A wooden photoframe.....

Once upon a time, there were two very good friends in my kindergarten class. Jake and Tim. Jake was a very extrovert, playful, daring child while Tim was a very introvert and quiet child.

May be because of their very different and opposite characteristics, they became very good friends. They were always together apart from their sleeping time.

They heard a lot of stories about the forest nearby their home. Out of curiosity, they were planning to go to the forest at one night. Jake got a Polaroid camera for graduating kindergarten 

from his parents. He was planning to take his first snap, frame it up and give it to Tim. Jake was very excited and talked to Tim all about his gift to him.

Though Jake was so eager about their adventure, Tim was not. Tim was starting to get afraid of going into the forest at night and was thinking of an excuse. On the day they decided to go to the forest, Tim lied to Jake that he was sick and did not come to school. Jake was upset but he understood. But unexpectedly, on the way back home after school, Jake saw Tim with a group of friends at the playground, the group that he disliked because they always picked on him. 

Jake started to assume that Tim was betraying their friendship and he got mad. Jake sent a note to Tim about the 'betrayal' and that he will go to the forest alone and he did. For 2 days, Jake did not come to school and Tim had not heard from Jake for the past 2 days and he started to get worried. So, on the third day morning,he decided to go to Jake's house to see what happened but noticed that there were police talking to his parents.

The police search team found out that Jake died in the forest without knowing the cause of his death. Upon seeing Tim, Jake's parents passed him the photo frame with the beautiful scenery photo inside which they found Jake's body was holding tightly in his hand when he died. Upon the frame, there was a title "To my best friend, TIM...." 

Tim really felt guilty that he never stopped his best friend from going to such a dangerous place alone and he thought that if he went with him, this tragedy might not happen. He could not escape from this tragedy for around two months. Everyday he stared at the photo frame without eating and drinking. He never went out again and locked himself in his little room. 

Expectingly,one morning, Tim fainted. He was hospitalized and when he came back from hospital, the photo frame had been taken away by his parents. He started his new life and slowly and slowly he went back to his normal life. 

After Tim had finished his O' level, he moved to a new house. Upon unpacking the stuffs, he found back the long-lost photo frame. All the depressing moments of his life flash back in his mind. But he was matured, and he remembered the good times more instead of the bad times now.Therefore he decided to take out the photo frame and display it along his bedside as a remembrance of his best friend.

At that night, he heard a sound while he was sleeping quietly. There were some noises, brushing sounds were produced. The wind was howling, the curtains were being blown like sheets of tissue papers. The next sound heard was, the shattering of the photo frame(photo frame drop on the floor).


A boy figure appeared. At first sight, Tim was not able to recognize the boy though he thought that he was very familiar with that image.

"Tim, my best friend," the boy said. The voice suddenly broke the dawn of him. It was JAKE.... 

"Do you ever wondered or thought about how I died in the forest? Do you ever care about me? You Betrayer... Do you know that how much I value our friendship. This photo frame was hand-crafted by me. This was the first time I did something by myself. You know that with my pocket money, I can just any how buy a fancy photo frame for you which is thousand times better than this stupid wooden frame. Do you know that I even hurt my hand when I did this for you. I made this by myself especially for you. But you never keep this with you for these ten years. I never blamed you for not coming along with me to the forest. It was just an accident. It was my own false. But the one that hurt my heart the most is that you never keep the photo frame that I gave to you all these ten years."

"Jake, the story was not the way you think. I did not sleep, drink and eat for the two whole months until I collapsed down and sent to hospital after the death of yours. It was my parents who took away the photo frame from me. There is no one else who can replace your place in my heart and no one will." 

They hug each other tightly. They talked back about their merry childhood memories throughout the night. If there were any single soul passed by the house, they would certainly hear the laughters of two best friends who have not seen each other for ten years. 

When the dawn came, Jake said, "I have to go now my best friend.This will be my only and last time come and see you."

"I will go with you....,"Tim replied.  

In the morning, when Tim's parents opened the door of his room, they found Tim lying on the bed silently.Though there were no wounds, his heart had stopped. But his face was smiling peacefully and happily.

The police were looking for evidences to found out how Tim died but they never managed to do so.They only found was the photo became the portrait of Tim and Jake smiling happily and hugging each other warmly instead of the beautiful scenery in the old wooden photo frame.