Ever since you began working at the Armed Detective Agency, yourself and Ranpo had got on like a house on fire, always joking around together, you buying him candy and humouring his brags about his intelligence, whilst he always sought you out in the offices, enjoying your company more than most. You two were rather inseparable. So much so that Dazai would often tease you both, calling you ‘lovebirds’, to which you’d blush and Ranpo would pout and shake his head. After all, you’re both just good friends, or that’s what you tell yourselves, anyway.

Sitting next to him in a local park in the evening, the sky hazy with warm oranges and pinks as the sunsets, you both giggle and joke around, snacking on candy and snacks you’d purchased moments earlier after leaving the agency for the day. Ranpo steals a bon bon from you as you talk, causing you to pout and try to snatch it back from him before he swallows it whole. He just chuckles, before he grabs a strawberry pocky, waving it in front of you as he smirks.

Here, I’ll let you share this with me to make up for it, juuuust this once, I’m willing to share.

But before you can grab the pocky stick from him, he places one end in between his lips with a devious smirk, and mumbles around it clumsily but tauntingly.

But, you’ll have to share it with me like this! Put your mouth on the other end and we’ll meet in the middle~