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CHAPTER 2
" Do you know what it's like to cry, Shiho?"
Shiho remembered looking up at her mother. " No." she said.
Her mother smiled.
" It's when you feel pain," her mother said, a strangely bitter smile on her face. " When you feel anguish and pain."
Shiho raised her eyebrows. " Pain?" she asked coolly. " And what's that?"
Her mother opened her mouth to say something, but shut it once more. " Never mind." She said. " Never mind."
" Miss Miyano? Miss Miyano?"
Shiho looked up, noticing a young boy propping a book up to her face. She rubbed her tired head and nodded at him. " Yeah?' she asked.
He raised his eyebrows.
" Er. . ." he said uneasily. " You told me to meet you."
She looked at him for a moment before nodding and clicked her tongue. " Oh yeah." She said. " Your last assessment was the lowest in class. It was disastrous I must say, and your class is already bad enough."
The boy blinked. " How so?"
" You couldn't even tell the difference between a molecule and an atom, the most basic of the basic for your age. I know kids at your age are naturally stupid, but you're fifteen, so please just grow up."
The kid bit his lip and nodded, most likely to run off to cry in some toilet, no doubt. Shiho watched him go before walking towards the recess hall, ready for lunch. She nodded as three schoolgirls said good morning to her, and walked on, reaching the teacher's table, where she was greeted.
" Hey, Miss Miyano!" one of them said cheerfully, patting the seat next to her. She said nothing and sat down, propping her chin on her wrist, sighing. The other teachers looked at each other and shrugged.
" Did any of you hear about the 3B class incident?" one of them said.
" Yeah." Said another, letting out a belch. " One of the students beat up the other to almost beyond recognition. What was the reason again?"
" The boy insulted his father." One of them said.
" That's just nasty." One of them said.
Shiho blinked.
" When you feel anguish and pain."
" The same thing happened with him, I suppose." She muttered to herself.
" Huh?" one of them asked.
" Nothing." She said.
Tears were flowing down his face.
" I love her." He burst out. " I love her so damn much. But-why doesn't she love me back?"
Just then, Shinichi, Ran and Sonoko walked past, laughing. She blinked. ' He's simply wearing a mask.' She thought. ' Just hiding his true feelings away from everyone around him.'
She got up, and walked towards her classroom.
The other teachers looked at each other and shrugged.
" That's one weird ass woman." One woman said.
" Yeah." A male teacher said. " She's lucky she's hot."
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" We are studying molecules at the moment, and I would like to touch up on the subject on fire." She said, writing on the whiteboard lightly. "The first thing I would like to hit on is the point of drenching a fire with water. Water pouring over a burning log rapidly removes heat from the places where combustion occurs. This lowers the temperature below the activation point at which combustion takes places. Does anybody not get this? This is third-grade stuff."
They all nodded mutely.
" Fantastic." She said. " Since that's pancakes, I would like to ask an almost seemingly totally different question. Can I have a logical explanation of what happens when ice melts?"
Nobody answered, their eyes immediately avoiding hers. She rolled her eyes. For one, she hated teaching people who were seventeen, just close to her age. If there was anything that she hated more, it was teaching people who were just close to her age and couldn't even answer the simplest of questions.
If there was a thing that she hated most, it was teaching people who were just close to her age, couldn't answer the simplest of questions, and didn't want to try to answer the question. Then again, she wouldn't like it if they spoke rubbish either. She also wouldn't like it if they got the answer and thought they were smart just because of that. She hated a lot of people.
That's why she was so hated around.
But she didn't mind that.
Not too much, to say the least.
" You." She snapped, pointing in Shinichi's direction, and he jumped.
" Me?" he squeaked meekly.
" Yes." Shiho said curtly, glaring straight at him. He knew the answer; this was kid's stuff. He was about to tell her the answer when Shiho gave him the fastest wink in history. His eyes widened.
Then he got it.
He smirked inwardly.
" I don't know." He said loudly, just as Ran was about to whisper the answer to him.
Shiho smirked. " Well well well," she said, " A High School Detective and not knowing the scientific reason for ice melting. The standards of the police force really HAVE dropped."
Laughs erupted from the class and Shinichi blushed.
