Hypo yawned and stretched as he crawled lazily out of bed. It was Saturday morning.

Emphasis on "was".

Meika, Hypo's ever-loving blue wife greeted him with an annoyed expression. "Hypo! You lazy bum! It's like 2:30pm and you just rolled out of bed! I can't believe that you can even sleep that long."

Hypo rolled his eyes. "Just gimme a break, OK? I like Saturday. It gives me a break from my job."

"Hypo. You run. A hotel. How tiring can that be?!"

Hypo raised an eyebrow. "Hey, it's more taxing than you think! I mean, some days some big fat guy's in the hot tub and I can't get it there! And some days the cleaning women are too lazy to do their job and I have to REUSE A TOWEL. How bad is that?!"

Meika crossed her arms. "Fine, whatever. But later you and I are gonna spend some QUALITY TIME together. Y'know, like all those sappy families on TV. In the meantime, brush your teeth."

After finishing brushing his teeth, combing his hair, taking a shower, and everything else Meika nagged him to do, Hypo walked out the front door of his house. Smiling, the red fox scampered over to his best bud's house a couple rows down.

"Skree! Skree! Come on out, if you're in there!" In a few moments, the green hedgehog came out of his rather small condo.

"What's up, Hyp?" he asked, smacking his friend on the palm. Hypo smirked.

"Heh, y'know, same ol' same ol'. You?"

Skree rolled his eyes. "I can't understand how you can stand being married, Hypo. Today Mon Kit wants to GO TO THE PARK with me. And she said that I can't get an ice cream cone!"

Hypo edged back in fear. "That fiend! Why does she torture you so?!"

Skree shrugged. "I dunno! Yesterday she said that she loved dairy products, and now today she says that she's a popsicle person! How can that be right?!"

Hypo punched his fist in the air. "SHE'S A MENACE! YOU SHOULDN'T DATE HER!!"

Skree lowered his sunglasses that were perched atop his head. "I can't dump her, dude. I love her."

"Then marry her."

"No way! I'm not ready for that, man!"

Hypo smiled slyly and crossed his arms casually. "Well, you'd better hurry up, bud," he said. "I don't think Mon Kit is gonna be too happy when she has to wait for you to get your sorry—"

"WAIT!!"

Mon Kit ran up behind Hypo and conked him on the head. "Get outta here." She told him and booted him all the way back to his house. Then she turned to Skree.

"You…you actually love me?" she asked. Skree smiled and put his sunglasses back onto his head.

"Well, of course I do," he said. "You're like my life."

"Then let's get hitched."

"OK."

Hypo crawled back over to the hedgehog and mongoose with half his body stuck in a garbage can, wearing a banana peel on his head. "Do you even know what getting hitched means?!" he yelled at Mon Kit.

"Shut up, fat head!" Mon Kit once again. "I'm surprised Meika even married someone who's as dumb as you!"

"Well, you're just a sorry, good-for-nothing twerp that my best friend happens to like!"

"Yeah? You couldn't even be dumb if you tried! That's how dumb you are!"

"That doesn't even make sense!!"

"ARE WE GOING TO THE PARK OR ARE WE GONNA GET MARRIED?!"

Hypo and Mon Kit stopped ripping each other's hair out in time to see Skree tap his foot. "C'mon, Kits, I need some fresh air! If we're getting married, I've gotta adjust a little, y'know?"

The purple mongoose was suddenly her old self again. "OK!"

Hypo sneered. "I hate you. Skree, are you sure you want to get into this sort of relationship with someone as dimwitted as her?"

"Oh, you're one to talk," Mon Kit sneered. Skree helped Hypo up to his feet and pulled the banana peelings off his head. Hypo sighed.

"Well, I don't like it," he concluded. "But she's all yours. Good luck with your marriage life, dude."

"Good luck getting Meika to sleep in the same bed as you tonight! You smell like garbage!"

As the red fox watched Skree and Mon Kit stroll down to the park together, he couldn't help but smile. Even if Skree was marrying his rival from high school, at least he had finally found the right person.

Later that night, Hypo walked into his house. "Honey, I'm home!" he announced. Meika walked in stirring a bowl of cookie dough.

"You didn't eat anything filling, did you?" she demanded. "We're having chicken for dinner! Plus cookies."

Hypo sighed and flopped down on a recliner. "You might wanna give some of those to Skree as a congratulations."

"Why?" Curiosity flickered in Meika's eyes. Hypo chuckled.

"He's getting married to Mon Kit."

The blue fox all but dropped the dough on the floor. "Are you serious?!" she squealed. "Oh, he must be so happy! We've got to do everything to support him, OK? Have they discussed a church yet? What about funding? Decorations? Dessert? GOOD LORD, HYPO, WHAT IF THEY DON'T HAVE DESSERTS YET?!"

"Chillax, Meika," said Hypo. "He's hardly been able to discuss it yet. Just let him do it on his own for now, and if they need help, they'll ask us."

Meika placed the cookie dough on the counter. "OK…" she trailed off. Suddenly, she sniffed the air and edged back. "And geez, take a shower! Didn't you take one at 3 today? Sheesh, you get dirty too quickly."

"Stop rushin' me, women!"

"WHAT WAS THAT?!"

"Uhhhhhhhh…..never mind……"