[Ashe gave a quick smile on his way inside.] Thanks. [Immediately after the question Ashe started to mess with the bottom of his hoodie. He was never good with such questions, but he had one on his mind since they had that sex ed talk a few days ago.]

Um, so, I guess I should just come out to say it. [Ashe took a small breath to gather his thoughts before he talked again.] I've had a crush on Dedue since our time at the academy, but I pushed it away each time because I didn't want to be a bother. There was so much going on back home too that made it nearly impossible to think that anything could happen between us. Now that we're in this new place where I don't have a lot of the responsibilities as I did back home a lot of my feelings are coming back. So I guess I have a crush on Dedue, but is it alright since he's in a relationship with Dimitri now?

[Ashe knew it was a lot to say at one time, but he couldn't get his jumbled thoughts together. He hoped he got them together enough to get his point across.]