Vanellope jumped out of her racing car in celebration, another successful race. But it was pretty close, without her glitching abilities she surely would have come in second.

Though this time she wasn't, and thus the 2nd place racer parked her car a few feet away from the candy coated disaster that was Vanellope's. Even so, it was freshest kart, only a few weeks old from the bakery...unlike some of the others racers karts.

Vanellope still didn't understand how her kingdom, I mean, her country even worked...you think being made of candy and sweets that these things would melt, decompose or do something, like in all the other games. I guess it was all in the coding and she couldn't ask for anything better, after all it was the code that made each of her citizens special. But speaking of coding...

"You glitched!" Taffyta said as she exited her kart, clearly mad at her 2nd place title. "You said you wouldn't do that when we raced for the random roster!" One look at her cherry red face could show the anger that was built up inside.

"I'm sorry Taffyta, it just happens sometimes, still trying to control it, and all."

and yet there was disappointment in Taffyta's expression. "You promised..." she muttered under her breath.

"I know, I shouldn't have glitched, it just gets difficult under all the pressure to be the fastest racer and all...I freak out sometimes from the nerves." Vanellope stated as she put her hand on Taffyta's shoulder. "We'll just have a redo race in the morning"

Taffyta smiled, "Well, it's only fair." though she was still bitter that it happened.

"I know what will make you feel better, I have a surprise that I was going to show you . We can go back to my castle so you can see it and we can have a sleepover too, I know how much you love those!"

By this time the other racers had been filing up behind them as Candlehead chimed in "A Sleepover?! OH OH OH, can we pleeeeease come, we haven't had a sleepover at the castle since before King Candy... which is like foreeeever forever ago!"

Jubileena nodded her head in agreement "It's been too long, please Vanellope?"

Snowanna, Minty, Crumbelina and the other girls all began to gang up on Vanellope, with big smiles on their faces.

"I know it's been a while but I sorta had planned it just for Taffyta. I don't know if you guys should come." Vanellope said in hesitation, worried what the others might think.

"YOU ALWAYS DO STUFF FOR TAFFYTA THOUGH~!" Crumbelina whined.

"It's not fair!" Adorabeezle yelled.

"Well, it's just been a long time since I've got to hang out with my best friend...I mean, considering you all hated me up until a few weeks ago, getting everything back in order and the game up and running the way it was before King...Turbo, before Turbo took over everything, and it has been taking up all my time. It's been many years since I've gotten to spend some quality time with my best friend, but maybe tomorrow or something you guys." Vanellope admitted.

" I know!" She said remembering the date. " I'll throw a party later this week, celebrating a month since getting our memories back, that way even the boys can come."

Rancis , Gloyd and Swizzle all nodded in agreement.

"It's not fair that you guys always had your sleepovers, which we couldn't come to, now we all can have fun." Gloyd pointed out.

"Plus I'm sure they have a lot of catching up to do, considering Taffyta was the worst offender out of all of us...that is going to take a while for them to get back to normal." Rancis suggested.

Taffyta glared at Rancis for the comment...but then laughed "Yeah, it's kinda true though."

Candlehead looked at Vanellope for a moment in envy...Taffyta was her best friend. Now that all their memories are back doesn't mean that Vanellope and Taffyta get to be all buddy buddy, after all these years. After all the horrible things Taffyta did, how could Vanellope so easily excuse them? It made her feel so excluded, despite being both of their friends pre-Turbo. The jealousy inside made her not want to back off, but she knew the boundaries on the issue.

"Ok...but the party better be extravagant..." Candlehead shrugged off the matter.

The rest of the Sugar Rush Racers began to head off as it was getting late...but Candlehead had other ideas.

Rancis had been getting into his kart to drive home when he saw Candlehead walking up in his rear view mirror. She had an all too familiar grin on her face, it was one that Taffyta and her would have after coming up with an evil scheme for Vanellope's downfall...but this time, it had no justification.

But still, old habits die hard and Rancis was intrigued.

"Spill the details now...you know I love a good prank when I see one."

Candlehead's grin grew as they discussed the new steps of their plan.

-End Ch. 1-