Hey guys, this is the last summer chapter! Yay, high school finally starts! I don't have any messages right now, so just enjoy!
This was just Riley's luck. She was stuck shopping for school supplies on a gorgeous day like today. The sun was probably brighter and hotter than it had been all summer, but there was a breeze that made the temperature equal out as much as it could get in California.
But here she was, stuck in a store buying stuff for the beginning of school.
"I can't believe mom made us come along with her!" Anger fumed as he gripped the newspaper that read: "Children Soon Enslaved."
"Hey come on!" Joy bounced around. "This is the first time we've been able to actually see what there is to have!"
"Maybe this year we won't have to wear a Hello Kitty backpack for the first half because mom thought that old cartoons were making a popularity resurface." Disgust sighed, examining her nails for non-existent flaws.
"It was a cute backpack though!" Joy defended the bright pink backpack that Riley had owned for most of seventh grade.
"Please, Joy." Disgust looked at Joy in disbelief. "Even with your lack of fashion sense you know that bag was nothing far from the most hideous bag in all of the school."
Joy sighed and lowered her head in defeat. "Yeah, it was one really ugly bag."
"See?" Disgust smiled victoriously. "Now come on Joy! Let me pilot just for this short time! Please?"
Joy nodded and stepped back to let Disgust take over the controls while Riley and her mom scoured the store for supplies for the upcoming school year.
"Say honey, what about this?" Riley's mom asked as she turned with a sparkly purple backpack.
"Gag me with a spoon." Disgust scoffed, pressing a button.
"Come on mom." Riley groaned. "Why can't we get something like when I was back in 6th grade, when you didn't try to make me look like a little girl."
"But you looked so adorable." Her mom sighed, smiling at the memory.
"It was in seventh grade." Riley sighed. "I got laughed at for the first month till everybody got used to it."
"I still think you should get a sparkly backpack." Her mom pouted.
"Mo-om" Riley groaned.
"Come on, you party-pooper." Riley's mom walked over to the more monochrome backpacks.
She made a big show about carefully looking over each and every backpack and nodding as if being taught a lesson. Eventually she grabbed two similar looking backs and brought them back to Riley.
"Do you want black of slightly darker black?" She asked sarcastically.
"Do you mean charcoal or ebony?" Disgust shouted, pressing a few buttons.
"Ha-ha." Riley said, unamused. "Why don't you take me seriously? I want to just get a nice, practical backpack for school."
Riley's mom dropped the sarcastic act and gave her daughter a loving smile. "I'm sorry honey, it's just you're going to be a freshman. I can't believe how long it's been since we moved here and how you've adjusted so well. You're no longer my little girl."
"Sadness and Joy, take care of this quickly so we can get back to shopping." Disgust said as she stepped back from the control board,
The two emotions got up and walked back over to the console. Sadness pushed a few buttons while Joy silently pulled a lever and turned a knob.
"It's okay mom." Riley smiled up at her mother, who was still a few inches taller than her. "I'm always gonna be your little girl, no matter how old I am."
Riley's mom smiled and wrapped her in a hug, sniffling slightly. When she let go of Riley, she smiled. "Let's go get those supplies, huh?"
"Yeah." Riley smiled.
"Alright, I'm up again!" Disgust said, stepping up to the controls and pushing a few buttons.
Riley and her mom continued walking throughout the store, searching for all sorts of things. They got about sixty-four pencils, around twenty pens, what Riley only could imagine was over one thousand pieces of paper. She got seven note books and folders, each one a different color to match the class they were going to be assigned to.
However, they still hadn't managed to find a backpack for Riley. It seemed that there were no good backpacks in the store. At least none that actually appealed to Riley.
Inside her mind, Disgust was getting more and more panicked.
"If we don't find this bag today, we might have to order one online!" She nervously tapped her shoulder. "That could take weeks to get here, school will have started by then!"
"Come on, there's got to be at least one good bag here." Joy tried to cheer up the green emotion. "We just gotta look and look hard!"
"Right." Disgust took a deep breath in. "Right, just keep looking. It can't be that hard to find a bag, right? Just has to be the right color and have a cute, but not too obnoxious symbol or something on it!"
"I'm wondering.." Riley's mom started to say.
"She better not say what I think she's gonna say!" Disgust seemed to be losing it a little.
"If we might have to.." Riley's mom continued.
"You better not say those two unholy words in front of me!" Disgust was frantically pressing buttons.
"Order online." Riley's mom finished.
In the two seconds that it took her mom to say that sentence, Riley had been frantically searching for a bag. "I don't know if I really want to order online, I don't really trust moving and shipping companies after the move."
Riley's mom sighed, "I understand. I suppose you could go check one more time for anything."
"Thanks mom." Riley quickly hugged her mom and then speed walked away, looking for a bag.
Riley sped through the store, making quick analysis' of the bags available. Then, something caught her eye. She stopped and slowly walked over to it. It wasn't much really, just a simple backpack that looked like the millions of others in the store.
"Joy." Disgust said, sounding as if she was about to snap. "Can you please tell me why you took over my job in picking a bag?"
"Come on Disgust, just let me handle this one. I think it looks amazing." Joy said, smiling to herself.
Riley's hand slid down the backpacks straps, when she felt the metal object that had caught her eye. It was a sizable keychain with only one thing hanging off of it. A small, metal crescent moon.
Me again. I don't know what I was really expecting to get from that last part. But anyways, the schedule's working nice, isn't it? As always, leave a review. All sorts of reviews are welcome.
