The day had started off as your average, normal morning. Riley had woken up at the same time, she had eaten the same cereal along with putting on a different set of clothes for each school day.

She had even left for school at the same time without any delays or dangers.

Which in Fear's mind was the start of the journey towards another peaceful, normal day that was currently going well.

Looking around headquarters the purple emotion could clearly see Anger and disgust sharing the latest mindreader newspaper, while Joy , Sadness and Courage were talking amongst themselves near the console who Fear was just a few steps away from.

Sighing with relief when seeing Joy taking her turn on the console, Fear couldn't have been prouder of the fact that Courage hadn't been allowed to set one foot towards any buttons or levers.

Just then he caught Courage's gaze that was targeted right towards him. He raised an eyebrow in response, sending rather uncomfortable twinges down his spine when Courage supposedly raised an eyebrow back for good measure.

But in a more unfriendly way, or at least that was what Fear got out of her gesture.

However, all matters of conflict were soon temporarily forgotten as Riley had to get to the first lesson of the day , which the purple emotion generally found more important than his own issues.

After all, Riley was his main priority.

As the day went by the purple emotion was on the constant look out for where Courage was and what she was doing. It hadn't been as hectic as he had expected, although an alarm did go off inside his head that lunch time when he witnessed the sight of Courage walking towards the console. Luckily for him, Joy had stepped in front and taken over with Disgust on hand.

Fear wiped his forehead with relief. Despite his small good fortune, he wasn't prepared for what was to happen next.

"Hey , Riley" was the distant calling of her name. Turning around Riley was greeted with the sight of Shelly Jackson running up to her.

"Shelly?" Riley questioned, slightly worried about what Shelly may want with her.

"Yeah that's my name don't wear it out" Shelly replied before giggling lightheartedly, sending a shiver down Riley's spine which Fear could have sworn he had felt a bit of that sensation.

"Anyway do you want to come to my house, I know it's short notice but I get bored at home and no one else was free."

As Riley hesitated Fear quickly thought to himself, no one else was free? So what, were your last hope of company? How suspicious.

"Yeah why not? Let's go!" Joy exclaimed leaning towards a button before Disgust broke it to her that this was the first time a socially cool person had asked them to their house. Joy considered her point and froze.

"Er yeah I guess you're right" Joy admitted. Suddenly Joy did the unthinkable.

"Courage why don't you go for it instead!" This left Fear in a state of shock.

How could she trust her so quickly? Fear questioned himself.

"Consider it done" Courage replied confidently, the purple emotion made a disgusted face behind her back.

Just as he was about to make his move to save Riley from potential danger Fear felt a harsh grip on his shoulder, yanking his arm to a twisted position.

"You're not mucking things up this time beanpole!" Anger snarled before looking up at Courage with a small smile.

Fear sighed miserably. Great. Now Courage even has her own bodyguard. Can things get any worse?

Unfortunately, they could.

"Yes of course Shelly, I'd love to" Riley replied without an ounce of fear on her facial expression nor her tone of voice.

"See worry wart, watch and learn" Disgust deadpanned, turning her sharp stare towards the shivering thin emotion.

While all the purple emotion could do was sulk and feel sorry for himself, Disgust tossed her hair and praised the cream coloured emotion for her good work. Closely followed by Joy and Anger, Sadness was less lively with her applause.

But that was irrelevant, all Fear could think of was how much of a praise thief that scandalising confident emotion was.

Suddenly without a second thought Fear caught Anger at an unfortunate moment of staring into Courage's eyes, he then managed to break out of his loosening grasp and made his way to the buttons. Resulting in him sending a cold feeling down her chest which Courage seemed to feel as she turned to him with confusion.

Ignoring her odd looks Fear continued to stand next to Courage and carefully watch and listen to her every word and action.

Fear refused to talk or even look at the cream coloured emotion throughout the whole journey to Shelly's house, still brooding at the fact that Riley could be in danger right now.

Once Riley was face to face with the door to Shelly's house Fear without much force nudged Courage's arm out of the way, earning him a slightly cross look from the pale emotion.

Walking into Shelly's home Riley looked around with Disgust taking mental notes on what to get Riley to say when explaining what it was like to be in a cool person's house to Sam the next day.

She wasn't the only one taking notes.

Fear was also in a fury of his own mental notes that he was more than willing to remember for future preferences.

