Joy sat in her room, staring at the flowers sitting on her desk chair, trying to breathe normally. Come on, you'll be fine. You and Sadness have been dancing around this for months now. You have to do it sooner or later, or else you'll go insane. Steeling herself, Joy grabbed the flowers off the chair and headed out to the main room.
Walking by the controller, Joy caught a glimpse of Fear, Anger, and Disgust standing there, waiting for her to come out. When she did, at first she was nervous and desperately tried to hide the flowers behind her back. But the other three emotions only gave her a look saying "Come on, really? We know." Admitting defeat, Joy let the flowers come out from behind her back, then took a deep breath and glanced over to Sadness's room. The others must have noticed her trepidation, because Fear gave her a thumbs up, Anger punched his palm in a gesture that looked a little menacing, but Joy was sure he meant well. Behind them both, Disgust rolled her eyes and mouthed "Go. You got this. I'll handle these two." Joy nodded her appreciation to her, then turned back and faced Sadness's room. Walking over to the door, she took a deep breath, then entered.
Sadness was laying on her stomach on her bed, reading a book. She had her glasses clamped in her teeth by one of the arms, her feet lazily kicked through the air every once in a while. Seeing the adorable sight, Joy's heart started pounding and her confidence began to drain away. Why hadn't she knocked? She hid the flowers once again, and cleared her throat. Sadness looked up from her book, and smiled when she saw who it was. Considering that the blue emotion was the embodiment of sad feelings, that fact that she smiled when she saw Joy was very amazing, something that did not go unnoticed by Joy. Telling herself not to stutter, Joy started talking. "Sadness, ever since our time outside Headquarters, I've realized how important you are to Riley. You help her in ways I couldn't even imagine. And I've also learned how important you are to me. I can't ever seem to not want to spend time with you" Oh god that was confusing. Come on you can save this. "You always balance out my eccentric, unending energy with your rational steadiness." While Joy was talking, she must've been inching foreword and Sadness must have stood up, because now they were standing close to each other. It struck Joy how much she had to physically look down at Sadness, and she got really mad at how it must've seemed like she was superior. Her legs acting of her own accord, she knelt down front of Sadness. On two knees. One knee was much more significant. And for much much later. Bringing out the flowers from behind her back, Joy said "Sadness, will you be my girlfriend?" Sadness took the flowers, face unreadable. "I recognize these." "Yeah." Joy said, trying not to be disappointed with the delay in Sadness's answer. "They were those ones Riley planted when she was seven they were washed away in that giant rainstorm. I had the guys in Imagination make them up for me. It's a happy memory that becomes a sad memory." Stop talking now Joy "So I thought it would be…" Joy trailed off, silently waiting for Sadness's answer. The blue emotion looked up, tears in her eyes. In the span of one second, Joy's mind raced through thousands of uncharacteristically negative thoughts. But it only lasted for that one second, because that's the length of time it took her eyes to move from Sadness's eyes to her mouth. She was smiling. Joy's mind now filled with hopeful thoughts, desperate to be believed. "Of course I'll be your girlfriend." At first, Joy's mind was blank, as if it were in shock. Then it was flooded with all the happy things she could remember. The smell of flowers. The sight of fireworks. That one song that has like 5,000 play on Riley's iPod. Joy felt the biggest smile she had ever felt on her face growing. She let out a "Woohoo!" and, being caught up in the rush of giddiness she felt, leaned in and kissed Sadness right on the mouth. For the first half second, she admired the way Sadness's lips tasted like the way rain smelled. But that thought was quickly wiped away when she felt how unresponsive Sadness was. Pulling away, she was mortified to see Sadness still as a statue, eyes staring a thousand miles away. She began panic-blabbing, saying something like "Sorry" and "won't happen again" and "Oh God." Sadness put her hand up to her lips, feeling where Joy had kissed her, relishing the taste of the way the perfect amount sunlight feels on your skin. Putting her hand on Joy's shoulder, Sadness brought the taller emotion in and kissed her again. Initially startled, Joy quickly recovered and wrapped her arms around Sadness, pulling the blue emotion closer. A cheer came from just outside the doorway, startling them both a little, but not enough to stop kissing. Without opening her eyes, Joy grabbed the lamp off of Sadness's nightstand and threw it at the doorway, smiling when she heard a very high-pitched "Ouch!" In Fear's tone of voice. She would have to yell at Disgust later for not actually "handling" them. But that would be later. For now, she was going to enjoy this kiss for as long as she possibly could.