Why does Ponyboy feel this would be the worst time for him and Sodapop to be separated from Darry and the gang? The book is called the outsiders from s. e Hinton

That would be a bad time for him and Soda to feel apart from everyone else, because Ponyboy didn't want to worry Darry too much about anything.

Explanation:

do you have part b? ?

explanation:

the present continuous is a verb tense which is mainly used to indicates that an action is in progress at the moment of speaking.  

it is formed using: person + verb to be (am/is/are) +verb + - ing form  

example: i am studying at this moment .

in addition, the present continuous is also used in order to express things that will or will not happen in the near future.

example: i am having dinner with some friends tonight.

the speaker sometimes   uses it   to express that an action is repeated and it causes irritation on the part of the speaker

example: my sister is constantly complaining about everything.