Nick+P.

1. Bryon and Mark are best friends who live together and are always getting into trouble. 2. At the hospital Bryon meets his friend M&M's sister Cathy who works at the hospital, Bryon also meets a boy who is in the room across the hall from his Mom. The boy's name is Mike Chambers who tells Bryon about how he became injured and in the hospital. 3. Bryon has a good relationship with Charlie because charlie will let him sit in his bar ad hustle people in pool. 4. At the dance Mark was trying to stop a fight from happening when he was hit over the head with a bottle and was then rushed to the hospital in an ambulance. 5. In his private conversations whith Mark, Bryon descovers that he has been hanging out at hippie houses. 6. Charlie gets shot in the head and dies while he is protecting Mark and Bryon from getting killed. Bryon and Mark fell very bad about what happened because it is their fault that he was killed. 7. Mark and Cathy do not like each other because they do not agree on things like fighting and drinking. 8. Mark cuts Angel's hair because she told the kid who hit Mark with a bottle to start a fight with Mark's friend. 9. Bryon discovers that Mark knows where M&M is and he knows that he is ok. 10. At Terry Jones' house Bryon gets beat up by the two Shepard brothers while he is waiting for Mark to come back. His attitude changes by him telling mark not to get back at them because he is tired of ighting. 11. M&M egts mentaly hurt by using to many drugs. This moves Bryon because he is not sure if M&M will ever be the same as he was before he left his house. 12. In chapter 10 Bryon descovers that Mark is selling drugs and he calls the police when he finds it and they arrest Mark for having the them. 13. Bryon's relationship with his friends and the way he views life completely changes because he does not have any friends anymore. He also is not going ot with Cathy anymore because he is to depressed about what he did to Mark to do anything. 14. At the end of the book Bryon feels sad because he lost everything he ever loved. 15. I thought the book was very good and it kept me wanting to read more. The life message in this story is to enjoy life as it happens and the think before you act.