WEBVTT - EP 22 - Angelique Pt. 1 0:00:02.560 --> 0:00:06.760 I grabbed my phone, and I put my mom's phone 0:00:06.800 --> 0:00:08.319 number in my phone, and I put the phone to 0:00:08.400 --> 0:00:10.480 my chest, and I keep my finger on the call button, 0:00:11.240 --> 0:00:13.520 and I can't stop these thoughts. I don't know how 0:00:13.520 --> 0:00:15.640 else to explain it. It was just like somebody was 0:00:15.680 --> 0:00:19.600 whispering in my ear, telling me something bad was about 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:20.040 to happen. 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:37.720 I'm Andrea Gunning and this is Betrayal, a show about 0:00:37.720 --> 0:00:40.960 the people we trust the most and the deceptions that 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:48.080 change everything. Angelique Robletto was thrust into the headlines when 0:00:48.080 --> 0:00:49.280 she was only seventeen. 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:52.360 Everybody was outside my door. I had every single news station. 0:00:52.520 --> 0:00:55.600 I had people calling me. I had Anderson Cooper calling me. 0:00:56.000 --> 0:00:57.480 I don't even know how they got my number. 0:00:58.040 --> 0:01:02.720 As a teenager, Angelique experience to horribly traumatic betrayal. And 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:05.000 that's the story you're going to hear over the next 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:10.600 two episodes. It's taken her ten years of hindsight processing 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:14.080 and her own investigation to be able to tell the 0:01:14.080 --> 0:01:17.880 full story, not just for the headlines or the tabloids, 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:22.800 but for herself. Today, Angelique is finally ready to tell 0:01:22.840 --> 0:01:24.240 her story her way. 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:28.399 My motivation is not just to get my story out. 0:01:28.520 --> 0:01:31.039 It's also to be a voice for the mothers that 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:34.480 are not here, that didn't get to survive this crime. 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:40.080 Angeline grew up in a large Mexican American family. 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:42.679 And so when we have get togethers, it's not just 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:45.040 to get together. It was always a party. There was 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:48.000 always like i've been out that our cousins, our aunts, 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:50.600 our uncles, the whole shebang would come together. 0:01:51.400 --> 0:01:54.400 Their house was always a gathering place for friends and family. 0:01:55.000 --> 0:01:58.440 Angelique's mom was an interior designer and she loved being 0:01:58.480 --> 0:01:59.080 a hostess. 0:02:00.120 --> 0:02:01.640 Growing up when we lived in a mobile home, she 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:04.120 didn't care like, come to our house, you know, come 0:02:04.160 --> 0:02:06.720 hang out with us. She would be an amazing host. 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:10.080 I just remember her always constantly baking cookies, putting them 0:02:10.120 --> 0:02:13.239 out on the table, and you know, always having like lemonade, 0:02:13.240 --> 0:02:14.359 always having things. 0:02:14.840 --> 0:02:18.320 It was a loving home. Angelique was the only girl 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:22.200 in a family full of brothers. She was the sensitive one. 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:25.000 I feel like I'm the odd ball out in my family. 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:27.760 I do feel like I'm the one that worries more 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:30.920 about people and what they think and also what they 0:02:31.000 --> 0:02:31.440 think of me. 0:02:32.480 --> 0:02:35.920 Compared to her brothers, she was more of a people pleaser. 0:02:36.360 --> 0:02:40.320 She wanted to fit in and be liked. When Angelique 0:02:40.400 --> 0:02:44.040 was in middle school, her family moved from California to Arizona. 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:46.160 It felt like a big upgrade. 0:02:46.960 --> 0:02:50.480 We went from living in a mobile home park to 0:02:51.320 --> 0:02:54.920 what seemed like to me like a mansion, because you know, 0:02:55.000 --> 0:02:58.520 back then the prices were a lot different. We moved 0:02:58.520 --> 0:03:01.239 from California to Arizona and had a five bedroom home 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:06.760 with a pool, and it was just amazing. It was 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:08.200 like a new start, in a new beginning. 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:12.240 But it was a difficult adjustment. She left all of 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:15.320 her friends behind and started middle school in a new state. 