….

Sirius was walking by when James and Taryn were talking. He caught the words 'I'm pregnant.' And 'You are?' and then walked away pretty instantaneously.

Was Taryn really pregnant? That was impossible. Impossible… Or maybe it was just horrible? Maybe...

He ran up to the Gryffindor tower and into the common room. He found Lily. "Evans! Did you know that Taryn is pregnant?"

"She can't be." Lily yawned. She had slept late and just woke up a few minutes ago.

"How would you know?" Sirius asked her.

"Because I'm her best friend and I know ten times more about her than you do."

"But… Just ask her, please? And then tell me."

"Sure, Black. But then you'll owe me a favor."

"Deal."

….

Taryn and James walked into the common room, discussing Quidditch strategies. "I think that the first chaser should-" started Taryn but then was dragged up to the girls' dorm by Lily.

"Why were you talking to Potter?"

"Because I want Gryffindor to win the game." Taryn said coolly, sitting down on her bed.

"Okay then… Are you pregnant?"

"Are you crazy!"

"Sirius said that you are…"

"Well I told Madam Pomfrey that I might be, but…. I then convinced her that I wasn't. Because I'm not. I just wanted to stay in the Hospital Wing."

"Then you better go tell Black before he tells anyone else."

Taryn stormed down into the common room, then straight up to the boys' dorm. "Black, I am not pregnant!"

"Really!" He smiled.

"Yeah." She glared at him. "Why are you so happy?"

"Because you're not pregnant!"

"But you hate me, and you would be happy if I had to go threw the rest of school with a child…"

"But I don't want your life to be ruined anymore than you want mine to be ruined."

Taryn sighed. "True…" She sighed, sitting down cross-legged on a desk.

"Yeah."

"Black, you lied to me!" she screamed suddenly.

"When did I lie to you?"

"You were… you are Snuffles!"

"No!…. Well yeah, but I swear I didn't mean to hear all your secrets. You just… told them to me!"

"Why didn't you tell me?"

"Because…"

"Because why?"

"Because I thought that maybe…. Maybe if I listened enough then maybe…" He stopped.

"Maybe what?"

"Maybe…."

"Maybe what?" She jumped off the desk and onto him, clenching her fist in front of his face to show that he better tell her.

He pushed her off of him and sat up. "I thought that maybe if I listened enough then I would understand you better and somehow get you to not hate me…"

"So is this what it was all about? All the kisses… All the things you said…"

Sirius nodded. "Yeah."

Taryn sighed slightly. She looked down at her hands, then back up at Sirius. "Black…"

"Yeah?"

"I like you too." She smiled and kissed his lips.

Sirius kissed her back. "So you don't hate me anymore?"

"No, I still hate you, but I like you."

"That's good enough for me." He pulled her back down on top of him and started kissing her. When she didn't push him away, he stopped. "You were serious, weren't you?"

Taryn nodded. "Duh." She grinned. "Now, keep kissing me, Black."

….

And that was how she went from that one popular girl, to that girl that kisses Sirius Black between classes and can still say that she's not his girl, and she hates him. Of course, she knew that girls adored him, but it never occurred to her that some girls would go to lengths to torture any girl who kissed him…

"Hey Summers, look up!" called someone.

Taryn looked up confusedly, and a cup of pudding fell on her face, and made her eyes sting. She growled angrily and looked around for any snickering girls who looked like they might've been responsible for the trick.

There were two 5th year girls laughing at her, and she instantly knew it was they who set up the whole pudding trick. Taryn stomped over to them, her fists clenched very tightly. "Which one of you did it?" She asked angrily.

A girl with dark blonde, braided hair raised her hand, grinning. "Me."

Taryn tackled her to the ground and began to punch her until a professor walked over and dragged her away from the girl, who now had a petrified look on her face.

After that event, only the more brave girls dared to annoy her.

….

A/N:

That was a short chapter. I didn't like this one either… Please review and once again I'll ask you to read 'Notice Me'. Sorry if I sound desperate but I really think that it's a good story and deserves to be read! And sorry if it takes me long to put up these chapters but I've spent most of the past week at school because our play really needed a lot of work. It turned out excellent though so…. I'm really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really sorry if you didn't like this chapter! And by the way, have you seen the cover for Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince? It's bloody excellent! And green! I LOVE green…. And just for your information, I'll probably put up another chapter in about five hours!