Meanwhile, Riley couldn't stop her eyes from wandering the house as if she was in a cage. When she heard a sudden posh voice creep up from behind her, Riley turned around to be glumly greeted by a tall, petite woman who made no effort to actually welcome her.

"That's my mom Julia." Shelly introduced, Julia's sharp glare now fixed on her daughter before waving her off to go do something.

"She's not a fan of new people or anybody outside the family coming into our house" Shelly whispered when certain her mother had walked off.

Riley smiled shyly.

As they walked into the kitchen Shelly picked up on Riley's timid facial expression.

"Don't be so nervous, it's not a good look." Shelly hissed softly into Riley's ear, making her jump from the impact of her voice.

Inside headquarters, Fear froze in his spot, speechless at what he just heard out of Shelly's mouth.

"See Fear? Even Shelly can sense the radiations you let off." Courage said with concern, mainly for Riley but with some thought for Fear as well.

"Everyone knows that fear is our foe, not a friend now come on let's go watch some tv." Shelly added, leading Riley into her living room.

This left the purple emotion with his mouth hanging open from the shock of what he had just witnessed. The thin emotion then whimpered miserably, without noticing Sadness turned her attention towards his direction with a look sympathy.

Even Joy was slightly uncomfortable with Shelly's latest sentence.

"She's right though." Anger commented which went ignored.

Deciding to back off for a while, Fear went to hide with the mind manuals to make use of what little purpose he seemed to have left.

Shaking off Shelly unhelpful remark Riley followed her into the living room to find a tall, thin dark haired man already occupying the sofa. With a bag of salt and vinegar crisps that he was happily stuffing into his mouth, along with spilling crumbs all down the sofa.

"And this is my dad Crispin" Shelly introduced awkwardly, almost embarrassed by the revolting scene he was making.

Crispin turned around to make eye contact with Riley, raising a sly eyebrow he greeted her with a hello.

"Hi" Riley replied.

" And he's too friendly." Shelly whispered to Riley under her breath so her dad wouldn't notice.

"So you must be the big bad hockey player Riley Andersen" Crispin stated, his low voice creeping Riley out a little.

Shelly rolled her eyes, mortified at how her dad was so terrible at handling social situations.

"Uh, I don't know about the big… or the bad, but yeah I am a hockey player, I play for the team Foghorns." Riley explained, the weird feelings from earlier returning.

Crispin chucked. "Ah don't be so scared Riley, I'm only going by what Shelly told me." he explained, sending Shelly into a mortified state.

Shelly sighed with irritation before adding "I didn't say it like that, he's just being annoying. AS PER USUAL!" Shelly exclaimed before whisking Riley up the stairs to get away from her parents.

Practically shoving herself and Riley into her bedroom, Shelly sighed with relief, no longer anywhere near the two weirdos she had to call her parents.

"Sorry about that, they just don't understand how to socialise normally." Shelly said, now with no emotion showing in her voice.

Putting her unusual experience behind her Riley accepted Shelly's offer of doing her hair into a messy bun.

As Shelly's fingers made their way to making Riley's hair into a bun Shelly talked about her hobbies and interests, unknown until then that she and Riley did have a few things in common.

"I had no idea you were into Teen wolf" Shelly said happily making Riley smile too.

"You have to admit that Stiles is pretty cute!"

"No way Scott is way hotter." Shelly argued in a friendly way, winking at Riley.

Moving on to other things Riley and Shelly were soon giggling at various topics before being rudely interrupted by a stomping noise up the stairs, then the sight of her bedroom door bursting open.

"Goodness gracious Shelly, I can hear your fits of laughter down here." Shelly's mom Julia stated in a dull tone.

She then hastily added, "anyway it's time your friend went home, we have family business to attend to." Emphasising on the word friend.

Shelly raised both her eyebrows, signalling Riley to leave. As Riley got up and walked out with her messy bun slowly falling out, Julia watched her as she walked out the door with a sharp glare.

Quickly making her way to the front door, ignoring Crispins creepy sentence of goodbye darling. When she had officially left the house her messy bun was no longer in any form of a bun shape. She suddenly stopped in her tracks as panic rose when realising she had no idea how to get home.

"No no no !" Fear wailed, rushing over to the console to in record speed press a button multiple times, shoving Courage aside in the process.

