AN: If no one else will write the SonoSera content that I crave, then I'll just have to do it myself. I will fight a man about this pairing, send all challengers my way let's go.

Sweet as Strawberry

Characters: Sera Masumi, Sonoko Suzuki

Summary: A visit to a newly opened ice cream parlor brings an exchange of ice cream flavors.

"It's a shame that Ran couldn't make it." Letting a disappointed sigh escape from her hips, Sonoko cast her eyes towards the bright pink color of her ice cream cone, a stark contrast against the otherwise white decor of the new ice cream parlor. It had been her plan to invited both Ran and Sera to it that Sunday, having heard good things about it from her classmates- but only the latter had shown up.

"It's not quite the same without her." Sera noted, taking a bite out of her dark chocolate ice cream, opting for a more practical cup. She'd never had any luck with ice cream cones. Her childhood was filled with dropped scoops of ice cream, when she just didn't outright drop her entire cone on the ground. It was usually one of her older brothers to the rescue in such circumstances, silently handing their own ice cream to their little sister, who wasn't the type to cry- but was nevertheless obviously quite upset.

"Well, maybe she just wanted to give the two of us a chance to be alone?" Sonoko lightly teasing, a mischievous grin crossing her face. Her words were meant to be a joke, of course, but she didn't always have many chances for alone time with Sera Masumi, who had quickly become a close friend of hers since she'd transferred to her school. "She's always been the thoughtful type like that."

"Maybe so." Sera replied simply, matching Sonoko's playful grin with a coy look of her own. "Well, I do hope Conan-kun gets to feeling better soon. Does he catch colds a lot?"

"What, that brat?" Sonoko asked, heaving a long sigh. "Yeah, all the time." She told her, carefully giving her ice cream cone a quick lick, not wanting it to melt all over her. Nothing was more unpleasant than sticky, ice cream coated hands, she thought to herself- but if one was going to an ice cream parlor, one had to have an ice cream cone!

That was how normal girls did it, right? Well, Sera was having her ice cream in a cup, but she was far from a normal girl, so she thought that she probably wasn't too off the mark. Ran, she thought to herself, would have also gotten an ice cream cone.

"Sounds tough." Sera said, taking a bite out of her ice cream. "Maybe we should swing by Ran-chan's place a little bit later, and see how they're doing."

"We could bring them a carton of ice cream!" Sonoko perked up, glancing behind her. "See, they've got some over there."

"Oh, you're right." Sera noted. "What flavors do they like?"

"Well, I don't know about the brat, but Ran's pretty fond of vanilla, if I recall correctly." Sonoko noted, taking a small bite out of her own cone, savoring the strawberry flavor. There was something about this obviously artificial flavor that she just couldn't get enough of!

"The opposite of me, then." Sera noted, holding her plastic spoon up slightly in the air. "Want a bite of mine, Sonoko-chan?"

"Oh, don't mind if I do, Sera-chan!" Sonoko said, quickly taking the girl up on the offer, taking the bite that had been offered to her. "Mm, not bad. Want a bite of mine, Sera-chan?"

"Don't mind if I do." Sera said, leaning over to take a quick lick of Sonoko's own cone. "Not bad. You were right, Sonoko-chan. The ice cream here is pretty good. Maybe I should have gotten a strawberry myself."

"Right?" Sonoko asked, flashing her a quick grin as she took another small bite out of her ice cream. "We really should bring some back for Ran. I feel sorry for her, stuck looking after that brat."

"Well, I wouldn't go so far as calling Conan-kun a brat myself." Sera said, frowning slightly, before blinking. "Ah, you've got something on your cheek."

"My cheek?" Sonoko asked, grabbing a napkin and quickly dabbing at it. "Did I get it?"

"It's on your other cheek. Here, let me get it." Sera told her, leaning close across the table- before a sly grin crossed her face, and she quickly licked up the strawberry ice cream that stained Sonoko's cheek with her tongue, grinning from ear to ear as she watched the other girl turn a bright shade of red.

Licking her lips and savoring the strawberry flavor, Sera couldn't help but find the slightly flustered reaction of the girl across from her rather cute. "I got it for you, Sonoko-chan."

"Sera-chan..." Sonoko finally spoke up, putting a hand on her cheek. "If you wanted to steal a kiss, you missed my lips."

At the bark of laughter that Sera let out, Sonoko couldn't help but grin. "Oh, by the way, Sera-chan." She began, a mischievous look surfacing in her eyes. "You've got something on your face as well. Let me get that for you."

This time, Sonoko missed her cheek entirely, instead planting a quick kiss on the lips of the other girl, a faint taste of chocolate on them lingering behind even as she pulled away. "Don't worry, I got it."

More than a little caught off guard at having her own move turned around against her, Sera couldn't help but cast a slightly amused grin back Sonoko's way. "You missed my cheeks."

"Who said anything about your cheeks, Sera-chan~?"