Kelly

he seemed to be more depressed and then that brings us to when brian and i and my mom actually worked together so 2020 is when i graduated college and directly the pandemic occurred so

Yes, we were all working together at a place called the Christmas Tree Shops.

I don't know if you have that here in Maryland.

Yeah, holiday decor.

It's kind of like a mix of everything, but they shut it down.

Okay.

Okay, yeah.

So we all worked there.

So it was me, my mom, Brian.

And then one day after our shifts, Brian and I got off at the same time.

We met in the parking lot afterwards.

And we just stayed in the parking lot for about an hour having a conversation, which was nice.

It was just good to catch up and

talk to him but that's when I started noticing a change really after hearing his thoughts he he was talking about people from our high school being at the Christmas tree shop it's like following him and

Just different things of paranoia.

I don't remember the exact conversation, but I just knew he was paranoid about people following him.

And then he started talking about my dad.

He's like, how do you really feel about that guy?

And the way he was talking, I thought it was a joke at first.

And so I was chuckling, but...