A typical conversation between Stephen and Kate.

"I had a brilliant dream last night Kate."

"Let me guess, you had to eat your way out of the sweet shop again?"

"No, it wasn't the sweet shop at all Kate........it was the cake shop!"

"Oh yes, I was thinking about the time you tried to make out that you ate all of the Easter eggs in your sleep and woke up with chocolate on your face!"

"I did, sleep eating is a problem for some of us Kate!"

"Its not called 'sleep eating' Stephen, it's called being a greedy guts! Anyway, what was your dream this time?"

"I dreamt that I was a superhero! I could fly and stuff Kate!"

"Hahahahaha" Kate laughs.

"What's funny about that?"

"Nothing, could you fly really fast Stephen?"

"Fast enough, interested now are we?"

"I wish you could have videoed it for me Stephen."

"It was brilliant Kate, you would have loved it."

"Did you go really high? Cos some superheroes can go into space can't they?"

"They can yes, but me, I stayed low and fast."

"You had the power of flight and you stayed low?"

"I had to Kate."

"Why?"

"I don't like heights do I!"

"Hahahahahaha, it was a dream you silly sausage."

"I kept panicking when I went up Kate, I didn't like it."

"Did you loop the loop?"

"I couldn't. I kept being reminded of the time I was sick on the 'Mary Rose' looping boat ride at 'Dreamland' as a kid!"

"Hahahahaha. Were you in your onesie?"

"Dunno? I didn't have a mirror with me."

"Did you fight any crime?"

"I took on a little gang of supervillains Kate!"

"Oh God, what happened?"

"Well, I was having a lovely fly about, minding my own business, like you do when you practice showing your skills off."

"Yeah, and?"

"Well, I was trying to do barrel rolls, you know, like a fighter jet can do. But because I was quite low I didn't see the fence until it was too late."

"Oh no, did you hurt yourself?"

"No way, I was super!"

"Hold on, if you were super powered how did you not see a fence coming?"

"Cos I was going really fast Kate. So fast it made my face skin flap around!"

"Hahahaha. Like Jeremy Clarkson when he drove the 'Atom' on Top gear?"

"Exactly like that Kate, and it made me hit the fence, but my tummy got stuck in it!"

"Hahahahaha."

"It wasn't funny! It was lucky I was there cos that is when I saw the supervillains!"

"Ooh that was lucky, what were they doing?"

"Crime stuff Kate."

"Yeah, what though?"

"Laughing and stuff!"

"Hahahaha, at you?"

"Doubtful. They just laugh don't they!"

"Who does?"

"Supervillains do Kate! They're always laughing, everyone knows that! It's a fact."

"Of course they do, I'm being silly! So did you confront them? You know, for their laughing crimes?"

"You bet I did! Once they had pulled me out of the fence, but I had to wait a while before that happened, cos like I said they were in the middle of their evil mastermind laughing ritual!"

"Must have been annoying?"

"God yeah! It was really irritating because most of the time they were looking in my direction! It wouldn't have hurt to quickly take a break and pull me out would it?"

"No Stephen, but they were villains remember."

"Supervillains Kate, and a gang of them!"

"Of course, sorry Stephen. So what happened next?"

"Well, I asked them what they thought they were doing in the park."

"In the park?"

"Sorry I meant bank, yeah definitely the bank. And that was when they turned on me! I didn't stand a chance Kate. I thought I was invincible, but somehow they knew my weakness?"

"Oh no, you mean like Superman can't go near Kriptonite, that kind of weakness?"

"Yes Kate one minute I was stood there with my hands on my hips."

"Tummy sucked in?"

"Yes Kate, only for effect though. I hadn't done that before in the dream."

"Hahahahaha. Then what happened?"

"They pulled a weapon of 'alien technology' and switched it on! I just collapsed in a heap at their feet in agony, powerless I was!"

"What was it? What was it?"

"Little mix!"

"Hahahahaha"

pause..............

"It was the kids in the park out the front wasn't it Stephen?"

"No?"

"Yes it was, Don't worry I wont let them get you!"

"Promise?"

"Yes I promise, I will not let those small children get you Stephen."

Don't joke, you haven't seen how they look at me!"

"Uh huh. Maybe Rosie will sort them out for you if they keep looking at you funny?"

"Shhhhh she will hear you Kate!"

"Don't worry Stephen, you will always be our Superhero."

"Aww, bless you both. I just hope I never have to be one for real Kate!"

"I'm sure you wont Stephen, nothing ever happens around us!"


How wrong you can be sometimes.......

The Uglies part One of The Land of The Legends