Luckily, Roxanne and Jimmy didn't have to live their miserable lives under Jake Morton's rules. Both their lives changed for the better. It all started in Summer 2003 when Jake wanted a medal from a charity marathon to show to everyone that he was fit as an athlete, that he was very caring and that he was everything a role model such be. He found a marathon to do and that was Forskville Marathon in Summer 2003, but he didn't want to do the work himself; he just wanted to be given a medal and he could wave it in front of his friends to impress them. So, he signed Roxanne up to do on his behalf. She didn't want to do it, not to mention she didn't even have time to train for it, but as usual Jake forced her to go and do it and she had no choice but to obey his wishes.

So Roxanne drove her car to Forksville Park where both the start and the finish line of the marathon were. When she started, she immediately started to get very tired. By the time she completed half the marathon, not only did she feel like she couldn't carry on, she felt like she was going to die. But there was something – and the only thing – that made her feel glad that she did do the marathon. For the first time in six years, she met the one person she missed in the whole wide world and wanted to see again – her ex-boyfriend Max Goof.

Roxanne was delighted to see Max and he was delighted to see her. He was a volunteer for the children's charity called Children For The Future, who arranged everything for the marathon, and his job on that day was helping on the pizza stall. He was also the one that motivated Roxanne to go and finish the marathon when he bumped into her, which she did and it was all thanks to his incredible motivation that she managed to finish it.

This marathon was also where Max met Jimmy, who was five years old. He ran away from Dallas to Forksville. He ran away because his father's girlfriend Nikita left him and his father aggressively took his sad and angry feelings out of his son and blamed him for Nikita leaving him and blamed him for being himself and then he left him all alone in the penthouse while he went to cheer himself with his friends. This all made Jimmy feel that he had to go and find his 'Auntie' Roxanne, which was what he called her when he could speak like any other five-year-old boy could. After Roxanne finished her marathon, she tried to drive herself and Jimmy back home to Dallas, but her car broke down. When Max saw she needed help, he let her and Jimmy spend the night in his small apartment and he cooked them a delicious meal of pasta for dinner.

Because her car had broken down and all the mechanics were full up with appointments and the railways were on strike, Roxanne and Jimmy had to stay in Forksville, but luckily they could stay with Max. And while staying in Forksville, Max helped Roxanne get a volunteering job of being a volunteer cook at the children's hospital which was owned by Children For The Future. As for Jimmy, he made lots of friends. In Dallas, he had no friends at all. He tried very hard to be friends with the children of Jake's friends, but they rejected him. He made his first real friends in his whole life, both at a children's activity center and at an orphanage that was again owned by Children For The Future. At the orphanage, that was where he met his very best friend, a young duck in a wheelchair called Lucy.

While staying with Max, Roxanne learned more about him. She learned that he had a great time at college, completing it in three years with degrees for sports, business, finances and acting, where he played Chris Scott in Boublil and Schonberg's Miss Saigon in 1999, Robert in Stephen Sondheim's Company in 2000 and Mark Cohen in Jonathan Larson's Rent in 2001, winning three College X Games out of the seven games he took part in and all the girlfriends he had since Roxanne had to leave Spoonerville. Max told Roxanne all about his relationship with Lisa in the Twelfth Grade in Spoonerville High School before they went to different colleges. Then Max explained about his college relationships, starting with a lovely African American lady called Lola, a gorgeous blonde-haired lady called Sasha, an attractive red-haired lady called Charlotte and his last girlfriend, who was the beautiful Mona. Then Max also told Roxanne about how very happy he was with Mona and he considered proposing to her and then one day for some reason Mona just left him without an explanation and how it made him feel that he wasn't good for her and he wasn't a good boyfriend for any girl in the whole wide world and how it scarred him so much that he never dated another lady after her.

