It's a little short, sorry, enschlidigung, gomen-nesai.
After a few days, it was time for Riley and Mom to come home from the hospital.
Of course, the two young emotions living in Riley's head didn't realize what was going on till that morning.
Joy and Sadness had been sleeping on the floor, as they didn't really have anywhere else to sleep, when a loud noise woke up both them and Riley. This noise happened to be a car door slamming, but three-day-old emotions wouldn't know that.
Joy sat up so suddenly she slammed her head into the memory racks above her. Sadness was slightly less bad, but had taken her glasses off before she slept and was almost completely blind. She got up, and accidentally stumbled into the button, which turned blue.
Riley started to cry. Riley's parents, new to this whole thing, panicked a little, but found a pacifier they had received from the hospital. They stuck it in her mouth.
Joy raced back to the button. Sadness squinted her eyes. "Hello, golden, glowing thing. Do you know where my glasses are?"
Joy picked them up and shoved them on her face. "Oh, hello, Joy."
"Hello, Sadness," Joy said, a very slight tone of annoyance edging into her voice. She took a deep breath, and asked very cheerfully, "Do you mind giving me the button?"
Sadness looked out the screen, at the button, and back to Joy. Repeatedly. Just as Joy was about to take it by force, she replied, "Okay."
Riley stopped crying, and sucked on the pacifier. Her parents sighed in relief.
Sadness waddled back to where she had been sleeping and got her slippers on. Then she went to the break room. It had taken them a few days to realize it was there, as the door was almost the same exact color as the walls.
Back at the console. Joy was wondering where they were going. Since Riley couldn't turn her head, Joy couldn't see where they were going very well. She just knew that they were moving.
"Joy," came a voice from behind. A shiver ran down her back until she realized it was just Sadness.
"Sadness! You scared me!" she exclaimed. She immediately knew she had said the wrong thing.
Sadness's eyes welled up with tears. "I'm sorry." she sniffled. "I didn't mean to scare you. I just wanted to give you a sandwich I made. But you probably don't want it from someone as awful as me." She burst into all-out tears.
Joy didn't like it when Sadness cried. She tended to make everything in a five-foot radius soaking wet. The second night she had cried after accidentally slamming the lid of her toy chest on her hand and then used her blanket as a hanky for her tears. Joy reluctantly shared her own with her that night.
As nothing particularly interesting was going on outside, Joy walked over to calm her down. "Hey, hey, it's alright. You didn't mean to," she told her, dodging tears. "I don't think you're awful. I'll eat it."
Sadness stopped. She hiccupped once and then handed Joy the sandwich. Unfortunately, all of Sadness's crying had now made it a soggy mess. Joy was spared from having to eat it by a timely reopening of the car door.
Dad smiled at his sweet little girl, contentedly sucking her pacifier.
"Welcome home, Riley." He helped support Mom with one arm, and hung onto the baby car-seat with the other.
Joy quickly tossed the sandwich far away while Sadness wasn't looking.
"Home?" Sadness asked. "Does he mean that the white place wasn't home?"
Joy didn't know any better than she did. "I guess we have to wait and find out."
After Dad led Mom inside, she immediately sat down on one of the couches, still a little exhausted. Their old cat, Buzz, came over to sniff her.
"Finally," she sighed, contentedly. "I can sleep in my own bed, eat real food, and spend all day with my daughter." Buzz nudged her hand. "And cat." She scratched him behind the ears.
Dad laughed. "You get some sleep. I'll give Riley another bottle." Mom, too tired to argue, dozed off.
"Oh, it's time for food," Joy said excitedly. "I can handle this."
"Speaking of food, you ate that sandwich really fast," Sadness stated.
Joy did some quick-thinking. "Oh, yeah, it was soooooo good! Could you make me another one? And one for yourself. In fact, make enough for the whole week!" She may have been laying it on a little thick, but she really wanted some alone time with Riley.
Sadness, a little doubtful, looked at her for a minute. "Okay." She waddled back to the break room.
Joy was relieved. She didn't hate Sadness, and she was nice, but Riley was much better company, even if Riley was unaware of Joy's existence.
Unfortunately for Joy, though, at that moment, Riley closed her eyes.
Joy scoffed at her bad luck. "Aw, come on!" She sighed and pressed the "End-of-Day" button.
Acknowledging her unluckiness, she made her way to the break room, where she enjoyed a non-tear soaked sandwich. Tomorrow was going to be much better; both for her and Riley.
Chapter 2 is complete! A special thanks to those who faved and followed, but to the people who reviewed, I give a good luck charm! It makes croissants come your way!
To Winxclubfan1: Aw, thanks, you're nice. I hope you will continue to enjoy this! ;D
To TheJokerMan95: Let's hope it stays that way.
To TheOneAndOnly1993: Yep, you're pretty close. They will be in chronological order, but only loosely connected to each other. I was writing another chapter and that was a little tricky to do that, but I managed to make it work. I have an idea for Fear, but for now, I just want to focus on these two. Glad you like it! I'll take any suggestions I can get, so if you have a particular idea for expansion, don't be shy! I don't bite! Unless it's a full moon.
Have you guys seen the Inside Out deleted scene with the puberty emotions? LMAO! Also, there is a video where Pete and Amy talk about an ad lib where Hader says, "Disgust, I've always loved you!" I almost "Awe"d at that, even though I don't ship any IO characters.
