I have so many thoughts in my head that I need to get out of my head.
The light from street lights striped by into the dark car as Adrien and Natalie were driven back to Agreste Manor by Gorilla, or so Adrien liked to call him. Natalie was going over Adrien's schedule for tomorrow to which he was half listening, "Make sure you get straight to bed because you have an interview at 4 am tomorrow for the morning radio."
"What's that about again?" asked Adrien already knowing he was going to be tired tomorrow night.
"Working in the industry as a teenager," Natalie answered as the car came to a stop.
"List of things I can't say?" asked Adrien as he got out of the car and started walking into the front door.
"It's in the email I received yesterday, I'll print it off and you can read it on the way over," Natalie walked him to the staircase.
"Is my alarm set?" asked Adrien.
"For 3 am," Natalie confirmed, Adrien turned and glared at her, "You are not mad at me you are mad at the timing, but I will bring you breakfast tomorrow."
"What kind of breakfast?" Adrien squinted.
"A bagel with cream cheese," Natalie answered.
"And orange juice?" asked Adrien.
"No organic, sugar orange juice," Natalie replied before turning and walking down the hall.
"Thank you!" Adrien called after her.
A few hours later Adrien's alarm went off and he stumbled into the bathroom with Plagg floating after him, "It's so early, why do we have to wake up?"
"You're going to sleep in my bag the whole time, why are you complaining?" asked Adrien as he gets to his bathroom, turns the light on, and screamed.
"Sweet cheese and cookies, what happened to your face," Plagg didn't laugh he was actually very concerned.
Adrien stared at his face in the mirror which was completely broken out, not a bit of his face was it's normal color, all varying degrees of pink and angry red, "Plagg, my shoot yesterday was for a male facemask, Natalie!"
"Woah wait, calm down," Plagg tried before Adrien's door swung open and he had to hide.
"Oh my goodness, your face!" Natalie took Adrien's face into her hands like a mother would.
"Natalie we need to cancel that colab I did yesterday," Adrien pulled his assistants cold hands from his face.
"Adrien we need to take you to the doctor," Natalie explained, "Change your clothes and brush your teeth, and come downstairs I'm going to call some doctors, your breakfast is on the table."
Adrien sat at the table eating his fattening breakfast and was actually pretty happy all things considering and Plagg sat in his shirt pocket, "What are you going to do about school?"
"I think it's fine, no one knows who the shoot was with and no one really takes pictures of me at school, I could always put some makeup on too," Adrien shrugged, "Plus it's a radio interview, they just have to not ask and no one will know."
Natalie walked in with her clip board, "We'll head to the doctor right after the interview and they already know not to ask."
"See?" Adrien whispered to Plagg as soon as Natalie was out the door.
Adrien sat in the doctors office on the medical table as Natalie sat in the chair, they sat in a comfortable silence like they often did, "Then then the nurse came in and started typing on the computer, "Alright Adrien we're just going to ask you a few questions then the doctor will come in and look at your skin."
"Okay," Adrien nodded smiling politely.
"Are you taking any medication?" asked the nurse.
"No," Adrien answered.
"Have you tried a new face product in the last 24 hours?"
"Yes."
"Do you regularly wash your face?"
"Yes."
"Do you take any medication?"
"No."
"Are you still practicing abstinence?"
Adrien looked confused and spoke very slowly, "Abstinence?"
"Yes he is, and will be for a long time," Natalie answered.
"Okay, not sexually active," the nurse mumbled as she typed making Adrien shift uncomfortably. There was a knock at the door and the doctor came in smiling brightly, "Adrien, this is your doctor she is going to examine you."
The doctor checked Adrien's face with an overhead light then his chest and back mumbling things to the nurse who was entering the data into the computer, "Are you oppose to putting him on an antibiotic?"
"Is his skin infected?" asked Natalie.
"I'm afraid so, but a week of antibiotics should completely heal the break out and his normal skincare routine should be fine for him," the doctor explained.
"Alright, so he can go to school and everything?" asked Natalie.
"Yes but he can't be in direct sunlight," the doctor added.
While Natalie arranged for his medication to be picked up Adrien picked up his phone and saw he has a missed text from Nino asking why he wasn't in school to which Adrien responded, 'I'm at the doctor because my face looks like something out of a horror movie.'
I have severe acne and I see a doctor about it quite often and I did forget what the word abstinence meant and my mom had to answer for me and I feel like that is what would happen to Adrien. I honestly don't know if they ask guys about this in dermatology appointments because I'm sure the reason is related to birth control which is sometimes used to help with acne (not in my case) but maybe they do. Here's this chapter, if you want to see Adrien go to school with his reaction let me know because I have kind of a plan for that but it's not in progress.