Time speeds up and yet Bryon feels as though he is moving in slow motion. Just as the boys think they are safe behind Charlie, shooting erupts-the Texans shoot, Charlie pushes the boys to the ground, and then Mark grabs Charlie’s gun and shoots at the Texans-and they get up to find Charlie dead.
They are about to get beat up by “Dirty Dave” and his brass knuckles, until Charlie holds a shotgun and tells the Texans to let go. After winning heavily against them, they head out, but the Texans, hiding in an alleyway, hold a gun to the boys and force them into an alleyway. They borrow money from M&M, and play against a couple of toughened Texan cowboys. One night, Mark and Bryon head to Charlie’s to hustle pool. He hears that Ponyboy has been trying for Cathy’s attention too, but Cathy prefers Bryon, and the two begin going out. Mike says he wishes he were dead, or someone else, and Bryon, who escapes “depressing stuff like that,” goes down to the cafeteria to see Cathy. That Was Then, This Is Now is a coming-of-age story set in the 1960s.Mark and Bryon stop in to see Mike, whose father had come and made everything worse for him. Hinton is the author of The Outsiders, a book she wrote when she was 16. When Bryon discovers that Mark is pushing drugs, he faces a choice that could ruin their friendship. And as Bryon's life takes one direction, Mark's life takes another. He grows bored with all the fighting, the dead-end choices of life on the streets. Bryon starts spending a lot of time with Cathy, and she makes him feel there are some things worth working for. Now at 16 they like to reminisce about old times-the fights and pranks at school, smoking and swearing-junk they got into when they were younger.
Ever since his parents died when he was nine, Mark has lived with Bryon and his mother. Last fall Mark and me had thought just alike, as one person now we couldn't even talk." Bryon and Mark aren't related, but they are as close as brothers. In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.
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