Derek Jones

The least you can do is help out around the house.

You know, I don't expect you to do it all.

Just I'm asking for some help.

I'm wore out.

And so we started, you know, we were stressed out with each other.

And we started arguing more and more.

Around three and a half years old, the youngest one started showing signs.

You know, like it was like she was slowing down.

She wasn't – she was never really super vocal.

She was always the quiet one.

But she just was more and more not herself.

And I'm like, maybe she's just having a rough patch, you know.

I started noticing things more and more with Jessica.

And I'm like, hey –

The rougher we got, the more she started almost like backpedaling to try to find things.

Like she came up with that she had cancer.

The crazy thing was, is her mom had actually had cancer.

And so looking back on it, it was like.

You you're so messed up because like your mom actually had it and you ended up making up this fake thing of having.

But at the time, she made it real believable because she I started noticing more and more bruises on her.