getText problem

I have a problem… I’m making a game and I have the first frame my first level then the second frame the shop, I need it to remember what my score was from my 1st frame, and place it in the same text box in the second. Here is my actionscript
first frame


stop();
score=0

let say I collected some coins
then I want


stop();
score.text.getText(start)

It won’t work someone please help me.