Sweatpants, Ice Cream, and Runaways
Chapter 3

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In case you forgot, we left off here:

"Sirius?" the women asked.

"Lily Evans?" Sirius exclaimed.

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"Uh…do you guys know each other?" Kyra asked.

"Oh no, not really," Sirius said sarcastically. "She just dated my best friend for a year and left him standing at the train station when he asked her to marry him because she thought work was more important than love." Sirius turned to Lily. "Does that just about cover everything?"

Lily stared at Sirius in awe before she could speak up. "Now that's not fair Sirius."

"Not fair?" Sirius exclaimed. "My best friend is still miserable because of you. And you leave so who has to deal with it? Me."

"Sirius! It was a tough decision! But James and I were too young," Lily cried out. "And the internship was a great opportunity!"

"Oh really? Because you seem to be back from Australia! Obviously it couldn't have been that great of an opportunity!"

"I was transferred!" Lily shouted.

"Face it Lily! You were selfish, you didn't care about anyone's feelings but your own!" Sirius screamed.

"GUYS!" Kyra exclaimed.

Lily looked over at Kyra and looked down to see her reach for Sirius's hand. "Ooooh no. No, no, no, no, no."

"No what?" Kyra asked.

"Are you guys involved?" Lily asked. Sirius and Kyra just looked at each other but didn't have an answer. Lily groaned and continued. "Kyra, there are a few things you need to know about this guy."

"I've changed Lily," Sirius said stubbornly and then stared right into Lily's eyes. "I see that we all have."

"Ky, this guy is the biggest player of them all-"

"Lily," Kyra said tiredly. "I've heard enough. Let's just eat okay?"

"Well, that's kind of hard," Lily said, looking down at her dinner.

Sirius looked over at Kyra. "Guess it's takeout after all huh?"

Lily was disgusted by her friend laughing at one of Sirius's jokes. "Kyra, listen to me. He cheats, he lies, and he thinks there's nothing wrong with that," Lily said. "This guy is not the guy for you."

Kyra sighed and turned to Sirius. "How 'bout you leave us alone?"

"But-" Sirius started.

"Please?" Kyra begged.

Sirius looked up at Lily who was just giving him a cold look. Sirius sighed, picked up his coat, and left.

Kyra shut the door and looked over at Lily. "What. the. hell. was. that?" Kyra asked very slowly.

"Oh Ky," Lily said, burying her hands in her face. "Sirius and I used to be so close…we were all so close…we were the best of friends in our seventh year and now…" Lily took a deep breath. "Everything's screwed up."

"What happened with his best friend?" Kyra asked, walking into the kitchen with Lily.

Lily sat down on a stool. "James and I dated for a year. The day after graduation we came home on the train and right there in the train station he popped the question." Lily sighed. "But I had found out the previous night that I had an opportunity for an internship to Australia and afterwards, I would be working as a journalist there." Lily sighed. "And I had to choose between him and the job."

"And you choose the job," Kyra finished.

"Exactly," Lily said.

"Do you regret that decision?" Kyra asked, gnawing on an apple.

Lily hesitated and then sighed. "Every day."

Sirius shut the door quietly and walked sullenly to his room, but before he made it he rushed to the kitchen and took out all the Hogwarts pictures. He spread them out on the kitchen counter and just looked at all the faces smiling back at him. Sirius sighed but covered the pictures with his body when he heard the front door open.

Remus walked in and shut the door. He started walking towards the kitchen, turned the corner, but stopped when he saw Sirius sitting there trying to look innocent…it wasn't working. "Why do you look so guilty?" Sirius didn't say anything. Remus asked slowly, "Did you do something stupid?" Sirius opened his mouth. "Wait, don't answer that. We all know the answer is always yes anyways."

Sirius laughed nervously and his arm moved, pushing one of the pictures onto the ground. Remus looked strangely at Sirius and picked it up. "Um…why are you looking at Hogwarts pictures? None of us have looked at these in years…well besides James when he threw them out."

Sirius looked up at Remus and sighed. "She's back."

Remus stared blankly at him. "Okay I'm going to need more syllables."

"Lily is here in England," Sirius clarified.

Remus froze, his eyes bugging out of their sockets. "Lily? Lily Evans Lily? The girl that rejected James Lily? The one who-"

"Yes that Lily. What other Lily's do you know?" Sirius said rolling his eyes.

"My boss's daughter's name is Lily," Remus pointed out.

"Your hott boss?" Remus hit Sirius over the head and Sirius continued with what he was saying, "You and I both know we're not talking about your hott boss's daughter…" Sirius said. "…how is she by the way?"

"Sirius!" Remus exclaimed and then paused. "The boss or the daughter?"

Sirius laughed. "Kyra got a new roommate…that roommate happens to be Lily Evans," Sirius said.

"So you got to see her?" Remus asked. Sirius nodded. "How is she?"

"Gorgeous," Sirius answered in a heartbeat. "I'm thinking about asking Kyra if a threesome is okay with her."

For the second time that day, Remus hit Sirius over the head. "What did Lily say?"

"Do you mean before or after I accused her of being selfish and then was asked to leave?" Sirius asked.

"You got mad at her?" Remus asked. "Just yesterday you were saying how much you missed Lily!"

"I miss the old Lily. The one who was carefree and loved James. Not the one who ditched James at the train station," Sirius said.

"Sirius, that was four years ago," Remus pointed out. "You can't expect a person to stay the same forever."

Remus and Sirius heard the door open and Sirius's eyes grew big, knowing it had to be James. "Do not tell Prongs."