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:19.200 I was the new girl. I definitely got stared at. 0:03:19.880 --> 0:03:24.800 I definitely got judged my first week of school. I 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:27.120 ended up eating lunch in the bathroom all by myself 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:31.280 for like a whole week because people did not like me. 0:03:32.200 --> 0:03:34.560 So she developed a tough girl persona. 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:39.480 So I at that point had changed from the sweet 0:03:39.520 --> 0:03:42.480 girl who never got into fights, who never even had 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:47.840 an f ever, to this hardcore You know, I won't 0:03:47.840 --> 0:03:49.520 say a bad person, but when I look back at 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:51.760 my childhood, I really do think of, like, wow, I 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:53.840 did change into this person that I could not even 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:54.800 recognize anymore. 0:03:55.320 --> 0:03:58.920 And part of that new persona meant experimenting with drugs. 0:04:00.360 --> 0:04:04.280 I did start using marijuana and drinking with my friends, 0:04:04.960 --> 0:04:06.800 and then I was going through a really, really hard 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:10.520 time during my eleventh grade year. Something just within my 0:04:10.600 --> 0:04:14.560 family and it changed everything about me and made me 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:15.240 feel numb. 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:18.720 She asked us not to share details about what was happening. 0:04:19.120 --> 0:04:21.920 Let's suffice it to say it was a difficult time. 0:04:22.279 --> 0:04:24.000 So I was going through some stuff at home, but 0:04:24.080 --> 0:04:26.680 also dealing with being a high schooler and trying to 0:04:26.720 --> 0:04:27.119 be cool. 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:30.680 The summer before her senior year, she was invited to 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:32.159 a party. 0:04:32.279 --> 0:04:34.520 I woke up to a text message at like six 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:39.440 am that said, rager party. My parents aren't home, bring 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:42.760 your bathing suits, Let's go swimming, and let's have a party. 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:46.960 We are very what I would call the redneck city. 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:52.560 We were drinking keystone, that's all we could afford. It 0:04:52.640 --> 0:04:54.359 was so much fun. I had a blast. 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:58.039 It was at that party that a friend suggested that 0:04:58.120 --> 0:04:59.640 they try a new drug. 0:05:00.440 --> 0:05:04.040 Trying meth. It took away the pain and the sorrow 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:07.800 and everything that I felt inside of me, and I 0:05:07.920 --> 0:05:12.360 was immediately hooked. It only takes one time, and that's 0:05:12.360 --> 0:05:13.080 all it took for me. 0:05:14.160 --> 0:05:16.600 She was in a bad place and living a life 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:17.480 of extremes. 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:20.320 I was just a young seventeen year old girl who 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:25.719 didn't really understand the consequences of using hard drugs that way. 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:27.559 Nobody wants to go down this path. 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:31.039 Trying meth wasn't the only thing that happened at the party. 0:05:31.600 --> 0:05:34.120 There was a guy named Josh there. They'd known each 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:37.520 other for years as acquaintances. She thought it was cute, 0:05:37.960 --> 0:05:38.839 and that night. 0:05:39.160 --> 0:05:42.040 One thing led to another, and all of a sudden, 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:43.599 I wake up at the morning and I'm like, okay, 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:44.480 so just happened. 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:48.479 She and Josh hooked up. It was casual, a one 0:05:48.480 --> 0:05:54.400 time thing. After that party, Angelique's life began revolving around 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:55.239 her new addiction. 