Fear fell into a tub full of the day's memories with a hard thump. Rubbing at his side Fear looked around the long term memory area, his eyes tearing up from the fear of being somewhere unknown to him. As he was getting out of the tub, Fears eyes were locked on to the long term memory shelves surprised at how many memories Riley had.
Meanwhile back at headquarters Bravery and the rest of the emotions were getting prepared for another day of school.
"Today will be another brilliant day" Joy cheered while dancing around the console.
"Out of the way, I have to make sure Riley looks good " Disgust said, slightly pushing Joy away from the console.
Bravery was sat on the sofa,watching Disgust make Riley look nice along with Joy racing around telling everyone what job they would be assigned for the day.
Bravery stood up looking content when Joy rushed over to him. "Bravery how would you like to help by being at the console with me"? Joy asked before taking his hand and walking him towards the console.
Bravery smiled back.
"Oo, time for class" Joy called. Anger Disgust and Sadness all stood beside Joy and Bravery as English class began.
However half way through English Riley felt a paper ball hit her on the head. She turned around to see it was the class bully Kerry.
"What" Riley hissed as Bravery had let Anger take over for a minute.
"I saw your match last night, what an epic fail", Kerry hissed back while trying to fight off a laugh.
Anger was about to explode when Bravery moved his hand in front of the console to show that he had a plan.
"Yeah well at least I made it on to the hockey team" Riley boasted which surprised the other emotions, Joy and Sadness in particular were affected the most.
"What you getting at Andersen" Kerry spat viciously.
"You know" Riley replied in a cheeky tone before the teacher called on both girls to be quiet.
Sadness couldn't believe what Bravery, Disgust and Anger were doing. The feeling of fear suddenly crept up on her, she now understood how Fear felt on a day to day basis.
Once the lesson had ended Kerry grabbed Riley by the shoulder,spinning her around to make Riley face her.
"Since you think you're better than me how about a hockey contest tomorrow , let's see who's really the best"? Kerry said along with an evil grin spreading around her lips.
Bravery got Disgust and Anger to the console and placed one of their hands on a lever before telling them to pull them while Bravery pressed a button towards his left.
"Yeah " Riley replied confidently. Bravery pulled another lever to make Riley walk away with a spring in her step.
"Now that's my kind of discussion"! Anger cheered.
"Good job" Disgust added with a small smile on her face.
" Ah, I couldn't have done it without you lot" Bravery replied looking at each emotion with a wide smile.
During the time Anger and Disgust were chatting to Bravery Sadness walked slowly over to Joy who looked happy but she could tell that Joy had something on her mind.
"Joy"? Sadness asked.
Joy looked a tiny bit shaken at Sadness's sudden question. "what is it Sadness"? Joy said politely.
"Joy Riley has never acted that way before" Sadness pointed out.
Joy let out a tiny cough before responding, "yeah… But I'm sure Bravery knows what he's doing".
Sadness looked at Joy in confusion as she walked off to join Bravery and the others.
Down in long term memory Fear heard Anger's almost cheerful calls, making him feel more worthless which didn't help when the friendly arguments island lit up. Fear sighed as he walked away from the glowing island and plonked himself on the floor , his back facing a massive memory shelf full of multicolored memories.
Fear turned around to get a good look of the memories, most of them were either yellow or a mixture between two emotions. Fear also noticed that there were barely any purple ones .
Once Fear had spotted a purple memory he gently picked it up and watched the memory of Riley whacking her leg during yesterday's match. His hands shook as the memory finished with the loud whack, Fear's own memory took him to the angry exclamations his fellow emotions threw at him that day.
Fears eyes then welled up with tears, remembering their scowls and disappointment. All of a sudden he violently threw the memory ball away before bursting into tears almost silently.
"All I was trying to do was to fulfill my purpose and to keep Riley safe", Fear sniffled. "and now all I am is a cowardly failure"! Fear whimpered before he felt his chest go tight which followed with a waterfall of tears pouring out of his eyes.
After a couple of minutes Fear was done with crying and looking as if he had found a solution to his problem. Fear forced himself up on to his feet without any nonsense and walking up to a control panel that he never knew existed. He carefully took his time to look at each button before daring to press any of them.
His facial expression suddenly went serious as if he was thinking to himself, For god sake Fear, for once stop being such a coward and actually do something worthy with yourself!
Fear looked as confident as he could manage before he pressed a button which he liked to think would change everything for the better.
As Riley had just fallen asleep for the night Joy had rounded everyone up to see who was doing dream duty.
"Anger you're on dream duty tonight"! Joy said cheerfully, however Anger had a different plan.
"Why don't you put that beanpole on dream duty he hasn't done anything today"! Anger shouted.
"Erm … where is fear"? Joy asked, concern filling her voice.
"I haven't seen him all day" Disgust replied to Joys question moodily.
"I bet he's hiding under his bed, shaking like the big baby he is"! Anger growled.
Joy sighed. She didn't have time for this, however Sadness saved her from all the trouble of arguments.
"Fear told me he wasn't feeling well" Sadness said, her voice matching the now quiet atmosphere.
"Ok well that means you're on dream duty Anger" Joy stated leaving no room for any more arguments.
Anger huffed before slamming the chair on to the floor and getting on with his dream duties.
As everyone else was asleep Sadness was wide awake thinking of Fear all alone in the long term memory wondering if he began to regret his plan even a little bit.
Meanwhile back in long term memory Fear had snuggled up with his teddy bear on the floor, his hands shaking a little before forcing himself to stop and drift off to sleep.