"Vinnie!" Russell yelled at the sight of the lizards workings, quickly running towards him.

"What man?" he replied, looking up from his "project" .

Russell reached him finally, "we have only a few more bottles of glue left Vinnie... don't you think

that's a bit much", Russell was referring to the waterfall of glue Vinnie had applied to the collage he

was working on... for a single pipe cleaner no less.

"It's a pipe cleaner dude... I'm working with plumber stuff here... you cant complain about me using a

lot of glue, would you rather me weld it on their like they do?". Russell sighed, he wished he could

correct him on his logic... but he had work to do, and little time to do it.

"Just try to use less Vinnie... look" Russell demonstrated " you only need a bit".

"Oh thanks bro", Vinnie replied. With that Russell headed off to the other end of the Petshop, eager to

sort out the new toys that just came in. "Wait Russell!", Vinnie cried out, "I have to ask you something".

"I'm kinda busy right now Vinnie", Russell said.

"Well it'll only take a minute".

"I don't have a minute" Russell shot back, "my owners are coming soon , if it's really important talk to

me while I'm working ".

"Well ok... I wanna know what Sunil's childhood was like", Vinnie stated.

Russell paused and looked up, "Sunil's childhood... why?".

Vinnie answered "My birthday present ", he said holding his collage up "I'm making a collage about our

friendship, ya know, and i'm writing a poem with it, I wanna know what he was like when he first came

here as a kid."

Russell pondered further... he considered this gift weird, way to mushy as a gift. But Sunil had a close

relationship with Vinnie, and when he examined their closeness further he thought about his

relationship with his owner.. and realized he would (and did) do the exact same kinds of things with

her. "But why his childhood?" he asked, still confused about such implications .

" I got it from a movie we watched" Vinnie said, "Brad Schmitt travelled back in time in some thingy to

find out about his buddies childhood, to save the future or something... it was cool."

'Sounds like a movie they'd watch'

Russell thought. After pondering further he shot back "well if you want to know what he was like when

he first came here I only talked and played with him a bit, but I don't know much more about what he

was like than you do, we were just playmates". Russell thought harder, truly wishing to help his friend

out. "If you want you can ask Pepper" .

"What would pepper know, more than you, you were here at the same time weren't you?" Vinnie

asked.

"She used to be closefriends with him when he first came to the shop, kinda like you guys I guess,".

Vinnie screwed up his face. 'Close friends? ' he thought to himself 'like me and Sunil'... 'Pepper?!'. Of

course Sunil and Pepper were friends in the past, they still were now, everyone in the Petshop was

friends, that didn't shock him. But best friends, that was strange, unbelievable. Sunil had quipped to

Vinnie, in exact quotes "I've never had such a good friend Vinnie, your the best". He needed to find out

more about this, he thought long and hard until he was picked up by the Terrio's, and even more in his

bed. He needed to find out why they were friends, and more specifically why the two weren't so close

now.