STAY A WHILE

VISIT 2

it'd already been a week since your last visit, talk about how time flies.. you prepared your checklist and knocked on the door again, readily expecting.. what was it again? joey? no, no, joy!

to your surprise, nobody answered. you knocked once again and became confused, but shrugged it off. you muttered to yourself and checked your watch as you waited.

suddenly, the door was opened by a nervous looking, small blue girl. what was it again? sadness, right?

"hi! im here for your weekly inspection.." you smiled down at her.

"why'd you have to come so late..?" man, if frowning was put into words, it'd be her. but it sure is adorable!

"hehehe, sorry, us neurons dont exactly have a perspective of time.. theres.. thousands of us, really! if im sleeping, someone else will come."

look at you go, (y/n)! you already know your stuff! such a hard worker, you. is what you'd probably say if you were joy, hehe.. you assume everybody else is sleeping.

"oh.. its okay, come in.." she gestured for you to enter. you stepped inside and.. hey, it was still clean as ever. seemed as if a new control panel was installed, which you made note of.

"looking awesome as ever, sadness!" you gently pat her head. suddenly the world felt odd- as if you were being watched?

you walked around, peeking into the room of the emotions.. anxiety doesn't seem to have a bed here.

anxiety.. hehe, how'd you remember her na-

"huh?"

you.. could've sworn you saw a piercing set of eyes creeping from your peripheral vision. god, thats weird.

"well, sorry to come late.. ill just do some more inspection." you whispered to the short blue girl gently. "gotta make sure everything's in check and exactly how it's supposed to be!"

"um.. inspector?"

"yes?"

"what happens if we don't meet.. standards?" she played with the hem of her thick turtleneck.

"oh, um.. well, i guess that's just for me to know and you to find out!" you chuckled. truthfully, you didn't know, but whatever encourages them to do better for riley, right?

god, this place has weird vibes right now..

you wrote small notes on the condition of the area before checking back in on anxietys room. oh.. shes in bed this time.. thats good! she seemed pretty panicked last time you came around.

you loomed over her bed for a bit, and just before you were about to leave, a tight and.. honestly very hot, sweaty hand gripped your wrist, causing you to suck your teeth and turn around. "what the.."

"h-heyyy.. inspector, i don't mean to, um, intrude, but, um, why dont you stay a while? you know, tell me your name so that we can cooperate and help to get riley all up n working good! you know, plan and this and that and check off every good possibility and-"

oh god..

"it's alright, anxiety, i have to get going." you cut her off. she seemed sweaty everywhere. she stares very intensely, yeah..

"no, no, its, its okay- um- but why not! we could get things up and running around here you know? like, discuss everything necessary of headquarters and-"

she stopped as you stared, bewildered. she must've noticed your.. aloof demeanor. something in your heart made it skip a beat as your face flushed a bit- but why? this is.. weird, this is really weird.

"s-sorry to come off so pushy, um.."

"yeah, i.. i have to go.."

as you left you could hear her breathing so, uncomfortably heavily.. oh, god. oh man. this is really weird but she was almost.. attractive? no, stop. stop. stop it, (y/n!)

you sighed and looked down at your checklist. 8/10. you.. somehow, totally, definitely forgot to mention anxiety and her weird touchiness. haha, wow..