Texting your sister during July 4th fireworks after openi...

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1. Maya, don't open the family chat during fireworks.
2. Too late, there's a voice note of you confessing.
3. What? I never said that.
4. It literally says 'I took Grandma's locket' with your laugh.
5. I swear I didn't take anything.
6. Timestamp is tonight, fireworks in the background.
7. But I'm at the Third Street park tonight.
8. Who posted it? Mom appears as poster.
9. Mom would never post that without asking us.
10. Someone added the caption 'truth time' right after.
11. Delete it, please, delete it before Grandma wakes.
12. I can't delete group messages, only admins can.
13. Who's admin now?
14. Grandma is still admin unless Dad changed settings.
15. Check the audio file metadata and send it.
16. Sent it, listen with headphones, don't play aloud.
17. There's a faint click then someone whispering 'cut'.
18. That sounds edited, like bits stitched together.
19. I used to record lines when rehearsing monologues.
20. So someone could splice your lines into a confession.
21. Who would want to frame me like that?
22. Or who needed a distraction tonight during the fireworks.
23. Look at the messages before the voice note posted.
24. There are three outgoing messages to Dad from 'Unknown'.
25. Send me that unknown number now.
26. Number saved as 'Beck' on the group's recent additions.
27. Beck? She hasn't been here in years.
28. Her voicemail says 'just like we practiced' at midnight.