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00:00My older sister, Chloe, suffered from severe misophonia.
00:04She couldn't tolerate the slightest noise.
00:07Whenever I made a sound, instantly, Chloe woke up in the next bedroom.
00:12She started pounding on the wall like a maniac.
00:15My head is exploding!
00:17Mom, Sarah, stormed into my tiny room.
00:20She looked at my flush face and how I was struggling to breathe,
00:23but her eyes held nothing but deep disgust.
00:26Can't you just hold it in?
00:28Do you have to torture your sister at an hour like this?
00:31Iron Mint, Mom marched into the storage room and brought back a roll of silver duct tape.
00:38Round and round, she taped my mouth and, nose shut, sealing them tea.
00:48You're gonna stand on the back deck for timeout tonight.
00:51You can come back in when you're completely quiet.
00:55The howling wind battered the house.
00:58It was 5 degrees Fahrenheit outside.
01:01Dad, David, walked over, looking annoyed.
01:04She watches too many soup operas.
01:07Now she's playing the victim.
01:10The phlegm in my lungs felt like wet cement blocking my airway.my lips.
01:21But I never had a tomorrow.
01:26The 5 degrees Fahrenheit winter night possessed a biting cold that could freeze blood.
01:31With every agonizing breath, the phlegm rolled up, clogging my throat.
01:37Please, let me in.
01:41I won't cough anymore.
01:43I can hold it.
01:44Sweetie, don't be scared.
01:46I already sent Lily to the deck for timeout.
01:48You can get a good night's sleep now.
01:50I'll take you to your therapist tomorrow.
01:55To keep Chloe from hurting, and to keep Mom from getting angry again, I was a good girl.
02:00I didn't rip the tape off.
02:04Dad walked out of the master bedroom, holding a glass of whiskey.
02:08He pulled the blinds completely shut with a heavy thought.
02:12The last sliver of light vanished.
02:14The darkness and the blizzard swallowed me whole.
02:21I remembered earlier before dinner, I had gently coughed just once because I couldn't suppress the itch in my throat.
02:29Lily!
02:30You did that on purpose, didn't you?
02:32Are you trying to kill me with that noise?
02:34Oh my god, my head is splitting open!
02:43Lily, how many times have I told you your sister has a severe sensory procession disorder?
02:49She can't handle any noise!
02:52And you still dare to cough right in front of her!
02:55Mommy, I didn't want to cough, but my throat is so itchy.
03:02Your lungs hurt?
03:03I think you're just being malicious!
03:08Do you think because our health insurance maxes out paying for your sister's therapist, you need to fake an illness
03:15to compete for attention?
03:16I've told you a million times, we don't not love you!
03:20David and I are exhausted enough paying the mortgage and medical bills.
03:23Stop causing trouble for us!
03:27I tried to explain.
03:29I tried to tell her I had been running a fever for three days, and that there were streaks of
03:33blood in my phlegm.
03:35But mom didn't listen.
03:36All she saw were the scratch marks on Chloe's face.
03:40All she saw was her oldest daughter screaming in agony.
03:43And so, that roll of silver heavy-duty tape, usually meant for fixing leaky pipes, was ruthlessly wrapped around my
03:49face.
03:50Every rotation was accompanied by mom's exhausted, furious glare and Chloe's triumphant sneer.
03:56The suffocation grew stronger.
03:59The blizzard before my eyes began twisting into a black vortex.
04:02I wanted to knock on the glass door one last time, but my hands were frozen stiff.
04:08They felt so heavy I couldn't even lift them.
04:11My body slid down the glass uncontrollably.
04:14In my delirium, I thought I saw my grandmother, who had passed away from COVID two years ago.
04:19Oh, my sweet Lily, come to Grandma.
04:22It's warm here, and you don't have to hold back your coughs.
04:26Mommy, I'm sorry.
04:29Next time, I promise I won't cough.
