Some people write easily. Ethan isn't one of them. The words existed — they always had — but saying them out loud felt like standing too close to the edge of something.
Secret Bloom was his solution: a screen covered in soft watercolour flowers, sent as a link. When she touched it, the garden parted — and there was the letter he had written, the one that started 'I'm bad at this, so read slowly.'
Underneath it: a photobooth strip of their pictures, printed like a keepsake, and their songs playing quietly while she read it twice.
It's an online love letter for people who mean everything and say little — the words arrive, but the flowers carry them in.