Ponyboy's POV

I was waiting at the train station to pick up some little girl that the state told us we had to take care of from now on.

Apparently we have some little cousin that her parents don't want her anymore and seeing that we are her only relatives that she has they asked us if we could take care of her until they would find a foster home they could put her in.

Soda said he always wanted a little sister to take care of, Darry said that he didn't mind considering we are all old enough to take care of her, I just said whatever, but secretly I always wanted a little sister too.

I sighed and wiped some sweat off my forehead, it was sure hot outside, even hotter than august was supposed to be.

It didn't help that the train was late, I just wish it would hurry up and get here already.

Carlie POV

The train is almost at Tulsa.

My parents decided they didn't want me anymore, heck they didn't want me when they had me, but now they finally broke…

My parents beat me up as a habit, I have never lived a day where my parents don't beat me up, or when my dad isn't drunk. I have suffered the worst of abuses. My dad beats me up for no reason, and my mom either helps or laughs at me.

One day my luck changed and they told me that I would be sent to live with my older cousins until they could find a foster family to take me in. I haven't heard much about my cousins.

I hope they like me, almost everyone I see either glare cause of how I look or just ignore me, I haven't had a single friend in my life.

I have long almost thigh length pale blond hair, pale skin and blue eyes. I'm very small for my age, I look like I'm five but I'm really seven. My vocabulary is very big for my age because would always go to the library for something to do instead of being in my room all the time, I always liked to read big books. I'm also very thin, because my parents didn't feed me so I had to feed myself.

My parents fight when they aren't beating me.

They didn't even care when the lady who came to take me on the train took me and left the house. I could have sworn I heard them say "good riddance".

I glanced at the lady who was supposed to be escorting me.

She was busily flirting with the man a row in front of her.

She barely looked at me and when she did, she glared.

Was everyone in the world out to hate me?

I fell asleep and when I woke up the train was pulling to a stop.

The lady grabbed my hand and tugged me around trying to find my little luggage and my cousin who was supposed to pick me up.

I just hope that whoever my cousins are, they wont be like my parents.