Going Through the Motions - Chocolate

He sighed, wiping a hand across his forehead, shirt sticky with sweat. He was currently sitting on the windowsill, letting the slightly mild breeze ruffle his bangs. The sun was setting, painting the sky fiery red and orange, crickets were chirping in the tall grasses around the house. The last few days had been hot. Too hot for Shinichi's liking. The air-cooler (which had been a device from the professor) had broken that afternoon. So presently, they were stuck in the sweltering house (albeit being it a bit less hot than outside). Now that the wind began to blow a bit (finally!), Shinichi had settled himself on the windowsill, craving the cooling. Despite his grumbling about the heat, the sky amidst the setting sun was a beautiful sight.

He turned and grabbed a cookie from the box, which was standing next to his bottle of water (that also contained ice cubes!). But— he scowled when he found the chocolate layer immediately melt under his fingertips. Leaving them sticky and it gave him no other choice than to lick them clean (he so did not want to get up and get a paper towel, it was just too hot for that, and why had he not thought about the chocolate melting in this weather? Geez...).

"Well, you look happy. What's with that gloomy face."

Haibara had come up next to him, leaning on the windowsill, nursing a mug which Shinichi assumed was coffee. He shrugged, giving her an annoyed look. "I can't even eat a damn cookie in this weather." At that, she raised an eyebrow. Haibara took a sip of her mug. "It's chocolate. It generally has a melting point around 30 degrees Celcius."

He glowered, even more, annoyed now. "I know that!" And now it was Haibara's turn to shrug. And she pushed back from the windowsill, empty mug in one hand, taking a cookie with the other, leaving one particularly sweaty and disgruntled detective behind sitting on the windowsill.

The chocolate instantly covered her fingers. But she did not really mind. The flavor was sweet and rich. She did not really like sweet things, but with this weather, it was not so bad, she found.

Well, I tried to eat a chocolate cookie in the sweltering weather and that's how this fic was born lol.