Kaley Morey, left, and sister Emilee hold four of the tickets they plan to keep for the upcoming Jonas Brothers concert. They had four other tickets, two of which they donated to someone at Casa de los Niños.

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The story of how Kaley and Emilee Morey came into four extra tickets for the Jonas Brothers sold-out Jan. 31 concert is interesting.

But what they did next is extraordinary.

They gave them away.

Two went to a young client at Casa de los Niños. The fate of the other two will be decided in the next couple days.

One thing is certain: The sisters want to make sure the tickets go to die-hard fans who aren't as fortunate as they are.

"(We decided) that we should give them to kids that really like (the band) but couldn't get tickets," Kaley, 13, said earlier this week.

What makes their gesture so admirable is that the girls, who live on the far Northeast Side, could've pocketed a pretty penny from the tickets. Online brokers are asking hundreds of dollars apiece for tickets next to the Moreys in the balcony. Seats in the orchestra are fetching as much as $3,200.

The pop-punk trio's Music Hall concert — which kicks off their first solo tour — sold out moments after tickets went on sale Jan. 12. The 700 seats on the floor were sold through a lottery system at the Tucson Convention Center box office. Ticketmaster sold the balcony seats.

Online ticket brokers snagged up a big chunk of the tickets, even the coveted floor seats, then immediately put them up for sale at double and triple their $39.50 and $49.50 face value.

Drake Morey said he and his daughters lucked into their Jo-Bros tickets after waiting hours in the early morning cold Jan. 12 for a shot at floor seats. He and his daughters were in a line at the Tucson Convention Center that stretched more than 500 people long. Morey quickly realized they were so far back that the show would be sold out by the time they reached the ticket window.

So the family ran to Morey's father's Downtown law office and began calling Ticketmaster. They got through and snagged four balcony seats — two next to each other, two separated by a couple rows.

Moments later, Morey's wife called him on his cell phone. The line at the TCC, she told him, was thinning out. People were leaving in droves. She suggested he go back and find a discarded wristband and try their luck again.

Once there, someone gave Morey a wristband: No. 2,590. The line was at 2,432.

"So we're 140 out of it so there's no way we're going to get a ticket," Morey recalled excitedly. "So we're standing there, and more people leave. And then it's our turn."

They got four tickets in row 18, on the floor.

"My daughter was in tears. Now all of a sudden, we have eight tickets," he said.

Morey admitted he considered selling his extra tickets on eBay.

"Right away I'm going ching, ching, let's go make our 500 bucks," he said. "But the girls said, 'Dad, you're going to give it to some kids who are less fortunate than us or to some real fans'."

On Friday morning, Morey delivered the tickets to Casa de los Niños. They are still mulling ideas for the other tickets and hope to reach a decision over the weekend.

"This is a huge gift that those girls and this family has given to us," said Kathy Powell, a child guidance specialist with Casa de los Niños. "To watch that smile. We have kids here that don't understand what happy is because they have not seen happy a lot.

"This will be so exciting for one of the children."

Casa de los Niños is a crisis center for young children experiencing everything from abuse and neglect at home to health issues, Powell said. The facility provides shelter and services for children from birth through their teens.

Kaley Morey, an eighth-grader at Dodge Middle School, said she became a fan of the Jonas Brothers after watching them on Disney Channel.

"I'm really, really excited," she said. "They sing good music."

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