**Copyright - This is a fictitious story. Black Veil Brides are not mine, they belong to themselves and their record label. Any other real life places, people, or organizations also belong to their rightful owners and I'm only using them for entertainment purposes. I am in no way making a profit, or trying to slander anyone/thing.
The Serpentine's Withered Rose | ThePurpleNinja101©2013
The Serpentine's Withered Rose
It was summer time in what you would call the city part of Kentucky. Deep within an apartment building was a girl with purple hair braided back and her choppy, fringed bangs swooped to the right side of her forehead(with a parting on the left). They got in her face as she was taking clothes out of the drying machine. She moved the hair behind her ear, tired of it getting in her face. She was a pretty young woman, she was at the age of twenty now. She had a soft, almost flawless, pale, porcelain complexion. She had a pink tank-top and blue shorts on. She has spider bites lip piercings on the left side.
She picked up the basket that already had clean clothes in it. After taking the clothes into her room, she walked back down small hallway of the apartment, but stopped to look at a picture. The picture was a young girl, maybe around thirteen, with long blonde hair with bangs parted on the right and looked a lot like herself. The girls eyes sparkled a bright blue as she was hugging a boy beside her. The boy looked like he could have been her twin, but she knew there was no possibility he could be. He had long blonde hair that reached down to the crook of his neck with the sides fringed out on to the sides of his face. Bright blue eyes just like the girl's and freckles like her's also, but he was a lot tanner than the girl. He looked to be the same age as her as well.
She looked over to the next picture of the same two but they were making a heart out of their hands. This time they looked a lot older. The girl had bleached blonde hair with purple ends that faded out into pink. Her hair was straight and she had a hair style that most referred to as a 'scene girl hairstyle'. Her bangs in the picture was now parted on the left side and she had a snake bite piercing. The boy had spiky black hair with bleached tips and even streaks in his bangs, he too had snake bites. The girl just shook her head and proceeded back to the laundry room. She sat the basket back into rightful place and began putting the clothes in the washer into the drying machine. The boy from the picture stood at the door frame without letting her know he was there. He wore an Asking Alexandria tee-shirt and black skinny jeans. His hair was already naturally straight but wasn't spiky. He smirked as he watched the girl doing laundry.
"You know, Victoria, you are pretty hot when you do laundry." the boy smirked and came up behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist.
"I bet you really think so, don't you? I bet you really do, Sam." she chuckled as she finished with the last of the laundry. She turned around and wrapped her arms around his neck and pecked him on the lips.
"Are you excited about this up coming event?" he asked after he kissed her forehead.
"Which up coming event? We have like three things to do, right?" she asked.
"I'm talking about The Serpentines Of The Ravaged headlining for Black Veil Brides!" Sam exclaimed.
"Oh, yeah! Yeah, I'm so excited and I am so proud of you, babe! I'm sorry I can only stay for a few months though." Victoria said while they walked into the living room and kitchen combined area, separating the rooms by only the kitchen's green marble counter tops. Sam sat down on one end of the black couch while Victoria sat in his lap and stretched her legs out on to the rest of the couch.
"When we go see our families tomorrow, are we going to go see your mom's family?" Sam asked.
"No, I don't want to talk them, let alone face them" Victoria said while she watching Say Yes To The Dress on TV.
"Tori, it's been five years since you spoke to them and ten years since you spoke to him." Sam said.
"I don't care, Sam. I don't want to ever speak to him again no matter what." Victoria said sternly.
"Babe, you have to forgive and forget. He's changed." Sam looked up at her with concern written on his face.
"Forgive and forget? Okay, tell me how to forget of being bullied mentally and physically every day to the point being covered in bruises every day for years, years! Tell me how to forgive someone who drove me into a depression and nearly made me kill myself! Plus, he's changed? Sam, he's on drugs and in and out of jail! If anything, he's gotten worst!" Victoria snapped back. He knew what she was put through before they met, but he felt like she should have let go.
