It was May. Still cold and windy. Spring would come late this year.
    I was standning alone at the busstop, hands in pockets, freezing like hell. I was on my way to an outdoors rave. The exact location was secret in order to avoid gatecrashers who didn't want to pay for a ticket, so we were going to be picked up by a bus downtown. Rumor had it the party would be held at a beach called Flatenbadet, so I guess some went there to have a look in the hope of the rumor being true. Later they would notice that this rumor, as rumors usually are, had been just a rumor.

Joonas, Bea and Martin were already on the bus. Bea was only wearing a very thin sweatshirt and pants. I'd rather call it T-shirt with long sleaves. I looked at myslef. At my upper body I was wearing a T-shirt, a training coat and a sweatshirt over that. And I was still cold.
    "I'm from up north," Bea said as we got of the bus. "I'm used to it, it's not that cold."
    At least Martin and Joonas were dressed properly. Good guys, we wanna stay alive, huh.

After about fifteen minutes I couldn't feel the cold.
    We were standing at Gullmarsplan (that's the endstation for most of the buses). From here we would take our secret bus to some place down in the woods. As it finally came and we started climbing on we all got a big stamp at our right hands. It had the address of a bicycle mechanic.
    "Well, I bet not many have such a stamp-mark," one of the organizers said with a smile. Later I wondered, why the stamp? The woods are free so actually people could come as they pleased, they just had to know that there is an outside rave in the middle of the woods, in the middle of the night.
    I looked out through the window and saw a caravan of cars following the bus. Guess we had some gatecrashers at our tails after all.

As we got of the bus I realized I was almost home.
    "I'm in Skrubba... I can walk home from here," I said. Joonas laughed one of his famous laughters.
    The truth was that the location of the rave was just three busstops from where I live. That ment I had gone on the bus which took me all the way down town, just so that I could there change to another bus that would take me to a place to where I could have easily gotten to in less then five minutes in the first place. I love secret raves.

Cars, overfilled with people, were pulling in all around us. I guess not even half of the visitors had paid for a ticket.
    The organizers won't make much money, I thought. But then again, they won't be paying any rent either.
    As we strolled down the path the music started getting louder. It was pretty dark by now so you had to be careful not to stumble on a root or something else lying on the ground.
    As we got closer I could see a flash of light now and then. The music got louder. Suddenly the woods turned into a large open area and I just gaped.

I was amazed. What an atmosphere! An outside rave, what a splendid idea!
    It was all dark and hazy. In the center some people were dancing, humping up and down with the beat. Flahses of light cirkled all around, penetrating the thick haze which lay like a dull cover over the scene. People were standing at the sides, almost dissapearing into the darkness of the woods. I was thrilled.
    What an atmosphere.

We got into the crowd and started dancing.
    "This is fun," Bea said after a while.
    Soon I couldn't feel the cold, not because it had numbed my sences, but because it was starting to get really hot in my two sweaters. I took them both of and danced in only a T-shirt.
    I saw a guy who wore nothing on his upper body at all.
    Time passed and I drank the Coke I had brought with me. I was feeling tired, mostly in my knees, but I wanted to continue. Didn't want to stop yet. I was wearing a sort of protection for my knee, which I had used during my basketball practice, when it had started to hurt. Luckily it helped.
    I looked around me and suddenly I noticed it was already light outside. All of a sudden it all didn't look so scary. The atmosphere was gone. The woods, which I had thought looked really dence, where not that dence at all. Night really has this special effect and I wished it had stayed dark for a little bit longer.