Aryan was in his backyard, playing catch with Lucas, his childhood friend, and next-door neighbor.
Lucas was visiting the town for the summer, and it had been a year since they last saw each other. Even though they had mandatory hour-long conversations on the phone twice a week and texting was an everyday ritual for them, still there was nothing like talking with each other face-to-face.
They both missed being together all the time, mostly because this is how they were their entire life; playing catch in the backyard after school, late at night swimming in the nearby lake, playing GTA5 on Lucas's computer, and most of all talking about their problems.
Well, it was mostly Aryan complaining about his stepbrother and stepmother, and how his father always sides with them, when neither are
