Chapter  21

Joy ran up to the Imaginary Boyfriend generator¹.

"Hey!" she said, addressing the Imaginary Boyfriend, who sat slowly plucking petals² off a flower. "Did you mean what you said before?"

"I would die for Riley! I would die for Riley! I would die—" the boyfriend replied.

"Yeah, yeah, Haircut," Joy said. "Time to prove it."

Joy scooped³ up the Imaginary Boyfriend and put him in the bag she had gotten from Bing Bong. Then she turned on the generator and a bunch of imaginary boyfriends began to pour out. They moved down the conveyor belt, shouting, "I would die for Riley!" Joy caught each one in the imaginary bag.

"That's good," she said, putting the last boyfriend in.

As Sadness floated up ahead on her cloud, Joy ran past her and yanked on a twisty palm tree made from balloons, pulling it from the ground. With careful aim, she untied⁴ it and used the rush of air from the balloons to blow Sadness and her cloud back toward the Memory Dump.

Joy sped up, running along the cliff's edge, parallel to Sadness, as they both moved closer to Family Island. Joy finally stopped, her eyes on Sadness, and aligned⁵ herself with Family Island. All of a sudden, Joy dumped the bag and the boyfriends poured out. Their momentum⁶ pulled Joy to the top of an incredibly tall tower of imaginary boyfriends.

"This is crazy," Joy said to herself. "No! Be positive." She took a deep breath. "I am positive this is crazy."

The tower of teen boys swayed as Joy gazed at Headquarters in the distance. She looked out at the trampoline on Family Island, then back at Sadness, and calculated her strategy. "NOW!" she shouted.

On Joy's command, the boyfriends took out their cell phones to take a photo, tipping them forward and launching Joy onto the trampoline. She bounced off and ricocheted into the air, flying toward Sadness. Then she grabbed Sadness midair and carried her along!

"Joy?" asked Sadness, stunned⁷.

"Hang on!" shouted Joy as they soared through the air like birds.

SPLAT! Bull's-eye! The two hit the back window of Headquarters!

The other Emotions ran over. "It's Joy!" exclaimed Disgust.

Fear, Anger, and Disgust tried to open the window but it wouldn't budge⁸.

"Stand back!" shouted Anger. He threw a chair, but it bounced right off.

"That worked," said Disgust.

"Well, what would you do, if you're so smart?" Anger said, annoyed.

Disgust's eyes lit up with an idea. "I'd tell you… but you're too dumb to understand," she said.

"What?" Anger asked.

"Of course your tiny brain is confused," Disgust went on, mocking Anger as she tried to get a rise out of him. "Guess I'll have to dumb it down to your level."

Anger let out a giant, angry roar and flames came out of his head. "AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!"

Disgust, who had quickly put on a weldingmask, picked him up and used his head like a blowtorch, cutting a hole in the window. They pulled Joy and Sadness up from the ledge⁹ and back into Headquarters.

The others were so relieved to see them. "Thank goodness you're back, Joy!" said Fear. "We were just trying to make more happy memories. That's all we wanted to do."

Joy looked at the screen, watching as the bus driver shut the door and pulled away from the station.

"Joy, you've got to fix this," Disgust demanded.

"Get up there."

Joy turned and looked at Sadness. "Sadness, it's up to you."

"What?" the others said in unison¹⁰. "Sadness?!" Joy hushed them and gave Sadness a look of encouragement.

"Oh… I can't, Joy."

Joy pushed Sadness toward the console. "Riley needs you."

"Okay," Sadness said nervously¹¹. She took a deep breath and set her hands down on the console. The blackness receded¹² and the idea bulb flickered¹³ off. Sadness gently pulled it out as Joy, Anger, Fear, and Disgust watched in amazement¹⁴.

Inside the bus, Riley's expression changed from listless to sad. Then she stood up, gripping the seat in front of her. "Wait! Stop!" she shouted. The bus stopped and Riley marched up to the front. "I want to get off."

She got off the bus and ran toward home.

