Sweatpants, Ice Cream, and Runaways
chapter 5

I am usually better about posting chapters within a few days of each other, but I've been really busy. But you have to admit, it's still an early posting, considering it's only been 4 days. Hope you like this chapter! And sorry for the cliffhanger before, I never knew I could be so evil.

Anyway, you know what the disclaimer should be: the plot and dialogue is written by me, and Kyra belongs to me, but everyone/everything else belongs to J.K. Rowling (I hope you know that by know... hehe).

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Lily couldn't believe that James was standing right in front of her. He was taller, more muscular, cuter, his hair had gotten longer, and…Lily sighed to herself. She couldn't believe how great it was to see him. And what scared her most was…she was happy to see him. And that's when Lily realized she never stopped loving James.

James turned to Sirius. "What the hell is she doing here?"

"Well, okay…funny story actually," Sirius said and then looked up at the annoyed look on James's face. "Well, maybe not that funny." Sirius looked up at James's face again. "Okay, maybe not funny at all." Sirius bit his lip. "Okay, screw being funny. It's just a long story." Sirius took a deep breath. "Kyra's roommate is Lily." Sirius turned to Lily. "Oh wow, look at that…it actually wasn't a long story at all."

James just stared at Sirius, not sure of what to say.

"She's back from Australia," Sirius said.

James still didn't talk.

"And she's here in England."

James just kept staring at Sirius with that blank look on his face.

"And she's sitting right here."

James rolled his eyes.

"And she's not deaf…feel free to talk at anytime," Sirius said.

"What the hell are you doing in my flat!" James yelled at Lily. extremely surprised that he was yelling. He always figured that if he ever saw Lily again, he'd be overjoyed.

"Like I said, she's not deaf. There's not need to yell," Sirius clarified.

"Look, I just came to talk to S-" Lily started, trying to be calm

"This is my flat. England is my country! London is my city!" James shouted. "You belong far far away. Australia far!"

"I never expected to come back," Lily exclaimed, standing up. "I didn't decide that one day I was going to come back, run into you, and make your life miserable."

"Oh no, of course not. You would never choose to make my life miserable," James said sarcastically. "I mean leaving me alone in the train station when you picked work over love was all fun and games!"

"We were eighteen!" Lily cried out. "We didn't even know the meaning of love!"

"I DID!" James burst out. James sighed and then gritted his teeth. "I want you to get out."

"Whoa James, what?" Sirius exclaimed, not believing the hostility in James's voice.

"I want you to get out of my flat," James said, shooting daggers right at Lily. And then sighed angrily. "And out of my life."

Lily gulped, nodded slowly, picked up her coat and left, not daring to look back.

James sighed and then looked up at his best friend. He then looked down at the dropped bag of ice cream cartons. "Mind if I have these?"

Sirius just shook his head quickly but was afraid to say anything.

James sighed and walked over to the bed and looked up at Sirius. "Got any extra sweatpants?"

Lily sighed and opened her front door. She trudged inside, went to the kitchen, and cut herself a big piece of cake. She sat on the counter and stuffed herself with chocolate cake.

"Hey Lily?" Kyra exclaimed, coming into the kitchen in her nightgown. "Have you seen the other carton of ice cre-" Kyra stopped when she saw Lily eating chocolate cake…with her hands. "Um…is something wrong Lily?"

Lily just shook her head because her mouth was full of cake. Kyra came over and took the cake out of her hands.

"Okay, what's wrong?" Kyra asked, sitting herself next to Lily.

Lily sighed and looked at Kyra. "I went to see Sirius today."

Kyra tensed up. "Oh." She wasn't expecting that answer. "And…how is he?"

"He's great…if great means lying in bed in sweatpants eating eight cartons of ice cream," Lily said. Kyra couldn't help but smile a little; she was glad that she wasn't the only one having a tough time these past few days.

"Did he yell at you some more?" Kyra asked.

"Oh…there was yelling," Lily explained and looked back at Kyra. "But it wasn't from Sirius."

"Huh?"

"James came home early."

Kyra grew quiet and was pretty sure she forgot to breath. "Oh…that can't be good."

"Oh Kyra," Lily cried out, placing her head on Kyra's shoulder. "He doesn't just hate me. He detests me. He loathes me. He despises me.He's plotted out thirty different ways to remove my head from my body. None of which are quick and painless."

"Well of course, he wants you to suffer as much as he has," Kyra said.

Lily looked up at Kyra with tears in her eyes. "He told me not only to get out of his flat…but to get out of his life."

"I don't think he meant that," Kyra said. "Obviously when you took the job and did get out of his life…he was miserable."

"Yeah…and having me back in his life today was no picnic," Lily clarified.

"Lily…why do you care so much?" Kyra asked. "You left him. You chose to get out of his life."

Lily looked up, tears falling from her eyes. "I know…but now I want back in."

"Hey Sirius?" Remus called out. "Are you-" but he stopped when he entered Sirius's room and saw James laying there in sweatpants. "You too? Who has recently broken up with you? I can't deal with both of you in the sweatpants phase. One of you has to move up to the get-out-of-bed phase."

Sirius looked up. "Guess who stopped by today?"

"Huh?"

Sirius pointed his finger at James. "Guess who stopped by today?"

Remus froze. "Uh oh…Lily?"

