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The wedding reception was, as receptions go, a bit odd. First off, fewer people came to the reception than to the actual wedding. But mainly, it was unusual due to the fact that it was held almost a month after the wedding itself.
For this strange occurrence we may lay blame on a good friend of the groom's who had been unable to attend the wedding. Yup, Kudo Shinichi had epically failed to show up at Professor Agasa's wedding. Not that the good professor minded that much, seeing as Shinichi's, er...situation was the was the way it was, but he had promised to make it to the reception. The thing that bothered him was that Shinichi had mentioned that he would be bringing someone with him. And Mouri Ran had replied separately.
Agasa was concerned about Shinichi. He had disappeared, as well as his infamous alias Conan, a week before the wedding. Haibara had vanished as well. There had been no news of the two of them until three days ago, when they simultaneously replied to the invitations via e-mail. Both of them were bringing 'plus ones'.
Agasa had decided against telling Ran that Shinichi was coming. If Shinichi wanted the girl to know, he would've told her. It was probably meant to be a surprise for her anyway. But still… Agasa Hiroshi was uneasy about the whole business. It was shaping up to be an interesting weekend.
Mouri Ran arrived at Ryestin Hall an hour before the start of the reception. She was looking forward to seeing Heiji and Kazuha, who would be coming despite the fact that they weren't very close to the Agasas. Besides, she really liked Fusae, the professor's wife, and wanted a chance to talk to her before she got mobbed by other guests and fans. She was, after all, a famous purse designer.
But deep down, Ran knew it was because she hoped Shinichi would be there. Shinichi, who had not been at the wedding of one of his parents' best friends. Shinichi, who hadn't talked to her in a month. Shinichi, who had broken her heart so many times. She missed him even more now that Conan had moved back to the States. Ran had never truly abandoned the fantasy that Conan was Shinichi. She had come up with all sorts of crazy theories trying to justify the idea. Maybe he had been shrunken after an alien abduction. Maybe he had accidentally drunk one of Agasa's weird potions and pretended to be Conan because he was too embarrassed to admit it. Or maybe he was poisoned by a secret crime ring who he hid from as Conan when he didn't die. Or perhaps he was just an ordinary kid who looked a little too much like little Shinichi for his own good.
Ran sighed. She needed to wake up and smell the coffee. Conan was gone, and he certainly wasn't Shinichi, because people don't just randomly shrink.
Or do they? A little voice in the back of her head whispered. She told it to shut up.
"Hey, you'd better hurry up or we'll be late!" a young woman with long curly black hair shouted at a teenage boy. He was fixing his tie in the mirror while trying to tame his gravity defying-mane into something semi-presentable. The boy was actually more of a young man, probably around 17 or 18 years old. His female companion's face appeared beside his own in the mirror.
"Give up on your hair. Yes, you still look like a rooster, but there's nothing you can do about it. We've already tried everything. Now, come on, we'll be late to the wedding." She said this all very quickly, but her friend understood.
"Wedding reception." He corrected.
"Same thing." She snorted. Kudo Shinichi smiled. He had grown accustomed to her flippant way of speech.
"What about Hai and Risu?"
"They'll be coming later. We're leaving early so we don't get lost."
"You mean so we aren't late when we do get lost…"
Shinichi's friend blushed, making her look very pretty indeed. "Oh, shut up." He laughed at her embarrassment as they walked out the door.