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Ollie goes back

to the library

The next day Ollie’s mum and Mollie went off to the hospital to see Mollie’s foster mum, and they dropped Ollie off at the old people’s home. Mr Wilcox was playing cards with Mr Green.

“Hello, lad, how are you and how is little Mollie today?”

“She is grumpy,” said Ollie. “I think that’s the only superpower she has!”

Mr Wilcox chuckled. “Now, now, lad, that’s not true, it’s just that Grumpy is trying to protect her, so he is being quite big at the moment.”

“How can Grumpy protect her? Grumpy is stopping her getting a forever home,” said Ollie.

“Well lad, Grumpy is protecting her because by making her grumpy he is stopping people getting too close to her and stopping Mollie from getting close to them so that she doesn’t get attached to people.”

“That’s daft,” said Ollie. “She will never find a forever home like that!”

“Maybe not lad, but you see our superpowers are always trying to protect us, and Mollie’s superpowers know that it might be a long time before she finds a forever home, and that every time she is given a new foster mummy and moves to a new place, it makes her really sad when she has to leave. So, by being grumpy people aren’t as nice to her and she doesn’t get attached to them, and then it doesn’t hurt so much when she has to move onto another home and school.”