Sweatpants, Ice Cream, and Runaways
Chapter 2

If you read the other chapter, you know what it's about (or you're starting to at least). Sorry I haven't posted much lately, I just had my spring break. It was fun and I needed it really badly. Well...hope you enjoy the story!

Disclaimer: You guys aren't dumb, you know what belongs to me and what doesn't.

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"Sirius?" Kyra exclaimed, obviously surprised to see him at her front door.

"Okay, I know this must look weird," Sirius said. "Me actually here for the second time…willingly."

Kyra laughed. "No, I understand…you came for my waffles."

"God, you know me so well," Sirius teased.

"Although, I hate to say this but…I don't make waffles at seven in the evening," Kyra said.

"Damn…then I guess I'll just have to settle for you," Sirius said.

"I just thought that our night of talking and bonding was just a fluke," Kyra said. "I told myself not to worry about it and to still think of you fondly..." Sirius gave her a look. "…as a major git."

Sirius smiled. "Well…I'm back."

"But why?"

"I thought I already made that clear." Kyra just gave him a look. "Because," Sirius shrugged. "I like you. And I am here to take you out to dinner."

"Sirius," Kyra said simply.

"Don't Sirius me," Sirius taunted. "Come out with me. Please?"

Kyra looked at Sirius suspiciously but shrugged. "Let me get my coat."

Sirius smiled widely and did a little dance in his mind.

As Sirius and Kyra was seated she looked over and smiled at Sirius. "And here I thought we were going to McDonalds."

Sirius laughed. "Amazing how thoughtful I am huh?"

It was Kyra's turn to laugh. "So Sirius, tell me the real reason you came back."

Sirius looked at Kyra sincerely. "You're different. You make me laugh, I actually enjoyed talking to you. You're fun to be around." Sirius shrugged. "In short, you make me feel good about myself."

Kyra looked at him apprehensively. "So…did you practice that speech in front of a mirror twenty times?"

Sirius gasped. "I'm appalled that you would say that!" Sirius smiled. "I only practiced it twice."

Kyra laughed. "Well however many times you practiced it, I liked it. And thanks. But what's the catch?"

"You really can't believe that I'm being honest can you?" Sirius asked, ordering wine for the both of them.

Kyra shrugged. "I know your type."

"My blood type? I'm O positive," Sirius said.

Kyra rolled her eyes. "No, the type that sleeps with a woman and never plans on seeing her again. The type that doesn't want to see her again. And don't tell me I'm wrong, that's exactly who you are."

"Correction, that's who I was," Sirius contested. "And let me ask you Miss Kyra, when's the last time you had a long relationship?"

Kyra winced. "It's not important."

"Well obviously it is," Sirius pointed out. "Because this jerk made you doubt all other men."

"What jerk?" Kyra asked.

"Whatever guy you last dated," Sirius explained. "I'm guessing you didn't always question guys' motives when they tried talking to you."

Kyra looked down at her hands. "His name was Geoffrey and it ended a little over a year ago. So it's over and we can stop talking about it."

Sirius decided not to push it. "Well whoever he was, he was a jerk for letting you go."

Kyra shrugged but didn't say anything.

"But," Sirius said, reaching for Kyra's hand. "I'm feeling very glad that he did."

James and Remus looked up as the door slammed shut and there stood Sirius looking as giddy as ever.

"Whoa, you're home early," James said.

"It's 2 AM," Sirius noted. "This isn't early."

"Yeah, that's early," James pointed out. "Usually you come home in the morning."

Sirius just rolled his eyes and sat down next to the guys on the couch.

"How was the date?" Remus asked.

"Wonderful."

"Date?" James asked.

"Oh yeah Sirius went on a date," Remus said.

"Sirius dates?"

"Apparently," Remus said.

"Okay, no need to act like I'm not here," Sirius said.

"But a date means he pays for dinner," James said, ignoring Sirius. "A date is more than sex. A date means conversation, and enjoyment…did I mention it means more than just having sex?"

"I know. It's strange thinking about Sirius talking with a woman before he brings her to bed," Remus said.

"Oookay, I'm still right here," Sirius spoke up.

Remus looked over at him. "Oh…hi." Sirius rolled his eyes but looked at Remus when he heard him asking, "What was this…your first date?"

Sirius threw a pillow at Remus. "I've dated before," Sirius retorted. "Remember back in third year when I actually thought dating was worthwhile?"

"You haven't been on a date since third year?" James asked.

Sirius shrugged. "I said I dated before. I didn't say I dated a lot."

"Okay, so you haven't dated for awhile, so how can you tell that it was wonderful. Do you even know what a wonderful date is supposed to be like?" James asked.

"Okay, I've had enough of 'insult Sirius day'," Sirius said with a shrug.

"But if we don't insult you…what else would we do with our lives?" James asked.

"Move on to 'insult James day,'" Sirius teased.

"I like 'insult Sirius day' much better," James joked.

Sirius just pouted but didn't say anything. Remus spoke up. "Okay, okay. Tell us about this wonderful date of yours."

"If that's what you want to call it," James interfered.

Sirius chose to ignore James. "It was perfect. She's perfect. We are perfect."

"Well…um, okay?" James said slowly and Sirius just gave him a look. James shrugged. "I don't know what to say."

