"morning!!" the blue one happily yells, waking up the others. the red one wakes with a scream, the yellow one groans in disgust, the green one chucks a pillow across the room and the purple one snuggles deeper under the blankets - sobbing. the blue one grins and opens the curtains, looking at the room from the large vision board. the blue one sighs happily and spins, arms outstretched: "i love the mornings!!" they press some buttons on a keypad and the room moves, the vision on the board changing like it was the view of a person getting out of bed.

the bed gets made, the curtains open and an outfit is picked. the cereal gets made - with much complaint from the yellow one - and teeth get brushed. the vision board shows a teen staring back at it, looking in a mirror. the teen is tall, with blonde, fluffy hair and green eyes. the blue one smiles, clicking some buttons and so does the reflection. the yellow one presses some buttons and the reflection makes a disgusted face. blue rolls their eyes playfully at yellow and controls the teen, making them go downstairs.

their mother sits at the dining room table, phone held loosely in their hands. purple suddenly gets up and walks forward, the red one taking control of the board. mother sniffs, fresh tears running down her cheeks. purple takes control and the teen runs over.

"hes dead." a simply complex five letter word that can fuck up your whole life. purple taps buttons and the teen sits, numb. they shake their head, unable to accept such a simple thing.

thats the problem with the concept of death. its such a simple word. but comprehending the death of your dad is like explaining quantum physics to a five year old. death cannot be explained. nobody knows what happens when you die, you just know that you move on. people die and youre supposed to deal with it. even if you have five emotions in your head trying to explain and make sense of everything - its hard. you blame yourself and then you blame the world. you blame god if you are religious. you blame everything except mother nature itself and thats because humans act that way. they refuse to believe things have no explanation. they refuse to believe cancer has no cure. the refuse to believe sudden death is sudden. everything is planned after all. isnt that what religion says?

purple starts tapping buttons, not used to being in the driver's seat. blue steps back, unable to understand whats going on. emotions don't understand other emotions. thats why yellow can never be blue and blue can never be green. blue doesnt understand sadness. purple doesnt understand happiness. green doesnt understand fear and so on. thats why happiness disappears when someone dies. it doesnt understand and therefore can no longer be in control. blue packs up their things and goes on a short holiday. they promise the others that they'll be back. soon enough, blue hopes.

and with that, the happiness disappears; sadness is in comtrol for a while.