I DON'T OWN ANYTHING! (can I stop saying this now?)

The next morning, Joy and Anger found Love crashed on the chair she had pulled in front of the monitor. "That lazy son of a - " Anger started, before Joy cut him off.

"Hey, now, how many times have you stayed awake the WHOLE TIME on duty!?" A bloodshot eye found itself right in front of Anger's face. "Uh, are you, okay...?"

"I'm perfectly fine, Mister! Now, let's hurry it up and start the day!" Joy scowled and turned away for a second before turning back and smiling. "Well, looks like Boy/Boy Band Island is running this morning!"

A snorting sound was heard from the direction of the board. Both the emotions turned to see Sadness poking Love to wake up. "Wakey wakey!" She whispered. Slowly, Love sat up and rubbed her eyes. "Eeek! Sorry guys, I just fell asleep and..." She turned bright red.

Joy waved her hand. "It's fine. Sometimes dream duty can get really boring, especially once REM is over."

"Rem? What's that?"

"Rapid Eye Movement. It's basically when Riley has the most dreams during her sleep." Joy stepped forward and pulled a lever to get Riley up and excited for the day. Love, however, was still sleepy and seemed to not care about her job.

"Okay! I'm awake now!" While the others were busy working on Riley, Love came wandering in with a cup of coffee-like substance in her hand. She strolled up to the control panel and pulled a list seemingly out of nowhere. "Okay, two things on the agenda today: Make Riley get her period, and obsess over that boy. We ready?"

Anger's head started light up. "Okay, number one, who made you the boss, and two, what the HELL is a period?!"

Joy jumped in, along with Fear. "It's fine," Joy said. "Love, can you explain, please?"

She, Joy, had already seen the definition of a period in the manuals, and thought it would be extremely hilarious to see the other emotions' reactions to it.

"Okay," Love declared, "a period is basically when a girl bleeds for 5-7 days and hurts like crazy."

"BLEEDS?" Disgust shouted. She made her signature ew face and backed away.

Joy shrugged and half-smiled. "It's human biology. Look on the bright side, at least the girls in headquarters don't have to go through it!"

"That would be sad," Sadness grumbled. "Well, if it comes down to this, just do what you need to do then." T

The rest of the emotions took a step back as Worry walked up to the control board. He walked over to the new section that controlled, well, I don't have to tell you do I, and pressed the "Period" button.

"NO!" Anger pushed his way to the front. "What have you done!"

Joy gasped. "Disgust, Fear, go take a break and don't come back for a while, okay?!" She shoved them into their respective rooms and closed the door, only to find them out again. "We don't want to miss anything," Disgust said.

Putting her hand to her head, Joy sighed. "Okay, fine."

Getting back to the main room, they found the rest of the emotions writhing on the floor in pain. "What's the matter-" Fear sunk down to his knees and did the same as the others. Joy found the pain bearable and continued her work. Apparently, so did Disgust. Joy braced herself as they followed Riley to the bathroom. Get ready for it...

"BLOOD! IT'S BLOOD! WE'RE DYING!" Fear stood up and began screaming and running around. Disgust fainted.

"That's a first, I suppose," Love shouted to Joy over the din, looking at Disgust. Joy limply nodded.

This was going to be a looong week.

By the second day, the emotions, or at least Disgust and Fear, were slightly better about the whole thing. The "telling your mom about it" part made everyone cringe, but since Fear was in control, the rest of them needed to calm him down at intervals or else he would cause Riley to Freak with a capital F.

Love was on overdrive, but her and Anger seemed to be in a constant fight. "BUT HE'S CUTE!" Love often argued, shoving Anger's big hands off the panel and pressing a button.

In retaliation, Anger usually replied in some form of, "Well he looked at me weird earlier!"

No one ever seemed to really win that fight, but they kept going with it anyways. It was worse when the cramps started to flare up, and Anger started going insane about it. Some of the emotions had to hold him back at times to keep him away from messing up the whole control board. Sadness was the only one that seemed fully in control of everything. For some reason she kept pulling the levers and clicking buttons whenever basically, well, anything happened. Disgust acted like she had quit her job, only taking a turn at the 'wheel' when it was absolutely necessary. For example, when the school served broccoli with lunch, Disgust, Anger, and Sadness all ambled up to the table and started pushing everything and anything possible. Joy seemed like the only cool and collected one, but often got pushed aside instead of getting to help.

"Guys, maybe we should calm down. We don't have to eat it, that's all!" An exasperated Joy tried to reason with the others for the umpteenth time that day.

Anger's eyes flared up. "Do you not understand, Joy? There is BROCCOLI ON THAT PLATE!"

"It's so sad..." Sadness agreed, pushing a button on the board. Suddenly, everybody looked up in horror as they saw Riley jump up and run to the bathroom.

Joy stared. "What have you done, Sadness?"

"Honestly, I don't know! It was like I was being controlled by an invisible force or something! This is madness!" With that, Sadness then sunk down to the floor and sighed.

Shock was standing behind all of them with a slack expression on his face. He had been like this ever since he saw a memory of the first period beginning enter the core memory spinner and create a new island - "Puberty Island." Thankfully, a lot of it was obstructed by the other islands, but what he did see was a fountain of blood coming out of nowhere. Since no one had much use for him these days, Shock took to standing by the window, admiring the islands and memories in turn.

Joy looked at Shock with curiosity on her face. She didn't know if it was a good idea to let him continue like this, but she decided to leave him be.

After all, nothing else could happen after this, right?

Okay, just asking, if any female species out there are reading, can you please tell me if I actually described period symptoms correctly? Okay thanks! :)