This is the second piece of chapter writing I have planned before Little Miracles, even before my other story Not too late but somehow it didn't feel right to publish until tonight!
Just to note I will try to update this and Little miracles at least once a week or every two weeks depends what is going on and which story I am doing better with. However I won't give up on these stories or the other one I have yet to come.
I hope you enjoy this first chapter and please tell me what you think as feedback is helpful, trust me!
From Dancingwiththesocks.
Riley's alarm clock went off at eight thirty that very morning. Yawning, rubbing her eyes and stretching she tossed her duvet from her bed and began to get dressed as quick as she could.
Meanwhile in headquarters Joy was running down the entrance to the emotions rooms, playing her accordion in the background, earning multiple groans from the other emotions.
"Another session of hockey practice on a Saturday morning , so very exciting!" Joy exclaimed before turning to Fear who jumped, causing all his papers to fly everywhere.
"Fear your job is too make sure Riley is kept on her toes, basically don't let her do anything silly"
"Way ahead of you there" Fear replied confidently.
In her rush of excitement Joy twirled around unaware of bumping into Anger who got knocked down to the floor who shouted out a "watch it!"
"Oops sorry Anger" Joy giggled lightly before helping him up. While brushing himself down Joy eagerly told him his job was to make Riley determined to make todays session an excellent one.
"Yeah yeah I know what I'm doing" Anger replied before walking off.
Joy's glowing body turned to Disgust in delight. "Disgust you're in charge of insuring that Riley looks her best today!"
The green emotion gave her an already got that covered look before proudly walking off.
"What's my job Joy?" Sadness asked, her usual glum tone often making Joy cringe.
"I have a special job for you, as you know I can be and I quote a bit pushy at times so I need you to make sure I don't go over the top with the positivity."
Sadness beamed at Joy's honesty. "Okay" the blue emotion agreed.
During the drive to the Hockey rink Joy gathered up the emotions to take their places in front of the console, ready to portray yet again another victorious hockey session.
Approaching the doors to the hockey rink Joy followed by the others enthusiastically cheered as through their girl's eyes they could see a majority of teammates who were also Riley's friends come up to her. One in particular called Samantha Jones or Sam for short was who Riley now considered as a best friend since the move. Her long straight jet black hair gently waved across Riley's shoulders as she was pulled into a friendly hug to which she accepted and hugged back.
"You ready for this?" Sam asked eagerly, her brown eyes twinkling with Joy.
"Yeah" Was Riley's simple reply, refusing to show the slight confusion from her best friends question.
The slight confusion was also shared with her fellow emotions inside headquarters.
"Er guys what does she mean by that?" Disgust asked in her normal fed up tone.
"I don't know" Joy began before adding "she's probably just excited, trust me I know the feeling!" the yellow emotion finished with a smile.
"The coach is speaking!" Fear exclaimed. The other emotions turned their attention to the coach, as well as keeping quiet t throughout the following minute to come.
"Right Foghorns as you know we have had quite a few successful hockey practices lately so I have a special treat in store"
The team gasped in surprise before starting to talk amongst themselves. Riley's emotions were also in debate of what the coach had in store for them.
"This treat better be a trip to the mall" Disgust said earning an irritated look from Anger who was stood next to her.
"Don't be ridiculous! He's probably just going to bore us of how well we've done" Anger growled out, scaring Fear.
"Maybe his 'treat' will be to push us to our limits and make us perform better than our best!" Fear wailed, his arms flapping with the panic pumping through him.
"That's bad" Sadness stated.
"Guys just calm down! I bet he's just going to give a short speech on how much he values our hard work, it's nothing to worry about."
"And because of the nonstop valued hard work and effort you guys put in my treat for you is that I have arranged a surprise hockey match to keep you on your toes" the coach explained joyfully. The hockey team just by their facial expression had mixed feelings about the situation.
"Are you kidding me! You can't do that mister!" Anger yelled producing a fist towards the console.
"He can't be serious right now" Disgust moaned, rolling her eyes grumpily.
"Why is he doing this to us?" Sadness groaned miserably.
"Noooooooo! Pretend we don't feel well!" Fear wailed shaking the yellow emotion before letting his long lavender arms frantically flap around in a massive panic.
Unknown until it was too late Fear had bashed into the rock hard red fist that belonged to Anger who was now grinning at his success.
Joy gave fear a sympathetic look before quietly thanking Anger.
"Anytime Joy" the red emotion replied mischievously.
With the panic temporally sorted Joy looked up to the screen to notice Sam talking in the background.
"Isn't this great, we're finally putting all our hard work into good use"
"Erm I guess it's pretty cool" Riley replied calmly, refusing to show that inside she was petrified.
However she wasn't the only one to share the fear.