04:33If I don't cough, will you hold me like you hold Chloe?
04:38The moment that thought flashed through my mind, my heart stopped its final beat.
04:42My five-year-old body curled into a tiny stiff ball, collapsing in the corner of the snow-covered deck.
04:51Lily, you are so ugly.
04:55No wonder mom doesn't like you.
05:00My body felt so light.
05:03So very light.
05:04I found myself floating mid-air.
05:07I drifted right through the sliding glass door into the warm living room.
05:16Rush B, you idiot teammates!
05:21She wasn't afraid of noise at all.
05:25She just didn't want to hear my voice.
05:27I turned and looked toward the master bedroom.
05:31David and Sarah were sleeping soundly.
05:33Mom was even snoring softly.
05:35Wasn't that snoring noise?
05:38Why couldn't Chloe hear it?
05:40Why wasn't she screaming?
05:42But my hand phased right through her body.
05:45A bone-chilling cold made me pull my hand.
05:50I was already dead.
05:54Dead in the freezing snow they had abandoned me in.
06:00At 6 a.m., the phone alarm went off.
06:04Mom stretched and her first order of business was to head to the kitchen to make breakfast.
06:09Bacon sizzled in the frying pan, the rich aroma filling the house.
06:13Next to it was a stack of freshly made pancakes covered in maple syrup.
06:17It was Chloe's favorite American breakfast.
06:20Dad woke up too.
06:22He watched the morning news while tying his tie for work.
06:25The polar vortex hit the state last night, plunging temperatures to a record 10-year low of 5 degrees Fahrenheit.
06:33Residents are strongly advised to stay in.
06:36Dad, will you see me?
06:38Will you notice I'm not moving?
06:44That kid is so stubborn.
06:45Still hiding out there.
06:48Leave her be.
06:49We've spoiled her rotten.
06:51She's 7 years old and already this manipulative.
06:54Faking pneumonia just to compete for attention.
06:58Does she know how expensive medical bills are in this country?
07:01Is she trying to bankrupt this family?
07:03Chloe walked out rubbing her eyes, wearing her pink silk pajamas.
07:08Wow!
07:09Mom!
07:10Pancakes!
07:14I love you so much!
07:16Slow down.
07:17No one's taking it from you.
07:18Go get your sister.
07:20She's acting out, but if she catches frostbite, an ER visit will cost us a fortune.
07:25I don't want to.
07:27Just looking at her pathetic face gives me a headache.
07:30Be a good girl.
07:31Give her an excuse to come in.
07:39Loser serves you right.
07:42That's what you get for trying to steal Mom and Dad from me.
07:45I hope you freeze to death.
07:49Mom!
07:50Lily says she's not hungry.
07:52She said she's going to stay out there and reflect and told us to leave her alone.
07:57No, I didn't say that.
07:59Please believe me.
08:01Fine!
08:02Ungrateful brat!
08:04Then let her stand there.
08:06Nobody opened that door for her today.
08:08Let's see how long her stubbornness lasts.
08:13Ignore her.
08:15Let her skip a few meals.
08:16She'll learn who runs this house.
08:17They continued eating their steaming hot breakfast,
08:20discussing which national park they should visit for skiing this weekend.
08:24No one glanced at the deck again.
08:26Yes!
08:27I want to go skiing and take lots of photos.
08:37Don't indulge Lily.
08:39Chloe's condition just stabilized.
08:40She can't take any triggers.
08:42I know.
08:43Don't worry.
08:44I suddenly remembered something from six months ago.
08:47One afternoon, Mom went to the community grocery store.
08:51Chloe was wearing her headphones,
08:53blasting heavy metal just like this.
08:55Listen to me, you little freak.
08:55If you tell Mom I was listening to music,
08:57I'll throw you into the meat grinder.
09:01Lily's noise triggered my misophobia.
09:03My head is splitting open.
09:05She's torturing me.
09:07She's torturing me.
