Lost in Egypt
Synopsis: A young girl aged 15 has gone missing and the only evidence left behind was her school bag that had the name of the school on it. This all happened within the summer break.
While in Ancient Egypt Lily finds out that she is a descendant of a princess, and that she also has powerful magic within her that only someone in a royal family would have. While finding out about her family in Ancient Egypt, she will also have to work on how to get back home to her family, along with helping to protect the kingdom of Egypt from a great Evil.
1 Chapter 1 Present-Day
It was Wednesday, the 1st of July, the last day of school.
Lily and her friends had just finished their last class of the day and were playing a game of hide-and-seek. Before they could leave the school grounds.
Once they could leave and started walking home, they talked about the plans that they had for the summer break this year.
Frozen Lake High School was a castle that was known as an old boarding school that you start at the age of eleven-years-old.
Halfway home, Lily realized she had left her beloved notebook and drawing pad behind in her locker. She couldn't imagine summer without them, as they had been given to her by her birth mother.
"Hey, I'll catch up with you guys, I forgot some stuff at school," She said and turned back.
As she retraced her steps to the school, her mind wandered to her plans for her summer break: hanging out with her friends, roller skating, the camping trip to the Rocky mountains.
A cold shiver interrupted her wave of summer plans excitement as footsteps behind her quickened and became louder. A glance back revealed a shadow in the distance. She ran the rest of the way to the school.
She didn't dare slow down until she was safely inside the door of the school. She arrived at her locker panting, her hands slipping on the combination. 'What the heck was that?' she thought as she managed to get her locker open.
Once she had opened her locker she grabbed her notebook, drawing pad and her grandmother's ring, which had also been given to her when she was only 3 years old. According to her mother, the ring and a necklace had been passed down in the family for years, from mother to daughter, but her father had kept it safe for her until she was older.
Lily kept the ring with her on a chain that she had placed in her locker during gym class, whilst her necklace was at home in a box that she kept under her bed, away from her younger sister.
As she was leaving the school building again she looked around to make sure that was alone and that the person that she thought she saw was gone and started to slowly walk back towards the way where she last saw her friends.
About a block from Emmie's house she again felt as though she was being followed. She spun around to catch a glimpse of a shadow darting into the nearby bushes.
While also looking back to see if there was anyone following them even though she didn't see anyone, she was going to be more cautious of what she and her friends were doing and who they would talk to.
As she got closer to her friend's house, she sent a text message to her step-mother saying that she would be home after the weekend since she was going to stay at Emmie's house for the weekend.
It was around 3.30 pm when she reached Emmie's house and the two of them had something to eat then feed Emmie's kitten, Clara.
After feeding and watering Clara, Lily and Emmie went up to Emmie's room so that they could go over the plans that they had talked about when texting each other earlier that day
Lily had been told by her stepmother that they were going to Egypt for a few weeks this year, which she had told her friends while in their last class today. Tomorrow she was planning to go shopping for the trip to Egypt.
Later on, that night when everyone was asleep Lily, was wide awake thinking about the afternoon's events. She had not mentioned it to Emmie but wondered if she should.
Lily kept going over it in her head. The person that had followed her back to school that afternoon was the same person who had been following her again when she was about a block away from her Emmie's house. She thought this to be very strange as the neighbourhood she was in was very quiet. She didn't know what to do. She felt that nobody would believe her even if she did tell someone.
It was around 2 am by the time Lily managed to fall into a light sleep but the next thing she knew, she was being woken up but her best friends younger sister Lucy, who was trying to wake her sister up.
During the time that Lucy managed to get her sister to wake up, Lily realized that she had been asleep for a few hours so decided to get up and get dressed as well. She had to get home to check on her sister Roxy, who was only a year younger than her.
"Lily, what are you going to be doing today?" Emmie asked her long-time best friend as she got up and went to her bathroom to get dressed before coming back into her room.
"Well, I have to check on Roxy, then I need to go shopping for a few things that I might need to take with me when I go to Egypt," Lily said as she sat down next to Lucy on the bed and watched as Emmie tidied everything that had been used last night away.
When everything in the room had been put away, the three girls left the room and made their way downstairs to the kitchen so that they could have something to eat before leaving the house to go to Lily's house.
As they made their way to Lily's house, she sensed something was wrong and took off running towards her house, only to get there and see a police car parked outside.
"Roxy, Roxy where are you?" Lily called she looked for her sister. She saw her about to be put into the back of the police car.
"Hey, what are you doing with my sister? Where is our mother, Roxy?"
Roxy broke free from the cop that was trying to put her into the back of his car and ran as fast as she could to her sister, crying her eyes out.
"Roxy, what's wrong why are you crying?" Lily said as she held her.
The cop that had followed Roxy over said, "Miss she will need to come with us for questioning."
"My sister is not going anywhere with you. Why are you here and where is our mother? She should be here before you even think about taking my sister anywhere," Lily said as she held her younger sister closer to her. It was then that she saw some other people come out of her house with a body laying on one of the medical beds.