" Sam, Riley look!" Francesca their friend whispered to them, pointing to the a dark haired girl who had it in a ponytail.
"That's Amber Martin, the top player of the Bulldogs team, apparently her team has won every match they have ever played and it's all down to her" Francesca continued to whisper, causing Riley's fear of losing to increase.
"Yeah right! Don't worry Riley she's just trying to scare us" Sam said confidently.
Riley sighed. Sometimes she wished she had Sam's unbelievably high level of courage.
In headquarters the emotions all began to worry for the outcome of today's hockey session, some more exposed to fear than others.
Before the emotions had time to think the coach blew his whistle. "Right Foghorns everyone into positions and play to the very best of your ability, I believe in you!"
"Come on gang let's do this!" Joy exclaimed, ignoring the others grumbles.
Riley and Amber came head to head, both in position to grab the puck. Suddenly the referee blew the whistle, unfortunately Amber was to quick resulting in her in possession of the puck. Riley sighed sadly at her loss.
"Oh great!" Anger grumbled from inside headquarters, looking as if he wanted to strangle the purple emotion shakily stood next to him.
As the game went on it was clear to the coach that his team were under pressure. So far it was only Sam who had been able to score the one goal which wasn't anything compared to the number of four goals scored by the opposition.
Meanwhile Riley was pretty much feeling the same way, she had tried to claim the puck off of the smashing Amber Martin multiple times without success. Even Sam the bravest person she knew had tried to tackle her once or twice however even she was forced to see the dark truth that Amber was a better player than her which was something Sam would never admit openly.
When the referee announced it was time for the break Riley miserably dragged herself off the ice, refusing to give anyone eye contact especially her parents who were sat in the crowd. In the distance Riley could see the smashing Amber Martin getting numerous amounts of high fives and compliments on her current performance, making a slight feeling of fear causing her to feel a little useless.
"Well that went brilliantly" Disgust said sarcastically , creating irritation within the red emotion.
"Don't you think we know that!" Anger yelled, stomping his foot as representation of how angry he was.
"Were going to fail" Sadness stated before slumping down onto the pink sofa.
"Your right!" Fear exclaimed pointing to Sadness before adding "if and dare I say when we loose the coach will be mad at us, so will our friends not to mention our parents!" No longer being able to control himself the purple emotion ended up running around headquarters wailing and flailing his long lavender arms around, which nearly hit Disgust who swished them away with a huff.
At this point it was only Joy who could resolve the currently horrible feeling of panic.
"It's not all bad gang we still have half the match to go and we could score a goal or too" Joy said, not managing to convince any of the others.
Anger mumbled something along the lines of Joy being too positive for her own good.
"Uh hello just in case you haven't noticed we are currently playing against one of the best under sixteens hockey players and you think we can win this. Get real Joy." Was Disgusts unhelpful response.
"Disgusts right Joy. Before the break she managed to whack us really hard in the leg in our attempt to get the puck, we could have been seriously hurt!" Fear exclaimed in fright.
"Our parents are going to watch us slide into the world of defeat" Sadness added.
Joy's patience was wearing thin as a result of the negative comments to match with the atmosphere in headquarters.
Before Joy could try again it was time for the second half of the match.
"One ticket to loserville here we come" Anger said which the other emotions tried hard to ignore.
Once the whistle blew the second half of the match began.
Riley took a deep breath before skating across near to where Sam was. As the rush to get the puck was getting busy Riley joined in with the mixed hockey players to get a her one and maybe even her only chance to get possession of the puck.
After seeing that Amber currently had the puck Riley felt an urge to leave her and see if Sam or one of the others could get the puck. Looking towards her left she had spoken too soon as she saw Sam desperately trying to get the puck off of Amber, however her mission was soon over as she was forcefully knocked on to the ground clutching her ankle.
"Sam!" Riley shouted before skating off towards her.
"Everyone stay back!" The first aider announced loudly while all the hockey players talked amongst themselves.
"What happened here?" the coach asked seriously.
"I just tumbled and hurt my ankle, I think I've twisted it" Sam explained before whimpering in pain.
A stomach turning feeling squirmed inside of Riley as she saw Amber in the distance sniggering with one of her teammates, Riley went unnoticed as she glared at her with hatred.
"We will show her, she does not mess with our mates!" Anger roared viciously, pretending to punch Amber in the face.
Raising the rage levers on the console Riley's glare became angrier by the minute.
Once Sam had been taken off the ice by the first aider and his assistant Riley was appalled by Amber who despite kicking Sam over on purpose was still allowed to play. Determined to snatch the puck off of her Riley wasted no time as the whistle blew to carry on with the game.
