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When Nightmares Become Reality

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I looked around my apartment, the windows were still closed, dirty dishes still piled up in the kitchen and the mail hadn’t been collected since being slid under our door. Nobody had been home for a couple of days. I picked up my phone for the second time and tried to call Liz. It rang through to her voicemail. “It’s been two days, why haven't you come home. Is this guy honestly that good?” Danielle walked out of the bathroom, drying her hands on the back of her legs. “Is she still not picking up?” I looked around for a note that she might have left me but seen nothing.
“No, it keeps going to voicemail. I asked if anyone had seen her at the shop and they all said she hadn’t even called in sick or anything, it’s getting a little suspicious. She never stays out this long” I bit my lip and reached for the TV remote. I turned it on and waited for the old TV to boot up. Static noise filled the room and I pressed down to change the channel, the news was the first thing that turned on. I watched the news reporter change the subject from tax payments to recent events. “In today’s news we fall upon the story of a murder in the streets of London. She still remains unidentified but the police have given us a drawing of her facial features, if anyone has seen her before please call this number, we only wish to help this poor girls family.” A sketch popped up onto the screen and my jaw dropped to the ground, the picture closely resembles Liz. I typed the number from the TV screen to my phone and saved it, before calling Liz’s phone again.
Danielle interrupted my train of thought “You don’t think it could be her do you?” The phone reached its last ring.
“I hope not” the beep signalling the recording had started. “Please Liz, you have to call me back, it’s getting out of hand! I just saw this thing on the news and I hope to god it isn’t you. Please just call me back.” I let out a sigh hanging up the phone.
“I’m sure it can’t be her” Danielle took a seat next to me and rested her hand on my shoulder.
I sniffled “You don’t know that Danielle, What if it is, what am I going to do, It can’t be her, who would want to mur-“ I chocked on the last word, realization had set in a I knew secretly, deep down that there was a chance it could be. “Oh my god” I whispered staring of into the distance and a tear fell down my face, Danielle’s assuring arms wrapped around me and pulled me up.