By: sweetestdisposition (orphan_account)
2015-04-24
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Summary:
From the prompt on Tumblr: So we've never met but our showers are on opposite sides of the same apartment wall so sometimes we're showering at the same time and we sing duets
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Living in an apartment complex meant interaction with tenants, whether it is unwanted or not. Lauren learned that sometimes, one doesn't even need to know or see another tenant to interact.
It started when she had just gotten home from a long day of work and she was aching for a warm soothing shower. It was natural for her to sing in there as well, so the first song that popped into mind was from the movie she watched over the weekend with her sister, Taylor.
I can show you the world
Shining, shimmering, splendid
Tell me, princess, now when did
You last let your heart decide?
I can open your eyes
Take you wonder by wonder
Over, sideways and under
On a magic carpet ride
A whole new world
A new fantastic point of view
No one to tell us no
Or where to go
Or say we're only dreaming
(It seemed childish to her that she was singing Aladdin, but he's cute so sue her for singing a Disney song.) Just as she took a breath to start singing Jasmine's verse, a raspy voice called out from the opposite side of her shower wall.
A whole new world
A dazzling place I never knew
But when I'm way up here
It's crystal clear
that now I'm in a whole new world with you
Naturally, Lauren was shocked. So shocked that the only thing the raspy voice's owner heard was the water running through the pipes. After a moment of silence the raspy voice called out expectantly.
"Um, Aladdin, your part's next."
Lauren doesn't know what compels her to reply.
"I know."
"So, uh, are you gonna sing it...or?"
"Um. I guess."
Now I'm in a whole new world...
When Lauren was lying in bed that night, she found it odd. Odd that she continued to sing, odd that she had a conversation with the mystery woman adjacent to her apartment and sang a duet (or two) with her, nonetheless.
But she finds it in herself that she enjoyed it and wouldn't mind for another encounter like that.
~.~.~
The next day when she was taking a shower, a part of her wished that the woman would once again join her for a duet but only to be disappointed. However, later on when she walked passed her bathroom to go her bedroom, she heard the same raspy voice echo faintly against her shower tub.
Lauren realizes that the voice was arriving the tail end of her verse.
Gotta do what's best for me
You'll be ok...
I've got to move on and be who I am
I just don't belong here
I hope you understand
We might find our place in this
World someday
But at least for now
I gotta go my own way
