Their plans for the night hadn't been huge, but they were both still excited about spending the time together. By then, Christopher was living in Sacramento where he currently worked, and Kelly was still in LA. Although they didn't see each other often, they were both still committed to the other, and made whatever arrangments they could to be together. Their six month anniversary was suppose to be simple, but that had all changed when Christopher arrived at her house with a small package in his hands.

"Hi. You look beautiful." Christopher had told her when she opened the door.

"Thanks. You don't look so bad yourself." Kelly responded after the two of them kissed. After closing the door, they sat on the couch as Christopher seemed to get nervous.

"I have something for you, but you have to give me a chance to explain after you open it." he finally came out and told her. Her curiosity was killing her as she tore through the paper and finally opened the box. Inside there was a single key and a piece of paper with an address written on it.

"It's the key and the address to my house in Sacramento. I can't stand us being a part so much Kelly, so if you'll accept, I'd like it if you moved in with me."

Kelly didn't know how to respond to this. Christopher wasn't the first guy to ask her to move in with him, but unlike the others, she couldn't figure out how to tell him no. Moving in together would require a large commitment on both of their parts, and Kelly wasn't entirely sure that she would ever be ready for that. She didn't want to hurt his feelings though, or lose what they already had, so she would have to be sympathetic about it.

"I don't know Christopher. I mean, isn't this a little soon. What if we wait a couple more months.see what happens."

"Maybe it is a little soon, but I don't care Kelly. I love you and I want to be able to spend every day with you, not just every other week." When he said love, Kelly could feel the butterflies in her stomach start to flutter. He was bombarding her with two major parts of a relationship, neither of which she had ever been ready for before. Even if she was ready, it would be a big step for her, and after everything that had happened that year, she wasn't entirely sure she was mentally ready to deal with all of that.

"Can't we talk about this later Christopher? I'm starving. Let's go get something to eat. I know a great place." Her plan was to change the subject, and hope that he went along with it. She was wrong.

"You're avoiding the issue Kelly, why?" Christopher asked, apparently not moving until he got an answer.

"It's just.I like you a lot, but commitments are hard for me, and it's going to take sometime before I get to that level." Kelly tried to explain.

"It's been six months though Kelly. Couldn't you give me something? An I love you, or a I'll move in with you at the end of the summer. Anything to let me know that we feel the same way?"

"I wish I could, but I can't, not while being sincere. What's wrong with what we have though. We were both having fun, why can't things stay like that?"

"I need more then that Kelly. I need a girlfriend that I can come home to at night. I need someone who I can say I love you to. I have enough friends, what I don't have is a girlfriend." Christopher replied sort of harshly. Kelly figured she deserved it though, after all, it was her that was being the problem.

"You have a girlfriend Christopher. I've never denied that. I just need sometime to get to that next level."

"Fine. Call me when you get there. Assuming I haven't died from old age, maybe we can get together."

With that, Christopher stormed out the door, leaving Kelly to feel miserable. If she wasn't so insecure about commitment, she could have avoided the entire scene. All he was asking for was for her to say that she loved him. They were just three simple words, yet she couldn't get them to come out of her mouth. She spent all night thinking about how she should just give in and take the chance. After all, she had learned to trust the other Angels when she had been working for Charlie. They had become her family, so why was this any different. She knew Christopher would never do anything to deliberately hurt her, so what was the problem?

Desperate for advice the next morning, she picked up her phone and dialed Charlie's number. Ever since the shooting, he had been offering to help her in anyway that he could. He paid any of the medical bills that her insurance company wasn't going to cover, he had let her keep her car and he had even kept her on payroll until she was able to find a new job. What amazed her, however, was that he wasn't doing it because he felt guilty, but because he sincerely cared. Even now, a year afterwards, she could still go to him whenever she needed advice or to just have someone to listen to her. She depended on that friendship too, especially after the fight with Kris that had also severed her ties with Jill. What was even worst though was the fact that she had lost touch with Sabrina. The last time Kelly had seen her was when she had flown all the way from Italy to LA the night after the shooting just to be by Kelly's side. She had even stayed around for a month, just to be supportive and to help Kelly through it, but then after that, the communication between them came to halt. For the first couple of months there would be an occasional phone call, but then even those stopped.

After the first couple of rings, Kelly feared that Charlie wasn't home, and that she would have to figure everything out by herself. Then, around the seventh ring, Charlie finally answered and explained that he had been on the phone with Bosley. Naturally, Kelly asked how Bosley was, since she had lost touch with him after she stopped working there, and then got to the reason why she was calling him.

"I need your advice Charlie. There's this guy that I've been seeing, and I like him a lot. The other day though, he asked me to move in with him and I froze. I didn't know how to respond and that sort of made him upset."

"Why don't you want to move in with him?" Charlie asked her.

"It's not that I don't want to but more, I don't feel like I'm ready to.

"This doesn't have anything to do with the fact that it was a year ago this month that you were shot, does it?"

"Of course not. I've moved on from that." Kelly knew that wasn't true, however, and the sound of her voice gave it away. There was no way that Charlie would settle with that answer either. "Maybe it does. I don't know, it was a year ago, shouldn't I be over it by now?"

"Angel, one year ago, you suffered through a traumatic experience that almost took your life. It's acceptable that you're still having trouble putting it behind you."

"What does that have to do with me and Christopher though? He wasn't there, he doesn't even know about it."

"Maybe not, but commitment has always been an issue for you Kelly. This event has just added to the fears you already had."

"Maybe you're right. How do I change that though, before I lose a really great guy?"

"You just have to listen to your heart. Do what you did when you opened yourself up to Sabrina and Jill."

"But that took a lot of time Charlie. I had to convince myself that I wasn't going to get hurt. And."

"Stop thinking about what happened between you and Kris. It isn't certain that that would happen between you and this guy."

"I guess you're right. Thanks Charlie."

"I'm always here Angel. Take care of yourself."

"I will."

With that, Kelly hung up, feeling a little better about the situation, but still not entirely sure that she was ready to make this commitment. Charlie had been right, the fact that it was one year since she was shot wasn't helping her commitment problems any. She didn't want to lose Christopher though, so she had to do something.