Exposing Time (Transcript)

The next morning, Josh and Zoe walked to school as usual with a bunch of paper in their bags. They got folders so luckily they won't crumple in their bags. Once they arrived at the school, they started putting up the papers on the news board. They talked to each other while doing so.

Zoe: So basically I got embarrassed for exposing Kayla cuz mum saw the papers.

Josh: How?

Zoe: When mum found out we were not asleep, I think she must've noticed our papers. She seems suspicious when she thinks that these papers aren't essays or something for the news board.

Josh: Oh. Erm... at least we didn't get any hate.

Zoe: Yeah.

The bell started ringing.

Zoe: I have to head to class. Are you okay doing this all by yourself?

Josh: It's fine.

Zoe ran to her classroom where her classmates are. She sat next to Kandace as usual when Naomi went up to her.

Naomi: Hey Zoe.

Zoe: Hi Naomi.

Naomi: Look at this meme.

Naomi showed Zoe a meme on why you should never listen to fakers and haters.

Zoe: Never listen to fakers and haters.

Naomi: Yeah, they make our school toxic.

Zoe: Especially the faker who claimed Josh got her pregnant, claimed that she had twins, faked her own death and faked going to the hospital for overdose and self-harming causing her to lose blood.

Naomi: Yeah, you know, Kayla stuff.

Zoe: I can tell what she’s doing is fake for the following reasons: 1. Josh never got her pregnant because he lives far away from her; 2. She never had twins and you need 9 months to give birth, not 9 weeks; 3. She’s still alive because she went live later after she faked a heart attack; 4. She never went to the hospital for overdose and self-harm; 5. Look at her Instagram account.

Naomi: She faked her mom texting in the group chat while she (Kayla) 'was at the hospital.' I mean, come on, a mum wouldn't chat with some teen girls she doesn't even know and that never met her daughter, while her daughter is dying at the hospital.

Katie: Who are you guys talking about?

Naomi: We're talking about a girl in Josh's class named Kayla. She even started to tell people the boys from everyone's favourite band, Why Don't We have secret accounts and was impersonating them. Like she pretended to be someone else.

Katie: Wow.

Naomi: That's also a crime.

Katie: What the heck is wrong with her?

Naomi: She literally made me post a story saying to pray for her health because she is at the hospital. At first she wanted me to post it on my feed.

Zoe: I felt so naïve for talking to her before in the first place.

Naomi: And she made me feel bad for not answering right away because I was in class and she was 'suicidal' and cut herself. She made me feel so bad... FOR NOTHING!!!

Katie: Hold up.

Naomi: I was trying to text her a few minutes. Because I had an exam and I couldn't focus on it because of her.

Katie: NO ONE JUST ADMITS THEY ARE SUICIDAL AND USES IT AS AN EXUSE LIKE THAT!!!

Anna: What the heck is going on?

Zoe: We were talking about Kayla.

Naomi: She said she was and that she did overdose on pills and she started cutting herself. And she made me feel bad because I wasn't there for her at the exact moment.

Katie: AND NO ONE JUST ADMITS TO CUTTING EITHER!!!

Anna: Oh.

Katie: She obviously just said that to make people feel bad.

Naomi: She has like 8 Instagram accounts. A main, two "fan" accounts and other accounts where she is impersonating others like the Why Don't We boys.

Katie: Wow, she REALLY has nothing better to do?!

Naomi: She made 'secret accounts' for Jonah, Corbyn, Daniel, Jack and Zach and said they all follow her just 'because.' She made others believe it actually them.

Anna: That I don't believe.

Naomi: She really did that. She made me fall for it!! She talked about it ALL THE TIME!!!

Zoe: I felt foolish and naïve ever since I exposed her.

Naomi: And she even added those accounts to a group chat with me and like three more people chatted with us from both her Why Don't We 'fan' accounts and Corbyn's 'secret account.'

Zoe: I feel like my brother felt the same thing.

Naomi: Yeah exactly, I can't imagine how he felt when she started telling everyone he got her pregnant when it was a lie.

Anna: No I don't believe that the boys follow her.

Naomi: They don't She said they follow her from their secret accounts but its not actually theirs. I'm sure you have heard that Instagram deletes fan accounts because they think they are impersonating. This is what she does. She is actually impersonating, she is not just a fan acc.

Zoe: We need to report all her impersonating accounts. She's a liar.

Naomi: Yeah, I think two of them were deleted. Those are the ones who are left: For Jonah - jonahmarais22020, for Corbyn - corbynbeeson.

Zoe: Good. I need to tell Josh about this.

Later, during lunch break, Zoe grabbed her food and sat next to Josh. Syuz and Kandace joined in but decided to chat privately so that Zoe and Josh could talk.

Zoe: About Kayla, I heard that she has 8 accounts; 1 main, 2 fan accounts and 5 impersonating the guys from Why Don't We.

Josh: Oh my god, no way.

Zoe: She even said that the guys’ 'secret accounts' followed her accounts that are impersonating them. That’s illegal. When I said ‘illegal,’ that means she could get arrested.

Josh: Yeah. The heck is wrong with her?

