school bell's ringing

Ashmedai's eyes welled up with tears as Cascade began to talk. He was quick to try to shove them down. Cascade asked him what he wanted to learn and went on to explain something else. Normally, Ash would cling onto her every word, but today, he just couldn't. His mind kept drifting to Rhythm and his dad and he didn't want to think about it, but he did. As she finished talking, Ashmedai sniffled, "Fighting... I wanna be a good fighter..." He explained, "I wanna be able to beat up anyone... Except I can't because that would make Dad upset. What if he loves Rhythm's pups more than me?!" Ash burst out, his tears overflowing. When he felt their warmth on his cheeks, he reeled himself back in, "Sorry... Don't tell Dad... I wanna learn fighting now..." Ashmedai backed up and started forming some sort of weak combative stance, "i'm ready for whatever," he sighed, not making eye contact. Maybe she would come at him suddenly and they could fight for real and of course Cascade would win because she was amazing, but he could try and maybe that would be kind of nice...