0:05:57.600 --> 0:06:00.520 I got sneakier. I started finding people to were like 0:06:01.000 --> 0:06:03.160 within work doing it. I started getting people to do 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:04.800 it with me so that they would get it. Like 0:06:05.040 --> 0:06:07.640 when you're in that drug world, you'll figure it out. 0:06:08.360 --> 0:06:12.000 As the weeks went on, Angelique began feeling sick and 0:06:12.080 --> 0:06:16.560 started to suspect she could be pregnant. So one day, 0:06:16.839 --> 0:06:19.800 about six weeks after she hooked up with Josh, she 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:21.560 bought a pregnancy test. 0:06:22.880 --> 0:06:25.760 Well, I guess I wasn't the only person that thought 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:29.120 I was pregnant, because when I got home, there was 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:31.280 a pregnancy test sitting on my bed for my mother. 0:06:32.680 --> 0:06:35.640 She had been tracking my period. She said, you have 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:37.839 not had a period this month. Take this test. 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:42.920 Turns out it was positive. She was only seventeen, and 0:06:43.000 --> 0:06:43.680 she panicked. 0:06:44.600 --> 0:06:48.279 I remember very clearly at that very moment. I locked 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:51.520 myself in the bathroom. I brought my pipe in there, 0:06:51.560 --> 0:06:54.200 I brought my bag, my stuff, and I had smoked 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:58.359 and smoked and smoked. I was in shock, and I 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:00.000 thought maybe this would not my pain. 0:07:01.160 --> 0:07:03.680 But she couldn't stay in the bathroom forever. 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:06.960 I came out and I threw the pregnancy test at 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:11.640 my mom and I said I'm pregnant, and she was livid. 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:16.320 She was so mad at me and disappointed. She was crying, 0:07:16.400 --> 0:07:18.720 and I was just sitting there. I just turned up 0:07:18.760 --> 0:07:21.360 all my emotions and I just looked at her like what, 0:07:22.520 --> 0:07:27.040 trying to pretend like it wasn't a big deal, but 0:07:27.120 --> 0:07:29.200 inside I was actually really like freaking out. 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:33.080 Her stepbrother was watching the whole scene, and he knew 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:35.520 Angelique had just used drugs in the bathroom. 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:38.600 He was one of my best friends he was somebody 0:07:38.640 --> 0:07:41.160 that I would talk to all the time, and the 0:07:41.200 --> 0:07:43.560 first thing that he did was he found my stash 0:07:43.720 --> 0:07:45.560 and he flushed everything down the toilet. 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:49.360 The rest of that day was a blur. Once everyone 0:07:49.400 --> 0:07:52.200 in the house had gone to bed, Angelique had one 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:53.000 thing on her mind. 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:57.400 I sat at the toilet, staring at it with a wrench, 0:07:57.480 --> 0:07:59.480 trying to figure out how I could remove the toilet 0:07:59.600 --> 0:08:01.920 to get my stashed so that I could smoke again. 0:08:02.640 --> 0:08:04.480 That's what my main priority was, so was to sit 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:05.360 there and figure that out. 0:08:06.120 --> 0:08:08.880 At this point, she'd been addicted to math for six 0:08:08.920 --> 0:08:12.080 weeks and it had taken over her life. 0:08:13.160 --> 0:08:15.040 It was the moment that I sat on the ground 0:08:15.240 --> 0:08:18.880 staring at that toilet with a wrench that really made 0:08:18.960 --> 0:08:23.040 me stomach how far gone this drug had made me. 0:08:24.560 --> 0:08:28.760 I had felt pathetic, like I have no idea what 0:08:28.800 --> 0:08:31.560 I'm doing with this wrench, What am I gonna do? 0:08:31.640 --> 0:08:33.640 Take this toilet apart and put my hand down and 0:08:33.920 --> 0:08:35.960 try to find a bag that might be soaked? Like 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:39.000 is that how much I loved this? Is that how 0:08:39.080 --> 0:08:42.760 much I want to do this? I spend my whole 0:08:42.760 --> 0:08:45.400 paycheck on it. How am I supposed to do anything? 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:45.839 In life. 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:49.200 Sitting in front of the toilet with a wrench was 0:08:49.240 --> 0:08:52.120 her rock bottom. She never wanted to go back to 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:52.800 that place. 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:56.559 It was my turning point, and if you're an addict, 0:08:56.600 --> 0:08:58.200 you understand exactly what that means. 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:02.800 This morning, she knew she had to talk to Josh. 0:09:03.160 --> 0:09:05.520 She told him she was pregnant, and he agreed to 0:09:05.559 --> 0:09:06.240 meet in person. 