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A/N: For the AU Diversity Boot Camp Challenge with the prompt Girl. For the HeadCanon Boot Camp Challenge with the prompt you can't help who you love. For the Organization Boot Camp with the prompt Afraid.
You can't help but to smile as you see her walking by; or even being close to her, spelling the smell that is purely her and her alone.
It doesn't help that your best friend has been in love with her from the moment that he had seen her inside the Hogwarts Express compartment in your first year, it also doesn't help that you view your best friend as more as a brother than your own brother.
It doesn't help the way he gives her a look and that as of lately she's been responding positively instead of glaring at your best friend with nothing more than hatred.
You know that you can't who you love; though in this case you wish that you could, you know it's wrong to be in love with the girl that your best friend has been pining for years for. And yet you can't help the way you feel; you want her, and you wish so much that it was possible to have her.
Lily Evans was beautiful; with her red hair, brilliant emerald-green eyes; and the expressions that she wore that would stop any Slytherin in their track.
She was absolutely full of emotion; she never hid what she felt, though at times you wish that she sometimes did hide them.
She wasn't afraid of anything either; the way she would stand up to James, you and the rest of the Marauders amazed you, she wasn't afraid to put her foot down when she thought that you, James or the others were being to harsh and you can't help but love her for it.
You want to tell her so bad that you have feelings for her; but you know that you can't, and it absolutely kills you inside not to be able to do so.
Because anyone who's anyone knows that your Sirius Black; you aren't one to hold things inside, rather its hatred, love or something else entirely.
You know that you can't help who you love but you wish more than anything in the world that you weren't in love with your best friend's girl.
