doppelgänger

bex

^scout

The next day, Scout and Bex had decided to have a girl's day at home while they sent the guys out to do whatever they wanted. It was an excuse to bond, and for Scout to teach Bex some things about what it was like to be a mother -- but Bex was also hoping she could just talk to her mother - figure and maybe just get some advice on life, since she knew Scout had been through a lot as well.

Bex had a rough background and life at home all her years of life before. She remembered being close with her father, until her parents had divorced and he moved away, making the military his life. Her mother remarried, and Bex now had a really annoying, evil five-year-old little half-brother named Sunny, who was five.

She liked her stepfather, Christian, and he treated her well, much like she was his own daughter. She and her mother, on the other hand, didn't get along so well.

Bex also had a twin brother, Brendon, and an older sister who was twenty, Kitty. She was close with them, probably the people she was closest with besides Dennis. But at the moment, Kitty was away at college, and Brendon was busy with school and homework most of the time.

Often she would think about her dad, and wondered if he was still even okay. Had he even tried to contact she and her siblings at all in the past years, or had he just.... given up?

Surely he couldn't have given up. They were his kids, he cared about them too much.

As she sat at the table with Scout as she painted her nails, she was quiet, until she thought of something.

"Scout? Have you ever thought of having another baby?"

Scout smiled a little, as if she'd definitely thought of it before, plenty of times. "Yeah, I've thought about it. And I know Andy's thought about it, but he thinks now it would be weird because then we would have a baby younger than our grandson."

Bex laughed with her. "Yeah. That would be a little weird."

They were quiet again, both girls just thinking, until Bex spoke up with something she's been wanting to say for a long time.

"Scout, I just have been wanting to say -- thank you so much. Thank you, and Andy, for being my second parents and for always being there for me and Dennis."

Scout smiled. "Of course, Bex. Thank you for being an awesome daughter and for always being there for our son." She gave her an appreciative smile. "Come here," she said, holding her arms out towards Bex.

And as Bex collapsed into her "mother's" warm, welcoming embrace, that's when she knew she belonged there for sure, right in the comfort of the Biersack family's home.