Yo yo yiggety yo!

Now, I know what you're thinking. Well, not EVERYTHING you're thinking-that'd be creepy. But I know what you thought when you saw the summary. You thought, "How could the AUTHOR not know how this is gonna go down?" Well, dear reader, where you have questions, I have answers! By the way, if you don't care, feel free to scroll down and just read the story-I do tend to ramble.

So I did this as a bit of an experiment. I decided to not really plan a story out and just see what the characters did naturally given a situation. Let me tell you-I wouldn't recommend it for you writers unless you REALLY know what you're getting into. To give you an idea-this was supposed to be a long oneshot, possibly a twoshot. This thing is gonna have AT LEAST four chapters. Yeah.

Anyway, I decided to write this last summer (yeah, I got real busy ^^;) after I got THE WORST sunburn of my life. It was all over my collarbone and upper back, and anything that touched it hurt real bad. So instead of moping around and feeling sorry for myself, I decided to write this. The only things I planned-well, I'll tell you about those at the end.

Enjoy!

Is she home yet?" Jessie asked for the millionth time.

"No, she is not," Woody sighed for the millionth time.

"Uuuugh!" Jessie groaned.

Bonnie had gone with her friend Alex to the pool three hours ago. The toys were eager for her to come back and play with them, not to mention the heat was getting to them.

"I'm bored!" Jessie announced.

"Really? We never would have guessed." Woody didn't even look up from his card game with Buzz.

"Shut up!" With that, Jessie grabbed Woody's hat off his head and threw it across the room like a Frisbee.

"Hey! Jessieeee!" Woody seethed before running to fetch his hat.

Jessie flipped up Woody's cards so Buzz could see them. After studying them, Buzz nodded, chuckling.

Jessie winked at him before meandering off, whistling her innocence.

"Got any Kings?" Buzz smirked.

"Aw!" Woody handed him his last two cards. "How'd you guess them all?"

"Just got lucky, I guess."

He wagered a split second glance at Jessie, who slapped a hand over her mouth to suppress her laughter.

Before Woody could question this exchange, the toys all heard the familiar sound of tires against gravel.

"Bonnie's back!" Jessie leaped into the air in celebration.

"Places, everyone!" Dolly called.

Everyone returned to wherever Bonnie had placed them before she left.

The toys all waited in anticipation for the little girl to come bounding up to her room, telling her toys all about her adventure at the pool. No doubt her trip would inspire her to have an adventure that involved water-perhaps a shark infestation, or maybe Evil Dr. Porkchop's new underwater base.

But the toys heard slower footsteps come up, and two sets-Bonnie's mom?

"Oh, sweetie, I am so sorry!" She was apologizing profusely. "I knew I should have gotten the waterproof sunscreen!"

Bonnie entered the room, sniffling in an attempt to control her crying, and anyone could see why.

The poor girl was red as a lobster. Any bit of skin that wasn't covered by her bright blue, skirted one-piece swimsuit was an angry red, from her tiny little legs to her face-the freckles were barely visible under the burn. All the toys in the room winced inwardly.

"It hurts, Mommy," She whimpered.

"I know, sweetie," Her mom's voice dripped with sympathy for her daughter. "But I'm going to give you a nice, cool bath with some aloe. You stay here while I fix it, okay?"

"Okay," The girl nodded.

With that, Bonnie's mother left the room.

"I wonder what aloe is..." The girl wondered to herself.

At any rate, she was in pain, and she only knew one cure.

Bonnie looked all around her room until she spotted Jessie.

Smiling a little bit, Bonnie grabbed Jessie and hugged her tight-a little too tight.

"Ow!" Bonnie had irritated her sunburn with this gesture, and reflexively dropped Jessie on the ground. "Owie..." Bonnie looked as if she may cry again.

"Bonnie, hon! Bath's all ready!" Her mother called.

"Okay." Bonnie walked stiffly out of the room on her burned legs.

The toys came back to life as soon as their owner left.

"Oh, the poor darling," Mrs. Potato Head gushed sadly.

"Yeah, she got it pretty bad, huh?" Buttercup commented.

"Well, sunburns do go away. I'm sure she'll be fine. But we all need to be there for her." Woody stated.

A chorus of "Yeah!" and "Of course!" echoed from all the toys.

"Hey, Woody?" Buzz poked his shoulder.

"Yeah." He turned.

Buzz pointed towards Jessie.

She hadn't moved from the spot where Bonnie had dropped her. She was staring at the door, a mix of horror and deep sadness on her face.

"What's wrong with her?" Woody asked.

"Well, most likely she's upset, either about Bonnie dropping her or about the fact that she inadvertently caused Bonnie pain, or possibly a combination of the two." Buzz rattled off.

Woody sighed. "Rhetorical questions, Buzz. I know I've explained them to you."

"You have attempted, but something about them eludes me." Buzz put his hand on his chin as he thought.

"Never mind." Woody shook his head, exhausted. "Look, why don't you go talk to her?"

"Me?" Buzz jumped.

"Oh come on, Buzz, don't tell me you're still nervous around her."

"I'm not!"

Woody gave him a look.

"Well...not as much as before...anyway, why can't you talk to her?"

"You already analyzed her problem," Woody pointed out.

"But-!"

Not even waiting for the end of the sentence, Woody grabbed Buzz's shoulders and turned him to face Jessie. "Don't you want to help her?"

Jessie was no longer frozen and was sitting up, but had brought her knees up to her chest. She looked on the verge of tears.

Buzz's heart nearly tore in half.

"I'll be right back." He didn't even look at Woody, but immediately started walking towards Jessie.

Woody sighed in relief and slumped against one of the legs of Bonnie's bed.

"Man, just dealing with him makes me exhausted."

And there's chapter one! So yeah, the only things I planned out were that Woody and Buzz should start out playing cards, with Jessie impatient for Bonnie to come home, and that Bonnie would come back with a really bad sunburn. From here on in, it's all the characters. See ya in chapter two! :D