Max woke up face-down on his pillow with a trail of drool from the corner of his mouth to a sticky puddle. He rubbed his lips with his forearm and wrinkled his nose in disgust. He heaved himself out of bed and stumbled across the room to stop the buzzing alarm clock.

With the clock quieted, Max started rifling through drawers looking for clean clothes for the day. Once he had a complete outfit piled on the bed, he left the room and made his way to the bathroom at the end of the hall.

Max shared the tiny, old house that he lived in with three other guys who also attended the university and nowhere was this arrangement as obvious as in the bathroom they all shared. There were bottles, electric and non-electric razors, tubes of toothpaste, brushes, and sticks of deodorant spread all over the counter; towels on the floor; and a general feeling of griminess everywhere. Ignoring the mess, Max started the water for a shower.

A few minutes later, with a towel around his neck and clean boxers on, Max made his way back to his room. He rubbed the towel over his hair a few more times before tossing it in the direction of the hamper. He grabbed the shirt he had gotten out earlier and began to pull it over his head.

The shirt was partially over his head with only one arm actually through an armhole when Max's cell phone began to ring. He struggled to pull the shirt (which was suddenly disinclined to cooperate) the rest of the way on. Looking around frantically, he realized that he wasn't sure where the phone was.

Following the sound to his desk, he dug through a pile of books and papers from homework he had done last night until he found the phone. After fumbling it for a minute, he finally managed to hit the button to answer.

"Hello?"

"Maxie!" came his father's over-excited voice.

"Hi, Dad," Max replied decidedly less enthusiastically.

"I know you aren't supposed to work tonight, but do you think you could come to the show anyway?"

"Daaaaad ... " Max groaned. "I'll be there on Saturday."

"I know, Maxie! I just thought it would be nice if you came for the announcement tonight."

"What announcement?"

"Oh!" Goofy laughed. "I forgot you haven't heard! Mickey and Minnie are getting married!"

"Woah! When did that happen?"

"D'uh, he asked her last night!"

"Ok, Dad. I'll be there. I gotta go now, though. I have a class."

"Ok, Maxie! See you tonight!" There was a crashing sound from Goofy's end of the phone.

"See you later, Dad." Max said with a sigh as he covered his eyes.