Chapter 5: Party

Loud music, neon red lights red from different colors, boys and girls in full teen period totally crazy and attacked by their hormones that emerged to flower from their skins. Alcohol, laughter, drugs, challenges among friends... all this was part of what could be considered the description of a party that did not seem to end, or at least until dawn. Fern entered the house, advanced as he could among the crowd of people who were entertaining talking, laughing, drinking in red disposable cups and only a small part of them smoked, which did not imply something as simple as tobacco, which more was used to smoking in parties like that was the marijuana. Returning to the aforementioned, Fern entered the living room, looked for Marceline with the look but did not find it, where could it be? She and her friends were supposed to be waiting for him; if they left he would have heard about a text message on his cell phone.

Suddenly he felt cold hands covering his eyes; Fern guided himself in the darkness and touched those hands that for some reason made him known.

"You thought I was going to be here?" the voice asked that owned those hands that covered his eyes.

"Eh?" Fern removed his hands from his eyes with his own and saw a young woman with long dark hair in front of him "MARCY! Don't do that again, you know I don't like it"

"Sorry, but it's so funny" the woman replied laughing.

"Do you know where the others are?" Fern asked raising his tone a little, the volume of the music too loud and it was difficult to speak normally.

"Yes, they are in the kitchen. Come on, they're waiting for you."

Marceline took her bandmate by the wrist and began to make their way to the kitchen, meanwhile, Finn had already arrived at the party, entered the house and walked slowly watching what was going on around him, some girls with cigarettes in the hand they looked at him in disguise and laughed softly, decided to ignore that and walked on as if nothing, accidentally collided with a boy who had come out of the bathroom who looked at him in a somewhat threatening way.

"I'm sorry, I didn't see where I was going..." the teenager apologized, the other boy simply rolled his eyes and left.

Finn continued walking, also rolled his eyes as did that boy who accidentally hit and did not do it for wanting to copy it or something, but in the back of his mind thought that boy was simply an idiot but clear...that would never admit it, at least not out loud. He passed by the living room, people who were there trying to maintain a normal conversation almost impossible because of the volume of the music looked strange, as if they were seeing some paranormal entity or something that came out of nowhere to invade the party; At that moment, Finn began to feel uncomfortable, he did not understand very well what he was doing in such a place and to feel the strange look of so many people that he did not even know, the only thing in which he thought was to escape and to return home before his mother knew that he had left in the middle of the night so that he could be in that party.

Or that was what he thought to do but something made him change his mind, before continuing to walk to find the exit to the garden of the house and try to escape that party, he could see a figure of a girl outside in the garden, he could not see her face because it was hidden by the hood of an electric blue hoodie, she wore a beautiful tulle dress with shimmering shades of green like her hair which was decorated with some light green leaves almost touching the phosphorescent effect. She was barefoot and up the steps of a slide, Finn could see as that girl sat on the slide and slid to the base to support her bare feet on the grass wet with dew.

He shook his head to get out of his little trance, now he saw that she was jumping on a trampoline and her green hair swayed a little to the rhythm of the jumps; although that girl whose face she could not see seemed beautiful to her, she wanted to get closer and get to know her a little. Who knows? Maybe they could become friends, she looked so mysterious and assumed that was part of her personality. He walked away from the window and went to get the door that would take him outside so he could talk to her. He did not realize that Fern was the analyzing situation; on the one hand, he could not believe that the boy was at that party, Does he was following him or something? why he could not just leave him alone? but on the other hand, that did not matter so much, something inside him told him to go ask that boy what he thought to do when trying to talk to that green-haired girl who was out in the garden sliding alone by a slide.

Finn closed the back door of the house through which he went out into the garden and walked slowly toward the green-haired girl, not sure what to tell him, nor did she know him. Perhaps she would be frightened as soon as she saw him or shouted at him to leave and leave her alone, but in the end she would not know exactly if she did not even dare try to talk to her. But apparently that was not necessary, the girl turned to see who had left without jumping on her "precious" trampoline, her amber eyes like the owls collided with Finn's blue orbs.

