Taryn hopped off the couch and up walked up to her dormitory to find Lily. She wasn't there, so she walked back into the bathroom to see the color of her skin.

Now it was even worse! She was less green, and more of her normal skin color, but now it looked like she was about to barf all over the mirror. She looked sicker now then when she looked like a Martian from Mars.

"I am going to kill Black." She muttered, walking back into her dormitory and opening the window, letting the cold in.

"Snow…," said a voice. Taryn turned around. It was… why was Remus in the girls' dormitory? And how'd he get up there?

Remus wasn't horrible. He was smart, and he was rather polite too, but he was still friends with Potter and Black, and that was why Taryn didn't like him at all. "What are you doing up here?" she asked. "You're a prefect. You should know better than to be up here."

"And I also know that I have to stop someone when they're doing something wrong, even if they're my friends, so…"

Taryn clenched her fists. "If this has anything to do with Black, Potter or Pettigrew, then I don't want to hear it. Tell a teacher! I don't want to hear it!" She pushed Remus out.

"But Sirius is-"

"No!" Taryn pushed him out the door and closed it behind him. She locked it.

She sighed, walking back to the window and staring at the snow falling slowly. "Snow…"

Down below, there were first years building snowmen, second years racing on snowboards and third years skating on the frozen lake. Fourth years were playing hockey, and fifth years were just walking around. Seventh years were throwing snowballs at unsuspecting victims, but the sixth years were all inside, the way all of Hogwarts was when there was rain and thunder.

Taryn wished she could be out there in the snow, like everyone else, but it seemed impossible just to go back down into the common room. She had to stay in the dormitory and wait for Lily, so she could complain to her about Sirius turning her green.

But Lily probably wasn't going to come soon, so she came down to the common room and looked around. She wasn't there either. Maybe she was on prefect watch, or whatever it was called.

There was nobody sitting on the couch she liked so much, so she decided to go sit there.

When she was only half way there, a pair of strong arms wrapped around her waist and guided her over to the dark corner of the room, and even though she had no idea who the person was, she couldn't help but walk to the place he wanted her to go.

Taryn turned around to see who was holding her waist. It was a bit dark, but she recognized the perfect dark hair and great body. It was Sirius Black.

Feeling pretty awkward just standing there, with her body only a centimeter away from his, Taryn looked down at the floor. What was she doing? Why wasn't she pushing him away? Didn't she hate him?

Taryn felt Sirius' hand lift her chin up, and bring her lips up to meet his in a warm kiss.

….

"You kissed Sirius Black!?" Lily screamed of anger and surprise… mostly surprise.

"I did not!" Taryn yelled.

Lily raised an eyebrow.

"He kissed me." She said in a small, quiet voice.

"Did you push him away after? Did he force the kiss on you? Did you beat him up?"

"No, no, and no…" She said in an even quieter voice.

"Did you… like the kiss?"

Taryn stood up and walked out of her dormitory.

….

It didn't make any sense. She hated Sirius, and he knew that, and most likely hated her too…

Taryn looked down at Snuffles. "I hate him. He should know that. Why'd he kiss me?" She paused. "But it's not like he's a horrible kisser, or like he forced the kiss on me. He didn't even… It wasn't even the kind of kiss that's… the kind of kiss that you give someone right before you make out with them… It was the kind of kiss that you give someone to tell them you love them, but that can't be true, because he's Black. Black is incapable of really loving someone, just fake love. You know?… Black is such a little… bat. A filthy vampire bat that devours animal and sucks out their blood and kills people and…" She stood up and walked out of the Dormitory.

….

"Hey Evans! Am I a filthy vampire bat?" Sirius asked Lily at breakfast the next morning.

"Yes. Get away from me." She muttered, eating the eggs on her plate.

Sirius walked back to James, Peter and Remus. "Evans says I'm a filthy vampire bat." He said, sitting down and piling pancakes onto his plate.

Peter laughed. "Because you are." He said.

James looked at Sirius. "Yeah…"

Sirius looked hurt, although he really wasn't. "You really mean it?"

"No, they don't." Remus said, not looking up from the book he was reading.

Sirius grinned. "Good."

….

Taryn walked out of the castle and looked around at the snowy grounds. It was so beautiful in the morning before anyone went outside and trampled all over the white puffy stuff- also known as snow.

She walked down the small path. There was no snow on it, because the headmaster enchanted it so the snow wouldn't fall on it.

Taryn stepped into the snow and started walking towards the lake. "Hoot!" a few owls flew over her, causing her hair to look rather messy.

