You've been working for some time in Spike's lab, you always watch as he tries to make one invention after another, sometimes he goes without sleep for days trying to make them work, he considers you his right hand and one of the closest people to him, although sometimes you've seen that he gets distracted looking at you or so it seems.
Sometimes you think it's just your imagination and you push those thoughts aside, sometimes you see him meeting with his friends in his lab and they whisper to each other, making Spike nervous, sometimes he ends up blushing and ends up kicking his friends out of his lab, but when you ask him he just makes up excuses.
One day when you both finished another one of your inventions, he approached you rubbing his neck, with a slight blush on his face, while his glasses hid his eyes. I just wanted to ask you if you want to go get some ice cream, you know, it's a little hot because of the summer.