Chapter Two

"Van, what happened?" Candlehead asked, walking up to the president.

But Vanellope shook her head and continued to stare at the ground. She hurt her best friend for not telling her about the secret relationship between her and Candlehead. But it was a secret. Something not to be shared.

"I should've told her," Vanellope muttered, walking to get in her kart.

"But, Vanny-" Candlehead called out.

"Everybody go home! Wouldn't want another accident, would we?" Vanellope tried to laugh, but ended up sounding like something got caught in her throat.

In the last update, a candy person was out when the Candy Cane Forest was being added to. The poor peppermint had a whole came stuck in his eye. And he willingly got himself killed in another game to not deal with the pain. It wasn't a racer, but still. It was kind of hard for Vanellope to let him do that.

Vanellope ignored everybody's calls, hopped in her kart, and zoomed away towards her castle. She wanted to go to Taffyta's house and apologize, but a) there wouldn't be enough time to get home before the update and b) Taffyta wouldn't want to see her anyways. So why should the young president try? Oh right. Because they're best friends.

Sour Bill was already in the castle, moping when Vanellope drove through the doors and parked her car. She didn't say a word to him as she headed to her room quietly. She wanted this update to hurry up and be over with so she could go to Taffyta.

At that instant, everything went dark and Vanellope was unconscious.

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When Taffyta woke up, she saw nothing changed in her room. She went to stand in front of her sugary mirror to see she hasn't changed a bit. She smiled and went outside to her kart when she almost choked on her spit.

Beside her strawberry-shaped house, a few yards away, was another strawberry-shaped house. Only, it wasn't pink. It was blue. Another character was added to the game.

Taffyta hesitantly walked to her new neighbor's house, getting ready to introduce herself. When she stood in front of the door she quickly rung the doorbell, and the door almost opened immediately.

The new racer looked exactly like Taffyta, but with her strawberry hat being blue along with the rest of her outfit, and her hair being a light pink. Her eyes weren't blue, but they were brown. It was a recolor.

"Hi! I'm Taffyta Muttonfudge," Taffyta introduced. "What's your name?"

"It's Galleta. Galleta Seaclaid," the recolor replied.

"That's...unusual."

Galleta shrugged. "Aren't all our names unusual? So, when does the Random Roster Race start?"

"Not sure. We'll have to speak to our president..."

Taffyta trailed off, almost forgetting about what happened before the update. She was still upset about Vanellope not being able to trust her.

"President? I thought we had a princess?" Galleta questioned.

"Yeah, well Your Royal Highness was a pain in the butt and decided to go against the programming," Taffyta muttered.

"Huh. Is she nice?"

"Depending on your definition of nice. Anyways, we have to go to the main racetrack. She'll probably announce something to us."

Galleta nodded and went to her kart while Taffyta hurried to hers and pulled up beside the recolor.

"Race ya," Taffyta smirked.

"Oh, it's on!"