“When you lose your parents, the sadness doesn't go away. It just changes. It hits you sideways sometimes instead of head-on. Like now.” 
-Jude Watson, In Too Deep

Exerpt:

“Hush now, don’t cry,” he murmured, cradling the boy.  His heart ached for him, the younger brother he never had, the ghost of his past, the echo of who he was deep down.