Shoutouts to nataeiy1, you'll have to see the ending for yourself!(grin); Miyano Ran for checking up on my mistakes; AiEdogawaIsaBellaCullen, alexzhou04,and everyone else who read and reviewed.
Disclaimers: I do not, could not, and will not ever own DC (sigh), great, I'm depressed now!
Chapter 3
I regained consciousness, feeling like someone had continuously pounded my head with a hammer while I was asleep. And the effort of trying to sit up only resulted in my crashing down again, blinded with the immense headache. I had almost forgotten what I was doing there, until the dizziness finally subsided enough for me to sit up and notice that the floor seemed much farther away than usual. Rushing to the mirror, I stared at my eighteen year old self, hardly daring to believe it.
It worked! I laughed out loud, just to hear my grownup voice again.
The clock hanging on the wall read 11:30. I'd been out for two hours. So she must be back too, by now.
"Haibara!" I called, knocking. "We're back! I can't believe we're back!"
Through the door I heard her swear.
"I know, the headache is awful." I turned the doorknob.
"Kudo Shinichi, don't you dare come in!" she yelled suddenly before I could push the door open. "You come in and 'll make sure you die a slow and painful death!"
I let go of the doorknob, knowing that she doesn't make idle threats. "Why, what's wrong?"
"I..." The volume of her voice took a sudden drop. "I... forgot that I have nothing to wear..."
"Oh...er... hold on..." Rushing back to my room, I grabbed one of my school shirts. "Here, put this on for now, then we'll find something... I remember mom has some clothes she left here in..."
"The closet in the spare bedroom next to the master bedroom, second drawer." she finished as the door opened by a crack and her hand came out to take the shirt from me.
"How do you know?" I asked, taken aback.
"We searched this place several times, Kudo-kun." she said. "Figures you'd give me something almost translucent..." she added, the sarcasm back in her voice.
I rolled my eyes. "Like I would want to see anything." I retorted.
The door opened, and Ai emerged, wearing a 'say anything and you die' expression on her face.
My jaws dropped. I instantly take that back.
Wait. I did NOT just think that.
My shirt was a couple sizes to big for her, so it hung loosely to just above her knees, displaying the creamy skin of her slender legs. Her face no longer had the childish features, and she was just... wow... Is this really her? Not that she wasn't pretty before, it's just that the uncertain way she held herself now doesn't seem like the Haibara Ai I knew for so long.
"It's nice to see you speechless for once but if you're done staring, you should know that it's snowing outside and I'm freezing." she said, crossing her arms.
Yep, it's her alright.
"Right... sorry..."
So we went off in search of the clothes mom had left.
"Urgh, does she own anything that's not lace or a v-neck?" Shiho complained with obvious disdain, holding a black lace teddy at arm's length.
"Don't thrust that thing at me!" I yelped in horror, "Don't you think that it bothers me too? She's my mother!"
At last we found a periwinkle blue nightgown that she reluctantly accepted.
"I'm going back to my room then," I said as she left to change.
I picked up the book dad sent me a week ago, flipped to the page I marked down, and sat down on the bed to read. Briefly I glanced at my cell phone, and had to stop myself from picking it up and calling Ran, to tell her that I'm back, to hear her yell at me again, to tell her that I'm sorry for making her worry.
It's midnight, she'll karate-kick you, The voice in my head cautioned.
The door opened. "What's with that dazed look? Thinking about your girlfriend?" A taunting voice said. I looked up to see Shiho with a smirk on her face.
"What do you want?"
"Mind if I use your computer?"
"Go ahead." I said grumpily. "What do you need it for?"
"Research."
"What research? You're done with the antidote."
"I do more than analyze APTX in my spare time, Kudo-kun." she said by a way of answering, with an offhand shrug.
It'd be so nice to get a straight answer now and then, but it's obvious that it won't happen.
"What are you typing?" I asked, craning my neck to look over her shoulders. She turned the monitor off.
"None of your business."
"Fine, I don't want to know anyways." I said, turning back to my book.
...
...
Silence, except for her typing and the occasional turn of a page from me.
...
"What is it?" I blurted finally.
"I thought you didn't want to know."
"Haibara!"
She smirked. "Yes?"
"Fine!" I switched of the lamp on my bedside table. "I'm going to bed."
She shrugged, and resumed typing.
Great, the first day she's here and she's already driving me crazy.
A/N: pls r&r!! I'll be updating soon!