"Hey, um... hi" he greeted her as she slowed her jumps, now jumped a little less so she could talk to Finn.

"H-hello" Finn said without moving from his place.

"I haven't seen you all night when the party is taking place, where have you been or did you have just arrived?" She asked, knelt on the elastic canvas of the trampoline, and crawled to the edge of the metal with her bare feet hanging out.

"I was not invited. I got a notification on my cell phone and I was just passing by" Finn said, the girl did not say anything, just stared at him for a few minutes and then with her hand hit the metal edge of the trampoline.

"Come on, I'm not going to bite you. I know I don't talk much, but that does not mean that you cannot sit next to me" the girl said, Finn nodded and walked to the trampoline where the girl was sitting and took her place next to her "and... tell me what is your name? huh?"

Fern focused his eyes on the almost empty beer bottle in his hand, raised his green orbs back toward Marceline and her bandmates, they were talking about something he could not quite hear, in his mind he could only hear distorted voices, but that did not matter, for some reason his mind made him think of that boy so similar to him, what the hell was going on? Why could not she stop thinking about him? shit! this was bad... this was very bad, he had to find a solution to this problem and soon. He looked up again to find one of the girls in the band standing in front of him with one hand on her waist; Fern did not said anything, he just stared at her as he hit the kitchen bar with the gum of his green converse.

"Fern, are you okay? I notice you're a bit distracted" the girl said with concern.

"W-what?" Fern said, coming out of his thoughts "yeah, I... I'm sorry, I was just not paying any attention to what they said "by the way, what were they talking about?"

"Uh, we were talking about where our band will play next month," the girl said, laughing nervously and playing with a lock of her hair "but that's not so important...well, compared to what I must tell you"

"Well, what do you want to tell me?" Fern asked, not understanding what his bandmate was referring to.

"Fern, listen, I...I know we spent little time together but I need to tell you something...I…"

Fern suddenly got up and moved the girl aside to leave the kitchen, she stared at him and then looked away to the floor, was not discouraged and did not even think Fern was ignoring her, at another time would try to confess feelings. She did not believe in love at first sight but he did not know why she ended up liking that blond guy who was good at playing the electric guitar with the green dots, something had to make her heart beat slightly and give him a little warm feeling when he spoke to her.

Finn and the green-haired girl were propped up on the trampoline next to each other staring at the few remaining stars that night. The blonde began to yawn but managed to disguise it in time for her not to notice, was accustomed to go to bed early and had never been awake until so late, fortunately, the girl did not notice that he was tired, she was concentrated watching the night sky...or what was left of it.

"Hey, do not the stars seem pretty to you?" She asked, still looking up at the sky.

"Uh?" Finn looked away to see the sky next to his new friend "yes-yes, they are very pretty"

"Hm, I think that too" the girl said, suddenly she gets up again sitting on the metal rim of the trampoline and Finn followed her, she turned her head to see the teen and Finn for the first time could see her face, her amber eyes that were like made up of charcoal-black diamond's "I'll tell you a secret I've never told anyone, Do you know that I'm a Quiromantic?"

"Quiromantic? what is that?" Finn asked, not understanding that she was speaking to him. He did not realize that Fern was in the distance hiding behind the barely open door that led to the garden of the house "explain it to me, please"

"I Agree. Quiromancy is a tarot technique, rather, a technique of divination by reading the lines of the hands in people" the girl replied "lets you see the character, the psychological and physiological profile of a person, and do you understand me?" Finn just nodded, for a few seconds, the girl did not speak until she decided to ask "do you want me to read your hand?"

Finn did not know what to say to him, he had never done anything like that, and what's more, he even believed in that sort of thing. His mother had never told him about tarot techniques or such strange things, perhaps it was because she was more inclined in the field of medicine than to teach him something like that; however, there was a first time for everything right?