Racing through the ice rink wanting to catch up with the 'smashing' Amber Martin she was right where she wanted her as she was skating by her right side. All of a sudden an unexpected rush of courage filled her mood and with that Riley came up to Amber and taking a good swing for the puck. Succeeding with her missing Amber growled before chasing her, even though she was fully aware of Amber being a couple of skates behind her Riley resolved to skating faster towards the goal.
As the fear of losing the puck got to her Riley took this as an opportunity to show everyone what she was made of, taking her decision to give it her best shot she whacked her hockey sticks towards the puck which landed in the goal. Riley cheered and jumped for Joy, so did her team. On the other hand Amber snarled at her, Riley responded by sticking her tongue out at her as she was too proud to be nasty.
With just over three minutes of the match remaining Riley played at her very best before the match came to an end. Needless to say the Foghorns didn't win, however the coach didn't seem to mind as he was more proud of the excellent performance of teamwork he had witnessed.
"Great hustle everyone! I saw a great show of teamwork and courage within yourselves, today's session is over and have a nice rest of your weekend!" The coach cheered, letting the team members go off to find their parents. Riley's parents plus Sam were waiting in the crowd area, huge bright beaming smiles on their faces.
"Wow you nailed it out there Riley!" Sam praised, leaning over to hug her before wincing in pain having for a second forgotten about her twisted ankle.
"Well done we are so proud of you!" Jill said while Bill cheered "go Riley, our number one hockey star!"
Riley blushed at the amount of positivity.
Meanwhile In headquarters the emotions were also celebrating their girls glorious victory.
"Woohoo! So many compliments, we totally rocked this gang!" Joy shrilled before pulling everyone into a group hug.
Pulling away from the hug Sadness said "for once I'm crying for Joy." One teardrop from each eye rolled down her cheek despite her smile.
"We are awesome" Disgust commented with a smug smile.
"We sure are!" Anger added, high fiving Disgust in his happiness.
Suddenly a bright glow interrupted their victory as an unusual colored memory rolled through the tubes. One of two emotions raised an eyebrow at the weird colour the memory ball was, to their surprise it wasn't any old memory it was a core memory causing the emotions to have even more concerns.
Deciding to walk over to the core memory table each emotion stared at the new core memory, one or two maybe liking the new colour memory ball, others not so keen.
Sadness was the first to comment with "this colour looks interesting" along with forwarding her face to get a closer look at the new core memory.
Brushing her face away Disgust said "ugh I think you're confusing the word interesting with the word strange."
"Let me look at it!" Anger said before barging his way to the table and snatching the core memory out of its new slot. However another pair of unknown hands grabbed the memory at the same time causing Anger to drop it in horror.
"What the-!" Anger was about to yell when he saw the rolling memory being stopped by a pale creamy colored foot. As the memory was being picked up with just as pale hands all the emotions looked up to reveal a cream colored female with blonde hair in a bun along with having yellow eyes, a long sleeved pink top with a red skirt. On her blonde hair there was a small but noticeable pink flower hair clip keeping the bun together, she also owned a small silver heart necklace with a matching bracelet carefully placed on her neck and her left wrist.
Placing the cream colored core memory back onto the memory table the cream figure looked at the emotions as if she was expecting a welcome.
"Uh hello do I know you ?" Joy asked nervously despite being dragged back by Fear who was heavily trembling.
"No but you soon will" the cream figure replied before adding "my names Courage and I am here to give Riley confidence as I will be needed now she's a teenager."
Still recovering from the shock Joy took a step closer towards Courage, shoving Fears arm off her shoulder with a beam.
"I'm Joy" the yellow emotion introduced herself giving Courage a firm handshake.
"Nice to meet you Joy" Courage responded, then turning towards the green emotion.
"I'm Disgust" was all she said along with half a handshake before walking off. Courage sighed deeply.
"I'm Sadness" a low miserable voice said from behind her, Courage turned around to reveal the blue emotion looking at her. "Hello Sadness" Courage responded kindly.
On the other hand Anger who was stood a few steps away from the pale emotion stared at her as if she was a goddess. He took a deep breath, practically marching towards her.
"Anger " was all he said before letting out a small smirk.
"Hello Anger" Courage replied with a smile making Angers smirk wider.
Assuming she had met everyone Courage walked towards Joy. "So am I correct in assuming you're the leader here?" Courage asked.
Joy blushed at her question. "I suppose so, yeah" Joy replied shyly.
While most of the emotions were surrounding Joy and Courage Fear was hiding behind his bedroom door, unsure of the cream emotion who had just been a stranger less than five minutes ago. With his level of fright building up he accidentally knocked his head onto his door in a heap , creating a loud banging noise that made vibrations which could be felt through the floor.
Courage immediately followed the noise to Fears bedroom door, looking down at the heap of the purple emotion who was rubbing his head. Looking up he saw the pale figure just a couple of steps away from him, embarrassed to be found in this state Fear quickly got up and brushed himself down.
