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Ok, friends, I need a way to tell you guys apart. If you all use (guest) there's no way I can tell who's, who's. If you don't want to use your name, then say something like guest from New York, crazy car fan, or something like that.
To the Guest-
Hey! I'm the guest who is helping you with some thing with the story like the honey moon. Don't be confused with the other guest who reviwed chapter 2. I HAVEN'T REVIEWED CHAPTER 2! it's another 'guest' who did it! :D and for a place for their honey moon I would say... Cancun, Mexico J -
I'm calling you HMG (honeymoon guest). I need to do some reach on how long the flight could be from LA to Cancun. I'm assuming that it would be late afternoon to evening when they get there. What should they do when they get there and check in.
Chapter 4. -Heading Off and Lightning's Name-
Five days later, Lightning was packing his stuff to put in his trailer. Much to Sally's pleasure, he had completed his guest list for the wedding. It was long but not as long as Sally's. They decided on the colors for their wedding, gold and silver, and hired a wedding coordinator to help with the details. "Drive fast and be safe" Sally said following Lightning out to his trailer. "You know me," Lightning said. "I'll be fine. There are only seven races left in the season." "I know," Sally said. "But that doesn't stop me from worrying about you." "I know it doesn't," Lightning said. "But I know a thing or two about racing, so I should be okay." "Time to load up, Kid!" Doc called from around Mack. "How long until you can come home again?" Sally asked "Three weeks," Lightning replied. "I'll keep working our wedding." Sally said happily "You do that," Lightning said and he kissed her finder. "We need to get going. I'll call you when we get to the track." "Okay," Sally said. She drove up to Lightning and kissed him. "Break it up, kids," Doc growled, driving around the trailer. Lightning gave Sally a significant look. "I told you," he said quietly. "Okay, maybe so," Sally said. "But I'm not totally convinced." "You will be," Lightning said. "I have to go." "Okay," Sally said. "Bye, I love you." "Bye, I love you even more" Lightning said. He backed into his trailer, smiled down at Sally, blew a kiss to her, and shut the door.
Ten hours later, Mack pulled into Houston International Speedway. Lightning lowered his ramp and drove down it. He saw Doc talking to a fellow crew chief, so Lightning waited patiently for Doc to finish talking with him. "Hey, Doc," Lightning said, approaching his crew chief as the other crew chief drove off. "Hey, Rookie," Doc said. "How was the trip?" "Fine" Lightning said, stretching his axles, they were very stiff. "Is everything okay?" he asked Doc. "Yeah, I'm just a little stiff" Doc said avoiding Lightning's eyes. "Now, about your training schedule. I want you to break the one hundred lap sprint record." "I can do that" Lightning agreed" "Do I start tomorrow morning?" "Yeah," Doc said. "Go to town, get something to eat, and get a good night's sleep." "Will do," Lightning replied. "You want to come with me?" Doc hesitated. "Yeah," "Good," Lightning said. "Nothing fancy though," Doc said. "Let's just got something light." "I agree, I'm not that hungry for a big meal anyway" Lightning said. "That's got to be a first" Doc said "I'm a little worried, are you sure you're feeling all right" "Yeah, I had Mack stop at a fast food restaurant three hours ago." Lightning said "I went in and got something for take away. That's why you and Abby got here first." "Where you that hungry that you had to get fuckin' fast food?" Doc said "That's the worst thing you could have eaten." "I know, but I was starving." Lightning said "Besides you'll work it off of me." "You better believe it" Doc said "Now come on I'm hungry."
Thirty minutes later, Lightning and Doc were at a small diner not far from the racetrack. Lightning ordered his usual food that was high in electrolytes and Doc got a cheeseburger. "How far ahead of Chick are you in points?" Doc asked. "A lot," Lightning said. "I only have to finish every race before the Dinoco 400 I'll get the Piston Cup" Doc nodded. "That's what I figured. I was like that before my wreck, so don't let it go to your fucking hood." "Tell me about it" Lightning said. "Last season definitely woke me up to that possibility." "I know," Doc said. "Chick's been fairly gentle out there this season, but you never know what nasty trick he'll pull." "Yeah" Lightning agreed. "Did you race against someone like him when you raced?" "Kind of," Doc said. "He wasn't as rough as Chick, but I got my fair share of scratches and dents from him." "What was his name?" Lightning asked. "He went by Edge," Doc said. "I think his real name was Bradley or something like that." Lightning snorted. "You guys went by nicknames?" "Back in the day, yeah," Doc said. "I was The Hornet." "Nice" Lightning snickered.
