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In the book "That Was Then, This Is Now" so far what has happened is Bryon is pretty good friends with a bartender but Bryon knows he means business too, Bryon hasn't paid the bill for the 30 cents of coke he has been getting and Mark too. Mark tells the bartender I'll give you three dollars tomorrow if you give me a coke right now. Then later on Mark and Bryon's friend M&M gets jumped and they save him from getting jumped, when Mark was beating one of the guys up he stole three dollars from him and afterwards they went back to return the money to the bartender. Later that evening they went to go see their mom at the hospital because she was getting operation done on her, their mom then had asked if Bryon and Mark can go visit a boy across the hall, because no one visits the boy, but Bryon didn't want to go Bryon then, went to the food court downstairs and saw M&M's sister Cathy he didn't recognize her at first but he asked her if they can hang out sometime to talk. Afterwards Bryon went to find Mark in the room that their mom had told them to visit. In the room their was a boy that had bandages all over his head and he looked really bad Mark then went to the drugstore to get the kid that some comic books Bryon then asked what happened to you? The boy said it's long story, Bryon said I got time.