"Er… I'm.. I'm Fear" the purple emotion introduced himself despite from the corner of his eye seeing Disgust roll her eyes and Anger scowling.
"I see. And what were you doing behind there exactly?" Courage questioned raising an eyebrow as if he was a strange object, making Fear more nervous which caused him to shake more.
"Erm I was.. J-just er.." Hearing Fear struggle to come up with an excuse Joy said
"Sorry about this Courage he's just shy around new emotions, especially since we haven't had any in a long time."
"Ok" Courage replied before walking off towards the memory shelves.
Letting out a sigh of relief Fear whizzed off to his bedroom to do some research. Carefully sitting down at his purple desk he opened up a little lavender colored laptop that was perched in the middle for safe keeping. Opening the lid before lifting it up he was greeted by the bright screen that had been left on the google search webpage, he then frantically typed in the search bar ' what does courage mean?'
The ability to do something that frightens one; bravery.
Deciding he wanted to look deeper into the meaning Fear clicked off the webpage and got out his dictionary from his bookshelf.
Courage is the power or quality of dealing with or facing danger, or pain.
What the purple emotion found scared him, sending him into a shaking fit . Trying to calm himself down Fear glanced down the page which revealed a shocking discovery to his very eyes.
Opposites or Antonyms of Courage - Cowardice, timid, weak, fear.
Fear's eyes widened at his name clearly written on the page, the word flashing out at him as if it were a blinding light.
"She's the opposite of me" Fear whimpered to himself in shock, making himself jump by slamming the dictionary shut in terror he could then hear voices in the distance.
Getting up to lean against the door he could hear Joy's cheery voice eagerly say "so guys what do you think of Courage?"
"I think she's nice" Sadness said, turning her head towards the yellow emotion.
"She could work on her fashion sense, I mean who wears a pink top and a red skirt together" Disgust said spitefully, her words irritating Anger.
"Oh who cares" I think she's great, it's about time Riley was more courageous in life!" Anger exclaimed with pride before looking up to Courage who stood a few steps away from them, twiddling with her necklace.
"Ugh just because you fancy her" Disgust mumbled earning a threatening scowl from the shorter emotion.
"I don't !" Anger snarled under his breath.
"You keep telling yourself that" Disgust retorted.
"Guys enough with the arguing and I think she's great too, she will certainly give Riley more confidence especially for events later in life such as exams!" Joy twirled around happily.
Having heard enough of his fellow emotions opinions it was time for his to be voiced. Fear quietly came out of his bedroom and walked towards the others, clearing his throat so they knew he was joining them.
"Oh hello Fear we were just talking about Courage, what do you think of her?" Joy asked politely.
Fear shook a little before answering, lowering his voice to make sure the pale emotion couldn't hear him. "If you ask me I don't like the sounds of this new emotion we haven't had one since the move to San Francisco and for it to all happen now is quite frankly well… freaky."
The other emotions all stared at him as if he was some strange animal.
"I don't know why you bothered asking him Joy! It's obvious he would find something about her petrifying in his ridiculously messed up mind" Anger jeered, pointing a stubby finger towards the purple emotion.
Fear then decided to support and stand up for himself and his opinion. "But less than an hour ago she was just a stranger who randomly turned up into headquarters without warning or any kind of notice, don't you think that sounds at all suspicious?" Fear almost wailed, frustration starting to bubble inside of the usually weak emotion.
"Look you idiot who cares what you think! Courage is here to stay you imbecile so get used to it!" Anger spat, walking up to Fear as if he was to punch him.
"Oh here we go again, lover boy to her rescue" Disgust said along with rolling her eyes.
Anger snarled back before turning his death stare onto Fear who's eyes began to water in terror of what the red emotion could do.
Fear sighed lightly, knowing he wasn't going to win he backed away not bothering to tell them what he found out in his dictionary.
Seeing how upset the purple emotion looked Joy was about to intervene when she heard a slight cough in the background. Looking up she saw the pale cream coloured emotion with one hand on her hip.
"Sorry to interrupt your little meeting but perhaps one of you could show me around the headquarters, it's just that I really want to get a good sense of how things work around here" Courage suggested.
"Er yeah sure, let me show you around!" Joy said happily, taking the pale emotions hand she and Anger who was now closely behind her walked off.
Feeling slightly withdrawn from the others Fear decided to have an early night, getting the impression that he wouldn't be needed for this evening. Dragging himself off to his bedroom he closed the door quietly, taking one last look at Courage before shutting the door until the vision of the pale emotion ceased.
Having flopped onto his bed Fear closed his eyes and laid back on to his soft light purple pillows , hoping tomorrow would be a disaster free day especially now there was a new emotion in headquarters.