|Tamara| “Hmm. Do you know that I like you?” I stopped eating in a snap and slowly looked at Nikko. I am making a guess on his face whether he is joking or not. But all I could get is the unwavering seriousness in his face. This punk! What else did he think of and this is what he was saying? I know we've always been teasing and throwing jokes on each other before but after he resigned from our company and opted not to show up for few months, he thought that it would be so easy for me to just let those slide because of his jokes now? “We haven’t spoken in months and now you saying some random and nonsense things? You are really making my head hurt—” “Hey, I'm dead serious, Tam,” he cut me off then our eyes locked with each other, “I’m sorry for—I mean, no. I’m