Love And Other Drugs

The room was hot, or possibly it could be because Luxe and the other girls were surrounded by hot air from all of the hair dryers and flat irons. The Hollywood Dolls and Black Veil Brides were all squeezed into one room-something that wasn’t planned as they hadn’t known that this venue only had one dressing room. The room was literally split down the middle with The Dolls on the right side of the room while BVB was on the left. They were all bent over the dressing table that lined the walls of the room, eyeliner pencils out or lipstick brushes against their lips.

Luxe was busy applying the stitches across the edges of her mouth and she smirked as she caught Andy’s eyes in the mirror. He too had a set of stitches, but it was only on the left side of his mouth, which was pressed into a deep frown.

She knew he was mad-about a lot of things-and silently Luxe did feel kind of bad, but it had been Alex’s idea to push the girls into wearing stitches. They were dolls-they were supposed to be broken dolls that had put themselves back together in order to show their fans that they could do the same thing. Luxe liked the idea behind it, but she wasn’t overly fond of her costume as it was going to be hot and hard to sing in. Her corset was tight against her chest, pushing things up so that they flowed over the top and the light grey material tight against her skin. Her skirts, flowing and tattered so that they would breeze around on stage, were huge and she could tell that it was going to be possible for her to trip over them.

All of the girls were in the same outfit, but with varying colors and some of the details were different. Char’s corset was pitch black, but was a halter top corset as she had to be able to move around. Pixie, in her light purple and blue corset with her black skirt, was looking pretty adorable with her teased pink hair and she was currently trying to help Lulu get on her deep blue corset. Mads was the only one not wearing a corset because it would completely restrict her drumming so she was permitted to wear her red bikini top and a waist corset that was black and covered in studs. All together they looked awesome and Luxe couldn’t wait to get out on the stage.

Black Veil Brides, she couldn’t deny, looked pretty spectacular themselves with all of their leather pants, boots with the straps all over them and she noticed that some of the guys were shirtless and some were not. Andy had on a black studded vest with patches all over the back and he, like all of the other members of the band, was covered completely in black paint. Ashley, the bassist, was shirtless and flirting with Char, much to Char’s irritation. Jinxx and Jake, both guitarists, were wearing sleeveless shirts, Jake’s was covered in rips and safety pins, while Jinxx’s was leather and looked hot. CC, the drummer and the one person in the entire band who Luxe got a long with, was shirtless and drinking a Monster as Andy helped him apply his eye makeup.

The groups had been together all day, watching each soundcheck and now having to share a dressing room, some of the girls had given in to their hate and were making friends with some of the guys. Luxe and CC had literally bumped into one another as they were walking in to the building and he had kept her from falling flat on her face. He made her laugh and even now CC was making faces at her in the mirror. Luxe still didn’t like Ashley or Andy, but the other guys didn’t seem so bad and they kept to themselves. Soundcheck had been interesting and Luxe couldn’t deny that BVB sounded amazing and were even more amazing on stage.


“Looking good over there Luxe!” Someone called and Luxe whipped around and stuck her tongue out at Lulu, who was finally dressed and was now pulling her boots on.

“Thanks baby!” Luxe laughed as she walked over to where Lulu and Pixie were standing and the two girls giggled together. They’d had a shot each and were feeling fairly good right now. Char was sauntering over towards them, the Jack bottle in one hand and four shot glasses somehow were held in her other hand.

“Shots ladies!” She called out and all five girls gathered around the small table that Char had set everything up on. Luxe watched as the amber liquid was poured out of the top of the bottle and she grimaced as she picked up her shot glass-she liked Jack, but she hated shooting it.

“To a fucking kickass tour with my four sisters-lets go rock this shit!” Char called out as they all raised their glasses, the sound of tinkling glass filling the room before Luxe allowed the liquid to flow down her throat.


Luxe turned around and noticed that Andy was staring at her, specifically her chest and she began to see red. All of the guys, even Ashley, had been fairly supportive of the girls during their first soundcheck giving them tips and some tricks to how to be better on stage. Not Andy-that little shit sat in the very back of the room with the sound guy and glared at them the entire time. The only time he made any effort was when he had to get on stage and put in his part for the duet. They had not performed it yet and Luxe was really nervous about how it was going to go. The girls were all standing around in their small group while the guys stood around in their own little circle when the door to the dressing room popped open.


“Alright guys!” It was Alex, dressed to impress in his tight skinny jeans and The Hollywood Dolls t-shirt. His black hair was slicked back and he had his sunglasses sitting on top like a crown. Jon, the guys manager, was standing behind Alex, dressed in a pair of jeans and a BVB t-shirt. Both men look excited, Alex more so than Jon.

“We are going to take you guys into the Meet and Greet room where AP is set up to take a few photos and then we will sit you guys down at your tables.” Alex explained and Luxe noticed that Jinxx had his hand raised. She giggled-it was like they were in school and Alex was the cute English teacher who was also a massive douche.

“How is the M&G going to work?” Jinxx asked and Luxe nodded her head-she had been wondering the same thing. How were they going to separate each package level and each group type?