"Victoria Adams, or future Mrs. Fields," he reached for her left hand kissed the silver ring with a diamond on top with two small purple flowers on the side with even smaller diamonds inside. It had a purple rim around it and had the names Victoria and Sam engraved, both on opposite sides. It was a custom-made ring he proposed to her with. He didn't care how expensive, because he knew she would love it. "Quit rereading the past chapters of life and keep reading on with the new. If those old chapters bother you so much, burn them. Burn the pages but not the bridge." he smiled at her blush and her soft smile.
"Samuel Fields, this is why I fell in love with you ever since we first met. No matter how bad I feel or whatever bad mood I am in, you always seem to bring me out of it. Plus, I love how you quoted from Set It Off's song Swan Song, you know I love them." she smiled and leaned down to kiss her fiancée on the lips. She snuggled back into his side and continued to watch Say Yes To The Dress.
"Even after everything you said Sam, I still don't want to see them again." he could only sigh at that. "I'm not ready, Sam" he hugged her tightly and kissed her cheek repeatedly.
"That's okay. When you are ready, I'll be here for you. Have you had any ideas when the wedding should be?" Sam asked.
"I was thinking of Halloween! I mean it would be so cool! We could have a Masqueraded Ball theme wedding!" She looked at him with a bright smile.
"Whatever you want, my love." he kissed her temple. The two stayed like for hours in complete peaceful silence and having random conversations here and there that didn't matter that much.
*A Few Months Ago*
Victoria sat in the living room playing Left 4 Dead2 on Xbox while Sam was in their room playing his guitar and writing lyrics. He became a little distant and distracted in Victoria's eyes, it worried her. He was even on Youtube more than her, and she was addicted. They both had a Youtube account, hers was for more of vlogging, tutorials, and tag videos, so really nothing special. Sam's Youtube was meant for helping him with his long dream of a famous band. He officially started his band, The Serpentines of The Ravaged, when he was 18, which was only 3 years ago. His band was kinda popular, popular enough that on this certain day a record label company contacted him on wanting them to work with them.
How did the band get so popular? The band practiced a lot and did a lot of individual covers or a full band cover. They covered a lot of famous bands like Black Veil Brides, All Time Low, Asking Alexandria, Falling In Reverse, Escape The Fate, and many others, and including their own songs. The people who actually stuck by and listened to these many covers, often said the band was a toss-up between All Time Low, Sleeping With Sirens, and Black Veil Brides. The band never really expected their fans to come up with something with that, let a lone how those are different genres anyways. People loved their unique sound which caught the eye of a record label who works with one of their many inspirations.
How the band started? The band started just a few months after Sam got out of rehab actually. Since him and his girlfriend Victoria lived in the same area, he rode down to her house at early morning hours on a Saturday during summer break to tell her his idea. When he got to her door he was jumping up and down due to excitement and his ADHD. She honestly thought he was on drugs again, so she thought his idea was crazy until he actually worked really hard on the band to just try to make it successful.
Who's in the band? Lead singer and plays guitar, bass, and piano, is, of course, Samuel, or just Sam. Most of the time he just sings, but does plays bass or guitar when needed. Lead guitar and back up vocals is Alex. The last guitarist is Troy, but he can also play violin really well, too. Then you have Jake on bass and then Ryland on drums. All of them grew up together in the south-east parts of Kentucky. When Sam and Victoria moved out near Lexington, so did the rest of the band. The other four members though, got different apartments. Alex and Jake got share one and so does Troy and Ryland. They all live in the same apartment building, with their apartments just doors away from each other. You'll learn more about the band members later on, now, let's go back to what's happening with Sam and Victoria.
Since the band now had around ten-thousand likes on their Facebook page, a label record company took notice of this new band. Not just any record label company either, but one that has one of their big inspirations working with, Black Veil Brides. It was just another regular day to Sam though. He was sitting in his and his fiancée's room checking his email on Yahoo. Then he came across that email from the company. He jumped up and grabbed his phone that was on charge, resting beside their bed. He dialed the number quickly and began talking to the man who had answered. As soon as the conversation was over, Sam screamed at the top of his lungs in his 'screamo' scream as he raced into the living room and picked up Victoria off from the couch holding her in a tight hug. To her annoyance, caused her to die as her favorite infected in her game, the Hunter. She let out a little 'aw' sound to where the person playing as Nick had killed her as a Hunter. She looked up to Sam's pale blue eyes giving him a pouty, confused look to why he did that. He sat her down and began explaining what had happened and the situation.
