The Little Wolfs journey

Chapter 24

"Hello M'ladies. " Steel said jokingly with a smile and gave a little bow before winking at Ash. 

Ash just gave a small laugh and glanced at the other two, kinda saying "I hate you, and help me" at the same time. 

Ray chuckled. "Nah, I think you're doing just fine." She whispered to ash with a grin on her face. 

"You'll thank us later.", Sky whispered to ash with a chuckled. "So Steel how was it working at the table answering people's questions?", she asked. 

"Honestly, you guys are lucky. My grade was far worse then yours was." He laughed, turning to Ash who looked slightly pale. She knew it wasn't right, and that's all her mind kept saying to her. It was just wrong. 

"Really? What do you mean by that?" Ray asked. She looked at ash for a moment and saw she looked slightly pale. 'Aw, Poor ash' 

Sky got a quick glance and saw how pale Ash was and immediately felt bad. "Yeah? Did our grade asked like certain questions or something?", Sky asked. 

"Nah, just really polite and all. I-" He began to say before Ash suddenly mumbled a quick apology and ran toward the school. Images of her mother and childhood fresh in her mind. She just wanted to be alone for a minute. 

As Ray watched ash run away and towards the school she immediately felt bad for what her and Sky did. She didn't know if she should let be be alone or go see if she was okay. "Uh... I'll....I'll be right back, I better go make sure she's okay." She said, and ran towards ash.

 Sky watched how fast Ash left the group. 'Oh man. We shouldn't have pushed her.', she thought to herself.

 She saw when Ray left to check on Ash and thought she would do the same. "I better make sure she's okay too. But don't go anywhere.", she told Steel as she ran to with Ray to find Ash. 

"O-okay?" Steel said, still kind of in shock. He watched the two run off and sighed. 

Ash was standing not too far away from them, but far enough and stopped running finally. She took a deep breath and tried to calm down, sitting on a bench. She thought Steel was great, but she didn't like him like that. She wasn't aloud to anyway. 

Ray noticed that sky had came with her see if ash was okay but kept her focus on finding her. "Where did she go?" She muttered, then finally found her. "There she is." She calmly walked over to ash. "Hey, you okay?" 

Sky saw Ash and Ray and jogged towards them. She saw that Ash looked a little conflicted as she sat on the bench. "Ash, are you alright?", she asked as she sat next to her on the bench.

 Ash looked up at the two and forced a smile "Yeah, I'm fine. Just a little stressed out is all." She said with a sigh. 

Ray sat down on the other side of ash on the bench. "We're really sorry, we shouldn't have pushed you."

 "Yeah. We just thought well Steel was a nice guy and your a nice girl. Not to mention it seemed like you like him. But you just ran. Are you sure it's just from stress.", Sky asked putting a comforting hand on her shoulder. 

"Yeah." Ash lied "It was only stress I promise. And I appreciate your efforts, but I just really need to focus on my studies and all before any of that." She said with a smile, though what she said was only half true.