IMessage confusion! HELP!

Hello all!
I have an iPhone 5, which is on my families plan which contains 5 iphones all linked by the same apple id. for some reason, my mother and father's messages are getting mixed up. say I send my father a text message, he will get it, but so will my mother. this could prove disastorous in the event that i text my father that i picked up his gift for my mother for valentines day.... which she received. this is very odd because the three other iphones on the same apple id are NOT receiving these messages, just my mother and fathers. how can i fix this?

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