Welcome to the chapter that I have been warning most people about. :p Go ahead, scream and run. But they (they being coughcoughlightningmater) don't fall in love. They will never fall in love. Nor will they go on a date, or have a small crush, or anything like that. So anyway, story time. Lightning is telling Sally about Mater's idea.

"With Mater?"

"Don't ask. It's just that… I, I dunno, I feel like because of this Tessa girl, things are, you know…"

"The town's gonna turn upside-down."

"Exactly, and we, well, we didn't have any plans tonight, and I was going to ask, but then Mater asked to do something, and well, he said I could invite you."

"So you're going on a date with Mater and me."

"Interesting and gross way to say it, but does that mean you'll go?"

Sally nodded. "It's the least I can do. Tessa's gonna stir something up."

"Oh, and uh, you can bring somebody. Just not Tessa. Never Tessa."

"Oh, trust me, I won't. Would um, Lexie be okay?"

Lightning gave Sally that annoyed look. "Please, no."

"You don't like Lexie?"

"She's, eh, annoying. I get bored of her."

"She's just turned thirteen."

"She's a teeny-booper, Sally."

"Well, what do you expect?"

"Oh, I don't know, maybe somebody who isn't overly obsessed with something as stupid as the Veronicars!"

"So she listens to their music too much. So what?"

"So I can't even plug my ears because that's almost impossible!"

Sally just shook her head at her fiancée. "Out of all the things we could fight about, we choose to fight about something stupid like this. Tessa's tearing us apart already, and she hasn't done anything!"

"Oh, so you just decide to blame it all on Tessa?"

"Are you defending her?"

"Maybe I am! Because if she has nothing to do with this, why would we blame her?"

"Because she's making me jealous, Lightning!" That was when the tears kicked in. Sally was starting to cry. Not too much, but still doing so. "Because I think that there's something going on in Doc's head. Like, maybe he doesn't like me. Or maybe he still doesn't like you, or, or maybe he just doesn't want you to get hurt or something, but Tessa, she, she just gets me a little worried."

"She gets us all worried. And no need to be jealous, alright? She should be jealous that you are marrying the Lightning McQueen. Ka-chow!"

"You may be Lightning McQueen out on that racetrack, but to me, you're Stickers." Sally gave him a little kiss. "So, when and where do we meet?"

"I think seven would be okay. We're meeting at Mater's place."

"So, who should I bring then?"

"Eh, just go ahead a bring Lexie. What we're gonna do is something that requires being quiet." An evil grin spread across Lightning's face. He was thinking that they would go tractor tipping. But boy, was he wrong.

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It was pretty easy to hear the song 'Did Ya Think' when Lexie pulled up by a hill where Lightning, Sally, and Mater were, so that they could have some fun together. The song brought back memories, and I mean bad ones.

"'Ey, Lightnin'? Isn't this the song you were talkin' 'bout, how it made ya think of how upset Miss Salleh must've been and whatnot?"

Sally nudged Lightning a little at that statement. He was worried. She could breathe now.

"So, what are we doing? Oh, can't be past ten. I have curfew," said Lexie.

"You're only thirteen, and you already have curfew," said Sally.

"Yeah, they said something about trusting me or whatever. I wasn't listening. Tia and Mia were screaming. Ugh. They're such teeny-boopers."

Lightning could feel his face getting a little bit hot. He couldn't let Lexie know that he had called her a teeny-booper herself. Tia and Mia were way more teeny-booper-ish than Lexie. Randomly, his mind went from Lexie to Elle, Doc's girl. She had officially been Doc's girl. He confirmed it. Now, what was he sad about? He found out Doc was married.

Married.

Marrige.

Engagement.

Sally.

Illegal.

Oh, right.

How the heck was he supposed to tell her that? "Uh, Sally?" Whoops.

Maybe she won't respond.

"Yeah?"

Oh, she responded, alright. "There's something I um… I have to tell ya something, Sal."

Sally was confused. "Um, sure."

Here we go… Oh, god help me. "Well, uh…" Wait a minute. Maybe Lexie and Mater shouldn't hear this. "Can you guy, uh, leave?"

"Hey! We can here anything!" said Lexie. "As long as it's not cursing. Or talk about, well, I'm not even going there."

