Her attention could be a tenuous thing during such spells, and keeping her thoughts in order seemed a much more daunting task than it should have been.
"I was," she trailed off, hoping to find a less worrying way of phrasing what exactly she had been doing that evening, "thinking. He asked if he could join me."
She might have been blurring some of the details, but perhaps it was better that way, less for Ashley to be concerned over.