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Chapter 8

Angel Grove Arcade

"Where are they? They've been gone for an hour!" Carlos complained. He didn't like the fact that his closest friend was hanging out with some guy she just met…especially when they were by themselves.

"Calm down Carlos. Ashley is fine." Cassie assured. She knew he really meant Ashley when he said "they".

"Cassie's right, Andros hasn't done us any bad. He is our new leader and we are going to trust him." T.J. enforced.

Carlos sighed. "Alright…" A rumble roared. "I'm hungry."

Cassie's stomach growled as well. "Yeah, me too. Let's go out for Chinese when the other two come back."

"Ok, I'm actually craving Chinese." T.J. stuck his tongue out.

"Really? Well you guys know I love Chinese!" Ashley exclaimed, her hand holding Andros' hand. Cassie shot a suspicious look to Ashley and Ashley just shrugged her off.

"Where were you two?" Carlos asked, getting annoyed about the whole hand-to-hand thing between Ashley and Andros.

"We went shopping for Andros, and then we went back to the Megaship to drop off the clothes so that we wouldn't have to carry them." Ashley defended both herself and Andros.

"Let's go already, I'm hungry!" T.J. ordered. He grabbed Carlos by the shoulder and hauled him off with him, to prevent things from getting worse. Cassie followed, and Andros and Ashley walked slowly behind all of them.

"What is Chinese food?" Andros asked, one of his eyebrows was raised.

"It's good, you'll love it. I promise, I wouldn't feed you bad food." Ashley assured, "as long as you can use chopsticks, you'll be fine."

Andros raised the other eyebrow. "Chopsticks? What are those?"

Ashley giggled to his boyish nature. "It's the utensil you use to eat Chinese food with." Ashley explained.

"Oh." Andros simply said. He gently squeezed Ashley's hand. Ashley returned the action, and moved closer so she could rest her head on his shoulder. "You know, I can get used to us." Ashley sighed. She didn't want this moment to end, and she didn't want her friends to catch the two of them.

"But we hardly even know each other Ash." Andros said.

"So, who cares? We like each other…maybe even love each other." Ashley giggled.

"I just don't want to rush things, that's all." Andros sighed.

"Well, we can tell each other anything and everything." Ashley insisted, "I'll tell you more about me if you like."

Andros nodded. "I'd like that Ash, I want to get to know you." He kissed the top of her head and they both told each other about their childhoods as they continued to follow their friends, who had no idea what was going on.