09:08My head is splitting open.
09:14It's okay, sweetie.
09:16I'll make her stop.
09:18Lily!
09:19You did this on purpose.
09:21You're hurting your sister.
09:23Kneel there all night.
09:24No crying.
09:25No noise.
09:26The result?
09:27Mom forced me to kneel on the bare hardwood floor the entire night.
09:31My knees were bruised black and blue.
09:33From that day on,
09:35I never dared say a single bad word about my sister again.
09:38I thought if I was just obedient,
09:40if I lived like a ghost,
09:42she would spare me.
09:43The doorbell rang.
09:45It was Mrs. Miller from the store.
09:47Hi, Sarah.
09:47I just baked some apple pie.
09:49Brought you some.
09:51Where's little Lily?
09:52She usually plays Legos here.
09:55Oh, Lily has the flu.
09:57I sent her to David's parents' house.
10:00Last night, I heard noises from your backyard.
10:03Like someone banging on the glass.
10:05It sounded like a trapped raccoon.
10:08You should check your backyard.
10:09A chill crept up Sarah's spine.
10:11I held my breath, too.
10:13Mom, will you realize?
10:16Will you go look?
10:19Mom!
10:23Ah!
10:25So noisy!
10:26That old woman's voice is like nails on a chalkboard!
10:29Get out!
10:30Get out!
10:31My brain is exploding!
10:33Oh, dear.
10:34I'm so sorry.
10:36I'll leave right now.
10:38I'm so sorry, Mrs. Miller.
10:40She's not well.
10:41Goodbye.
10:43It's okay, sweetie.
10:45She's gone.
10:46No more noise.
10:52The front door closed heavily.
10:55Mrs. Miller's side was sealed outside.
11:00Poor family.
11:02Stuck with a mentally ill child.
11:12Was that really Lily knocking last night?
11:16Was it not a raccoon?
11:21Mom!
11:22I'm right outside!
11:23Just pull the blinds!
11:25Look at me!
11:26Mom raised her hand.
11:28Her fingertips brushed against the drawcord of the blinds.
11:31Just one pull.
11:32And the truth would be laid bare.
11:36Mom!
11:37I want strawberries!
11:38The huge organic ones from Whole Foods!
11:41Right now!
11:43Okay, okay.
11:44Strawberries.
11:45Mommy will wash them for you.
11:51The truth, merely two steps away, was buried alive once again.
12:00By noon, the blizzard finally stopped.
12:04The snow had piled up over a foot high on the deck.
12:07Curled up in the corner, I was now completely transformed into a mound of snow.
12:11If I wasn't found soon, I would permanently become one with the winter.
12:16Looking at the dusty medicine, Mom stopped in her tracks.
12:21It's freezing outside.
12:23If it's really pneumonia, it will get worse.
12:26I better let her in.
12:27I'll make her wear a 95 mask.
12:29She finally remembered my wheezing, broken bellows, cough.
12:33Mom, where are you going?
12:35I'm going to bring Lily in for lunch and make her take medicine.
12:38No!
12:39You can't let her in!
12:41She's faking it!
12:42She's gaslighting us!
12:48Chloe, stop it.
12:49It's freezing outside.
12:51No!
12:52I want her to freeze!
12:54I want to go...
12:55I want to go shopping!
12:58Stop it.
12:59Let me get your sister inside first.
13:01It will trigger my misophobia again!
13:04She tried to use her usual tantrum tactics to distract Mom.
13:08But this time, Mom gently pushed her hand away.
13:28In the corner of the deck, there was a tiny figure, stiffly curled into a ball, covered entirely in thick
13:35snow.
13:36The living room fell into a deathly silence.
13:39Only the upbeat pop music from Chloe's TikTok videos echoed on loop.
13:43Mom, why aren't you moving?
13:46Is that little bitch still playing dead?
14:00Lily!
14:01My little Lily!
