•nikki•
panic and fear spread across lizzies face as the door opened. to all of our surprises, an old frail lady carefully opens the door, a corgi comes bounding to lizzie,
"hey buzz..." she says weakly stroking him, "hey gran..." she smiles.
the guys and i look at each other shocked, we all expected an ex-boyfriend or fiancé. her gran looks shocked, but hugs her anyway. brushing all of lizzies hair out of her face she looks at her, checking her out,
"how've you been?" she practically cries in a strong british accent, "i've been worried sick."
"it's been a month gran." lizzie chuckles, "im good and i can tell you are too..." she looks at me, "this is nikki, i'm living with him, this is his band... tommy, vince and mick."
"hey." we all smile, waving slightly.
"oh please, do come in."
we all tread carefully through the house, pictures hung on walls of lizzie and her family. i stand and look at one, it was lizzie, a young boy and a girl, older than lizzie but they looked like twins. the same hair, eyes, face shape, nose and lips. tommy walks over and stares too,
"that looks exactly like fucking lizzie." he says excitedly,
"yea... it does."
sitting on the sofa, mick and lucy, we now had learnt her name, both sat in arm chairs across from each other. sipping from china glasses and eating biscuits, we all sit and listen to the stories lucy had to tell about life in england, lizzie as a child and what it was like when lucy was younger.
"lucy?" she looks at me, "whose the girl in the picture with lizzie?" i ask curiously,
"oh... that's her younger brother and older sister." lucy carefully places her cup down on the table, "she was a big part to lizzie, they were inseparable..." she looked glumly at mick, then walks to a cupboard and pulls a photo album out,
"they were?" vince asks.
lucy swallows hard, "when she was fifteen or sixteen, lizzies sister, diane, went out on christmas eve and didn't come home. we just assumed she stayed at a friends house." we listen out for lizzie as we hear her rummage around upstairs, "the police called them christmas morning i remember it as though it was yesterday.... diane had been raped and murdered..." tommy and vince both comfort her, i sit back in the sofa and put my hand to my head,
"shit..." mick mumbles.
"after that moment, lizzie was never the same. she got into drugs and drinking, her parents divorced... so i bought lizzie here." she looks at us all, "she was in rehab for three months for drugs, she's been clean for a while and I'm proud of her." lucy says.
vince looks at me, then mick and finally tommy. swallowing hard, i stand up and pace,
"fuck... we made her relapse." my thoughts racing in my head,
"nikki, man... calm down." vince hisses.
sitting in the car, i look at lizzie, boxes filled the car. her face was beautiful, glowing more than usual, her eyes glisten at me and she gives me a smile, an innocent smile. my hands grip the leather steering wheel,
"you hadn't told me, you're an ex-druggy." i didn't even look at her, her breathing increases,
"what- what do you mean?" her breath hitches, "i went to rehab for three months, then came out and immediately relapsed." anger was taking over her, "i was never an ex-druggie. i've always been a druggie." sarcasm was more strong in her tone.
i watch as he tiny fingers pick at the skin around her nails, she looks at me,
"i've got my reasons and i'm not proud of it... it started with prescription pills then escalated..." i nod listening to what she was saying.
placing my hand on her thigh, we drive back to the apartment and set everything up in her room. lizzie scoots into my room and sits on my bed,
"i am sorry..." she whispers, defeated.
"don't be fucking silly... it's fine."
i pull her into a hug and she nuzzles her head into my shoulder,
"go partying tonight after the gig?" i ask her, she nods with a smirk,
"always."
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a/n
hey loves! hope you're all enjoying, sorry if this chapter was a bit shit... but i do plan for you to find more out about our sticky sweet lizzie soon!
also we're ranking number five on #nikkisixx, so that's rad... thank you all! x