The biker smiled at the little girl.<\/p>\n
Ready to leave.<\/p>\n
Ready to let the moment become another memory.<\/p>\n
Then\u2014<\/p>\n
the little girl grabbed his sleeve.<\/p>\n
\u201cWait.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her voice was small.<\/p>\n
Nervous.<\/p>\n
She slipped off her backpack.<\/p>\n
And carefully pulled out a folded piece of paper.<\/p>\n
The biker took it.<\/p>\n
Curious.<\/p>\n
Then froze.<\/p>\n
It was a prescription.<\/p>\n
Her mother’s prescription.<\/p>\n
The date was yesterday.<\/p>\n
And across the top, stamped in red letters, were the words:<\/p>\n
URGENT.<\/strong><\/p>\n The biker looked up.<\/p>\n Concern filling his eyes.<\/p>\n The little girl lowered her head.<\/p>\n Tears returning.<\/p>\n \u201cMom didn’t want me selling lemonade.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cShe wanted me to stay home.\u201d<\/p>\n The biker’s heart sank.<\/p>\n \u201cThen why are you out here?\u201d<\/p>\n The little girl’s lip trembled.<\/p>\n Because she had been holding the answer inside all day.<\/p>\n Then she whispered\u2014<\/p>\n \u201cBecause she stopped taking her medicine.\u201d<\/p>\n The biker stared at her.<\/p>\n Speechless.<\/p>\n The girl wiped her eyes.<\/p>\n Trying to be brave.<\/p>\n \u201cShe told me we couldn’t afford it anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n Silence.<\/p>\n The gas station lights buzzed softly overhead.<\/p>\n Cars continued passing by.<\/p>\n Unaware.<\/p>\n Then the biker looked at the jar.<\/p>\n At the money he had given her.<\/p>\n And realized something.<\/p>\n The child hadn’t been trying to earn extra money.<\/p>\n She had been trying to save her mother.<\/p>\n The little girl clutched the prescription tightly.<\/p>\n Hope shining through her tears.<\/p>\n Then she smiled.<\/p>\n A small.<\/p>\n Fragile smile.<\/p>\n And whispered\u2014<\/p>\n \u201cNow she gets to stay.\u201d<\/p>\n The biker felt his eyes fill with tears.<\/p>\n Because standing beside that little lemonade stand<\/p>\n wasn’t a girl selling drinks.<\/p>\n It was a daughter fighting for one more day with her mom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The biker smiled at the little girl. Ready to leave. Ready to let the moment become another memory. Then\u2014 the little girl grabbed his sleeve. \u201cWait.\u201d Her voice was small. Nervous. She slipped off her backpack. And carefully pulled out a folded piece of paper. The biker took it. Curious. Then froze. It was a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":7591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/storytimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimes.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}