Author's Note: Hello my readers! This is an AU! Johnny never died in the fire and made a FULL recovery! In other words he can walk too! And since Johnny never died Dallas never did either, so Hip hip hurray! I don't own any characters but Pepsi, Danny, Stallion, Austin, Kevin, Donny, Stan, and any other character not in the book.

Pepsi's POV

My name is Pepsi, and I've been in and out of boy's homes most of my life. I was told my real father gave me my name and a letter I wasn't to read till I was seventeen. My keeper always kept a promise, and she promised to keep it till then. On the day before my seventeenth birthday, she came into my room her long blonde hair swishing in the ponytail and her blue eyes clouded with happiness. "Hey Sprite," my nick-name ever since I can remember "You lookin' forward to tomorrow?" I smiled at her, "You better believe it, Minnie!" I yelled, "I get that long awaited letter tomorrow!"

She laughed as I jumped up and down on my bed. "Hey Sprite!" I turned to see my best friends standing in the door way. All my friends are at the most two years younger than me, but not one of them are older.

The first friend is this boy named Danny. He's like a older brother to me. He's bigger than me, but still younger. He has always watched out for me and bailed me out of trouble when he knew I couldn't sweet talk my way out of it.

The next on is Stallion. He's like my little brother. I watch out for him like Danny watches out for me. I'm surprised that him and Danny aren't real brothers. They look so much alike! Except for the fact that Stallion is like a foot smaller than Danny. They both had brown hair that stopped in the middle of their necks. And stunning green eyes that make you feel as if they are looking through your very soul. But I guess that is just their personalities are like. They've always been over protective, but I love them anyway.

The next on the list is my best of all best friend STAN! He is like no other! He is tough, hard, and fearless, but at the same time he's caring, kind, and my boyfriend. Now I wouldn't touch any one who is even remotely mean or hated by any of the group. His face can go from hard and careless to soft and kind in a few seconds. His brown hair and green eyes just make me melt into a puddle. When I kiss him my mind turns off and we usually end up…doing it. Every one in our group knows, but no one out of it.

The next one I need to talk about is Austin. He's the toughest of us all. He makes Stan look like a puppy poodle. He gets me scared real easy. Sometimes I think he's trying to steal me from Stan, but I know that isn't true Austin has Donny. Austin would do what ever it took to protect the gang, but he would do even more for Donny. His eyes soften when Donny or I talk to him. He only opens up to the members that he completely trust, so only Donny and me. That make me even more scared and Stan more protective.

The next member is Donny. He is our little MPD puppy. One minute he's the real Donny all smiles and sunshine, and the next minute he's Buster the big, mean, scary bulldog that can tear you to shreds if you rub him the wrong way. Buster is just like Austin, but Donny is Stallion's best buddy, but Buster scares him. Donny is so sweet it hurts to see what Buster is doing to him. Donny is so jumpy and Buster makes it worse. He gets Donny into so much trouble, but everyone in the orphanage knows of his problems and takes care of him. Donny has brown hair that flows in the wind when we go on the motor-bikes and amber eyes that can pull the truth from you if needed

The next of the gang is Kevin. He is the joker of the group. He never has a strait face. He can't go two seconds without telling a joke, and he always rough house. His mischievous blue eyes make you feel uneasy because you think that he is going to play a prank on us any minute. I can trust him with every fiber of my body though. He is the sweetest guy I could ever want to meet.

The last of the gang is me. I have some seriously blonde hair and with almost always dancing brown eyes. Minnie says that I look like the woman that brought me here. I'm glad I have some sort of resemblance to my mother. I guess if I was a girl I'd look like her twin, but I guess I got my dad's eyes because my mom had like blue green eyes. My slim form makes sure that Stan can dominate me when he knows I'm in a bad mood. He tells me that "When you're sleeping you look like you are a Greek God!" I don't believe that, but Thank you anyway babe!

The guys walked into the room. "Hi Sprite! Man I can't believe that after tomorrow your leaving us!" Minnie made a gasp. We all looked at her "That's what I wanted to talked to you about Pepsi! Go to the library, and I'll be there in a bit." I nodded my head, not wanting to get into anything the day before I left. All of a sudden my heart started to hurt. I started to think, and with my brain that ain't a good thing. I started to think of where my parents were. Were they in Ms, or were they in some other state; and if they are then what about my friends and Stan. I'll more than likely never see them again. What am going to do with out them in close ranges? I mean, yeah, they're only at most sixteen, but they know more than any sixteen year old should know. Donny was taken away from his family because they were beating him to the point of standing to the edge of death; Stan's father neglected him to the point, he never came home again, and a neighbor had to call the police after she found Stan home alone for four weeks. Danny's mother tried to kill him because her boyfriend didn't like him. Stallion's dad dropped him off because he "can't stand to look at his God for saken face any more, and never came back. Austin was finally caught by the law for beating his mother into a pulp, but when they talked to him about it, he said that his mother pulled a blade on him, and his Dad a gun. Kevin's parents never loved him so he came here on his own accord. Said he researched all the orphanages in the states, and thought ours was best for him.

"Minnie! I don't want to go! I want to stay here with my friends and if I can't can they come with me to find my family." I yelled as she came into the library. She smiled at me as if I said just what she wanted to hear. "Well, Pepsi looks like there is only one solution to that problem. Looks like your going to have to adopt your friends tomorrow. I've got all the preparations taken care of a house with four bed rooms, a HUGE kitchen, two bathrooms, and all fully furnished. It used to be my family house when I was little and you will be near your family. Your mother and I were childhood friends, and I promised her I would take care of you till you came to the age of seventeen, and tomorrow is the day that you finally turn. Now you and some of the others will need to take jobs to pay for food and bills but I'll do the taxes and …" she couldn't finish, because I hugged her before she even had a chance to think of the thing she might have said. "Can I fill out the paperwork tonight? So all we have to do tomorrow is pack and leave?"

She started to laugh. "Of course Pepsi," she said.

"Just tell them that they are all being adopted, and that they better pack."

I got all the paperwork filled out, and an hour after I got back to my room with my buds, Minnie came inside.

"Oh! I'm going to miss you all so much!" she cried

"Why Minnie?" asked Donnie

"Well all of you, but Pepsi, are getting adopted. He's this nice young man who used to live in an orphanage himself, and he thought 'I wanna help others like me' He already filled out all the paperwork, and all you have to do is pack!"

"Yes!" yelled Stallion, "We all got adopted!"

As we all fell asleep, I couldn't help but smile 'If only they knew,' I thought as sleep over came me.