Chapter 1

Lightning was looking over some paper work in his office at the racing headquarters. Right now he was in the lead for point if he wanted to win the Piston Cup at the end of the season. This was Lightning's 3rd season and he had already won 2 Piston Cups, but wanted to beat Doc's record of wins in a season. Lightning looked at the time on his desk, 3:38pm. Doc had told him to go get some work done before they went out to practice at 4:30. He was about to sign something for the next race when there was a knock on the door.

Lightning looked up from what he was doing, a little annoyed.

"Come in." Lightning called in a bored voice. It was Mater.

"Hey McQueen, I was wondering if you wanna go ah tractor tipping with me, cause I am kinda bored and no one else wants to go with me."

"No Mater, I can't I have to get some more work done but maybe later, ok?"

"Ok. See ya later." Mater said sadly.

Lightning sighed. He hated to see Mater upset, but he couldn't do anything about it. Lightning looked at at the time again, 3:42. Why does time have to move by so slow? He thought. Then something caught his eye, a picture that was on his desk. It was a picture of him and Sally on their wedding day. He remembered it like it was yesterday. She was beautiful as she came down the aisle to him. Lightning's nerves calmed as he saw Sally, he couldn't even think straight for a while. The only thing that was on his mind was Sally. Lightning sighed again. He still couldn't figure out why she was starting to become distant to him. Yeah she loved him, but why is she becoming like this?

Finally, 4:30 came around and Doc came to get Lightning. Even before Doc could say more than three words Lightning had already zoomed out the door to Willie's Butte for a few reasons. One, he had been in his office for like 5 hours. Two, Lightning had a lot on his mind and need to think about something else. Three, Doc told him that he needed to practice for the upcoming races.

When Doc had gotten out there Lightning had already threw himself into practice. Doc had told him earlier to do 100 laps for a warm up then he would tell Lightning what to do after that. Doc put his crew chief head set on so he could help Lightning around the dirt turn.

"Hey Rookie, nice job on clearing the turn. By the way, what lap are you on?" Doc called over the radio.

"20."Lightning said in a quiet voice.

Doc heard the hint of sadness in his voice when he said that.

"You ok, Kid."

"Yeah I am fine."

Doc was not convinced. He could tell that something was going on him the racer but he didn't know exactly what it was, but had a pretty go idea. He had seen Sally acting similar but it was a little worse. She would rarely talk to anyone and when Lightning had asked her something she would quit talking and drive back to her office.

"Kid, I can tell when something is wrong."

"I know, but I don't really want to talk about it."

"You sure?" Doc was still not convinced.

"Yeah"

Lightning was talking to himself and trying to figure out what had happened two weeks ago when Sally had started to become distant. 'Was it something I did?' 'Or did something happen that I am not aware of and she's not telling me?' Lightning was so unfocused he didn't heard Doc yelling at him and he ended up in the cactus patch.

"Ow ow ow! That hurt."

"Hey kid you ok?"

"Yeah I am just was zoned out."

"Do you want me to get Mater?"

"Sure."

Doc went into town to find Mater. He was at Flo's V-8 café with the residents and a few tourists.

"Mater, Lightning fell into the cactus patch again. Could you get him out?" Everyone just looked at Doc as if they didn't hear him right, and looks that said, like he fell in the cactus again? Sally looked concerned, but she didn't want anyone to see her like this, so she just left to go to the Cozy Cone. While Doc went to get Mater, Lightning was doing thinking and talking to himself.

'What did I do? I mean Sally loves. Why wouldn't she, she married me. But did I do something that made her upset and rarely talk to me?'

'Was it something someone else said?' Or was it something she heard?
I don't all I care about is trying to figure out what is going on and fix it. Because if I don't, how knows what could happen between us, and don't want to lose her.'

Doc heard Lightning whispering to himself as he and Mater. Doc told Mater to be quiet as, got closer to the cactus patch.

"Hey Rookie "was that floatin' like a Cadillac or was that stingin' like a Beamer? I confused."

Lightning jumped slightly cause he didn't hear them roll up.

"Ha ha very Doc." Lightning said flatly.

"Have fun fishin' Mater."

"Doc! I thought you stopped saying movie lines?"

"Hey still funny because you're in same position as you were in the movie."

"Whatever, laugh it up, you say it every time I fall in there." Lightning said as Mater pulled him over the cliff.

"I would too if I said those lines in the movie bud." Mater said while laughing.

Lightning just sighed, knowing that he isn't going to get anywhere with this. He just drove back toward town in silence. Lightning didn't know what he was going to do about Sally, or figure out what was wrong. But he was going to have to figure it out soon before anything bad happens.

Hey guys, what's up!

I know I have not been updating my other story but here is my reason why, my first story is kinda put on hold until I get reviews.

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But on a happy note, I would love to heard what you think of my new story so, please review :)