Again, not exactly following along with the story here :)

It's been a year since Sally has worked at the Cozy Cone and now she knows everyone: Mater, Doc, Luigi, Guido, etc

One day in the afternoon, Sally was at her desk watching the news.

"And so, David Callahan, age 20, was arrested two days ago for murdering a hotel manager around Arizona." said the news man. "But unfortunately, Callahan just escaped yesterday and could be anywhere in the Arizona state. If you see David Callahan around in your area, call the police immediately. He's known to be seriously dangerous."

Not wanting to hear anymore, Sally turned off the tv leaving herself with goosebumps. The tv didn't show David Callahan's face, so that made her pretty scared. Suddenly, a customer came in. Sally only heard the bell on the door since she buried her face in a magazine. The person was just standing there looking around. Sally stood up still not looking at him and faced her direction to the wall, groping at it pretending to try to find something.

Oh my God, she thought. You're overreacting Sally! This is just an ordinary person, wanting to stay in and ordinary suite, on this ordinary day.

She heard the person's food steps coming towards her. He touched her shoulder. Scared as ever, she turned around and bent his arm on his back and pushed him against the wall. He started yelling.

"Oh my God!" he yelled. "I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I just wanted a room! Please don't hurt me!!!"

Sally let go feeling like a donkey. "Oh," she stammered. "I'm so sorry! I... oh God, I'm sorry!!"

The man turned around, shaking off his arm and grunting. "Ah, it's ok." he said. The man was two or three years older than Sally, but looked very young for his age. He had short blond hair and blueish greenish eyes. He then looked up letting his hand out in front of him.

"I'm Lightning."

Sally's face was questioning. She had a feeling she heard it before, but doesn't remember when. She smiled. "Lightning?" she asked trying not to sound mean.

Lightning laughed. "No, I didn't say that in a mean way." Sally quickly said nervously.
"It's ok." he said. Sally introduced herself also. They both shook hands.
"Nice to meet you." he said with a sly smile.

"Um, you wanted a room?" she asked.
"Oh. Yes please." he said.

Sally sat back down at her desk going on the computer.

"What's your last name?" she asked.

"McQueen." he answered.

That's it! Sally's mind exclaimed. She looked up in hestitaion.
"McQueen?" she asked. Her green eyes widened. "Oh my God, you're Lightning McQueen!"

Lightning smiled. He was waiting for her to react like that. "Do you normally watch Nascar?" he asked.

Sally's happy eyes blinked back into reality. "Oh, well sometimes now." she said. "But me and my.." she stammered. She almost said Gavin instead of dad. "Me and my dad always used to watch your dad race when I was younger."

Lightning hesitated. "Oh, yeah. Cool." He forgot for a moment that his dad was also a racecar driver.

Sally looked back down and continued typing.

"Here you go." she said handing him the room card. He looked at it and saw that his room was #1.

"Don't have a lot of customers today, huh?" he asked.

Sally sighed. "Got that right. You're the only customer today." She paused for a moment. "Oh well." she said coming out from the desk. She went over to the door and turned the OPEN sign to the CLOSED sign. "Guess I can turn in for today." she said smiling. Sally started walking over to her room. "See you later." she said. Lightning stopped her.

"Hey Sally," he said. She turned facing him.

"Since you're gonna be off duty for the rest of today," he said rubbing the back of his neck. "Would you like to...hang out later tonight? Maybe like, 7 or something?"

Sally's smile started showing her teeth. Inside, she would scream in excitement, but she kept her cool and let out a small laugh with her smile.

"I'd like that." she said. Lightning's smile showed his teeth too. "Cool," he said. "Umm, I how about I make it a surprise at what we'll do?"

"Ok." she said bubbily. "Come to the door that says "Private" when you've made your decision."

"Cool. Later." he said waving his hand. He went into his room. When Sally went in her room, she closed her door, and pushed her back against the door. She took a pillow and screamed into it excitedly. Then she quickly went to her closet looking for her best outfit.