Tears of a Tiger Chapter 4 Summary

Memories of Fire

  • Officer Casey pays Tyrone a visit to get his version of what went down before the accident.
  • Tyrone explains they were out celebrating the win that night, and Gerald was going to come, too, except his stepfather beats him so he isn't really allowed to go out. Whoops… he wasn't supposed to admit that.
  • Anyway, so Andy was driving and they were all drinking and fooling around. All except B.J., since he never drinks.
  • Everything was funny to them, even stuff that normally isn't laugh-out-loud-hilarious. Guess that's the alcohol talking.
  • The car started swaying a bit and people were honking at them, but even that was funny somehow.
  • Then, out of nowhere, there was a wall, and—boom—the car slammed into it.
  • First Tyrone helped Andy out of the front seat; he was bleeding and having a hard time breathing, but he was okay. B.J. got out of the car, too.
  • And then they heard Robbie screaming. They tried to help him out, but his door was stuck, so Andy and B.J. climbed on top of the hood and started getting debris out of the way so they could get Robbie out.
  • Bam: An explosion knocked them off the car and started a fire inside.
  • The boys heard Robbie yelling for help, but there was nothing they could do.
  • Tyrone remembers that there was screaming for a long time, and then silence.