Daytona Florida speedway, qualifying.
Sally looked around. Her eyes wide. "Oh wow.. This place is lively isn't it!?" she said loudly. The car engines, music, crowds talking made it difficult to be heard. Lightning laughed "Yeah but.. you'll get use to it." Sally wasn't so sure of that. Doc spoke up "Alright, now we were a little late getting here.. You go on and get suited up. Gotta get qualified." Lightning nodded and gave Sally a quick kiss on the cheek before rushing off. Doc then turned to Sarge and asked "Can you get the team signed in. And Sally, come with me. We need to get you a pass in case we get seperated." Sally followed Doc, Sarge and Filmore went off to sign the team in.
Doc and Sally stood in a line. It was pretty long. "So what do you think of all this?" Sally's eyes widened as she sighed answering "It's.. Alot bigger than what I expected." Doc snickered some. Sally looked around and asked "So you use to do this?" Doc shook his head "Kinda. It wasn't quite like this back in my day. Racers now days?.. They show boat a whole lot more." Sally didn't say much else back to that.
Lightning stepped out of his trailer and began walking to the pits when Tex stopped him, "Lightnin!" "Hey Tex!" The two shook hands. "Still think you mighta looked a whole lot better in blue!" Tex winked. Lightning shrugged "Yea well, After everything Rusty and Dusty have done for me you know?" Tex smiled and wrapped an arm around Lightning "You sure make me proud. Especially after what you did for my boy Strip." "Ofcourse,. Is he here?" Lightning asked. Tex nodded "Sure is! You know he wouldn't miss a race now?" Lightning agreed. "Good luck out there Light." Tex added and patted the young racers back before heading out.
Lightning headed to his pits, His team there. Including Sally and Doc by this time. Sally's eyes widened complimenting "Wow.. You look good!" Lightning chuckled and playfully spun asking "Think so Baby?" Sally nodded "Oh yea, kachow indeed!" Lightning smiled then heard Strip, "Hey kid, you got a minute?" Lightning smiled and walked up to them greeting "Hey Mr and Mrs The King!" Strip smiled correcting "Strip is fine." "And you can call me Linda." his wife added. Lightning seemed a little surprised. Linda took Lightning's hand and smiled "I wanna thank you again Light. What you did for my husband.. Our family. You're our hero." Lightning smiled "Wow.. You're welcome." Strip then spoke up "And I wanna introduce you to someone. um.." He looked around "Now where is that boy?" Linda noticed the kid, around Lightning's age, sporting the dinico suit and motioned him over. The kid had brown eyes, brown hair. Kinda looked like The King a little even. "Lightnin this is Cal. He's my nephew and the new face of Dinico." Cal smiled "It's nice to meet you!" shaking each others hands. Lightning replied "Good to meet you to. Racing runs in the family huh?" Cal smiled answering "I've always wanted to be like my uncle." Strip and Linda smiled proudly. Strip commented "Take it easy on him won't ya?" And winked before walking off with Linda by his side.
Lightning called "Will do Strip!. So you're one of the rookies?" he asked Cal. Cal seemed all full of positivity and excitement! "Yes sir! I've been into racing my whole life though. It's good to meet you. You should let me buy you a drink sometime. Thank you properly for what you did for my family and uncle Strip." Cal offered. Lightning shrugged "Maybe I'll take you up on that sometime. Good luck in the race Cal." "You to!" Cal replied with a smile. Lightning rushed back over to his team and Sally. Oh he was so excited to have Sally here at the track!
Doc spoke up "You need to get goin. Callin numbers to the track. You're one the first ones up. Get on out there!" Lightning nodded and sent Sally a wink before getting into the race car and speeding off.
Doc sighed and placed a head set on. Sally was impressed some. She smiled and watched with some excitement as Lightning made a lap around and began qualifying. Doc spoke up into the headset mic,
How you feelin kid?
"Feelin great Doc. Let's do this!"
Alright, that's what I like to hear. No need to be a show off, just qualify and get your place.
"Where's the fun in that?"
Doc said sosomething else, but Lightning didn't hear it. He just noticed the older style, green stock car pull up from behind and ride along side! Chick. Lightning glanced over amd Chick lifted the shield on his helmet and smiled and waved with a wink. Lightning couldn't stand him.
Chick shifted hard and muttered to his own crew chief "Let's show the kid what real racing looks like." Chick passed Lightning up hard trying to cut him off. It really pissed Light off but Doc spoke up loudly "Hey! Don't worry about him. You just do what you came here to do kid." Lightning sighed but did aa Doc said and let Chick take his place ahead. But Lightning was the better racer and came up behind Chick.
Chick rolled his eyes and joked with his coach "Watch this boys, how about a little brake check." He tapped his brakes and 95's nose hit the corner of 86, Lightning's car slid off the track with a hard left, drifting through some dirt before stopping on the pavement near the pits with a loud screach! Lightning quickly shift gears and sped back onto the track, blowing white smoke behind his tires.! "Brake check!? Are you kidding me!?" he yelled and hit the wheel! Doc glared over at Chick's crew. They were sure aughing it up.. Doc shook his head and ordered "Keep your cool. He's just trying to mess with you." Lightning snickered. He should show Chick a thing or two. At least that's how he felt! But Doc knew that wasn't cool, and planned to talk to Chick's team himself...
