Detective Conan : We Still Continue

Chapter 13 : Back To Reallity

It has been about three months since everyone returned back to school. Things were going surprisingly smoothly. Ran and Shinichi didn't speak anymore. They would behave as if they didn't exist for each other. Of course this was quickly understood by all their classmates. Although there were a lot of rumors about this issue, soon they had been forgotten. Ran continued to be, probably became even more frightening since she was devoted entirely to coaching in karate, but she wasn't concerned with her homework. Sonoko forced her to come to her house to get help from her home tutor, so she won't go to school completely undone. And thank God she was doing just fine! And the teachers had no complaints and the work was delivered. She even managed to become the student president of the school mostly due to the impeccable behavior and acceptance by the students.

On the other hand, Shinichi stopped dealing anymore with police matters. He turned his attention to other interests such as... Nothing. He stopped doing anything, he was rarely going to school and instead he was going to Heiji's school for fun.

Time passed peacefully until one day Ran found in the mailbox of her house a folder without sender. This contained a letter that was written on a computer and it was analyzing some events not known to Ran, some events in Hawaii. First of all the fact that Kazuha and Heiji were together, they had slept together and that Sonoko knew from the beginning. Also in the folder there were pictures of Heiji and Kazuha kissing in the yard of the hospital and holding hands towards Heiji's room at the hospital. She couldn't believe it in her eyes, so she decided to invite them both to her house to see if all those were true. The two girls as soon as they heard and saw the photos lost their color. After some time of silence Sonoko stood up and looked into the eyes of her girlfriend.

"It's all my fault. I said to Kazuha to not tell you anything about all these because I thought that you were going to make up at the club with Shinichi. That is and the reason that I paid the boys to be with us at the table, so Shinichi hopefully got jealous-"

"Wait Wait... wait ", said Ran even more angry, "you sent them to attack us?"

"Yes –I MEAN NO! Wait... listen to me!"

"I DO NOT WANT TO HEAR ANYTHING! LEAVE! NOW!!"

"Ran-Chan-" Kazuha tried to calm her down.

"Don't touch me! How could you Kazuha? How?"

"Sorry, I -"

"No, don't be sorry... no regrets. Just disappear... both of you..."

Both girls left with a heavy heart. Ran cried for the rest of the day, and so them. The next few days that followed were very tough. Sonoko was trying to approach Ran but with no success. Kazuha was trying to call Ran constantly but she wouldn't answer. The situation worsened as time passed. Sonoko was alone in the school so she decided to change schools and asked her parents to send her to a school for rich kids. Kazuha was also desperate. She felt guilty for what she had done with Heiji then on the island so she stopped seeing him and distended him at school, which hurt her even more. At the end she stopped eating and going out of the house only to collapse a few days later and fell into a coma.

Heiji when he learned it, he felt like he lost the ground beneath his feet. He knew what had happened but couldn't digest Ran's behavior. They were friends for so long and because of this they stopped talking. But he couldn't do anything now. The only thing he could do was tp speak to the girl he loved and try to revive her somehow. The doctor said that her situation is one way. She might come back only when she wants it. For this, Heiji was asked to speak to her every day, maybe something from what he says would make her wake up.

Shinichi knew that he was to blame for everything. He knew that Heiji accused him and consider him as the culprit for all this, but never admit it and never talked about this topic in front of him.