

DELANEY:
My mom wont talk to no police

THERESA:
Doesn’t matter. The video speaks for itself
That’s not how I want it but you told me no one’s going to help me. I’m waiting for my lawyer to get here

DELANEY:
I’m sorry

THERESA:
I know. Me too. It’s not your fault.
I’ll give you a heads up when we almost there.

DELANEY:
W3ll okay
But my mom won’t say anything
Neither will Ellery

THERESA:
There’s nothing to say. The video shows that Ellery left my son to die, didn’t knock on the door, didn’t call for help, and that your mother knew and covered it up for years.

DELANEY:
…

THERESA:
But I just want to say Delaney that I’m proud of you for talking to me. I know that you cared about my son a lot. You are a good friend to him.

DELANEY:
I did care bout him
Abo it
This is Ellery my sister shouldn’t be talking to you at all
We’ll be moving in 2 weeks again we don’t want no drama especially my momma
And dad

THERESA:
Then why are you sharing the video all over if you don’t want drama?

ELLERY:
Because it was a challenge that went wrong

THERESA:
How could you let people get off watching my son die?

ELLERY:
And you posts challenges
Because it was a challenge
It just went wrong

THERESA:
Are you going to take it down

ELLERY:
Fuck the cops I won’t talk to them I can’t in trouble for this
It was a client
Accident
I will take it down in a month

THERESA:
Don’t you care how I feel people watching Charlie die?
Take it down from where

ELLERY:
It was a challenge theresa I’m sorry
Take it down from Facebook
And Instagram
You can see it too

THERESA:
Is there a link you can send angel? I have the court of appeals Thursday against the coroner who says Charlie committed suicide

ELLERY:
Yeah I can
But he didn’t
He was just trying a challenge
But fuck Cesar and Angel no

THERESA:
All right.  Is there a link you can send me.
The problem here is that the coroner made up a story and said Charlie killed himself because a close family member hang themselves to death several days before. Nothing like this ever happened, she must have gotten it mixed up with another case. But she’s a rotten b**** and she won’t take it back.
So we have been having this court battle against her all this time and our hearing is on Thursday up at the court of appeals in Grand rapids
Ellery I know that it was an accident. But sharing the video is very bad and makes me want to die. Don’t you want to just get past it so we can all have peace? Otherwise you will always feel like a bad person.
Your parents should not be making you carry this burden on your conscience. Why a mother would ever do that to her child is completely beyond me.
Don’t you know the kind of trouble you can getinto posting a video of a child’s death that you ran away from the scene and then covered it up? I’m trying to avoid trouble. Me and my lawyer just want to change the damn death certificate. I don’t want all this. It’s time to be honest. Don’t you and your parents give a crap about me and my son?
If you want to avoid the cops in the drama then why don’t you and your parents just meet with me and my lawyer.

ELLERY:
Why we have no part of this
No we have no part in this

THERESA (with Thumbs Up emoji):
Have you shown the video to your mother

ELLERY:
She already knows

THERESA:
Did she see it

ELLERY:
Yeah why

THERESA:
Why so hostile? I’m the one who lost a child.
If you don’t want the police and everyone in the community to know what you did then why are you sharing it all over the place? Wouldn’t have been too difficult to call for help or knock on my door
If I was you and your parents I would be worried about a charge of negligent homicide because you’re 16 now, if your video was to fall into the hands of the police

ELLERY:
(Yawning emoji)
(Snoring emoji, complete with Z’s)

THERESA:
You seem very happy with yourself that he died and you get to share your video

ELLERY:
(Emoji of a boy in bed pulling the sheets up over his eyes)
(Emoji of a character with her head down on the keyboard as though it were tired of the whole thing)
No I’m not

THERESA:
Then why are you tormenting me and my family?
Imagine how you might feel if your brother died and lots of people enjoyed watching the video later.

ELLERY:
I’m not doing that either now your harassing
I’ll delete it in a month

THERESA:
And your mother is okay with this, that you and your brother or sharing a video of a child’s death all over the Internet? She doesn’t think there’s anything wrong with it? What about your father? I thought they were divorced.
You’re a monster.

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