A few days later, Jake arrived in Forksville, found Roxanne at the children's hospital and started to abuse her for 'keeping his son away from him', but Max was there and he went to protect Roxanne from Jake, who punched Max in the face. Jake was then taken to court and the jury found him guilty for not only assaulting Max but also for being abusive to a lot of people and for being the selfish entitled jerk he was. Jake was sentenced to court for twenty years and the judge also declared Roxanne be Jimmy's stepmother, which both were delighted. They always felt like they were like mother and son, but they were very happy it was official. The judge also gave everything that Jake owned, including the dwellings, Morton Enterprises and some land the Mortons owned to Roxanne.

Then Max, Roxanne, Jimmy and George Lawton, who was sent to be their lawyer at the request of Max's dad Goofy, got picked up by Goofy himself and his friends Scrooge McDuck, Huey, Dewey and Louie Duck, Webby Vanderquack and Launchpad McQuack, and took them to Forksville Park where they had a picnic to celebrate the victory of Max, Roxanne and Jimmy at their day in court.

After their victory picnic in the Forksville Park, Scrooge and his family dropped Max, Roxanne and Jimmy by Max's apartment. Before they headed back to Duckberg, Scrooge had Launchpad McQuack look at Roxanne's car to find out what was wrong with it because he was also a mechanic as well as Scrooge's driver and pilot and he was always having him checking the engine of both his car and his plane, the Sunchaser. Even with Goofy helping Launchpad, the job wasn't without confusion or clumsy moments, with confusing a spanner with a screwdriver and putting oil in the gas tank and gas in the oil filter among them. Everyone watching them sort Roxanne's car out felt like they were watching a comedy show about car mechanics.

After half an hour of fiddling with the engine, Roxanne took her car out for a test and it worked successfully. She and Jimmy could finally go anywhere they want. Launchpad and Goofy were very pleased that they successfully managed to fix the car, despite their comedic efforts during the job.

Roxanne thanked Launchpad and Goofy for fixing her car. Then she thanked George Lawton for helping her and Max and Jimmy win the case against Jake. Then she thanked Scrooge and the young ducks for their help before they all went off to either Duckberg or Spoonerville. And finally she thanked Max for everything he did for her and Jimmy ever since they came here.

After putting Jimmy to sleep in his bed and wishing her newly adopted son a good night, Roxanne joined Max in his bed.

"So where do you think you'll go, Roxanne?" Max asked.

"Go?" Roxanne was confused. "You and Jimmy don't want us here anymore?"

"Of course I do," Max said. "It's just that your car is fixed now and you and Jimmy don't have to be trapped here anymore."

"Trapped?" Roxanne said. "Jimmy and I were never trapped here. Sure, my car broke down and we couldn't get back to Dallas, but I felt free and happy with you, Max. I've always like being with you, Max, ever since high school, and I still do. In fact, being with you has always made me the happiest I've ever been in whole my life and you coming back into my life has made me very happy again. I've never been close to being this happy since I had to move to Dallas and leave Spoonerville. And Jimmy's life has also improved being here and you being in his life, too."

"Really?" Max was amazed to hear that.

"Really, Max," Roxanne replied. "He has more friends and he's happier here in Forksville than he was in Dallas and so am I. So, we would really, really love to stay with you. And we'll try not to be burdens to you."

"Burdens?" Max scoffed. "Roxanne, you being back in my life has improved my life and made me happy again as well. And Jimmy has improved my life too. You will never be burdens to me ever. I just hope that I won't be a burden to you or Jimmy."

"You won't, Max," Roxanne said. "And I never ever want to lose you or Jimmy. Whatever happens in my life, I'll always need you."

"And I'll always need you too, Roxanne. And, wherever we go, I'll be there for you and Jimmy forever."

"Thank you, Max," Roxanne said. "And, wherever we go, we'll always be there for you too. Good night."

"Good night, Roxanne." After Max turned the lights off, he wrapped in Roxanne's lovely arms. Then he returned the hug as they went to sleep.