My Little Sister Gave Away Her Lunch Money to Buy a Lonely Boy at the Hospital a Birthday Cake – The Next Morning, We Found a Black Balloon Attached to a Red Box on Our Lawn

Della and I stood barefoot in the wet grass, staring at the black balloon and the red box.

“Open it, Syd,” she whispered.

I knelt down and lifted the lid.

Inside were Della’s mint tin, a locker key, Tobias’s visitor calendar, and two notes.

I looked at her.

“Della, how did he get your tin?”

Her cheeks turned pink.

“I gave it to him before we left. So he’d continue reading …