Chapter 12: Back Together
After their breakfast together, Speed and Trixie were soon in her helicopter flying over their hometown.
"I really missed this," Speed said since he had grown to like flying with her. To him it could never be as much fun with anyone else.
Trixie smiled. "Yeah...I missed driving over 200 mph with you on the ground too."
Speed had to laugh. "We went faster than that yesterday in the race."
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That afternoon the couple visited the home Speed grew up in, and his family was very glad to see Trixie - especially Mom Racer. When Trixie had entered the garage, Mom Racer smiled and stared at her a second before she walked to her and hugged her. "Welcome back, dear," she whispered by her ear.
Sparky rolled from under a car he was working on to see his old friend. "Good," he said sounding relieved. "Now Speed won't be so depressing to be around."
"I told you I was miserable," Speed said with a smile as he looked at his girlfriend.
"Miserable? He was down right unbearable," Pops said rolling his eyes. Then looking at the sweet, young girl, he added, "I'm glad you're back, honey." He then hugged her, and Speed knew again it was so right to be back with her.
Trixie then noticed Spritle off in the corner being very quiet, which was strange for him. Walking over to him, she knelt down in front of him. "Hi, Spritle," she said seeing that he was upset.
Speed walked over to them seeing the sad look on Spritle's face as well as he knelt down next to Trixie. "Spritle. Say hello to Trixie."
"Hi, Trixie," the young boy said very low and still not looking at her.
"What's wrong?" Speed asked him.
"Leave him be," Trixie said not wanting to upset Spritle more.
"No," Speed said calmly while still looking at his little brother. "I thought you'd be glad to see Trixie around here again."
Spritle finally lifted his little eyes to her and said, "Are you going to stay this time?"
Speed and Trixie looked at each other before she looked back at Spritle, and said, "I promise to stay."
With that, Spritle smiled and then moved into the sweet girl's arms for a hug. Everyone in the garage couldn't help but smile at the scene.
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That night, Speed and Trixie were riding around when they spotted a car show. Since the two were interested in old cars, Speed pulled over so that they could both take a look at them. They were there for about fifteen minutes when they ran into Sparky.
"I should have known you'd be here," Speed said to his friend.
"Right about that," Sparky said checking out an old car as they were speaking.
The three of them began walking around together. While checking out a bunch of the cars, the girl from the sport's bar, Alexis, who had kissed Speed, approached them.
"Oh, no," Sparky said making Trixie and Speed wonder what the problem was.
"Speed," Alexis said making him look at her as she walked closer to him. "At least now I know who Trixie is because you sure didn't like kissing me. You...you, jerk!" She then stormed away leaving both Speed and Trixie with confused looks on their faces.
"I don't even know who that was?" Speed said innocently while looking back at Trixie.
"Let me explain," Sparky said walking in between his two friends and putting his arms around their shoulders as he began to explain.
"Speed," Sparky said as if the mechanic was so smart. "You didn't tell Trixie that you got drunk out of your mind about a month ago?"
"No," Speed said looking at Sparky like he wanted to knock him out. "That's not something I'm proud of. Especially since I don't remember it at all."
"Drunk?" Trixie asked surprised and totally forgetting about the girl.
"Uh...Trixie," Sparky said making a face at her to remind her about the time she had too much to drink in Europe. She didn't say anything and of course Sparky was happy to go on. "Anyway," Sparky said enjoying this a bit too much, "Speed doesn't remember that night. You see...I forced him to go out one night, and all he did was get drunk and talk about you."
"Really?" Trixie asked, not able to stop herself from smiling.
"It was pathetic," Sparky said with Speed knowing it was probably true because the next morning when he had woke up on the bathroom floor, he was holding Trixie's picture. "And, Speed...about that girl, Alexis..."
Speed gave Sparky a look begging him to shut up.
"It's alright, Speed. Trixie will like this," Sparky said in an assuring voice. "Trixie. It was actually weird, but ended up so funny. Now remember, Speed was drunk out of his mind..."
"Thanks again, Sparky," Speed said giving the mechanic the look of death.
"Well...Speed. I'm sorry," Sparky said with a chukle. "But you were totally out of it."
Defending himself, Speed said, "And who's idea was it to go out?"
"I didn't tell you drink until you couldn't stand," a guilty Sparky said. "Anyway, Trixie. Speed was drunk out of his mind - right. That girl walked up to Speed and just began kissing him. After, she asked him how was it, and he said he'd much rather kiss you."
Trixie had to cover her mouth to keep from laughing out loud.
"It was so funny," Sparky went on. "The girl got so mad that she slapped Speed and knocked him off of his barstool."
"Really?" Trixie asked not being able to hold in her laughter any longer.
"Yes," Sparky answered. "Ask Racer X."
"He was there?" Trixie asked with her eyes wide.
"I'm very embarrassed about that," Speed said sounding humiliated.
Moving from under Sparky's arm, Trixie walked in front of Speed and said, "Don't feel badly, Speed. Racer X saw me...drunk too."
"What?" Speed asked totally shocked - now with his eyes wide.
"Saw you, Trixie?" Sparky said. "Racer X practically carried you to the car."
"Thanks, Sparky," Trixie said flashing mean eyes at him. If eyes could have killed this night, Sparky would have been dead meat.
"When did this happen?" Speed asked; shocked.
Trixie took a deep breath and said, "I hate to bring this up but it was that first night in Europe when we went to that party and you were talking to…Gem."
Speed looked down when he heard Gem's name because he still felt so guilty.
With her right hand, Trixie lifted his chin. "Hey," she said softly. "You explained all of that to me. But, back then because of that situation, I had a drink and I guess I didn't stop."
"That's why the next morning you weren't feeling well," Speed said remembering her wearing her sunglasses.
"Yes," she answered. "At the time I was too embarrassed to tell you I had a hang over."
"Don't worry," Sparky said. "Speed looked a lot worse when he was drunk than you did."
The couple ignored Sparky as Speed wrapped his arms around Trixie and said, "I had no idea."
"I know," Trixie said hugging him back.
"I'm so sorry," he whispered in her ear.
"Forget about it. You didn't even know."
"I should have," he said moving to look at her.
"It's over," she said letting him lean his forehead down against hers, and soon a kiss followed.
"Hey, you two," Sparky said folding his arms but the two didn't stop. "Stop it. I seriously feel like a third wheel now." However, they kept kissing each other and continued to ignore Sparky.
"Fine," Sparky said walking away. "Don't come crying to me when the press has pictures of this."
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