didn’t think much of the trip until I got a call I couldn’t ignore. Walking into the school the next day, I had no idea what my son had set in motion.I

There was energy in him. Not loud or bouncing off the walls. Just… lit up.

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He dropped his backpack by the door and, with a rare sparkle in his eyes, said, “Sam wants to go too… but they told him he can’t.”

I paused in the kitchen. “You mean to the hiking trip?”

He nodded.

“Sam wants to go too.”

Sam’s been Leo’s best friend since third grade. He’s a smart kid. Quick with jokes. But he’s spent most of his life watching from the sidelines or being left behind because he’s been wheelchair-bound since birth.