Chapter 2

(Flashback)

"I'll really miss you Max..." Said a strawberry blonde 18 year old girl in a long, white graduation robe. "Don't worry about me Roxanne, you can't pass up Yale!" Max said, as the two of them sat on Max's front porch. "Max... We've been dating for three years... I don't think I want to give that all up now..." Roxanne said, a tear running down her cheek. "Aw, don't cry, I know the two of us have been together a long time... And, Er-, gosh... I can't tell you how much I'll miss you... But you can't give up this chance, even though we'll be three hundred miles apart..."

"Please don't remind me..."

"Yeah..." Max ran his fingers between his hair, as he always had when he was nervous. There was a still silence between the two of them. Suddenly, Max and Roxanne's eyes lit up. "I have an idea!" They said simultaneously.

"Y-you first..." Max said to Roxanne. "What if... We broke up tonight... Then after our three years of college... Maybe we could..."

"Meet back up! If neither of us have found anyone else!" Max chimed in, he had the same idea all along.

"Do you think it will work?"

Roxanne asked him quietly,

"Does my dad say 'A-Hyuk'?"

"Hahahahaha!"

In that moment, Stacy honked the horn of her car, signaling Roxanne to go.

"I guess I'd better be... Going... Goodbye, Max." Roxanne spoke quickly as she ran towards the car in tears.

Max thought to himself, "Someday, I'll see her again... But for now..." Max walked into his house, as a tear rolled down his muzzle. Goofy was there waiting for him, "Did ya say yer goodbyes Maxie?" Goofy asked his son somberly. "Yeah... *sniff*." Max was holding back the tears. "Aw, don't be sad Maxie, you know what they say..." Max hugged his dad, he was now nearly as tall as him.

"If ya love somethin', set it free, if it don't come back... It was never yours in the first place."

"Very profound dad..."

"Thanks! A-Hyuk! Now let's get inside, I saved some of the pie!"

(End Flashback)

"Roxanne..." Max said, as he walked back to the party outside.

On the deck, Goofy and his girlfriend, Silvia Marpole, who was the librarian at Max's college, were getting a round of applause. "What happened?" Max asked PJ as he walked onto the scene. "Oh you missed it man, your dad just proposed to miss Marpole!" PJ said as he watched Goofy get a noogie from Pete.

"H-he what?" Max looked more depressed than he was before. "What's wrong buddy?" PJ asked his best friend since 5th grade.

"It's just that... Everyone here has a 'Special someone', but me."

"Yeah man, it's too bad Mona had to move overseas buddy."

"Eh, it's alright, we're still friends... Or rather pen-pals nowadays."

"Still man, must be rough, I mean, even Bobby's got that spark he had with Stacy."

"Not helping Peej."

"Sorry, hehe."