" Sit down." She said to him. " I will see you after class. The reason is that when salt is added to ice water, sodium and chloride separate, resulting in ions that attach to the water molecules. The ions break the intermolecular forces holding water molecules together, causing the molecules to break away from the ice crystals and the ice to melt. The energy, or heat, needed to break the intermolecular forces, called the heat of fusion, is drawn from the surrounding water. Can anyone continue this?"
Silence.
" Perhaps Detective Kudo Shinichi knows?" she said slyly and the class laughed once again. Although anger and embarrassment filled him, a small smile filled his face. The class was having fun. She wasn't as cold as she seemed. Nobody was.
" When salt is added to the ice water, it takes 20 calories of heat per…?" she said, nodding at Sonoko, who had raised her hand.
" 1 gram of solution." Sonoko answered.
" Correct." Shiho said. " 1 gram of solution to dissolve the salt. To melt 1 gram of ice, an additional…?"
" 80 calories of heat." Shiho finished, nodding. " Are needed and drawn from the surrounding water, keeping the solution liquid and dropping its…?"
She smirked at Shinichi.
" Let me give you a clue." She said, earning giggles here and there.
" It starts with a ' freezing', and ends with a ' point'."
The class roared with laughter.
She looked at her watch.
" Alright," she said. " Class dismissed. Everyone except Kudo Shinichi may leave."
The class, all laughing, went out of the class.
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" She isn't so stone cold after all."
" That was great, wasn't it?"
" Hot AND funny!"
" Looks like I won't fail after all."
Shinichi sulked at her as she waved goodbye to all the students before shutting the doors. " You didn't have to make me look THAT bad." He said.
She smirked.
" It worked, didn't it?" she said.
He grunted and sighed.
" You were smart, I have to say." She said, nodding. " No wonder they call you a detective, just by one wink alone you were knew what I meant. Impressive."
" An honor." He said sarcastically. Then his expression softened.
" But. . .thanks for being there for me last night." He said.
She blinked.
Then she smiled.
" Hey, that's what a teacher's here for." She said.
He grinned, then scratched his cheek uncomfortably.
" You. . .you wanted to speak to me?" he asked.
" Ah," she said, her expression brightening. " That."
She stood up, clicking her tongue. " You said that you wanted to get her back right?"
He blinked.
" Who?" he asked.
" Oh, wake up." She snapped. " Mouri, that girl."
" Oh." He blushed. " Her. Yeah I do, why?"
" I could help you if you want." She said. " I happen to be a girl."
He stayed silent.
" Yeah." He said, after she said nothing.
" So I could help you out. How to do what, when to do what, where to do what."
His eyes widened.
" Really?" he asked.
She smirked.
" Really. You want to?"
" Hell yeah!" he said excitedly. " When do we start?"
" Every Friday." She said, turning around. " Unless you have something on. . .,"
" Nothing!" he almost squealed. " Nothing! Nothing!"
Shiho lifted her hand up to her cheek, wiping away the spit Shinichi had sprayed on her face. " Sorry." He said sheepishly.
" No bother." She said, turning around.
It was a short while when she turned around, noticing Shinichi observing her.
" Yes?" she asked curtly.
He bit his lip. " This might be a rather personal question," he started, and when he didn't see her do anything to stop him, he went on. " I just wanted to ask you. . ., have you always been this cold and quiet?"
Shiho would have slapped him if she didn't know him better. She just stoned out there for a moment, trying to find something inside herself to answer his question. But there wasn't. " I guess I'll tell you that next time." She said silently. Shinichi didn't like this answer by her very much, but decided not to delve too deep inside it. She started to make her way out to the door.
" Why are you helping me?" he blurted out.
She paused before turning around.
" You really DO ask a lot of questions." She said.
" I'm a detective, after all." He said, grinning.
She didn't return it.
" I'll see you tomorrow, Kudo-kun." She said and shut the door behind her.
He scratched his head.
" What did I do wrong?" he asked.
She took a deep breath before making her way to her car.
" Why are you helping me?"
She fingered in her purse for the car key.
She let out a small smirk from her lips.
" Why are you helping me?"
To tell the truth, she herself didn't know the answer to that question either.
END OF CHAPTER 2
Hey, I'm really enjoying writing this story. Did you all enjoy reading it? I hope you did. School's been really stressing me out lately, that I doubt that I can finish my other chapters on time. ' Haibara's Confession's newest chapter's coming out soon. Please be ready for it. Thank you. Please read and review this chapter! Thank you all very much, those who both read AND reviewed!