Chapter 1: My Life

In the sugary sweet land of Sugar Rush, a group of sweet-themed teenagers drive around a track that travels around sugary landmarks. In the lead is a girl with white hair and wearing red dress, pink jacket, and boots. Right behind her is a friend dressed in cake frosting colors and a lit candle on her head, in third place is a blonde boy wearing a Reese's cup hat and wears a brown jacket, an orange and yellow shirt, brown jeans and dark brown boots. Right behind him is a man with dark-green hair topped with a crooked hat shaded with different greens and blues, wears an ocean blue jacket unzipped, yellow shirt underneath, a gold chain around his neck, and striped jeans ending with green shoes, skin a light chocolate brown. He swivels around the boy called Rancis and quickly passes Candlehead around a U-turn, finally driving up to racer-in-lead, Taffyta Muttonfudge. She looks in her side-view mirror and spots Swizzle Malarkey a.k.a. The Swizz. At first she was shocked but then grins and gloats, "You think you can beat me, Malarkey?"

"I know I can!" He moves the gearshift and speeds up, zooming out of the ice scream mountain and zipping past Taffyta. Swizzle looks back and smirks before gloating back, "Told you I can!" He turns back to the road and gloats, "Now it's nothing but downhill from here." The pops racer was about to pass the lead when a gunshot and whistle distracts him. He looks in his mirror to find a small gumdrop zipping straight toward his cart mutters, "Uh oh."

The Sweet Seeker gumball blasts the Tongue Twister cart and the Swizz swirls the steering wheel to avoid crashing, but he smashes through a bunch of lollipop trees and into small candy wall. The motion he had from racing pushes his head forward and bangs on the rock-hard candy steering wheel, immediately seeing colorful spots everywhere and a shroud of darkness at the edge of his vision. Swizzle groans in pain, clutching his head, and declares, "I hate Sweet Seekers."

Behind him, racers of all candy variety rushes past him, including the ruler of Sugar Rush, King Candy. The racer shakes his head to clear it, but only makes it worse, and he reverses back into the track and makes his way to the finish line. As he speeds to make it on the roster, the wind whistles into his ear, making the headache worsen and the boy's vision darker, but he tries to keep it back. It doesn't help when the lights everywhere float around, distorting the track in front of him. Swizzle finally spots the racer in front of him when a loud voice shouts, "Twelfth place, Swizzle Malarkey!"

The last-place racer groans miserably and slowly climbs out of his cart. When he lands, a new wave of pain erupts in his head and he clutches it again. Taffyta notices the motion and asks, "What's the matter? Banged your head, Swizzle?"

"Yeah, but I'm alright," he says, "I just need some rest, that's all."

"You sure? It doesn't have anything to do losing another Random Roster Race again?" the second best suggests, making her smirk that annoys Swizzle. "No, of course not." That's only a part of it.

The Swizz climbs back in his cart and drives back to his house, but not before hearing the hard-candy girl shout, "Maybe you should rest! Then your racing won't be as bad as a glitch!" and her posse starts laughing, only adding more rage in the racer. His mind was so wrapped up on his failure and Taffyta's teasing that he didn't see someone walking across the road until the last second. "Whoa!" He quickly swerves around the shocked girl and tries to get back in control of his ride, but one side starts to tip and Swizzle rolls out of it to avoid damage to himself. When he stops, the Swizz clutches his head in pain again since the roll made his head hit the ground. After a while of lying on the ground, the racer gets back up and stumbles over to his cart, which is on its back. He looks over it to try and find the girl that was almost a road stain but she vanished. Swizzle huffs and starts working on getting his ride back on its wheels while muttering, "Great. First this headache, then Taffyta teases about my racing, and now some idiot almost kills me. Can my luck get any worse?"

"Hi there."

"What?" He bangs his head on the side of his cart and screams in pain, clutching it with one hand while using the other to help lean on the cart since he's feeling lighter and unstable on his feet. The Swizz slowly turns around and sees the very last person he wants to see. He groans and asks sourly, "What do you want, Glitch?"

