"Ok folks. That was the day, no one died, and I'm guessing Joy and Sadness have dream duty." Fear yawned into his hand.
"Yep!" Joy exclaimed, actually dancing around in a small circle while the other emotions watched.
"You guys head to bed! We've got this!"
"Someday I won't be too tired to take over. Then what will you do?" Disgust asked the pair as they sat down on the bench that popped up from the floor when Riley slept.
"I don't know. We'll cross that bridge when it comes to it." Joy replied.
"And probably fall off." Sadness muttered from behind her.
"Seven straight days of dream duty isn't healthy." Disgust muttered as she trudged off to her room. "But, if they're up to it, then whatever."
Anger yawned and stretched to the limit his stocky body could. He had woken up at midnight and couldn't go back to sleep, so he decided to go hunt down that one memory they kept of warm hot chocolate.
Exiting his room, he walked around the corner and stopped dead in his tracks. Joy and Sadness were sitting very close together on the bench.
Kissing. They were kissing on dream duty.
Anger grinned and leaned up against the wall. "WEEEEELLLLL. Now it AAAALLL makes sense." He said, practically yelling some of the words.
Joy and Sadness shot apart like magnets of the same poles.
"What's going on?" Fear muttered as he walked out of his room, rubbing his eyes.
"Joy and Sadness have been making out on dream duty!" Anger replied, taking far too much pleasure out of the horrified looks on Joy and Sadness's faces.
"So that explains all the shifts." Disgust said, walking out from behind Anger fully alert.
Everyone stared at each other for a moment.
"Welp, good to know. G'night you two!" Fear called as he turned his back and walked back to his room.
"Don't have too much fun!" Anger called, doing the same.
"Ugh. The spit on that couch. I'm not doing dream duty for a week." Disgust called, making sure Joy and Sadness heard her as she returned to her bed as well.
Joy and Sadness got stuck with an extra, legitimate shift of dream duty for that stunt.