Why Birthday Stars Point Home — Behind the balloon booth at the sticker fair, Benny pressed a bent gold sticker in his pocket. Read the full story →
Behind the balloon booth at the sticker fair, Benny pressed a bent gold sticker in his pocket. He wanted to find the cake table where his cousins were saving him a seat, but every path smelled like frosting, paper, and rubber balloons. The sticker was plain to everyone else. Secretly, it was the corner from last year’s birthday banner, the first place he had ever heard, “You’re with us.”
A wind puffed—whiff!—and spun the confetti. Benny stuck the gold piece on a star wand so he would not drop it. The wand tugged left past bowed gifts, right past candle cakes, then stopped at a circle of balloons. “Here?” Benny whispered. His cousins cheered from the table beyond them. Ever since, birthday stars have kept their points sharp, because one point always knows the way to where you belong; next time you spot the star wand, see which point is keeping the secret.
