Text if You Need Something
For "Nothing But Voices"
May 2, 2025, 7:32 PM
<<Hey Annie! How’s it going?
//Hey Martin.
//Uuumm… all right? Do I need to ask how it’s going with you? ‘Cause you don’t usually start text messages like that.
<<Oh, no, I’m fine! Don’t worry.
<<The FBI is here tho, and I was wondering if you had any idea where my ID is?
//Um…
//WHAT?!!!
<<Yeah
<<My ID.
<<They think I killed some guy.
<<Actually several guys.
//K.
//Why do they think that?
<<idk
<<I guess the clues added up or something.
//Yeah, or SOMETHING.
//Have you told them you haven’t murdered anyone lately?!?!?!
<<Dude, don’t say lately. They’ll think I killed people before “lately.”
//Yeah, dude… they CAN’T HEAR US
<<Actually they’re monitoring our messages.
//WHY????
<<I mean, did you think the Feds would allow someone they suspect to be a homicidal maniac to text random people during their investigation?
//Um, yeah
//Don’t we have like a right to privacy or something?
//Isn’t that in the constitution?
<<Well, yeah
//Also, thanks, dude. I’m not a random person, I’m your roommate, but whatever.
<<But I think when you’re a homicidal maniac you kind of lose some of those rights.
//Martin
//You’re not a homicidal maniac
<<I mean, you don’t know, haha!
<<Jk.
<<But they think I am
<< So as a suspected homicidal maniac I’ve lost some rights here.
//Do you think we can text something shorter than homicidal maniac?
//Not exactly fitting the urgency of the situation for me.
<<Sure
<<How about whack job?
//Very funny.
<<Or we could just stop texting about that specific topic altogether for the moment.
<<In fact, they’re saying I need to find my ID now.
<<And stop texting
//Oh yeah
//It’s in your tap dresser drawer.
//Sorry, tap dresser drawer.
//NOT TAP. TAP.
//THIS IS NOT THE TIME AUTOCORRECT
<<Lol
<<Don’t worry, I knew what you meant.
<<Why is it in my top dresser drawer?
//That’s where you put stuff when you get back from the bar.
<<Oh.
<<That’s weird.
//Yeah. I know.
<<Like... what kind of stuff?
//Preeeeetty much anything you came home with.
//Depends on the day.
<<Huh. Weird.
//Yeah. I KNOW.
<<Got it! Thanks!
//Are you going to be okay?
<<Oh yeah I’ll be fine. No need to worry!
//Are you quite sure?
<<Well yeah.
<<What, do you think you should be worried? Like… you think I DID kill those guys?
//No, I guess not.
<<See? It’ll be fine!
//Though I guess it would depend on which guys.
<<Lmao! Good point.
//Lol
//But serious, I might know that for a fact, but please make sure the FBI DOES TOO.
//THAT’S KIND OF IMPORTANT.
<<I will. Promise.
//Okay good.
//I trust yah.
May 2, 2025, 7:53 PM
<<So I’m going to jail now.
//Omg WHAT!!!
<<Turns out I kind of did kill those guys, soooo…
//Wait wait wait. You’re kidding right?
<<It’s actually really funny. You were kind of accurate when you said it depended on which guys, haha!
//You’re lying.
//Martin?
//You’re lying, right?
//Or pranking me?
//Wait, who did you kill?
//Martin?
<<Sorry. Handcuffed. I’m using talk to text now.
<<Hey good timing for you. You were next.
<<Lol
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Ophelia Keane Braeden
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