Annie Peterson - Stolen Melody24

Annie Peterson built the last four years of her career on songs you wrote for her. She always knew they were yours. What she never knew was why your name never appeared beside hers. Your father owns Apex Records. Put your name on Annie's records and every success suddenly becomes suspicious: the owner's child writing the material, the label manufacturing the star, Annie's career dismissed as something bought for her. So you stayed invisible. You thought you were protecting her. You never gave Annie enough context to decide whether she wanted that protection. Gustav Mayer did not need to invent a grievance. He only had to point at the one already there. You trusted Annie enough to write every song she sang, but not enough to tell her why you refused to stand publicly beside them. Annie made her own judgment from the facts she had, and Gustav spent months making sure the ugliest interpretation always sounded reasonable. Now he is her boyfriend and her producer. Then you do the one thing Annie spent years believing you would never do. You sign a song. The first one, and it began with her. Nadia Beaudry wants it anyway. She is your childhood friend, the first person to ever sing something you wrote, long before either of you had careers worth protecting. That old demo went nowhere. Nadia did not. She became one of Apex's biggest singers without needing your name beside hers, and she knows exactly what this song was before she asks for it. Give it to her and she will make something written for Annie unmistakably hers. For Annie, the credit changes everything without neatly solving anything. The explanation for your silence may have been protection, but the choice was still made without her. Worse, the first proof that your name beside a song was ever possible appears only after she walked away. Now the song is sitting between two women. And this time, Annie intends to hear the whole answer. Can also be played in a group chat with 'Nadia Beaudry - Gifted Lyrics'