Tee's POV

My heart hit my throat when I heard P'Tae saying, "Just tell him right here, right now!"

The jerk had eavesdropped on my conversation with P'Kim!

The next instant he pulled me away from P'Kim and hugged me tightly in his arms.

"We wasted so much time" he whispered in my ears. "You should have told me earlier. You know that I love you so much, don't you?"

"No!" I cried, "you never said anything about loving me!"

"But you should have known by the way I kissed you and held you in my arms every night," he protested.

"P'Tae," I said patiently, "I am the kind of person who needs to hear it being said otherwise I can only keep guessing."

"Listen carefully to me, my darling Tee," he said, cupping my face in his hands, "I love you, I love you, I love you."

And with those words he planted kisses on my forehead, my nose, and my lips. It started with a gentle touch on my lips but as I slightly opened my lips, he opened his mouth and pushed his tongue inside and kissed me fiercely. I gave him back kiss for kiss. I was not holding back anymore.

We would have gone on and on when from behind us, we heard Bas calling, "Hey, you two lovebirds! Break it up!"

Goddamn this sassy kid! I looked at his face. He was glowing like a bride fresh from a honeymoon! Godt was walking beside him grinning from ear to ear.

"We're both hungry," he said, "don't you want to join us and see what's cooking in the kitchen?"

The kitchen! Yes, the kitchen! P'Kim and Copgi were all by themselves in the kitchen! What was cooking between the two of them??? We had left them behind for too long! Were we going to stumble upon a kissing scene, or perhaps a worse scenario with Copter on the kitchen floor, P'Kim on top of him..... I shook my head at my naughty thoughts.

Bas and the rest of us barged into the kitchen asking what was for lunch.

I noticed them turn their heads toward us with a blank expression. Shit, we seemed to have interrupted a very serious conversation. But it was too late. The mood had been ruined.

We quickly went to collect the plates from the cabinets and the utensils from the drawers and started setting the table.

I looked at Bas and Godt and P'Tae. They all looked guilty as hell and so was I. 

P'Tae placed the large serving platter full of vegetable tempura while Godt placed the large platter of tender looking beef pieces covered with a light brown sauce that smelled gingery and spicy. There were long slices of green crispy peppers scattered randomly on top of it.

I busied myself scooping rice into a large bowl and when it was full I brought it to the table and set it between the two main dishes. It was the Thai variety of fragrant jasmine rice and the smell scented the kitchen and made us all feel really hungry.

Bas was busy passing around tall glasses of iced water.

"Thank you for cooking the lunch for us, Kim and Cop," said P'Tae.

"I didn't do much," said P'Kim, "I only fried the last remaining tempura pieces. Copter cooked the beef dish and of course most of the vegetable tempura."

"And you were the one who did the initial preparations for the tempura, P'Tae,"  Copter pointed out.

There was not much conversation after that. We just focused on wolfing down the delicious food that was in front of us.

I sincerely hoped that P'Kim and Copgi would find a way to finish whatever conversation we had interrupted.