I search for a bowl or something to hold the water I find a bowl that looks like it could fit both of her hands in it I walk back over to the sink and fill it up I bring it over to the table and place it down I walk back over to Vanellope and pick her up I bring her over to the table and place her on the chair "ok soak your hand and I'll clean up the cookies" I tell her she sits quietly and places her hands in the water I pick up the cookies and am about to throw them out when I remember Stephen in my pocket I take some cookies and put them in my pocket for him to eat.
After I finish picking up the cookies I go back to the table where Vanellope is still soaking her hands I sit down next to her "so why were you baking cookies?" I ask her she sniffs "I was going to give them to you before the arcade opened tomorrow as a present" "a present for what?" I ask her "I don't know just a present I was told guys like getting presents" I look at her surprised "Vanellope that's great but you don't have to give me a present I mean you already gave me a new home and you're a great friend" she looks up "I guess but it's just I want to do more" she says biting her lip "but why?" she looks away "it's just I feel like I need to" "but you don't need to".
I tell her "I want to josh I dont just want to be your friend I want to be more than that" she pulls her hands out of the water and grabs mine her hands are now a bright pink hue "Josh I like you I mean really like you" I feel butterflies in my stomach and a warm feeling in my heart It takes me a couple seconds to respond "I like you too Vanellope" she gets a big grin on her face it catches me off guard when she leans in I gulp I lean in as well I stop when I hear "that was the most beautiful thing I have ever seen" my eyes shoot open and I look over and see bill and he's crying i shake my head and look away.
I can tell I'm blushing I look back at Vanellope who's biting her lip and looking at the ground I stand up "well uhm it's getting late I'll catch you later bill" I look over at Vanellope and hug her "good night sweet pea" I say to her I pull back and she's blushing I turn around and walk out of the kitchen as soon as the door closes behind me I jump up and do a back flip "oh my god yes" a huge grin on my face I run back to my room for the night.
I wake up the next morning when I hear Vanellope knocking "hey Josh the arcade is going to open soon and we need to do something get up!" I get up off my bed I rub my eyes and jump out I throw on my new clothes and open the door "ok so what do we have to do?" I ask Vanellope "we still have to change the name on your code!" she tells me she grabs my hand and pulls me to the throne room.
Were in the throne room when she let's go of my hand and runs behind the throne and behind a red curtain I follow her and behind the curtain is a small tunnel with blue wires surrounding it, I look around and see Vanellope at the end tying a giant licorice rope to her self she looks up at me and smiles "well come on" she says handing me a piece of the "rope" I grab it and tie my self on "ok so what do we have to do?" I ask her "we have to go to your code and change it".
I look at her with disbelief "change my code?" I ask her "yeah don't worry nothing too big" she says trying to reassure me "ok what ever you say" she goes to the big controller and taps in a code the door opens to a big open room she jumps in and I follow her she floats up and around a bunch of codes she stops at one near the center of the room "all right here it is" she says tapping the box my code pops up she searches through it.
"All right so we change npc 643 to Josh uhmm" she pauses "what?" I ask her "we never gave you a last name" she tells me "well do I need one?" "well you don't need one really but we gotta make you look like a sugar rush racer so you need some sort of candy last name, I think "candy eh?" I keep thinking what candy would be good "butterscotch!" I tell her "Josh butterscotch?" she asks me.
I look at her and nod "yes Josh butterscotch" she smiles and looks back to my code "all right Josh butterscotch it is" she closes my code and as she does that a blue ripple goes through my body I look up at her "well I guess it worked" she says shrugging we exit the code room and the door closes "so why butterscotch?" she asks me I shrug "the first candy I ate thought it would work I like it" "well I like it too" she says she grabs my hand as we walk outside.
"So how long until the arcade opens?" I ask her "we have a couple hours" she tells me I look at her "why did you wake me up so early?" she looks up at me "I just wanted to hang out with you is that a problem?" I shake my head "no not a problem at all so what do you want to do then?" she looks forward "oh I don't know what do you want to do?" she asks me I think as we walk "want to go for a walk through candy cane forest?" I ask "sure sounds like fun!" she says speeding up still holding my hand.
We walk through candy cane forest looking for anything interesting we don't find much we come across a giant candy cane tree we look at each other and back up at the tree "ready?" she asks me I nod my head "ok three two one..." "go!" I yell jumping up "hey no fair!" Vanellope yells jumping up after me I'm about half way up when Vanellope makes her first jump I look back and hear her yell "double stripe!".
I look back up confused as I land I see the branch flash and disappear I do a back flip and as I land I see Stephen falling in front of me I jump down after him and catch him Vanellope jumps up next to me I quickly shove him in my pocket "what was that?" she asks me sitting down "uh it was just a uhm" I don't know what to say she reaches into my pocket and grabs stephen she pulls him out and looks at him she look back up at me as I grab him "why do you have a cy bug?" she asks me "I don't know I found him at the tower and I panicked when you guys came in and I just shoved him in my pocket and forgot about him".
I put him in my lap and start petting him "he could destroy the entire game it's a big risk Josh didn't you know that?" her voice is starting to become sad "I'm sorry I didnt know it was a cybug it seemed harmless" "Josh it could kill us all" "but it hasn't it could but still hasnt" I say she stays silent I grab her hands "I guess I just have a weakness for small cute things" I say rubbing the back of her hand with my thumb she smiles but it quickly fades "Josh we have to get rid of it" I pull my hands away and clutch Stephen "what no way he's my pet I even named him" "well it's going to be a lot harder to get rid of him" she tells me "Vanellope please he's not going to be any trouble" I tell her grabbing her hands again.
