When Riley got home, one of the first things she did was go to her room, close the door, and open up her laptop. She told her parents that she was tired, and that she would talk to them in the morning. In all honesty though, she just wanted time to herself to try to understand things better.

"What are we doing?" Fear asked.

"I'm not sure." Joy replied. "I think we're trying to understand stuff."

Riley opened up Google and thought about what to type. Eventually she came up with I don't like kissing. Googles autofill added my boyfriend and anymore. Riley clicked on the first option, "I don't like kissing my boyfriend."

Riley looked though the results, but most of them just said it was because he was a bad kisser. Either that, or because she had experienced trauma in the past. What?

"He's not a bad kisser," Joy defended. "Why is she even reading this?"

"Because she thinks something's wrong with her," Sadness answered. "She's trying to prevent something like when she tried to run away. She wants to make sure she is okay."

Most of the emotions glared at Anger after this, to which Anger replied, "What?"

Eventually, Riley found a link she thought was promising. It was a forum post about not liking kissing, for the sake of not liking kissing. It was written by a middle schooler, and she seemed to know what she was talking about, even though she was asking a question

"Guys, what's this?" Disgust asked.

As Riley read through the post, she noticed the author refer to herself as an asexual. Not sure what that meant, she opened another tab and googled the word.

She opened up the first result, which is the Wikipedia page. The page opened up saying, "Asexuality is the lack of sexual attraction to anyone, or low or absent interest in sexual activity. It may be considered the lack of a sexual orientation, or one of the variations thereof, alongside heterosexuality, homosexuality, and bisexuality."

To Riley, this was a bunch of big words she wasn't sure she fully understood. But she thought about it a bit, and eventually seemed to understand the concept.

Disgust sneered. "Guys, she doesn't really think we're like this, does she?"

"Ok, well the wiki isn't really helping, let's find something else," Joy said, pushing a button and flipping a switch.

Riley clicked on another link, this, one leading back to the forum from earlier. There was a FAQ with the question "Am I asexual?" Riley clicked this, but the answer wasn't entirely very helpful. It was a pretty vague and broad answer, that really wasn't what she's looking for. She continued through the FAQ. And while she seemed fairly certain she might be Asexual, she couldn't help but feel like she might not be. Or that she didn't understand something. This was all very confusing, to her and her emotions.

In one last surge of hope, given by Joy's press of a button, Riley tried one more page. This one was an asexual ask blog on tumblr.

Riley read through some of the questions others had asked, and decided she should try it herself. Anonymously, Riley typed a question. "Hey, so I think I might be asexual. I'm 14, and I've had a boyfriend for a few months now. But I don't think I really like him. At least, not at much as he likes me... He kissed me today and I thought it was absolutely disgusting. I'm so confused, please help."

Riley quickly clicked send, and was glad she didn't need an account to send asks. She didn't need another form of social media the waste time on just yet.

Exhausted from her long day, and her first real questioning of who she was, Riley fell onto her bed, not bothering to change, and went to sleep. And for the first time in a while, she felt a little more understanding of herself.

"Ok, I've got dream duty," Disgust announced. The other emotions walked away while she sat in the chair. "Oh Riley, this is too much for you."

AN: I'm not sure what direction I really want the story to go in from here. I have plans for a few things, but if you guys could leave some ideas for what should happen next, that would be great! I'm glad this has been getting such good reception so far, and I hope that continues! :)