"Miss, I'm Detective Benson and this my partner Detective Green we need to ask you some questions regarding where you were and what you were doing at around 9 pm last night."
"Last night I stayed with my friend Emmie Scott and her family. Around 9 pm we had something to eat before going to bed. I was coming home this morning to check on my stepmother and sister because my stepmother would go out for hours at a time and leave my young sister alone," Lily said as she managed to get Roxy to calm down before looking back at the detective again.
"Now what is going on as you still haven't told me why you are here or what has happened or even where my stepmother is."
"I'm afraid your stepmother was found dead in the house this morning, and the only one to know what happened is your sister. She was found sitting by the body by your neighbour, Miss Taylor, when she came to check on your sister for you," Detective Benson said very softly and kindly to Lily to see how she would react to the news that their mother was dead.
"Our neighbour Miss Taylor isn't home. She is on holiday with her family in France and isn't due home till next month and is the only neighbour that my family knows," Lily says calmly as she hid her reaction to the news that her stepmother was dead. She then turned to Emmie and asked her to look after her sister while she had the detective follow her to the house where they talk. Lily and detective Benson walked backed towards the house and crime scene where Lily showed the detective something that they had missed when they were removing her stepmother's body from the crime scene that could clear both their names of their mother's death.
"Do you think we could talk to your sister down at the station to find out what happened?"
"Yes, I'll bring her down, but she may not talk to you. I'm not going to make her do something that makes her worse than what she is just now. I also need to change our holiday plans a bit as we were meant to be going to Egypt this week but with this happening, I'll need to change the day of the flight," Lily said as she and detective Benson walked back to Lily's friends and sister.
Two hours later, Lily and her sister were on their way back home after spending an hour and a half answering questions and telling everything that both of them knew. Lily brought Roxy back to the house where she sat her down and asked her once again what had happened last night with her and their mother even though Isabella was Lily's step-mother.
After sorting everything out with the police and her sister, they packed for the trip to Egypt. It was Monday of the following week and Lily and her younger sister were all set and packed for their trip. They were to meet up with their father Shaun who is a journalist and was working on a paper in Egypt. Roxy stood by the taxi waiting for her sister.
"Lily if you don't get a move on, we're going to be late if you don't get a move on," Roxy said.
"Okay, Roxy, I'm coming now. Just had to grab something, now that I have it we can go. Are you looking forward to seeing dad?"
"Yes and no. I mean, he didn't answer when the police tried to get a hold of him when they found mums body."
"Roxy, you know dad can't get a good connection when he's in Egypt. When he's working, he'll not answer the phone, you know this".
A few hours later, the two sisters were on the plane to Cairo Egypt where their dad was to meet them. Since this was the first time that Roxy had even been on a plane to anywhere Lily let her sit at the window side so that she could look out of it they were halfway to Cairo when Roxy turned to her sister and started asking questions on what had happened to her mother.
"Lily, what do you think happened to mum and who killed her" Roxy had asked quietly as she looked at her sister "I don't know Roxy but whoever it was she must have known her as it didn't look like the door was broken or anything and they must have known that you where in the house"
Once the plane landed, Lily got up out of her seat to get her things along with her sister's things. As they were getting off the plane, Roxy started to look around for her dad but could not see him anywhere. "Lily, where's Dad? I don't see him. Wasn't he meant to meet us when our plane got here?"
"Yes, he was meant to meet us here, but don't worry, I know where we have to go to find him. Once we put our things in our room at the hotel, then we can go and look for him, okay?"
"Yeah, Lily by the way what did you have to grab before we left home? I mean we were nearly late for the flight here," Roxy asked as they made their way to where they could get a taxi that would take them to their hotel.
Lily looked at her sister and thought on what to say to her "don't worry Roxy it was nothing important all that matters is that we find dad"
Once they got to their hotel, Lily went straight up to the desk to see if their dad was staying at this hotel and to also get their room key since she had already booked a room for the both of them.
"Excuse me," Lily said as she stood in front of the hotel reception desk
"Yes can I help you?" said the receptionist.
"I would like to know if Mr Shaun Ross is here?. I would also like my room key for myself and my sister. The room is already booked under Lily Ross," she said.
"Yes, of course, give me two minutes so I can check." Lily waited while the receptionist tapped on her keyboard. "I'm afraid I'm not seeing any Mr Shaun Ross in the system. Here is your key Miss Ross. Your room number is 113, it's on the first floor," the receptionist said as she handed over the room key.
"Thank you." Lily walked over to where her sister was waiting. "Well, we'll have to go looking for dad as he's not at this hotel. Come on, let's put our things in our room then we can go look for him," Lily said as she grabbed her bag and sister's hand before walking towards where she saw a lift.
"Lily, if dads not here, where could he be? You did tell him that we were coming today didn't you? And-" Roxy stopped talking when her sister turned back to her.
"I told dad that we were coming and I'm not sure where he is but I do have a feeling about where he could be now, come on," Lily said as she and her sister got into the lift and pressed the button for the first floor.
They waited within the lift for about five minutes before they heard a ding singling that they were now on their floor, and they found that they didn't have to go too far from the lift to find their room.
