Lego
Note: This piece was part of a three-dimensional piece of innovative fiction work that I delivered during my final year at university. It was printed out onto a piece of paper and wedged inside a castle made from Lego, that was included as part of the fictional Benjamin Hughes’ time capsule.
Lego
At school today we played with Lego and I made a castle for me and Lucy to live in when we finish school and get a job, I hope she likes it because I want us to both live happily ever after and get a butler and a maid and a dragon. Did you know dragons breathe fire? I saw it on TV when I was supposed to be asleep, daddy was watching it and the BAD DRAGON breathed fire and burned down the village and it made me sad because all of the people didn’t have a home and everyone should have a home to sleep in – that’s why I built the castle. I wanted to build a dungeon so I could put Sam in it, he’s horrible to me just because his mummy likes crack and his daddy doesn’t have a job and they fight all the time and he drinks the BAD STUFF and they do BAD THINGS over and over and over again until the walls shake. Mummy says they’re BAD PEOPLE but when I went to his house I ate one of their special cakes and fell asleep and dreamt about Lucy, so they can’t be that bad. But now Sam bullies me, he likes to hit me but that’s okay because daddy says if I don’t hit him back then I’m the bigger man, but it still hurts a lot. I try to hide from him but he always finds me and Lucy tries to stop him but she’s not as strong as me and I’m not as strong as Sam and Sam’s not as strong as Mr. Griffiths but Mr. Griffiths never finds me and then mummy shouts at me for getting in to fights and daddy looks disappointed. I don’t mind though, they don’t have to love me, I have Lucy and she loves me very much and when we live in our castle I won’t let mummy in and I won’t let daddy in and I won’t let Sam in and I won’t let anybody in but Lucy and the butler and the maid and the dragon and maybe baby dragons if Lucy wants them. Do you like the walls? I wanted to use lots of colours because Lucy likes rainbows and I like red and green and blue and yellow and Lego and castles and dragons and Lucy and Lucy says she likes me too, she says she wants to marry me when we grow up and I think I want to marry her too. I don’t know how grown ups tell when they’re ready, how do they decide? HOW DO I DECIDE? I just don’t know…
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