"So..Let me get this straight…" Ralph said, pulling himself up from the gooey ground. "You don't know how to drive?"
I laughed, jumping out of my kart. "No, not technically! But I know I was made to be a racer. I can feel it in my code."
Ralph shook his head vigorously, then all of a sudden let out a high pitched scream.
I whipped around. He was bouncing up and down on one foot, trying to brush something off of it. I giggled.
"Oh, yeah, watch where you step, those lava bubbles really can burn you if you get too close!"
He grunted. "Yeah, no kidding."
I led him off to one side of the mountain, where my home was stationed. I excitedly began to show him around.
"Well! This is it! What do you think? Oh, see? When I go to bed at night I use these candy wrappers and snuggle up like a little homeless person-"
Ralph didn't say anything. He stared at me sadly. "Why…don't you just leave?" he asked, running his hand through his hair.
"Don't you know?" I asked, a frown replacing my smile. "Glitches can't leave their game. It's one of the joys of being me." I sighed. "Everyone thinks I'm just a mistake. But I know I was meant to be a racer. I can just feel it!" tears began to fill up my eyes.
"Well," Ralph began, advancing toward me. "Let's get started."
I turned toward, him, and smiled. He was going to help me.
Quickly, we both pushed my kart out of the ditch, and slowly brought it to one side. I hopped in.
"Hmmm.." Ralph began, examining the kart. He pressed a button on the floor, and the car began to rev up excitedly. "That's the accelerator.."
He pressed another button. The car squeaked. He looked at me seriously. " That must be the stopper."
He pressed the last button. The car did nothing. "And uh.. I don't know what that one is.."
I looked at him. He smiled. "Alright, go ahead and press your foot down on the accelerator!"
Over the next couple days, Ralph and me worked and worked on getting me to learn how to drive, with lots of success. Eventually, I could even race a couple times around the track that ralph had built me around inside the mountain. Soon, I felt like I was ready.
It was finally my time to shine.