All Chapters of Her Ace (COMPLETED): Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

The rest of the day went without any issues, beside the lingering feeling of confusion caused by a certain green-eyed bad boy.  Once I got home, I began the obvious, homework. About halfway through starting an English paper, I heard the front door close. I powered off my laptop and carefully crept down the hallway.  There he was, my father. He was making a bunch of noise in the kitchen. I looked at the clock, 5:43 pm. He hadn't been home since 3:15 the day before. I tried to turn back around to walk back to my room but he knew I was there.  "Maddie, I didn't think you'd be home," the man who held the title as my father slurred.  I sighed and walked back into the kitchen. "Harry. It's been awhile. How was work?" I knew he hadn't bee

The only eventful thing about Saturday was when Ace shook me awake and told me my father had already left for the day. I wasn't sure how he knew that but I didn't question it. He left quickly after that, claiming he needed to go home and help his mom clean up the house before his family arrived. I went grocery shopping with the little money I had and told myself to make sure Harry paid me back. Beside that, nothing else happened. I did my homework, which was little to none. I talked to Kimmy for a few hours about college. Neither of us were sure about what we wanted to do or where we wanted to go. I was seriously considering a gap year. I fell asleep somewhere around 11 pm and woke up way too early for a Sunday morning. I cleaned up around the house while Harry slept half the day away in his room. We still hadn't exchanged any words since Friday night but that was normal of us. I didn't want to talk to him anyway. 

I was still standing there, in the hallway of Edgewood High, in front of Ace Craige who had just beat a kid to a pulp. Somewhere inside of me, I felt a fear that I had felt many times before but it had been so long, I didn't know what to do with it. I moved my eyes from Ace's hands up to his bruised and bloodied face. He had a split lip in three different places. There was a welting bruise on his right cheekbone and a cut near his eyebrow. There was still malice in his eyes and that scared me most of all. That he could look at me with such anger. I took a few steps back from him, the tears spilling over onto my cheeks. By this point, most of the students had scurried out of the way, scared of getting into trouble. My tears did something to Ace's features. They softened greatly and the anger ceased from his eyes. But I was still scared. I held my arms across my body protectively and my nails d

I found myself barely paying attention in English since all I did was talk to Kimmy or Ace. it was my best class so it wasn't detrimental to my grade but we were yelled at. A lot. It was mostly Ace's fault. He tried his hardest to make both of us laugh. I was pretty sure he did it on purpose too, just so we'd get into trouble. Getting yelled at just made us laugh even harder.  It was Friday and three days had passed since the night at the diner. Ace had turned to me during class today to inform me that his family wanted me to come over again tonight. They were having a family game night.  I'd have been lying if l said I wasn't nervous. I had already met them and it's not like Ace and I were actually dating. But it was still nerve wracking. Meeting parents were always weird to me. Even when it was just your friend's mom or dad. They still freaked me out.&nbs

Ace Craige really wasn't that bad. In a way, he was kind of perfect. Not perfect in the sense that everything about him was figured out and he had no flaws; but in a way that he was perfect as the guy he was.  I watched him as he let his brother tackle him to the ground outside. Ace had held a football above Noah's head, just enough to where he couldn't reach. Noah kept trying to pummel his older brother in the leg, stomach and back.  Noah pulled himself back and ran at Ace with as fast as he could and even I could tell he was going to try to knock him over. The idea of it was hilarious and impossible but Ace, being the good big brother he was, pretended to be surprised by his attack and fell to the grass on his back.  Noah sat on his check in victory and lifted his arms above his head and yelled, "I got him!"                    Ace was