"Uh first, I have a name, Mr. Rude," the girl snaps back, "And second, I was wondering if you need help."

"I don't need help from the likes of you." Swizzle tries to push his cart back on the wheels again but his mind is too preoccupied with the mega headache so he stumbles on his feet. The glitch chuckles a little and asks, "You sure? You don't look okay to…do anything."

"I said I can handle it! Now get out of here." He continues to push the car and finally gets it on the side. The girl crosses her arms and says, "Hmph. Fine then. Get your ride back without me, Swizz-jerk." She walks up and tips the cart back down while walking back into the forest. Swizzle closes his mouth to keep a scream back but lets a stifle out, kicking some chocolate sand up. "I hate that glitch!"

After spending about thirty minutes getting his cart back on the wheels, Swizzle drives into the candy garage at his house and walks into the green and blue living room. On his way to the small room, he passes by a large stereo and stops, getting an idea. His headache isn't as bad as it was earlier, and he needs something to lighten his mood from the day. So he grabs a disk from a nearby shelf and slips it in, taking a few steps back while it loads. He bows his head to get in the mood and soon the song starts and Swizzle sings the lyrics while dancing to the rhythm.

"I'm at a payphone, trying to call home

All of my change I spend on you

Where have the times gone? Baby it's all wrong.

Where are the plans we made for two?

Yeah, I,

I know it's hard to remember,

The people we used to be

It's even harder to picture,

That you're not here next to me.

You say it's too late to make it,

But is it too late to try?

And in our time that you wasted

All of our bridges burned down.

I've wasted my nights,

You turned out the lights

Now I'm paralyzed,

Still stuck in that time, when we called it love,

But even the sun sets in paradise.

I'm at a payphone trying to call home

All of my change I spent on you.

Where have the times gone? Baby it's all wrong.

Where are the plans we made for two?

If happy ever after did exist

I would still be holding you like this.

All those fairy tales are full of it

One more stupid love song, I'll be sick.

Oh, you turned your back on tomorrow

'Cause you forgot yesterday.

I gave you my love to borrow,

But you just gave it away.

You can't expect me to be fine.

I don't expect you to care.

I know I've said it before

But all of our bridges burned down.

I've wasted my nights

You turned out the lights

Now I'm paralyzed,

Still stuck in that time when we called it love,

But even the sun sets in paradise.

I'm at a payphone trying to call home

All of my change I spent on you.

Where have the times gone? Baby it's all wrong.

Where are the plans we made for two?

If happy ever after did exist

I would still be holding you like this.

All those fairy tales are full of it.

One more stupid love song, I'll be sick.

Now I'm at a payphone.

(Man, shoot that stuff

I'll be out spending all this money

While you're sitting round wondering

Why it wasn't you who came up from nothing.

Made it from the bottom

Now when you see me I'm stunning,

And all of my cars start with a push of a button.

Telling me the chances I blew up

Or whatever you call it,

Switch the number to my phone

So you never could call it.

Don't nee0 d my name on my show,

You can tell it I'm makin'.

Swish, what a shame could have got picked.

Had a really good game but you missed your last shot

So you talk about who you see at the top

Or what you could have saw

But sad to say it's over for.

Phantom pulled up valet opens doors

Wiz like go away, got what you was looking for

Now it's me who they want,

So you can go and take that little piece of it with you.)

I'm at a payphone trying to call home

All of my change I spent on you.

Where have the times gone? Baby it's all wrong.

Where are the plans we made for two?

If happy ever after did exist

I would still be holding you like this.

All those fairy tales are full of it.

One more stupid love song, I'll be sick.

Now I'm at a payphone.

When the song ends, Swizzle takes a breath but then clutches his head, the pain back in it. "Oohh, it was worth it. I should really get some rest now." He finally walks into his room and jumps onto his bed, snoring instantly.

Song: Payphone by Maroon 5