Summary: Things Emma Swan loves about her new apartment: the water stains, the chipping paint, the cabinets that are falling off the hinges, and the radiator that makes an ungodly hissing noise.Things Emma Swan does not love about her new apartment: she can hear and smell everything going on in the apartment below her… And 7B just happens to be a smoker… CS Neighbors AU/One-Shot
Word Count: 2,704
Based on a real thing that happened to me.
Emma Swan loved her new apartment.
She’d finally been able to move herself and her son out of subsidized housing after years of working her ass off as a bail bonds(wo)man. She’d recently brought in a guy who was skipping on child support (there was a special spot in hell for people who did that), and had been generously rewarded by his ex-wife. She just happened to be the heiress of the TGI Friday’s empire.
Her place was not perfect by any means. The radiator made a horrible hissing noise, the ceiling had water damage, and when she sat on the toilet her knees touched the wall, but it had two bedrooms and a gorgeous bay window. Henry loved the fact that he had his own space, and she loved seeing her son so happy. So not perfect, but pretty damn close.
Except for one minor detail…
The building had clearly been made so as to save as much money as possible and all the air vents seemed to be connected. Which meant that they could hear and smell everything coming from the apartment directly below them very clearly. She’d learned that 7B was a very good cook, watched TV very late at night, was British, and liked to engage in screaming matches over the phone (unless he was screaming at himself, which wouldn’t surprise her after everything she’d seen in this life).
He was also a smoker.
7B
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