Now to resolve the cliffhanger! Ran gets a little more daring, too.

Chapter Fifteen

Apparently, some guy had gotten up the nerve to grope a girl, but the girl's boyfriend was currently taking care of the groper, physically.

The counselors all sympathized with the girl, and the groper was sent home, and the boyfriend got off with no punishment.

Ran was glad it hadn't been a murder. She turned back to continue the conversation, but suddenly, the new Camp Director told everyone it was time for the last day of camp.

Ran didn't get any more chances to ask more questions. They played field games that morning, and Shinichi always paired up with her, and they weren't around any of the others. Shiho sat out of all the pairing stuff, and it was funny watching Sonoko and Kenta try to get along. During the sack race, there were two people per sack, and Kenta took up almost all of their sack. So Sonoko was really PO'd. It was the same during the three-legged race, too.

Then came the relay races. Sonoko wasn't athletic, and Kenta was fat and slow to begin with, so they came in last every time. Shinichi and Ran came in first, as Shinichi played soccer and Ran took karate. Mayumi and Mikihiko were average.

During some of the later games, people quit pairing up, and it was every man for himself. Dodge Ball was funny, as Shinichi kept getting called out for kicking the balls. Then they played the 'Balance an Egg in a Spoon' game, where everyone failed miserably.

Ran had been trying to get near Shiho all morning, without success. She knew there was an easy way to determine if Shinichi were Conan, and Shiho was Ai. Ai hadn't ever warmed up to her, and Ran knew that if Shiho acted the same way, then they were likely the same person.

She knew Kenta and Genta were the same, as they liked unagi a lot, and were both fat and had small ten-yen sized bald spots.

She was pretty sure Mayumi was Ayumi, too. She didn't have any direct proof, but that lip-syncing she'd noticed keyed her in on the fact that Shinichi was afraid she might spill something, and Mayumi had been afraid, too.

Mikihiko was probably Mitsuhiko, but she had no proof of that yet. But instead of trying to rat him out, she decided to skip him and go straight to Shiho.

Shiho was doing pretty well at balancing her spoon on her nose, which was the current event. Ran went up next to her and said, "You're pretty good Miyano-san!"

Shiho didn't even look at her. Ran said, "Have you had a lot of practice?"

"Not really. I've just really good at hand-eye coordination. I'm also good at balancing stuff evenly."

"You're good at balancing?"

"Somewhat, Mouri-san. My passion is chemistry, and I've had a lot of practice with balancing the chemicals."

"You've had a lot of practice with chemicals? In high school?" Ran asked, confused.

"Actually, I graduated high school years ago. I've already graduated college, too."

Ran was shocked. She had been sure that Shiho was Ai, but this knowledge completely threw that theory out. But Ran realized that it might just be a cover story.

"If you know chemistry, then surely you'd know the chemical formula for acetate," said Ran, determined to show up Shiho.

"The formula for acetate is CH3COO. It can also be known as C2H3O2," said Shiho, as if it was the simplest thing in the world.

Ran was not to be perturbed. She remembered her chemistry classes and said, "If someone were to say AlCl3, what would you call it?"

"Aluminum chloride."

"What about KCN?"

"Potassium cyanide."

"CH4?"

"Methane."

Ran was shocked. Shiho had gotten them all on the nose, even the one about the organic molecules, which was, for Ran, a very hard part of the nomenclature unit.

Shiho smirked. "Done interrogating me now, Mouri-san?"

"Actually, I have one more question. Non-chemistry related."

"What?"

"…What's your cell phone number?"

During lunch, Ran made an excuse to sneak away from everyone to check out Shiho's number. She had Ai's cell number in her phone already, as she'd stolen Conan's phone in the past to get it, so it was an easy way to check. She compared the numbers. They were a perfect match. Ran now realized how to corner 'Shinichi' once and for all.

HA! Shinichi is BUSTED! How's he going to get out of this one? Next up is Shinichi vs. Ran!

Note: The whole chemistry stuff is correct, as I'm taking chemistry now in school, and I had the textbook in front of me. However, I can't correctly write the subscripts, and they appear as large numbers and not small ones. An example: H20=water. That's what I mean. So try not to get confused.