5 GETTING YOUR FEELINGS OUT IN THE OPEN

CHAPTER FIVE GETTING YOUR FEELINGS OUT IN THE OPEN Franny finished some calculations and stepped into the Mixer-Upper. "Phew! It still smells like a sub in here," she said. "I should install a fan." She pressed a button and closed the door. The machine whirred and dinged. The door slowly opened. Franny stepped out.

"Did it work?" she asked as she looked back into the machine. "C'mon out!" she shouted. "Come out here." Four figures stepped out. They looked somewhat familiar. They looked a little bit like… Franny.

"What dumb idea have you had now?" the angry- looking Franny snarled. "It's simple. You're my feelings and I've removed you. You were getting in the way," Franny said. "Now maybe I can get something done." Angry-Fran kicked a piece of lab equipment and grumbled. "I could have figured that out myself," she snapped.

Franny stepped up to a frightened-looking version of herself. "Do you know who you are?" Franny said. "I'm afraid to ask," the other Franny said. "That's right!" Franny said. "You are afraid. You're my fear. You're Scaredy-Fran." Scaredy-Fran gasped. "Yikes!"

"I know which feeling I am," another one of the Franny look-alikes giggled. "I'm Elephant-Fran." "An elephant is not something you feel," Angry-Fran snapped. "Oh no? I'll bet if an elephant sat on you, you'd feel it," the other Franny said, and then she laughed and laughed. "I can see that you're my silliness," Franny said. "You're Silly-Fran."

"And you want to… get rid of us?" the last Fran asked, with tears welling up in her eyes. "That's right, Sad-Fran," Franny said. "You feelings are just getting in my way. Everything goes wrong when I start feeling too much." "You're so dumb," Angry-Fran said. "You have more than four moods. We're not the only feelings in there." "I know that there are more than four feelings," Franny said calmly. "I'll do the rest later. I wasn't even