The two teens stared in each other's eyes for quite a long time. They soon found themselves getting closer, closer, and closer still. Their lips were just centimeters apart, when Kurt jumped back in surprise. Melody, thinking she had done something wrong, began apologizing.

"I'm sorry Kurt! I must've not have been thinking…"

"Ah, nein… It vasn't you… Zhe professor suddenly began talking to me in mein head…"

"Oh, well, I'm sorry I was interrupting something Kurt." said the Professor with a slight smirk. Kurt sighed,

"Vhat is it Professor?"

"Well, I've been trying to contact you, but for some reason I couldn't. Have you found out anything about your little crush?" Kurt turned a deep purple as he screamed out loud,

"Professor! Zhat vas unnecessary!" Melody was intrigued with what was said, so she began tapping into the two's conversation, but said nothing.

"I'm sorry Kurt, but I had to… Anyway, when are you coming home? And is your 'friend' coming with you?"

"Yes Professor, ve'll be home tomorrow, vhen is Logan coming to pick us up?"

"About ten a.m. your time, so about four our time." Kurt groaned at this.

"Ug! Zhat's so early!"

"Yes, but with the Blackbird, it'll take just a couple hours."

"Alvright Professor, ve'll se you then." Kurt finished. Melody got out of Kurt's head and got up from the ground.

"Um… I'm sorry Melody, I didn't know zhat zhe Professor vould try to contact me like zhat…" He said with a sad look in his eyes.

"What? No! No, no, no… I'm fine! We couldn't have guessed that he would talk to you right then…" Melody said referring to the almost kiss.

"Ja…" as the German's face got darker, the more Melody smiled. She walked over to the now deep-purple mutant and put her hand on his cheek. Kurt gasped lightly and looked Melody in the eyes. Melody just kept smiling, even though Kurt was stammering and somehow turning even darker purple.

"Kurt…" she said deeply. Kurt turned suddenly quiet and looked deeply into her eyes.

"Um… ja?" Melody then whispered in his ear,

"You're blushing."

"Ah… ja, I know." He whispered. Melody giggled as Kurt's palms got sweaty.

"Guess what?"

"Vhat?" the elf asked the redhead next to him.

"YOU'RE IT!" She screamed as she hit his arm and ran away. After Kurt recovered from his shock, he grinned and shouted,

"No fair! I vasn't ready!" Melody laughed as she ran to the rock.

"Too bad!" she ran under the rock and waited for Kurt. Soon the other mutant's face appeared in the entrance.

"I hope you know zhat you just trapped yourself." He said with an impish grin. Melody's eyes became as wide as saucers.

"But… you, you wouldn't hurt me, right?" she asked as she bit her lip. Kurt blushed once again as mumbled,

"Nein, nein! I vouldn't hurt you for a million dollars! I, I vouldn't hurt you even if I mein life depended on it!" as he continued, Melody began to feel bad for asking him that.

"Kurt, KURT!" Kurt stopped and looked at Melody. "It was just a joke! I know you wouldn't hurt me! You had a hard enough time trying to kill those animals today!" she laughed at the memories they had made together as Kurt crawled into the little cave.

"Don't make fun of me! It vas my first time killing a live animal!" Kurt laid down next to Melody and Melody laid next to Kurt. They chuckled to each other about their day, and Kurt's many fails at trying to catch a rabbit. Melody cuddled up to Kurt and sighed. She put her head on his chest and smiled.

"I think I'm going to like staying with you guys…"

"Vreally? Vunderbar! Because, I zhink everyvone vill like you…" Kurt began. He looked down at Melody to see that she was sound asleep. Kurt chuckled at her innocent looking face, and kissed her forehead.

"Gute Nacht, meine Liebe." He closed his eyes and soon felt his consciousness slip away.

The next morning, Kurt and Melody were packing up some of the leftover meat from last night.

"Vhy did ve smoke so much meat? It's not like ve're going to be here forever!"

"I know!" Melody laughed at their over eagerness. "We were never going to eat that much in a night!"

"Meh, I'm sure Logan vill eat it all in two days. He lived in Canada for a long time, so I zhink he vill be fine!"

