Dreams.

I opened my eyes and she was gone but that had been the millionth time I had seen her in my dreams. She always looked the same. Short black bob, the palest skin you have ever seen and a flowing red dress. This description might make you think of Snow White but it was not her, for a start the dress was wrong and this was definitely not her. I rolled over and tried to get back to sleep but the thoughts of her haunting my dreams would not let me straight away.

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I awoke startled and the hansome young man who had been haunting my dreams for many moons was no longer there. Despite his close cropped hair, which was blonde, and the strange attire he wore, I had never seen anything like what he was wearing before in my life. But I wanted to meet him and get to know him. I rolled over to return to the land of slumber, which I did with some difficulty.

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Ben woke once again when his alarm went off and he couldn't shake off the memories of his 'dream girl' He wasn't sure but on further thought it seemed to him that the places where the girl appeared in his dreams seemed to be rather old fashioned. He wished he could meet her but thought that would be impossible as she was probably not real or definitely not from his time. He had a shower and dressed for work and ran out the door grabbing an apple as he went.

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Jenna woke slowly and watched the sunlight fill the room, as she watched her serving girl prepare water for her to wash her face. She got up and said “You can help me to dress now” Jenna put on her red dress with the help of her maid who pulled the stays tight. The serving woman then helped her to fix her long hair up out of the way so it would not bother her during the day. As she was dressing Jenna's mind started to wander and as it did her thoughts turned to the young man in the strange attire.

Later that day as Jenna was walking through the forest she came across a small pond which she had never seen before. She walked around it as she thought it was strange, but she could not think where it could have come from. She felt that if she could only work out where it had come from she could understand what it was doing there. She decided to continue walking around it so that she could try and figure it out. As she completed her third journey around the pond she tripped on something she couldn't see and landed head first in the pond but instead of landing she just kept falling. When she had finished falling and could sit up she was in a strange place with strange materials all around her, and strange carriages without horses pulling them. There were people all around in strange clothes that she had never seen before, but the more she thought about it the more she thought some of the clothes were similar to what she had seen the man in her dreams wearing. As she looked around she suddenly gasped.

Ben heard a gasp and looked. He had to do a double take because he could not believe his eyes. There was the girl of his dreams. He started saying Ït's You, and at the same time she said it's you.

Invasion of the hatchback.

Sitting in Bible Study with the others praying as we are finishing off. I hear voices coming from outside possibly a little raised but think nothing of it. We finish off and Paula goes off to get the car so that those of us who are leaving can go. Ellie, whose house we are at helps us get ready to leave. Those of us who are going with Paula are Gwen who is 91 years old, my mother Kathleen, my sister Rebekah and myself.

Paula had the car ready to go, it was a 3 door hatchback, so we put the front passenger seat forward and mum clambered into the car, next in was Rebekah and she stayed in the middle of the back, finally I got into the back. Next the passenger seat was returned to the normal position and Ellie helped Gwen get in. Paula got ready to drive off , but now there were a couple of guys running around around in the street. So Paula tried to lock the doors, she got hers locked but just missed out on locking Gwens. The next thing you know one of the guys has the door open and plonks himself on the floor in front of Gwen. My memory gets a bit confused here, I remember that Paula was some of the time pounding him on the back with her hands, Gwen was saying “Get off, your hurting my legs”. The man was saying “You know I would never meant to hurt you”. Meanwhile the other guy is running round and round the car, so the guy in the car will not get out.

Ellie goes inside to ring the police and my mum gets out her mobile phone and rings as well. She is calmly explaining what is going on and suddenly, I hear a more urgent note in her voice “He's got a baseball bat”. I thought no he doesn't, but then I looked up and saw the guy running around the car holding one (Rebekah later said that at the time she thought 'this is Australia, we have cricket bats not baseball bats').

Pretty soon after this the police turned up and dealt with the two men. We were visibly shaken but all in one peace.