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“Did you write?”

He turned the laptop toward her. The torrent client was closed. Deleted. But the text file remained.

That was Aoife. Summer 2011. They had danced on the beach in Howth until the guards told them to leave. She had laughed, and he had promised to write her a song one day. She left for Toronto two months later. He never wrote it.

He didn’t copy the files to his main music folder. He didn’t burn them to a CD. Instead, he opened a fresh text file. Cursor blinking again. The Script - Discography -2008-2012-.torrent

He was seventeen again, sitting in his mum’s clapped-out Ford Fiesta, rain hammering the roof. She had just told him his father wasn’t coming back. The radio was playing “Breakeven.” He had cried so hard he didn’t notice the traffic light turn green three times.

Then lyrics. Real ones. About a Ford Fiesta, a beach in Howth, and a man who never came back from the shop.

Niamh padded in, still in her robe. “Did you sleep?” “Did you write

He autographed it with shaking hands. For the first time.

He plugged in his cheap earbuds. Track one: “We’re cryin’ out for something we never had…”

“Don’t,” said his flatmate, Niamh, without looking up from her tea. “You’ll get a letter from Eircom.” But the text file remained

The blinking cursor on the private torrent tracker felt like a dare. “The Script - Discography -2008-2012-.torrent | 0 seeders | 1 leecher (you).”

He opened the laptop again. His finger hovered over the download button.

Track four from Science & Faith : “For the first time, I’m looking in her eyes…”

By dawn, he had a verse and a chorus. It was raw. It was off-key in places. But it was his .