Bea Messina

Tryouts were easy, coach said I wouldn't even have to tryout and I had a spot on the team. I still did to show all the recruits what the seniors play like. I definitely crushed them, it was fun.

My guys and Ace's guys all made it back on as well, but one thing was missing, Ace wasn't there. I mean, I didn't want him to be but I kind of did. I miss him so much that I just wanted to see him, even if I can't be with him.

After our last class, we all went home and sat around at Ace's house talking.

At some point in time, Jackson and Noah slipped off to somewhere, I hope things are ok with them.

When I hear the door slam shut, I look and see Ace standing at the door, looking at us curiously. I quickly divert my eyes to anywhere else in the house. "Bea, we need to talk." He whispered, just loud enough for me to hear in the silent room.

"About What Ace? About the fact you hate my past? Or the fact you hate the scars on my body? Both of those things I can't change, so looks like we have nothing to talk about." I answer bluntly, still not looking to him.

"Bea, please." He pleads with a weak voice. I look to him and see sadness in his eyes.

"I can't do this anymore Ace." I say getting up and pacing around. "You don't know everything about me! How could you care about this ugly past?" I ask now yelling as tears stream down my face.

"Because mine is just as bad!" He yells back, surprising me.

He sighs and quietly before continues, "My mother and my father hated everything about me because I was a weak child, I was smaller than the other kids. They beat me every night to make me stronger, so that I could take this gang. When I did, I killed them both because I couldn't look at them anymore." He says as a silent tear rolls down his cheek.

"Dante was reckless." I say pointing my gaze down and letting the tears roll down my face.

"What?" Matt asks as his voice cracks, he knew exactly what his uncle did to me. He hated that he was related to that sonofabitch.

"Dante had his fun with me and he was reckless about it!" I screamed pushing my palms to my eyes and falling to the ground.

In a moment, Ace was holding me in his arms, I wept into his chest as I tried to regain myself again. I don't know what happened, but when Ace said his is just as bad, I remembered just how bad my own was.

"Jack, you need to tell him." Kirk whispers as everyone is silent.

"Tell me what Bea?" Ace asks as my watery eyes look up to his.

I gulp and look him dead in the eyes before taking a death breath and replying, "I had twins. A girl and a boy. Alice and Oscar. I don't know where they are." I say as the tears fall harder than ever.

"Hey, shhhh. Don't worry about it." Ace whispers holding my head against his chest.

"You don't think I'm some kind of whore?" I ask sniffling and looking to him with red eyes.

"Of course not. If you would have it any other way, you would've done that differently. Bea, I care for you so much, it hurts me to see you away from me, please come back to me." He whispers the last part in my ear, low enough so the others won't hear.

I slowly nod and he picks me up, bridal style, and quietly walks upstairs.

Once we reach his room, he kicks to door open gently with his foot and closing it behind him again. Gently placing me on the bed, he quickly takes off his shirt and slips in next to me, pulling me flush against his chest.

I smile sadly at the warmth and snuggle into his chest. I feel his chest rumble a bit underneath of me and I realize he's chuckling. I smirk and pull him closer.

"Thank you Bear." I whisper closing my eyes.

"You're welcome kitten." He whispers back as I drift off to sleep.

***

Waking up, I feel my body still pressed up against a warm, firm surface. I open my eyes to be met with the tan skin of Ace's chest. I blink a couple of times and finally what happened yesterday came back to my memory.

Sighing to myself, I try to get up, out of Ace's grip. But apparently, he has a different plan. The grip on my waist tightens as I hear a low growl and his chest vibrating.

"Where do you think you're going kitten?" He asks with a deep, sexy, voice.

I slap myself mentally before answering, "We have to go to school. Football starts today and we can't miss the second day of classes." I groan, not actually wanting to go.

"It doesn't sound like you want to go, we could stay here all day." He says drawing circles on my back.

I sigh, "No, we should go, sadly enough." He chuckles and his grip loosens again as I slowly sit up. I take in a deep breath and rub my eyes as I slip my bare feet onto the cold floor. "Aren't you getting up?" I ask looking back to the shirtless, smirking Ace.

