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paying.”
    “Done.”
    Bells chime when we push the door open. Inside, it’s all incense and woven rugs and dried flower arrangements. There’s an entire wall covered with a mosaic of mirrors cut into diamond shapes. The diamonds are all different sizes, outlined with every kind of color.
    “I’m so glad you’re here,” the psychic says. She’s still not scary. “I’m Coral.”
    “I’m Lani and this is Erin.”
    “Please.” Coral waves us over to the small table. It’s so weird being on the other side of the window. We go over and sit in the two chairs across from hers. “Would both of you like your fortunes read?”
    “Yes, please,” I say, feeling like I’m four years old and asking for a cookie. “We’d like our palms read.”
    “I do both palm and tarot readings. Ten dollars for each of you.”
    I take a mental inventory of my wallet and decide I have enough to pay for both of us, plus get a waffle cup after. “Okay.”
    Erin says I should go first, so Coral takes her to a waiting room and closes the door behind her. Then she sits across the table from me. She indicates that I should hold my palm out. I stretch my hand across the table to her.
    Coral says, “Your heart line is strong. Bold. You will have great loves in your life.”
    “More than one?” I ask. I wasn’t even sure I’d be lucky enough to have one great love.
    “Yes.” She brushes her fingers over my palm. “Your health line is missing. That means good health. Your life line is long and deep. You will have a long, full life.” She looks some more. “You’ll be married. With two children.”
    So crazy! I’ve always had a feeling that’s exactly how my life would turn out.
    “Your head and life lines are joined here,” Coral continues. “You think more than you act.”
    Which is so true again. When Erin read my palm, she told me I’d have a happy love life and live for a long time, but Coral is more specific.
    “Your head line is deep. You have a good memory. You’re logical. You will have good mental abilities later in life.”
    I want to ask about my overall fate, but it might be a stupid question. It’s not like I expect there to be a fate line.
    Being psychic, Coral goes, “Do you have a question?”
    “Is there . . . a way to know about my fate? Like, overall?”
    “The fate line. It’s the line of destiny.” She bends my fingers back a little. “See this star here? Under your middle finger?”
    I nod.
    “This means you will find success after ten years of hard work.”
    It’s amazing how you can tell all this stuff about your life just from some lines on your hand. And how everyone’s lines are so different. I have a lot of lines on my hands and most of them are deep, but Erin only has a few lines on hers.
    “I see a break in the fate line,” Coral says. “In this time of your life, fate will present an immense conflict.”
    “Now?”
    “It’s hard to tell exactly when something will happen. We can only see parts of a lifetime. But yes, this conflict will be soon.”
    Coral pushes the deck of tarot cards across the table to me. She tells me to cut the deck once. Then she flips some cards over and arranges them on the table. I’m liking her prediction about a new boy who’s going to change my life forever. Her interpretation of the other cards isn’t too shocking. Until she flips the last card over.
    “You are bonded to another by a tragic event, but will be ripped apart by one more.”
    I wait for Coral to explain this. She just gathers up the cards.
    “Um . . . what does that mean? Exactly?”
    Coral says, “Time will tell.”
    Then she sends me to the waiting room to get Erin. It’s her turn now.

10
    The annual kite festival is one of the best things about spring. Aside from school ending in less than two months and the weather getting warmer.
    The kite festival has rules.
    Not that I’ve ever paid attention to them. I usually just come to see all the amazing kites. Then I’ll borrow