Once the two sisters got to their room, Lily used the room key to open the door so that they could go in. "Wow sis, you sure know how to pick a room to stay in while on holiday," Roxy said as she walked over to the bed that she would be using and placed her bags down. She then walked around the room to see where the bathroom was and what the other door led to.
While Roxy was moving about the room checking everything out Lily was setting her bag down on the bed before sighing. She then went over to the bed that her sister had claimed and started to unpack her sister's clothes into the wardrobe and her bathroom things into the bathroom.
Lily then went back to her bed and unpacked her things into the same wardrobe as well as the bedside table.
Once everything was put away Lily called her sister to tell her to hurry up in the bathroom as if they were going to go and look for their dad, and they were best to do it now before it got dark, which would be soon because of the time difference.
As they were leaving the room Lily stopped and turned to her sister "Rox can you wait for me downstairs, I have to go back to the room and get something. I should only be a couple of minutes but you do not go outside the hotel okay," Lily said as she looked at her sister.
"Sure is but what is that you have forgotten? I could go and get it for you if you want," Roxy said as she looked at her sister trying to figure out what she had to go and get back to their room for. "No, it's okay Roxy.
I just need to grab a few things then we can go and search for dad," Lily said as she started to walk back towards the hotel room that she and her sister were sharing.
When Lily got back to the hotel room she opened the room door and walked in and went straight over to her side of the room where the bedside table was.
She opened the top drawer so that she could grab the necklace that she had brought with her, as the necklace once belonged to her birth mother who she had not seen since she was 3 years old as she had walked out on Lily and her dad 11 years ago.
'Mum I wish you were here right now. Why did you leave dad and me?' Lily thought to herself as she left the room again and started to make her way down to the lobby where her sister should be waiting for her.
Once she was downstairs she looked around for her sister but couldn't see her anywhere, so she went over to the reception desk and asked one of the girls there if they had seen her sister. When they said they had and told her where she could find her sister Lily made her way over to her sister who was sitting by the window looking out it.
"Roxy come on, let's go and see if we can find dad anywhere, and we can also have a look around the shops to see if there is anything that we can take home to remember this trip okay," Lily said as she took her sisters hand and they walked out of the hotel and into the streets.
As the two sisters walked along the main streets of Cairo they would stop and look at the different shops to see if they could see anything that they liked and if they could find anything for their friends back home.
In some shops, Lily would ask if the owners had by any chance seen their dad around but the answer they mostly got was no. "Lily, can we stop for a while? My feet are sore and I'm feeling hungry," Roxy said as she stopped to look at her sister who she had noticed was also getting tired as well. "Sure Roxy and I know just the place that we can eat at.
Come on, it's not that far then once we have something to eat we can make our way back to the hotel and start fresh in the morning to look for dad more okay," Lily said as she pulled her sister close as it was starting to get a bit busy and dark. After walking for another 5 minutes, Lily and Roxy came to a stop in front of an old fashioned restaurant where they would be able to get a table and something to eat.
After getting a table they were given a menu so that they could see what they wanted to eat which they found very quickly, and they were able to order it. As they were eating Roxy looked at her sister before sighing and then turning back to her meal. "Lily, do you think we'll find dad while here in Egypt?" Roxy asked as she started to play with her meal. "I honestly don't know Roxy. Dad has always gone off when he found a great story.
There's only one time I remember being happy and it was when my mum brought dad and me out here to Egypt. I don't remember much of the trip, as I was only little myself, but I do know that we were all happy back then. But then when we got back home, things changed.
Dad found this old story about one of the pharaohs, and he was always researching and never had time for my mother or myself, so when I was 3 years old my mother lift dad and me.
It was then he knew he had to change his ways since I was little, but a year after my mother left he meet your mother and remarried, and then they had you.
But to be honest, I wouldn't change a thing because I love you, you are my sister," Lily said as she looked at her sister who was sitting across from her eating her meal.
It was not long until the two sisters had finished their meal. Lily called over a waiter so that they could get their bill before heading back to their hotel, as it was now dusk and was starting to get dark.
Once they had paid their bill the two sisters made their way back to their hotel so that they could get some sleep before they got up the next morning to go out again and look for their dad.
That night as the two sisters were getting ready for bed Roxy turned to her sister when she heard humming coming from her sister. "Lily, what song is that you're humming and could you sing it to me?" "It's a song that my mother used to sing to me to help me sleep and sure come and sit down next to me".
"Hush now, my baby, be still, don't cry.
Sleep as you're rocked by the stream.
Sleep and remember my last lullaby.
Someday we'll meet when you dream.
River, oh river, flow gently for me!
Such precious cargo you bear!
Do you know somewhere he can be free?
River, deliver him there.
Brother, you're safe now, and safe may you stay.
I have a prayer just for you.
Grow, baby brother, come back someday.
Come and deliver us too".
Lily finished the song just as her sister was falling asleep next to her, so she carefully lifted Roxy and carried her over to her bed where she put her into the bed and then tucked her in before getting into her bed so that she could get some sleep. hey, would have another long day the next day.