0:09:07.280 --> 0:09:10.680 And I came down the street in a hoodie with glasses. 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:13.920 It's hot and Arizetta. I pulled my hoodie down, took 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:16.040 off my glasses and stared at him and said, do 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:18.480 you see me? And he said, yeah, you look really 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:23.160 messed up. And I said, exactly, if I don't have 0:09:23.280 --> 0:09:27.880 this baby, this is going to be my life. I 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:29.880 don't know if I had it in me to stop 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:32.920 doing this because I like it too much. But this 0:09:33.040 --> 0:09:35.920 baby can change everything in my life. This baby can 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:36.320 help me. 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:42.160 She decided that this pregnancy was her second chance, her lifeline. 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:45.080 She told Josh that she was going to have the baby, 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:48.880 whether he wanted to be involved or not. After all, 0:09:49.000 --> 0:09:52.760 they had only hooked up once. They hardly knew each other. 0:09:53.760 --> 0:09:56.400 I didn't want somebody to be with me because I 0:09:56.440 --> 0:09:58.679 was having their baby. I wanted somebody to be with 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:02.199 me because they loved me, not because they felt obligated. 0:10:03.400 --> 0:10:05.840 But Josh wanted to be there for her and for 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:09.720 the baby. One of their first dates was a doctor's appointment. 0:10:11.000 --> 0:10:13.160 They're looking at the ultrasound monitor. 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:17.559 When I saw the screen, I had immediately fell in 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:24.840 love with this tiny little bulb inside of me. And honestly, 0:10:24.880 --> 0:10:27.720 that was like reassurance for me and more motivation to 0:10:27.840 --> 0:10:31.240 stay away from the people that were doing drugs or 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:33.080 to stay clean. 0:10:34.360 --> 0:10:38.200 This whole experience led her to sobriety, and she's been 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:39.440 clean ever since. 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:45.200 I officially believe that being pregnant is what saved my life. 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:48.640 But it wasn't easy. She had to take one day at. 0:10:48.559 --> 0:10:52.320 A time, trying to work, trying to stay sober, trying 0:10:52.320 --> 0:10:56.080 to do all these different things just was extremely complicated. 0:10:56.120 --> 0:10:59.280 So I had decided just to stop, and I stopped 0:10:59.280 --> 0:11:01.839 going to school at them, I ended up actually getting 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:02.320 my ged. 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:04.920 Her old friends started avoiding her. 0:11:05.520 --> 0:11:08.480 I had lost a lot of friends, like deep, really 0:11:08.520 --> 0:11:12.440 really close friends. Everybody else was still in high school, 0:11:12.840 --> 0:11:15.560 everybody else was still parting, everybody else was still doing 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:17.280 these things that I couldn't do. 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:21.320 Her friends had moved on without her. She says she 0:11:21.440 --> 0:11:22.240 felt forgotten. 0:11:24.520 --> 0:11:27.160 You think about high school and you think senior year 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:28.640 is going to be the year. It's going to be 0:11:28.679 --> 0:11:31.440 the year that I graduate. All these different things that 0:11:31.600 --> 0:11:38.199 we think senior prank just prom everything. I was watching 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:42.040 all of my friends go through that, and I wasn't. 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:47.000 On top of that, she didn't have any friends who 0:11:47.080 --> 0:11:50.000 understood what it was like being pregnant, and. 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:55.320 I felt so isolated and lonely because nobody understood why 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:58.880 I had heartburn. Nobody understood why I couldn't walk two 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:02.480 miles without catching my breath. Nobody could understand, you know, 0:12:02.920 --> 0:12:05.199 me complaining about how big my belly was. Like. They 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:07.400 didn't understand any of that because none of them were 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:09.079 going through what I was going through. 