 

第 21 章

乐乐跑向想象男友生成器。

“嘿！”她朝想象男友喊道，他坐在那儿，慢腾腾地将一朵花上的花瓣一片片摘下。“你之前说过的话当真吗？”

“我愿意为莱莉献出生命！我愿意为莱莉献出生命！我愿意——”想象男友回答道。

“好了，好了，帅哥。”乐乐说，“是时候证明这一点了。”

乐乐一把抱起想象男友，把他放入兵兵给她的包里，然后启动生成器，一个又一个的想象男友涌了出来。他们从传送带上下来，叫着：“我愿意为莱莉献出生命！”乐乐将他们一个个抓住，放进了想象包里。

“好极了。”她一边说一边将最后一个想象男友放进包里。

云上的忧忧继续向前飘着，乐乐跑着追上她，用力一拉地上的一棵用气球做成的弯曲棕榈树，将它拔出来。她小心地瞄准忧忧，松手，气球造成的气流将忧忧和那片云朝记忆清理库的方向吹去。

乐乐加快速度，沿着悬崖边缘跑，刚好和忧忧平行，她们离家人岛越来越近。终于，乐乐停了下来，她看着忧忧，然后和家人岛排成一条线。突然，她扔下包，里面的想象男友涌了出来，他们垒成一座不可思议的高塔，其动力将顶端的乐乐越抬越高。

“太疯狂了。”乐乐自言自语。“不！乐观些。”她深吸了一口气，“我乐观地确定这举动很疯狂。”

少年们组成的高塔摇晃着，乐乐凝视着远处的情绪总部，接着看了看家人岛上的蹦床，又回头看了看忧忧，盘算着接下来的行动。她大声喊道：“就现在！”

乐乐一声令下，想象男友们纷纷拿出手机，向前倾斜，做出要拍照的姿势，顶端的乐乐被投掷到蹦床上。她被弹了起来，飞到空中，朝忧忧冲去。接着，她抓住半空中的忧忧，带着忧忧向上飞去！

“乐乐？”忧忧惊呆了。

“抓牢！”乐乐叫着，她们像飞翔的鸟儿一样划过空中。

“啪嗒”！命中目标！她们撞在了情绪总部的后窗玻璃上。

其他情绪小人都跑了过来，厌厌高兴地喊：“是乐乐！”

怕怕、怒怒和厌厌试着打开窗户，但是窗户纹丝不动。

“退后！”怒怒叫道，他将一把椅子朝窗户扔去，但是椅子被弹了回来。

“可真有用。”厌厌说道。

“好吧，既然你这么聪明，你说该怎么办？”怒怒生气了。

厌厌眼前一亮，知道该怎么办了。她对怒怒说：“我愿意告诉你……不过你这么笨，是不会明白的。”

“什么？”怒怒问。

“你那小脑瓜当然不明白。”厌厌继续嘲笑怒怒，故意要惹怒他，“看来得把难度拉低到你的智商水平才行。”

怒怒发怒了，他大声咆哮着，脑袋上冒出火焰。“啊啊啊啊啊啊啊啊！”

厌厌迅速带上电焊面罩，抱起怒怒，将他的脑袋当成喷枪，在窗玻璃上烧出一个洞。他们将乐乐和忧忧从窗台拉了上来，回到情绪总部。

看到她们，其他小人都松了一口气。“感谢老天，乐乐，你总算回来了！”怕怕说，“我们试图创造更多的快乐记忆，就是这样。”

乐乐看了看屏幕，看着汽车司机关上门，汽车从车站开出。

“乐乐，你得处理这事。”厌厌要求道。

“去控制台那里。”

乐乐转过身，看着忧忧：“忧忧，全靠你了。”

“什么？”其他情绪小人异口同声地问道，“忧忧？！”乐乐让他们安静，然后向忧忧投去鼓励的目光。

“噢……乐乐，我不行。”

乐乐将忧忧推向控制台：“莱莉需要你。”

“好吧。”忧忧紧张地说。她深吸一口气，双手放在了控制台上。上面的黑色逐渐消失，点子球也不亮了。忧忧将点子球轻轻拔了下来，乐乐、怒怒、怕怕和厌厌惊奇地看着她。

汽车上，莱莉的表情由冷漠转变成悲伤，接着，她站了起来，抓住前面的座椅，叫道：“等等！停车！”车停了下来，莱莉大步走上前去，说：“我想下车。”

下车后，她朝家里跑去。

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