Chapter 2: The burning touch
"Oh Man! Just great! Totally great! Now I am lost in this forest type park! And the park is so horrifying during the night. Did I just say horrifying?" Lyra muttered. Lyra searched her way through the trees and the growing bushes. Lyra took a look at her watch. It was 8:30 and Lyra was sure busted by her mother for this. As she was trying to trace her steps back to the picnic spot. She heard something…something funny behind the bushes and that was when Lyra was mumbling her prayer in deep breath with her eyes closed.
"Gotcha!" her sister Lora shouted jumping from the bush.
"LORA!! I'll kill you!!" Lyra screamed.
"Before you kill me Mum is going to kill you!" Lora retorted.
"Mum is searching for you everywhere and she is really very worried about you, you shouldn't have stayed that long with your snobbish friends. Oh mum, dad here you are" Lora waved her hand behind Lyra.
"Thank goodness you are safe; I was so worried about you!" Mrs. Celestial said hugging Lyra.
"I am sorry mum" Lyra told guiltily and she couldn't meet her mum's eyes. "I promise that I will make it up to you" Lyra added.
Mrs. Celestial's face lit up. "Well I know you will, now forget all about this and let's make a stop on marble slab and grab that Dark chocolate ice-cream which you like so much"
"Oh wow Ice-cream!" Lora squeaked with childish delight.
"Well, let's get going then shall we?" Mr. Tom clapped his hands.
"Mum and Dad are so sweet, even after I was missing for so many hours they didn't tell me anything" Lyra thought.
As Lyra's parents and her sister settled in the car which was obviously parked in the parking lot, Lyra followed them from behind and as she was about to settle in the car, All of a sudden Lyra felt a cold touch on her waist which made her skin burn all over. Lyra moaned a bit and she could now feel hands rubbing her stomach. Lyra shrieked.
Lyra's mum jumped out of the car and rushed towards her and asked her what the matter was.
"No…Nothing Mum" Lyra told her feebly.
"But dear you look frightened" Mother Jennifer noted by looking at her facial expressions.
"It's nothing mum"
"Sweetheart, Are you fine?" Tom asked peering at the back of the driver's seat.
"Yeah dad I'm fine" Lyra replied.
"Why did you shout then?" Mrs. Jennifer Celestial inquired.
"Well, the …umm...car door…Yeah the car door hit my …uh…leg" Lyra told her mum hoping that she'll buy it.
"Oh, you are not hurt are you?"
"No Mum. I'm fine" Lyra told her with a smile.
"Can we go please go now already?" Lora pleaded her mum.
"Alright" Mrs. Celestial smiled and she settled back into the car.
While her dad was driving towards the ice-cream parlor Lyra was thinking about the incident which just occurred with her an hour ago. Why did she feel that strange cold touch? It was summer and there was no breeze or anything like that. Lyra tried to draw a Logical explanation to this but she couldn't think of any. Finally she decided it might have been the wind or something like that which made Lyra feel as if she was touched. And then forgot about this incident.