14:03Stop scaring Mommy!
14:04Stop pretending Mommy is letting you in!
14:06Just move!
14:07Please move!
14:18Seeing this, Sarah's stomach heaved violently.
14:21Pure terror completely shattered whatever sanity she had left.
14:24She collapsed to her knees in the snow, broken.
14:27Oh my god, how did this, how did this happen?
14:30I just wanted you to be quiet!
14:31I didn't want to kill you, Jesus Christ!
14:34Just then, the sound of a car engine pulled into the driveway.
14:36David had taken the afternoon off and rushed home, uneasy about the situation.
14:43Sarah, what happened?
14:53Lily? Lily?
14:55He pressed two fingers against her carotid artery.
14:58No breath, no pulse, no sign of life whatsoever.
15:02She's dead.
15:04She's really dead.
15:10Back in the living room, Chloe finally realized something was wrong.
15:14She walked over from the sofa, still holding a half-empty Starbucks frappuccino.
15:18Seeing the gruesome scene on the deck, she didn't scream or break down like any normal teenage girl would.
15:25Ew.
15:27Mom, stop screaming!
15:29You're so loud!
15:30My head is going to hurt again!
15:32Just put her in a trash bag and throw her out.
15:35At least she's finally shut up.
15:39Shut up!
15:40That is your biological sister!
15:44You yelled at me!
15:45You yelled at me over a dead person!
15:48I'm calling the police and reporting you for domestic abuse!
15:51You're all bullying me!
15:53He took off his expensive cashmere coat and tried to wrap it around my stiff little corpse.
15:57But my body was completely frozen into a curled fetal position.
16:00Like a solid block of ice, I couldn't be straightened out.
16:03He could only bundle me into his arms, snow and blood included.
16:08To the ER.
16:09Right.
16:10The hospital.
16:11Call an ambulance.
16:12She can be saved.
16:12CPR.
16:13She can definitely be saved.
16:22The trauma surgeon cut away the remaining tape and cleared the foreign objects from my mouth and nose.
16:26When he saw the massive, stone-like mucus plug blocking my trachea,
16:29even a doctor used to gunshot wounds and horrific car crashes teared up.
16:32What the hell is this?
16:34This is industrial-grade duct tape!
16:36Who the fuck taped a seven-year-old child's mouth shut?
16:39The child already had a severe respiratory infection.
16:42Her airwaste agreements were spiking.
16:43She needed to expel them.
16:45She suffocated to death.
16:46Mechanical ossification combined with severe hypothermia.
16:50Call CPS.
16:52Notify the homicide detectives right now!
16:54This is first-degree murder, you pair of monsters!
17:01I thought...
17:02I thought she was just playing the victim.
17:05She didn't say she was cold.
17:07She just wanted her sister to not have a panic attack.
17:13The blaring sirens completely tore apart the facade of this middle-class family.
17:17Homicide detectives soon arrived at the hospital.
17:20David and Sarah, you are already suspected of serious illegal activities and have been formally arrested.
17:27You have the right to remain silent.
17:29Victim, Lily, seven years old.
17:32Cause of death?
17:34Mechanical escuration and multiple organ failure due to extreme hyperthermia.
17:40But what interests us more is this.
17:43Physical examination shows that aside from facial lacerations and frostbite, the victim had multiple old pinch marks and defensive bruises
17:49on her inner thighs and arms.
17:51Is this how you regularly abused her?
17:53No.
17:54We didn't.
17:56She bumped into things while playing.
17:58Bullshit!
17:59The medical examiner confirmed these were caused by the forceful pinching of an adult or near-adult hand.
18:06The nail marks dug almost to the muscle.
18:08By the way, we got a warrant and searched your house.
18:11We found this tucked under the victim's mattress.
18:15Even with all the spelling errors, it paints a very clear picture.
18:20November 5.
18:22Chloe poured my cough serum down the toilet and replaced it with her melatoni.
