He pressed Enter.

He double-clicked.

But every Saturday, he and Ethan sit side by side on the old couch. Ethan plays Subway Surfers on his phone. Leo watches. And when Ethan says, “Dad, you try,” Leo takes the phone, runs into a train immediately, and laughs.

The game continued. Each train he dodged, each coin he collected, unlocked a new memory: Ethan’s first bike ride. Ethan crying after Leo missed his school play. The last time Leo said “I’ll call you tomorrow” and didn’t. After 45 minutes—far longer than any Subway Surfers session should last—Leo reached a part of the track he’d never seen in any YouTube playthrough. The background music faded. The Inspector and his dog vanished. Even the trains stopped.