"Hm, of course... I don't see anything wrong with that" Finn replied, the girl smiled at her friend's response.

"Well, give me your hand so I can read it"

He approached to the girl and she took his hand, looked carefully at the lines and details that needed to "study" in to read the future of the boy and know what fortunes, consequences and desires would lay ahead. There were moments when neither of them spoke or had eye contact with the other, this to Finn worried and made him a little impatient because he did not know what was happening.

"Reading the hand, seeing our future in the hand, is a possibility that offers the reading of hands or palmistry. Palmistry helps to guess the future destiny of the person in question"

"Hey, hey, what's up? why you don't say anything?" Finn asked worriedly, the girl did not look at him, just watched closely the features of his hand.

"Don't distract me, I'm finishing reading your hand" the girl replied, they spent a few more minutes and released Finn's hand.

"That's...great, I think. What did you read in my hand?" Finn asked curiously "will there be good things in my future?"

Fern came out of his hiding place and walked a little to stand just a few feet from the springboard where Finn and the girl with green hair. He felt something strange inside him, that feeling of wanting to approach and interrupt that girl and tell him to leave and leave Finn alone but he could not do it, his body did not react and only forced him to sit still watching what was happening between them. He could not understand what was happening to him, was he jealous? By all skies, it was not so much; he hardly knew Finn of his brief conversation on the bus and still did not understand what he was doing at that party.

"Well, to begin with I have to explain all the details I've seen in your hand to define your personality and your future" explained the girl, Finn just nodded "the first thing I found was the line of intuition, this line begins in the palm from the hand and ends at the base of the little finger but yours is born from the mountain of the moon, which means you have an abstract intuition, you have a lot of imagination inside you even if you do not want to express it in front of others or it can also be that gives you powers of clairvoyance"

"That sounds strange" Finn said, listening intently to her friend.

"The line of the head is one of the most important that appear in your hand, this line shows the intelligence, attention and mental attitudes. It is a horizontal line, has to do with logic and understanding in a person, also reaches the mountain of the moon and bends a little, that is good because it relates to your imagination, and it means that you are a talented person and free spirit. Now let us move to the heart line"

"From the heart? what that line means? Is it a bad thing?" Finn asked.

"A little, this line connects more with feelings, love, passion and health. Your line is short and it is choppy, if short it means that you have passionate impulses and little rationality, you do things your way and without thinking but also I see that you fear for the happiness of the others and you worry more for the happiness of others people than by your own"

"Ahem."

Finn turned around and the green-haired girl could see Fern standing nearby with their arms folded. The teenager felt the pink color appear on his cold cheeks, the girl on the other hand again hid her face under the hood of her electric blue jacket and looked away to the grass, got up from the trampoline looking for her shoes, she no longer remembered where he had left them.

"What's up? did I interrupt something?" Fern asked, still with his arms folded.

"N-no... besides. What are you doing here? are you following me or what?" Finn asked, rising from the springboard to face Fern.

"I was not following you, rather you were following me because I did not expect to see you in this place" Fern told him. The green-haired girl had already found her shoes, she figured it would be best to leave before these guys started fighting each other, she did not want to cause any more problems, she started to walk quickly to return to the house and accidentally pushed Fern "LOOK OUT, IDIOT!"

"I'm sorry" she apologized, she was about to leave but Finn stopped her by taking her wrist "what do you want?"

"Wait, don't go. You didn't finish telling me my future" Finn said "What will happen to me? You have to finish telling me"

"I'll finish telling you everything on another time, I really have to go" the girl replied, pulling out of Finn's grip on her wrist, barely did that. A scream was heard and someone came out the door of the house, breathing heavily, watching Fern, Finn, and the green-haired girl.

"Guys, I'm really sorry to disturb you but I need help... any of you have a car or a van? There is a girl she not feeling well, we don't know what happened to her but she passed out in the living room and I guess she's dead, I'm not really sure because we tried to wake her up and she didn't react, anyway, I need some of you to take her to the hospital"