Ace Martello

"The Forsaken are rising quickly, they're coming for us Ace, what're we going to do?" Weston asks as we stand in my office, trying to find a way around this.

"I don't think we can do anything. Bea is so strong but Blackjack is stronger. If she's going by the name BlackJack, there's no way we can keep our rank, we might have to give it to her to save lives." I say sighing and sitting back down in my chair.

"I'll let them know" Richie says as they all silently walk out of my office. I sigh and run my hands over my face, why're you doing This Bea?

Bea Messina

"Yo Jack." Jackson calls as he walks into my office, they got tired a while ago calling me BlackJack so now they just call me Jack.

"What's up Jackson?" I ask looking up from my papers.

"It looks like the Bronze Lions want to give you the position of number one, they don't want to start a war they can't finish." He answers with a smirk.

I giggle and shake my head, "Pack your bags Jackson, your coming with me for a trip. We leave tomorrow.

He nods and goes to leave my office, "Wait." I say standing up in front of the mirror. "What colour should I dye my hair?" I ask playing with my brown locks.

He looks at me, thinks and then replies, "maybe a deep burgundy or red, it would suit you and your name." He says with a smile.

I smile and nod to him. He nods as well and leaves the office. Its weird to think it only took me two months to get to number one, obviously my father wasn't a very good leader if he was stuck in number three.

Walking downstairs, I grab my car keys and just as I'm about to walk out, Willis stops me. "Wait!" I stop and face him curiously, waiting for him to continue, "Are you going to the salon?" I nod my head and shrug a little, not seeing where this is going. "Mind if I come, I need a haircut." He says with puppy dog eyes.

"Fine." I say smirking he he jumps out the door and into the devil. The guys all love this car, turns out Kirk's father was Oliver, the one who gave me this car in the first place.

Arriving at the salon, Willis go our separate ways as he flirts with a cute hairdresser. I roll my eyes and walk to an empty chair. "What would you like done today?" A petite woman asks as she comes to my chair and organizes or combs and scissors a bit.

"I'd like a colouring. A deep red, burgundy maybe? Just make it look fierce." I say with a smirk. She giggles and nods, getting straight to work.

After about an hour and a half, she finally finished. When I turned in the mirror, it looked amazing, definitely fierce.

I payed an walked out to find Willis sitting on the ground next to the car.

He knew if he leaned up against it I might castrate him. He got up and nodded to me as we both got in the car and started back to the house.

"I like the hair." Willis says with a right smile.

"You too, although it looked like there was more flirting than anything." I said smirking and rolling my eyes. "Anyways, how would you like it if I took you and the guys in a trip with Jackson and I tomorrow?" I ask thinking about it.

"Sounds like fun, where to?" He asks shrugging.

"Canyon View. It's where the Bronze Lions are located, I thought we'd pay them a visit tomorrow."

"Ok, let's do it, what are we doing about vehicles though?"

"We'll take the devil, I have car and motorcycle sitting with a friend over there, also a puppy." I say thinking back to Weston and Yuli.

"Alrighty then, it's going to be a tight squeeze tomorrow then." He says chuckling as we pull up the driveway.

We walk into the house and instantly the guys are complimenting the hair.

"Anyways." I say bringing them away from my new hair do, "We're all going on a trip tomorrow, pack for a few days, I have a house down there as well. We'll be taking one car down but bringing another and my motorcycle back with us." I say crossing my arms over my chest.

"Road trip!" Nolan yells as he runs upstairs to pack his things with Matt and Kirk close behind.

I giggle and shake my head, walking up to my room to pack some things as well. Thinking about it, this would be the first time I'll be seeing Ace since the last time. Since I saw him with her.

Shaking away the thought, I hopped in the shower and took a cold shower, numbing my muscles.

I jumped out again and wrapped a fluffy towel around my body and walking back into my room.

I sigh and flop down on the bed with out getting dressed, letting the warmth of the bed consume me and falling asleep.

***

"Everybody in the car!" I yell at the five boys from the top of the stairs.

"Shotgun!" Jackson yells at the top of his lungs, probably waking the entire house up.

I can hear the other guys groan and Willis calling the floor in the back seat so nobody will have to sit on someone's lap.

I giggle and finish descending the stairs in my black sweatshirt crop top and grey sweatpants with black high tops. I curled my hair slightly again this morning and made sure I looked good to see Ace for the first time in a while. I need to make sure I look like I'm a badass gang leader now, which I am.

I see the guys slowly walking out the door, I shoo them out and they all throw their bags into the trunk.

Jumping in the car, I throw on my sunglasses and look into the back seat to see Willis on the floor, Matt and Nolan on the outsides and a very aggravated Kirk in the centre.

"Don't worry Kirk, you get to drive on the way home." He smiles and the other guys groan, not having the privilege to drive my cars. I pull out of the driveway and we begin our journey.

"So tell us, you know the leader of The Bronze Lions?" Kirk asks curious, obviously bored with our road trip.

"Uh, Yeah, about eight months ago I lived with them actually." I reply nonchalantly.

"Ooh, do tell." Willis said picking his head up from the floor.

I giggled and explained, "Well, it started when I moved in the house down the street from them. They helped me out and we went to school together. One night, they caught me at one of my fights and races, they took me in and I practically became part of the gang. When I became part of the football team at the school, I threw a party and that was the night I left." I said nodding my head and shrugging my shoulders, there wasn't much to say.

"Why did you leave?" Jackson asked with a furrowed brow as they all listened intently.

"Well , Ace, I had a thing for him. I thought he had something for me too, but apparently not. On the night of the party, he had sex with the school slut in my bedroom." I said still emotionless.

It was silent for multiple awkward moments, "What a dick." Willis said laying his head back down.

"Yeah, first of all, don't do it in someone else's bed, I mean gross and that was just plain rude." Matt adds shaking his head.

"Yeah, like he must be a real douche bag," Nolan says doing the same. I giggle and shake my head, watching the seemingly endless road.

........

When we reach the small, familiar town, I look around me and see all the guys awake.

"This is my house," I say pulling into the garage. They instantly pile out. I giggle and lead them up the stairs to the house.

Walking in the main room, it looks like they cleaned it up from the party. Without saying anything to the guys, I walk upstairs to find my bed made.

"Oh hell no," I mutter, ripping the blankets and sheets off. I'm not sleeping on a bed that has any of her on it.

Blankets in hand, I went down to the backyard. The guys follow me curiously as I drop the blankets into the fire pit. "Anyone got a lighter?" I ask turning to the curious boys. Jackson shrugs and throws me a silver lighter. I quickly light it and watch the blankets burn.

"Why're you burning the blankets boss?" Kirk asks crossing his arms over his chest, joining me in watching the blankets and sheets burn.

"They're the ones from my bed, he cleaned the entire house but kept the same blankets on my bed," I say shaking my head. "They'll be over any minute now," I said still staring at the blazing fire.

"Why?" Matt asks as they all join me by the fire.

I sigh and sit on the grass, "They've been monitoring me since I left, no doubt they knew my every move. Plus they saw us come to the house, I saw Ace at the end of his driveway." I explain emotionless.

Moments later, as if right on cue, I hear the banging on the door.

Welcome to hell.