Dock not showing on left/right side of external monitor

First off, I have my external screen setup above my MacBook screen. When I set up the dock to show on the bottom of the screen, it does shows on the external screen when I move the cursor to the bottom of the external screen where my MacBook screen is not (if that makes sense, MacBook screen is smaller than external). However the dock disappears when I try to actually click on an icon. Because of this I tried to move the dock to the left of the screen but then it won't show up at all on the external screen. Same happens if I try to move the dock to the right side. The dock also doesn't show up on the ext screen if I turn off auto hide.