Driven by Emotions by Elise Allen

Author:Elise Allen [Group, Disney Book]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781484719183
Publisher: Disney Book Group

Okay, listen up and listen good, because this is important. I don’t know what any of these other Emotions have said, but I’m going to tell you the real story of the disaster that was Riley’s Big Move, and I’m going to tell it exactly the way it happened so everyone knows the truth.

It started, of course, with me. I showed up in Riley’s life pretty early. You know why? Because life isn’t fair. But when people try to make it not fair to Riley, I fight back. Even when Riley was a toddler, there was unfairness to be dealt with. Take this for example: Dad used to tell Riley that if she didn’t eat her dinner, she wasn’t going to have any dessert.

Excuse me? No dessert? That move didn’t fly with me. I was not above having Riley throw a tantrum to get what she wanted. Trust me on this: sometimes a tantrum is what it takes.

I should have had her throw a tantrum when we heard about moving from Minnesota to San Francisco. But no, I believed Joy when she said Mom and Dad knew what they were doing and it would all be fine. WRONG!

The car ride to California was cramped and long; the food on the road made Riley’s stomach hurt; the music Dad played was boring and for old people; and to top it all off, when we finally got to San Francisco, the house was disgusting!

“We’re supposed to live here?” I roared to Joy.

She said the house might be a disappointment, but Riley’s room would be wonderful.

WRONG AGAIN!

“Get out the rubber ball,” I said when I saw the tiny slope-roofed cell. “We’re in solitary confinement.”

And you know what happened from there? It got worse. The moving van with all our stuff got lost. Our brilliant leader, Joy—please note my sarcasm—thought pizza would make us feel better, which it would have if there were such a thing as pizza in that godforsaken town! The pizza place Riley and Mom went to gave us some garbage with broccoli on it and called it “pizza.” The flames were starting to flare up on my head.

“Congratulations, San Francisco,” I roared. “You’ve ruined pizza! First the Hawaiians and now you!”

Unreal. Oh, sure, Joy showed Riley and the rest of us some memories that made us feel better for a second, but that blew up in her face when Sadness touched the memory spheres and turned them blue. Yeah, that’s right—Joy tried to cheer up Riley with a memory that was suddenly a sad memory. How was that gonna work? And it wasn’t like Sadness’s blue tinge on the memory spheres was temporary. Oh, no. The blue was on it for good.

But, hey, turning happy memories sad was apparently only one of Sadness’s new skills. Know what the other one was? Destroying Islands of Personality!

Okay, not destroying them—not yet, anyway—but while Joy was trying her whole shiny-scrubby thing on the memory Sadness had tainted, Sadness decided to open up the core memory holder.

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