It was a bigger ask if nothing else.
Hayley was none the wiser to the deeper connotations, of course. After all, she was among friends, being a good friend, and merely asking another friend if she'd like a chance in the limelight on a song that she presumably was a huge fan of.
And if we're being real here, it's not as if I had any greater insight into things either. How Ash thinks, what she knows, the ordeals she's been through. My understanding of it was like having plucked a handful of leaves in a forest rippling and rustling with uncountable billions.
Still it was enough of a handful to know that, to Ash, it probably meant a whole more to her than just a song to pass the time.