Sirius nodded and James practically flew up out of bed, turning to Remus. "Wait…you knew Lily was in town?"

"I told him," Sirius said.

"I've only known for four days," Remus said.

"Which is also how long I've known," Sirius attested.

"Hold on…I thought you found out who Kyra's roommate was when Lily walked in today," James exclaimed to Sirius.

"Oh…um, no," Sirius said quietly.

"You knew Lily was in London…and you didn't tell me?" James cried out, hopping out of bed.

"I didn't think it would matter! London's a big city! I figured there was no way you'd see her!" Sirius exclaimed.

"Obviously you were wrong!" James burst out.

"I didn't tell her to come over. Hell, when Kyra and I broke up, I figured it was the last time I'd ever see her," Sirius declared.

"Oh but wait…there you were, talking to her, sitting with her, laughing with her!" James exclaimed.

"We weren't laughing!"

"I'm sure at some point you laughed together!"

Sirius opened his mouth to retort but shut it. He paused. "I wouldn't call it laughing per say. More like giggling. Wait, no. Not even giggling. It was more like a snicker. Not even that, it wa-"

"Do I look like a guy who cares what kind of laughing you guys did?" James shouted.

"Um…" Sirius said slowly and looked down at his ice cream. "Mint chocolate ice cream?" Sirius offered.

James threw his hands up in aggravation and stomped out. Sirius sighed as he heard the front door slam shut.

"He's mad," Remus said, stating the obvious.

"Yeah I know," Sirius said with a sigh. "He hates mint chocolate ice cream."

Remus rolled his eyes. "So James saw Lily today?"

Sirius sighed and nodded. "And he dove right into a loud rant about how she left him and how he hated her. And then he told her to get out of his life."

"Jeez," Remus muttered. "Isn't it ironic that in the same week that James starts to get rid of all the things that remind him if Lily…she comes back into his life."

"Yeah and given his lifelong quest for irony you can see how happy he is," Sirius exclaimed sarcastically giving Remus an irritated look.

Remus rolled his eyes and sat down on Sirius's bed next to him. "What are we going to do?"

"About him being mad at me? Or about him seeing Lily? Or about him sulking?" Sirius asked. "James is a man of many problems."

"I don't even know where to start," Remus said with a sigh.

"I'm about to go to the police," Sirius exclaimed to Remus later that night. "I can't find him anywhere."

"Maybe he's at a friend's house," Remus said.

"What friend? His only friends live here!" Sirius exclaimed.

"What about Peter?"

"Ooooh, Peter. You're smart," Sirius said, pointing at Remus.

"Yeah, he's probably there. I'll floo over to Peter's. Okay? There's no need to panic," Remus said. Sirius stood there as Remus left through the fireplace. Sirius stood there for a minute or so, attempting to not be scared. Remus came back into the room, biting his lip. "Um…time to panic."

"He wasn't there!" Sirius exclaimed.

"Calm down!" Remus cried out. "It's not that late."

"It's 4 in the morning!" Sirius cried out.

"See? That's not late…" Remus said. "that's early."

"Remus, my best friend is out there completely heart broken by a girl and totally angry at me. Who knows what he'd do and you're making jokes?" Sirius burst out.

"When you say it like that, it makes me look bad," Remus teased.

Sirius groaned and started pacing. "Okay, well we kno-"

He was interrupted when the door opened. James stumbled in and Sirius and Remus looked at him in awe. Sirius finally had the courage to open his mouth, "Are you drunk?"

James gave him a goofy look. "I'm not sober."

"You've been gone for almost eleven hours," Remus said. "Where the hell have you been?"

"Around," James managed to say.

"Around?" Sirius cried out. "Now there's someplace we forgot to look," Sirius said sarcastically.

"No really, where have you been all this time?" Remus asked.

"I already answered you," Jame said, obviously annoyed. "Around."

Sirius sighed angrily. "So, I've been worried sick because you've been around?"

"You didn't seem worried about me when you invited Lily into our home!" James shouted.

"She broke in! I didn't tell her to come!" Sirius exclaimed.

"You also didn't tell me she was in town!" James burst out.

"GUYS!" Remus exclaimed. He practically shoved Sirius into his room, away from James. "You were worried when he was gone and now you're very close to making him leave again."

"He's just so aggravating," Sirius said.

"He's thinking the same thing about you," Remus hissed. "Put yourself in his shoes. The girl who broke his heart is back and his best friend knew about it but didn't tell him. Of course he's angry."

"I don't get it," Sirius said, "He was so insensitive to the idea of me and Kyra and now all of a sudden he has a heart?"

"He was insensitive because he was upset that you got to be in a relationship and yet he wasn't with Lily," Remus said. "But now that Lily's back in the picture, he's got a heart."

Sirius sighed. He looked at Remus and then turned around to go talk to James. They entered the living room where James was sitting. He had the pictures that he supposedly threw out sprawled out on the floor and he was looking at them.

"James?" Sirius whispered, biting his lip.

He looked up at his friends with tears in his eyes. "How could she leave me?" And with that said, James started crying.

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Does that seem unrealistic of James? A guy bawling because of a girl? I wasn't really sure, but the point is to show that James loved Lily very much, and still does, and he can't believe that Lily would ever hurt him so much, etc.

Anyway, don't forget to review and I'll get the next chapter up as soon as possible!