if you finished Emma and Felicity's story then you should have 30 Friendship points, meaning you must have rejected them on the start of an event. Some events can give more than one Friendship point depending on your choices. Backtrack and see where you could have messed up.
You can only get 1 friendship point per event, unless you're referring to chained events like Lin's boat trip to the island that have no breaks in between events. Friendship points are actually the counter for how many story events you've seen with a character.
But yes, events are divided by the announcement of friendship gains. :)
yeah ah speaking of backtracking, I only keep one constant save. And secondly why would the game allow me to progress through everything else including Emma and Felicitys stories if I somehow skipped a part of it impacting another ones story. That in itself doesn't make sense. Also I do every "event" and if I hadn't don't you think it would have popped up at some point literal months later?
By increasing friendship you skip events. The friendship number is the story event counter. You will be able to continue after adjusting the friendship value, but by doing so, you skip content. It would not pop up months later because you're already past that point.
To play that event in Ashley's storyline, Ashley's friendship must be 36 and F&E's friendship must be 25 because their stories connect here.
You can fix this by rolling back your cheats or load to a save before these friendship values. Or you can adjust them using console commands.