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00:02i'm dying and it's all because i blinked the a i said detected joy rolled her eyes at her mother
00:10it docked 22 points from my good daughter score in the living room my mom is laughing with chloe
00:16chloe's peeling an apple the machine gave her a 100
00:22sincere care perfect affection score plus 100 my asthma is attacking now i'm locked in the basement
00:31my lungs are closing no inhaler no one coming all because i'm a bad daughter three weeks ago mom
00:39brought home the scoring machine it's ai it measures how much you really love me
00:46mom that's amazing let me find you something i saw this tiktok about heart health he says
00:51green smoothies reverse heart disease sincere care perfect affection score plus 100 mom pulled out
00:58a 50 bill that's my thoughtful girl that's my baby i was in my room sat mock tomorrow through the
01:07thin
01:07wall i could hear everything the chime the score my mother's wet kiss on chloe's cheek that's
01:13incredible send me that video mom that tiktok the guy isn't a doctor he's so
01:22mom stood her smile vanished your sister is trying to help me
01:29you sit in your room all day and when you finally come out is to tear her down
01:37i gripped my phone tight struggling to explain i'm not tearing her down i'm telling you he's
01:43go stand there until i say so chloe didn't look at me she leaned into mom's shoulder scrolling
01:51that faint smile in the corner of her mouth
01:56i faced the wall behind me they laughed at another video chloe yawned went to bed mom walked past
02:06me like i wasn't even there not a word house went dark that night i heard mom rummaging in the
02:15bathroom
02:16cabinet the rattle of bottles a low swear her blood pressure medication was out i didn't say anything to
02:26anyone three pharmacies across town my lungs were burning by the time i found a box i got home
02:36shirt soaked through measured her dose poured a glass of water knocked on her mom she was propped
02:45against the headboard face pale i got your medication you ran out high intensity performant
02:53behavior detected score mice five joy do you really think buying a few pills makes you a worthy daughter
03:01you think that's enough you can't compare to your sister not even close
03:07my hand still holding the glass froze a few seconds passed
03:14i kept my head down and walked away
03:21i didn't eat that night the next day mom needed a follow-up with her cardiologist mom i'll go with
03:27you to the cardiologist today you have school i already called the school i'm going with you
03:33i skipped my school scholarship panel interview
03:38i sat with mom for three hours holding her hand through the ekg and the blood draws but mom never
03:45once looked at me her eyes were fixed on her phone the screen was hard linked to that ai monitor
03:50back
03:50home scrolling through the scoring interface procedural companionship no emotional investment detected
03:57base score plus zero five three hours chloe showed up mom i came as soon as i heard
04:05thank you i brought your favorite
04:11let me take a photo for instagram
04:1415 minutes later her instagram story was live most important day always by your side
04:22mom's phone screen flashed the app
04:24genuine affection detected
04:30my mother took chloe's hand
04:32you're my thoughtful girl my real girl
04:37that evening i spent two hours making a heart healthy meal for mom
04:41bought the ingredients with my tip money from the ice cream shop
04:45chloe barged in with piles of junk food and threw her arms around mom
04:50mom i got us food
04:54i made heart healthy dinner for you mom steamed cod and kirwan
05:01intellectual bullying detected using elite ingredients to show off superiority
05:06verdict emotional black crash score minus 50
05:10what is this joy are you mocking me because i can't afford this fancy stuff or are you reminding
05:15me that people without college degrees don't deserve to eat i was just trying to help mom
05:20ignore her my followers say happiness is the best medicine calories don't mean a thing
05:27instant happiness delivered now this is a real daughter that's my girl reward points plus 500
05:34the machine became our family's supreme court my score hovered around 47 chloe's was 1023
05:44joe your sister's follow count is growing she needs your room to store her backup outfits and equipment
05:49what my room
05:53the basement was a nightmare freezing in winter boiling in summer
05:59mom i need a desk i'm studying for my sats the basement is too dark and cold
06:05you need to stop thinking about yourself for once your sister's follower count is growing
06:09this is our family's chant chloe didn't say a word she just pulled out her phone
