"Mommy, is it dinner time?" Olivia asked, hopping onto a stool at the kitchen counter.
"Not quite yet, honey. Fifteen more minutes, okay?" her mom replied from where she was, checking the food in the oven.
"Okay."
"So what's for dinner?" Disgust inquired, looking over to Fear beside her. "She didn't say, is that a problem? Should I be worried? We should go check just in case." Disgust pressed a few buttons from around her section of the control panel.
Olivia slid off her stool and walked over to beside her mom.
"What are we eating?" Olivia asked reaching on to her tiptoes to try to see.
"You'll see when we start eating," her mom said, closing the oven door.
"But I want to know now!" Anger shouted furiously slamming her hand down on the button.
"No!" Olivia screamed, slamming her hand down on the counter.
"Olivia!" her mom said with an annoyed look in her direction. "Screaming will get you nothing. You just have to wait."
"I guess we'll just have to wait," Disgust sighed searching to find a particular button then quickly pressing it.
Olivia let out one last little scream then stomped over towards the table where she sat down with a harrumph.
Ten minutes later, Kevin, Julia and their dad were sitting alongside Olivia at the table and their mom was serving the food.
"What is that?" Disgust asked pointing towards the food on the table. "It smells weird and we've never had it before." She pressed a few buttons.
"What's that?" Olivia asked.
"Fish!" Julia replied right as their mom was about to answer. "I love fish!"
"Oh- well that's weird. Didn't Kevin have a pet called a fish?" Joy asked.
"No, it was called Goldie!" Anger screeched.
"No but wasn't it a fish?" Joy questioned. Anger shrugged her shoulders.
Olivia looked at the plater her mom had set for her that had the fish, a piece of bread and- broccoli.
"Broccoli!" Disgust screamed. "Again? Blegh!" Disgust pushed a button.
"No broccoli!" Olivia cried out.
"Yes broccoli," her mom said. "Vegetables are good for you. Just try one bite of broccoli then try a bite of fish."
"Hopefully the fish is worth it," Disgust said pulling on a crank.
Olivia took her fork and stabbed a piece of broccoli with it. She held the food just away from her mouth and looked at it tentatively. She quickly put it in her mouth than chewed and swallowed. She then grabbed a bite of fish and stuck it in her mouth.
"Ew!" Disgust cried out in alarm. She pulled open the glass casing and hit her big and important button.
"Blegh!" Olivia said spitting the fish out onto her plate.
In the same was as every moment like this a green memory orb arrived but this one was special. It glowed and sparkled.
"It's a core memory!" Disgust screamed in delight. She ran over and dropped the globe into the shelf which now had a new open space. She ran over to the window and saw a big sign being moved over to beside the other island. Yucky Foods Island – Construction in Progress the sign said.
"I get an island! I get an island!" Delight called out to the fellow emotions despite the fact that they already knew. She rushed back to the control panel and sat down.
"Oh Olivia," her mom was saying. "It's not so bad. You didn't need to spit it out."
"But it's so bad!" Olivia screamed.
"Do not scream." Olivia's dad was looking straight at her. She glared back.
That night, Delight lay in bed scribbling out everything that had happened in her diary. She had always been jealous of Joy for getting the first core memory but now she felt more than a little proud about getting the second one. She did feel a bit bad about rubbing it in the other emotions' faces but she had been excited. It didn't take her long to fall asleep and once she did it only felt like a second before she woke up. Once she did wake up she ran out of her bedroom without even changing out of her embarrassing pyjamas. She ran to the window where she could see the completed island. It was the most beautiful thing she had ever seen, even prettier than the golden dangling hoop earrings Olivia's mom had worn one day and those were gorgeous. Disgust let out a sigh. She would always be a part of Olivia's personality whether anyone wanted her to be or not.
