Chapter 100: Troubling Days

"What is this?", Goldie asks with her back turned against her parents, showing the twin horizontal growths which had emerged overnight.

"Ah! Jesus! What is that?!", screams Goldie's mother, Mrs Becky Markell, in shock, completely freaked out by the horizontal twin growths protruding out of her daughter's back.

"Oh wow! What on earth…", says Goldie's father simultaneously, in quiet fascination, equally shocked, his eyes widening.

"WHY does it look like something is starting to grow out of my back?!", questions Goldie in an equally freaked-out tone, turning back around to look at her parents with bewilderment, dread and confusion written all over her expression.

How could she be waking up to two horrid, large things growing out of her back? 

Before she slept last night, there was nothing on her back. Her back was all smooth, fair, and pretty.

But after she woke up this morning, she felt an itch. A small, yet disturbingly serious itch.