So he had been wrong. Though both palms could be read, they were not quite the same. One stood for the present and future possibilities and the other stood for something about the past. He wasn't quite sure what. And he also had already forgotten which was which. But that was not super important at the moment. What he had to do now was look at his palm and study the lines or whatever. He flipped open his textbook.

So the one closest to his thumb was the life line. It curved around from the side of his palm and forked slightly into two as it approached the base. It was also pretty thin. Olly wasn't sure quite what that meant. He found the correct page in his book and hoped it didn't mean he was going to die. While he was relieved to find that it did not mean he was going to die, he was a bit offended to find that it apparently meant someone with low energy and having a less adventurous life. What? He didn't like how that sounded. And he certainly did not think he had low energy. Olly frowned as he read more. The book did say something about the fork but he did not comprehend it at all. Something about jupiter and the moon? He had no idea what that meant so he decided to just ignore it and move on to the next line.

The next one up was the head line. On his hand, the head and the life line started in the same place but branched out from each other. The head line curved up just a bit then went out across his palm, sloping slightly downward. It was a lot deeper than his life line definitely. But it got thinner pretty quickly before it reached the other end of his palm. He turned to his textbook. The deep line meant excellent memory and concentration. That sounded fake but okay. He was not sure whether to read the description for what sloped meant, because most of the line was straight. But since there was the one pretty prominent slope at the beginning of his line he decided to go for it. Apparently it meant he was open to new ideas, which was so far the best part of his reading.

Last but not least was his heart line, which was the top one. He tried to find where his started at the edge of his palm, but he couldn't really find a clear start or end point. It was a pretty short, but also pretty deep, line right across the top of his palm. It was mostly just under his middle two fingers. It started after his pointer and ended before his pinky. Short meant...self centered? And not outgoing? What?? Deep meant stressful life, which did not sound good. Straight and short meant he was not particularly concerned with romance which did seem to be true so far in his short fourteen years of life. The line was also parallel to his head line which meant he was emotionally stable. And there were no branches which meant lack of ability for emotional growth.

Though there had been a few positives in his readings, they had been vastly overshadowed by negatives. He did not feel like any of those things were true about him, and he didn't want them to become true. Olly frowned and pushed his book away from him. He placed his hands palm down on the table and rested his head on top of them. "This is stupid," he mumbled.