The Islands of Loxso was a beautiful group of islands. Each island had its own group of people inhabiting it. Everyone was different on each island, but they all had something in common. A love for surfing.

20 to 30 miles away from the Islands of Loxso was a mainland, called Fandriv. The Loxso natives always thought that the people of Fandriv were the worst of all surfers and that they didn't know the waves. So, every summer there was the annual surf competition. That was always held on the largest island of Loxso, called Caldrik.

Caldrik had the nicest shores of all the islands. It had a mountain, a lake, a large river which helped make up the water resort there. The river also went into the ancient ruins there.

There were ancient ruins on each island and the Caldrik ruins were the most difficult to go through. Since the river split and went around different of the ruins, it was a difficult obstacle for archeologists. There were underground ruins that were flooded with water.

But, the ruins aren't important at this moment. Right now what's important is the surfing and the group of surfers that we're going to meet.

This story is about a girl, Jess, her adventures of the summer, her love story, the competition, and the disaster. While we're learning about Jess, we're going to learn about the history of Fandriv and the Islands of Loxso.

It was the last month of school, Jess and her love interest, Jared, were going to their fourth period together, history. They were leaning about the history of the native Indians in Fandriv.

Jess and Jared were freshman at Bromain High School. They had known each other since seventh grade because they both played drums in band. They had 3 or 4 classes together ever since. They weren't dating or anything, but Jess would have liked it if they were.

Jared was the boy that pretty much all the girls at Bromain High would swoon over. He was tall, skinny and muscular, nice smile. He played baseball and basketball. He was on both teams for Bromain High. His hair was incredibly curly and dark brown; he had a lot of eyelashes and brown eyes. Big feet, too.

Jess wasn't the hottest girl there, wasn't the ugliest, either. She was just there. She has light brown hair that constantly had red streaks dyed in it. Hazel eyes, muscular arms and legs. She was 5'4 and compared to Jared being over 6 feet tall, she looked and felt like a midget. She also had small feet and hands.

"I can't wait until the end of this summer." Jared said while leaving his 3rd period.

"You're going to go into the competition?" Jess asked

Jared gave her a weird look. "You don't need to ask that. Of course I am. I didn't get to last year because of the storm."

Jess remembered the storm last year. A hurricane went through part of the mainland. It hit Jared's home and neighborhood the hardest. He had to help his mom work on their house with his brothers. Jared was extremely disappointed and mad that he couldn't go into the competition. But Jess won, and she said she did it for him and gave most of her winnings in the 14 year old division to him and his family. She cared a lot for him. But he was almost too dull to realize that.

"How's your mom doing?" Jess asked, remembering that Jared's mom was going through a hard time at the moment. Whenever Jess would go over, she would look extremely depress.

"Eh, I don't know. I try to stay away from home the best I can. It's depressing, seeing her like that. Plus she won't let me or Nick try to help her. So, she's sort of inflicting it upon herself." Nick is Jared's brother, in case you were wondering.

"I hope she feels better soon. I wonder what would happen if you and I had her for English next year."

Jared had a worried look on his face. "That sounds horrible. She'd get so pissed at us because we'd talk the whole period, probably."

"But she loves me! She would never give me a detention." Jess joked. Jared's mom had given them a detention a while ago; they were pushing and elbowing each other while walking to their 2nd period when they walked past her classroom.

The two walked into their 4th period classroom and went to their desks, which were across the room from each other. Their teacher, Mrs. Mark, had set up the classroom into groups. There were six groups with two desks facing the right of the classroom, two across from those desks, facing the left side of the classroom, and two desks facing forward. Jess was in group one and Jared was in group 3, they were directly across from each other. They would always make weird faces at each other.

Mrs. Mark looked up and saw the two friends and said, "No flirting with each other today, okay?"

Jess blushed slightly and Jared said, "It's not flirting."

"It looks like flirting to me," Mrs. Mark replied, looking back down at the papers that she was grading.

"Whatever you say, Mrs. Mark." Jared said quietly, walking to his desk, obviously annoyed with Mrs. Mark's constant remarks.

After the rest of the class filed into the classroom, the bell rang and Mrs. Mark rose from her desk and started talking. "Today, class, we'll be doing what we did yesterday, pretty much. Get out the maps that we started working on yesterday and the books under your desk. Turn to page 394. Finish up the maps and then we'll watch a movie for the rest of the period. You have 10 minutes."

Mrs. Mark turned back over to her desk, sat down, and returned to correcting her papers. Everyone started to grab the books from under their desk and got their maps from their binders and backpacks. Then Jared stood up from his desk and threw a crumpled up piece of paper at Jess' head.

Jess looked up and gave Jared an annoyed look then worded, "What is wrong with you?"