Lightning finished his qualification and pulled up into his pits. He immediately got out, took off his helmet and started to head toward Chick's pits. But Doc stopped him scolding "He's not worth it." Chick noticed and laughed and asked "Awe.. did I hurt your feelings McQueen?" Lightning only snarled back crossing his arms, "Oh I'm sorry, are you always an idiot or do you just show off when I'm around?" Chick chuckled and asked "I'm sorry, didn't you think that was funny?" Lightning shook his head and asked "If I threw a stick, you'd leave? Right?" he smiled. Chick's eyes widened and he growled "Why you little..." Doc spoke up walking up next to Lightning "You control your driver!" the old man scolded. Chick's coach laughed and replied "And you control yours!" Chick shrugged and reassured his team "No worries guys. The kid will fire them. I give it a month if they're lucky." And walked off.
Lightning glared. Watching him leave. Sally walked up and snarled "He is aweful!.. You wouldn't fire your team?.. Would you?" She asked as she looked at her boyfriend. Lightning shook his head, "No! Definitely not! I love you guys. I just. Have a?.. Sorta.. Reputation of.. Firing my team mates.." Sally's eyes widened. "But no worries! It's not happening with this team!" Lightning quickly reassured! Sally raised a brow. Doc sighed butting in "Well thanks to that little scuffle you qualified 8th." "Well it's not a problem.. I can take the lead pretty quick Doc." Doc snickered at that cockiness.
Lightning grabbed Sally's hand and asked "How about a tour?" he smiled with such charm. Sally shrugged "Sure, sounds fun." Doc cleared his throat grabbing the twos attention. "Careful. Be smart and get some rest for tomorrow morning." Lightning rolled his eyes replying "Relax Doc. I got this. With the king retired, Chick is my biggest rival. Trust me.. This is hardly a race." Doc rolled his eyes and watched the kids take off.
Lightning pulled Sally around the stadium! Showing her all the things that were really his daily life! Took her to the souvenir booths. Which she thought was funny!. Seeing all types of different toys and gadgets and clothing of the different racers. Lightning did give her a baseball cap that was red with a number 95 on the front. "How do I look?" she asked with a smile as she put it on backwards. Lightning chuckled answering "Look good! Hold on." he turned the hat right way facing forward. "There we go! Gotta represent." he winked. Sally rolled her eyes with a smile.
Lightning took her hand and took her to the food stand. "Why? I'm really not that hungry? Plus I don't know how I feel about eating this kind of food Stickers.." Sally asked. Lightning's eyes widened explaining "You can't say you came to a race without eating a hotdog!? That's!?.. That's.. Un-American." Sally raised a brow "Un American? Really?" Lightning shrugged. But they stood and waited in line for this silly hot dog. And when Sally finally took a bite all she could say was "This is actually really good!" Lightning chuckled "Just had to gice it a try. Come on! This way!" he grabbed her hand and dragged her away once again!
Lightning took Sally to his sponsors tent next. Sally looked up at the rusteze logo. Then she saw the cardboard cut out of Lightning and laughed! "Oh my gosh! You seem taller here? Wait, wait? Has anyone ever drew a mustache on you before!?" She asked. Lightning shook his head. The tent wasn't really crowded. Just Rusty and Dusty. "Lightning!" they both shouted seeing the young man! "Hey guys!" Lightning greeted happily. Rusty walked up and asked "You ready for this season!?" "Gonna be the best yet!" Dusty added! Lightning chuckled "You bet guys, Hey! There's someone I want you to meet." Sally walked up next to her boyfriend and waved a little with her fingers. Rusty and Dusty glanced at each other a moment. She was cute. Platinum blonde with long hair, teal eyes, flare cut jeans with a white t shirt that was loose and the 95 hat. Her shoes weren't exactly sneakers. more like dress flats. Rusty smiled and introduced himself, followed by Dusty. "You two have fun!" Rusty shouted as they began leaving. Dusty added "But not too much fun! Okay kid?" Lightning chuckled a bit at that. Rusty added more talking to Sally "Just have hik back in time for the race now okay!" They waved leaving.
Next Sally and Lightning were walking through the truck trailers and garages. Passing other teams members and other racers. Some waved and called a quick hello to Lightning. "Wow. This is huge isn't it!?" Sally exclaimed. Lightning nodded. "You really are passionate about racing aren't you?" she asked. Lightning nodded again answering "Yeah. Racing means alot to me." Sally smiled and nudged "Okay Monty. Why don't you show me your trailer next?" she more suggested. Lightning's eyes widened. Part of him became nervous. It showed a little. Because Sally giggled and asked "You okay? I didn't mean to scare you?" she teased with a seductive look. Lightning rolled his eyes smiling "I'm not scared?" Sally shrugged replying "Than take me inside.." She stood close to his face. Looking into his eyes. Lightning couldn't help womdering a bit. Was she threatening him? Using some kind of tempting attorney thing? Lightning shrugged "Okay.." They walked over to his trailer. He unlocked it and looked around a moment before going in with Sally and shutting the door.
