AGAIN- I don't own anything.

"So, what do you do again?" Joy asked Love as Riley entered school.

Love smirked and said, "You'll see. It involves boys. And stuff."

"Eww! But boys have cooties!" Disgust wrinkled her nose.

Riley was walking up to her locker and putting her books in. Class didn't start for another 15 minutes, so she decided to go and walk around with her books before class started.
All of a sudden, she noticed a boy staring at her. Okay, maybe not at her, but somewhere in the vicinity. He had brown hair, brown eyes, green glasses, and a green and white hat.

Inside her brain, Love pushed a button, causing Riley to softly giggle. "What are you doing?!" Joy looked at Love with a confused expression, causing love to walk away from the console. "Gather round, everyone!" She called out.

"Okay, so now that everyone's here, this is how I work. I make sure that Riley seems mature. You know, getting rid of the whole boys have cooties thing." Disgust gasped along with Fear and Anger. "What I just did would be classified as pushing a crush button."

"So, like, now she wants to smash his head open?" Anger asked hopefully.

Love waved him off and laughed. "Uh, no, she likes him! And not as a friend. But in addition, I'm also in charge of making sure that she doesn't get put in the friend-zone, which is very important. Anger and/or Fear can take over if she's put in the friend-zone, and then Sadness can go from there."

Shock's eyes widened. "What's the friend-zone? Sounds d-dangerous!"

"No silly, it's not dangerous!" Love stared at him. "It means exactly what it sounds like. The boy thinks of her as just a friend, and then her heart is broken!"

A bell rang in the distance, and Joy pulled a lever to get her up and excited for class again. "Come on guys, we gotta be there for Riley - it's school!"

Hours later, and Riley was at a local park, deciding if she should go down the fire pole or not. Fear said no. Joy said yes. The rest of them were just sitting, watching. "We are not doing this and that is final!" Fear screamed at the rest of them.

However, when one of Riley's friends called up, "Are you a chicken? Just do it!" Sadness and Joy pulled levers and pushed buttons at the same time, causing Riley to jump off and slide down. Smiling, she caught the eye of the same boy she had seen at school the other day.

Love pushed the two out of the way. "Let me handle this."

She pulled on one of the handles, causing Riley to wave and walk towards him. "Love, what are you doing?!" Fear went crazy, pushing all sorts of buttons but not having enough power to stop Riley. "WHAT'S HAPPENING!" Fear went crazy, running all around until he finally collapsed like usual.

"Now that he's out of the way," Joy stood up and headed over to the console to push a button.

"Hi there!" Riley bounded over to the boy.

He looked at her and then smiled. "Hi. Don't you go to my school? I think I've seen you before."

"Yeah, that's me! My name's Riley." Love pushed something. "So, what's yours?"

He widened his eyes. "Uh, my name's Aaron. Well, listen, I've gotta go. Want to sit at my lunch table tomorrow maybe?" Aaron asked hopefully.

"Today's Friday."

"Uh, I mean, um," He stuttered, "Monday?"

"Sure!" Riley exclaimed, and with that, she went back to her group of friends.

Sadness pouted. "It could have gone better..."

"But," Love said, "We have a date! This is going to be so amazing!"

"He just asked us to sit at the same lunch table. What if he bails?!" With Fear still passed out cold, Shock took his position.

Disgust looked at him. "Seriously? It's just a lunch table. Nothing is going to happen."

Joy was oddly quiet throughout this entire exchange. She was still contemplating whether or not she should step back a little for Love to take over, at least during the date. Always being the dependable one was stressful, and she discovered that sometimes her approaches were untimely.

"Joy? You okay?" Sadness started over to her.

"Yeah, I'm fine!" Joy pushed herself up from the couch and smiled. "Yay! A date!"

The rest of the night was uneventful - dinner, a movie, some ice cream, and bed. "Okay! Time to send these down to long term everyone! Love?" Joy asked as Anger went to get rid of the days memories, "Can you stay on night duty with me so I can teach you the basics?"

Love nodded eagerly and started to shoo the others off. "Okay guys! Nice job. Time for bed!" The other emotions agreed and somberly made their way up to bed.

"Okay, so this button changes the 'channel', you could say, to Dreamworks. They create all of Riley's dreams," Joy explained as she pushed it, "And they usually follow the events of the day."

For a few minutes, they watched a replay of Riley's encounter with Aaron in silence. "So, this is what you do all night?" Love asked skeptically.

Joy shrugged. "Pretty much, I mean, sometimes they make nightmares and we have to put up memories as her 'dreams," She rolled her eyes. "But that's only if Dreamworks is being totally irresponsible."

"Well, goodnight! There isn't really anything else to do tonight, but if things get a little out of hand, just pull that lever," Joy motioned to it, "And pull out a memory from the emergency memory storage over there." She gestured to a small brown, glowing box filled to the brim with happy memories. "Got it?"

Love nodded, and Joy retreated to her room for the night. Happy with the dream selection, Love pulled up a chair and examined her reflection in a pocket mirror. Her purple hair tumbled down her shoulders and ended below her shoulder blades. The rest of her outfit seemed to follow the design of Disgust's, but she thought that was appropriate as their intentions were sort of similar.

"Oh no," Love whispered drowsily, hours later. After Fairy Dream Adventure Part 9 had finished, a sequence of first date nightmares started to play. "Seriously, Fear?"

She switched off the screen and plugged in a memory of Riley playing hockey with her best friends. "Better."