Replying to a message in laravel 5.2 - laravel-5

Question

i am trying to develop a messaging system in my laravel app, i have managed to send a message to the user and retrieve them in the inbox section of my blade view. so my wonder is, how exactly am i going to reply a message that is in the inbox??
here is how i have them in the mail.blade.php
<table class="table table-inbox table-hover">
#foreach($messages as $meso => $message)
<tbody>
<tr class="unread">
<td class="inbox-small-cells">
<input type="checkbox" class="mail-checkbox">
</td>
<td class="inbox-small-cells"><i class="fa fa-star"></i></td>
<td class="view-message dont-show">{{ $message->sent_to_id }}</td>
<td class="view-message dont-show">{{ $message->name }}</td>
<td class="view-message dont-show">{{ $message->subject }}</td>
<td class="view-message view-message"><p>{{ $message->body }}</p></td>
<td class="view-message inbox-small-cells"><i class="fa fa-paperclip"></i></td>
<td class="view-message text-right">{{ $message->created_at }}</td>
<td class="view-message dont-show"><button data-toggle="modal" data-target="#squarespaceModal" class="btn btn-primary center-block">Reply</button></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
#endforeach
</table>
and my User Model is:
<?php
namespace App;
use App\Http\Controllers;
use App\Message;
use Illuminate\Notifications\Notifiable;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User as Authenticatable;
class User extends Authenticatable
{
public function sendMessageTo($recipient, $message, $subject)
{
Auth::user()->sendMessageTo($request->recipient, $request->subject, $request->body);
}
protected $fillable = ['name', 'email', 'password'];
// A user can send a message
public function sent()
{
return $this->hasMany(Message::class, 'sender_id');
}
// A user can also receive a message
public function received()
{
return $this->hasMany(Message::class, 'sent_to_id');
}
public function message()
{
return $this->belongsTo(Message::class);
}
public function user()
{
return $this->belongsTo(User::class);
}
}
and here goes my Message model:
<?php
namespace App;
use App\User;
use Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model;
class Message extends Model
{
protected $fillable = ['body', 'subject', 'sent_to_id', 'sender_id'];
// A message belongs to a sender
public function sender()
{
return $this->belongsTo(User::class, 'sender_id');
}
// A message also belongs to a receiver
public function receiver()
{
return $this->belongsTo(User::class, 'sent_to_id');
}
public function user()
{
return $this->belongsTo(User::class);
}
public function message()
{
return $this->belongsTo(Message::class);
}
}
My MessageController
public function sendMessage(Request $request)
{
// Do the validation...
// Send the message from the current user to the user with ID of 1,
// You probably always want the current logged-in user as the sender.
// We talk about the recipient later...
//
Auth::user()->sent()->create([
'body' => $request->body,
'subject' => $request->subject,
'sent_to_id' => $request->recipient,
]);
$messages = Message::where('sent_to_id', '=', Auth::user()->name)->get();
$users = User::where('id', '!=', Auth::id())->get()->pluck('name', 'id');
return view('mail')->with(compact('messages', 'users'));
}
Any tips of how to reply to this messages