Chapter 1: Love
The sun was slowly setting and bathing the town of Beika in its last golden rays, enlightening the bold letters on the window glass, which read "Detective agency". However, the marvelous view was ruined by the girl on the couch, burying her face in a pillow, occasionally whimpering a small sob in the otherwise silent room.
She used to like these small moments, when she was alone at home and had time for her own small thoughts and troubles, searching for the simple answers on her mostly simple questions, like how she could bring her parents back together. Most of the time, these little plans wouldn't work out and only end in another quarrel between the still married, but physically separated couple. It always made her feel like she failed to meet her parents' expectation and it would usually fall to either Sonoko or Shinichi to cheer her up.
When Shinichi suddenly vanished and only periodically called to catch up on her life, while he kept completely shut about his own, Sonoko had to comfort Ran now even more. But even then, these lonely evenings where not something Ran despised. Despite her worries over her childhood friend and her parents, which started to pill themselves up, she still enjoyed these hours of solitude.
The moment when the soothing tranquillity changed to suffocating and overwhelming muteness was after she discover her new feelings for the boy. Despite all her efforts, she still couldn't pinpoint the moment in which her affection changed to the worse. If she would take a guess it would fall on the moment he openly declared his limitless love to her. At that time however, it sounded to her so innocent and natural that she didn't think much about it, but her mind nonetheless seemed to not only accept but even to return those prohibited sentiments. After this crucial moments her piece of mind was replaced by an utter chaos, revolving around their newly formed relationship.
At first, she vigorously rejected those small scenes her mind showed her in her dreams, but eventually it turned from defiance to consideration to painful awareness.
She could no longer deny these genuine feelings of love, she last felt for the now absent detective and that thought alone lets her drown in an ocean of grief, shame and disgust every time her brain reminds her of it.
"It is just wrong! Completely wrong!", she told herself again and again. "Besides he would never understand this!" But all her resistance, which she held up with an iron will, always reminding herself of moral and social norms, were slowly rusting away under the constant doubt she found herself having.
"What if it's true after all? What if he really does love me in the same way I do love him?"
Thoughts like that always started to rise from the depths of her mind when she had all her time for herself. Neither the TV, nor her homework, nor any book she could find in Shinichi's library could stop the images from appearing. Only the small boy, who currently had a slept over at Hakase's, or her dad, who was out playing mah-jong and drinking, who required her full attention, could effectively prevent her mind from torturing Ran with these forbidden images.
But at times like this she had no one to keep her busy. She had no choice but to listen to the whispering voices in her head, who promised her all the love and affection her innocent teen-self wanted.
In moments like these she again and again realized the horrible truth.
She was in love
In love with Conan.
This is the first chapter of my first fan-fiction, so I apologize for any spellings and grammar mistakes. Neither is English my native language nor am I especially gifted when it comes to writing.
As always all right go to Gosho Aoyama, the original creator of the Detective Conan Universe.
For those of you who are anxious about how this story will develop, I can guarantee you that the closest sexual contact will be a normal kiss.
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I hope you liked it so far and are thrilled for more.
Farewell