The lake was a beautiful shade of icy blue that sparkled in the morning sun. It was the kind of view, that it's impossible to turn your eyes away, even if you know you should be somewhere else, or doing something else.

And she did have to be somewhere else. Classes were starting in 10 minutes, which wasn't even enough time to get inside, to the common room, and to the class.

But it was Potions. She could always miss that. The professor never takes attendance. He wants people to be missing. He hates our class.

The bad news was that even though she had went outside to forget all about Black, she saw his face every time she closed her eyes.

Taryn blinked. She saw Black's face, so she opened her eyes and she… saw Black's face. "What the heck?"

"You're not hallucinating." He whispered.

Oh no! He couldn't be there. Why wasn't he in class? Why did he have too skip on the same exact day as her?

"Oh, I'm not? But I thought it was impossible to really see someone as gruesome as you!" Taryn pushed him back so she wouldn't have to feel weird about his face being an inch away.

"I would say the same, of course, but I don't hallucinate, so I supposed your were wearing a mask."

"Honestly, Black. I have heard that insult thousands of times. It's so cliché."

"You've heard it thousands of times? Was it the same few people that insult you so much, or one thousand people who said it once each?"

"A thousand people said it a few times… about you."

Black punched her arm lightly. "We need… We need to talk."

They needed to talk? Black was weeeiird. "About what?" she asked.

"Me."

"What about you?" she asked, then sarcastically said, "About how awesomely great you are?"

"No, quite the opposite, Summers."

She raised an eyebrow.

"I need to tell you some stuff, because of some things I've heard from very reliable sources."

"Continue." She muttered, lying down in the soft snow.

"My life isn't all perfect and easy. I just do a good job in making it look like it is." He said.

"Yeah, right."

"First of all, it is not as easy as it looks to chose who to go out with, and to not go out of control because of my popularity."

"Yeah, it is."

"No it's not… And also, I don't even live with my parents. I live with James and his parents."

"How is that bad? You get to live with your best friend."

"Yeah, but not when you spend your summer nights wondering if your parents hate you, or despise you." Sirius muttered. "But by now I know it's both."

His parents hate him? Taryn pretended not be feel bad. "Okay, whatever Black…"

He could be lying…

But why would he lie?

Taryn knew the truth, the real truth. Sirius Black's life was not perfect.

….

"He kissed you again!?!?" Lily screamed.

"No…" Taryn said quietly. "I kissed him."

"YOU KISSED HIM?"

She nodded slowly.

"What kind of kiss?"

Taryn closed her eyes, remembering it clearly. The second she realized that Black liked her, and that (now that she knew that his life wasn't easy) she liked him, she tackled him to the group and kissed him senseless, and they spent the next half an hour rolling around in the snow, making out.

And when she was right below him, he had told her that he had always liked her.

And she lifted her head up so her lips met his, and told him that she loved him.

And he had kissed her back… Then they brushed the snow off of themselves and went back inside.

But Lily didn't have to know about their wonderful hour together. "Just like the first one. I kissed him lightly on the lips, Lily. I didn't even want to though. Trust me."

Lily didn't sound convinced. "I don't believe you Taryn…. Wake up!"

….

Taryn sat up quickly and saw Lily. "I swear! I didn't want to kiss him!"

Lily raised an eyebrow. "I thought you said that he kissed you…"

Taryn blinked. It had all been a dream. The kiss, the conversation with Lily… All a dream. "He did. Sorry. Just a dream."

But she wasn't sure if she had really talked to Sirius. She knew she hadn't kissed him but… had they really been out there talking?

Or maybe that whole morning she remembered was fake, and February 2nd was really today, not yesterday… "What day is it?"

"February 3rd. Why?"

She had really talked to Sirius. His life really wasn't perfect…

But what did her dream mean? Did it mean that she really did like Black? Or maybe it meant that he liked her. Or both… But it was impossible. They hated each other. They despised each other. They… well, they weren't enemies, but they were two acquaintances who hated each other.

She didn't like him. She hated him. She could not like him. She hated him. She hated him. She hated him. She hated him. She hated him. She hated him. She HATED him. She HATED him. She HATED him. SHE HATED HIM. SHE HATED HIM… SHE HATED HIM WITH ALL HER HEART, MIND AND SOUL!!!

Okay, maybe she didn't really hate him so much that she wanted to kill him, but…

Let the record show that Taryn Isabella Summers hated Sirius Mortiemer Black.

….

Taryn's a bit angry right now, so I suggest you step back a little or she'll just tell you to bugger off anyway and you'll be wasting your time.