She double-clicked.

She hadn’t meant to find it. While cleaning her Google Drive, deleting old college essays and blurry memes, she’d searched for "love" as a joke. The results were empty—except for this. A single XML file. Last modified: three years ago. The same week Leo had left.

Then she opened a new document. Not XML. Just a plain text file. She typed three letters, saved it, and placed it right next to ILY.xml .