Jake+E.

=**that was then, this is now**=


 * 1) ===Bryon and Mark are best friends who think of each other as brothers. The are sixteen years old. They have lived together in Bryon's house scince they were little.===
 * 2) ===In the hospital, Bryon meets Mike Chambers' a kid who was doing a nice thing but was back stabbed, and Cathy a server. Cathy is M&M's sister.===
 * 3) ===Bryon and Charlie are good friends. Bryon knows Charlie becuase he is the older brother of one of his ex-girlfriends and after they broke up Charlie and Bryon were still friends. Charlie owns a bar and he lets Bryon and Mark come in to play pool and have cokes.===
 * 4) ===At the dance, Mark got into a fight with Curly Shrpard, Angelas older brother, while standing up for a friend. Mark got hit with a beer bottle and ended up in the hospital.===
 * 5) ===Bryon discovers that he and Mark are slowly growing apart.===
 * 6) ===Charlie got shot and killed by two Texans who Bryon and Mark just hustled in a game of pool. Mark and Bryon were being jumped in the alley and Charlie was protecting them. Bryon and Mark were very angry at the Texans, so angry that Mark jumped up grabbed Charlie's shot gun and shot at the Texans but the Texans got away from them.===
 * 7) ===Mark and Cathy dislike each other becuase the are jealous of Bryon hanging out with the other.===
 * 8) ===Mark cuts off Angela's hair becuase she was drunk and so was Bryon. Mark was only drinking Coke not rum and coke. Mark also thinks it is good payback for telling her brothers to fight him.===
 * 9) ===Bryon discovers that Mark thinks he can do what ever he wants and is invincible becuase he is a kid.===
 * 10) ===At Terry Jones's house Bryon gets beat up by the Shepard gang becuase they hold him responsible for Angela's hair cut.===
 * 11) ===In chapter nine Bryon and Cathy found M&M in a hippie hideout doing acid and talking nonsense about spiders eating him.===
 * 12) ===Bryon discovers that Mark is selling drugs to people (most likely hippies) for a lot of money. Bryon responsibily calls the cops and Mark is arrested.===
 * 13) ===Mark hates Bryon but Bryon does not hate Mark. Mark is moved to a prison instead of juvi because of fighting.===
 * 14) ===Bryon is mature in the end and realizes that what used to matter doesn't matter anymore.===
 * 15) ===The ending of this book made this one of the worst books I have ever read. I don't think others shouldn't read this, I just wanted Bryon and Mark to become friends again. The book taught me about how doing the right thing is most important, even if you lose a friend over it.===