Later on that week, the man from the company had flew into Lexington to meet the band all the way from California. He had gotten the band together and watch them preform for him. He had to admit, the band had a lot of talent. As guests for deciding on whether he should sign the band and get them on tour, was Black Veil Brides. The band had come along to see if the band was good enough to be the headliners for their new tour. Black Veil Brides loved the band and was more than happy to take The Serpentines of The Ravaged as their headliners.
*Sam's POV*
I sat there in a black leather chair to the right of my couch, tapping my foot on the hard wood floor as my nerves was killing me. My head rested in my hand with my fingers in a ball, tugging slightly on my hair. I wasn't literally pulling my hair out, it was just a habit of mine. I looked over to my left to see my band mate, Alex, with long black hair kinda like mine. It was spiky in the back and on the right side of his head. His boyfriend, who was also in my band, Jake, was laying face first on his lap with the rest of his body laying on my other two band mates Troy and Ryland. Alex played with Jake's long brown hair, but it wasn't too long, just enough for it wave and curl at the ends.
I stood up and went to the extra bedroom, which was a really large room, that had all our band equipment in it. I checked to make sure everything was perfect. I had told the person who owned the apartment building that we was going to be noisy with our music today. At first he interjected to the activity, but I told him that if he lets us, he probably won't have to hear us again or have us in his apartments any longer. I checked my microphone to make sure it was still plugged in and working. I even did some warm up vocals to help me scream and do clean vocals better. I actually been screaming for a long time now. Just because I started a band three years ago doesn't mean I wasn't able to scream before than.
I walked into the living room and paced around the area just making sure everything looked perfect. I was trying to make the place as presentable as possible and make it as nice as possible. It wasn't much different than normal though since Victoria and I kept the place clean and tidy up all the time. I walked into the kitchen to see Victoria cooking. She smiled at me, I loved her smile. She was beautiful in every way possible and I don't see how I have her in my life or why she hasn't left me yet. She was wearing a white Mayday Parade tank top with a black one underneath, her heart locket on, dark blue ripped skinny jeans with holes around the thighs and knees, and black converse knee-high high tops. I reached behind her and wrapped my arms around her.
"Have I ever told you that, hmm, I love you?" I said as I kissed cheek and walked over to get a water bottle out the fridge.
"I love you, too." She stood on her toes and kissed my cheek. She was pretty short, probably around 5 foot 3 inches. I wasn't pretty tall for a guy either, but taller than her. I think I'm probably around 5 foot 10.
I walked back to the living room and sat back down in my previous seat, starting to play Legend of Zelda. After tired of playing that, I looked over towards my band mates and just looked at what they were doing to pass time. Alex had his emerald eyes locked on playing with the boy's brown hair, I only smirked at them two. Alex had pale skin like Victoria's, while Jake was tan. Alex had emerald colored eyes and Jake had blue. Alex wore a white I See Stars shirt with a black leather jacket and black skinny jeans with white and black checked vans. Jake had a white All Time Low shirt and blue skinny jeans with grey converse high tops. Alex sighed while he smiled down at his boyfriend. They been together probably longer than Toria and I, and that's been since we were 16 years old.
"Looks like you didn't straighten your hair today." Alex giggled at his boyfriend.
"I didn't feel like straightening it." Jake replied.
I looked over to Troy and Ryland playing Call of Duty. Troy had long dirty blonde hair with a light grey beanie on. He wore an Asking Alexandria top with black skinny jeans and dark grey vans. Ryland wore a dark purple and black plaid shirt and a pair of black skinny jeans, too, but with black high top converses. His jet black hair fell to the crook of his neck and was straightened to give it a fringed like effect. His hair was also like mine and Alex with it spiked up just a bit less spiky then ours though. With Alex the only pale person in the band, Troy and Ryland were also tan.
"What time do we have go meet them at the air port?" Ryland yawned. It was around 10:00am in the morning. Yeah, we had to get up this early.
