The boy next door

Me and the boy next door have known each other for basically our whole lives, we're super close or at least we were. We use to hang out with each other all the time and if we weren't together we'd be convincing our parents to let us see each other, but Once he entered high school that's when everything changed, we didn't hang out or talk every day but we only saw each other when he would come over to see my my brother Lucas and when he came over he basically would ignore me. When I was 16 and Lucas was 17 our mum passed away and it was very hard for me, Lucas and of course my dad to accept. Eventually dad started to date again to try cope with the pain and at the time me and Lucas were happy to see him happy but god I hate to say this but I wish he stayed sad. His new girlfriend Linda is actually the worst, she doesn't like Lucas and I for some reason and so we don't like her back, she hates me more then Lucas tho because I fight back and I don't just let her push me around.