Chapter Nine – Lies
"HOW COULD YOU?!" shouted Vanellope in anger, her body glitching every few seconds.
"You tell me FIRST, GLITCH!" spat Taffyta, gripping the side of her crutches.
"I-I can't believe I put my trust in you! I thought you were different from the others!" the raven haired racer yelled.
"ME?! What about YOU?! You lead me on with your sweet act but we all know that was bull honkey!" growled the strawberry racer.
The two girls glared at each other; they both knew it. Their friendship was over. There was no more time for talk, no more time for questions. All the pieces of the puzzle had been put together and everything fit.
Vanellope had been using Taffyta.
Taffyta had been using Vanellope.
They weren't friends; they were PROPS.
The split had begun and it would only spoil the world of Sugar Rush for both girls.
Vanellope marched off, heading back to her home in Diet Cola Mountain. The thoughts that were going through her head were quite the opposite that had been there before. She no longer saw Taffyta and the others as friends but as rivals. No longer did she see Taffyta as someone to come to when she felt bad but someone to avoid.
No longer was Taffyta a person, but a bully.
Vanellope looked at the pictures she had collected over the years, the photos that she had taken with Taffyta throughout the various places in Sugar Rush. She looked at those photos…and chucked them right into the pits of Diet Cola Mountain.
Taffyta made her way back to her cottage, anger the only thing she could see. She looked at all the photos she had taken with Vanellope.
That smile. That self-righteous, sneer.
She couldn't take it anymore.
She took her crutch and hit the pictures from the wall, screaming out in frustration as she did so.
No longer did she see Vanellope as a friend, no longer did she see Vanellope as the only person who understood her, no longer did she see Vanellope as a person with an open heart.
She just saw a back-stabbing GLITCH.
Taffyta gathered up all the photos and gifts she had of Vanellope and threw them in the trash.
"Ith so SAD what the truth can do when it gets out…" King Candy sighed as he looked at himself in the mirror "But if we don't hear tha truth, we remain ignorant to the facts."
The man stood, walking around his giant bed room. With a sigh, he threw himself on the bed, bouncing a bit on the springs.
"But maybe, ith-s better that things stay that way…I mean, if things were ta get out, just how WOULD those kids think?"
The king sat up, going to his dresser from which he pulled out the screenshots he had taken of the security video but beside them?
Heart sprinkles.
Gummie bears.
Peppermints.
People were familiar that Vanellope wore them in her hair but what was King Candy doing with them? The man then got up, walking over to his closet.
"Gotta make sure I have my royal suit ready for tomorrow! Wouldn't want ta look a messth in front of my thubjects!"
As the man went through his collection of outfits, another familiar sight fell to his feet.
A teal hoodie, some tights, and a double layer skirts.
Evidence.
HARD EVIDENCE.
The king sneered, a chuckle coming from his throat "Yes, ignorance. I don't know how far I would get without it!"
GCS was pitch black as a figure crept his way through the empty halls. A pin could have dropped and it would have been the only sound heard. The figure continued its trek through the halls, ducking here and there to make sure it couldn't be seen.
"Don't mind me…." The figure hissed "I'm just a widdle blob 'o pixel goin' out for a walk."
The figure stopped in front of the entrance to a game; Sugar Rush.
There is was. It was open and waiting for him.
Wait. They couldn't go just yet! There was still a catch.
"So, it took ya long enough…" a voice rang through the darkness. The figure shivered as it turned, seeing someone hiding in the corner.
"S-sorry. I was startin' ta get a lil worried."
"Ya should have known better…" the figure replied, her voice deep "I would never leave ya out here alone like this."
"Thaffyta…." The figure cooed "I wouldn't expect less from my FAVORITE RACER."
Taffyta stepped from the corner, her arms crossed and a lollipop planted between her teeth.
"An' I woudn't expect less from the rightful ruler of Sugar Rush!"