0:12:09.559 --> 0:12:13.120 Her biggest supporter was Josh, but to prepare for the baby, 0:12:13.280 --> 0:12:16.360 Josh started working overtime trying to save money. 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:19.400 He was working like ninety hour weeks, like it was insane. 0:12:19.880 --> 0:12:22.960 It was literally from morning tonight. I never saw him, 0:12:23.600 --> 0:12:25.680 but he would come to my house with no sleep 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:27.800 just to give me a kiss or just to give 0:12:27.840 --> 0:12:28.360 me a hug. 0:12:29.000 --> 0:12:32.559 Seeing Josh was often the highlight of her day. That 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:35.400 was until she was introduced to a new friend. 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:39.760 I had a friend. Her name was Hannah, and Hannah 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:41.960 called me and was like, I met this girl. Her 0:12:42.040 --> 0:12:45.520 name is Cassandra. She is pregnant, just like you are. 0:12:45.640 --> 0:12:48.840 She's our age. It's crazy. Her birthday's in October, just 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:51.680 like yours. I feel like you guys would have a 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:55.160 lot in common. Plus she's new to town, so she doesn't 0:12:55.200 --> 0:12:57.480 have too many friends. You know what it's like to 0:12:57.480 --> 0:13:00.600 be pregnant and kind of feel like that isolation. I 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:02.280 kind of just painted this whole picture of like a 0:13:02.280 --> 0:13:02.920 perfect friend. 0:13:04.400 --> 0:13:27.680 But that new friend would change Angelique's life forever. Angelique 0:13:27.760 --> 0:13:30.000 was seventeen when she found out she was going to 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:32.760 have a baby. She had lost a lot of friends, 0:13:32.880 --> 0:13:35.479 and by the time she was entering her third trimester, 0:13:36.040 --> 0:13:39.600 she was feeling isolated and alone. But then a friend 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:43.760 offered to connect her to someone new, another teenager named Cassandra, 0:13:44.200 --> 0:13:45.680 who was four months pregnant. 0:13:46.160 --> 0:13:49.320 And I was like, yeah, yeah, like that sounds awesome, 0:13:49.440 --> 0:13:51.840 Like I need a new friend. I need somebody that 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:54.160 is going to be able to relate to what I 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:55.160 am going through right now. 0:13:56.000 --> 0:13:57.720 So she made plans to get lunch with her. 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:02.000 It was like an instant clique. So if you're a girl, 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:03.640 you know exactly what I mean. You either click with 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:06.200 a girl or you don't. And I had felt this 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:08.720 like full connection with her right away. 0:14:08.840 --> 0:14:09.920 They just got each other. 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:14.080 She was very smiley and just seems so down to earth. 0:14:14.840 --> 0:14:17.720 I would say something like, oh my gosh, this happened, 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:20.080 and she'd be like, I know what you're talking about, 0:14:20.720 --> 0:14:23.040 and I was like, oh my gosh, do you understand me. 0:14:24.160 --> 0:14:28.840 Finally, Angeline had her pregnancy buddy, someone who wouldn't judge her. 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:33.240 It was the connection she'd been craving. They both needed 0:14:33.280 --> 0:14:35.960 to set up their baby registry, so they decided to 0:14:36.000 --> 0:14:37.800 do it together at a baby store. 0:14:38.680 --> 0:14:43.120 We were excited and we absolutely like, oh you should 0:14:43.160 --> 0:14:46.000 get this, Oh you should get that. I already have this. 0:14:46.680 --> 0:14:48.640 It was actually like a really cool moment to have 0:14:48.800 --> 0:14:50.360 with a friend because I didn't have a friend that 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:51.280 was going to go do that with me. 0:14:52.240 --> 0:14:54.920 They started talking every day, commiserating. 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:59.960 We stay in contact through Facebook and text message constantly, 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:02.520 the same exact thing that we always talked about. You know, 0:15:02.560 --> 0:15:05.520 how are you feeling, what are you craving, what's been 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:05.960 going on? 0:15:07.040 --> 0:15:11.000 They became fast friends, and they had mutual friends, so 0:15:11.000 --> 0:15:13.960 they would sometimes hang out as one big group. When 0:15:14.000 --> 0:15:17.360 they all got together. Cassandra was always on her phone. 