All roads lead to love •lightning Mcqueen X Y/N X Mater

Chapter 3: Trouble

After Lightning had graciously hired Y/N, she had immediately taken it upon herself to annoy him as much as humanly possible. That said, she was good at her job, she was better than Lightnings previous manager, although he would never openly admit that.

Y/N had fully booked his entire week with interviews, sponsorships and modeling gigs. If this was her version to sending him to his early grave she was doing a good job, that or she's just doing her job, but seeing as her and him seem to have this competitive.... tension. He couldn't explain it really, a part of him could not stand her, but at the same time he enjoyed their easygoing but spiteful bantering. It kept him on his toes at all time and its not like he didn't like it. He himself was fierce and meeting someone who competes with that fulfills him almost.

Lightning was currently in some sort of luxurious break room with his head between his knees, tired from a long day of modeling for different companies. He was tired, real tired from a day this packed, one may say that this was even harder when he first started racing. It also didn't help that Y/N was there, observing him the entire day while jotting down notes on her fancy little clipboard. She also seemed to have taken a liking to Mater, something that he wasn't expecting, Y/N seems like the cool, strictly business no friends type of chick, she reminded him of himself before he met Mater, Sally and the gang. But seeing her talk so easily and eagerly with Mater left a little burn for son reason. Lightning convinced himself that it was because he didn't want her becoming Maters best friend since Mater and him are already platonic soulmates but somewhere deep in his subconscious he knew he was just lying to himself about that.

Lightning gets up from his cozy chair and straightens his back with a crack!
Lightning takes a deep breath and opens the door to his little restroom, He's luckily done for today so all he has to do is get in his limo and take a long deep nap.

As he gets out of the door he's bombarded with blinding lights and the familiar sound of cameras. He puts up an arm to shield himself from becoming momentarily blind as he desperately tries to look around do his limo, he unfortunately does not spot the limo anywhere. He tries to push away the crowd of paparazzi that keep shouting questions and statements he could not care enough to answer right now. He might be charismatic and an extrovert but even these many people make him uncomfortable and overwhelmed.
As he makes his was through the crowd (somehow) he particularly takes his attention to a fan with a huge sign of....Mater? The fan is screaming about where Mater is and how shes his biggest fan and how she actually dislikes him, the fan must be delusional, after all who would like Mater more than him? A sensational superstar? He pushes the fan away with a gentle push and finally decides that its time to end things.

He breaks off into a sprint with the bumbling crowd hot on his heels, he feels the strain in his legs and the pounding pressure between his eyebrows as a headache starts eating away at him. He cuts multiple corners in hopes of losing the crowd but to no avail, lightning feels a bead of swear roll down his forehead as he makes a very sharp turn to the left only to be met with a rough hand manhandling him inside of a weird abandoned electrical closet. He momentarily just breathes in his surroundings as he sees who saved him, who ever it is- He's eternally grateful, so grateful that he could honestly kiss his hero-

His thoughts are quickly cut short as he takes in fully who is standing in from of him with her face strained with unhappiness and stress. Its...Y/N?

Its as if he's lost all oxygen as he just stays silent, embarrassment soon catching up to him as he collects his thoughts. Y/N had to save him from a crowd of paparazzi that he couldn't disperse. Y/N was already putting in 101% into her job and now she, alongside keeping up with Lightnings celebrity image, had to save him.

Y/N sighs and pulls out a waterbottle from her leather sleek purse and hands it to him. He takes it gratefully and drinks all of it in a hungry gulp like a wolf.

Y/N pursed her lips and looked at him with furrowed brows.
"What were you doing running away from your fans? They're the idiots funding you yknow." She says, annoyed.

Lightning, with renowned energy looks at her with an equally annoyed expression.
"Well SORRY that i was just hunted down by a mob of annoying little freaks!"

Y/N gets closer now, and presses her finger against his chest.
"If we get ANY bad press from your little pathetic stunt i will make sure that youre booked from the crack of dawn to midnight. Do NOT test me Mcqueen."
She presses her finger down on his chest harshly at every word of her last sentence as she stays in that position for a moment, gathering her breath.
Lightning stays quiet, angrily fuming as they both stare each other down in the cramped room.
Lightning becomes hyper focused on every little detail on Y/Ns face, but before he could continue Y/N breaks away and opens the door and leaves with a huff. It takes him a quick second to regain his composute before he follows after her.

When he leaves the cramped room he's met with Y/N in the front seat of his limo (that was supposed to be here like an hour ago). he grumbles and quickly gets in the backseat as the car starts speeding off home.

Authors note: 😜 why r they so crazy......also to clarify Mater is like southern like texan NOT scottish or irish