“You all will be at one long table and each package group will be let in one at a time. Then the level two groups will be let in and finally the Diamond group will come and we will set up a section for Luxe and Andy to do their photos.” Alex explained and Luxe felt her heart drop-she had completely forgotten about the additional photos she was going to have to do with Andy.


The group all nodded their understanding and they all split apart to finish getting ready. In about ten minutes Alex was back and corralling them all together. Luxe ended up walking beside Jinxx and he made her laugh softly as he talked about how hard it was going to be for them all to concentrate on getting ready to play while watching the girls on stage. They had done a coin toss before leaving the dressing room and while Andy had called tails and Luxe called heads, the coin was flipped and BVB would be ending the show out. That was fine, their turn would come the following show and Luxe was actually less nervous knowing that she wouldn’t have to send the audience off.

The room that they would have their M&G in was huge and there was already a long table set up with ten chairs on one side of it. The Dolls side was set up with a black and grey skrim behind where they would be sitting, while BVB’s also had a black skrim and their BVB logo flaming in the background. There were cameras flashing as the group walked in and each band stood in front of their skrim. Luxe took her spot in the middle-if she didn’t then it was only a matter of time before Alex came up and physically moved her to the middle. Andy was also in the middle of his group and as the bulbs went off and she watched him scowl and pose for the camera, Luxe could feel her heart quicken.

The girls were pushed to the side with BVB and Luxe and Andy were then placed in the very front, with Andy’s arm casually draped across her shoulders. This was all done by Alex, who stood behind the photographer with a smirk on his lips as the bands posed together. Luxe tried to keep her game face on, which was a scowl similar to Andy’s, but it was hard not to feel like crying.

She was scared to death that this wasn’t going to work-that she was going to fall or not be able to sing and having Andy this close to her was making it worse. She hated him, she hated the way he looked, the way he acted and the one thing she hated the most about Andy was the fact that he was able to make her feel this way. Finally the photos were done and Alex informed them that they were going to start letting the fans in to the room.


“Where are we sitting?” Pixie asked and Luxe only smiled as she took a seat to the left and quickly noticed that Alex was making a bee line for her. Luxe knew he was going to move her, probably to the middle and she was actually shocked when he moved her to the very end of the table, closest to the BVB table.

“Luxe is going to be here, front of the line to make it easier to move and take photos with Andy and then I want Char, Mads, Pixie and Lulu.” Alex said as he went girl by girl and moved them all to their spots. Jon was doing the same thing, begrudgingly, and as Luxe sat down in her seat she noticed that Andy had been placed right beside her. They both groaned as they looked at one another.

“Fuck me.” He mumbled and Luxe felt her cheeks flame. There was no love lost between the two of them and they both glared at one another.

“Yeah-fuck you.” She growled at him and Andy just looked at her, his blue eyes with all of the paint around them wide with shock.

“You don’t have to be such a bitch.” He said to her, his voice thick with hate and Luxe knew that both bands were watching their singers snipe at one another.

“And you don’t have to be so stuck up.” She quipped and noticed that CC was smirking at her. The drummer had told her that morning that even they thought Andy could be full of himself sometimes, but they still loved him.

“At least I’m not spoiled.” The sound of a chair scrapping across the floor filled the room and Luxe could see out of the corner of her eye that Mads had stood up and was trying to get at Andy.

“Look you puffed up little twit-“ Mads was speaking and then stopped as Alex had moved to stand in front of them all and he looked more than pissed-he looked livid.

“Stop it! I don’t fucking care if you don’t fucking like one another-you have to get along for the next six months. You want another record? You want to succeed? Then do as I fucking tell you and do it with a smile on your fucking face. Madeline-sit.” Mads flopped down in her chair and began to curse under her breath. Everyone else remained silent as Alex turned away from them and walked towards the door.


The fans squealed and giggled as they walked into the room and Luxe smiled as she met fan after fan and signed her name over a hundred times. Group one came and went and even though there were some fans for BVB that also wanted to meet the girls, they were unable to because of the package restrictions. The next group was a lot more fun because they were able to stand up, hug their fans and take photos with them.

Some girls were crying as they met Luxe, telling her that she had meant the world to them and that her lyrics were everything to them in their lives. Even Mads was smiling as a small girl hugged her and told her that she had picked up drumming because of the admiration she had for the grumpy drummer.

Finally it was the moment that both Luxe and Andy were dreading and as the first Diamond fan came up for her pictures, everyone held their breath. The girl was small with blonde hair and she smiled, thanked them both as they moved to pose for the picture. Andy was on the left of the girl and Luxe was on the right and they both had their arms around the small fan. Andy’s hand brushed across her’s and as she felt his skin, Luxe shivered and tried to smile. She couldn’t deny that they had some kind of connection and as fan after fan came up and got their pictures, Luxe felt less and less angry with Andy.

He was an asshole-king of the assholes-but he was really great with the fans and he hugged them when they cried and told him that he had saved them and that made Luxe’s heart grow just a little bit softer when it came to Andy Biersack.

Notes

Tensions are running high and it's only a matter of time before Andy sticks hit boot covered foot in to his mouth.

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