Madeline leaned against the railing of the pier. She was looking at the still waters of the lake. She ran her hand through her semi-damp hair. She decided to put it up in a sloppy brown bun and she did so using the hair tie she had on her wrist.
She shivered as the wind hit the parts of her body that was exposed. She had on her brother's t-shirt. It was baggy and ended at her mid-thigh. She was using it to as a swim suit cover.
She looked over her shoulder at her family who were drinking out of red plastic cups around a small fire. They had on music but they weren't really paying attention to it they were exchanging entertaining stories.
"What's up antisocial butterfly?"
Madeline automatically knew the voice. She looked over at her brother and smiled, "I'm not antisocial."
"That's why you're over here instead of where the party's at." Jason chuckled a little bit.
By no means was that a party. Not even a family reunion. It was just the Stone family camping and getting drunk.
"Am I missing that much?"
"Absolutely not. But seriously what's wrong with you?"
Madeline just shook her head, "Wanna go swimming again?"
"Sure. Want me to go grab Charlie?" Jason asked with a smile.
"Absolutely not. No way in hell is he going with us-" Madeline started her. Speech about how the other teen was not going to join however she was interrupted.
"What are you guys doing?" Charlie asked.
"We're gonna hop in the lake. Wanna tag along?" Jason never missed an opportunity to annoy his little (by 3 minutes) sister.
"Of course!" The blonde boy smiled.
'Lovely' Madeline mouthed to her brother.
This was the deal with Charlie. He wasn't family per say. Just the son of the couple that was exceedingly close to Madeline's and Jason's parents and their aunts and uncles and etc. He also had an extremely large crush on Madeline.
Jason and Charlie tore their shirts off leaving them in their swimming trunks however Madeline decided to keep her shirt on. She climbed on top of the railing waiting for the two boys to join her. Jason was on her right side and unfailingly Charlie was on her left.
"Ok, everybody link arms we'll all jump at the same time." Jason smiled as he grabbed his sisters arm knowing Charlie would follow suit.
She glared at her brother as he started the countdown, "3...2..."
He never got to 1. Both boys knew that Madeline was going to try and shake 'em since their grips weren't to tight. She always jumped early. So they learned to jump early with her.
The water enveloped the teens. Madeline could tell you what would happen next. Jason would let go of her, Charlie wouldn't, he'd blush and apologize when they resurfaced after being called out on it by Jason, 2 seconds later after hearing the splash all of their younger cousins and siblings would rush over asking if they could swim and finally they would spend the rest of the time in the water playing chicken with 5 and 6 year olds on their shoulders.
All three were ready for slight chill of the water but what they felt next was beyond a little bit of coldness. They didnt feel like they were in water anymore either. But they were freezing and dripping. They opened their eyes to find themselves standing in snow with four other people staring at them.
Madeline shook her arm from Charlie then turned to Jason, "What the heck did you do?"
" I didn't do anything! The better question is what the hell did you do!" Jason was wide-eyed.
"Watch your language there are little kids right here stupid..." she told him through her gritted teeth as she motioned to the two youngest.
"I'm not little!" the boy quickly defended, "Who are you any way? And why aren't you wearing any proper clothes?"
Edmund didn't really mind Madeline's lack of clothing if truth be known but the half named males were a sight he didn't really want to see.
"Ed! Where are your manners?" the eldest girl hissed before turning back to Jason, Madeline, and Charlie, "Umm... Sorry... I'm Susan Pevensie." She stuck out her hand for them to shake.
Madeline was the first to accept the gesture and shook it, "I'm Madeline Stone, this is my brother Jason and this is Charlie Buff." Madeline pointed every one out and noticed Susan looked at Jason for most of the introduction. She also noticed that the blonde boy in their group disappeared for a minute.
"Nice to meet you. This is my sister Lucy and my brothers Edmund and Peter." She did a double take before noticing Peter wasn't there, "Peter!"
"Calm down I just went to get them a coat they looked rather... Cold." Peter looked Madeline over one good time before he handed them their coats.
"Thank you so much." Madeline quickly put on the coat feeling a little self-conscious as soon as she saw Peter's eye on her.
"Umm quick question... Where are we?" Jason asked.
"You're in Narnia. We're going to see Mr. Tumnus! You should come with us it will be som much fun! Please!" Lucy exclaimed and smiled largely at Madeline.
"If you're brother and sister are ok with it."
"Of course." Peter answered for his sister.
"Not to be a buzz kill but shouldn't we be getting back." Charlie asked not really at all wanting to visit Mr. Tumnus or have Madeline spend any more time with this Peter fellow.
Lucy frowned and Madeline turned to Charlie, "How do you expect we get home? We're in Narnia. You know that place that's not on the map and we got here by jumping into a lake! How do you think we should go about getting back to Texas?"
Lucy smiled and took Madeline's hand, "This way!"
Madeline laughed as she heard Jason talk to Charlie, "Don't worry I'm sure this Mr. Tumnus isn't going to try anything on her. At least not if we're there too."
"It wasn't him I was worried about." Charlie sighed a little bit.