[Eeeehhhhg, Ashley's face just. Falls a little. She shrugs, trying to make it look like no big thing.]

Oh, um. We just...got off to a kind of rocky start. [ie. got into a text-yelling fight his first day] So it's a been a little weird every time I've seen him? We patched it up, but, you know. Lingering off-ness.