In Shelter

Chapter2

Hi Everyone I am soooo sorry for not writing the chapter but I was so busy. My Dad doesn't let me on the PC at his house so I only use it at my mom's. And I was busy so because I am fasting in Ramadan and going to loads of people's houses for "Breakfast" as we call it at dinner time because it's the first meal we eat in the day…..

Oh great now I'm just blabbing… Well anyway thanks for the reviews!

Ai looked at Jodei, unable to parse on what she just said. Both of them along with Ayumi, Mitsuhiko, Genta and Conan were in the living room of the mansion the FBI managed to get them. Protection was all over the boundary and the police station was only a mile away. There were also bodyguards to go everywhere with them, even to a simple visit to the park. Now Jodei made a suggestion that seemed quite unreasonable to Ai. She was hoping to write a novel under a pseudonym about the Organization and she needed time for that. Jodei just made a suggestion that was going to cut her time even more.

"School?" Ayumi asked. Jodei nodded. "You still need to go to school because your kids and it would be suspicious for the kid adults not to go too." Jodei said.

Ai groaned. Jodei gave her an encouraging smile. "Don't worry about it sweetie. It's fun being an honorary student in America. We all know you know that mostly."

"I do know but well…" Ai said and then looked to her feet then Conan. "I was a loner in the schools in the US" she explained.

"Because you were in the grasp of the organization" Conan said as he grasped her hand.

"Anyway" Mitsuhiko said quickly to avoid seeing a romance scene. "We might make new friends!" Ayumi said. "That's right" Genta said.

Conan looked at the three. "Fine, we'll join, though I always hated eighth grade most." He said.

"yup eighth grade is the worst" Ai agreed. And the five laughed along with Jodei.

When they were done laughing Ai turned serious. "Even so we could tutor the kids and home school them ourselves"

Genta nudged her but meant to nudge Mitsuhiko. She heard him whisper to him "I heard that America has a lot of pretty girls. We will meet a lot of girls if we go to school"

Ai glared at him to show she heard. He went quiet immediately. Conan who was on her side her still grasping her hand grinned and saw Ai's dangerous glare on him. Jealousy completely creeping her face, though she was mocking it. She had her complete trust in him and knew he wouldn't care about 13 year old little girls when he was 23. He grinned and whispered in English "I like his nerve". Ai shook her head disbelievingly. "boys" She muttered and faced Jodei who was watching all this wide eyed but grinned hugely. Perhaps she remembered what it was to be young, Ai thought.

"I don't see that you have spare time to tutor kids" She said. Conan smirked. "She's right you know. We still want to go check out some sights together in a couple of days and you also want to write your novel. You don't have time to plan lessons. And teaching eighth graders is annoying anyway. They are in the early teenager age that makes them messed up completely by one word out of line. And they will think themselves "Misunderstood" the whole time" he said.

Jodei nodded. It seemed she was overruled so she finally caved in and nodded. She wanted to keep a close eye on the kids at the same time.

"Fine. I'll go but on one condition. If I feel like it I skip school with Shinchi" She said. Conan gave her a look that showed he clearly didn't understand why. She just winked. Conan understood completely and grinned to himself. Fortunately the kids didn't understand. But Jodei made a huge smug grin that meant she understood. She left them at that.

Ai looked at Ayumi. "Come on. We're going to the mall."

Ayumi seemed startled but immediately smiled and ran to the bedroom that she shared with Ai.

"Why do you want to go to the mall now?" Conan asked suspiciously. Ai gave him the "like seriously?" look. "I want to go shopping. I saw a pretty mini dress and I've been craving it for a while." She said.

"When did you start to act so girly?" Mitsuhiko asked.

Ai raised an eyebrow. "I'm not a tomboy guys. Every female is entitled to act girly or am I not female to you?" She asked.

Conan grinned. "I wouldn't ever think you weren't"

Ai gave him a "like duh" look. "Well of course you would see me female. You gain from that to your advantage" She said forgetting that they were in kids' presence because she gazed into Conan's eyes.

"What do you mean by that?" Genta asked. "Do you mean something … dirty?"

Ai's eyes widened. She glared at Genta. "No. I didn't mean anything except that we are dating. That's what he gains" She lied. She looked at Conan to plainly tell him that was not what it meant. Conan was showing a huge grin. He left the room quickly, perhaps to hide his slight blush of pleasure from Ai's words.

At the mall both Ai and Ayumi picked different clothes and assorted accessories and even laughed at each other tried on different hats. They both acted like normal 13 year olds, though Ayumi knew that Ai was 23- she only wanted to be normal today.