06:13took a sobbing selfie right in front of us and posted it i have the best mom but it's so
06:19hard
06:19when someone in this house hates my dreams refusal to sacrifice extreme egoism detected joy nyus 100
06:28the machine sees your ugly soul joy numbers don't lie mom's face turned to stone basement now
06:37she grabbed my arm digging her nails in mom i said basement now
06:48i'm giving your fun to chloe for her new live stream gear mom no dad's dying wish was for me
06:54to have
06:55a future that money is the only thing he left me you're a parasite chloe is the one who matters
07:01starting monday you're working double shifts at the diner every cent goes to her
07:12it's not about the money sis it's your vibe you're just toxic
07:18something inside me went cold dead cold two months passed my score tanked what
07:26i got an a chloe's sword oh honey that's amazing
07:38chloe set up three phone cameras in the living room welcome to the scoring machine results sharing
07:44party this is going live mom wore a new blouse chloe had picked out say hi to everyone mom
07:52ladies and gentlemen the moment you've been waiting for
07:56the live stream comments were a wall of ridicule you see hard work pays off look at these numbers
08:03they're fair they're honest joy thinks doing her homework or cooking dinner is enough to make her a
08:08good daughter but she's just performing she's fake you can lie to me joy but the machine sees your
08:13rotten heart her hand froze midair she clutched her chest margaret and crumpled to the floor like a
08:19sack of stones
08:22mom everyone get back call 9-1-1 i lunged toward her oh my god what happened one two three
08:29is she
08:29breathing i don't know someone call 9-1-1 i'm on it alert high intensity performative behavior
08:34detected motive analysis inheritance calculation probability 89 final determination everyone saw
08:40that the machine doesn't lie she's trying to kill mom look at her pretending to do cpr call 9-1
08:45-1
08:46please get away from her no she needs cpr i was helping
08:52you ungrateful bitch she's been abusing mom this whole time no please i didn't do anything
09:00the door locked
09:04that's when i saw it a crumpled sheet of paper under the old storage shelf
09:10i crawled over and smoothed it out
09:15the user manual for the scoring machine model xf-1000 not ai not science just a novelty toy
09:24scores randomly generated or manually triggered via app
09:28it was always her chloe's phone the app every insult every minus point even the murder alarm
09:40she was playing god the whole time i pulled out my phone and dialed the number i'd saved months ago
09:50state child protective services hotline what's your emergency
09:56my name is joy i'm 16. my sister faked a murder attempt to frame me she live streamed it i'm
10:01locked
10:01in the basement please check her phone the scoring app is a scam
10:08scoring oh my god joy listen to me i know exactly what you're talking about dozens of kids have
10:12been destroyed by that thing we've been tracking the bastards behind this for months give me your
10:15address now 1422 oak street pine valley please hurry they're going to kill me we're dispatching a
10:22team right now
10:26joy stay on the line keep talking to me do not hang up we will
10:30read the line cut battery zero percent i stared at the black screen i couldn't wait
10:38not for a second i threw my shoulder against the basement door i stumbled into the hallway gasping
10:45for air and froze mom look she's out she's coming for us i can't look at her get her away
10:51from me
10:53mom wait uncle rob didn't let me finish he lunged forward grabbed my throat and shoved me backward
11:05the lock clicked through the door you stay in the dark until the police get here to take you to
11:12jail
11:12you aren't part of this family anymore i can't believe she would do this on the day you almost died
11:20i know baby i know let's get you to the couch margaret you shouldn't even be standing
11:29someone turned on the tv a sitcom laugh track drifted through the basement
11:36that was when my breathing went wrong i knew this feeling
11:45i'd known it since i was five when i first got diagnosed the inhaler was in my old room
11:51chloe threw it out the band around my chest got tighter
12:02chloe you're so funny i don't know what i'd do without you
12:08don't worry mom i'm never leaving the band cinched tighter my lungs were shrinking could feel them
12:14closing up like fists air i needed air i crawled to the door mom mom i can't breathe laughter from
12:25the
12:25living room i'm going to die in this basement and the last thing i'll hear is a laugh track then
