FROZEN SUMMER

Zach and Ivy love to solve mysteries. That's why when they hear about a lake in Burgess, Pennsylvania, that's always been frozen since 1712, they cannot be uninterested. They believe in science and reason, so how will react when the lake will reveal a mystery unsolvable without…belief?
First chapter of the Summer Twins trilogy.

Chapter 1 – Frozen Mystery

Tick Tock.
The room was so silent even the little alarm clock's ticking seemed noisy; the only other sound that could be heard was the rustling one of a pen writing on paper. In a corner of the room, a small lamp lightened a desk where a girl, not older than 25, was working on some complicated math problem.

The girl had short, wavy, black hair, kept away from her face by a headband; thick squared glasses covered her greyish eyes. She was listening to music through two small earphones, but she seemed to be fully focused on her work.

Suddenly, the phone in her pocket started to ring: a plain, noisy Nokia Tune filled the room; the girl sighed when she recognized her brother's name appearing on the screen.

"What is it, Zach?" she asked once she pressed the green answering button, "You know I'm busy" she added.

A boy's distorted voice came from the phone: "Found something" he simply stated with a hint of excitement.

"Do tell" she said, starting to get interested.

"Come up here, you've got to see this, Ivy! It's a tricky one: you're going to like it!" he replied.

The girl looked at the ceiling, and after a moment asked: "Are you calling me on the phone from upstairs?"

"Hurry up!" he insisted, then hung up. Ivy rolled her eyes, then got up, climbing the stairs until she reached her brother's room. The door was open, a boy more or less her age was working in front of a computer screen while an old printer spat out some papers on his left. The room's walls were covered in several newspaper clippings and photographs of the two of them: brother and sister shared the same height and age and they both had grey eyes and black hair. They were twins: practically identical except that Zach had much more short hair and wore no glasses.

"You called?" she asked sarcastically, opening her arms. The boy didn't even move at first, but muttered something about the printer. The girl couldn't believe how lazy he was sometimes, acting if and only if something really interested him.

She grabbed the papers and quickly scrolled them; after a bunch of seconds she spoke again: "Where hell is Burgess?"

Finally, Zach turned back to face her: "Here in Pennysilvania, less than an hour by car from here"

"And what's so interesting about this town?" Ivy couldn't help but smile: her brother was thrilled, meaning this one was really interesting.

"A mile out of town there is a lake in the woods that, according to the records, never unfroze, even in the summer, since early XVIII century" he explained, grinning.

Ivy smiled as well: "Tell me more".

Hello, everyone. This is my first attempt at writing a fanfiction in English. I'm not English-speaking, so you understand it is a bit of a challenge for me. Also, this is my first RotG story as well, it will be composed of three stories, of six chapters each: Frozen Summer, Child At Heart and Goodnight Tale.

I made my OCs through a test, in order to make them less Mary Sue-y/Gary Stu-ey as possible, since I have a bat habit of making up Mary Sues lately.

There will be NO ROMANCE in this story, not at all! You can obviously ship someone and feel free to tell me if you do, but don't expect to read about a love story.

This story (especially the last part) is still under construction, so I'll consider any request and/or suggestion.

Jack and Jamie are listed in the characters, but they make very little appearances in this first story, which is more focused on the twins. Even in the later stories, they're NOT the main characters.

Coming next: Frozen Lake, in which the Summer Twins start investigating.

I think that's all I've got to say for now. Please review.