"Hello everyone, and welcome to another race for the Piston Cup circuit."

Bob Cutlass said from the booth.

"I'm Bob Cutlass here with Darrell Cartrip."

………………

"What did you say?" Darrell asked.

"What?"

"You didn't call me a good friend!" he sounded like he was crying!

"Aw come on Darrell! Don't take it that serious!"

"YOU'RE NOT NICE!!!"

"Um, let's just please get to the race now!"

The funeral for Doc was just yesterday and I didn't know if I could do a race today. Even though Sally and Mater were in the audience to support me, I'd thought I'd probably end up in 10th place again.

While driving to the racetrack, Stormy came up to talk to me.

"Hey Lightning!" he said.

"What's up?"

"Nothing." I sounded kinda gloomy.

"What's the matter?"

"Well…ugh, if you must know, I went to my friend's funeral yesterday." I said looking at the ground.

"Oh that's sad." He said feeling sorry.

"Yeah, I think I might end up in 10th place again."

There was a little pause for a while.

"Hey, I know what you can do." Stormy finally said.

"Try to think of something that makes you happy during the race."

My face started to look up. That was a good idea.

"Later." He said heading up to the racetrack.

I had a smile. Maybe I can do this!

"And they're off!" Bob said when all the cars and I started racing.

Chick was doing his normal racing and bumping into the first car that gets in his way. As for me, I was trying to get ahead of him.

I was also taking Stormy's advice and thinking about happy stuff. I started thinking of the day proposing to Sally. Like I said before, I will never forget that day. She was so pretty and it was a perfect spot to propose…

It was late at night; Lightning took Sally to a room that looked like a concert would be in; but it was empty. Sally was confused but she was also laughing.

"Stickers!" she said with a smile.

"What are we doing here?"

"Oh, no reason…" Lightning started to say.

"I just wanted to ask you something."

"What is it?"

There was a pause for a moment.

"Sally," Lightning started to say.

"You like your life, right?"

"Umm, yeah." She started to say confused.

"But do you want your life want to stay like this?"

"Stickers, where are you going with this?"

Then he stopped babbling and decided to ask right away.

"Sally Carerra," he said leaning on his back wheel and taking out a little black box.

"Will…will you marry me?"

Then he opened the box and inside was a beautiful diamond ring.

Sally's face looked like she was going to cry in joy.

She took a while to say anything and Lightning was too eager to wait for anything! Then she finally said "Yes!!!! I WILL!"

"Really!?" Lightning asked excitedly.

"Yes Lightning, YES!"

She was about to kiss him until the lights turned off and near the stage were blue and pink lights.

Then two cars came up from the stage. Sally had a very excited face; those cars looked very familiar to her.

One was a light green BMW Z4 wearing sunglasses and the other was dark blue Cadillac STS-V with a light blue flame job. They were K-Ci and Jojo!

Then they both heard music filling the room. It was All My life by K-Ci and Jojo! (I guess I forgot to mention that this song was also played that day for the other chapter)

Sally could not believe that Lightning would bring her to see the real live K-CI AND JOJO! Sally started crying a little in joy.

"Lightning!" she said to him.

"I can't believe you would do this for me!"

"Well," Lightning started to say.

"You still didn't put it on."

Then Sally looked at Lightning's tire. He was still holding the ring. Then he put it on the rim of her wheel. (Well, in Cars world, wheels are hands, right?)

Then, I just remembered something. I looked at my left wheel. My wedding ring was on! I couldn't wear my ring at a race; it could fall off! I always take it off before I go to a race; SHOOT! I forgot to take it off this morning!

I prayed that it wouldn't fall off today. But I don't think The Manufacturer didn't get it because I was coming up near Chick.

This day, I decided not to say anything to him so he won't bash into me. But today, Chick wanted to mess with me.

"Hey McQueen." He said in his teasing voice.

"How's the wife?"

That question made me suspicious of him. "Oh, she's fine." I answered

"Is she in the audience?"

"Yeah, why?"

"Well, I think I could see her with another guy up there."

I didn't want to listen to him because Sally wouldn't do that. So then I looked up at the audience. I saw her waving up her tire smiling.

I smiled back at her.

Then, Chick saw my left tire and the ring on it. He had an evil smile and then he banged into it. It was the same way he banged me in the last race of last season, when I was able to drive backwards for a while.

So I started driving backwards again; but then I looked at my left tire. The ring was gone!! Then I quickly looked at the ground and I saw it in front of me.

I tried to grab it until a car accidentally ran over it!

Nooooooo! I thought. My wedding ring!

Then, while I was still driving backwards, a different car accidentally bashed into me and I went into the infield. Some of the cars in the audience gasped including Sally.

The laps flew by and this time, I came in 17th place. Luckily, for bashing too many cars, Chick made it into 6th place. For Stormy, he made it in 3rd place. Well, I'm glad his advice worked for him!

After the race, when no one was at the track, I raced to it trying to find the ring. There it is! I thought. I started racing to it.

But all of a sudden, a car came in starting to clean the track. (you know, to clean it? If they don't actually have it, I just made it up!)

He started cleaning up the spot where the ring was.

"No! Stop!" I shouted to him.

Unfortunately, he was making too much cleaning and he couldn't hear me. The ring was already gone.

My mouth was wide opened. Then my face started getting angry.

I was about to say something inappropriate,

"SON OF A" But then I heard someone's voice behind me.

"Stickers?" it was Sally.

"Are you ok?"

I turned around slowly.

"Yeah, I-I'm ok!"

"What's wrong? It's ok if you lost…again. You'll get it next time!" Sally said trying to cheer me up.

"Right, I'll get it next time!" I was trying to do a smile.

While we were driving out of the arena, I was thinking if Sally would ever notice me without my ring. Oh crud.

Well that sucks…