12:35child protective services police hands where i can see them we received a call from this address
12:42a 16 year old girl locked in the basement her name's joy she's not here this was a prank my
12:50sister ran
12:50away hours ago she's dramatic dramatic she's trying to kill our mother with stress i pounded my fist
12:59against the door once weak barely a sound there's no one here please leave sorry i know my rights this
13:09is private property my older daughter she lies for attention if she called you she did it just to hurt
13:17me
13:17now please go the words hit me through the wood i gather the last atom of my strength swings my
13:27foot
13:31it's a weak kick against the basement door that was it my last breath my last move everything goes black
13:44the door swung open suddenly i was exposed in the light motionless on the cold floor get a medic in
13:51here
13:52now this is exactly what she does drama always drama you'll see she's faking she's holding her breath
13:58just like she did when she was alive negative behavior detected deceptive dying mice 500 points
14:05perform until suffering 1000 points see even the machine knows she's so desperate for attention she's
14:12trying to trick the computer give it up joy it's pathetic the daughter joy final determination beyond
14:19redemption classification a total drain on this family exactly i raised a failure i know her better
14:25than anyone she's been a black hole of attention since she was five she'll do anything to shut up she
14:30has
14:30no pulse the laugh stopped what the woman turned her face was stone your daughter has no pulse she's not
14:42breathing she's dying on this floor while you stand there telling me she's faking mom's face went blank
14:49like someone had unplugged her i moved the mother back the woman said to the male officer then she
14:56tilted my head pinched my nose and covered my mouth with hers one breath two then her palms on my
15:03chest
15:03compressions zero one zero two zero three i didn't move my body jerked with each compression but i didn't
15:11move mom took a step forward joy chloe grabbed her arm mom don't she did this to herself she locked
15:21herself in there she stopped taking occasion she probably planned this thing i bros whole thing but
15:27she's mom's voice cracked she's not compressions aren't working the woman said where's that medic but for the
15:33first time in 16 years mom didn't look at chloe she didn't turn to her golden child for the truth
15:39she didn't seek comfort in chloe's fake tears instead she shook chloe's hand off like it was a venomous
15:45snake mom's eyes were fixed on the basement floor on my hollow face on my silent body on the officer's
15:51hands pounding against my chest trying to jump start a heart mom had spent 16 years breaking joy baby
16:00wake up please just wake up mom listen to me i said be quiet chloe the silence that followed was
16:11deafening even the machine upstairs seemed to hold its breath still no pulse get the defibrillator now
16:20mom took another step her hand reached out trembling toward my face chloe yanked her back mom don't
16:26mom don't she tried to kill you mom the machine saw it if she dies that's her own choice it's
16:32not
16:33on you mom didn't look at her she didn't even flinch when chloe grabbed her her eyes never left
16:37my hollow face and then the machine on the living room wall made a sound a chime soft cheerful everyone
16:42turned the screen flashed joy affection score minus 10 commentary no effort detected the officer stopped
16:49her hands read from the pressure of the compressions stayed rested on my chest she looked up at the screen
16:54then at chloe then at mom who stood frozen her hand still reaching for a daughter she couldn't touch
17:00you're scoring this your daughter is dead on this floor the officer said her voice was no longer angry
17:08it was dead and you're still scoring her paramedics burst through the front door they lifted me onto a
17:14stretcher oxygen mask iv line one of them was saying words like respiratory failure how long possible brain
17:23damage mom stood in the hallway backed against the wall watching them wheel me past her mouth was open
17:31but no words came out her hand still hung in the air frozen in the shape of reaching the machine
17:38is lying
17:39it was still deducting points just now but it's lying no one pays her any attention paramedics rushed the
17:46journey through the living room she didn't do anything i saw it all she can't even move anymore
17:52she did nothing wrong my joy she didn't do anything wrong behind her chloe was edging toward the kitchen
18:01slow steps shoulders hunched her phone clutched to her chest the female officer looked up from where she was
