Five

Three months had passed since Ami moved into the mansion, and once again things were looking up. Ami had found a job at photo lab that didn't care who she was dating, and she was much happier there than she had been in Mr. Canterfield's office. While she hadn't heard much from Tanya, which saddened her, she also hadn't heard anything from Nicole, which made her very relieved. It was Ami's deepest hope that Nicole's streak of evil was just one last stab before fading away.

Meanwhile the relationship between the two lovers was getting closer than ever, which meant a lot of cold showers and praying on Kurt's end. The sexual tension between the two was definitely starting to heat up, and besides leaving them both frustrated, it also left them with a sense of guilt. Kurt was feeling guilty about physical sensations he couldn't control, while Ami was just feeling guilty about what she was doing to the man she loved.

"You're nuts," Logan had told Kurt. "You have a girl like that who is madly in love with you and you can't even bring yourself to sleep with her."

Kurt had responded by saying something about his faith being stronger than his body, but secretly he was beginning to wonder if he really was nuts.

"Hey cutie, how's things?" Ami chirped, standing in the doorway of Kurt's room. It was obvious she had just gotten back from work and was feeling unusually chipper.

"Good, and you're in a good mood too, I see."

She pulled something out of her purse and tossed them on the bed. "First pictures we've ever taken together. I developed them myself today. I was thinking about getting the first one framed, what do you think?"

Kurt picked up the envelope and flipped through the photos, stopping at one of Ami in her bathing suit. "Do you think I could have some of these?" He asked.

"Sure, I can always make copies of them, take all you want. I'll be back, I'm going to go take a shower and change clothes before dinner."

He watched her walk down the hallway towards her room and once she was no longer in sight he turned back to the photos. His tail began to twitch mischievously behind him, and a plan popped into his mind. On some level his conscious was scolding him for it, but before he could even give it another thought he had teleported into Ami's room.

Once inside the room the realization that this was not becoming of a gentleman, hit him full force. He couldn't believe the way he'd been acting lately, and at once he felt very ashamed.

"Kurt?" Ami called from the bathroom. "Is that you? What are you doing here?"

He hadn't wanted her to even know he'd been there, but the damned smell his teleporting created always gave him away.

"I just came to… ask you something. But I can come back later."

Clad in only a towel, Ami left the bathroom and walked towards him. "Are you okay? You're acting a little strange."

Kurt tried hard to swallow the lump in his throat. She was creating such a reaction and the sad thing was, she didn't even realize it. Ami wasn't necessarily a naïve girl, but sometimes things didn't quite dawn on her as soon as they should. "No, I'm fine. I'm just going to go back to my room… and wait… for you to be done… and dressed."

That's when it hit her. "Oh my God! I'm sorry, I didn't even realize- I'm so stupid!" She clutched her towel to her chest and tried to hurry back into the bathroom, but that only ended in her tripping and falling to the ground. Now even more embarrassed, she pushed herself up as fast as she could, causing her to hit her head on the nightstand. If it weren't such an awkward situation it would have been funny. This last stumble had caused the towel she was so desperately clinging to, to slip down revealing an obscene amount of cleavage.

Without a word Kurt teleported out of there, but not to his bedroom. Rather than sit in solitude and stew over his most recent lapse, he decided a little time in the Danger Room was in order. Thankful that no one was in there he lost himself in a training exercise.