So I am stuck with progressing Felicity & Emma and Ashley. Ashley has the talk action but says I must improve friendship with Felicity and Emma. They have the talk action as well but it says I need to improve friendship with Ashley. Did I do something wrong and get softlocked there?
Only way for that to happen is to have skipped one of their story chains with a code. Said code specifically warns you things like that can happen.
You'll have to load a save from before using the code (check autosaves too; page left of the save slots, just as to the right has more save slot pages) or start a new game.