AUTHORS NOTE: So this is a short chapter just to fill you in on the big scheme of things. It's nothing exciting and it's shockingly tiny and totally not true. It's so shockingly unbelievable, it's great! It's pure cheese!

DISCLAIMER: I only own the four girls and the killer man

[Sheila's Confession]

Jogging into the car park, Ellanna stopped and stared at Sheila who was just stood in the middle of the road. Holding out her hand for her to stop, Sheila allowed her tears to fall. Ellanna took one small step forward but stopped at Sheila's cry. "What are you doing? This wasn't the plan!"

"I know. You changed it. He changed it. Everyone changed it but me!" She whispered and Ellanna heard footprints behind her, she realised that meant Ellie and Leigh had arrived. Ellanna had made sure to leave her radio on for the detectives to hear every word.

"What are you talking about?" Sheila snorted as she took another step closer to Ellanna, her hands buried into the pockets of her expensive white coat as she shook her head.

"It was all my plan," she whispered coldly and Ellanna could tell that she wasn't nervous. Sheila had always known what was going on. Her Sheila was behind this! "I hired a guy to follow your new story."

"But why would you do that?" Leigh asked and Sheila looked over at her, her gaze bored as she shrugged her shoulders. She'd had her reasons but there was no way she was going to share them with these girls. They were children playing at detectives.

"Don't you dare just blow us off," Ellanna demanded. "You can't play with our lives as if we were dolls and then simply shrug your shoulders when we want an explanation. You're supposed to be my friend." All the years they'd spent trading e-mails, helping each other out with their writing and hell, Sheila had even invited Ellanna to her wedding just because of how close they were but now this had come to light.

"You really want to know?"

"Yes," all three of the girls chorused. Ellanna's phrase of "you couldn't write shit like this" was starting to come to mind as this played out in front of them. It was like something out of a spoof movie or something but this was their life. This was real and it was happening in front of them.

"I wanted to punish you, Ellanna." She simply said causing Ellanna to look up at her in confusion, her brow knit. "Oh don't look so damned confused! You have everything I ever wanted! You're a student, young and damn just because you're a little plump didn't mean that you didn't get chased! You have your own sordid little sex affairs, you can go out drinking all the time without having to have a care in the world and yet that's not the life you want to lead."

"You're punishing her because she doesn't get drunk and sleep around?" Leigh whispered shaking her head. It was a surreal conversation. That trait in a girl Ellanna's age was admirable. It was seen as a good thing!

"I'm punishing her for being a little nerd while I have to play the desperate housewife and only dream about her life." She snapped. "You could be out there having a good time but instead you're married to your laptop and to your friendship with people you only met for the first time the other day!"

"That's how I like it!" Ellanna hissed. "Writing is my escape. I'm not made for clubbing and like you said, I'm big. I don't feel comfortable just dicking about!" She looked down at her hands, "give us his name, call it off and then nothing has to be known. It can all just go away."

Sheila shook her head. "It doesn't work like that. He's paid to do it until it's succeeded. He has to follow your story out 'til the end and now you've made me the next victim."

"Why didn't you say anything? I'd have made me the obsession!" Ellanna whispered and that caused Sheila to laugh.

"That's what I'm talking about! I've just told you that I'm the one who tried to frame you for murder and you've just said you'd have been happy to play bait if I'd have told you. You're not an angel, Ellanna. You're as cold hearted as they come, why won't you just..." her sentence was cut short as a bang echoed round the car park and a bullet tore through her forehead. Blood spattered over the other three girls as they stared in horror at the sight of their friend dropping to the floor, lifeless.

The three detectives tore into the building, guns at the ready but he'd long gone. They saw Ellanna knelt down next to Sheila, her tears falling fast as she stared at her friend. Ellie and Leigh had the same expressions as Ellanna. They phoned for an ME, took the girls away to take statements and scoured the building.

Thankfully the guy hadn't been careful; he'd left behind cigarette butts that would be covered in his DNA. First of all, however, their main concern was the three surviving girls. No one should have to go through that ordeal and not when it was their friends.

TO BE CONTINUED...

AUTHORS NOTE: Chelle is really not that much of a bitch, I did ask her permission before I did this and she was all game! I swear she's the nicest person you could ever talk to but we thought this would be a great twist that none of you were expecting!