"Why, I like the view." He answers sitting up straighter to look at me. I giggle and shake my head.

"I'll meet you at the school, I'm taking my bike today," I say waving as I leave his room. He waves and I close the door behind me as I start down the hall.

Walking into the main room, I see a shirtless Noah and Jackson sitting VERY close together on the couch. I smirk and cough, letting them know I was in the room. Their heads snap to mine and my smirk stays right where it is as they scurry away from each other, trying to put space between them.

"Let's go, Jackson, we've got things to do before school." He nods and follows me out the door, slipping his shirt on while discreetly waving to Noah.

I smirk and continue as we walk down towards our house. The guys must have taken the car last night. "So..." I drawled out looking at him.

His face beet red and he seemed heavily embarrassed. "How're things?" I asked smirking, knowing this will only make it worse.

"Ok." He squeaked out, not wanting to talk anymore. I giggled and kept walking in silence.

When we reached the house, I saw the guys awake and eating in the kitchen. I waved to them and headed up to my room to get ready for school.

I took a hot shower and let the water roll over my muscles that seemed to have grown in the past few months. After, I got out and blow dried my red hair and curled it slightly.

Still, in my towel, I walked into my closet and slipped on black jean shorts, a white crop top, a leather jacket and some combat boots. I looked in the mirror and smiled at my appearance before walking downstairs to meet with the boys before school.

"Looking fierce Jack," Matt says as I step out from the steps.

"Why thank you," I reply with a smirk. They all chuckle a bit, "Anyways, I'm taking my bike today so Y'all can take the cars." I say heading out towards the cars.

I hear numerous mumbles from them and then the door shut. I smirk and jump on my baby, disregarding a helmet and starting it up.

The sound of the engine purring is music to my ears. I smile a bit before slowly driving out of the driveway. From the sounds of it, the guys aren't far behind.

When we pass Ace's house, I smirk and wave, seeing them all in the driveway. They chuckle and wave as we drive past. Afterward, getting in their cars to follow close behind.

Pulling into the parking lot, I see all the 'jocks' that aren't part of our gangs stare as I run a hand through my fiery red hair. Moments later, Ace pulls up next to me on his bike. Smiling, I jump off my bike and slip my hands into my pockets as he does the same.

"People are staring Bea." He says looking around at the crowd of people.

"Oh well, let them," I say biting my lip slightly, still looking at the masterpiece of the man in front of me. Moments later, the bell rings and the hoard of students groan and make their ways into the school.

As the students filed into the school, his gaze never left my figure.

"Ace?" I asked with an amused expression. "We're going to be late for homeroom"

"I don't care, the view is breathtaking." He replies with his usual smirk I learned to love.

"C'mon, let's go," I said playfully rolling my eyes and grabbing his bicep, pulling him towards the school. I hear a deep chuckle as he walks at a turtle pace. I roll my eyes again and faintly smile.

When we reach the classroom, we casually enter and take two seats at the back between Jackson and Kirk.

Our, oh-so-great, homeroom teacher shrugs it off and continues to silently type at his computer at the front of the room.

Random chatter fills the air as we waste an hour of our time, doing nothing.

After we settled in comfortable conversation about football with the guys, I have the feeling I am being watched.

Taking a quick glance around the classroom, I immediately catch a pair of blue eyes looking my way. I can literally see disgust written on Isabelle's forehead.

Smirking to myself, I turn back to the conversation and casually place my hand on Ace's thigh. He tenses up for a moment, pausing in the middle of his words.

After, he goes back to normal and continues with the previous topic. The other guys don't seem to notice and continue on, the one I wanted to see it, she had steam coming out of her ears. I could hear her growling from here. I smirked and slowly rubbed my hand up and down his thigh.

When lunch finally came, I slid in next to Noah as Ace sat down next to me at our usual table. The chatter in the cafeteria had stopped when they saw Ace slide in next to me, girls were throwing deadly glares at my figure. If looks could kill, I would have been vaporized the moment I entered.

I assume Ace noticed because, after a moment, he smirked and placed his hand high on my thigh. Smirking as well, I give him no reaction as his eyes holds a bit of a glare.

"So, football next block?" I ask inconspicuously.