-A Regret before the Call from Heaven-

"Sheila. Are you free on Saturday night?"

Sheila hesitated. She had been waiting for Walcott to ask her out.

"Err.. Sure. Movie?"

Walcott nodded and said, "Alright. Meet you on Saturday night at 5 pm, at your place. I gotta go. Bye."

Sheila agreed and turned to Michelle who was behind her. She kept repeating to Michelle that Walcott had asked her out. Michelle smiled back to show that she was happy for her.

It was lunch break. Sheila, Michelle and another best friend of theirs, Jalene, were having their lunch together when Michelle started the conversation again by saying that Walcott had asked Sheila out.

"I'm sorry, Jalene. But he asked me out. Aren't you happy for me? A cute guy like Walcott asked me out!" Sheila showed her sarcasm to Jalene.

Jalene rolled her eyes and ignored the words from Sheila's lips. She kept on eating her lunch pretending that she did not care much. Thus, her heart was aching too much because she could not bear hearing that the guy whom she had a crush on was asking her best friend out, instead of her.

Back at home, Jalene wrote in her diary, letting out her anger about the guy who she had a crush on, had asked Sheila out. Sheila has never been her " real"best friend been friends with Sheila since primary school but their friendship was never in peace. They often fought and had conflicts with each other. Even small things could lead to big arguments. Once, they had a small argument on food and it had led them not talking to each other for weeks. Michelle, would always be the one settling things between the two of them.

Jalene remembered when they were in secondary one; Sheila, Michelle and she were again, in the same class. And, every time when Sheila and she fought, again, Michelle would always be the one who would help them settle things out. Thus, they changed class when they graduated to secondary two. Sheila and Michelle got better result and they changed to a better class. Since then, Michelle was always with Sheila and Jalene always got jealous.

So, Jalene called up Michelle and confided in her about Sheila. She could not stand Sheila bragging about going out with Walcott. Michelle listened to Jalene and asked her to ignore Sheila with her bragging. Michelle told her that it was not Sheila' fault in the matter of going out with Walcott as it was Walcott, himself who had asked Sheila out.

Jalene could not accept what Michelle had just said and hung up the phone. She started mumbling to herself and could not believe that Michelle was on Sheila's side.

Jalene went back to her diary and wrote a plan about getting rid of Sheila. Jalene had written down everything bad about Sheila and for destroying her friendship with Michelle.

It' s the night for Sheila and Jalene was looking forward to it, hoping her plan would succeed. Jalene was hiding behind Walcott' car, spying on them to make sure her plan will go on smoothly. She saw Walcott came with his red Porsche sports car arrived at Sheila' s house waiting for Sheila.

Upon knowing that Walcott had gone to the wrong house, he reversed his car without knowing that Jalene was hiding behind the car. Jalene shouted at him to stop but he couldn't hear her.

BOOM!

Walcott stopped. He turned and looked at the rear back mirror. He saw nothing. He rushed out of his car and checked what he had hit. He was shocked when he saw a familiar figure, bleeding and groaning, lying on the ground. He had been careless for not looking at the rear back mirror when he was reversing the vehicle. Walcott squatted down to the figure and stared at the face.

Sheila came running to Walcott' s side when she heard the loud sound. She too was shocked when she saw the lying figure on the road. It was Jalene. She squatted down beside the Walcott and got hold of Jalene' s hand. She could not hold back her tears and cried. She hugged Jalene and said, "Why is this happening? I love you, girlfriend. I need you and Michelle. Though you 're always been badly to me, I'm always ready to forgive you."

Jalene looked at Sheila and tried to smile. She turned at Walcott and said, “I love you once. But I got to go and meet heaven. I'm sorry for backstabbing both of you. I had written a plan to get rid of you, Sheila. I was jealous when I found out Walcott asked you out. I'm sorry again, girlfriend. Forgive me? Goodbye..."

Jalene could not finish her sentence and she stopped breathing. Her hand dropped from Sheila’s grip. Sheila burst into tears and put her head onto Walcott's shoulder. Walcott too, was crying but hoping that Sheila did not notice it. He felt guilty for hurting Jalene who had admired him secretly.

Walcott put his arm around Sheila and kissed her forehead. He looked at the sky and asked to God, "Why must Jalene do this? Why can't she tell me the truth before You take her away?"

By:Natalie & Syairah.