Fear x Anxiety // Anxifear

Chapter 4

(tickles toe nails sorry for the late chapter)

// WE AREN'T DATING! \\

It's the morning; neither of them got barely any sleep. As soon as Fear came out of his room on the search for Anxiety to hopefully clear anything up, he was met by her. She still had on her crooked smile, waving to him.

"Uh.. hey Fear!-" She started talk before Fear interrupted.

"Morning Anxiety, so uhm about last night- Oh, sorry, you can speak." They were both a mess, considering the 5 or less hours of sleep they got.

"No, no, it's fine! Keep going." Anxiety tried to reassure him. Truthfully, Fear didn't want to keep going.

"Well, about last night, did you hear anything? Not that there WAS anything to hear, obviously. Why would you ever think that, whaaaaaat?" Fear was honestly making things up as he went. Anxiety immediately remembered the "Love you." from Fear. That can't be what he's talking about, right? It was just her imagination, of course.

"Uhh no! Didn't hear a thing!" Fear got hit with a wave of relief before exhaling. Oh yeah- he was still RIGHT in front of Anxiety. He put himself together then nodded.

"Cool! Coolcoolcool. It was nice being with you last night." Nope. Too bold. Tooooo bold. Fear nervously grinned while playing with his tie subconsciously.

"Of course! We should do that more often- Y'know, when it's just us? I mean! When all the other emotions aren't arguing?" She had a point. When Joy says that they're all like family, everyone assumes it's a dysfunctional one.

"Awhhh you guys are so cute! I wish I had a relationship like this.." the two emotions looked down to see a really short blue thing- oh it's just Envy.

"WE AREN'T DATING!" Fear yelled out in attempt to defend his and Anxiety's very PLATONIC relationship. He might've yelled too loud though, and all of the other emotions turned their heads to him. "Nothing to see here, folks! Just regular stuff.. totally."

"Oh please, like we believe that." Anger said with his usual aggressive tone. He was reading a newspaper, the title being "TWO EMOTIONS HAVE TENSION! WILL THEY WORK IT OUT?" The press is fast with the drama.

Anxiety was absolutely crushed hearing the words "WE ARENT DATING!" from Fear. He sounded so genuine. Does he not like her? She should've known it would never work out. He'll always see her as his friend. She should've never romanticized every interaction they had, or hell, every look he gave Anxiety.

"Hello!? Anxiety!? Are you okay!?" She nodded, not wanting to speak. She's fine, EVERYTHING'S FINE. Suddenly, a loud noise came from the screen and everyone whipped their heads around. Turns out, Joy planned a sleepover with Riley's friends. They were at her doorstep, blabbering about god knows what. Good, a diversion.

"You guys are going to LOVE this! I rented Twilight!" Riley said. All of the emotions had mixed reactions. Well, except for Ennui, she just kept staring at her phone.

"...Twilight? Seriously? The movie with the vampire dude?" Fear questioned Joy's happy expression. Disgust jumped to defend the movie.

"And the wolf guy!"

"You seriously like Jacob?"

"Uhm, yes!? Also, how do YOU know their names?"

"THAT'S NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS!"

"Right.."

Anger and Disgust kept arguing about whether Anger likes Twilight or not. Suddenly, the group of teenage girls were sat on the couch with popcorn and the TV on. So, the emotions did the same. Anxiety and Fear were a little to close for comfort, but they weren't complaining. They were sharing a blanket and a popcorn bowl, both being careful of when they reached for the popcorn. They were NOT about to become a romcom.

Fear was almost confident he wouldn't scream/pass out during this. I mean, it's TWILIGHT. It was going good but the opening scene was.. a deer? Suddenly, something was chasing it. Fear was breathing out inaudible stutters while reaching for something. Anything. He felt something under the blanket and grabbed it, his eyes glued to the screen. The scene went to the main character (Bella) being, well, the main character. Fear exhaled and let go of whatever he held.

Meanwhile, Anxiety was FREAKING OUT. Surprise, it was Anxiety's hand he held! She could see him getting scared, so she thought nothing of it. At least, as nothing as she could.

"She's pretty!" Joy said, pointing to the TV screen showing Alice Cullen. They got to the part where the "vampire" family was being introduced. Anxiety and Fear got comfortable enough to whisper to each other about how something was stupid, or how they think they saw a dream similar to this, and giggling after. The movie isn't that scary so that's good-

OH MY GOD A GUY IS GETTING KILLED.

Fear screamed before passing out on the floor, bringing the blanket with him.

"I'll just.. put him to bed." Anxiety got up and dragged Fear to his bed, giving him his teddy bear. It was late anyway.

(a/n: why is writing emotions so ewwww but also so fun)