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“Hello, little ones,” said Mr Wilcox and Mollie’s superpowers all looked up in shock. They had never been seen by anyone before!

“Hello,” said Sad, wiping tears from her eyes. “Who are you, and how come you can see us?”

“Ah,” said Mr Wilcox. “My name is Mr Wilcox, and this fine lad is young Ollie. We both have superpowers too. That’s how we can see you. Now why are you three all upset?”

“We don’t want to be here,” said Sad. “Our foster mum is in hospital, and we really like being with her, and she might not get better, so now we have to stay with Ollie’s mum, and it’s really scary when we have to keep staying with new people all the time. Especially when we know that no one really wants us.”

Ollie felt a tickle, and suddenly his Sad superpower appeared and began to cry with Mollie’s superpower!

“Now, now,” said Mr Wilcox, pulling a big hanky out of his pocket that both Mollie and Ollie’s sad superpowers shared and blew their noses into. “You don’t need to be sad, frightened or grumpy. Ollie’s mum is a lovely lady, and I know she wants you to stay with her and Ollie, and I am really glad you are staying too, because we can all be friends and have a lovely summer together. Isn’t that right, Ollie?” said Mr Wilcox, nudging a rather shocked Ollie.

“Urm, urm, yes, I guess so,” said Ollie as Ashamed appeared beside him and gave him that look that his mum often gave him when Ollie was being naughty. Ollie suddenly felt really bad for being grumpy about Mollie now that he saw how sad and frightened she was. He couldn’t imagine how frightened and sad he would be if his mummy was in hospital.

“Meet some more of my superpowers,” said Mr Wilcox, and out popped Happy and Brave. Both of them started to get bigger and, as they did, Ollie’s Happy and Brave appeared and started to get bigger and, of course, when Happy gets bigger you can’t help but start to giggle, then laugh, then roll around laughing with them!

Mollie’s superpowers began to laugh too, louder and louder!

In that instance Mollie started to laugh, but she did not know why. She could not help herself! She could not see any of her,