Soon they were in a café and drinking cappuccinos. Ayumi was looking longingly at the cosmetics shop that held a poster for some fabulous mascara that Ai had kept looking at but she resisted the urge to buy it because she was worried about Ayumi getting jealous.

"Please buy it and let me use it sometimes" Ayumi pleaded. "You want it too. I know you do. I've known you too long"

Ai gave Ayumi a real smile. It was true. There was no kidding the fact that Ayumi really did know her now. She was her gal pal even if she was ten years older. She never knew so until Ayumi said so and it actually hit her so abruptly. Ayumi was her closest friend ever. She should let her get away with some things…

"Fine. We'll buy it" Ai finally said.

Minutes later they were in the cosmetics shop and found themselves enchanted by the other makeup. Ai hadn't put much of that stuff in the past when she was in an older body. She was too busy with the Organization. She looked around the shop and realized that she wanted to be a teenage girl too. She had the body. All she needed was attitude.

Conan knocked on Ai's door. Giggling…and then "who is it?"

"The love of your life"

"Come in."

Conan opened the door to find two teenage girls putting nail polish on each other's toenails. Their fingers were already gleaming with a dark pinkish color along with glitter on a few nails and a heart nail stickers on a few others. He also noticed that Ayumi had makeup on, for her eyelashes were longer and thicker, the eye shadow on her eyelids was an extra light shade of pink. Her lips were light pink as well and her cheeks had the tiniest hint of blush, but either from excitement or powder Conan didn't know. He looked at his girlfriend.

His heart nearly gave failure.

She looked amazing with a light amount of makeup as well. Mitsuhiko and Genta had told him when he was away that the girls had done something like that before when they were seven. Now that they were thirteen it looked better on them with their older faces. Conan saw the thick and long eyelashes, her light pink eyelids, her delicious looking pink lips that Conan had always enjoyed kissing, her blush which may either be from embarrasses from his hungry look as he gazed at her or a nice light shade of powder- he wasn't that sure either.

Ai coughed to bring him back to the universe. He then saw the blush slightly fading and realized that she had been blushing. Ayumi didn't look fazed at all. She wasn't even jealous anymore from her childish crush on him. She knew he was really an adult but Conan was glad that she looked older. He felt like he was a father and his daughter had just been noticed that she was a teenager. Ai was the mother for sure though he wondered how Ai let Ayumi put makeup on. And perhaps maybe she remembered some long lost moment with her older sister Akemi when she might have put some makeup on her too.

Conan smiled at them. They smiled back, though each smile was different in meaning.

"Vermouth made fettuccini Alfredo. Come on down" he said .He smiled at Ai in a goofy way. "And please keep your makeup on Sweetie" and he left with Ayumi's mouth wide open.

"He is sooo romantic with you" Ayumi said after he left. Ai smiled. "One of the reasons why I love him."

After dinner Conan entered Ai's room without knocking. Ai was clearing away the makeup supplies. She still had the makeup on.

Conan closed the door swiftly behind him. Ai distinctively heard Ayumi talking to Ran. She moved quickly toward him. "Kiss me quick before Ayumi-Chan comes" she said.

And Conan kissed her like there was never a first. He loved the taste of her lips, especially with lipstick on them. She made her kisses stronger than ever as though she needed his kiss to survive, but in Ai's mind that was true. She would never be able to live without his wonderful lips.

"Come with me tomorrow evening after school on a date." He whispered after letting go.

"I would love to go anywhere with you" Ai whispered. Conan knew by experience that Ai got all gushy and romantic after making out with him. He had wondered when he might one day sleep with Ai. Maybe when he proposed to her she would see that he was in forever so that she could trust him even more.

The door suddenly opened and interrupted their kissing. The magic stopped. Ayumi was standing there wide eyed at the pair of them.

Ai heated up. Conan smiled awkwardly. "Goodnight Love. Goodnight kiddo"

He was out of the room at that minute. Ayumi slowly got into her bed. She yawned.

"Great Alfredo right?" Ayumi asked as she rubbed her own tummy. She was obviously trying to change the subject in their minds. "Yup. I didn't know Viney could cook so well" Ai replied as she lied down in her bed.

She had made fun of Vermouth's last name Vineyard and began calling her Viney.

She closed her eyes and saw Conan kissing her. She loved her feeling. She felt that she wanted to be with Conan forever. She wished he would propose to her already. She was already thinking about sharing a bed with him every day.

She then slipped to sleep imagining her wedding with him.

Hey everyone! Again I wanted to thank everyone for their reviews. Keep reviewing! Bye everyone!