Note: First time I am writing, apologies on the grammatical errors.

It's been 6 months that Shinichi came back from his case. The BO was finally vanquished and the truth eventually came out. The most difficult task for him was to tell Ran the truth and he knows that he needs to do lots of amendments towards her, otherwise he will lose her. After lots of fights, silence, cries they both have put their differences behind them and embark in a new chapter of their lives. Everything was going good or someone was imagining it was ok.

The bell rang and four teenagers were on the way to the library. It was one of the day that a long haired girl was in a deep reflection in her thoughts. She actually wanted to go alone to the library, in order to be alone with herself and her thoughts but unfortunately it seems that's not going to happen. After learning the truth, getting betrayed by someone whom she admired a lot and really love, she wanted a few moments sometimes to be all by herself. It's not that she did not had time to process whatever happened with Shinichi. In fact she had processed it, she even accepted it but there is one thing which is bugging her and she was feeling a deep melancholy whenever she's thinking about it. After today's philosophy class, she could not get it off her mind and she badly wanted to run away to understand those feelings, to make peace that sudden thoughts that kept repeating in her mind. It was silly actually she told to herself, all that we talked during the lecture was trust, capability, strengths, ability, truth, 'how come these words could have triggered her to feel so much of pain in her heart. She was feeling frustrated, sadness and the urge to cry but she could not as she did not want anyone to know these emotions she's feeling right now. So she was waiting patiently when the class will be over so that she can ran and go somewhere on her own. She already rehearsed it mentally in her head, she will go to the library for few minutes just to ditch Shinichi, Sonoko and probably Sera and try to understand these emotions. So when the bell rang, she took her bag quickly but suddenly a hand halted her from taking another step and she knew very well who was it.

"oi, Where are you going so quickly?"

"I am going to the library, I have few things to do. So, bye."

"Oi, oi, wait for me" – he blurted a bit too loud and it has dragged the attention of the other two friends.

Sera: "Why are you in a hurry Ran-kun?" – Ran released a deep breath and answered her – "I am just going to library"

Sonoko: "Oh then let's go to the library and do some homework then, I do have some hours to kill"

Ran answered her with a tight lip smile – "okay"

This whole scene did not go unnoticed from the eyes of the detective.

So heading to the library Shinichi was stealing glances from Ran to read her facial expressions and trying to know what is happening but he could not. He could not read her expressions, her eyes were cold, her face was straight, she was giving the same expression when he told her about Conan fiasco. This gave him a bad sensation in his stomach and he did not want anything bad to happen between him and Ran. He continue to trail behind the three and told to himself later he will ask Ran to come to the mansion and discuss about it if she wants to.

In the library there were some other students engrossed in whatever activity they were doing. Ran dropped her bag on the chair, took off her jacket and loosen her tie. She took her hairband and tie her hair in a ponytail. She excused herself and went to check the book she wanted to use for her homework. These quick actions of her went in a flash and the three could only stare at her back heading towards the bookshelf. Shinichi felt a shiver running down his spine just like the time when he told Ran about the Conan fiasco, also he realized than Ran was running away from him again. He set his bag next to hers, took off his jacket and trying to calm his thoughts. He does not want another terrible situation to happen which will make Ran leave him forever. He cannot let this happen, whatever this is, he will fix it but first he needs to know what is the issue first.