Chapter 4:
*Viki's POV*
Principal Mazur wishes to speak each one of us for what happened to the assembly. I'm sitting in between Max and Bobby on the chairs across from the secretary, Miss Maples. She's typing up something and humming the funeral march. Max is really depressed about all of this.
"I'm a failure," he says sadly, "complete loser! My one chance to impress Roxanne and I blew it!"
"Max," I sighed, looking at him. "You're not a failure nor a loser. You have done something that no one has the courage to do." I pause for a second as I place my hand on his shoulder, making him look at me. "If I was in Roxanne's position, I would be very impress of what you have done for me."
He simply looks away when I told him a confession. My heart breaks more as I take away my hand.
"Uh, huh!" Bobby gets our attention. "Max, Viki, look! It's the leaning tower of cheeza!" He shows us his latest project that he used from the cheddar cheese I gave him earlier. He than stuffs it in his mouth when P.J. comes out of the Principal's office with a terrified look on his face.
"Oh, man!" he speaks, walking away. "My dad is going to smash me like a bug!"
"Hey, P.J.! Detention!" Bobby laughs.
"Robert Zimmeruski," the principal glares at him, using his finger to bring him to his office.
"Okay, I'm coming," Bobby's nervous now. "Max, here," he gives him his cheese. "Guard this with your life, dude!"
Bobby takes the dolly of video equipment into Principal Mazur's office before giving us the double thumbs up.
"Hey, Mazu-ur!" he grins to the principal, trying to act all cool as well. "What's up bro?"
The door closes and Max puts his head in his hands, letting the depress cover over him. That's when I heard Roxanne and Stacey come into the office. Why now!?
"...with all those kids in my house the place will be like a sauna so I'm all freaked out, but than I thought, "Like, use it!" So my theme is gonna be: "Powerline Goes Rainforest"," Stacey says, placing down something on the desk when Roxanne looks over to see Max with a smile. I side glare at her. "Too much?" Stacey asked Roxanne, but realized she didn't respond. "Roxanne, are you listening?" She looks to see the boy next to me. "Ahhh," she realizes it with a smile.
Roxanne begins to walk away, but Stacey gives her a push closer. Alright, if Max wants the redhead more than me, than fine. I scoot over to Bobby's seat.
"No, I dont want too-"
"Talk to him!" Stacey whispers, interrupts her.
Roxanne clears her throat a couple of times, but Max didn't hear it and pays no attention to her. She shrugs over to her friend.
"Tap him!" she whispers back.
She process and Max immediately sits up startled at the touch. Roxanne's books and paper went flying. He looks at her with smile. It's too much for me to look more so I turn my head away sadly.
*No One's POV*
Max gets up from his chair and starts to help Roxanne with her papers and books.
"Gosh, I'm...I'm sorry," he apologizes.
"It's okay, really," she assures her.
They reach for the same paper at the same time and his hand touches her. Both stayed like this, making Viki's heart breaks more at the silence between them. He withdraws his hand, a little embarrassed.
"Um, I liked your dance," Roxanne smiles.
"Yea. Yea? Uh, yea!" he smiles big to her, standing up. "It's from Powerline's new video."
"I know! He's, he's totally a genius!" Roxanne agrees.
"Uh, yea! He, he's doing a concert next week in L.A.!" Max noted.
Viki's head tilted up, still looking away.
"Oh, yea, Stacey is showing it at her party."
He fidgets and fumbles for a while before speaking again, "um, uh, Roxanne, I was, uh, sorta kinda thinkin' that maybe I'd, uh, ask you to," he coughs, "go with me, that is, to the….party. Of course if you don't want to I'd completely understand!"
"Well, I was, sorta kinda thinking that….I'd love to," she smiles.
Tears begin to build in Viki's eyes as she tries to keep her body from shaking from crying. She wanted Max to ask her out to the party so badly so she can tell him her feelings through Powerline's music.
Stacey than grabs Roxanne's arm and begin to drag her away, speaking, "come on, Roxanne. We don't want to belabor the moment, now, do we?"
"Well, I'd better be going," Roxanne says to Max with a smile.
"I, uh, I'll call you later," Max smiles to her, pointing at her.
"Okay! Bye!" she giggles, running into the door. She giggles again nervously than says a final bye.
*Viki's POV*
"Yes! She said yes!" Max cheers, really happy.
I wipe away the tears before acting happy again. "Congrats Max," I smiled big for him.
"Everybody mambo!"
"Mambo?" I asked to myself as he begins to do a happy dance of the mambo.
He grabs me into the mambo with him before having Miss Maples joining us.
"It's not my break yet!" she laughs, enjoying this.
Bobby and Principal Mazur come out of the office to see what's going on. I was thrown back to the chairs.
"Yea! Dance with her! Groove with her!" Bobby smiles, even though he doesn't know what's going on.
"Miss Maples!" Mazur yells at her.
"Yes sir!" she sings back.
"Ge that boy's father on the phone at once!"
"Right away, sir!"
*No One's POV*
Goofy answers the phone at the Discount Store. "Hello," he speaks.
"Yes, Mr. Goof. This is Principal Mazur. I'm calling in regards to your son, Maxmillion," the principal says on the other end of the call, looking through the blinds to look at Max and Viki.
"Max?" Goofy panics. "Oh, my gosh! Is he hurt?"
"No, Mr. Goof. He's in trouble!" he closes the blinds.
"Trouble? What kind of trouble?"
"Dressed like a gang member."
"Gang member?"
"Your son caused the entire student body to break into riotous frenzy!"
"Riot?" He couldn't believe it. "It couldn't be my-"
"If I were you, Mr. Goof, I'd seriously reevaluate the way you're raising your child before he ends up in the electric chair!" he yells, hanging up.
"The electric chair?" he says in disbelieve, sitting down in shock, letting the phone drop. "What am I gonna do?" he asked.
A beam of blue light hits him as a PA voice says, "blue light special on aisle 3. Blue light special on aisle 3."
Goofy gets drawn to where the blue light and notice a display of those small bobble heads of a goof fisherman. He takes one and bobble it's head which bounces.
"Lake Destiny," he smiles, remembering something.
Back at the photo studio, Pete is about to take a picture of the little girl from earlier who is still velcroed to the stand.
"Okay, kiddo, now smile," he tells her about to take it.
She gives a big smile, but Goofy's face is in the viewfinder saying, "Lake Destiny, Idaho!"
"Lake Whodawhata what?" Pete asked confused, revealing himself.
"You were right, Pete," Goofy smiles to him. "Nothing like the great outdoors to strengthen the bond between father and son," he hugs the giggling little girl.
"Well, yea, but, ah," Pete's out of words.
Goofy dances his way out while calling out, "I'm going fishing! I'm going fishing with my boy!"
"Yea. Okay, precious," Pete gets back to work, "give me a big smil-huh?"
In the camera only shows the diaper remain on the stand. Pete looks to see the little girl running after Goofy with giggles, "Fishy! Fishy!"
Pete groans, "why did Vivi request to leave early?!"