Juvie • JASON MCCANN •

Chapter 89 "Being bad is the new good"

Aleysa' pov

After awhile, Ace steps inside the room with a bag of fast food that has my stomach grumbling in devastating hunger.

"You're lucky you're carrying precious cargo or else I would kill you right now", Ace mutters throwing the bag of food into the cage I'm currently being held in. Immediately, I grab the bag grabbing the burger biting a huge piece off due to the excruciating hunger, I can't no longer take.

"Why do you hate me so much? I've never done anything to you", I say.

Ace rolls his eyes, "you ruined everything", he scoffs.

"Ruined what?", I furrow my brows gulping down my chewed up food.

"Your little baby daddy was suppose to join forces with John from the road he was going, but all of that went down to shit since you came into his life"

"What kind of a friend are you?! You should be happy Jason changed into a good man!", I grumble.

"Fuck this world! Being bad is the new good! Why be good while others especially your type of people step on us all of the time and belittle us just because we aren't from the good neighborhoods", Ace clenches his jaw, his light grey eyes turning two shades darker almost looking dark grey.

"I'm so sorry for how others have treated you... I'm not the same I swear", I huff.

I know the battle between rich and poor has always been a huge issue in New York. I never knew about it while growing up, but since meeting Jason, Isaac, Rex, and Tiny I learned so much about their daily struggles. I'm disgusted by how people like my once father treat them, in my eyes everyone is equal.

"I know you're not", Ace sighs intently beaming at me. I stay quiet warily watching him not knowing what to say. I'm completely terrified if I say the wrong thing I'll piss him off again and that's the last thing I want to do since he's calm.

"T-That's why I treat you the way I do", he mumbles stepping towards my cage.

As much as I want to understand Ace right now, I can't. If he knows I'm not like the rest, why would he treat me bad? Instead, wouldn't he treat me good?

"Why?", I splutter not being able to hold my curiosity back, it seriously gets the best of me.

Ace crouches down in front of me, his face is now leveled with mine as we silently stare at one another. His grey eyes are so emotionless so distant so darn cold that it almost seems like he's soulless. However, his grey eyes fade back into his natural light grey ones looking vulnerable which has me baffled. Ace lifts his hand up pushing through the cage until he cuffs my cheek. At first, I flinch at the feeling of his cold hand on my warm flesh, but this is not what got me all jumpy, it's the fact that Ace the mean selfish cold Ace is showing some type of affection towards me.

"Because I'm in love with you"

I gasp completely stunned by his confession. Never in a million years would I have thought Ace would feel anything towards me. If anything I always thought he hated me with a passion.

"W-what?", I mumble breathlessly.

"If you were with me you wouldn't be in this predicament.. I would truly protect you unlike Jason", he bluntly says while moving his thump against my skin up and down almost trying to comfort me in the situation I'm in.

"But you just said you want to k-kill me.. I don't understand"

"At first I did I ain't going to lie because I hated how I was feeling some type of way towards you and seeing you with him made my blood boil not being able to have you for myself, but now this feeling is strong even if I wanted to kill you, I don't think I can. However, I must admit knowing that you're pregnant with that son of a bitch baby angers me a lot", Ace mutters his hand falling down from my cheek.