Provoking set-up, but watch your grammar and punctuation, and be sure to spell-check. I'm curious to know where you'll go with this. The shoe-box full of "momentos" are kind of a dead give-away. You might want to make that less obvious, at least at first. All-in-all, not too bad. You've got the characterizations of Sam and Al down pretty well. Make your scene switches a bit more obvious, such as putting a dotted line between them, or extra space. It was a bit jarring to go from one part of the story to the next with no warning. Keep up the good work. You've got something here, now run with it.

Good work.

When are you going to write more? I like this story.