Church and the kid from the riots

I'm with my family and we are getting ready to go to church. I haven't been for ages, so I get lots of stuff together to take with me, as I want to feel at home when I get there.

I take with me pictures to hang on the wall, a basket of toys and things, a large mirror to look at my self in, and a very large fiberglass spinning top on a stand, about the size of a basket ball, but bigger. It is all shiny and it is a magic object, but I don't know it yet.

When we get to church, we are late. As usual, we sit at the front, and in full view of every one sitting behind us, I get out all my things, and set them up around me, hanging the pictures on the wall next to the large mirror, and arranging all my toys and stuff around me on the bench. I plan on having a good time at church!

Mum is shocked at me, "why have you brought all this stuff, you never used to be like this, look at all the mess and distraction its causing".

I know what she means, all my stuff is distracting people from the alter at the front of the church. The magic fiberglass spinning top is the most distracting, so dad decides to put it on the corner of the alter so as to bring peoples attention back to the mass.

He places the spinning top in a special dish, and it starts to spin. At first its quite a gentle spin, but then it starts to get faster and faster, and as it does, it changes shape, circular to oval, and back again, in a watery like motion, and changing into many different colours, reds, purples, blues, pinks, yellows, like a marbling effect, with inks.

It is totally hypnotizing, and it has caught a few peoples attention. As it spins faster it starts to sway from side to side, moving around in its dish, and soon, I think it will fall out onto the alter or the floor.

It does fall out, and when it does, everyone is watching it. Dad jumps up to pick it up off the floor, and mum tells him to leave it, as him picking it up will be an even bigger distraction than the fact that it is now spinning around in the isle.

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I'm with james and we are walking through the streets of london. Down by the docks we meet a young kid who has just got out of prison. He was one of the kids from the recent riots. He is an abandoned kid.

He is bored, and to keep away the boredom he has been playing games down at the docks, with other kids, making games up around the waterside. There is this one game that is a slide down a slippery walkway into the water, yet at the bottom is a wooden board to stop you falling to deep into the water. Your feet hit the water, then stop on the board making a splash which hits you back in the face.

He tells me to give it a go, which I do, and it is quite fun, but I can see that this doesn't really do it for him. Now he tells us that he is an expert at breaking into buildings and understanding police behavior. He tells us to follow him round the back of some shops, which we do. The back door to one of the shops in unlocked, and he knocks. There is no one in the shop so he opens the door and walks in. He shows us round inside this shop, it is an antique shop with lots of unusual bits and bobs, and then he shows us how to hide from the police. He sets off the alarm system on purpose, and then shows us a hiding place hidden in the walls so that when the police turn up they cannot find us. This is what he really likes to do.