"Around 12:00pm. I think." I said.
After passing the time for another 2 hours, Ryland and Alex offered to go meet the guy from the company to show where the apartment building is. I sat there in my chair with my legs crossed and pulling slightly at my fringe. Victoria sat on the couch with her chin resting in her hand, looking at me. I looked from underneath a part of fringe at her. Those bright ocean blue eyes looked back at me as she moved her blonde bangs out of her face. I looked deep into those bright eyes and searched for something, concern. I could tell she was worried about how nervous I was.
"Calm your nuts, Sam. Everything will be okay. You look like you are going to have a break down." Of course she had to make a smart-ass comment.
She smirked as she walked over and sat on my lap facing me. I closed my eyes as she lean down and kissed me sweetly. Good thing Jake and Troy were in the other room getting ready. Her index finger, with black finger nail polish coated on the nail, lifted my chin just a little. She broke the kiss and kissed me on the cheek. I smiled at her. She got off my lap and sat back down on the couch as a group of guys came through the door. My eyes widen at the sight of Black Veil Brides.
Victoria jumped up and ran to meet the band members. We met them at many meet and greets before. Alex went to go drag his boyfriend and our other guitarist out of the band room. Everyone stood there in a group talking to everyone, while I sat there and stared. Stared at who, you may ask, Andy Biersack. I don't know why I did, but I did. My face was blank with emotion as I sat there with my legs crossed on my black leather chair, and stared at him. Every time he glanced in my way I felt this warm, fuzzy like feeling. I don't know why, but this feeling seemed distant and confused to me, like I haven't felt this way in years. As he left the talking group, I watched him make his way to me. I felt my heart jump as soon he sat on the couch to my left. My heart pounding as he held his hand out for me too shake.
"Hi, I'm Andy Biersack." He smirked. Andy's deep raspy voice sent chills down my spine and caused me to have goosebumps. I took his hand in mine as I felt heat rise to my face. Was I blushing? I never blushed before. Maybe I was just starstruck. I had no idea what this feeling was or why I was feeling this, but it seemed, I don't know, right, I guess.
"Hi-i, I-I'm S-Sam Fi-ields." I managed to get out. Did I just stutter? I never stuttered before. Okay, seriously what is happening to me? I looked deep into his eyes. I got lost in his eyes for a few second until a voice brought me back to attention.
"So, Ashley, I heard you were a gay porn star before you joined Black Veil Brides." I snapped my head over to the source of the voice, of course, Victoria.
The whole room turned into an awkward silence. I sighed and got up and walked over to my fiancee. I picked her up and threw her over my shoulder. She doesn't weigh as much as a feather and plus I do work out often, but I'm not super muscular. People are surprised by strength since I'm very scrawny. I carried her to our room as she started squirming and beating me in the back. She started yelling and screeching until I sat her down on our bed. I kissed her on the lips as she ran her hands in my hair. I pulled away and ran out of the room before she could do anything and locked the door after I got out.
When I walked back into the room, everyone had taken a seat and stared at me. Andy was sitting in the same spot on the couch with his legs crossed and staring at me with a blank expression. I blushed at the stare and looked down at the hard wood floors. Ashley and CC were sitting with Andy, Alex held Jake in his lap on the love seat with Troy on the other side and Ryland on the arm rest. The company person I had talked to was sitting in the chair I was in before. Jake Pitts and Jinxx had some of the bean bags Victoria and I keep in the corner, laid out on the floor. I took a seat in one of the black bean bags, as everyone kept their eyes on me.
"Is that your sister? Plus, why did you lock her up in that bedroom?" Andy asked with his head titled to the side. I heard Troy and Ryland snicker and Alex and Jake chuckle at the question. I sent my band mates a glare before I looked back to Andy and turned into a stuttering fool with my heart attacking like it's in a NASCAR race.
"N-No, th-hat's my finacee. I thought s-she was being ru-ude, so I just put her in our r-room." I rubbed the back of my neck and ran a hand through my spiky, jet black hair. I looked down to the hard wood floor again with my fringe covering up half my face.
