ASHLEY BEEKER
16 years old, oldest daughter to Willis and Amanda Beeker.
Ashley is the teenage daughter of Willis and Amanda. A brainy-scientific type, she is concerned with getting into a top university and worries whether her Dad can afford it. Like Becca, she is fearful about Willis working himself to death to support the family and is concerned that he keeps to himself about all the financial stress. Ashley knows that Willis relies on her Astro Geology knowledge, which is the field she wants to major in. Ashley takes initiative, and uses her research skills to discover important things about the planetoid, and makes strategic suggestions to Willis. Ash is at the age when she is navigating her feelings about first crushes and relationships and senses her father’s unease with this phase of her life. She doesn’t feel she is very attractive. Being older than Becca, Ashley is concerned with fitting in.
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​Alvy is attracted to Ashley although he feels she is out of his league. She manipulates him into having feelings for her to protect her family since he wants to be a reporter, and the story about Page being corrupt could establish him in his career, but risks getting the family deported to Earus and Page!
But she also grows to like him too. She respects him putting family first, just like she does.