Chapter 3: Good Bye Stickers

The next few days has passed since Sally and Doc's talk. Sally finally admit to herself that she was falling for the red rookie car. She founded out that the racecar felt the same for her.

She was happy and i mean happy as she finally found someone she could get serious with, maybe gettting married and having children with.

Everybody except Doc was happy about how Lightning McQueen's job on the street was superb. After finishing the street, Lightning decided to try everybody's stores to remember them. First he got whitewall tires from Luigi's, then he got a new paint job from Ramone's. He tried Filmore's organic fuel and liked it, he helped everybody except for Sally and Doc.

He couldn't do anything for Doc except to leave town as soon as possible.

Until then he decided to give Sally a surprise and boy was she surprise when she saw McQueen's new paint job.

Then other surprise when the town turned their neon lights on when it got darker.

"Oh my, i can't believe you did this" she said surprised.

"I thought you might wanted to see how Radiator Springs was like before you arrived." said Lightning.

"Oh Stickers thank you" she said as she kissed him on the fender.

Then music started playing.

"Wanta take a stroll with me?" he asked Sally.

"Of course" she said as they cuddled up next to him and they strolled up and down the street with the other happy citzens of the town.

They were happy until a bright lights was heading their way. Mater thought it was the "ghost light" and he hided behind Sheriff.

"That not the ghost light, Mater" said Lightning as he saw what was headed their way.

It was Mack, Mcqueen's personal Transportation Truck. Lightning couldn't believe that he found him.

While Mack and McQueen talked, Sally had a bad feeling, she knew somehow that Stickers will be leaving soon. Why in Ford's name that she ended up falling for race car, she was trying to leave that world behind but at the end that world found her.

Lightning turned around and faced her.

"Sally i'm" he tried to say to finished his sentence to her but she didn't want to hear it.

"Thanks for everything you did" she said before the reporters started coming in and taking lots of pictures of McQueen. She was pushed to the side with the other town citizens.

Then both cars looked at each other before Lightning was pushed into his trailer and then took off heading towards the highway.

"Goodbye, Lightning, good luck with the race" she said hoarsely.

Before she went to her hotel, she heard a reporter talking to Doc Hudson.

"Are you Doc Hudson?" she asked.

"Yes" he said not knowing that Sally was listening near by.

"Thanks for the tip" said the reporter as she turned around and left the same way the others reporters left.

Sally couldn't believe what Doc has done. She went over and confined with him.

"Why did you do that?" she asked with anger in her voice.

"It's the best for everyone, Sally" he said.

"Best for everyone, or best for you" she said before speeding over to her hotel, turned off her neon and locked herself in the lobby for the night.

The others where sad to see their new friend leave. They all got depressed and started to shut down their neon lights and went to bed. Leaving Doc Hudson alone under the stop light.

'What have i done?" he said to himself. He finally admits to himself that the racecar was good for the town. Out of how many years that he saw the town so happy. Lightning McQueen was the town's best customer, and looked what he done, he spoiled it all just to protect himself from that world.

He slowly drove back to his garage and locked up everything before heading for bed. He has to make it better, it's his fault that McQueen was gone. He looked up at his framed article about his famous crash.

Then he thought of what Sally said about her past. Then he knew what he has to do. But it has to wait until morning.