Chapter 4 The discovery of sadness
The next day Joy and curiosity got up early. Although Gretchen was still asleep they wanted to make sure they were ready for the day. Each of them stood in front of the button ready to press it whenever Gretchen woke up. They were focused, energized, ready. That is until curiosity saw something out of the corner of her eye. "Joy look "curiosity pointed over to one of the far dark corners of the room they were in. "Curiosity can't you see I'm "Joy stopped right in the middle of her sentence. Her gaze followed to where curiosity was pointing. She was standing in the corner of the room. She wore sweatpants and a grayish turtleneck. Her hair was midnight blue and she wore black glasses that covered her cerulean eyes. Joy walked closer to her as did curiosity. "Hi I'm Joy and you are? " "I'm sadness "she said with a sniffle. "I'm curiosity "The woman in blue said. "I'm the one who makes Gretchen curious. " N-Nice to meet you"Sadness said. "Well uh we should show you around the place "Joy told sadness. So they did. they showed her the button, the screen, the couch where they hang out, and even the upstairs which now had a new room. The door to the new room was blue. "I suppose this is your room"Curiosity explained to sadness.
Sadness opened the door to her new room. The room consisted of two colors light blue and dark blue. The only thing in the room that wasn't blue in the room was a brown wooden desk that sat by the closet. Joy and curiosity couldn't believe it. There was another desk, with another key, with another lock. The walls or light blue. The bedspread was light blue with dark blue teardrops on it. The pillows sheets and curtains had the same pattern. But there was also something that was different. At the foot of the bed was a large trunk. Curiously sadness opened it. It was filled to the brim with multi colored handkerchiefs. "I'm probably going to need those in the future "sadness side. They were all having fun exploring Sadness his room. But then Joy and curiosity remembered something. Gretchen! Without any warning Joy and curiosity did a mad dash down the ramp and onto the first floor. Sadness sluggishly followed behind muttering things like who's Gretchen?
Looking at the screen Joy realized that Gretchen was awake. "What should we do? " "Maybe I can help? "Sadness walked up to the button and promptly Pressed it. Gretchen began crying. the oval screen went blurry from her tears. "Oh no oh no she's crying! " "Joy do something "curiosity shrieked! Joy stepped up to the controls. "Uh...can I just..I I just want to...uh...let me just fix that. " Joy finally got sadnes is to move so she could push the button. Gretchen began giggling like crazy. "That's better "Joy said pushing her blue bangs to the side.
For the rest of the day Joy and curiosity continue to take turns with the button. Where as sadness just sat on the couch and watched them do their job. Later that night after Gretchen had gone to sleep once again each emotion was in their respective rooms. Curiosity couldn't wait any longer. She decided to open up her drawer and see what was in there. She took out her key and fit it into the lock. It opened with ease and she slid The drawer open to see what was in there. She got the shock of her life for inside her drawer was a sparkly silver diary with a matching Silver pen. the front of the diary said curiosity in sparkly blue letters. The diary came with another key. she opened up the diary with it and began to write her first entry.