Zoe: There was a small detail about Kayla someone (Naomi) told me. Kayla forced Naomi to post a story to pray for Kayla because she ‘had’ OD and SH (self-harm) and had blood loss.

Josh: Should we make a post just saying that we should report her? Because this is getting way to far.

Zoe: Yes. But we have to be careful cuz afterwards, Kayla might go ‘report Josh and Zoe cuz they’re fake’ and all that stuff.

Josh: Well, I have screenshots so...

Zoe: Perfect, we'll get it assembled after class.

After class, Zoe and Josh went to their programming room as Josh saved each and every screenshot he could find.

Josh: This is the first one, it's Kayla's Instagram story asking me on a date. This is from before I found out she faked a heart attack.

Zoe: You can’t just ask somebody from the west coast to be your boyfriend on Instagram. This isn't Tinder. Also that's kinda awkward.

Josh: (chuckles) Yeah. This is the congrats message. About when Kayla got 'pregnant.'

Zoe: Woah.

Josh: I think this is almost everything. I still have some screenshots to find.

Zoe: Yeah.

Josh: Wait a second, I had a conversation with Kat the other day about Kayla and this is what I found. I saved it in the thumb drive somewhere.

Zoe: Really?

Josh: Yup.

Zoe: Faking a heart attack really is a bad idea.

Josh: Yeah.

Zoe: My biological parents died from it, that's why.

Josh: I don't think that's the reason why we adopted you.

Zoe: What?

The siblings sat on one of the chairs in the programming room.

Josh: Look, your biological mother back in the Philippines was part of a tribe and she had a baby with a man who is half Spanish half American. He lived in Manila where you were born. But your biological father left so your real mother had to raise you on her own. But she didn't want you to be discovered by the village chief because you were a half-blood so she hid you in the rubbish bin.

Zoe: Then how did you find me?

Josh: Mum, dad, Addison and I were having a vacation in the Philippines when we heard a baby crying. We found you in a box near a rubbish bin where your mother abandoned you. We tried everything to find your real parents but it's worthless. So we decided to take you back to Australia with us and adopted you.

Zoe: So you can't find my real mum and dad so you adopted me, right?

Josh: Yup.

Zoe: Wow.

Josh: I know. I just didn't want to tell you you're adopted because you might hate us.

Zoe hugged Josh as he hugged her back.

Zoe: I would never hate you. Adopted or not, you're still my big brother.

Josh: The best one yet. Oh, and this is off topic cuz I have to show you more screenshots.

Josh and Zoe went back to the computer and Josh opened more files.

Josh: This is Kat and I's conversation.

Zoe: The fake overdose was like recently and the fake heart attack was last month.

Josh: Yeah.

Zoe: In your perspective, you told me about the heart attack first and then the pregnancy. And then I told you about the overdose + self harm after someone posted a story about that.

Josh: Look at this. This is the same post she posted the day I found out.

Zoe: That’s the exact proof we need. I scrolled through her account and that’s what I encountered.

Josh: Yeah, I know. So if we could put this together, what should we say? Report her or what?

Zoe: Report her for faking. Also for impersonating cuz she has 2 accounts left impersonating the guys. The other 3 were deleted.

Josh: Look, I unblocked her so that she could see it.

Zoe: Alright.

Josh: Now let's head home.

Josh and Zoe walked home happily hoping that they would see Kayla's face when she saw the screenshots.

Josh: I wonder how Kayla would react to those screenshots.

Zoe: I dunno.

Song: A Million Dreams from The Greatest Showman

Zoe: #I close my eyes and I can see #A world that's waiting up for me #That I call my own #Through the dark, through the door #Through where no one's been before #But it feels like home #They can say, they can say it all sounds crazy #They can say, they can say I've lost my mind #I don't care, I don't care, so call me crazy #We can live in a world that we design #'Cause every night I lie in bed #The brightest colours fill my head #A million dreams are keeping me awake #I think of what the world could be #A vision of the one I see #A million dreams is all it's gonna take #Our million dreams for the world we're gonna make #There's a house we can build #Every room inside is filled #With things from far away #Special things I compile #Each one there to make you smile #On a rainy day #They can say, they can say it all sounds crazy #They can say, they can say we've lost our minds #I don't care, I don't care if they call us crazy #Runaway to a world that we design#

Josh: #Every night I lie in bed #The brightest colours fill my head #A million dreams are keeping me awake #I think of what the world could be #A vision of the one I see #A million dreams is all it's gonna take #Our million dreams for the world we're gonna make#

Zoe: #However big, however small #Let me be part of it all #Share your dreams with me #You may be right, you may be wrong #But say that you'll bring me along #To the world you see#

Both: #To the world I close my eyes to see #I close my eyes to see it#

Josh: #Every night I lie in bed #The brightest colours fill my head#

Zoe: #A million dreams are keeping me awake#

Josh: #A million dreams, a million dreams#

Both: #I think of what the world could be #A vision of the one I see #A million dreams is all it's gonna take #A million dreams for the world we're gonna make #For the world we're gonna make#

Zoe: We'll just see how it goes.

Josh: Yeah.