Stork picked up the cardboad box. He began to open it, but Crain screeched, and snatched it from his green hands.

"What was that for?" Stork asked, exteremely confused, and maybe a little steamed.

"I... It's just...You can't look in there!" Crain studdered. Stork sighed. He put an arm on his friend's shoulder. "Crain." He said in a calm voice. "Whatever is in that box you can show me. We're friends. It's okay." Crain's face went into a weak smile.

"You're right, as usual. Okay..." She opened the cardboad box. Inside was, to a normal person, a pile of random junk, that anyone would have thrown out in a heartbeat. But Stork looked at it's contents and smiled a sad smile. It was a smile full of memories. Inside the box was: a small photo album, an old dead rose, a compass, a seed packet, a wooden flute, a music record, and other worthless pieces of nonscense junk.

"You kept all this stuff? After all these years?" Stork picked up the rose and turned it carefully in his hands, so it crumble. "This was from... High school right?"

Crain nodded as she picked up the compass. "Remember playing pirates?"

"and when we dug up Mrs. Merleson's flowerbed looking for 'buried treasure'?" Stork laughed. "Boy, she was fumed..." He looked into the box and pulled out the flute. "this was the one Mr. Radley made for you right?"

"Uh-huh. I think I can still play it..." She tried out a few notes before putting it back and taking out the empty seed packet. "And this is from when we tried to plant our own garden when we were seven."

Stork laughed. "What did happen? I mean, I know the merb cabbage didn't grow... but what... was it just that we sucked at gardening, or the seeds were bad, or..."

"I think it was a combination of the two..." They both laughed.

Strork pulled out the music record (not a CD, an actual record you need a gramaphone to play...) and turned it over. It was huge, bigger than his face!

"Which record was this? You had a ton."
"I think it was The Beatles or something. We can play it on the record player later, but now-" Crain got cut of by a loud beep and the power coming back on. The loudspeaker was crackling and Aerrow's voice blared through the speaker-box on the celing.

"Crain and Stork! Get your merb butts out here!! Junko's up and we need to explore the terra! NOW!!"

Te two merbs looked at each other, rolled their eyes, and got up. Crain put the box under her bed and mumbled, "hmph! Well, someone's cranky today..." before following Stork out of the room.