Flustered by the sudden outburst, Ami didn't answer for a moment. She glanced down at her hands, which were carefully folded in her lap and tightly gripping the fabric of her skirt.

"Why?" She thought the reasoning would be obvious. Then she realized that, well, it was really only obvious to her.

"It's because I don't want to hurt my friends," she said finally. "It won't matter if Kunzite has proof that you and I were seeing each other, if I'm not a member anymore."

Which, if Nephrite was sharp enough to read between the lines, meant that Kunzite had not only been blackmailing Ami with the threat of revealing the relationship, but also trying to force her to do something that would have been harmful to the other girls in her group.

That had been the line for Ami.

"So, it's better this way."

That had been trying to convince herself.