<h4>Chapter 20: n of Action</h4>
It was currently the next day and Kaden had spent his entire night calcting and plotting how he was going to keep his ss potential a secret from the school. In short, he had absolutely nothing to show for his efforts as he didn''t have any clue or idea how he was supposed to mask his ss.
''What am I going to do!'' He shouted within his mind as he got ready to meet Ashly at the elevator.
There was only one option he had left and it was in the form of a seemingly psychoticdy who he didn''t want to have any more affiliation with than he could help despite how much he liked her earlier the day before.
Once Kaden got ready he headed out the door of his apartment to the meeting spot where Ashly was already waiting for him with a slight smile on her face that only widened when he arrived, "So it seems you need my help after all." She said smugly approaching Kaden.
"Only this one time and I will pay you back so I don''t owe you anything," Kaden said unhappy with the situation but without any other alternatives, he couldn''t help but ask for her help.
"Yeah yeah, that''s what they all say until theye back the second time, then the third, then the fourth, and so on. After all my debts are very hard to pay." She said squatting down a little to be face to face with Kaden showing a weird glint in her eyes.
"So, show me your ss and why it''s a problem." She said in expectation. Her mind had run wild the night before considering the different possibilities of what could be his problem if he didn''t have a low-ranked ss. Needless to say, she was excited to see which one of her theories was correct.
Kaden hesitantly opened his ss screen and mentally made Ashly able to see it. Her jaw immediately loosened slightly, and her eyes werepletely in shock as this was something that was way outside her realm of predictions no matter how much she wanted to believe in Kaden.
"YOU HAVE A SSS+ POTENTIAL?" She practically yelled which caused Kaden to panic and shove her into the elevator immediately closing the doors behind them and pressing the button to go down to the first floor.
"Why don''t you just let everyone and their mother know what I have!" Kaden said annoyed at Ashly who realized how uposed she had been and had an awkward smile.
"My bad but what can you expect when you see something like that. There has never been an SSS+ potential before at least that I know of." She said slightly excited at the fact that a person she knew was the owner of an SSS+ potential.
At this point, the elevator door opened and both Kaden and Ashly walked out of the elevator passing the stairwell door which was for some reason open. Deciding that it would be polite to close it Kaden walked over closing the door shut and continuing on with Ashly who looked at him weirdly.
"Such a good boy~" She said putting her hand on her mouth slightly giggling at his action.
Kadenpletely ignored her words and continued walking as she followed beside him which made her smirk as she could see the tint of his ears redden ever so slightly but it was minuscule.
"So what''s the problem with showing the school your SSS+ potential?" Ashly said curiously.
"Did you watch the newsst night?" Kaden questioned.
Ashly began thinking for a moment as they exited the apartment building walking down the sidewalk towards the school. Suddenly she remembered a headline that she saw on the newsst night right as she was about to go to bed, "Are you talking about all of those kids that were S potential and above getting killed?" She asked.
Kaden immediately nodded his head, "Yeah I already didn''t want the headache that came with the potential but I was still undecided. That was until I saw the headline which I considered a sign to just figure a way to keep it to myself at the very least until this group is stopped." Kaden said voicing his concerns.
Ashly nodded her head in understanding, "I can understand that. They were saying that the kills were quite brutal thought I wouldn''t mind if they ruffed you up a little bit." She said nodding her head more like a professor. It seems at this point she hadpletely given up acting normal for whatever reason.
Kaden couldn''t continue the ss conversation any longer until he got to the bottom of this first, "Why are you so dedicated to seeing me in pain?" Kaden asked her without restraint as he saw this was the better option thanpletely ignoring it.
"Oh it''s because I like the way your face looks when you''re sad. It''s almost like an addiction. Don''t ask me why it''s there I just know that it is." Ashly responded with an equally calm voice but her mouth began letting out a slight drool as she fantasized what that group would do to Kaden before they killed him.
Kaden saw this drool and decided to forever have his guard up against this girl but it seemed she wanted to both be friends and help him while satiating her desire so he didn''t know how to feel, "I see, well I won''t say that''s normal but as long as you help me I don''t care what sort of strange addiction you have so what''s the n." Kaden said expecting her to have already established some sort of multyered n of action.
"Yes, I do actually have a n. It''s rather simple really and I need you to do exactly what I say or the entire n will blow up." She said seriously.
Kaden''s hopes immediately began rising as he thought of Ashly in a new light and was thankful for her help during his crisis, "Alright I can do that." He said confidently.
She immediately smiled at this which gave Kaden an ufortable feeling rising in his chest, "Just trust me." She said stating her n.
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Authors Note
Thank you everyone for an amazing week so far! I hope you all enjoyed the chapter but I had to tell you guys we actually made it in the top 25 male leading novels for power stones this week! This is including both contracted and uncontracted of course! I just wanted to pop in and thank you guys once again for all the support it means a lot and makes me want to write even more. See you tomorrow! (I have also left a picture I took of the rankings in thements below since I''m extra like that.)