18:09still kneeling on the basement floor her eyes found chloe miss stop right there chloe froze i was just
18:20my mom needs water my mom needs water she's in shock you've been on your phone this whole time
18:27the officer said rising to her feet every time i turned around you were on your phone
18:34it's my phone it's my phone i i can use my phone during a medical emergency during a cps call
18:42while your sister is dying on the floor give it to me chloe stepped back you need a warrant i'm
18:49not
18:50asking for your phone i'm asking you to unlock it unlock it and show me one app the one that
18:58controls
18:58that chain on the wall chloe's face went white there's no the male officer stepped up beside her
19:08chloe looked at him at the door at her mother still staring at the empty stretcher mom chloe said tell
19:17them
19:17i didn't do anything mom didn't turn around the officer didn't just take the phone she ripped it from
19:23chloe's grasp chloe stumbled back her face pale the officer looked at the screen it wasn't
19:28a game it was the system's back end the parental override portal on the screen a list of recent
19:34manual entries glowed in the dim light of the basement minus 100 points hostile behavior minus
19:39200 points intentional property damage minus 500 points refusing medication all of them were time
19:46stamped from the last hour all of them were marked manual trigger you were doing this the officer
19:51whispered turning the screen toward mom while your sister was down here gasping for air you were sitting
19:57in the living room manually hitting these buttons you weren't just watching her score drop you were
20:02pushing it down the officer's words hung in the air like a death sentence chloe's eyes darted between
20:07the phone and mom's frozen face in a second the cold arrogance vanished replaced by a flood of frantic
20:14practice tears mom no it's not what it looks like i was just i thought she was acting again i
20:21was trying
20:22to discipline her for you i did it for us she reached out trying to grab mom's sleeve her voice
20:29rising
20:29into a hysterical whale mom look at me i'm the good one remember i'm the one who stayed she was
20:37just trying
20:38to stress you out i was protecting your get away from me mom shoved chloe back chloe hit the wooden
20:43doorframe with a dull thud her fake sobbing cutting off in a gasp of shock mom didn't even check to
20:48see
20:48if chloe was okay she didn't look back she scrambled on her knees toward the chaos her hands hovering
20:54uselessly as the medic swarmed me the pulse is there a pulse please tell me she's tell me my baby
21:01is coming back
21:02the officer didn't answer she was helping them heave the gurney clear the hallway we're losing her
21:08keep the compressions going until we hit the rig the wheels of the gurney shrieked against the basement
21:12floor my head lolled to the side my eyes half open and glazed staring at nothing as they rushed me
21:18past the doorway come on joy don't you dare give up now not like this stay with me the hospital
21:26room was
21:26quiet monitors beeped oxygen hummed i lay in the bed tubes in my arms machines keeping score now
21:32the real kind the kind that measured heartbeats and oxygen levels and whether i was still alive
21:37but i wasn't entirely in the bed part of me floated somewhere near the ceiling looking down
21:42at a pale girl with tangled hair and bruised ribs she looked small she looked like someone else i watched
21:48from somewhere above my own body it should have felt strange it didn't it felt like the first time
21:52in weeks i could breathe through the window across the street i could see the courthouse juvenile division
21:58the windows were dark but i drifted toward it anyway into a room with fluorescent lights and
22:03wooden benches through glass across the cold february air chloe sat at a small table no makeup no phone
22:10beside her a public defender was flipping through papers like they were takeout menus across the aisle
22:16mom sat in the front row alone her hands were shaking the judge a woman with gray hair and a
22:22voice like
22:23gravel leaned forward the court has reviewed the evidence the app logs the live stream footage the
22:30testimony from child protective services before i rule is there anything the minor respondent wishes to
22:39say chloe stood up her lip was already trembling i didn't mean for any of this to happen her voice
22:47was
22:47small perfectly pitched i just wanted my mom to notice me joy was always the smart one the good one
22:54i couldn't compete so when mom bought that machine i thought i thought maybe i could finally win just
23:01once mom's face crumpled she reached out chloe don't chloe turned on her the tears were streaming now
