Ace Is In Trouble
Ace Is In Trouble
“Wake up”
Rex yells with annoyance as he aggressively opens the door to Carl’s bedroom. which makes a loud thud when it hits the wall.
“I said wake up, you ass, you have a job to do, you know!”
At this point, he flings the cover off of Carl, making him shiver in shock at his rude wakeup call.
“I’m up, for god's sake, I’m up.”
He says as he sighs in frustration, rolling his eyes at him, before sitting up
“But did you really have to be so rude about it, you fucking prick?”
The two of them glare at each other as Rex throws the cover back on the bed. He shows no signs of calming, and even when he answers Carl’s question, you can hear the anger in his voice.
“I wouldn’t have to wake you up like this because you didn’t fuckover sleep, you lazy fuck.”
Carl turns to see what time it is and sighs. Especially when he realises it's only 4 in the morning. He must have some important work he needs him up for if he says being awake at 4 a.m. is late!
Rex was taking this shipment very seriously, and even Carl could understand why. Ashe was just as worried about making any mistakes in the plan. One wrong move, and it could risk not only Rex’s business but their own lives too. Even knowing Rex had been to prison before, at the age of 15, didn’t help ease his fears.
This experience just seemed to make Rex more ruthless when getting jobs done. This especially made him act harshly towards the people involved in his dealings, like Carl.
But before Carl could retaliate to Rex’s harsh words, they both hear the car beep outside, and the rest of the team yells for them to hurry up. With this Rex walks over to the window, opens it and yells down to them
“I know, I know. We would be gone by now if it wasn’t for laziness and oversleeping. Shame he's not as good as...”
"Oh, shut the fuck up!”
Carl was really not amused at his words, when he always works his socks off. He is made to feel like he is not appreciated just because he wasn’t up before 4 a.m. It definitely touched a nerve in him, but Rex didn’t take being interrupted well either. Without warning, he charges towards Carl and thumps him hard in the mouth.
“Never fucking tell me to shut up." Now get your arse ready, or we are going without you.
With that, he storms out of the room, slamming the door behind him. Carl is left sitting on his bed, blood dripping from his lip
Carl just sits there, stunned by Rex’s reaction as he wipes his bloody nose with his hand, annoyed that he hit him. He then quickly stands up and grabs his leather coat, which was on the back of the seat. He rushes out of the room to join the rest of the team as he quickly finishes getting ready.
He takes a few deep breaths, trying to control his annoyance, before putting on his fake smile for the rest of the team.
Just as he gets to the car, where everyone is waiting for him, he catches Rex on the phone with Destiny.
"Babe, we are setting off shortly. "We are a bit behind schedule, but we are all accounted for and on our way.”
Carl rolls his eyes at yet another dig at him for being the only one who isn’t made enough to do a job this early in the morning.
“Fuck you, Rex. Fuck all of you.”
He mumbles under his breath, feeling very irritated by Rex. It's too early in the morning for him to deal with his sneakiness and tough boss attitude.
However, he didn’t have time to deal with that as his phone rang. When he realises it's Ace, he pulls himself together and takes the call straight away. As he knows, Ace would only ever call him when something terrible had happened. He just hopes it’s nothing too serious that it can’t be fixed. But when he hears Ace’s super panicked voice, fear burns up inside him to the point where he is holding his breath as he listens.
"Carl, oh thank God you answered. I am in a lot of trouble.”
Carl is now frozen to the spot, and all eyes are on him as they all look at him with confusion. He tries to focus on every word Ace is saying to him, trying not to miss a single important detail.
“Fuck what you done now, Ace?”
He says as he lets out the breath he had been holding. He runs his hand through his
hair as he gives the "fuck he’s done it again" look to Rex and the team. Instantly they
know who he is on the phone to now.
“I was flirting with this beautiful woman. But before you have a go at me,
Carl laughs internally as he waits for his excuse as to why he wasn’t in the wrong... Of course, it was never his fault!
“She told me she was single.”
. “Let me guess, she wasn’t single at all.”
He adds a bit of sarcasm in his voice, which seemed to irritate Ace
“Come on man, of course I wouldn’t have done anything if Iknew she had a boyfriend”
Carl pulls the ‘yeah, yeah, of course you wouldn’t’ look, making the others shake their heads with amusement.
"OK, go on. What kind of trouble are you in?”
He laughs, completely amused by the whole situation.
“It is not funny, Carl. The guy found out I had been hitting on his girl, and he now wants me dead. I need your help, please”
Carl can’t stop laughing at the predicament Ace has got himself into. Right at this moment, Carl decides to investigate what the holdup is and makes his way towards him.
“What is the hold up now, douchebag?”
He makes sure how impatient he is feeling as he stresses about the constant delays to the plans. Carl lowered the phone to explain the situation to Rex.
“It is Ace, he flirted with another man’s woman and hewants our help to stop her boyfriend for killing him”
With rage burning in him, Rex snatches the phone from Carl before yelling down the phone.
“What the fck, Ace! This is the 8th time you have screwed around with another man’s woman this month! What the hell is wrong with you!?”
Everyone just stands in pure shock at his rage, as they have never seen him this angry before. Clearly, Ace has touched a sensitive nerve.
Ace is lost for words as Rex continues spouting more vile words down the phone at him.
“Do you get a thrill from causing shit?" Carry on this wayfucker, and we will no longer come to your rescue.!”
And before he can allow him to argue back, he hangs up and thrusts the phone against Carl’s chest. Everyone watches him cautiously as he begins pacing before punching the side of the car.
“Wow, what the hell is wrong with you this morning?”
He speaks cautiously, as no one has ever seen him this riled up. Rex is breathing heavily, like some fire-breathing dragon, as he glares at him.
“What the hell is wrong with me? Seriously, you are asking me that? Nothing has gone according to plan so far, and we are already running behind.”
He glanced at the rest of his men
