The Test Subject : A Detective Conan Fanfiction

42 I Don't Know What To Call This Chapter

♪ Happy birthday to me! happy birthday to me! happy birthday to meeeeeee, happy birthday to me! ♪

Hello melons, and welcome back! Fate (AKA my Nana) was so nice to give me inspiration for my birthday, and so I give you and all my other melons the gift of an extra-long chapter.

The song above (No, not the "Happy birthday song" I sang to myself) is called "Always be happy". I don't know Japanese, but it's cute and I love it. Nothing to do with the story. I just wanted it there. If you prefer English songs, there is a dubbed version on Youtube. Go look it up. ENJOY!!!

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Ellie's POV

It's been almost a week since I last saw Rory. I haven't really left the house at all. I don't go wandering around town, watching people. I don't go looking for Conan and the Detective Boys. I don't go out to eat. And I definitely won't even look in the direction of the gas station or the bakery. But that won't stop me from thinking about them.

Almost every day, despite me trying to pretend I'm not home, the Detective Boys will drop by and try to lure me out of the shadows. It never works. Today was no different.

Like always, all the curtains were closed to hide me and the light was off. I had moved my hammock inside because of these kids and their yelling, and always had the "door" barricaded in case they tried to get in again like they did at first, but it seems they finally gave up with that. Zi zi is sitting on my lap while I polish off the carton the ice cream they had gifted me in the last visit. Even after I've been so mean... It's impossible to not hate these kids...

"Helloooooooooo Ellieeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!" Ayumi called up to me. "Ready to come out?!"

"What's the point? Did Conan even tell you why I do this yet?"

"Well, not really..." Mitsuhiko answered. "He says he wants you to tell us in your own time. We were hoping today maybe you could - "

I cut him off. "Until you know you'll never understand and even then I doubt you would. It's better you don't know. Unless Conan thinks your ready for this kind of drama..."

"See what I mean?! She won't budge!!" Complained Genta. This got my attention. All three of them know I won't come out, so who would he be complaining to? Did they bring a friend? Well, Haibara and Agasa also know, and there would be no reason for it to be a classmate... who else could it be?

All of them gasped in surprise as a floorboard creaked from my walking.

"She got up!! She's moving!! She's out of the hammock!!" They all cried.

I removed the curtain just enough so one eye could see out. "Is it really that big of a deal?"

"Yes!! You haven't moved in ages!!" To them, maybe, but when they're gone I move around the room a ton, so... I shrugged it off.

I looked down at each of their innocent smiling faces, inwardly groaning. "So, who is this guest with you today? You never brought anyone before." I scanned the area around them, but saw no one new. Must be under the tree, out of my eye site. Or I was wrong.

I was about to return to my hammock to mope some more but stopped before I could even close the curtains a voice stopped me.

"I'm sorry."

I looked down. "What's there for you to be sorry about?" I asked Ran, who was still hidden.

"Well, Conan did tell me what happened." The Detective Boys went berserk soon after, trying to pry the information out of her. She ignored them best she could. "And I'm sorry for not believing you. About your friend."