ForEver ? or NevEr ?

chapter 8.

ELIZA POV :

It was him !
Though I had not seen him that properly, I just knew it was him. Why is he here?
Last time, he almost killed me.
But today?
I don't know who this guy was, he was a complete stranger.
I tried to concentrate on his face, trying to figure out, any place I've seen him before.
I couldn't think of any place but one.
"I see you're still breathing" he smirked.
I continued to stare at him. He did not have any hoodie on, does that mean, he does not want to be hidden, because he has no plans of harming me right now?
I looked around, it was a lonely area, and maybe that is why he wasn't scared?
Uhh!! Where is Sherlock when you need him?
I tried to look for some hidden weapon, in his jeans or jacket, but I did not find any.
"No you don't know who I am" he said, answering my previous 'self question'.
He folded his arms.
"What do you want?" the first thing I ever said to this guy.
He smiled, and took a step close to me.
It took everything in me to remain rooted on my ground, to not show him that I was terrified.
But in my mind, I already ran a million miles away from him.
"You" he whispered in my ear.
And a shiver of disgust spread through me.
" I want to torture you" he added.
Now, I was scared, like shit scared.
I instinctively, used the closeness between us, and punched him in the stomach, he jerked back so I smashed a kick on his crotch.
"You bitch!" he screamed.
I ran, ran for my life. Ran from a person, whose life's agenda was to torture me.
I was running like a blind man. Then suddenly, my ass hit the sand and I realised I had bumped into someone. But I couldn't look up. Darkness started engulfing me, when I heard his voice.
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DAREN POV :

I'm so pissed off with Carmen. She can never stop bad-mouthing me about El.
Their rivalry is growing more and more difficult for me to handle.
Maybe I shouldn't have asked Carmen to come with us. It was a stupid idea.
But when Eliza asked Alex to come with us, I just couldn't deal with it. I don't know why I felt that way.
Was I jealous?
Because she was spending more time with Alex ?
Or maybe I was too busy ?
But what can I do now ? Not that I have a choice, to not be with Carmen all the time.
She hates my gang, and so does the gang.
I'm confused if I actually like her or not?
Trapped in my thoughts, I felt someone bump into me. I tried to hold whoever it was, but she fell.
It was Eliza!
I sat on my knees, bought her close, her back on my lap.
I tapped on her face, trying to bring her to consciousness.
She merely opened her eyes.
"h-help" she muttered. I had to strain my ears to listen, properly.
"h-help, it's him" she said, and passed out.
I panicked. What is she talking about?
I picked her up and ran towards the beach house.
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Thank god, we had bought Eliza's medical papers along.
As we reached the beach house, I immediately called my uncle to send a doctor to the mansion.
The mansion was 1hr drive from the hospital. This needed to be quick.
" It's nothing serious, just a effect of her past condition, things like this are bound to happen, she might wake up in sometime" he said, and I took a deep breath.
"Thank you doctor" Alex said.
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"What happened?" Alex asked, when the doctor was gone.
"I don't know, she bumped into me, seemed like was running, and then...." I trailed off, trying to remember the exact words she told me.
"Then what?" Alex asked me to go on.
"She said, 'help, it's him' ", realization kicked me, and I matched the wide eyed reaction, Alex was giving me.
"No this is not possible" i said.
Just then I heard Eliza scream from her room.
We both ran to her room.
She was shaking, and crying.
I took her in my arms, and tried to calm her down by running my hands over her head. She would always clam down when someone would stroke her back or head slightly; I remember she told me, Her mom used to do that.
"It's him Ren! It's him, I saw him, he talked to me" she said, sounding scared.
"Hush, it's fine." I said. The amount of rage I was feeling for whoever the fuck he was, was just making my insides burn with anger. The day i find him, I will ruin him, for making El's life so miserable.
She calmed down a bit, after some time.
"I think it's good if she sleeps now" Alex said.
"yeah" I agreed.
"Alex, can you stay here with her? She tends to wake up, many a times." I asked him.
" I'm going to the police station." I added then.
"Sure. But won't they need Eliza's statement?"He asked.
I sighed and nodded. "We will take her tomorrow" I said.
and left.
ALEX POV :
Soon after Daren left, Eliza had a hard time falling asleep. But she did eventually.
I was sitting beside her, and just thought how her condition is right now.
I clearly remember the doctors words.
'She is moved right now, her mental condition is not stable, she needs attention.'
And this entire trauma, it's just adding on to her condition.
So I did the only thing that could help this situation,
I called, Madison.
"Hello? Alex? Is everything alright?" she asked.
"I want you all to come to Thailand, Eliza needs you'll" I said, and explained everything to her.
To my surprise, they were already coming this weekend, but now they will be leaving tomorrow.
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Sometime, around that time I did not know when I fell asleep.
Because when I woke up, sometime in the night, with a sore neck, I looked over to check at Eliza.
She was not in her bed.
I frantically looked around, the room, checked the washroom, but there was no trace of her. Then I checked in the balcony, If she was in the backyard,
And there I saw a note.
' I got her' it said.

She was gone.

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A/N:
I'm getting good with cliff-hangers ain't I ?
*laughs an evil laugh*
well, things ARE going to get a bit bad in the next chapter.
As a surprise Daren was finally on time for Eliza.
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