0:15:18.240 --> 0:15:20.440 She always would be like, oh, my husband's calling me. 0:15:21.360 --> 0:15:23.120 She was constantly on the phone. 0:15:23.440 --> 0:15:26.760 That was one thing they didn't have in common. Angelique 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:29.280 was still taking it slow with the father of her baby, 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:32.440 but Cassandra was already married to the father of. 0:15:32.360 --> 0:15:35.560 Hers We're all kind of thrown off at the fact 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:38.880 that she was like seventeen, eighteen years old and she 0:15:38.960 --> 0:15:41.640 had a husband. His name was Edwin. 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:47.160 Cassandra only talked to Edwin in Spanish, even though Angelique 0:15:47.200 --> 0:15:51.080 grew up around it every day, she never learned the language, 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:54.520 so when Cassandra was on these calls, no one knew 0:15:54.520 --> 0:15:55.600 what she was talking about. 0:15:56.520 --> 0:16:01.200 So that was something that like, we all did go huh. 0:16:01.280 --> 0:16:03.920 It was weird, but people just chalked it up to 0:16:03.960 --> 0:16:07.960 Cassandra being young, pregnant, and being attached to her husband. 0:16:10.240 --> 0:16:13.240 A few weeks before Angelique's due date, her family and 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:15.240 friends threw her baby shower. 0:16:15.840 --> 0:16:19.400 We had it at my parents' house and it was 0:16:19.760 --> 0:16:25.800 really really big. I remember feeling extremely overwhelmed with the 0:16:25.880 --> 0:16:29.360 amount of gifts that I got. It was insane. I 0:16:29.360 --> 0:16:31.240 I had gotten every single thing that I wanted for 0:16:31.320 --> 0:16:35.240 my registry plus four. I just remember that whole day 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:36.680 feeling so blessed. 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:41.680 The only person who couldn't be there was Cassandra. She'd 0:16:41.720 --> 0:16:44.440 been feeling sick that day but promised to check in 0:16:44.520 --> 0:16:45.400 when she felt better. 0:16:46.320 --> 0:16:48.440 She was just like, hey, like, how are you doing. 0:16:48.840 --> 0:16:50.880 I'm so sorry that I missed your baby shower. And 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:53.520 I was like, hey, no, don't worry. I know what 0:16:53.560 --> 0:16:56.200 it's like to be pregnant, Like, don't worry or feel 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:58.160 bad at all. And she was like, I still have 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:00.280 gifts for you, and I really really want to come 0:17:00.320 --> 0:17:01.800 over and just see you and hang out. 0:17:02.520 --> 0:17:04.960 So they made plans for Cassandra to come over a 0:17:04.960 --> 0:17:05.800 few days later. 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:10.000 My little brother answered the door and she had walked in, 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:14.720 and she was very bubbly, very enthusiastic, you know, very kind, 0:17:15.560 --> 0:17:18.800 and she had this really big bag with her. It 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:19.840 was like a diaper bag. 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:24.040 The bag was full of gifts for Angelique, but instead 0:17:24.080 --> 0:17:26.880 of opening them, they got distracted just catching up. 0:17:27.560 --> 0:17:30.800 We just spent our whole day just hanging out talking, 0:17:31.480 --> 0:17:34.679 you know, sat on my couch watching TV. At that time, 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:38.040 it was sixteen and pregnant and team mom like MTV. 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:40.719 Those were like all the things that we used to watch, 0:17:40.840 --> 0:17:42.880 and so me and her spent a lot of time 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:43.320 doing that. 0:17:44.720 --> 0:17:46.800 Angelique's mom fixed them lunch. 0:17:47.240 --> 0:17:50.760 You know, we're eating, and I started to notice she 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:54.840 was mimicking things that I would say. For an example, 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:57.520 my mom would be like, oh, well, Angelique ran away 0:17:57.520 --> 0:18:00.160 when she was this age and she jumped the wall. 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:05.320 But all of a sudden she had the exact same story, 0:18:06.080 --> 0:18:08.280 and then I was like, oh, you know that could happen, 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:11.240 But then more stories would happen, and she would just 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:13.440 be like, oh, that happened to me too, almost exactly 0:18:13.480 --> 0:18:16.359 the same. And I don't know. For some reason, I 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:18.760 was getting bothered by it, and I don't know why. 