THE FOLLOWING STORY IS FOR @Hermione987654321 / @Stormy_Brook ONLY!! IF YOU WANT ONE THEN GO TO MY POP SHOP AND BUY A STORY FROM THERE, thanks you "Cas, Cas wake up, we're here. Castalia wake up!" I opened my eyes and yawned, then got out of the car that we were stuck in for forever, I mean we drove from New York to Kentucky. I looked around. I knew right away that I was going to have to get used to being a country girl rather than a city girl, what I'm used to. "Welcome to Kentucky!" said a voice from behind me. I turned around. "Cas, this is Gram," said my mom. "Hi Gram," I said shyly. I heard a car from behind me so I turned around once again. It must be Maddie! I thought. Maddie, or Madison is my step sister, she's my parents REAL daughter, I'm adopted. Maddie went to college 2 years ago and I haven't seen her since. Everyone in the family is meeting up at Kentucky and staying for the summer. "Is that Maddie?" I said excitedly. "No, I think that's Jesiah and Auntie Ari" said gram as she was smiling and walking over to help them out of the car. Jesiah is my cousin I guess, and Auntie Ari is his mom. Everybody hugged and then we finally went inside. It was 10:00 pm, but I wasn't really tired, probably because I was sleeping in the car. "Jesiah and Castalia, here is your room," said Gram, pointing to a room with a bunkbed in it. I looked at Jesiah and he looked at me. I was annoyed having to share a room with a boy, and he was probably annoyed about sharing a room with me. "Go get your stuff!" said Gram. "Dad, where did you put my luggage?" I called to my dad. He said it was by the front door so I went over there, got my luggage, and unpacked the clothes into the closet. We had a small, pizza for dinner and went to sleep. I let Jesiah have the top bunk because he wanted it. "So, what grade are you in?" he asked me. "6th" I said. He was in 6th too. Jesiah is kind of annoying. I just wish he was Maddie. "Wait, where's Maddie?" I said out loud to myself. "Your step sister?" said Jesiah. "yeah," I said, "where is she?" "how should I know?" he said. The next morning I woke up to find Maddie sleeping on the couch. I hugged her. She said she came at 4:00 am this morning. For breakfast Gram made some supper yummy bacon and eggs. After breakfast everyone kind of walked off and did their own thing. I walked into Gram's backyard. It was huge, and there wasn't another house or car in sight for at least 10 miles. I looked into the distance and saw a shed so I walked over there. In the shed there were some old tools and a lawn mower. There was also a mailbox. Not long after I heard noise coming from outside the shed. "Castalia?" "Jesiah? Did you follow me?" Jesiah came inside the shed. "Why is there a mailbox in here?" he asked. "Answer my question, did you follow me?" "yeah," he said, "sorry." I rolled my eyes and opened the mailbox. There was a letter in it. "Jesiah come here." In the letter was a map. "Cool," Jesiah said. "Let's follow it, it might be a treasure map." So thats what we did. "It says to keep going north and then there will be a big tree. While we were walking, Jesiah and I talked. I found him less annoying. "Ahhhhh!" I suddenly screamed, "A centipede!" Jesiah laughed and stepped on it, turned his foot a little to crush it, and went on. I looked at him for a while, then continued walking. After a while we found the tree. In the tree was a key. "It might be to unlock something later on." The map said that once we get here, we turn left and swim across the lake. "Do you know how to swim?" I asked him. "Of course I do." I stared down at my feet. "Do you?" he asked. I could tell I was blushing really hard because he said, "don't worry, you can ride on my back. I just nodded and we walked left. It didn't take long for us to reach a little lake. "Are you sure that there isn't any way around the lake?" I said nervously. "According to the map, there is a way, but it is 20 miles." I sighed and got into the water about knee keep and got on Jesiah's back. We, I mean, he swam for about 10 minutes until we got to the end of the lake. "See, not that bad." he said, "Maybe one day I gotta teach you how to swim." "What does the map say to do now?" "Ah Shoots, it got all wet. I can't really see it that well but I think it says to turn right and the end is one mile from here." I told Jesiah. "Ok then, lets go." After about 30 minutes my legs started hurting. "Jesiah my legs hurt." "Well I'm not carrying you again." I sighed and continued walking. "You can call me Cas," I said while smiling. I don't know why I said that. Only Maddie, mom, dad, and my best friend Iris calls me Cas. Maybe it was because... I'm liking him more and more. Just then I heard Jesiah scream. I looked at him, then his foot. A snake bit him. "Uhh, its ok Jesiah. I'll do something." I frantically ran around looking for something or someone to help him but I found nothing. When I got back to Jesiah he was lying down on the grass.
"Just go Cas, leave me." he said. He looked like he was about to cry. "ok" I said. After 5 minutes I found another shed that looked just like the one near Gram's house but orange. I went inside and I found a whole lotta money! About $3000! That was A LOT! I figured me and Jesiah would split it and give some to Gram and mom and dad and Maddie and Auntie Ari. I put held it and went back to Jesiah where I found him in the same exact spot. "Jesiah! $300!" He smiled but didn't say anything. Then I heard a voice from behind me. It sounded familiar. "Hey!" They said. I turned around and it was Maddie! "Maddie!" "Can you help us? Jesiah hurt his foot and-" "Castalia, you're coming with me. Why didn't she call me Cas? and why does she sound like I did something wrong. "Maddie whats wrong?" "Just get Jesiah and get in my car." I helped Jesiah up and we walked a long time to Maddies car. When we got to Gram's house, we got everything situated with Jesiah's snake bite and Maddie called an emergency meeting. "Castalia has to go!" she said. "What?" almost everybody said at the same time. "I got a job as a spy 2 years ago and one of my missions was on you Castalia. You're parents were theives and they thought you might be thieves too. I was in the middle of setting up a trap to see if you would steal, but you stole before it was even ready!" "I- I'm sorry. Maddie, I thought it was treasure." "Yeah right... you're coming with me." Everyone was silent until... "WAIT!" yelled Jesiah. "She can't go! It was my idea to follow the map and- " he hugged me, and we kissed. You think that it is weird for cousins to be kissing but I'm adopted and we're not blood related. Gram said that the map was to get to her friends house but the water must have ruined the map and we went the wrong way. Maddie still wanted me out. After a lot of yelling and fighting, Maddie came to mine and Jesiah's room and apoligized. She said that her job made her believe things that weren't true and she quit. She said that she loved me. She even called me Cas.