I was walking into the Willowbrook mall in jersey to maybe do some shopping but mostly to find out about the shooting that happened there today, when I heard what sounded like sobbing coming from the side of a building where there was nothing but truck docks.

I started walking around the side to see what was going on when I saw this boy no more than ten, sitting on one of those curb like things they use as boarders for shrubs, crying away.

I asked him what was wrong and he proceeded to tell me how his mother gave him two one hundred dollar bills she had converted at the bank from the money she managed to save as tips from the two waitress jobs she held to support he and his four younger brothers and sisters by herself.

He being the eldest was trusted to come to the mall and buy gifts for his siblings as she could not. As he was approaching the mall clutching the money in his hand someone managed to grab one of the hundred dollar bills from his hand and run away. I looked down at his hand and there was one hundred dollar bill. I looked around at the entire area and saw no one, so i grabbed the hundred and ran to my car.

Merry Xmas