My best friend and I are both devoted pet parents. I have a fluffy, regal male cat named Leo, and she has a sweet, sassy female cat named Luna. In our conversations, we’ve built up an entire fictional romance between our two feline friends. We joke that they are a "couple," destined to be together. So, one day, we decided to take our joke to the next level. We decided to give them a formal, official "compatibility test" using our favorite love calculator website.

This wasn’t a casual affair. We made a ceremony out of it. We sat down together, our phones in hand, and opened the uncluttered, basic interface of the calculator. With a sense of mock solemnity, I typed in Leo’s name. My friend, with equal gravity, typed in Luna’s name. We looked at each other, our eyes wide with anticipation. This was the moment of truth for our fictional feline romance. We held our breath and hit the "Calculate" button at the same time.

The result that flashed on the screen was higher than we could have ever hoped for. A shocking 98%. For a moment, there was a stunned silence. And then, we both let out a simultaneous shriek of pure delight. We jumped up and down, hugging each other as if we had just witnessed a royal wedding. "I knew it!" my friend yelled. "They are soulmates! It’s official!" We were completely swept up in the joy and absurdity of the moment. We had witnessed a great love story, and it was even sweeter than when we tested our own names with our human partners.

From that day on, our little joke has blossomed into a full-blown, elaborate narrative. The 98% score became the official founding document of Leo and Luna’s epic romance. We now refer to each other, without a trace of irony, as "the in-laws." Our chats are we meant to be together filled with updates on our "grand-kittens." We’ll send each other photos of our cats with captions like, "Leo is missing his girl today," or "Luna is waiting patiently for her king." We’ve created an entire, shared universe of fun for ourselves, all based on a single, silly number.

This little game has added an incredible amount of joy and laughter to our friendship. It’s a constant source of inside jokes. It’s a creative outlet. It’s a way for us to share our love for our pets in a new and hilarious way. The love calculator was the perfect catalyst for this. It took our casual joke and made it feel real, giving us a concrete "fact" to build our story around. The website’s quick and easy design made the initial "test" a seamless and exciting moment, which was crucial for the spontaneous eruption of joy that followed.

It’s a testament to how a simple tool can be used in ways its creators probably never even imagined. It’s not just for calculating human love; it’s for celebrating connection in all its forms. Our friendship has become stronger, and our love for our pets has a new, playful dimension. We’ve even talked about arranging a real-life playdate for the 98% couple. Whether or not they’ll actually like each other is irrelevant. In our hearts, and according to the internet, their love is the stuff of legends. And that’s a story we’ll be telling for a very long time.