Chapter ten, Memories

"It´s my birthday tomorrow," I said when we ate lunch, the next day.

"But Emma," said Gina "Why haven´t you told us? We gotta get you birthday presents"

"I forgot" I mumbled and watched in a different direction.

"Oh" said Mike "What do you want for presents then"

"Mike?" I said. "Could I get paint to the walls in my room as a birthday present."

"Of course you can!" Mike said. "What do you want as colour"

"I would like pink" I said.

"Nothing else?" Gina asked. Do you want anything else for your room?"

"Well" I said. "I would like to have a bulletin board above my bed. To hang my pictures on"

"What pictures?" Mike asked, and looked confused.

"Follow me to my room after lunch Mike" I said. "I want to do something, but I don´t want to do it on my own."

"Alright" Emma, he said.

After I had ate my lunch, me and Mike went to my room. He sat down on my bed and I opened the wardrobe and picked up my big blue box. I sat down beside Mike and putted the box between us.

What´s in this box?" Mike asked.

"Just memories" I said and lifted the lid of the box.

The first thing I lifted from the box were a little shirt that had been my brother´s favorite shirt.

"This was Jonas´s" I said and pressed the shirt against my face. "It smells like him"

I lay the shirt beside the box and picked up was just a folder with sheet music." And I laid that on my bedside table. The next thing I picked up from the box was a camera.

"Smile" I said , And took a photo of Mike. Then I started to look at the pictures. I stopped at a photo of my whole family. I showed Mike the photo

"Is that your family" he asked. And I nodded.

"I miss ´em." I said. "they were the best family in the world"

Mike lay his arm around my shoulders.

"Your family is not really dead" he said. "They live in your heart. Forever."

"I could print your pictures if you want" Mike said" You could put them on the bulletin board."

"I got some other pictures" I said. "But I would like you to do that to"

I lay the camera on my bedside table, and picked up a photo album from the box

I started riffle in it, and looked at the pictures.

"Have you shooted these pictures" Mike asked.

"Most of them" I answered and stopped at a lookup."

"That´s me and Jonas" I said and pointed at a picture. We hade been going downhill in a sled, and when the sled fell over, we got snow all over us. I don´t think I´ve ever laughed so much as that time."

Then the box was empty.

I putted the box in the wardrobe again, and then went out in the lounge to the others.