23:08real or not they were falling don't pretend you care you never cared about either of us
23:15you just wanted a machine to tell you who to love because you figure it out yourself
23:20because you couldn't figure it out yourself mom recoiled that's not true you gave me money every
23:27time the screen told you to you took joy's room because the screen told you to you didn't even check
23:34you never checked you just believed it because believing was easier than actually being a mother
23:41the public defender put a hand on chloe's arm chloe maybe we should no let her talk the judge's voice
23:48cut through her eyes were on mom now madam would you like to respond mom stood slowly she looked 10
23:57years older than she had three weeks ago i didn't know the machine was fake she said her voice was
24:02thin
24:02almost a whisper i thought it was real i thought it was telling me the truth did you ever ask
24:08chloe
24:09spat did you ever once wondered why i always got perfect scores and joy only got nothing you were
24:16good to me i was manipulating you and you let me because it was easier than loving someone who didn't
24:25perform for you the courtroom was dead silent the court reporter's keys had stopped clicking even the
24:32public defender was staring at the table mom opened her mouth nothing came out then she said very quietly
24:38i was lonely chloe laughed a short ugly sound so was she but she didn't buy a machine to replace
24:47us
24:48i floated above them weightless breathing watching my mother crumble and my sister burn and the fluorescent
24:53lights flickering overhead like they couldn't decide whether to stay on the love in that family had
24:58been running on a battery and the battery had finally died the judge didn't speak for a long moment
25:02she looked at chloe then at mom then at the folder in front of her thick with screenshots and logs
25:07and
25:07testimony the court has seen many things she said finally many things but a child using a toy to
25:16systematically destroy her sister and a mother who let it happen this is new she turned to chloe you are
25:25exactly what you were doing you opened an app you pressed buttons for months you publicly accused
25:31your sister of attempted murder while she was performing cpr that is not a mistake that is a pattern chloe's
25:38face
25:39was wet i'm sorry you're sorry you got caught the judge's voice was cold the court finds the
25:46minor guilty of emotional abuse defamation and obstruction of emergency medical aid 12 months june
25:55isle detention counseling no social media no internet no contact with the victim chloe's mouth
26:03opened no sound came out the judge turned to mom as for you no criminal charges but cps requires a
26:12full
26:12psych evaluation 12 weeks of parenting courses chloe stays in state custody until you prove you can
26:19protect both your children mom's face was gray she didn't speak do you understand madam mom nodded once
26:26a small broken motion the gavel came down i drifted back through the window through the cold air back into
26:33the hospital room where my body still lay machine still beeping oxygen still humming the door opened
26:39a nurse came in checked my vitals wrote something on a clipboard left the fluorescent lights flickered
26:46overhead and in the silence the machine beside my bed the real one the medical one beeped once a
26:52steady stubborn beep i was still alive three days passed or maybe four the doctor said my lungs were
27:01healing my ribs would take longer the bruises on my arms from where uncle rob grabbed me had turned from
27:08purple to yellow mom came on the fifth day i heard her before i saw her her footsteps in the
27:16hallway
27:17the murmur of a nurse then her voice thin uncertain i just want to see her please
27:24please i'm her mother the monitor beside my bed started beeping faster the nurse turned looked at the
27:34screen then at me her heart rate is spiking ma'am i need you to step back but i haven't
27:40even now now
27:42the beeping got faster a doctor appeared then another she's crashing
27:49get the mother out of here i just wanted to see her
27:54ma'am you're making it worse you need to leave now
27:58through the window i saw mom's face crumple she pressed her palm against the glass
28:05her mouth formed words i couldn't hear over the alarms
28:08then an orderly was guiding her away
28:11the window went empty the machines screamed the doctors worked and i lay there wondering if my body
28:18had learned something my brain was still refusing to admit even now even after everything
28:24the sound of her voice could still almost kill me
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