by Anne Parker

Created on: July 21, 2009   Last Updated: July 25, 2009

BFF's Fiona, Alma, Yoli, and Killian embark on a cruise ship called the Temptress to celebrate their high school graduation. But at the graduation fair, the friends have their fortunes read by a vendor named Madame Fortuna. She warns the friends that their upcoming trip will bring strife and storms, bonds will be broken, and one of them will not come home. The friends are shaken, but are determined not to let any prediction ruin their last trip together before they go to college.

When the Temptress departs, the friends start to drift apart. Fiona wonders if these are the strife and storms that Madame Fortuna predicted. When Killian pulls one of her risky stunts, everyone expects that she'll be the one not to come home. Everyone gets into a big argument, and no one is acting like themselves. Yoli is starting to branch out and become more spontaneous. She goes to a party with a guy she barely knows one night, something that definitely isn't like the old Yoli, and doesn't come back until the next afternoon. All the friends are on edge since she hasn't been acting like herself lately. Will she be the one not to come home?

By now, the cruise has stopped at its last port, St. Thomas. Fiona finds a fortune teller in town, and convinces the friends that they should get a second opinion, just so they can put the whole Madame Fortuna thing to rest. This person seems much more informed and less whacked out. The friends feel that they can trust this lady. Fiona gets her fortune told first, and is told that she could stand to take risks. Helen, the fortune teller, tells her she is ready to look for a more exciting way of life. She also has the Lovers card, reversed, which tells her that her boyfriend, soon to be fiance, is probably not the one for her, which she had been suspicion during the whole cruise. She also predicts that a future trip will be spontaneously canceled. Fiona has the Page of Wands card, which could mean a change of address, a journey that is delayed, or even someone who is untrustworthy. But she also has the Death card, which she also had in the Madame Fortuna reading. Helen tells her that this isn't always physical death, but it could symbolize the death of old ideas and new ones could soon begin, and otherwise means a big change is coming. This is something that Madame Fortuna never told her.

*SPOILER ALERT* Fiona decides that St. Thomas is just too beautiful a place to leave, so she spontaneously decides to stay behind and She doesn't know when she'll be back, or if she'll be back. This is definitely the death of old ideas and the birth of new ones. It turns out that Fiona herself is the one not coming home!

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