PeterM

=//That was then, This is now.//=

//By: S.E. Hinton//
1.Bryon and Mark are best friends that live together ever since Mark's parents died. They also make money by scamming people in pool. 2.Bryon meets Cathy and Mike. Cathy works at the snack bar and is M&M's older sister. Mike is in the hospital after getting beat up. 3.Bryon's kind of relationship with Charlie is a friend relationship. Bryon used to date Charlie's sister. 4.At the dance while Bryon is dancing with Cathy, Mark is outside drinking beer with Terry. Terry gets in a fight with someone and Mark tries to break it up.The man hits Mark in the head with a beer bottle and knocks Mark out. Bryon realizes that Angel hired him to beat up their friend Curtis. 5. Bryon begins to discover that when they were little they were so close. Now him and Mark are growing farther and farther apart. 6.While at Charlie's bar Bryon and Mark decided to hustle some guys to make money. The guys realize they are scamming them and try to shoot Bryon and Mark. Charlie grabs his shotgun and tries to defend Mark and Bryon. Charlie ends up being shot in the head and dies. Bryon and Mark feel really bad about it. Bryon feels it was their fault while Mark doesn't. 7.Mark and Cathy do not really like each other that much because Mark feels like Cathy is changing Bryon. 8.Mark shaves Angel's head because she is drunk and she hired someone to beat Curtis up. They leave her at side of the road. 9.Bryon begins to realize that Mark doesn't care about anyone except Bryon. 10.Bryon was at Terry's house when he was told that Mark stole the principle's car and he was arrested. Mark stole his car to visit his parole officer. Bryon's attitude is that he is now angry at Mark for making a stupid decision. 11.In chapter nine M&M gets sick from taking acid. The doctors don't know if he will ever be the same again. This moves Bryon because he realizes that things are never going to be the same. 12.Bryon discovered drugs in Mark's bedroom. Bryon realized that Mark could have sold these to M&M. Bryon calls the cops on Mark. 13.Bryon's relationship and attitude changes by him being angry at everyone including Cathy. 14.At the end of the book Bryon feels depressed that Mark would ever sell drugs. Bryon's life moves on but him and Mark will never be friends again. 15.I think this book is an example of how drugs destroy people's lives.The life lesson that it teaches is that some of your friends might become drug dealers or drug users and that you should always do the right thing and tell an adult.