This week and I kept reading That Was Then, This is Now. My prediction was right. I thought that Mark and Bryon were just going to become closer and closer which was just a set up for the moment when they start to separate. When Bryon gets a new girlfriend him and Mark start spending less and less time together. And just at the time when the two couldn’t be closer. Mark was just out of the hospital, and one of their best friends had just been shot saving their butts. But when Cathy (Bryon’s new girlfriend and M&M’s sister) and Bryon started dating they spent most of their time devoted to each other. And it wasn’t just teenage boyfriend girlfriend Bryon had latterly fallen in love with Cathy. At one point in the book Bryon proved me right by saying “me and Mark hadn’t been spending much time together recently” (pg 86). Bryon and Mark have been as close as brothers and been through so much together so hopefully their valuable and meaningful friendship will not crumble.