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:22.320 It's really not that big of a deal. I pulled 0:18:22.320 --> 0:18:25.320 my mom aside and I asked her, like, Hey, do 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:27.919 you think Cassandra's weird? And she was like, what do 0:18:27.960 --> 0:18:29.520 you mean. I was like, I don't know, just I 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:32.480 keep getting this weird feeling about her, Like I have 0:18:32.600 --> 0:18:36.879 this weird feeling and my mom was like, no, like 0:18:36.920 --> 0:18:38.520 I don't feel that way. She's like, I can tell 0:18:38.560 --> 0:18:39.959 you that it does seem like she needs a lot 0:18:39.960 --> 0:18:42.479 of attention, and it seems like she wants like your 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:45.600 approval to be your friend. Cut her some slack, you know, 0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:47.680 as a mom would tell a teenager, like, you're kind 0:18:47.720 --> 0:18:48.560 of being judgmental. 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:52.800 So Angeline tried to give Cassandra some grace, even when 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:55.920 it came to the endless calls she made to her husband, Edwin. 0:18:56.800 --> 0:19:01.960 Once she realized my mom understood Spanish, she kind of 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:05.400 changed her demeanor and she started taking her calls in private. 0:19:06.000 --> 0:19:07.639 I was just like, Okay, these are just things that 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:10.480 are kind of just going on. They have explanations. 0:19:10.920 --> 0:19:14.040 As the afternoon went on, Angelique got tired. 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:18.040 It was exhausting hosting, so I started like yawning and 0:19:18.359 --> 0:19:19.880 kind of just being like a little like, oh, I'm 0:19:19.880 --> 0:19:22.960 so tired. She had told me that she didn't have 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:24.880 her keys to her house and she had to wait 0:19:24.920 --> 0:19:27.480 for her sister to get back home, and so at 0:19:27.480 --> 0:19:30.719 that point I was like, Okay, Angelique, suck it up, 0:19:30.840 --> 0:19:32.920 like she's stuck here for a little bit, and that's okay, 0:19:33.359 --> 0:19:35.399 You're just going to have to stop and suck it up, 0:19:35.560 --> 0:19:38.439 like hang out and just continue the rest of your 0:19:38.520 --> 0:19:39.000 day with her. 0:19:40.400 --> 0:19:42.920 By this point, it was getting close to dinner time. 0:19:43.480 --> 0:19:47.080 Angelique's mom had to take her little brothers to football practice. 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:50.159 She offered to bring Angelice and Cassandra along. 0:19:50.600 --> 0:19:54.560 And Cassandra was very adamant, like, no, I don't feel good. 0:19:54.720 --> 0:19:56.040 Is it okay if we stay here? 0:19:56.920 --> 0:19:57.920 So they stayed back. 0:19:58.960 --> 0:20:00.680 One time mom had left, my brothers had left that 0:20:00.760 --> 0:20:03.320 it was just us. It was just starting to get 0:20:03.800 --> 0:20:07.680 darker outside, and it was like a light switched. It 0:20:07.760 --> 0:20:13.480 was like Cassandra started being different suddenly. 0:20:13.800 --> 0:20:19.119 Cassandra seemed on edge, almost paranoid. But then she remembered 0:20:19.160 --> 0:20:20.720 something and. 0:20:20.640 --> 0:20:23.359 She was like, oh, your gifts. And at this point 0:20:23.400 --> 0:20:26.560 I'm like, oh, yeah, that's why you came over. You 0:20:26.600 --> 0:20:28.920 came over because you wanted to bring me baby shower 0:20:28.920 --> 0:20:30.919 gifts like and that just completely slipped my mind. 0:20:31.960 --> 0:20:35.160 Cassandra wanted to surprise Angelique with the gifts. 0:20:35.760 --> 0:20:39.359 She wanted to give me these gifts in a very 0:20:39.480 --> 0:20:43.919 unique way. She took a chair from my kitchen and 0:20:43.960 --> 0:20:45.600 she put it in the middle of my kitchen and 0:20:45.640 --> 0:20:47.199 told me to sit in it and turn around and 0:20:47.240 --> 0:20:50.000 close my eyes. And I thought that was so odd, 0:20:50.640 --> 0:20:53.080 but I did it. She said, I'm going to come 0:20:53.119 --> 0:20:54.680 up behind you. I'm going to drop the presence in 0:20:54.720 --> 0:20:55.160 your lap. 0:20:56.119 --> 0:21:00.200 She started dropping presents in her lap one by one. 0:21:00.440 --> 0:21:03.000 The first present was a receiving blanket. The second present 0:21:03.119 --> 0:21:07.959 was a onesie, little booties, a bib, a bigger blanket, 0:21:08.600 --> 0:21:10.120 some random newborn diapers. 0:21:10.840 --> 0:21:14.440 But Angelique noticed something off about the gifts. 0:21:14.640 --> 0:21:16.800 They had the smell. It was smelt like a man 0:21:16.880 --> 0:21:19.520