"How's that, T-Rax?" Botty asked, as she meddled with the bubbles meter.
"Perfect, Botty. Just perfect." Max started to relax as he sat in the massive hot tub in the enormous, beautiful spa room in the Phantom's mansion, enjoying the large bubbles nearly covering him up and his large cup of mint lemonade. This is what he needed as T-Rax had a very busy month performing live concerts at Tanchester Square Garden every night, including tonight, going on live TV interviews, prosing for magazine front covers and even recording T-Rax's very first album in the Phantom's own recording studio in her mansion.
Then Max saw the AI robots taking some stuff out of a cardboard box.
"It's the last box of stuff from your apartment, T-Rax," Nutsy said. "We're just cleaning it up because you've been very busy."
"Thanks, guys," Max said.
"Do you ever miss being an athlete, T-Rax?" Botty asked, as she cleaned up Max's College X games trophies.
"Yeah, I do, a bit," Max said sadly. "But it was fun when it lasted and now I'm a rock n roller."
"And a very awesome one, too," Nutsy said. Then while he was cleaning his other achievements like his high school sport medals and trophies and talent show awards, he noticed that Screwy was just sitting in a far corner looking at a photo frame. "You finished with that frame, Screwy?"
"Yeah, I have." Screwy sounded sad when he replied. When he walked back, everyone saw that his screen showed a sad face with tears. "Sorry, pardon me. This letter is really beautiful."
"Which letter is that, Screwy?" Max said.
When Screwy gave it to Max, he saw what letter it was and he gasped.
"What is it, T-Rax?" Nutsy asked.
"It's the letter my first girlfriend Roxanne wrote to me before she had to move," Max said. "I haven't read it since 1997."
"You haven't read it in five years?" Botty cried.
"Why did she have to move, T-Rax?" Screwy asked.
"Screwy, don't make him tell stuff he doesn't want to!" Botty snapped.
"No, it's all right." Then Max started the tragic story. It was on a Thursday, the day before Spoonerville High School was going to leave to have their Spring Break 1997 trip in Florida. That morning, Max and his girlfriend Roxanne were walking to school and they were all talking about how excited they were for it and what they could do together. Then she felt very ill at once and even collapsed to the sidewalk. She wasn't unconscious, but she felt very ill and couldn't get up let alone stand up even when Max tried to help her up. Max called an ambulance from the nearest phone booth and waited with her until they arrived and took her to the hospital.
After school, Max went to Spoonerville hospital to visit Roxanne. She told him that the doctors have discovered that she had a serious illness that just happened for reasons they couldn't work out. Never mind not making it for the spring break trip the next day, she was worried if she might never even have long to live at all if her dad couldn't pay for the operation that she needed, which was about ten thousand dollars. She told him to enjoy spring nbreak while she hoped she would get better, but the next day after school, he didn't join his classmates in Florida. He told the school that he couldn't go to Florida for spring break, so they managed to give him back the money he paid for himself – not from his dad, his own money which he earned when he was doing some part time jobs – and he donated it to Roxanne's operation fund. That alone was two thousand dollars, so he had to work up some ways to get another eight thousand dollars.
Every day since then, he did his usual part-time jobs, including being a front desk receptionist in a big business skyscraper at day and being a waiter at the burger place at night, as well as other jobs he could find, including helping on a farm, doing people's gardens including one for a mansion that was hosting a garden party, cleaning people's houses and their cars. He even found more ways to make money like hosting a yard sale to sell his old clothes, toys, sports gears and even his video games and movies and even helped the police to capture a mob boss. And every night, he would arrive at the hospital to put every cent he earned into Roxanne's Operation Fund and check on how she would feel.
"Max, I'm very grateful you're doing all of this for me," Max remembered Roxanne saying to him one night, "but I'm worried about you. You look very tired and ill and I don't want you to become ill yourself just for my sake. I'm not worth that."
"But you are," Max remembering saying, as he held her hands. "You are worth all this because you are very special and I love you so much."
He remembered tears of happiness coming out of her eyes after what he said. "Oh, Max, thank you for saying that and all you're doing for me," she said. "No one has ever done anything like this for me ever before. I am so lucky to have you."
He remembered himself being so touched by what she said. Sadly, that was the last time they ever saw or spoke to each other because the next day, which was the Sunday when spring break was over. When Max went to see Roxanne, he learnt from the nice nurse that was attended to her every day since she came to the hospital that she had to be transferred to a special hospital in Jamford, Maine. That was the place she would be getting the special treatment she needed. Max remembered the nurse giving him the letter and saying, "Don't worry, sugar. She wouldn't have even been able to get that operation if it weren't for your hard and generous work. What you did was very admirable."