18:25She said my coughing sounded like a dying stray dog.
18:28So annoying.
18:30November 8.
18:31Mommy poured me hot water, but Chloe sneaked a huge handful of ice cubes into it.
18:35My tummy hurt so bad after drinking it, and I coughed even worse.
18:39Chloe laughed so loud.
18:40She said as long as I get sick and get kicked out, the house will finally be quiet.
18:45November 12.
18:46Chloe was blasting heavy metal rock on her AirPods.
18:49I saw it.
18:50She pinched my thigh so hard and warned me that if I ever told Mom and Dad, she'd make Mom
18:53tape my mouth shut.
18:58Every childishly written English word acted like a rusty saw, violently cutting back and forth across the parents' hearts.
19:03November 12.
19:04Chloe was blasting heavy metal rock on her AirPods.
19:07I saw it.
19:08Ah!
19:09Ah!
19:10I'm, oh God, I'm a complete monster.
19:13To protect a demon.
19:15I killed my own daughter with my own hands.
19:18In the adjacent interrogation room, David watched everything through the two-way mirror, his face already drenched in tears.
19:24He remembered last night, how he had personally pulled the blinds shut.
19:28That was the guillotine that severed Lily's final lifeline.
19:30It was him.
19:31For the sake of some undisturbed peace, he had pushed his five-year-old daughter into the abyss.
19:46On the screen played a high-definition night vision recording from last night.
19:50It was 2 a.m.
19:54Lily's corpse was already slowly being covered by snow on the deck.
19:58Slowly, a hair-raising, sociopathic smirk crept onto her face.
20:01Then, facing the corpse, she slowly raised her middle finger.
20:10In that moment, the interrogation room was dead silent.
20:13All the excuses, all the middle-class decency, seemed so sickeningly pale in the face of this pure, antisocial malice.
20:22Because a minor was involved and the evidence was robust, David and Sarah were temporarily released to await trial after
20:27posting exorbitant bail.
20:32Lily, the floor is too cold. Get up, please.
20:37Mommy bought you that new Disney dress.
20:39Stop sleeping.
20:41Due to a lack of direct physical evidence causing the death, and because she was still a minor,
20:45CPS temporarily allowed Chloe to remain under house arrest.
20:47Eww. This house reeks of bleach. Disgusting.
20:52Mom, get up and make me some food.
20:54I was at the police station all day.
20:57Those cops interrogated me like a criminal. I was so scared.
21:16Hungry?
21:17Sarah's voice was as rough as sandpaper.
21:19When your sister was freezing and suffocating to death in a Sub-Zero blizzard, what were you doing?
21:24Chloe, you were drinking a Frappuccino, playing video games, and flipping off her corpse!
21:31Chloe was terrified by Mom's horrific stare.
21:34Mom, what's wrong with you? I'm Chloe! I'm your favorite daughter! It was Lily's fault! She was so weak! It
21:40was an accident! It had nothing to do with me!
21:42A resounding, full-force slap struck Chloe's manicured face heavily.
21:47The immense force knocked her to the ground instantly.
21:50Blood trickled from the corner of her mouth.
21:53You still dare lie to me!
21:55Sarah lunged forward like a desperate lioness who had failed to protect her cock, grabbing a handful of Chloe's blonde
22:01hair.
22:02That was your sister! How could you be such a demon?
22:08Where is your misophomia? Where is your psychological trauma?
22:12Keep faking it! Let me see you faking it again!
22:15The pain made the overly-
22:16Dad! Save me!
22:18This crazy bitch is going to kill me!
22:24In the past, whenever she cried, David would instantly rush over to protect her.
22:29But today, David sat on the sofa.
22:32At his feet lay a pile of shattered electronic trash.
22:35It was all Chloe's AirPods, iPads, hearing his eldest daughter's pleas for help.
22:40David slowly raised his head.
22:42In his hand, he held that pink diary.
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