Chance at Serendipity

"Caroline Bliss Finley, hurry up!"

It’s alarming how Lillian, Cara’s mom, calls her daughter in her full name, and so, Cara picks up her pace to match it with her mom’s. Lillian was taking Cara to a fortune teller which one of her friends recommended, saying that the psychic is good. It was weeks of consistent persuasion before Cara finally agreed to come.

The girl quietly sighed as they entered the shop. The lights were a mix of pink and yellow. Patterns of daisies and small butterflies were painted on the walls. The floor matched the wall design. Shelves are filled with books, there are also cute figurines on the table.

The room was not that big nor was it too small. It was not the kind of palm reader shop Cara was expecting, it was more like a café.

There is another table at the corner where a woman in her 40s was smiling at them as they entered.

"Welcome!" The woman with brownish highlights and sun kissed skin bowed. Cara and her mother greeted her back

"My friend recommended you to us." Lillian said.

"Yes, I was expecting you. You want to know about your beautiful daughter's luck in love right?" the woman said as she motioned them to sit.

The girl and her mother were shocked for only a moment after remembering that they're talking to a psychic.

"Yes. You see, my daughter, Cara, is turning 30 next year and I want to know if a man will come into her life anytime sooner." Lillian looked at Cara sincerely and her daughter just flashed a small smile.

"Cara, can you hold out both of your palms?" Cara opened her hands to the fortune teller. The woman looked at her right palm first and then the left one.

Cara can't tell whether the woman's expression was good or bad.

"Your right palm shows your future and your left shows the past. I can see a young man in your past, you had good times but ended in a bad one. It's young love." The psychic traced the lines in her left palm as she spoke.

Cara nodded and got chills running down her spine. "I see now, that something is holding you back, maybe fear? You closed your heart to men.

Sometimes you tried, but none worked out." the woman continued concentrating on her palms again as Cara faced her mother who was as surprised as she was.

"Your right palm shows good news. A man with a very kind but broken spirit is just around the corner. There will be ups and downs but once you find him, never let him go."