Author: mikesh
Title: Why did my life have to turn out this way?
Summary: What if Darry had decided not to raise his two brothers?
Part: 3?
Pony's P.O.V.
I hate my older brother. He shouldn't have went off to college and left Soda and me in the boys' home. I haven't seen Soda my second oldest brother in three weeks, but I've heard
from him a couple of times. I've been with Sam and Elisa Love for about a week now. I wrote to Sodapop to tell him where I'm at but I haven't heard anything from him yet.
Elisa is really nice, but Sam is ok. I don't like him as much as I do Elisa. They're rich as they come. The house is a 20 million dollar house and they have two horses, four ducks,
one cat(just kinds of hangs around the farm) and three dogs. I like all the animals except the cat. Never really did care for them. They have their own personality and they won't let
you just pet them. They pay some guy to farm their land since they live in the country. I guess I got my wish of wanting to live in the country someday. I've always wanted to
since I visited when my dad brought Soda, Darry and me. I go to a public school but the kids are nothing like they are back home. They only talk about farm stuff and it gets quit
boring. I tried asking a guy about cars and he looked at me as if I had lost my mind. The kids are ok but I miss the boys back home. I wrote to Johnny who's been my best friend
for as long as I can remember, I haven't heard anything from him either. I don't know what's going on, I haven't heard from the gang since I left but you probably already
knew that. Sam is really strict on me. He has like 20 rules for me. Like no friends after 7 p.m., no phone calls after 6 p.m. except on Saturdays when my friends can call up to 7:30
p.m., be in bed by 8 p.m., have one hour to do all my homework, no t.v. after 7:30 p.m., make my bed every morning. They just keep going on and on and on. Like the third night
I was here I had a lot of homework since its the middle of the school year, and Sam came home at 6 p.m. and yelled at me for not having all my homework done. For that I got
grounded from the t.v. that night and the next two nights and I had to be in bed by 7:30p.m. Tonight I can stay up until 8:30p.m. Sam works for some top dog company but he won't
tell me what he does. Elisa won't tell me what he does either says its none of my business. Elisa works as a nurse an hour away from where they live. They live in
McAlester. I'm on the track team like I was back home. Well not on it on it but for some reason someone can't race one week then I take their place. I have practice Monday,
Wednesday, Friday, and some Saturdays when there isn't a race. Practice runs from 3:30p.m. to 5:30p.m. I hope that I can go see the boys and Sodapop sometime soon. I
really miss all of them except Darry. I don't miss him because I'm still mad at him for leaving Soda and me at the boys' home.