1 Chapter 1:Puzzled

Hi I'm Ryan and I'm 26, I have these crazy dreams let me explain, I keep seeing this woman In my dreams, But when I am close to asking her name I go back into reality, I feel like I have seen this woman Before, I work at a local Coffee shop Downtown, Another boring day a woman walks in I take her order but when I look up I can't stop but realize it's the same beautiful woman in my dreams, I stop her before she walks out of the door and say" W-what's your name?" She responded and said "Eliza". She then walked out of the store when I went home that night I could not fall asleep I kept thinking about Eliza and she looked exactly like the woman in my dreams, I eventually went to sleep, At 4am I heard a knock on my door it was.. "Eliza"? I groaned only getting An hour of sleep "Yeah sorry to bother you" Eliza replied I waved my hand for her to come in still confused how she found my home. We tried to make a conversation of what we liked " Soo..." I said breaking the silence " How did you find my hous-" She interrupted with "I'm sorry but I saw you in my dream and not to sound like a stalker but after I finished my coffee I waited for you to end your shift and followed you home", I looked at her with a weird and scared expression on my face. I told her how I also had a dream about her she said it was just like her dream then we she was going to say something her phone rang she said could she use my restroom I said yes, I heard some muffled things like "NO YOUR LYING, I DONT WANNA GET HURT AND BEAT AGAIN" and also " GET YOUR @ss home before I beat YOU". I then rushed back to my couch and sat there she then came out five minutes later, You could tell she had been crying, " I-I umm need to go home have my number" Eliza said trying to smile then ran outside, I grabbed her arm and said " Are you ok are you sure you wanna go it's pretty late you can spend the night " She slid her smooth arms out of my grasp and said " My husband needs me home now see you umm.. Whenever" She then said goodnight and left, I tried to go back to sleep but I couldn't stop thinking about what I heard and though about Eliza all night and the night before that and the night before that night, It had been affecting my work performance and I hadn't see her in nine days I decided to call her, A raspy but fierce voice picked up you could tell it was a man's "WHO THE F&$$& IS CALLING" I told the man to calm down and ask If I could speak to Eliza he then said "SOO.. Your Eliza's New MaAann", I was thinking back to when Eliza was over my house she said her and her husband had problems before and he likes to drink A LOT. "No" I responded to the Man," He then replied to me with" Well Eliza Your little NEW HUsBANd... I could hear Eliza crying and saying stop in the background, I could tell she was getting beaten but I didn't know how to help her so out of fear I hung up but I heard Her husband say" RyaanN I'll BeAt YOUR @ss whe-" The previous days I still couldn't forget about the incident, I finally gained the courage after three days to go to the police, I explained everything to them including Eliza's name and age because we did talk at my house the officer who was talking to me then responded by saying " Sir,Eliza Lee has been dead for over two years, I think you have a mix up in name." I was dying on the inside I asked if she could show me a picture of Eliza Lee.... I was stunned,My heart shattered into a million pieces, The woman who was so kind and sweet that I think I loved was DEAD,I read that her husband Quinton Lee beat his wife to death, Then hung himself because he couldn't take it and didn't want to go to prison. I sat there looking at the police in disbelief she was dead, Honestly Now I was puzzled.

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