"This 'Logan' sounds interesting; I'll have to meet him sometime!" She smiled, trying to cover up the fact that she tapped into Kurt and the Professor's conversation.

"Oh ja! I zhink you'll like him, he may be a little gruff around zhe edges, but he's nice on the inside." Kurt laughed at this own pun, as Melody just shook her head.

"Well, now that everything's packed up, I'm gonna go take a bath." Melody told the X-Man. Kurt's face turned violet as he thought about her taking a bath. "You wanna come?"

"Vhat? NEIN, NEIN NEIN NEIN NEIN NEIN NEIN. I'm sorry, but nein. I vill not tempt myself like zhat. You go ahead." Melody tilted her head at him.

"Why would you be tempting yourself? Isn't temptation where you are wanting to sin? Why would you want to sin with me?" Kurt's jaw dropped.

"Vhy vouldn't I? I mean, you're pretty, funny, athletic, and from vhat I can tell, you're pretty dang smart. So, vhy vouldn't I be tempted?" Melody smiled at the obviously religious teen.

"Well, you probably wouldn't if you knew my past…" Melody's voice dropped off as she rubbed her arm. She cleared her throat and forced a smile on her face. "Well, I'm gonna go, come if you want." As she skipped off towards the water source, Kurt's normally smiling face was worried.

"Professor?"

"Yes Kurt?"

"I zhink zhat Melody is going to be a little different zhan zhe regular student…."

"Yes, that's what I figured… I am prepared to deal with whatever is thrown us."

"Zhat's good, because I zhink it's going to be qvite a bumpy ride…"

"Well, I'll talk to you about it when you arrive, Logan should be there any minute now."

"Alvright, I vill see you zhen." The conversation was ended and Kurt got up to follow Melody. As Kurt followed the scent of the redhead, the sound of water grew louder. Something else became louder, but, Kurt couldn't put his finger on what it was. The blue fuzz-ball stopped at where the water was loudest and peeked through some of the brush hiding the water. When he did, he came face to face with the naked back of Melody. Kurt simply stammered as Melody turned around to face him.

"Oh, hello Kurt. Did you want to take a bath as well?"

"I um, just um, vanted to say um… Logan should be here at any time now… so, ve should get going soon…" Melody smiled at Kurt's embarrassment. She walked over to him and pulled him from the brush and into the cold water. Kurt shrieked a little bit when the cold water touched his blue fur. When they came back up for air, Kurt asked,

"Vhy did you do zhat? It's freezing!"

"Meh, you can handle it!" Melody reassured. As the two swam in the river, they stayed together for warmth.

"Good grief it's cold in here." Melody told Kurt.

"Look who is cold now!" The German teased, having forgotten that Melody was naked. "Vell, ve should be getting back soon." Melody nodded and started to swim towards shore. Once she reached it, Kurt was reminded of her, *ahem* state.

Once Kurt was recovered from the shock and they were waiting for Logan and the Blackbird, Kurt looked worriedly at Melody.

"Are you sure you vant to come? Ve're not forcing you into zhis…"

"I know silly! I wanna come! I've, gotten tired of being constantly alone." Melody got quiet and looked away from Kurt. Kurt sighed and put his arm around her.

"Vell, you're not alone anymore Schöne." He pulled her closer to him and pointed in the sky. "Look! It's zhe Blackbird! Logan's driving!" Kurt stood up and started at waving Logan down. After a few seconds of directioning, the Blackbird was on the ground and was waiting for the two teens.

"Kurt!" Logan said as he was climbing out of the jet.

"Hallo Logan! I didn't die!" Logan chuckled and shook the elf's hand. His attention was turned to the redhead standing next to him, and Logan said, "Well then, who are you little darling?"

"I'm Melody, Melody Conway. You must be Logan, I've heard lots about you." Melody said as she offered her hand. Logan took it and shook it firmly.

"Yup, the name's Logan, and I'm one of teachers at the Institute." Logan looked at Melody and gave her a slight wink. Melody blushed and looked towards Kurt for help. Kurt cleared his throat and Logan did the same. The adult walked away from the minor and went back to the ship. Kurt shook his head and pulled Melody towards him.

"Come on meine Schöne." The two walked together onto the ship, hand in hand.

*Schöne: beautiful

*Nein: no