"Perfect?" Remus suggested. The three guys laughed.

"No, it's just strange hearing about you dating. I don't know what to really say in this situation," James said.

"Yeah, it is kind of strange," Remus said and then turned to Sirius. "Are you sure you took her to dinner?"

"Okay, no, I'm lying. We just had chicken in her bed," Sirius said sarcastically.

"Really?" Remus asked.

"I want chicken," James said. Remus and Sirius gave James blank stares. "What? I'm hungry!"

"I really took her to dinner. And we talked for seven hours and-"

"Are you telling me that you Sirius Black just talked for the entire time you were gone? You've been out with this girl twice and you haven't had sex yet?" James asked.

"Yes that's what I'm saying," Sirius said.

Remus and James exchanged glances. "He must really like this girl."

"Okay, I thought I made that apparent," Sirius noted.

"I'm sorry but when you say something, it's hard to determine if you're actually being serious or not," Remus said.

"What? Why?" Sirius exclaimed.

"Well, for one thing you thought Tammi, Terri, and Toni were your soul mates," James said bluntly.

Sirius paused for a second. "Okay, so maybe sometimes my thoughts go beyond reality…"

"Sometimes?" James asked, raising his eyebrows.

"Okay, okay. Most of the time," Sirius said. "But I'm telling you, Kyra's different."

James gasped. "She must be different. You actually know her first name!"

The three guys laughed as Sirius threw a pillow at James.

Remus walked past Sirius's room, stopped, backtracked, and looked into the room. "Sirius?" Sirius jumped and looked at Remus with an innocent smile. "What are you doing?"

"Nothing," he said quickly.

Remus gave Sirius a look.

"Okay, okay," Sirius said. "I'm going over to see Kyra and I'm practicing my smiles."

"Your smiles?" Remus asked, trying hard not to laugh. Remus sat down on Sirius's bed and just shook his head.

"Okay, no need to make fun of me," Sirius said before Remus could speak up.

"You know, I'm thinking Kyra likes more about you then your smile," Remus said.

"Yes, but the smile is the first thing women see," Sirius said, turning around and leaning against his bureau and facing Remus. "Actually wait no, that's with other guys. The first thing women see in me is my great body, great hair, wonder-"

"Okay, I think I can literally see your head getting bigger," Remus said with a laugh.

"No!" Sirius exclaimed jokingly. "You don't think Kyra will notice, do you?"

Remus laughed and rolled his eyes at Sirius. "Have you talked to her since your date two nights ago?" Remus asked.

"No, I flooed over to her fireplace yesterday, but no one was home," Sirius said with a shrug. "So I'm just going to go over there and surprise her."

Remus smiled. "And you figure if you went over there around dinner time, you'd get a real meal," Remus stated, already knowing the answer.

"I'm shocked that you would say that," Sirius said and then shrugged. "But it's true."

"Well I'm glad you've decided to finally date a woman," Remus said. "Some of those women I'd see in the morning drinking my coffee and eating my pop tart were pretty disgusting. And they would be sitting there in nothing but one of your shirts."

"Yeah," Sirius said dreamily. "I wish those women would stop taking my shirts home. I think I'm going to have to result in going naked soon."

"You're naked about seventy-five percent of the day anyway," Remus said with a shrug. "Why not just go naked for the other twenty-five percent?"

"Can I do that?" Sirius exclaimed jokingly.

"I think your boss would have a hard time with it," Remus said.

"Damn…if only he was female." Remus laughed and Sirius continued talking, "Do you think Prongs is going to be okay? He seems kind of distant lately."

"He just misses Lily," Remus said with a shrug. "I think he wishes it was him that was dating, not you. And not just dating anyone…dating Lily."

Sirius slumped down on his bed next to Remus. "I know. I just wish there was something I could do."

"He wishes that too," Remus pointed out.

"What are you guys talking about?" James asked, stopping in the doorway.

"Girls," Sirius said immediately at the same time as Remus exclaimed, "Quidditch."

Sirius turned to Remus and rolled his eyes. "Quidditch? No way, girls is a much better lie."

"And more believable too," Remus teased.

"So what were you really talking about?" James asked.

Sirius sighed and then turned to Remus. "Should we tell him?" Remus shrugged so Sirius looked sincerely up at James. "We were talking about doughnuts."

As Sirius knocked on the front door he couldn't believe that he was actually nervous. As Kyra opened the door he gave a goofy smile. "Housekeeping?" he said, making Kyra laugh. Kyra took Sirius's arm, brought him into the house and shut the front door behind him. Kyra looked up at Sirius and smiled. She stood on her tiptoes and kissed Sirius.

"Come in, my roommate is cooking. You can eat dinner with us," Kyra said. Sirius smiled secretly to himself.

"You actually make dinner?" Sirius exclaimed, taking off his jacket. "Wow…we should try that sometime, although I'm sure the takeout people would go out of business."

"Hey Kyra?" a voice called from the kitchen. "Do we have any salt left?"

The roommate came into the room, looked up at Sirius and dropped her pot by mistake.

Sirius looked up and accidentally dropped his jacket.

"Sirius?" the woman asked.

"Lily Evans?" Sirius exclaimed.

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Wow, I'm just plain evil. But if I get lots of reviews, I'll post the new chapter sooner!