The screen was clean. The hard drive was empty. The chaotic mess of a decade was gone. There was nothing but raw, formatted space, waiting for an operating system that didn't know him yet. It didn't know his failures, his heartbreak, or his bad habits.
: Formatting permanently erases everything on the targeted partition. format xp
He hovered his finger over the 'N' key. No. He could back out. He could drag the files to an external drive, hoard the memories, let them clutter up his new machine. He could carry the baggage with him. The screen was clean
Verifying 80%...
The cursor blinked in the top left corner of the screen. A sterile, white underscore against a void of black. hoard the memories