Sally sat down on the bed inside. She looked up at the lights on the ceiling... The speakers to the side.. The massage chair.. The bobble head amd other 95 figurines.. "So this is where you spend most of your time?" she asked. Lightning shrugged. Sally brushed her hand across the dark red bedding and noticed the bed was quite large for him.. It made her curious.. "Beds rather big? Isn't it?.." She asked carefully. She knew what she was doing. Watching his reaction. Lightning blushed answering "Yeah uh.. Well.. I.. I like to be comfortable.." Smooth. Sally raised a brow. She knew better than that. But she nodded and took off the hat. "Come here.." She said as she patted the bed next to her. Lightning swallowed hard but walked over and sat down next to his girlfriend.
Lightning took his hand and placed it on her cheek.. He leaned forward and began kissing her.. His tongue slipped into her mouth. They both closed their eyes.. Sally rubbed his knee which was pushing Lightning to go further. Lightning ribbed her neck down.. her shoulder and arm.. All while their tongues danced with each other's. His hand rubbed down to between her legs and in her inner thighs... Sally moaned quietly. Lightning smiled hearing that and gently pushed her down onto the bed. He crawled over top her body. Their lips never parting. Sally moaned and Lightning took her wrist and held them firmly down with his hands agaisnt the bed. He pulled away and gazed at her. Wow she looked good and was absolutely begging to be fucked! Right here.. Right now..
"Sally.. I."
Knock knock knock!!
They were interrupted. Sally sighed and smiled saying "Guess we'll have to wait until we get to the rooms huh?" Lightning sighed and nodded "Sadly.." He griped. He stood uo and straightened himself up before opening the trailer door. It was just Doc. Doc stared and explained "We're headed to the motel. Is Sally with you?" Sally showed herself, standing next to Lightning. Doc nodded and added "You two behave yourselves.. Get some sleep Lightning." Then left. Lightning shut the door and locked it asking "Where were we?" Sally giggled as Lightning pushed her gently to the bed. Where they began making out passionately again.
But just as it started Sally stopped him and pushed his chest up enough the kiss stopped and they stared at each other, eye to eye. "How many girls have you slept with in this bed?.." She asked softly. Lightning shrugged it off answering "I don't know?.. Why does it matter?" he asked. Sally stared at him. Unsure if she really even wantes to know.. "It.. It doesn't I guess.. But.. It is starting to bother me.. sense you won't tell me.." Lightning sighed and looked into her eyes answering "I just don't want you to think differently of me.. I like you, I love you.. I don't want to lose you over something that's.. In the past.." Sally raised a brow reminding "The past? As in what? Three months ago?" Lightning sat up and sat down next to her.
Sally sat up and grabbed his hand assuring "Lightning, you trust me right? I'm not gonna just run off and leave you because you're slutty." Lightning snickered a bit. It made him smile. "Got you to smile about it.." she teased. Lightning sighed and nodded. "You really wanna know?.." He asked. Sally shrugged and nodded. He felt awkward about answering but.. "At least?... four.. five..maybe seven?" Sally raised a brow and stared. He didn't know the actual answer. But something around that. There were the twins.. they always came to his mind when he thought of women he slept with.. Fuck they were great.. The dinico girl.. She was his first older woman... older than him by a good years anyway.. The girl in high school... The couple different fan girls that were just way to easy... Then Sally.
Sally frowned a bit and felt stupid asking but it just waa heavy on her.. "Am I any good?.. Honestly.. Are any of them?.. Better?.." Lightning shook his head answering a little too quickly "I mean.. No one's been the same. Their all definitely different. You're good, no worries." "Just good?" She asked. Lightning stared. Kinda unsure how to answer..
"Yea?... You're great. You don't gotta compare yourself to anyone." "But you said different? What does that mean?" Sally asked. She sounded as if she were getting a little upset and honestly Lightning was kinda hoping to just get laid.. Not argue..
"I just meant.. That some like it rougher and some don't.. Let's move on from this.." He asked, hoping she'd drop it. Sally raised a brow and now was really curious "What do you mean rougher? You like rough sex?" She asked. Lightning flopprd down onto the bed and answered "I don't know what I like!? I love you though.. And I'd love to be inside you right now and I'd love to show you I love you!?" Sally snickered some and lay next to him. "You wanna head to the hotel?" She asked. "I'm kinda tired.." Sally admitted. Lightning frowned a bit but agreed and they went off to their rooms for the night..
Sallt enjoyed a bath, a book, and quiet before bed... Lightning needed a bit of release before bed himself and so he took a hot shower to help that along before he headed to bed himself...
Sally couldn't stop thinking.. Over thinking... Just how Lightning said that.. It was.. different... And... some like it rougher... Maybe she needed to be rougher for Lightning.. If he would even open up about it..