"Anyways," the man from the company got up and smirked. "I'm Chad. Black Veil Brides, meet The Serpentines of the Ravaged, or your possibly new headlining band." my eyes widen. My band being the headliners of this legendary band that I absolutely adore? Pinch me, kick me in the balls, anything evolving with pain, do it. Because, I need to know if I can feel it 'cause I think I am dreaming. "I had brought them along to help me decide if we should sign you guys up and to see if they like you guys. Now, if you don't mind, I hope you guys already have your stuff ready because I need to listen to you guys live to see if are good enough." we all nodded our heads in understanding. We got up and led them to our room with our band stuff.
I had already went back and got Tori out of our room. She tackled me as soon as I opened the door and started kissing my cheeks multiple times. I just sighed and helped her back on to her feet. Once we got back into the band room, I got my microphone and started jumping around. I drunk some water while everyone else was making sure everything was in place. I did a few warm up vocals. The Black Veil Brides group and Chad sat in the room and waited for us to start playing. I was really hyper right now and I was jumping all over the place, which I got in return a few shocked expressions that a little shy boy who was stuttering like an idiot turned into a hyper ball of sunshine. I don't know, it's just what music does to me. My band mates already knew this about me, I'm actually a really hyper person until I meet people who are new. I giggled at their expressions, then I started singing our own songs.
After our mini-show for the Black Veil Brides and Chad, they all came forth to us and told how much they loved it. I even got every Black Veil Brides phone number and a promise that we'll text. I signed the contracts for Chad as we all stayed in Victoria and I's living room talking about the tour. Black Veil Brides said they were more than happy to take us on tour for their headlining band. Chad even promised us a tour bus for our first tour! This is going to be really cool!
As I sat there on the couch by Andy I still couldn't help this weird feeling I was getting. This warm, fuzzy feeling in my chest with my heart racing 90mph, butterflies in my stomach. I honestly haven't felt this way since Victoria and I started dating, and that was when we were sixteen. I can't be falling for him because I love my precious White Kitten, my Toria. I proposed to her for a reason! Plus, I'm straight.
'Well, you don't know that. You never been with a guy.' My thoughts reminded me. True, but I never really thought about another guy like that. Plus, I'm pretty sure Andy is straight. I mean he is dating Juliet Simms, he has the tattoos to prove it! I put my head in both of hands and stared down at the floor. Everyone stopped talking and looked at me.
"Are you okay?" I heard that deep raspy voice from beside me. I felt his hand lightly sit on my shoulder.
"Y-Yeah, I-I'm fine." I stuttered and blushed. Good thing my hair covers some of my face.
The thing is, I'm partially fine. I'm so excited for tour and getting out there to live my dream, but with these new feelings, I think they are going to be a big problem for my love life, and possibly my career. I guess I won't know until this tour comes up. Maybe by then the questions like, 'Do I still love Victoria?', 'What are these new feelings?', and 'Am I even straight?'. Only one person can help me answer these questions, but I know some bad stuff will happen in the process if I asked them to go on the tour with me, but it looks like I have no choice.
Come along with Sam and Victoria, and the rest of The Serpentines, to find out the secrets, past, and future and past love-life. This is the tale of The Serpentine's Withered Rose.
`~*HEY READ THIS!*~`
Alright guys, this is a new story! I know I shouldn't be writing new stories when I have 3 already to work on, but, hey, I can't help it! I was inspired by a series called 'Punk Rox' by UnforseenUndeniable. I hope this story isn't copying theirs. Check that series out because it's awesome and I love it. You will see probably at the very end of the story why it is called 'The Serpentine's Withered Rose'. This story is NOT just going to have like one love triangle in it either. It will also NOT focus on just Sam's love-life. There will be a lot of different POV's, but it will be mostly Sam's, Victoria's, Andy's, and a special guest who is going to turn the story upside down, literally. You will literally have to turn your computer, whatever device you are reading this on, upside down. Well, enough with long Author's Note! READ, REVIEW, FAVORITE, BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH. Just do something to keep me wanting to keep writing cause I feel like this story will be epic. If I really don't get any response if people like it or hate it, I'll probably keep writing to get the story line out of my head but I probably wouldn't work as hard on it.
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