At about 1:30 a.m., Joy woke up to the sound of Sadness puking. She looked in the direction of the sound, and, just as she predicted, she saw Sadness throwing up.

"You okay, Sadness?" Joy asked with concern.

"No, I'm not okay. I think my stomach has the flu. Go get Fear quickly."

"I'm going!" Joy exclaimed and ran to go get Fear.

She hated waking up her comrades in the middle of the night, but what choice did she have? Without hesitation, Joy went into Fear's room without knocking and went over to him.

"Fear, wake up!" she said as she shook Fear to get him to wake him up.

"What is it, Joy?" Fear asked, trying not to sound grumpy.

"Sadness is throwing up because she has the stomach flu. I need your help!"

"Aw, man! At this hour of night?"

"Yes! Now come on! There's not a minute to lose!"

With that said, Fear got his medical kit and followed Joy to Sadness' room. When they got there, Fear told Sadness, "Alright, Sadness, Joy told me that you threw up because your stomach has the flu, right?"

"Right." Sadness replied.

"Well, since you puked, you have puked out the medicine that I gave you. I'll have to give you more to help."

She pours a little bit of medicine on a spoon and gives it to Sadness.

"Uh-oh. Here comes more disgusting medicine." Sadness thought and she opened her mouth as Fear put the medicine in it. She swallows and makes a disgusted face.

"I'm giving you a bucket in case you throw up again," Fear said as he put a bucket beside Sadness' side of her bed. "But let's hope you don't do that again." Then he headed back to his room.

"Good thing I wasn't sleeping on the side of the bed where you threw up from." Joy remarked. "Otherwise I might've gotten sick too."

"Yeah." Sadness said. "I hope I don't throw up again tonight."

"Me too." Joy replied. "I also hope you'll feel better in the morning."

The two went back to sleep with hope that Sadness will feel better in the morning. Lucky for Joy, she hasn't heard anymore puking tonight.

While she was asleep, Joy had hope and faith that she will not catch Sadness' illness and not get sick too.

The next morning when Riley woke up, her emotions woke up too. They all got ready to help control Riley's actions today.

Once they were all standing at the control console, Joy asked Sadness, "So, Sadness, you how feeling this morning?"

"I'm doing good. I'm all better now." Sadness answered.

"That's good. I'm glad to hear that."

All the emotions are watching Riley's point of view. She is eating cereal for breakfast. Her parents are sitting at the table with her.

"Riley," her mom said. "There's going to be an ice hockey game today at 5:00. Would you like that?"

"I'd like that." Riley replied.

"Good. Well, if you bring any homework home with you, be sure to finish it before we go to the game, okay?"

"Okay."

Once she finished eating her cereal, she got dressed, headed out the door and went to school. Joy, Sadness, Anger, Disgust and Fear were all prepared to help Riley with her actions for the day.

THE END