AN- this is part chapter, and part preview. All the photographs/mementos mentioned will be elaborated on later.

Jamie has a box underneath his bed. At the bottom of this box is a book. It's big and red, with a metal latch, and the word 'Evidence' scrawled in big white letters across the bottom.

Once upon a time, this book contained a picture of tiny egg footprints, taken on an Easter Egg hunt, a sealed bag of cookie crumbs left behind on Christmas, a patch of 'Yeti' fur, and a picture of frost patterns, taken on a sleepover.

The book still contains the pictures- although the cookies and fur have since been replaced with photographs of those pieces of evidence. However, there's a great deal more to the book now- there's memories pinned within the pages.

A drawing, once pinned to the wall- of a boy on a sled in the air tossing snowballs at his friends on the ground- and a taller boy with a shepherd's staff hovering next to him, snow falling around them.

A carefully cleaned quarter- the one that was given in exchange for the tooth that was knocked out just after that sledding adventure- is taped to the page.

A picture of a page in another book- an entry on Big Foot, now autographed- 3 Phil.

A photograph of a Christmas tree, decked in red tinsel and whatever had seemed right.

A series of photographs, these ones of the neighbourhood children, all warmly wrapped up, posing next to ice sculptures- laughter visible in every frame.

Another photo, this one of a tiny fairy made out of ice- each feather etched out in exquisite detail.

A copy of a news report, made just over a hundred years ago- about the Guardian Angel who had protected a young girl from a storm.

And finally, a photograph of Sophie, on her first Easter Egg hunt- age three. Covered in mud with some sort of flower tangled in her hair, and beaming at the camera, a beautiful purple and lilac egg held between her two hands. Jamie, crouching down next to her, grins at the camera, shamelessly.

That is far from the end of the book- doubtlessly, Jamie will find reason to add more pictures and drawings to the well-thumbed pages, but there is more still to see within the box.

A home-made ornament that had sat on a Christmas tree- a plastic unicorn, covered in gold glitter.

A story made in English class, a bright red A on the front cover- entitled the Snow Bunny.

And finally, there is a large photograph, too large to fit in the book, of Jamie wearing brown chinos and a blue hoodie, with talcum powder in his hair, and a metal rod in hand. Sophie leans against him, arms around his waist, wearing her fairy wings and looking a bit like she'd gotten dressed in the dark, and they both smile at the camera.

There's a lot of memories in that box- and in the years to come, there will be many more.