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Weird, Nightly Escapades

Moving was hard work, Adrien found. Sweaty work as well. After getting a bachelor's degree in physics Adrien had finally moved back to Paris and into his own apartment. It was a small apartment that only had one main room with a small bedroom and bathroom connected to it, but it would soon smell like cheese and Adrien finally felt at home for once in his life.

Adrien threw off his sweaty shirt and turned on the shower. From the other side of the wall he could hear another tenant's shower turning on with some music playing in the background. Adrien dismissed this useless information and pulled the rest of his clothes off and stepped into the shower.

Showers always made Adrien feel calm. That was a bad thing in his teenage years because of his job as Chat Noir and Adrien. He had to use the excuse of taking a shower too many times in front of his companion. Ladybug probably still thought, to this day, that he lived in the shower. Adrien admitted silently to himself that it was sadly very true.

As the water poured off of his body Adrien's ears picked up on the music that had been turned louder in the bathroom through the wall. Adrien recognized the song as the beginning of "Just Give Me a Reason" by P!nk and Nate Ruess. Adrien was familiar with the song and knew most of the words and always enjoyed the American song when it came on the radio.

Adrien was surprised by a girl's voice that started singing along with the song. She had a very pretty voice, and her pitch was perfect for the song. He squirted a palm sized amount of shampoo onto his hand and he soothingly rubbed it through his scalp. The song had reached the chorus and Adrien once again marveled at her voice. Adrien was so entranced that he started to sing along. "I'm sorry I don't understand where all of this is coming from. I thought that we were fine."

The girl's voice faltered and a blush erupted in Adrien's cheek as he realized what he was doing. He was about to stop and apologize profusely but her weak voice joined his when the background vocalist joined in.

"Yeah this is happening."

Adrien's stopped singing for just a second in surprise. She's not angry about this! Why is she not angry about this?! WHY IS SHE SINGING ALONG! WHAT AM I DOING? Adrien thought to himself, yet he ignored his thoughts as he started to sing again. The lyrics went on and they quickly became comfortable enough to sing together at the same time in a harmony. Right before they entered the chorus Adrien continued to think how crazy he was to be singing in the shower with a stranger. How is she not turning off her music to go and call the police? The girl on the other side was singing with a small voice so far, but she shocked Adrien when she suddenly belted out the words to the chorus, giving him strength to continue.

"Just give me a reason, just a little bit's enough. Just a second, we're not broken just bent, and we can learn to love again!" Adrien faced his shower head, enjoying the beat of the water on his head and the effect the drums had on his body. "It's still written in the scars on my heart."

"We're not broken, just bent, and we can learn to love again." Their voices raised a few notes to reach the bridge successfully and they both grinned to themselves triumphantly.

"Give our tear ducts a rest!" She cried.

"I'll fix it for us," Adrien replied.

"We're collecting dust, but our love's enough!"

"You're holding it in."

"You're pouring a drink!"

"Oh nothing is as bad as it seems." As the partner to the song, Adrien helped the song reach its climax by slowly gaining volume and lengthening his words. The woman in the other bathroom took the bait and let her voice reach a new height with so much emotion Adrien's blood shivered.

"We'll come clean!" she sang at the top of her voice. Adrien wondered if this song meant anything to her. He found that when he had an emotional connection to the song he was able to sing everything perfectly according to the mood of the song. Nevertheless the song continued.

With a much more staccato rhythm the two repeated the chorus again and again until the end of the song. Adrien washed out the rest of his conditioner, but wanted to wait until the end of the song to turn off the shower.

"We're not broken just bent and we can learn to love again." The girl sung the last words and they stood there in their showers listening to the last chords of the song. Once it had ended her stereo apparently had no other songs to play, and silence just spread between the two bodies and the thin wall.

Realizing that they could be standing there for several minutes if no one did anything, Adrien decided to speak up. "Uhh...you have a really nice singing voice," Adrien stuttered.

"Umm, thanks?" came her voice. Her voice sounded like small waves lapping against the shore, soothingly. Another awkward silence grew between them, and Adrien again felt compelled to fix it.

"I'm really starting to realize how weird and creepy this is, but I really didn't mean any harm by this. I just kind of liked your song choice."

"I see," she said uneasily. She turned her water off, and Adrien heard her get out and grab a towel. "Well, it was nice meeting you, new neighbor, but, uhh...I really need to get ready and...stuff."

Adrien turned off his shower as well and felt his hand go to the back of his neck nervously as he grabbed for his towel. "Yes, of course. I'll leave you alone." For several minutes the only sound that could be heard was the silent scraping of different utensils being picked up and put down.

"Oh, I forgot to mention that you have a nice, uh, singing voice as well," the girl stumbled over her words and Adrien laughed a little.

"Thank you. Do you think I could make a career out of it?" Adrien asked jokingly. The girl replied in the same manner, easily.

"Ha! I said you were good, but not that good." Adrien could feel her smile grow. "How about me?"

"I think you could make a go at it, but I don't think you'd get very far in a competition," Adrien replied honestly, sort of. In his true opinion he had only heard one voice better than the girl's, and that had been his mother's.

"Gee, thanks for the compliment," she said sarcastically. Adrien shrugged.

"Only returning the favor." They both laughed at that.

Both of them finished up their business in the bathroom, and Adrien heard her open her door.

"Thanks for the interesting shower, neighbor, but I need to get to bed," she called. Adrien checked the time on his watch and realized it was almost ten. He needed to get to bed too.

"Same," he replied. An idea popped into his head. "Hey, not to be a creep, but when do you usually get ready in the morning? I'm sort of interested to learn about what music you listen to." There was a pause of silence on her side, but she spoke up before Adrien could back pedal.

"I'm in the bathroom with my music from around six to seven-ish every morning. And FYI, I expect to listen to your music every once in a while as well."

Adrien smiled. "But a simple request for a wonderful reward."

Hey Readers. I was stupid and uploaded another chapter story. I am very bad. I rarely finish anything, and the school year is coming up fast, so I probably will update this story every month or so. Hope you like it so far! The idea came from a tumblr post from the url awful-aus where he/she asked for an AU about two people that have showers on opposite sides of the same apartment wall singing duets. Thank you so much for the prompt! It would be awesome if you guys gave me ideas on the songs you would like to see, so just shoot me a comment. Thank you for reading, it means a lot to me. Please comment, favorite, or follow if you wish. Until I write again, TTFN!