Unexpected connections

Chapter 1: Introduction

Trigger warning⚠️
Sexual Abuse
Violence
Mature content

Introduction:
Step into the world of high school drama, where Alexie and Aliyah are unexpectedly paired with the shy kids, Ponyboy and Johnny. Are Alexie and Aliyah just another group of stereotypical popular kids, or is there more to them than what people think they see.

Ponyboy Pov:
I was sitting in Ms Anderson's Forensics classroom with my chin resting on my palm, you may be thinking "Aren't you 14 ponyboy? What are you doing with the upperclassman?" well I'm very smart, at my age I'd be in middle school still, but im not. Most of the teachers suggested that I even moved up a grade for my hard work and knowledge compared to the other students.

From what Soda says, Darrys proud of me, he sure has a funny way of showing it though. Ever since our parents died and he had to step up as a father figure, things have been rough between us. Sometimes, it feels like him and Soda would be better off without me in the picture.

Soda says that he doesn't mean what he says when he gets mad at me, but it doesn't feel that way. Sometimes I feel bad for Soda, I mean he always gets stuck in the middle of our arguments, it's not his fault we're both so stubborn.

He had to drop out of school to help support Darry with the bills and stuff, Darry says that if me or Soda get into any trouble we'll be sent to a boys home, maybe it'd be okay if I was though, itd be one less mouth to feed for Darry. He always says he doesnt want it to happen though, and maybe hes telling the truth. It's hard to tell, though.

He promised Mom and Dad that he would take care of us no matter what, and after the death of our parents, it hit all of us real hard. Heck it even hit Dallas Winston hard, he viewed my mother as his very own she always was the kindest soul, everyone always knew it.

She always let Dallas and Johnny in our house. Dallas managed to stay out of trouble because he didnt want to upset her, and cause she would treat him in ways that didnt make him feel the need to. But as most say, good things always come to a tragic end.

"Alright class settle down" Ms.Anderson loudly sassed in a tired tone as she smacked a large stack of papers against her desk, a loud bang folllwing. "I've decided that for the project I'll put you all into groups of four." She picked up a marker, moving to the front of the class before writing down everyone's names, one at a time.

Johnny quickly glanced at me from the desk next to mine, the class had already gotten into their groups, it was either get paired up by the teacher, or get into groups on your own, and we couldn't let her choose because we were each other's only friends in this class. I glanced around, seeing that the class had already gotten into groups of the proper amount.

"Gee Pony, what are we going to do?" Johnny asks looking at me, he was always as quiet as a mouse and nervous about everthing, even seeing his own shadow, but I tried my best to assure that things would be alright.

"It's okay Johnny, Ms Anderson will sort everything out"

Ms Anderson finished writing the names of the groups then looked at us, a judgy look on her features and her lips parted slowly as she glared at us in the slightest way, "I thought there were more students in this class. It seems two are missing," Ms Anderson said in a slow and Condescending tone.

Aliyah Iverson and Alexie Reed, they're the people that were missing today.
"Has anyone seen Aliyah or Alexie today?"
The class went quiet, when suddenly there was a murmur in the back of the classroom. The class remained silent as a shy, snobby voice spoke up.

"Probably ditching, you know they have bad attendance records." It was Bob Sheldon, a popular soc kid who was dating Cherry valance.  I never understood how a sweet girl like Cherry could ever date that kind of guy.