I have an iphone 5s and I'm not receiving my texts and imessages

I have an iphone 5s and my friend has an iphone 4. Our imessages sometimes work perfectly fine but lately they haven't been getting to me until ten minutes later or even an hour later. With my other friend he has an android and I'll say something then he'll say something but it's like my messages aren't sending so then we have this jumbled up conversation thats confusing. Today ,my friend with the iphone,I didn't get one of his messages until 3 pm when he sent it last night at 11 pm. Is there anything to fix this?

Hello reneesb09,
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
To troubleshoot issues with Messages on your iPhone please follow the steps in the article below.
iOS: Troubleshooting Messages
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2755
Take care,
Alex H.

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