Jared mouthed, "Read it," in reply.

Jess opened the paper which read,

Don't look over until you've finished reading this, but why does Elena keep glaring at you?

Jess wrote back saying,

She's probably pissed because she likes you and we're close. She seems like a jealous type of person.

Jess looked over at Elena, and sure enough, she was glaring at Jess. Elena and Jess locked eyes, Jess raised an eyebrow and Elena looked down at her map. Jess checked to see is Mrs. Mark was looking, then threw the paper back to Jared.

Part of the movie was talking about myths. This part really interested Jess.

In 1892, a conquistador came to Fandriv, looking for hidden gold that was said to be in the land. He and his crew searched for 5 years. Some say that they made it and found the gold, but died because they didn't know how to get out of the cave where the gold was located. Others say that the conquistador never even found a speck of gold. There's a rumor that there still is a cave filled with gold somewhere in Fandriv. But no one knows where, for sure. But if it was real, and someone were to find it, they'd be extremely rich.

Back and forth they were talking to each other for the whole period. Jared had seen the looks between Elena and Jess and was crying from laughing after the period was over. They had lunch after 4th period and met up with their friends.

"It wasn't that funny," Jess said to Jared.

"No, it was, it was hilarious! Elena was like, 'Oh no! She saw me!' and then looked back down." He laughed some more, "It was so funny."

"What happened?" their friend, Sierra, asked.

Jared told Sierra what had happened during the period as more of their friends started filing in. All of their friends would hang out after school at the shores of Fandriv. It was a usual thing for them. There was a street right next to the shore and it sold bikinis, swimming trunks, surf boards, water suits, wax for surfboards and things like that. There were also other stores that sold clothing that you could only find in that store. And ice cream stores, and candy stores. You could find just about anything there.

Jess remembered a time a while ago, when the group of friends, Jared, and her were all out on the beach. The waves were great, and they were all surfing that day after school. Jess was riding a large wave and suddenly ate it. She got stuck under the surface of the water and wasn't coming up. At that moment, Jared was the only person who noticed.

He ran from the shore into the water and went searching for her. When he found her, she wasn't breathing. He brought her farther up the shore then gave her CPR. She started coughing up water then breathing. He had saved her life, and she thanks him completely for it. But, what he doesn't know, is that she's in love with him.

Jess doesn't think that he likes her, since he is always referring to her as his sister. She's know him for so long, and they know so much about each other it just breaks her heart to know that he probably will never like her the way she likes him.

After school that day instead of going to the beach with all of their friends, Jess went home and relaxed and did the homework that was due the next day. All of a sudden, her friend, neighbor and step-cousin Brian came into her room through her window.

Brian and Jess weren't actual step-cousins, but once Brian found out that Jess' last name was Walker and that his actual step-cousins' last name was Walker, he called her his step-cousin. He had curly, brown hair like Jared. But Brian's was curlier. He was extremely skinny and taller than Jess, but not by too much.

"Hi," Brian said casually.

"Oh, hey." Jess replied.

"I thought you'd be out surfing with everyone."

"Same with you."

"Grounded."

"What'd you do?"

"Nothing."

"Then why are you grounded?"

"Because I did nothing."

Jess looked at Brian with a puzzled look on her face.

"I was supposed to do chores and homework and stuff like that but instead I went surfing, ate food and slept." Brian explained.

"Good job," Jess said, "I didn't feel like going today plus I have homework."

"Oh, you want to do mine?" Brian said hopefully.

"Not necessarily."

"C'mon, we're step-cousins!"

"Wow, Brian, you are so persuasive."

"You know it," Brian said, smiling, then he winked.

Jess and Brian talked for a while after, then Brian left to go eat. They had known each other since seventh grade, because of band.

The last bit of homework that Jess had was the map from history class. She decided to do it later and set down the history book and map on her bed then walked around her house, looking for something interesting to do.

She looked at the wall with all the pictures of her relatives and ancestors. Her parents said that she looked like her Spanish ancestor.

Jess took the picture of her Spanish ancestor off the hook on the wall and examined it. She turned the picture over and noticed that a sort of paper was coming out of the back of the frame.

She opened the frame and took the paper out. It was a map.

I've had enough of maps from history class, thank you very much. She thought to herself.

She examined it and realized that it was a map of her own neighborhood. She looked for a date. There was one, except it was dated back when her ancestor died.

1892.

Okay, thanks for reading! This is my first story that I've ever posted on here and I hope people enjoy it. I'm also working on a story called Thieving Slayer with Ms Autumn. But this story is just solo! If you like it, tell me! And if you don't, then don't tell me. Thanks and wait for the next chapter! When? I have no idea :) But it'll come!