Chapter 3: How do you know my email!

Not too long ago, school just finished for Ash and his friends. But where there's Ash, there's bound to be…

"HELLO ASH," screamed a hoard of girls.

Yup, that's right, girls. Lots of them to at that including most of the girls in his class. Luckily for him, instead of the usual hour he spent running while in elementary and middle school, he only had to wait 10 minutes for his mom to show up now. Know what that means? Less running for him and plenty of stalkers. Luckily for him his mom just showed up too.

"Thanks mom, you're a life saver," he said as he caught his breath, "I tell ya, those girls need to find someone else to stalk, not me."

Just as he said that he saw Melody and her sister, Ms. Carol, walk by. Earlier that morning in homeroom, she said he looked familiar, but he didn't know why she said that. He told her it must've been her imagination, but now part of him was wondering if that was really true. By the time he finished thinking all these thoughts, he was about half way home. For the rest of the trip, he just stared out his window.

When they got home Ash's mom asked, "So Ash, how was school today? Did you make any new friends? Oh, and I'm guessing from your exhausted look from when you got in the car that you were running from girls again."

"When are you ever wrong about those things," he asked.

"Well-"

"On second thought, never mind, I'll just be in my room," he said as he walked up the stairs to his room, "call me when dinner's ready mom."

"Okay Ash, just make sure you're down here when I call you though," she said as she heard his door open then close.

"Well, better get started on that homework now. Who assigns homework on the first day of school though? I swear Mr. Blaine or Blaine as he'd rather be called, needs to cool off. Maybe if I'm lucky he won't give us any homework tomorrow. Ugh, homework, one of the things I hate in life yet I say it a lot."

After an hour spent on finishing his homework dinner was finally ready when his mom called, "Ash, dinner's ready!"

"Coming," said Ash as he ran down the stairs.

"Hey Ash," asked his mom.

"Yeah," he said.

"You've made new friends right? Mind telling me who they are?"

"Sure. There's Gary and Brock who you already know, Tracey, Paul, Barry, and Drew. I don't know if you'd call her a friend but-," he said as he was interrupted.

"Did you say 'she'? Does that mean you've made a girlfriend?"

"MOM!"

"I only meant a girl who's your friend Ash."

"Oh. Well then yes, her name's Melody, a girl who isn't chasing me around the entire school. There's another girl named Flannery who's like that as well. So yeah, I've finally met people who won't chase me everywhere I go!"

"Well, that's good."

After the quick conversation went by and they finished eating, his mom did the dishes and told Ash that considering it was a long day that he should probably go and relax.

"I'll be in my room then, thanks again mom," he said as headed up the stairs.

As soon as he got up the stairs, the first thing he did was turn on his laptop and check his email. The first thing he saw shocked him. All the girls in his school found out his email and sent him something. However, although he read all the emails, the one that shocked him the most was that Melody sent him one as well.

"Huh? Why'd she send me an email, oh well. Might as well read it…"

Hi Ash

How're you doing? Me and Flannery were just wondering if you and your friends were doing anything this weekend and if you weren't, wanted to know if you wanted to do anything. And in case you're wondering, we didn't want the girls around since we know you'll just hide in the boy's restroom for the rest of the day. Well, you can tell me tomorrow if ya want to. See ya at school

-Melody

"Well, that was unexpected."

So as you can guess ash did a link call with Gary and Brock and told them about the email as well as if they were available on the weekend.

"Well Ash, if you ask me, I'd say that was an indirect love letter to you," said Brock, "either way, I'm available on the weekend."

"I agree with Brock, but yeah I'm available this weekend to. Well, see you guys tomorrow," said Gary.

"See you," said Brock.

"Bye," said Ash.

With that all three of them hung up. That night as Ash was going to bed, all he thought about was that email he got from Melody asking if he and his friends were available this weekend. Well guess all I can do is wait and see how everything plays out, he thought as he drifted off to sleep.

The next day at school…

"So Ash, what's your answer," asked Melody in homeroom.

"Yeah, the guys and I talked about it last night and we're okay with it," said Ash.

"Great! Then I guess we've got plans for the weekend. How's Sunday, 8:30 AM in front of school sound?"

"Good," Ash said as he realized that he could feel a dark aura behind him.

"Um, is something wrong?"

"No, but I think the girls behind me do."

Well as you probably guessed. One word for this situation, MOB! Seconds later Ash was being chased by the girls in his class shouting his name and saying they wanted to go out with him that same day. And like yesterday, he hid in the boy's restroom, but this time he stayed there until the bell rang.

"Ash, why are you late," asked Ms. Carol.

"You probably know the answer to that already," he said as he collapsed in his chair. "I got chased into the boy's restroom again."

"Oh, well that explains why most of the girls are late as well." Just then you could hear what sounded like a stampede of elephants and what do you know; it was the girls rushing into class.

"Sorry we're late," they said in unison, which freaked out everyone since yesterday and this morning they looked like they would kill each other for Ash.

"…," was all the class had to say.

"What happened to the girls who fought over Ash and what planet did you come from," asked Brock.

Did they find someone else to stalk around school, thought Ash as he made a happy face. But sadly, that wasn't the case. "We got stuck in the science room where the students made a happy gas and tried it out on us since we were running like wild animals as they put it."

Ash's smile began to turn upside down and into a look of fear, "It's scary what science can do to people isn't it?"

"It sure is," said Brock.

The rest of the day went by pretty fast. The teachers did their lessons and passed out their homework. But the best thing that happened was that the students got a notice for a field trip on that same day, not a normal high school huh? The great thing about that was that it was next week for the whole week! However that's the only field trip they'd be getting for the first three months of school…

"Brock, Gary wait up! I have to tell you about this weekend," said Ash as he ran to his friends, "we're meeting up in front of the school at 8:30 AM on Sunday got it?"

"Got it," both of them replied.

"Well, looks like we've got two more days till Sunday comes around," Ash told his friends.

"Ash," Gary said.

"Yeah?"

"What exactly are we doing on Sunday?"

"You know, I have no idea whatsoever."