Just Us

Lizzie's PoV

Once Leah arrived things calmed down. Her and Alexis started talking, which made it so Jayy, Dahvie, and Alexis stopped fighting. After a few hours of just hanging out Dahvie and Jayy left, but promised to see me before they left for tour. Leah had left too since she had dinner with Isaiah, leaving Alexis, Andy and I.

Awkward was an understatement.

"I'm worried about Mum." Alexis finally said, not caring that Andy was in the room. "She's gotten really bad lately."

"She's a big girl. She can handle herself." Yes, I'll admit I'm bitter, but I have the right to be.

"No Liz, I mean really bad." She told me.

"And how is it any of my concern? I took care of her for god knows how long. All it did was ruin my life. I'm done remember?"

"She's your fucking mother."

"She gave birth to me. She's my mother that way, but she isn't my mother. To be my mother she would have seen me grow up, but she didn't did she? It was even worse with you, she at least visited me, even if they weren't nice visits. She didn't get involved in your life until you could drive." I pointed out.

"Family helps each other out." Alexis reminded me.

"If that were the case I wouldn't have been in the situation I was in would I?" She was about to continue to argue when the doorbell rang.

"I'll get it." Andy said, probably wanting to get away from the tension between my sister and I.

We heard a girl do a little squeal then the two of them talking. A few minutes he came back into the living room.

"She says her name's Samantha Williams, and she's your sister." He said slightly confused. I looked at Alexis, and we got up at the same time before we both ran to the door to see a girl, around 18 or 19, with dyed blonde hair and the same blue eyes as me and Alexis.

"Um..." I didn't know what to say.

"What's your name again?" Alexis asked.

"S-Samantha. Samantha Williams. I'm looking for my sister Lizzie. I read online she married Andy from Black Veil Brides, so I decided to go on a little search." She said nervously.

"Where'd you come from?" I questioned.

"Florida. Miami to be exact. I lived with my dad and grandmother." She answered.

"This probably seems like twenty questions, maybe a little creepy, but what's your dad and grandmother's name?" She laughed.

"I expected it. My dad's name is Chris, my grandmother's name is Sue-Ellen." I looked at Alexis, and she had a shocked look on her face. "I have a baby picture with me and my mom and sister if you want to see it." Samantha said.

"That might be helpful." I nodded. She took out a picture from her pocket and handed it to me. Sure enough it was a picture of me when I was about 4 or 5, Samantha, and our mother. I handed the picture to Alexis, and looked at Samantha. "One minute." I smiled and walked over to Andy, taking his hand and dragging him into the living room.

"Everything okay? Who is she?" He asked me.

"She, is my sister. The one my mother traded for the heroin and truck." I explained. His eyes went wide.

'How'd she find you?"

"Google. Apparently our address is on the internet." I sighed.

"Are you okay?" He pulled me into a hug.

"I'm not sure to be honest. It's like once I leave my past behind it pushes itself back into my life again." I said trying to hold back tears. "Not to mention I've seen far too many family members today."

"So what are you going to do?" He asked after a minute.

"See what she wants. I feel kind of guilty though, I knew where she was, and I never bothered to go get her." I told him. "I figured she'd have a better life away from her maternal side of the family."

"Don't feel guilty, it was your mothers mistake if anything bad happened to Samantha. She was the one who abandoned her in the first place." Andy whispered. "It wasn't your responsibility." I smiled and kissed him, which became more heated than intended. We heard someone cough and pulled away. I looked over to see Alexis and Samantha in the doorway.

"Right." I sighed. "Samantha this is Andy, Andy meet Samantha." I introduced.

"Hi." Andy smiled.

"Hey." Samantha blushed.

"Can you go get us drinks? Just get a soda for Samantha. Get Alexis water, and get me some of the stuff Dahvie left." I asked Andy quietly.

"Sure babe." He kissed the top of my head and went to get the drinks.

"You two are so adorable!" Samantha fangirled. "I watched the interviews you were in with him."

"Yeah, let's go sit down." I said and we made our way to the couches.

"So what are you doing here?" Alexis asked rudely.

"Way to get to the point." I mumbled, "Sorry about her, she's well, she's Alexis." I told Samantha.

"I wanted to know my family. Grams made it so I never knew anything about my mom, or my sisters. I only knew about Lizzie because Dad talked about you."

"Chris remembered me?" I asked. I lived with my mom, Chris and Sue-Ellen for a couple months after Samantha was born, but it didn't last very long, they were into the drugs pretty heavy.

"He thought of you as a daughter." She told me.

"Oh.." I said trailing off.

"Where was Alexis back then?" Samantha asked suddenly. "Dad never talked about you."

"Mum didn't really involve me in things. I only saw you once. I lived with my grandparents and dad, Lizzie was the one who saw mum the most." Alexis explained.

"So we all have different dads?"

"Yeah." Alexis nodded. We were quiet for a while and Andy brought back the drinks.

