"Ugh!" Ashley exclaimed as she walked into the house, slamming the door again.
"Hey!" Kate exclaimed from the kitchen. "Careful with the door, Ashley."
"Sorry," Ashley said, through clenched teeth.
"What happened?" she asked.
"None of your business!"
"Ashley! Don't talk to your mother like that!" Rick replied.
Ashley walked to her room and closed the door, hard.
A few minutes later there was a knock on her door. "Go away!" she screamed.
Toby opened the door. "What happened?" he asked.
"I said, go away," Ashley said. "Are you deaf?"
"No, I heard you," he replied. "What happened? Did you and Craig get into a fight?"
"Yes," Ashley said. She didn't feel like fighting with her nerdy stepbrother.
"You didn't break up with him did you?" he asked.
"What does it matter to you?"
"Because, like Jimmy, he really, really likes you and he doesn't treat me like a…dork in school," he said.
"So this has nothing to do with me but it has everything to do with you?"
"Ash, believe me, you're the best thing that has happened to him over the years."
"Yeah, until Sammy came back."
Ashley turned away from him. "Go away, now!" she said.
Toby turned to the door and walked out of the room, closing the door behind him.
Ashley turned and picked up a notebook and pen that she kept by her bed in case a song popped into her head. Which is exactly what she started writing down.