When Martha and Louise were getting ready to finish their homework, they thought they heard a voice. Of course it wasn't from either of them. They were the only ones in their dorm room and of course their were no voices coming in from next – door.
"If it's not use, then who is talking?" Louise asked.
Martha shook her head since she didn't have any ideas either.
Then they heard it again.
"Who is it?" both girls asked at the same time.
"It's me," the voice replied.
"Me who? We can't see you," Martha told the little voice.
"That's because you can't, Louise and Martha. I am here because I've been watching you two lately. You two aren't acting your age lately. You two might be my children, but I'm not happy with what you are doing to your friendship with Lindsey."
Martha and Louise glanced at each other. They could tell He was giving them a warning. If they kept this much longer, then their friendship would end with Lindsey. They still said not a word. They were talking with their eyes.
"What should we do, then?" Louise asked.
"Stop acting like children and apologize to your friend about the way you girls have been behaving. Maybe Lindsey will give you another chance."
They weren't sure if they were ready to go to Lindsey and apologize. What if they did apologize and Lindsey wouldn't accept it?
"What happens if we apologized and she doesn't accept?" Martha asked.
"Then there is no second chance," He said.
After that, he was gone.
"How did a voice like that tell you things when you can't see who's talking?" Louise asked.
Another shrug from Martha.
The girls talked a little bit more from what He told them.
"Think we should? Our parents would be mad if we did break up the friendship," Louise said.
"I guess you're right. I guess the Voice we heard earlier was right. We don't want to break up the friendship, do we?" Martha asked.
Louise shook her head.
"I guess we'll do that later."
"Why later? Why don't we just pick up the phone instead? It's a lot faster that way," Martha replied.
"True. I guess you have a point there," Louise agreed.
She watched as Martha dialed Lindsey's number.
Louise didn't get to hear much of the conversation, but did tell it was Lindsey's voice she was hearing, so that was a good thing.
Then Louise heard the Voice again.
"Louise, just have Martha tell Lindsey that you three would like to meet in person to apologize," He said.
Louise didn't reply back.
God watched as Louise gave a tap on Martha's shoulder. Martha told Lindsey to hold for a minute. Lindsey didn't seem to mind.
"What?" Martha whispered.
"I don't think giving Lindsey our apology over the phone is a good idea. The Voice said we should do it in person instead so Lindsey would see we did apologize in person."
"Okay. I'll tell her that," Martha said and returned to the earpiece.
She passed the message to Lindsey. Lindsey agreed to come up to the girls' room in five minutes. Then Martha put the phone back.
"Was she mad when you spoke to her, Martha?" Louise asked.
"Didn't sound like it. Why do you ask?"
"Just wondered since I didn't get to hear what she said."
"Lindsey's coming here within five to ten minutes."
"Okay," Louise agreed.
While waiting, the girls laid on Louise's bed and played a short game of Go Fish.
Louise was close to winning when they heard a knock at the door.
"I'll get it," Louise said and got up.
Her legs felt numb as she got up to let Lindsey in.
"Hi," Louise greeted their friend.
"Hello to you too. What is it you and Martha want to speak to me about?" Lindsey asked.
Louise closed the door after their friend and Martha invited Lindsey to sit down. Lindsey didn't bother since she preferred to stand. She hoped this apology wouldn't last very long.
"Martha and I have been talking, Lindsey. We've decided to quit our childish acts and act more adult. From now on, we won't be doing anymore of those nasty things like sending you a fake e – mail," Louise said.
"Do you two really mean that?" Lindsey asked, not so sure on this.
"Yes. It was just a game, I guess. We could tell this wasn't a very pleasant game," Martha said, agreeing with Louise.
"You better believe it. People like myself could get hurt this way."
"We're sorry. We were just busy having fun we didn't think ahead that we would go this far to get into ending a friendship," Martha said.
"Next time you two girls do something like this, think ahead," Lindsey warned her friends.
"Okay."
"Now do you accept the apology?" Martha asked.
"Only on one condition. Promise you won't do these childish things in the upcoming future."
Martha and Louise promised but not pinky swore that they would think ahead before doing this sort of thing. After they apologized, the three made up and did a group hug.
"I love group hugs," Martha said.
"So do I," Louise agreed.
Louise and Martha were too busy hugging their friend that they didn't hear the Voice say, "Thank you for taking my advice."