"Lightning is an unusual name," Doc said. "It's your real name, isn't it?" "Yeah," Lightning said. "My Dad wanted American names for us." Lightning said "He named Dodger after the Brooklyn Dodgers, his favorite baseball team." "What was the reasoning behind your name" Doc asked. "Mom named me" Lightning said. "It's because from the start of her labor pains to the time that she gave birth to me was only four hours." "Wow, that is extremely quick" Doc said "Most labors last an average of six to ten hours. In a hurry weren't you?" "Yeah, I guess so. Mom said that she really did not have to push" Lightning said. "She said that I came zooming out, the doctor had barely enough time to catch me, so she named me Lightning." "I've have delivered a few babies like that" Doc said. "You should be proud, it's pretty rare to be born that fast. I can see why she named you Lightning."
"When I was growing up, the kids at school had a lot of fun with my name." Lightning said "Including Dodger, he has never liked me." "Why?" Doc asked "I don't really know, maybe it was I was a better student in school. Or because until I was 14 and hit puberty, I was small for my age. Dogger would hang around with the school bullies, and most of the time I was the target of their aggression. He would get me beaten up on a regular basis. Most of the time he would just stand there and laugh as I got the crap beaten out of me. "Your patents didn't do anything to stop it?" Doc asked. "Yeah they did punish Dogger for his actions, but that only seemed to make him more aggressive to me. He always blamed me, because I was the one that got him into trouble. He never took responsibility for his actions, it was always someone else's fault" Lightning said. "I don't know if he even graduated from high school. When Dodger was not picking on me, he was always getting into fights with the other kids. There was one time I remember that he beat a student so bad that he student had to be taken to the hospital. The police was called and Dodger was arrested for assault. It turned out that the kid ended up being ok, but Dogger was expelled for it. My parents even put him in school for troubled youths, but Dogger got expelled from that school too. After that, I think they just quit trying." "Thant's to bad, Kid" Doc said.
Lightning's cell phone started ringing. The caller I.D. said it was Sally. "Hey," he said. "Hi," Sally said "What are you doing?" "Just eating dinner with Doc," Lightning said. "What about you?" "I just got finished ordering the food for the wedding," Sally said. "We're giving our guests a choice of chicken, salmon, or steak for the main curse." "Oh," Lightning said. He really did not like any of those foods that Sally had ordered. "That sounds good. "Good," Sally said. "Anyway, Lizzie's in the process of having a nervous breakdown again, so I have to go deal with that. I'll talk to you later" "Okay" Lightning said "I love you" Sally said. "Love you too," Lightning muttered quickly, hoping Doc did not overhear him. He hung up his phone and sighed, more wedding plans to fret over. "I'm guessing that was Sally," Doc said. Lightning nodded. He did not want Doc to leave, so he quickly changed the subject. "So, what injuries did you sustain from your wreck?" Lightning asked randomly. "Uh, let's see," Doc said. "Fractured axles needed new aluminum, a couple fractured pipes. It was bad, but not as bad as yours was" "How did you get in your wreck?" Lightning asked "I tried to pass between two cars and I was shut out," Doc said. "I wasn't focused on the race. My mind was other places." "I can relate," Lightning said. Sally had dumped him before the race he wrecked in. Doc nodded. "You need to keep your mind on the track," he said. "That's the most important rule out there." Lightning nodded. "Why couldn't you concentrate on the race?" he asked, Doc froze. "Mind your own fucking business" And with that, Doc stormed out. Like the other times Doc stormed out, Lightning watched dumbstruck as Doc sped away. Lightning was really getting tired of Doc's frequent temper tantrums. "For goodness sakes what has gotten into him lately" Lightning mumbled. Lightning paid and tipped the waitress and drove down the city street, letting his photo be taken and giving autographs to excited fans on the way back to the track. Once he got back, Lightning looked for Doc but he was unable to find him. After searching for another ten minutes, he sighed and drove back to his trailer and settled down for the night, but Doc's strange behavior was bothering him and it took Lightning took two hours to fall asleep.