“Worth it,” Leo whispered.

The file name was a mess: fall_out_boy_-_sugar_were_goin_down_(real).mp3.exe – a red flag even he understood, but hope was a dangerous thing in 2005.

On release day, he rode his bike four miles to Best Buy, bought the CD with crumpled lawn-mowing money, and ripped it to his family’s now-repaired computer at 128kbps.

Maya laughed. “You downloaded a virus, genius.”

“From Under the Cork Tree” had leaked three days before its official release, and every emo kid in a fifty-mile radius was hunting for it. Leo needed “Sugar, We’re Goin Down” like oxygen. Not for the chorus—for the lyric he’d heard on a bootlegged MTV stream: “We’re the new face of failure…” That line had peeled back his ribs.