Prank Masters

7: Cards of the Future

Juliet

It was another okay school day. I placed the peas seeds into the small beaker with the damped cotton and brought it over to the window sill. Leaving it in the sun and sprinkling some water into it, our biology teacher said we can leave them there for the weekend and go home. Hearing the school bell ring, everyone got excited because it was a Friday.

Kat walked to me and with a neutral expression and said, "As promised, let's go to the park."

I looked at her, seeing her green mystic eyes shining right back at me. "Errr... Why?"

"You don't remember?" she said, almost giving me a chill down my spine.

"Kat... Are you okay?"

She suddenly froze for a second.

"Kat?" I asked again.

Her eyes stopped glowing green and came back to the normal green eyes she usually has—the gentle nature green eyes. She glanced at me and smiled, "Sorry, what just happened?"

I just looked at her stunned, "You said something about going to the park?" I started to wonder why she couldn't remember. "Are you okay?" I continued asking her.

"I did? Oh! I did!" she laughed. "Sorry, did I scare you?"

I slightly nodded, "Yeah, a bit."

Kat just smiled again, "Yeah. Well, sometimes my powers just stir up and take over."

"Your powers stir up?"

She nodded.

"Sometimes when something that's really urgent or important, my powers just take over and warns other people. But usually, that rarely happens so don't worry about it."

"Okay..."

But then something made me wonder. If she said that her powers only take over when something was really important. Then why did it just happen now?

"Kat..." I asked her. "Is there something important that you want to warn me about?"

She looked at me weirdly, "I don't think there is."

"Then why did your powers just took over you?"

Kat just shrugged, "I guess it was just wanted to talk to you, Julie."

"About what?"

"You said that my powers told you to come to the park right?"

I nodded.

"Then I guess we'll have to go to the park to find out."

After walking for about fifteen minutes, with my bike next to me on one side while talking to Kat on the other side, we finally found a place and settled down. Under a particularly large tree, the branches filled with green leaves shaded us from the warm sunlight. Although this summer day was a bit too warm, there was a soft breeze that passed us both.

"Is this place okay?" I asked her.

Kat smiled, "This place is perfect!" She observed the strong tree that embraces us. "It has a beautiful energy too," she added.

"Energy..." I started to think to myself, I wonder what she meant by that...

"Okay then!" Kat clapped her hands. "It's time for the cards!" She smiled as she spread the large picnic mat onto the grass.

I walked over to the side of the tree and leant my bike against its trunk. Relaxing my shoulders, I sat down with Kat and observed her.

Kat took out her cards from a long wooden box that had strange symbols. She placed the pile of cards in front of me and I stared at it. I gazed at the wooden box for a while, seeing the lines carved into the wood with symbols and patterns that embraced the box in the same way nature would.