Elizabeth sat in her apartment staring at the wall. It had been a month since she had broken up with Sean. She knew it was for the better because he was a lazy freak, but she still wished that she hadn't broken up with him at times. Suddenly the phone rang to wake her up from her day dreams.
"Hello?"
"Hi is this Elizabeth Gold?" said the voice from the other end.
"Yes, who may I ask is calling?" asked Elizabeth who had completely come out of her daze now.
"This is Dr. Crane's assistant Debby. I'm just calling to remind you that you have an appointment tomorrow at 9:30 A.M.," said Debby cheerfully over the phone.
"I do?" Elizabeth asked. She didn't remember making an appointment to see Dr. Crane that day, or any day for that matter. Of course she didn't remember a lot now, which could explain the doctor's appointment.
"Yes, Miss Gold. It says here that you are coming for a check up," said Debby.
"Oh yes now I remember," Elizabeth said wearily. Memories of making the appointment about a month ago flooded her memory. She had made it right before she had broken up with Sean. Elizabeth was once again flooded with tears. She sat there for a few minutes in silence.
"Miss?" asked Debby.
"Sorry, yes I will be at the appointment. Thank you for your call," replied Elizabeth. She hung up the phone and planted herself down in front of the television.
"Hey Liz."
"Sean?"
"No…why would it be Sean? You broke up with him."
"Who are you?"
"Don't tell me you don't know."
"Have I ever met you?"
"Of course, when we were very little of course, you wouldn't remember."
"Then how do you remember me?"
"You were so pretty. Even as a child."
"Thank you, but that doesn't tell me who you are."
"We went to school together. All through high school even. I was in the same graduating class as you, but you never noticed me."
"I knew everyone in my graduating class; I went to a very small school."
"You knew who I was, but you never said one word to me."
"Why didn't you approach me?" Suddenly Liz woke up. She rolled over to see that it was only 2:00 A.M.. "Oh great, now I'm not able to sleep, and who the hell was that in my dream?" she asked herself.
Liz slowly pulled herself out of bed and into her kitchen where she made herself a cup of fresh coffee. She went to her fridge and pulled out some pudding and eagerly began to eat it. "This is what I call breakfast," she said as she shoved a spoonful of pudding into her mouth.
Liz decided that she would go for a walk, even though it was still in the very early hours of the morning. As a child she had discovered that she had insomnia. She had learned to adapt to this disease by taking walks early in the morning. Liz quickly slipped on her green converse and walked out the door of her apartment.
The morning was hardly chilly, but she still wore her old swim team sweatshirt that she had had since she was in about 7th grade. She had long since quit the swim team, but she had rejoined in college last year. Now being a sophomore at Oxford, she was very busy, and on top of that of course her job. She was majoring in music, mainly performing but she also was planning to take music teaching classes.
Even after living for a year in England, she hadn't gotten used to the time change. She had come from Northern California, where it was usually very warm, and of course there was a huge time difference from California to England.
Liz silently walked down the street she usually took this route in the morning before heading off to rehearsal or before she left to fly to Oxford. The only reason she didn't live closer to the college was because she had fallen in love with the little town of Victoria. For one reason this town was so awesome to Liz was the fact that it was very small, making it very cute. She also loved it because the Willy Wonka chocolate factory was here. She thought the building was an architectural wonder when she first saw it. The first day she saw the building she immediately fell in love with it.
Liz was now approaching the chocolate factory. She slowly walked up to its massive gates and put her hands around the smooth metal. "I bet I'm skinny enough to slip through these bars," Liz said aloud to herself. Liz had always been one of those who loved adventure, so she thought that a little adventure of slipping through a large iron gate would be great fun.
Liz daintily put one slender but muscular leg through the great iron bars. Once she had noticed that nothing had stopped her leg entering she pulled the rest of her body through the bar. As soon as Liz was in she snuck around the outer walls of the factory, looking for an entry. When she could find none she sat down on the soft grassy ground and looked up at the black sky.
Liz began to lazily pull at the curls in her hair. She hated her hair. It was so curly and stupid. She wished her hair was straight. That was why she usually straightened it every morning, but this morning she hadn't gotten the chance to straighten it, so she had piles of brown, red, black, and blonde curls. She had dyed her hair since she was in maybe 7th grade. She had decided to streak her hair black and red and tip the ends black. The brown and blonde in her hair was natural. She had never really liked having only those two colors so she decided that red and black were the best way to go.
Slowly the sun began to rise over the small town of Victoria. She slowly blinked her entrancing Caribbean aqua eyes. She had always loved her eyes. They were such and unusual color. Most people had to get colored contacts to get the color of her eyes. She did wear contacts, but they were clear and they were just for seeing. The world around her slowly turned shades of pink in the morning sun. Liz absolutely loved sun rise. She usually got up early enough to watch it.
Willy slowly watched Liz from the shadows of his factory. He hadn't seen her since high school, but she was still beautiful. Her multi colored curls fell down her back and around her face so perfectly and her eyes…they were like no other eyes he had ever seen before. They were the most beautiful color, but they were also warm and kind, yet passionate and fiery. His thoughts now went back to his freshmen year in high school.
Flash back
"Hey Maria!" yelled Liz as she approached her friend Maria after her zero period class of orchestra.
"Hey Sa-I mean Liz. I am never gonna get used to the fact that you changed your name. That is so weird," replied Maria as she ran up and gave her friend a hug on their first day of high school.
"Well I hated my old name," replied Liz.
"Have you seen that Willy kid this year?" asked her friend Rachael who had walked up behind Liz apparently coming from orchestra as well.
"No, but I'm sure he's around somewhere. He's gone here since like first grade hasn't he?" asked Maria.
"Yeah, he was here when Rachael and I first went to this school 9 years ago," replied Liz. Suddenly the bell rang and the girls rushed off to their first period class.
End flash back.
Now Willy watched his high school crush sit on his front lawn. It had been two years since he had last seen her at graduation. He had wondered if he would ever see her again. He figured not since her hopes had been to go to the University of Southern California, but by the looks of it her plans had changed. He couldn't decide if he should approach her or not. Then he decided that since it was his property that he would approach her.
"Excuse me," said Willy softly as he came up behind Liz.
Liz whirled around quickly with a look of fright in her eyes. She quickly jumped to her feet and was about to run for the gate when Willy reached out and grabbed her arm. Liz pulled as hard as she could, but was unable to break from his grasp.
"Let go of me!" cried Liz as she began to pull Wonka along with her toward the gates. Her muscles were screaming with pain as she began to pull even harder. This dude was apparently stronger than his flimsy build let on. Liz could only think of one way to get away from someone like this. She quickly twisted her arm, causing his arm to snap. This happened so fast that Willy was barely able to comprehend what had happened. She gracefully slid past him and ran with inhuman speed away from him, but unfortunately for her in the wrong direction.
"I just want to talk to you!" called Willy after her.
Liz didn't reply she just kept running. She knew she was going the wrong way, but that didn't matter to her. She just had to get out of this place. Suddenly she tripped over a very large rock that she was surprised she hadn't seen before. "Ouch!" she screamed as she fell to the ground, shattering at least one rib. Liz clutched her side in silent pain as hot tears of agony began to fall down her face. The last thing she saw was a very small man standing over her, then her world went dark.
