It had been hours since Max left the Spoonerville Ski Resort. He still found no trace of Lisa and the snow that kept falling down and the cold air that kept getting colder didn't help, but he didn't give up. He just couldn't. He just couldn't leave his dream girl to die in the cold and heavy snow, even if she would never be grateful for it. He didn't even care what punishment he would receive if he got caught for sneaking out of the ski resort and borrow the snow mobile to rescue her. Even if he didn't find Lisa, nothing would make him regret it, not even if Principal Mazur would either expel him from Spoonerville High School or say that he should end up in the electric chair.

Max checked his watch and saw it was five o'clock in the morning. He knew that he would have to get back to the resort in two hours' time, even without Lisa. He started to tell himself that even if he didn't find Lisa, he did all he could to the very best of his ability to find her and that was better than doing nothing at all.

Then Max thought he saw something under a tree. It looked like a body. He stopped his snow mobile and got off to check it. He brushed the snow off the body and he saw it was a blonde tanned lady wearing a pink hat, a purple coat, black pants and black boots.

Max was both relieved and shocked to see that it was Lisa herself. He was relieved that he finally found her, but he was shocked to find her unconscious and very cold.

"Lisa, are you okay?" Max asked.

He got no reply.

"Come on, Lisa. Please don't die."

She still remained unconscious. Max checked her pulse and he was relieved that he could feel some at least. Then he decided that the sooner she gets back to the ski resort for warmth, the better. He picked her up and put her on his snow mobile. Then he got on and tried to turn the snow mobile's engine on, but it wouldn't start. No matter how many times he tried to get it to work, it just wouldn't.

As if Lisa not waking up and the snow mobile not working wasn't bad enough, something even worse happened. Max heard another noise. A loud, rumbling, terrifying noise. He looked behind and was shocked at what he saw. He saw an avalanche! A massive avalanche! And it was heading towards him and Lisa!

Max knew he and Lisa had to take shelter immediately. Where they were had only trees and even though they were tall and strong enough to avoid the avalanche, he didn't have time to climb up the nearest one and with the still-unconscious Lisa on his back. And there were no caves for them to hide. And the snow mobile wouldn't start, even though their very lives depended on it.

Then Max finally remembered his snowboard sticking out of his rucksack and that gave him an idea. He grabbed it out of his rucksack and then got onto it, then he grabbed Lisa and held her in his arms to hold her and then they finally started to move away from the vast and fast avalanche.

No matter how fast the snowboard went, the massive avalanche kept catching up to Max and Lisa. While he continued to try to escape the avalanche to the best of his ability, Max looked around everywhere for anything that would give him and Lisa shelter or something like it to help them avoid it because they were failing to outrun the avalanche.

Then Max thought he saw a big cave. Since it was the only one that he could see, he immediately headed for it. Luckily, he made the right choice because the cave was big enough for him and Lisa and it was high enough to avoid the avalanche.

After getting off his snowboard and putting Lisa down, Max went to the hole and saw the avalanche passing the cave they were in. He saw that it continued to head towards the ski resort, but he was glad it was also high enough to avoid them so his school mates were safe from it.

As he waited for the avalanche to stop, Max noticed there was a lot of logs, sticks, flints and a knife to build and light a fire for him and Lisa, so he quickly got to work with it.

After ten minutes of lighting the fire and making sure it was working probably and giving out enough heat for the cave, Max heard a groaning noise. It was coming from Lisa. Then she started to move as she woke up and yawned. Then when she fully woke up, she was very confused and scared at where she was.

Max went over to calm her down. "It's okay, Lisa. You're safe now. You're safe in this cave with the nice warm fire."

"Okay," Lisa said, calming down. Then she looked at Max in the eyes. "Hey, aren't you the –"

"The Goof Boy?" Max said, sadly turning around. "Yeah. Max the Goof Boy who risked his life to rescue you from the snow and the avalanche."

Lisa looked at the hole and saw that there was an avalanche coming. Then she turned to Max. "You really risked your life to save me?"

"I'm afraid so, Lisa. I'm sorry it wasn't Chad or –" Max stopped talking when he saw Lisa was hugging him.

"Thank you, Max," she said. "Thank you so much for risking your life to save mine."

He was completely surprised. He never imagined that she would ever learn his name, let alone hug him.

As they continued to wait for the avalanche to calm down, Max and Lisa continued to sit around the amazing warm fire that Max built and lit and they even started to talk. Max went first and told Lisa all about his brave adventures of going out into the Spoonerville Mountains to rescue her and how he was the only one willing to do that. No one else, apart from his friends PJ and Bobby, even knew that she wasn't in the hotel at all, not even her boyfriend Chad.

Lisa had mixed feelings about all of this. On the one hand, she was very grateful to Max for saving her life, but, on the other hand, she was also very upset that no one else, not even Chad who was her boyfriend, was concerned about her, let alone went to find and rescue her. Then she told Max how she got lost in the snow yesterday. She was skiing with her group. When it was her turn, Lisa tried to ski, but she wasn't very good at it and she crashed into the trees that Max found her at and she went unconscious. And she stayed unconscious until she woke up in the cave.

Soon the avalanche had finally finished and it was safe to head back to the ski resort. Max checked his watch and saw it was ten to nine, which meant he and Lisa had ten minutes to get back to the ski resort and join their classmates so it didn't look like they were out all night. Once outside the cave, Max got his snowboard ready and got on, Lisa got behind him and wrapped her arms around his chest and then they headed back to the ski resort.

On the way to the ski resort, Lisa really enjoyed riding behind Max as they snowboarded.

"This is awesome, Max!" she cried happily. "You're an awesome snowboarder!"

"Thanks, Lisa!" Lisa's praise of Max's snowboarding made him very happy as much as her praise of him for saving her from the avalanche. He felt that the more he spent with her, the more he felt his dreams of being with her and talking to her was coming true and it was making him very happy. Actually, it turning out the way it did was even better than he ever thought it would be.