She looks at me and sighs "are you sure he's not going to be problem?" "he wont I promise" she shakes her head "fine you can keep him" I smile and hug her "awesome thank you!" I back up and pick up Stephen "Stephen meet Vanellope" I say passing him to her she grabs him and places him in her lap "ok he is kinda cute I guess" she says petting him "I wonder why he hasn't grown yet?" I look at her "I don't know why" "when did you get him?" she asks me "just yesterday when I went to the top of the tower in Hero's duty" I tell her "what's wrong with his face though?".
I look at him "what do you mean?" I ask her she points to the "mask" he got from biting me "oh that he got that when he bit me last night"
"he bit you and you still want to keep him?" she asks me shocked "it was just a nibble from last night he was hungry thats why I went into the kitchen" she grabs my hands "well I'm glad he bit you then" she says smiling I put Stephen on my shoulder Vanellope grabs my hand and we jump down we start walking back to the castle.
"so what's his name?" Vanellope asks pointing to stephen "his name is Stephen" I tell her with a smile after walking a couple minutes i can feel another glitch coming on "uh oh" Vanellope looks at me "what is it josh" Vanellope asks as we come to the front of the castle I let go of Vanellope and I get sent flying up I look down and see Vanellope looking up I begin to fall down I close my eyes I feel a hand on the back of my jacket I look and see Vanellope holding onto my as I'm about to hit the ground a flash goes off I look around and see us on the ground.
I jump up and see a little bit of coding on the ground I look closer and when it's glitching stops I see Stephen jump up my eyes shoot open and I pick him up I look up to Vanellope "I thought that exercising was supposed to stop my glitching" she looks down and giggles "oh that no I just wanted to watch you work out" she tells me "so it didn't actually fix my glitching then?" she looks up at me "no I guess not but we have time now to work on it" she tells me "ok then let's go fix my glitch".
We walk into my room and I place Stephen on my bed "alright so how can I control my glitch" I ask turning around looking at her "I don't know you just do I mean I got control when I was almost crushed by turbo" "so I have to be put into a life or death situation in order to gain control?" I ask her "I don't know maybe not you just gotta learn to control it like me watch" she says she looks at my wall she run and jumps she disappears in a flash of light I walk up to the wall and she appears again I jump back "I can't get enough of that that's so cool" I tell her.
"Alright josh it's your turn" she says gesturing towards the wall I sigh and get ready to run I look at her and she smiles and nods "you can do it Josh!" I hold my breath and run towards the wall I think "go through the wall through the wall" I tell my self and I do I land on the other side but not in the way I was thinking i look up swatting the sugar and chocolate dust out of my face I turn around and a gigantic hole in the wall I gulp "that was awesome!" I hear Vanellope yell as she peaks out of the hole I smile and look around and see I'm in Vanellopes room Vanellope jumps through the hole and walks up next to me "so do you have control yet?" she asks me "I don't know that was only one lesson" I say "well at least you can glitch on command not" she says nudging me on the shoulder "oh my miss schweetz are you ok?" we look back and see bill standing in the door way "yeah bill I'm ok just some glitch training" "ok just a warning the arcade is opening soon" bill tells us "great let's go get ready Josh!" she says grabbing me hand and dragging me out "what about the wall?" I ask her "we can get Felix to fix it later".
Were in our karts driving around waiting for some one to play the game suddenly I appear on a pedestal and I see a person sitting on a chair they're looking at the screen and they spot me "hey dude look a new character" he says pointing to me "who is it?" another voice says "I don't know I'm going to choose them" the player says the small room I'm I'm lights up and a voice comes up "Josh butterscotch!" I appear in my kart at the starting line and see the lights come up I get ready and the race starts I go to push down on the pedal and I do at least I thought It was me I turn when I don't mean to and realize that I'm not in control I shake my head the race ends and I won well the player made me win so he won but with me so I won I appear back on the pedestal and a trophy appears in front of me I grab it and smile I look up to the player and put my fist out he reaches up and pounds my fist the day goes on some times I get chosen and lose control and other times I don't get chosen and have control I win several times and lose several more after I finish the last race and the arcade closes I'm covered in dirt I brush my self off and get ready to head to my room.
Vanellope stops me "hey Josh where are you going we still have to do the random roster race!" she tells me "thanks Vanellope but I think I'm going to sit out tomorrow" she frowns "why don't you like racing?" she asks me "oh yeah it's really fun but I was thinking about getting some more glitch training done" I tell her rubbing the back of my head "oh ok then" she says sadly rubbing her arm "so what do you want to do later?" I ask grabbing her hand "uhm go see Ralph I'll meet you there" she tells me "ok I'll head out then" I say turning around i head up to the castle I enter my room and see Stephen still on my bed I pick him up and place him on my shoulder "ok Stephen let's go see Ralph" i walk out of the castle and see Vanellope starting the race I smile and head towards the exit I enter game central station I start heading for fix it Felix jr but I can feel the eyes on me I look around and see people staring at me I wonder why but then I look over at Stephen and realize I shake my head and jump on the train to Fix it Felix jr.
And there is chapter 7 Stephen is accepted by Vanellope and is going to be introduced to the others any ways thanks for reading all feed back is welcomed and to be continued.
