Ashlyn stood in that clearing for what seemed like an hour. 'He had the last word' she thought. Ashlyn did not like Freddy Jones at all and to lose a fight with him was a terrible let down. She thought about the entire conversation with Dewey and even the moments before that where he stared at her and then called Freddy over. "He said something about me to Jones, and it didn't look too good," she thought out loud.

Josie saw Ashlyn debating with herself and realized that they were late for their practice set. "Ashy! Let's go, man! We are late!" She then turned to Carla and said "You know you got it bad when you cant even fathom a conversation."

"That's Ashy for you."

"Ash! I'm serious, we are late," screamed Zoey.

"Jeez guys, chill. Get your crap and we'll go!" shouted Ashlyn. She had to completely forget Freddy Jones and do what she had come to the festival to do… and she was going to do exactly that.

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Freddy was excited when he got back over to Dewey's van. He had never gotten the last word in, EVER. He was floating on a cloud until Summer walked by and said "Did she kiss you? You look happy."

"Summer that's gross! I wouldn't touch her with a 10 foot pole!"

"She's a cutie," said Dewey.

Freddy snapped, he jumped up on the roof of the van screamed "I DON"T LIKE HER!" and jumped down then stomped away towards the stage. He didn't realize until he got there that Ashlyn Ross was at the microphone with her guitar belting out the final note to a song. After she had finished her band mates clapped for her because she had nailed the song, then she looked up. Freddy Jones stood there awe-struck. He couldn't understand how that had come out of the girl he hated most in the world.

Ashlyn turned around and smirked and did a little mock bow. She was determined not to let Jones affect her, but she did take the look on his face as a complement. "I did it better back at the apartment," was what she said with a small smile.

"That's all you girls get! You go on at 4!" screamed the music coordinator.

"Alright later J.T." said Zoey, who happened to know the guy personally.

At the van Summer was talking to Tomika and said something that lit a spark in Tomika's head. "He over reacted so bad! How funny would it be if those two started to date?"

Tomika's mouth dropped. "What if they did? We could talk to The Humane girls and try to create a plan! It's blatantly obvious that they like each other!"

"We can try, I at least know Zoey will be into it." Almost no one knew that Summer and Zoey used to be step sisters and could convince each other to do almost anything. It was a touchy subject for the two since their parents had already gone through divorces before they met each other, but the girls had gotten really close and then had to separate.

I'll talk to her later thought Summer. She didn't have much more time to think on the subject because once again Freddy came in to the clearing with yet another dazed look on his face.

"Saw Ross's practice?" asked Zack. Freddy nodded. "She did well?" He nodded again.

"Her voice…" he trailed off. "It's…unexplainable."

That sealed the deal, Summer and Tomika were going to get these two together even if it killed them. Or until Ashlyn and Freddy killed each other.