"Thank you." I told him as he sat next to me. He nodded and kissed the side of my head.

"Where's mom?" Samantha asked.

"Back home. I moved out a little over a year ago, and came to live with Andy. I don't talk to the family much any more. Just Alexis now and then" I told her.

"Your dad didn't tell you anything?" Alexis asked, Samantha shook her head.

"Google was my only source."

"And you still want to meet mom?" I was kind of shocked. The things google says when you search our mother aren't the nicest. Even though it's just the truth.

"I never knew her." She shrugged.

"Don't see why you would want to." I said quietly so she couldn't hear. I heard Andy laugh.

"She isn't a bad person, she just has had some bad moments in her life." Alexis assured Samantha.

"Like trading her daughter for a truck and drugs." I said just as quietly.

"And even though it doesn't seem like it half of the time she loves us." She continued.

"Yep. Definitely loves us." I said sarcastically.

"You're horrible." Andy told me quietly.

"No, I'm honest." I replied just as quietly. "Alexis stop kidding the kid." I told her.

"I'm telling her the truth!" She exclaimed.

"No, you're editing the truth." I glared.

"Does someone want to catch me up here?" Samantha asked, interrupting our argument. Alexis looked at me, I sighed.

"Our mother, She plays games. A lot of them. She's good at charming people. She uses peoples weaknesses to make them be on her side, and help her out. She messes with peoples heads." I explained. "She isn't as good as a person as she wants people to think."

"What do you mean?"

"There's a reason Chris and Sue-Ellen didn't tell you much about her." I went to continue but Alexis cut me off.

"You're going to break her heart." She glared.

"It's better than she lives believing a lie." I told her harshly taking a big sip of my drink. "Mom left you, you know that, but it was more of a trade. Chris offered her a truck and some drugs, telling her to leave the baby to him, and not to get involved. So she went along with the deal and left you behind." I told Samantha, she looked like she was about to cry. "She isn't worth crying over. Trust me."

"How do you know all of this?" She asked me.

"Christmas when I was 9. She told me outside when she was smoking. Then she sat right on my couch and told me again about twenty minutes later. If I brought it up after that she always denied it. If you don't believe me ask your dad." I shrugged.

"So she just turned her back on me?" She asked me.

"She did it to all of us." I sighed. "If you still want to meet her, go ahead. I'm not going to turn you against your mother. You should decide for yourself, but I want your decision to be based off of the truth."

"What did she do to you?" She sniffed. I let go of Andy's head and pushed up my sleeves, showing all my scars.

"She drove me crazy. I lived with her from freshman year until last June. I didn't even go to college because she made me fell guilty and made me into stay with her." I said. "I was already depressed, and she made me do things I didn't want to, made my depression worse. So I needed an escape, so I thought starving myself, self harming, making myself feel like absolute shit, or dying would make everything better." I shook my head at the thought. "It didn't. At all."

"What about you Alexis?" Samantha asked.

"Messed with my head I guess. Listen, I gotta get going. I'll see you soon." She said before getting up and leaving.

"Did I say something wrong?" Samantha asked.

"No, she's like that sometimes." I told her.

"So where are you staying?" Andy asked her.

"Uh, I hadn't really gotten around to that yet." She answered nervously.

"You can stay here, don't worry." He smiled.

"I don't want to intrude." She said looking at me for what seemed like approval.

"It's not intruding. You're my little sister." I said finishing my drink. "Did you bring anything with you?" She shook her head, "You can wear my stuff for now, we'll go shopping tomorrow."

"Thanks." She said and the doorbell rang again. I groaned and went to get it.

"Package for Lizzie Biersack." The man said. I nodded and signed where I was supposed to and took the box back to the living room.

"Kellin said he sent me a present." I explained and opened it, it had a bunch of Anthem Made shirts, pictures of Copeland, and even a homemade card by Copeland. "Can you text Kellin thanks for me, and tell him I'll call later?" I threw Andy my phone. "I'll show you around." I grabbed Samantha's hand.

"Were you talking about Kellin Quinn?" She asked me when we got to the kitchen. I nodded.

"He's like my big brother." I explained. She looked shocked. "That's the sort of thing that happens when you're married to a rock star." I laughed.

"That's really cool." She said.

"I guess. Anyway, this is the kitchen, we have a lot of alcohol, but it's off limits." I told her. She nodded. "We have a guest room down the hall. That's where you'll be staying, there's a bathroom in there. Andy and I are upstairs. Second room on the right." I explained. "There's a media room, with video games and stuff. You have an all access pass to that. Anything else you want to know?"

"Wifi password?" I laughed and told her it.

"I'm gonna be with Andy, just yell if you need anything." She nodded and I left her alone.

"Everything settled?" He asked.

"Yep."

"Can the guys and their girlfriends still come over?"

"Of course. I haven't seen them since you guys got back." I smiled.

"You seem happy." He laughed.

"Nope, just a little drunk." I said before I kissed him. "I love you."

"I love you too."