"Excuse me, I'm here to clean your room." Shinichi hears the light knock on the door "Ack wait a minute!" he says changing out of his pajamas in record time. After he's changed he opens the door to see a brown haired blue eyed girl who was around his age. He cocks his head slightly at the girl in the maids outfit "Are you new?" The girl nods "Yes sir, but I'll do my best to fit in here." She says bowing slightly. He smiles and pats her head "Fitting ins no fun though, just be you." She nods "yes sir!" He opens the door for her to pull in her cleaning cart. "What's your name?" he asks sitting back on his bed as she begins to dust. "Ran," She answers. "I'm Shinichi; you can call me that when it's just us ok?" Ran blushes shaking her head "I couldn't! It's against the rules!" He smiles "Those are my parents rules these are my rules." Ran sighs, "Alright Shinichi-san." Shinichi shakes his head "Wrong, just Shinichi." In a quiet voice she says "Ok Shinichi."

A short silence follows as he watches her dust his bookshelf "Why are you working here? Most people who've worked here were in their late forties at the least." Ran's eyes sadden slightly "My father, I need to support him and myself. He's a P.I. but he hasn't had the best luck lately." Shinichi nods understanding "Are you going to live here?" She nods "I'm two bedrooms down from yours." He smiles and winks at her "I'll remember that." Ran blushes and mumbles some things flustered. Shinichi laughs lightly "You're kinda cute, your boyfriend's a lucky guy." As soon as he realizes what he just said his face becomes a dark scarlet as he looks down "I-I mean-" "I don't have a boyfriend." She says softly. "Oh" he says "Why not?" He watches her slim shoulders shrug "No one's ever asked me." She blushes slightly "Do you have a girlfriend?" Shinichi shakes his head "I don't like the type of girls that I'm around they're all so stuck up. I like girls who are well..." he blushes and looking every, but at her "like you." He mumbles. Ran freezes and blushes "L-like me?" He nods blushing "You seem so down to earth and nice and just different then the girls I'm constantly around. I want to get to know you Ran." Ran blushes darker and stops cleaning and takes a hesitant step toward him. She smiles and nods "ok."

Shinichi looks down "Am I doing this right?" he asks giving her a sheepish grin "I've never really wanted to get to know a girl like this." Ran blushes "Are you asking me out?" He chuckles "I guess I am." Ran looks down "I might get fired if we start dating." He smiles and lightly taps her nose with his index finger "I won't let that happen." Ran blushes softly and smiles at him giving him small nod. He gently wraps a warm hand around her wrist and presses a small kiss to her forehead. He watches as scarlet slowly blooms on her cheeks. "Let's not tell my parents yet though, ok? Let them start to like you a little more first." Shinichi says slipping his hand into hers. Ran smiles feeling a slow warmth in the pit of her stomach from the slight touch. "Ok Shinichi."

She fidgets slightly "I don't know if this is too personal, but h-how many girlfriends have you had before." He shrugs "I've never really had a girlfriend, but my parents made me go out with some girls before. By make I mean saying we're going out to dinner and when we get there there's some stuck up rich girl in a cocktail dress." Ran smiles and shyly says "Sorry I just want to make sure you really like me." He gives her hand tight squeeze "I do." He says blue eyes burning into her. Ran blushes "I kinda like you too." Shinichi smiles "I'm glad to hear that."

Ran shakes her head and slowly pulls her hand back "I still have work to do." He nods understanding "Ok er go do what you do then" he says with a small smile. Ran nods and looks around the room "Where do you keep your dirty laundry?" He blushes shaking his head "No. I'm letting my girlfriend do my laundry." Ran raises an eyebrow putting a hand on her hip "Oh so I'm your girlfriend ne?" He blushes "N-no I mean y-yes I..." Ran giggles and kisses his cheek "it's fine." She spots the laundry basket and picks it up setting it on her cart. "Ran…" He protests. She smiles "Yes Shinichi you pronounced my name perfectly." He lets out a quite laugh as he watches her push the cart out of the room "You're really something Ran" he laughs shaking his head.

Dinner time…

Ran slowly sets the three full plates onto the table and smiles proudly at her work, but she then faces a new problem, how to get everyone to the table. Ran bites her lip and glances at the stairs before making her decision. She scurries up the stairs and hesitates as she stands in front of Shinichi's door. She closes her eyes and gently taps her knuckles against the wooden door. She hears some rustling from inside the room before the door finally opens. "Yeah Ran?" he asks looking at her seeing the cooking apron with a couple fresh stains and her hair now pulled back in a neat ponytail. He smiles "You just finished dinner and don't know how to get everyone downstairs, right?" Ran blinks surprised "How'd you-?" He winks at her "I'm a detective. It's what I do." Ran's eyes widen "You're a detective?" He nods taking her hand "I'll tell you more later." He looks up and yells "Mom Dad dinner's ready!" Shinichi pulls her downs to the kitchen. Ran smiles "Thank you." Shinichi smiles back and slips a hand behind her head gently pulling her ponytail out "I hope you don't mind, but I like your hair down." Ran blushes as her chocolate locks fall down her back. He smiles and leans in to kiss her forehead when they hear the light footsteps on the stairs. They quickly move away from each other, Shinichi sitting in a chair and Ran standing at the end of the table nervously playing with her apron. Yukiko and Yusaku step into the kitchen sitting down at the table.

"Ran-chan this looks delicious!" Yukiko says. Ran smiles shyly "Thank you Mrs." Shinichi takes a bite and smiles at her "Tastes even better though. Good job Ran." He says smiling happily at her. Ran looks down flustered "T-Thank you Shinichi-san." She bows slightly "I'll be in the kitchen please call if you need anything." She says walking quickly into the kitchen to hide her blush. Shinichi just laughs softly smiling to himself. "What was that Shin-chan?" Yukiko asks smirking lightly. "Ah nothing." He replies blushing. Yukiko changes the subject to one of Shinichi's least favorite topics; arranged marriage. "Shin-chan a friend of mine has a wonderful daughter maybe you should consider having a relationship with her." "No thanks" he mumbles looking down and absent mindedly playing with his food. "Shin-chan you should really be considering marriage now. There are a lot of nice girls at the school." "I already have a girl I like" Shinichi says a light blush on his cheeks. Yukiko's eyes widen "Who?" Shinichi doesn't answer and stands up picking up his plate "I'm going to eat in the kitchen with Ran." He says walking through the door to the kitchen.

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This idea crossed my mind and I needed to get it typed out, so I decided to publish it. This story will mostly consist of Ran trying to fit into a higher class then she is and Shinichi and Ran hiding their relationship. Anyway, random idea; please let me know if you like it!

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