"Oh no, I was about to go out there and say 'hey James, remember that girl who you were head over heels in love with that left you alone at the train station because she thought work was more important? Well she's back and I'm sure you'd love to see her,'" Remus said, rolling his eyes.

Sirius stared at Remus. "I think you're mocking me."

"You're a clever perseon," Remus said, rolling his eyes. Sirius and Remus quickly gathered the pictures up and threw them in the garbage, right as James came around the corner.

"Yes Sirius, red and blue do make purple," Remus said quickly, not wanting James to walk into a quiet room.

James just looked at them strangely. "And red and yellow make orange."

"Oooh," Sirius said, mentally telling himself to hit Remus later.

"So, what's for dinner?" James asked, taking a soda out of the refrigerator.

The boys just stared blankly at each other. "Takeout?" Sirius spoke up.

"Unless you're seriously suggesting one of us cook," Remus responded.

The boys looked at each other. "Takeout it is," they said in unison.

"Should we call Jon, Matel, Hamilton, K-" Sirius started.

"Is it sad that we know the takeout guys by name?" Remus asked.

For the third time, the guys exchanged glances. "We really need women," James said after a few moments of silence.

Just then, Peter walked in. "Did you guys know that there's a girl waiting for you downstairs?"

The three boys looked questionably at each other. "For us? Are you sure?"

"Who cares," Peter said with a shrug. "She has waffles."

"KYRA!" Sirius shouted, practically running out the door.

"FOOD!" James shouted, but Remus held him back. James pouted. "Does anyone else find it weird that Sirius has a girlfriend while the three of us are single?"

"Oh c'mon, James that's not fair," Remus exclaimed but then he paused. "But yeah, that thought has crossed my mind."

"And it's weird right?" James confirmed.

"It's almost as weird as attaining positronic distillation of sub-atomic particles," Remus said.

James and Peter gave him blank stares and James spoke up, "…but it's weird?"

Remus looked over at his friends and rolled his eyes, and nodded. "It's weird."

Sirius walked slowly down the stairs, trying to figure out what to say so he wouldn't screw things up. But he had to admit, he was a little angry at Kyra for asking him to leave. He turned to corner and saw Kyra standing there nervously.

Kyra turned around to see Sirius and smiled. "I brought waffles."

"So I hear," Sirius said. "And you think waffles will make me forget that you practically pushed me out the door?"

"Of course not," Kyra said, and then held up another bag. "That's why I brought cookies also."

Sirius gave a slight smile and took the food from Kyra. "I'm sorry for sticking you in the middle of Lily and me."

Kyra put up her hand to stop him from talking. "She told me everything. I would be a little mad if I were you too."

"Really?" Sirius asked, a smile forming on his face. "But I was two seconds away from beating her up."

Kyra snorted. "True."

"Well, I'm still really sorry," Sirius insisted.

"I know," Kyra said and then took a deep breath. "But Lily is-"

"Oh, no buts. Please no buts," Sirius pleaded. "Buts are bad. Well unless they are on a female body."

"But Lily-"

"Did you not get my whole buts are bad speech?" Sirius asked.

"However-" Kyra started.

"That's no fair. That's just a fancy but," Sirius pouted.

"Sirius," Kyra said calmly and sweetly. Sirius sighed. "Lily is one of my best friends and-"

"I thought you guys were just roommates," Sirius pointed out.

"We met in Australia," Kyra explained. "I moved back here two years ago but Lily and I have been writing back and forth and I asked her to stay with me when I heard she was moving back here to England." Sirius nodded. "Lily is my best friend and if you guys hate each other, it's not going to work between us."

"But-" Sirius started.

"I thought we were going to stop with the buts?" Kyra said with a lopsided grin. "Look, I can't date you because of all this history between you and Lily. It just seems awkward and I won't try and put myself between you and my best friend. It's not fair to make me choose."

"Looks like you already chose," Sirius mumbled bitterly.

"I'm taking myself out of the picture before it gets worse," Kyra clarified.

"You're just doing this because of what Lily said," Sirius exclaimed.

"What?" Kyra asked. "What are you talking about?"

"All those horrible things Lily said about me. She probably listed all the other things she hates about me and you believed her. I thought you had your own mind," Sirius cried out stubbornly.

Kyra's mouth dropped wide open. "How would you know? We've only known each other for about a week."

"I thought you were a little better than to listen to Lily badmouth me," Sirius exclaimed. "Guess I was wrong."

"I didn't listen to Lily!" Kyra burst out. "I already told you why I'm doing this. You don't have to believe me, but I'm telling the truth."

"I guess it's just hard to believe what you're saying," Sirius retorted. "Considering I know how persuasive Lily is."

"Ugh! Lily didn't say anything besides what she said in front of you! In fact all we talked about was your best friend!" Kyra cried out. "Look Sirius, I kind of wanted to end on a good note here. I don't want you to be mad at me."

"Well it's a little too late for that," Sirius snapped.

Kyra sighed. "Fine, act like a baby."

Sirius gave her an irritated look. He swallowed the lump forming in his throat. "So…I guess this is it?" he asked icily.

Kyra stared at Sirius coldly "I don't see how it can work any other way." Sirius didn't say anything because obviously whatever he was saying wasn't working. Kyra glared once more at Sirius, and then tramped out.

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Awwww, poor Sirius. What will happen next? Will Sirius be able to keep Lily hidden from James? What'll happen to Kyra and Sirius...is it really over? Will Sirius ever date again or go back to one night stands? Why's this story have a weird title? Will I do well on my math test (oops...how'd that question get in there?)

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