Notes: Ai may be slightly OOC, but you'll have to deal xD I seriously don't think the kids would believe Conan & Ai even if they did tell them the truth! Thus the fic was spawned.
Worse
"No, we're not going to play house, mom!" Ayumi said angrily, crossing her arms as she and the detective boys headed up to her room. When they entered it, she frowned. "My mom wants me to play house or with dolls. What does she think? I'm not a little kid anymore." She pouted.
Conan sweat-dropped. Ayumi was a little kid. If anyone had the right to complain about being treated like a child, it was Conan.
"My mom does the same thing! No sweets after six. She thinks they'll keep me awake. I'm already eight years old!" Genta whined.
Mitsuhiko nodded. "My mother never lets me watch scary movies. We've seen scary things on investigations, though!"
The Detective Boys seemed a little depressed now. A lone chuckle reached everyone's ears.
"It could be worse." Ai said darkly. "You could be an adult shrunken into the size of a child by an evil organization who is constantly trying to find you and murder you because you invented the very poison that is now protecting your life." She whispered and the kids exchanged glances. "You could be aided only be a lovesick, depressing detective with a Sherlock Holmes obsession and an incompetent inventor. Your entire families could be dead because of that organization."
Conan's eyes widened. What was she doing?! Hey, he wasn't depressing. Usually.
"Ai-chan tells the best stories!" Ayumi said, glomping Ai. "You're right, that would be pretty bad."
"That's from a comic, isn't it?" Mitsuhiko asked, trying to remember everything Ai had mentioned.
Genta snorted. "That could never happen, though! Right?"
Ayumi nodded. "That would be so weird!" She glanced at Conan. Well...he did seem oddly smart...but stuff like that only happened in books and movies! It couldn't be real. Besides, Ran would have already noticed something big like that, right?
"Yeah, seems silly!" Conan said, chuckling nervously.
Mitsuhiko nodded. "Seems impossible on a scientific level."
Ai smiled. "Right, it's from an old movie. It is pretty scary to think about, huh?"
The entire group seemed deep in thought.
"Cookies!" Ayumi's mother called after a full minute. She baked occasionally and the kids loved feasting on her home-baked goods.
Ayumi, Genta and Mitsuhiko exchanged excited glances and ran downstairs.
Ai followed them casually, looking back to make sure Conan was following.
He hated being treated like a kid...
...but Ayumi's mother did bake good cookies.