Chapter 10

"Why in the world would you make me run away?!" Riley asked angrily.

"It was mostly Anger's idea! He wanted to make you run away in the middle of the night, but I was like all 'Let's sleep on it,' and he reluctantly agreed," Fear shouted.

"But why would you make me run away?" Riley asked again.

"We felt the whole move had been a bust, because you weren't happy like you usually were when we lived in Minnesota, so we thought going back to Minnesota would make you happy again," Disgust explained, "Bust then we all realized it was a mistake, but we couldn't get the idea out of your head. We tried everything, but nothing worked. That's when the console started to turn black, and we couldn't change your mind."

Riley said, "Oh. Sorry about my outburst."

"It's alright. We don't blame you for acting like that we blame ourselves," Disgust told Riley. Finally, Joy decided to continued the story.

"Anyway… after Sadness, Bing Bong, and I hopped on the train of thought, the tracks began to crumble because Honesty Island was collapsing. We all barely made it back onto the ground," Joy paused, "And then I made the biggest mistake I've ever made… I tried to leave Sadness to get back to you. I didn't realize it yet, but you needed Sadness to be happy."

Riley was confused, "Why?"

"I'm getting there, just hang on a minute. I was flying up the recall tube to get back to headquarters, but it broke, and I fell into the memory dump. Bing Bong tried to help me, but he ended up falling too," Joy said sadly, recalling the memory, and everyone gasped, except Sadness, because she almost lived through what Joy said.

"I tried climbing up all of the forgotten memories, but I kept sliding down. Bing Bong told me that I should give up, because we were forgotten, but I didn't want to face the fact that Riley couldn't have been happy anymore. But his words got to me, and I fell on the floor. I was a crying mess, because I had all happy memories of Riley surrounding me. And then something weird had happened. I picked up the blue core memory that Sadness had made when you were at school, and then I picked up another core memory of your teammates cheering you on. I started the memory over, and I remembered something Sadness told me earlier that day," Joy paused.

"What?" Riley asked.

"She had told me on the train that her favorite memory of you was on the day that you missed the winning shot at the prairie dogs game. The memory I was holding was the one after you missed the winning shot at your hockey game, only it was happy. But when I started it over, it was sad. That's when I realized that you needed Sadness to be happy sometimes. I needed to get out of the dump, but Bing Bong said we might as well have been on another planet, and that made me think of his rocket, which had gotten thrown into the memory dump earlier. We sang the song over and over trying to find it, and we did. It took us a few times, but on the fourth try, I made it, but Bing Bong sacrificed himself for me, because he wanted you to be happy," Joy said, trying hard not to cry, but then she continued.

"I found Sadness in imagination land, where she was floating on a rain cloud. Then I got the brilliant idea that if I could jump on the trampoline on Family Island, which was the only island standing, I could get us back to headquarters. And it worked; only, we were slammed against the window, and almost fell. But we got back in, and I realized that Sadness was the only one who could make the idea of running away leave your mind. After she did that, we made a new core memory, one that was happy and sad, and well, you know the rest of the story," Joy finally finished, and she was breathing heavily from talking so much.

"That was really…intense," Riley managed to say.

"Yeah, it really was. Nobody knew what to do… because that's never happened before. We just hope it'll never happen again," Sadness told her, and Joy nodded in agreement.

"Well… now that it's happened, you know how to prevent it from happening again," Riley stated.

"Your right there, Riley," Joy admitted.

A static sound came from the screen, startling all of the emotions, and Riley. Fear jumped a foot in the air, and everyone else walked over to the console.

"What's going on?" Riley asked.

"I don't know," Joy said.

"I do!" Sadness beamed.

"Sadness, what's happening with the screen?" Riley asked.

"I think it's called brain activity. Yeah, that's what it's called," sadness explained.

"What does it do?" Joy asked.

"Comatose people can't do anything except think about what's going on around them every once in a while," Sadness explained.

"So… it's sort of like dreaming?" Joy asked.

"In a way," Sadness answered.

"You get to see what I'm thinking about out there?" Riley asked.

"Yes, but we'll also be able to hear everything around you," Sadness finished.

"Hmm…" Riley answered.

"Let's watch!" Joy said, and walked over to the couch next to the console. Riley and Sadness followed and sat next to her, watching the screen.

I kind of had writer's block for the end of this chapter. I'm still deciding whether or not the next chapter will be in Riley's mind, or in the real world. I also haven't decided how much time had passed since the accident, so if you guys could give me some ideas that would be great.

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