This is another long one!
~Chapter 5~
“This place is so beautiful.”, said Sally. She and Lightning were parked in front of the view in front of the Wheel Well Motel. They’ve been engaged for two months now. He couldn’t stop kissing her. Sally’s eyes got heavy and started to shut slowly. “Come on, sleepyhead.”, Lightning whispered. “Where?”, asked Sally. “I hope not far. The baby is getting heavy.” Lightning smiled. Sally was really big now. Her doors were bulging out and her undercarriage almost touched the floor. They drove to the entrance of the Wheel Well Motel. “I have a surprise for you!”, Lightning said, playfully. Sally laughed. “What?”, she asked.
“You need to close your eyes, Sal!”
Sally shut her eyes.
A second barley passed.
“Okay! Open them!”
When Sally opened her eyes, she saw…the Wheel Well Motel. “Lightning, I don’t understand.”
“Welcome home!”
“Huh?”
“Sweetheart, we can’t raise the baby in a little cone. It was a perfect size for us, but not for another. No matter how small.”
“You sold the motel we built together?”
“Yeah! To us! It’ll be great! We don’t need the money. I have more than enough. I made it into a home! All the rooms are now different rooms in the house.”
“There’s room for us all?”
“Yeah, baby.”
Sally drove inside with Lightning. The place was outstanding. “Since we know we’re having a son, the baby’s room is so decked out for a little boy!”, said Lightning. “He’ll love it.” Sally smiled. “I agree.”, she said. “You did an amazing job.” She kissed him. “Want to know the best part?”, asked Lightning in a seductive voice. “What?”, Sally asked. She also was talking in a seductive voice. “Mater will need to call before he comes all the way here!”, said Lightning. Sally laughed really hard. “Oh…oh…ow…”, she groaned. “What? What’s the matter?”, Lightning worried. Sally moved her tire to her undercarriage and held it there. “I need to call Doc!”, Lightning panicked. “No…f-false alarm.”, said Sally. Sally drove to the baby’s room to take a peak. “I cant wait for you to see it!”, Lightning yelled, from a few rooms down. When Sally reached the baby’s room, she went to press the button to open the garage door. Before she even touched it, the door flew opened. “RAWRRRRRRR!!!”, yelled Mater, who was hiding in the motel the whole time. Sally jumped and let out a high pitch scream. “I knew you’d like it!”, yelled out Lightning, who thought her screams were because of excitement. “Hey, Mrs. Sally!!”, Mater yelled in her face. Lightning heard him and rolled his eyes. He drove around to the baby’s room. When he got there, Sally was clenching her undercarriage with both of her front tires and her eyes were shut tight. Her teeth couldn’t clench any harder than they were. “I-I-I didn’do it!”, Mater stuttered. Lightning was furious. “WHAT DIDN’T YOU DO, MATER?”, screamed Lightning. “AHHHHH TAKE ME TO DOC’S NOW!!!”, yelled Sally. “I gotcha, Mrs. Sally!”, Mater said. He immediately hooked Sally on his tow hook and drove as fast as he could to Doc’s.
Moments later they arrived at Doc’s.
“She’s done!”, yelled Mater to Doc.
“Done?”, asked Doc.
“Mmhm!”
“It’s only been 2 months!”
“Uh…Doc? It only takes 2 months for a car to-”, said Sally.
“Oh, I thought we were acting out that scene from the movie again…”
Lightning rolled his eyes. Mater smiled and put Sally on the lift. Doc went to hit the switch to lift the lift. “Wait, Doc.”, said Lightning. He drove to Sally. She looked at him, deeply. Lightning put his tire on Sally’s and said, “Sally…I…I want you to…look, I wish-”
“Is we all actin’ out the movie again? I want ta do the tractor tippin’ again!”
Doc snarled, “Lightning, get it over with.”
“Sally I…I want you to…know that I love you…so much…look, I wish…that I could someday spend the rest of my life with you. I wanted to tell you all of that before, but I couldn’t get it out that night. I’m just glad that all of that is true now.”
Doc looked down at his hood and frowned and he could feel his engine sink. Mater was sniffled and said, “T-That was bootiful…”
Doc shot his eyes back up and glared at Lightning. “That’s it! Get out!”, he yelled. Lightning looked at Doc with no expression and just left. Mater followed close behind. When the door shut behind them, Lightning knew it was safe to talk. “Mater, I don’t trust Sally in there alone with Doc. He might put thoughts in her mind that don’t belong there. Ones that aren’t true.”
“Aww, don’t be too scared buddy, it ain’t real.”
“What are you ta-? Mater, stop! We aren’t doing the movie or the ghost light short! I’m serious.”
“Well, why wouldn’t you trust him?”
“Because…I just do!”
“Baby!”
“I’m not a ba-HEY!”
“I wanna do the tractor tippin’ scene again!”
“URGH! FORGET IT!”
Lightning turned around so his rear bumper faced Mater. Mater stared at his friend. He felt really sorry for him. He drove next to him, leaned into him, and asked, “Lightnin’…is you under lots-o-pressure?” Lightning looked up at Mater and gave him a look. “Talk ta me.”, said Mater. Lightning inhaled deeply and said, “I don’t think that I’m going to be a good father.”
Nurse GTO was listening to the conversation. She went to her HoodBook page and typed in a new status. She wrote: Lightning McQueen doesn’t think he’s going to be a good father!!
“Why do you think that, Lightnin’?”, asked Mater. “Because…”, Lightning said. “I…just think that.”
“Wells, thoughts ain’t actions. Thoughts mean nothin’ unless you do that thought. If you act on a thought, it becomes an action. Right now, Lightnin’, that’s just a thought.”
Mater saying that made Lightning’s eyes widened. He paused for a moment. “Wow.”, said Lightning. “Did you just say that?”
“Say what?”
“Never mind.”
“NURSE GTO!”, Doc called out from the examination room. She sped to the room. “W-What do you think happened?”, asked Lightning. “I don’t know.”, said Mater.
The examination room’s doors opened opened.
Lightning and Mater’s eyes quickly jumped to the door. Lightning moved his eyes so fast, that it hurt. Then he smiled and said, “Mater…go outside and get the townsfolk.” Mater sped out of Doc’s and went to get everyone. Lightning continued staring at the door until someone told him to go in. Nurse GTO drove out of it, shut the doors, and went back to her computer. Lightning was confused. Nurse GTO went to her HoodBook page only to find that there were hundreds of comments on her status about Lightning. She responded to all of them saying: Lightning’s a father!
Nurse GTO drove back into the examination room. The doors were shut again. The sound of engines got louder. Everyone in town was now in Doc’s waiting room. “Wells, I brought everybody!”, said Mater. He saw that the doors were shut. “What happened?”, asked Flo. “Yeah?”, said Mater. Ramone’s paint job was half done. “I stopped my painting for this, man? I thought you said the baby was here, Mater!”, said Ramone. “They opened the doors, Nurse GTO came out, went on her computer, and went back in.”, Lightning answered. Everyone groaned. “Well-a we’re not leaving!”, Luigi stated. “We-a wanted to see a baby, and we-a gonna see a baby!”
The doors opened once again. Nurse GTO smiled. “Lightning?”, she asked. Lightning and everyone else smiled wide. Nurse GTO raised her tire and pulled it into herself a few times.**
**This is a “come here” gesture.
The sight of the examination room from the waiting room was beautiful at that moment. Inside of the room was basically a blinding white light in Lightning’s eyes. Almost like staring into heaven.
Lightning started to shiver and with a smile on his face and tears in his eyes, he drove into the light.