Afew blocks down from Helga's place, Arnold was thinking about his parents. The next day was his tenth birthday. He wished that his parents' were there to celebrate his tenth birthday. He even wondered if his parents were still living. If so where were they? Were they okay? Why did they never come back? If they were still living, would they even remember him on his birthday?

Far off, in the jungles of San Lorenzo, Miles and Stella were helping Green Eyed people again. They were still trying to stop La Sombra from stealing the Corazon from the Green Eyed People. They were on horses chasing La Sombra, becasue he had gotten his hands the Corazon. It was a very special item to the Green Eyed people.

Nine years ago, they had to leave Arnold with Miles parents' (Phil and Pookie) because the Green Eyed people had been struck down with a disease. Miles and Stella were they only people that the Green Eyed people trusted. They thought they'd only be gone for a week. However, they had forgotten to take the journal with them on the trip. When they first started traveling through San Lorenzo Miles drew the map while they were exploring. It had been a long time, since they had been to San Lorenzo. They didn't know their way around San Lorenzo without the map. Since they didn't have the map they were caught by La Sombra and never made it home since his henchmen stole their plane. They had been in the jungles of San Lorenzo since.

Back at the boarding house, Arnold's alarm clock went off. He woke up and shut it off. It was now morning and he was another year old. He finally ten years old. He heard someone walking up the stairs. When the door, opened he saw his grandma was carrying a tray.

"Happy Birthday, Shortman. We made you a special birthday breakfast," stated Phil.

"Thanks, grandpa," answered Arnold.

He took the tray from his grandpa. His grandma and grandpa must have gotten up earily to fix him a special meal. They made him pan cakes. The pan cakes weren't in their regular shape, instead they were cut to look the number ten.

"I really like it, thanks for taking the time do to this for me," stated Arnold.

"Your welcome Shortman," answered Phil. "When you get done, you need to get dressed and come down stairs. We got phone call from the new camping store. Somebody got you a birthday present and asked for it to be delivered."

After Arnold came down stairs, he was greeted by Gerald, Phoebe, and Helga. His grandpa had called some of his friends. A lot of them already had plans and weren't able to come to the boarding house. But he was glad some of his friends were there.

He heard the doorbell ring. It was probably the delivery guy. Arnold rushed to the door and opened it, and it happened to be the delivery guy.

"We were told to delivery this to the Sunset Arms Boarding House. You must be Arnold," stated the delivery guy. "All you have to do is sign your full name to this paper and the package is yours."

All of us a sudden, Gerald, Phoebe, and Phoebe, rushed over to Arnold. They had never knew what his last name was. All of them wanted to find out what it was. They watched him write Arnold Shortman on the line. The delivery guy handed him the package.

"I don't understand why everyone had to see you sign your name. It seemed as if they didn't know what your name was," stated the delivery guy.

He handed Arnold the package. After he got the package, he shut the door behind him. Arnold was curious why they had to watch him write his name. He thought that they knew what his last name was.

"I don't understand, why you had to watch me sign off for the package," stated Arnold. "You all know that my last name is Shortman."

"No, we didn't," answered Gerald. "Every year in the year book, they either haven't put your last name down or there was an ink smear."

"Well, then open the package," suggested Phoebe.

"I don't know if I can. My party isn't until the afternoon," answered Arnold.

"You can go on and open it," answered Phil.

Arnold opened the package. Inside it was a new blue backpack with his name monogramed on it. He unzipped on the panels. Inside was a new flash light, compass, first aid kit, and an emergency blanket. He had been down the camping store on the opening day. He saw the blue back pack and he wanted to buy it. But,it was too expensive. Whoever got it must have gotten it on sale or had bought it. It still had the tag on it. Its original price was $100 dollars. He saw it was marked down to $40 dollars. Whoever bought it must have gotten on sale.

"Arnold, you got one of those new camping back packs?! I saw them but they were expensive. I heard they had a sale. When I got down there, they were completely sold out of those back packs. I asked the clerk when they'd be getting more of them. She told me that they had just had costumer 1,000. That person won a free backpack with their name monogramed on it, a new flash light, a compass, a first aid kit, and two emergency blankets," stated Gerald. "Whoever won must have bought something and then won all this free stuff. They must have wanted you to have it for some reason."

"I wonder who could have done it?" asked Arnold. "Well, I love this present and I'll be taking it on our trip to San Lorenzo."

Arnold thought about his parents again. He wondered what they would have gotten him for his birthday. They probably would have tried to have gotten him something nice.

Miles and Miles away, Miles and Stella were able to stop La Sombra from getting the Corazon, but they got caught in the process. They were in damp room that they were familiar with. They had tried to escape from La Sombra, but he usually found them eventually. They had never seen his face before because he always wore a mask. They often wondered about their friend Edwardo. Where was he? Did he try to find them?

Stella took out on old piece of paper out of her pocket. It was torn, with many crease. It was a picture of Arnold when he was about a year or two.

"Looking at that picture again?" asked Miles.

"Don't you know what day it is?" replied Stella.

"Of course, I do. It's his tenth birthday," answered Miles.

" I wonder if he has thought of us today?" asked Stella.

" I hope so. I wonder what he is like now? What are his friends like? Have my parents told us about him?" asked Miles.

" I am sure they have," answered Stella."Phil and Pookie would make sure that he knew about us."

Back at the boarding house, Arnold was blowing out the candles on his birthday cake. Pookie baked the cake herself. Even though Pookie was crazy at times, she was always a good cook. All of the boarding house members where down in the kitchen with Arnold. After they all had cake, Arnold began to open his presents. His grandparents got him hiking boots, Ernie got him a season pass to Dino Land, Mr. Hyunh got him a him a new baseball and baseball bat, Oskar and Susie got him a gift card to the grocery store, Phoebe got him a book about San Lorenzo, and Gerald got him a small blue duffle bag to take his trip.

"It looks, that's all my presents, "stated Arnold.

"No, where's Helga's gift?" asked Gerald.

They all looked at Helga. Helga had to come up with an excuse. She didn't know how people would react if they found out that her gift was delivered. They were all waiting for an answer.

"Where's the gift?" asked Phoebe. "You said that you were going to buy him a gift yesterday."

"I did, but I didn't bring it," answered Helga.

"So that must mean you were the one who won all of that stuff at the camping store!" stated Arnold. "You had the gift delivered. Thanks, Helga! I love it"

"Just don't get used to it, football head!" answered Helga.

"Thank you all for coming to Arnold's party. It really means a lot to us all. It looks like it 5:00 PM, everybody needs to get home and start packing. You all leave tomorrow night to go to San Lorenzo," declared Phil.

Helga, Gerald, and Phoebe left the boarding house. Arnold took all of his new stuff to his room. He put his father's journal inside his blue backpack, along his hiking boots, the compass,flashlight, first aid kit, and emergency blanket in the front compartment. He went to his closet and got a flannel shirt, two pairs of jeans, two pair of shorts, and a red tee shirt and blue tee shirt and he put them in the back compartment .His back pack at a pocket that he could unzip so he put in hygiene items in the pocket. He unzipped his blue duffle bag, he began to pack his clothes. He packed tee-shirts, shorts, jeans, hygiene items, an extra pair of tennis shoes, and a sleeping bag.