Before he could do anything else he felt himself slowly being shuffled to the side as Courage pulled a lever. Causing Riley to gasp with delight as she saw a street sign pointing towards a path that would lead her to the neighbourhood she lived in.

"See nothing to panic over." Courage said, rubbing her hands together with pride.

Fear rolled his eyes, muttering something none of the other emotions could possibly make out.

"Well, that was a new experience and a half." Joy concluded.

"Yeah, her dad was just creepy." Disgust moaned.

"And her mum was quite snappy and intimidating." Sadness added.

"Not to mention that cow made us leave without even letting us say goodbye to Shelly!" Anger snarled.

"But the point is we got through it without any complications." Courage said calmly, looking at the purple emotion when producing her final sentence.

Courage hadn't meant her sentence in a bad way, however, Fear took it as personally as one could do.

"Exactly !" Joy squealed excitedly before rushing over to the others, requesting a group hug.

When the hug departed Riley had got herself home ten minutes before her original time plan. Normally Fear would be over the moon when stuff like this happened, but today that was the least of his concerns.

Making their own arrangements for the evening Fear made his way to the only place he could be away from a certain place emotion. Sliding down on his chair he rubbed his tired purple eyes with frustration.

The startling phrase that no one other than this supposedly great Shelly had blurted out was repeating itself over and over in his head. No matter how hard he shook his head, the memory wouldn't leave him in peace.

The tingling sensation of tears brimming up in his eyes were swallowed down as a sudden unexpected knock on his door jolted him away from any more negative thoughts.

"Joy wants you to join our group meeting." Sadness simply stated before slowly leaving

Fear shuddered before bravely making his way to join the others in what could be yet again another painful experience. However Fear was overwhelmed by the blissful sight of Courage being nowhere to be seen, a small feeling of hope tickled his lips.

Finally, they have come to their senses and are having a conversation to get rid of that ghastly , sickly pale emotion!

A tiny smile that Fear had little control over spread halfway across his face until Joy began her meeting.

"So guys I know I asked this last week but I must ask you again. What do you guys think of Courage?"

This time, there were a lot more detailed responses from her emotional friends .

Disgust started off with, "her fashion sense may be dodgy but I do have to admit she has a certain way of attracting the socially cool people."

Fear's face fell as soon as her mouth stopped moving.

I expected her to criticize every little thing about Courage, why isn't she doing that?

The next response annoyed Fear even more

"We have been positive throughout this week, so I guess she's a good friend." Was the response that belonged to the blue emotion who Fear silently had faith in.

Oh great, she's even worked her way through Sadness, the one with the most common sense out of the lot!

The following response didn't shock Fear so much, infact it was highly predictable but still as hurtful.

"I admire Courage's persistent thinking, she gets the job done there and then!" Anger proudly said, with a long grin on his face.

"Are you sure that's not the only thing you admire about her?" Disgust retorted grumpily. For once Fear shared her bad mood.

"You shut up!" Anger almost immediately snapped.

Swiftly interrupting the argument Joy said, "well I also think she's good when it comes to decision making."

Fear groaned with annoyance.

The yellow emotion then added, "and she is always full of ideas for instance if we take today as an example she was up on her feet and plotting a solution for our minor problem in no time!"

Joy's point of view earned her a whole load of positive remarks.

Then out of nowhere all eyes were turned on the purple emotion who had previously been desperate to fight his urge to scream out that Courage was not a perfect emotion everyone claimed her to be, instead his resolved to ignore their obviously thoughtless witterings .

"Well after this week, what are your thoughts of her now?" Joy provoked encouragingly.

"Excuse me for my use of language but my thoughts are exactly the same, only that now I know she's a pain in the backside who's obviously got to all of you!" Fear bluntly replied before walking off in a huff.

Unaware that none of the other emotion had even made rude, snarky comments behind his back.

Even though technically pain in the backside wasn't as rude as what lengths Anger could go to , but for him, the phrase alone was terrifying to let loose. Besides, he hasn't got a reputation for the loudest mouth in headquarters.

Having exhausted himself after another tediously long day Fear flopped on to his bed before picking up his notebook, scribbling frantically.

Getting his shaky self under control Fear whispered under his breath to himself, since she's brainwashed everyone apart from myself, it's up to me and me alone. This isn't the first time, it won't be the last as there may be trouble ahead.

I can feel it.