"Now, look, Miss Lexeh," said Mater. "I think we needs to leave these two alone."

Lexie did her now famous pout. "Fine." They drove away, wondering what was going on.

"So?" Sally asked. She was getting anxious.

Here we go. Again. "Doc said, well, he said that we, we couldn't get legally married in Radiator Springs." Phew, I got it over with. That was almost as hard as the proposal. Lightning looked over to Sally. She looked like she was about to cry. "No, Sally, I, I don't want this, either. I wanna stay here, but if we wanna get married, we, we can't."

Sally just didn't respond. It was too much to take in. She couldn't. She would break down.

Lightning let out a sigh. There was nothing else he could do.

"WEEEEEEEEEEEEHOO!" was heard in the distance from a voice that sounded exactly like Mater's. "I'M THE FIRS' ONE HILL ROLLIN'!"

"MATER, YOU WEIRDO!" screamed none other that Lexie. "SHUT UP AND SLOW DOWN! WHO PUSHED YOU ANYWAY?"

"YOU MEAN YOU DIDN'T?"

"YOU KIDDING ME?"

Now Mater wasn't screaming for his enjoyment. He was screaming for his life. He was reaching the bottom of the hill, but he was still going faster and faster. Lexie tried to catch up with him by going faster than him, and so far, it was working, she was next to him, keeping a distance. She didn't want to end up in some freak accident. Lightning turned around and saw that Mater was coming right at him. It obviously wasn't on purpose, but it wasn't the coolest thing in the world. They both screamed for their lives, and then they crashed, Sally being told by Lexie what was happening. Lightning and Mater were both physically okay, but there was something that felt a little weird. What was that thing on their lips? Lightning looked down and saw the rusty car's lips right on his. Where was the gap between those lips? WHERE WAS THAT GAP? Lightning looked right into Mater's eyes, who had also discovered that they were, were, they didn't even want to think about what they were doing. (A/N: There was the part. It will affect the future a bit. Just warning you!) They're eyes were as wide as they're window panels would let them get. They both backed away with speed and screamed. "Oh, god," said Lightning, who could hear Lexie laughing her head off. He turned his head to her. "Why are you laughing?" He turned to Sally. "Why is she laughing?"

"Did you NOT notice what you just did?" asked Lexie with giggles in between her syllables. "LIGHTNING MCQUEEN JUST KISSED A BOY!"

Sally couldn't help it anymore. This was too funny. She bursted out laughing. Lightning gave her one of those 'not you, too' looks. "Please, you don't find that funny, do you?"

"I'm not sure I'd be laughing otherwise, Lightning," said a laughing Sally. "I just think it's funny. Because, well, we thought that Tessa was gonna cause problems, and here you are, kissing Mater right in front of me!" Sally kept on laughing with Lexie. What else was there to do? What's better than watching a hot-shot racecar and his best friend run lips into each other on accident?

Mater and Lightning looked at each other, both totally embarrassed. What had they just done? They were best friends! Not boyfriends! "Uh, Mater, I-"

"It's okay, Lightnin'. It's my fault, I guess. I ran into yuh."

"Mater, it's not your fault. Just a little strange."

"Not bad, was it?"

Lightning rose what would be his eyebrows. What exactly did he mean by the 'kiss' wasn't bad? "Well, I mean, not bad bad, but just, just crazy and weird and, all those other insane feelings."

Mater nodded. "I mean, this won't jeeportize (In Mater world, that's jeopardize) our friendship, will it?"

"Oh, never."

"Yer a good friend, Lightnin'."

Lightning smiled a little. "Thanks, Mater." He was upset deep inside though. That was the worst thing that could ever happen between you and your best friend. And for your fiancée to laugh at you, well, that's another thing. Lightning spat on the ground, making sure he didn't have any bit of Mater on him. He couldn't think.

Wait a minute.

Sally's laughing.

Oh, good, she doesn't care.

Wait.

Is it a bad thing if she doesn't care?

If she doesn't care, does that really mean she's giving me a sympathy marriage?

Does she… not love me?

Ah, Lightning's worried! Poor him. Wait. I'm doing the stuff to him. Bad me! Bad! LOL. But anyway, don't worry. Everything between Mater and Lightning will be fine from now on. Nothing more between them.

So, now that that's over with, how about you give me a review?